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GCB moves to quash IMC decision

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB moves to quash IMC decision

-seeks WICB intervention The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has moved to the High Court to nullify Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony’s decision to set up an Interim...

Young Achievers of Guyana win in Suriname

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Achievers of Guyana win in Suriname

Guyana’s top volleyball club, Young Achievers returned home from participating in an Inter Guiana’s Club Tournament last weekend as champions. The tournament which was hosted by...

Fingered in piracy…Fishing official could face expulsion if found guilty

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fingered in piracy…Fishing official could face expulsion if found guilty

A senior official from the Upper Corentyne Fisherman’s Coop Society could be expelled from all fishing related activities if he is found to have been involved in the recent piracy attacks...

GPL’s fuel bill rises to a staggering $23B

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s fuel bill rises to a staggering $23B

– workers settle for 8% increase Workers of the country’s cash-strapped power company have settled for less than the salary increase they initially bargained for in order to stave off...

Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief robbed after car is rammed

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief robbed after car is rammed

Editor-in-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle, Mark Ramotar, was early Wednesday morning robbed at gunpoint by four men who cornered his vehicle into the concrete median at Agricola, East Bank...

US$80,000 in goods lost after boat heading from Suriname sinks

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US$80,000 in goods lost after boat heading from Suriname sinks

A boat with goods valued US$80,000 on the way to Guyana from Suriname sank Monday night in the Nickerie River, according to Suriname news. On the boat were peanut cheese, liquor, tomato paste,...

Grove/Diamond NDC in trouble…Residents want garbage buildup cleared before Christmas

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Grove/Diamond NDC in trouble…Residents want garbage buildup cleared before Christmas

Residents of Diamond and Grove, East Bank Demerara, are worried over a growing garbage crisis and want authorities to do something about it before Christmas. Their concerns may be valid with...

Archaeological find up Berbice River…Results awaited on possible 5,000 year-old human settlement

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Archaeological find up Berbice River…Results awaited on possible 5,000 year-old human settlement

Groundbreaking archaeological discoveries have been made in Guyana in recent times. Local and United States (US) archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a whale, a giant porpoise...

Bandits storm Enmore lumberyard, escape with $1.6M in cash, jewelry

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits storm Enmore lumberyard, escape with $1.6M in cash, jewelry

Police ranks are presently reviewing tapes from a security camera to identify two gunmen who robbed the “S & K Lumber Yard and General Store”, located at Blossom Scheme, Enmore South,...

Youth Coalition steps up calls for Surujbally,Boodhoo resignation

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Youth Coalition steps up calls for Surujbally,Boodhoo resignation

Following the announcement of the General and Regional Elections results on December 1st, the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) has been calling for the resignation of Guyana Elections...

Lawyer moves for dismissal of Freddie Kissoon/Jagdeo libel case

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer moves for dismissal of Freddie Kissoon/Jagdeo libel case

-judge denies application Attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes, yesterday asked that the libel suit which was brought against Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, by former President Bharrat Jagdeo be...

City Council announces rates and taxes increase for 2012

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Council announces rates and taxes increase for 2012

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced increases in residential and commercial rates and taxes in its draft 2012 Budget. There were no increases in rates and taxes since 1997,...

AFC insists on Nagamootoo as new House Speaker

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC insists on Nagamootoo as new House Speaker

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is adamant that Moses Nagamootoo is perfect for the post of Speaker of the National Assembly. This was expressed by Chairman of the AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan, during...

Brazilian Governor who spoke on PPP platform ousted for campaign violation

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian Governor who spoke on PPP platform ousted for campaign violation

Jose de Anchieta Junior, Governor of the State of Roraima, Brazil, has reportedly been ordered to vacate his post by an electoral court in the Portuguese speaking South American...

Accused in Berbice ‘scissors’ murder remanded

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Accused in Berbice ‘scissors’ murder remanded

A man who allegedly used a pair of scissors to stab another Berbice man to death has been charged with murder. Ronald Fraser, 22, called ‘Alay’, of Liverpool Village, Corentyne, Berbice,...

Absent witness forces adjournment in Colin Jones PI

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Absent witness forces adjournment in Colin Jones PI

Even after being warned by the court that the high profile case against Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Basil Morgan, Anthony Watson and Jahfar Sampson was one of great priority, police...

Fleeing motorcycle accident victim remanded for gun possession

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fleeing motorcycle accident victim remanded for gun possession

Fredrick Boyce, 27, who crashed his motorcycle after he allegedly fled from police, has been charged with the illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. Chief Magistrate Priya...

Brawl over woman ends in murder

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brawl over woman ends in murder

The spate of violence in the hinterland escalated yesterday with the stabbing to death of 25-year-old Jermaine Mc Kenzie at an interior shop at Blue Mountain Mazaruni. Mc Kenzie, of Grove...

Liberalisation row…GT&T challenges Digicel to release its financials

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Liberalisation row…GT&T challenges Digicel to release its financials

The debate over liberalisation of the telecommunication industry has revved up once again with the two giants’ Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Digicel (Guyana) trading blows....

Memorial service held for AFC stalwart Sheila Holder

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Memorial service held for AFC stalwart Sheila Holder

Late Parliamentarian and founding member of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Sheila Holder, was yesterday eulogized when family members and friends assembled at St. George’s Cathedral, Georgetown, to...

Top Cop finally on leave from today

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop finally on leave from today

Embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene has finally proceeded on leave to facilitate an investigation into allegations of rape made against him by a 34-year old woman. In Greene’s...

Fishermen’s Co-op official held in piracy probe

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fishermen’s Co-op official held in piracy probe

– His boat identified by victims Police in Berbice have detained a senior official of the Upper Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-op Society as they investigate his alleged...

APNU unveils list of MPs

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on APNU unveils list of MPs

A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) has identified its candidates for the National Assembly and the Regional Democratic Councils, following the official declaration of results for recently...

Live not the lie

Dec 21, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Live not the lie

Vaclav Havel, who ushered in the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, ending four decades of communist totalitarian rule, died last Sunday. His death was not much remarked on in our country,...

The vibes are flowing in opposite directions

Dec 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The vibes are flowing in opposite directions

If you have followed my articles in KN over the past decade, you would know that I died many times after picking up the newspapers and reading some of the most ridiculous things to come out of the...

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Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Development for whom?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, has declared with great confidence that there... more