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Shot fisherman who threw gasoline on police in custody

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Shot fisherman who threw gasoline on police in custody

Almost six days after the police shot Mohan Manniram, the man is out of hospital and is being held on a warrant. The fisherman was shot on December 22 after he was engaged in a heated confrontation...

Elections Day accident victim spends Christmas in hospital

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Elections Day accident victim spends Christmas in hospital

Instead of sharing the joy of parenthood and the holiday spirit with his wife and baby girl, he spent it in the hospital with his head in braces, tightly strapped to the bed. Gavin Collins,...

One man in custody for Enachu murder

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on One man in custody for Enachu murder

A post mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Oscar De Roche, who was murdered on Christmas Eve day at Enachu, Mazaruni, in Region Seven has revealed that he died from shock due...

Neighbours remanded over threatening language

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Neighbours remanded over threatening language

Five persons were remanded to jail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, on a charge of using threatening language and assaulting each other. Raymond St. Romain, his wife Jennifer St. Romain,...

Government to re-evaluate properties in 2012

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Government to re-evaluate properties in 2012

Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, yesterday announced plans to re-evaluate properties to facilitate Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs)...

Fireman shot dead by bandits

Dec 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fireman shot dead by bandits

Delon Collins, a 29-year-old fireman of Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam, had his life snuffed out when he was shot dead at around 23:15 on Christmas Eve by bandits. The young man and...

Family loses $4M while at holiday dinner

Dec 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Family loses $4M while at holiday dinner

After satisfying his customers over the Christmas holidays, businessman Rajindra Mohabir was eagerly awaiting the reopening of the commercial banks to deposit the cash he had accumulated. He...

Five-year-old rape victim in need of blood

Dec 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Five-year-old rape victim in need of blood

The five-year-old girl who was abducted from her Betsy Ground home last Friday and brutally raped, is presently receiving blood as she remains in a critical condition in the Intensive Care...

Sales clerk shot while delivering calendars

Dec 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sales clerk shot while delivering calendars

A 51-year-old man is at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a gunshot wound to his left leg after a failed robbery attempt caused his attackers to open fire on him....

Drunk driver ends Mon Repos man’s life

Dec 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drunk driver ends Mon Repos man’s life

When colleagues and friends of Naresh Khemraj called Avinash saw him on Christmas Eve, they sensed that something was wrong – he was not his usual jovial self. Although he did not...

REMNANTS OF AN OLD, DESPERATE GUARD

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on REMNANTS OF AN OLD, DESPERATE GUARD

In a previous column – Put Them Out of Pasture – this column suggested that there were forces within the ruling party that were out to derail the political progress being made...

Hey Khurshid, you didn’t acknowledge me!

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Hey Khurshid, you didn’t acknowledge me!

After decades of psychological suffering perpetrated upon vehicle owners of this country, the revenue authorities in a strange twist of fate, discovered commonsense. The maximum boss of the Guyana...

Post-Kyoto Durban Platform

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Post-Kyoto Durban Platform

What exactly did the Durban conference on Climate Change, which concluded on December 11, achieve? Simply pledges by developed countries indicating their intention to take on a second...

Dem boys seh…Irfaat mek de lime tree tun green

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Irfaat mek de lime tree tun green

When Manzoor start de Main Big Lime was a big thing. Then Manniram tek it over. It get more big, but dem boys seh that monkey mek he pickney till he spoil am. De Donald tell Manny fuh go home and tek...

Teams defy soggy conditions to advance in K&S football extravaganza

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams defy soggy conditions to advance in K&S football extravaganza

Action shifts to BV ground tonight, Caledonia, Pele, Kings, Millballers on show Several teams were made to walk the plank when the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament continued at venues...

GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Edwards’s heroics propel Conquerors into semi-finals

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Edwards’s heroics propel Conquerors into semi-finals

-Alpha, Beacons, Camptown also advance Many have referred to him as ‘the next best thing between the uprights’ and he justified the sobriquet with two magnificent saves to push his team (Fruta...

Fruta Conqueror wins as Lester Peters U-15 memorial football tournament concludes

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conqueror wins as Lester Peters U-15 memorial football tournament concludes

Fruta Conqueror’s U-15 ‘A’ team amassed 18 points and a positive goal average of 14 to cart off the top prize when the curtains came down on the Lester Peters U-15 memorial football...

Talk is Cheap Café supports Banks Beer KO Cup

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Talk is Cheap Café supports Banks Beer KO Cup

Talk is Cheap Café of Alexander Street, Kitty became the most recent business entity to offer support to the GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup after Managing Director Eton Cordis handed...

LABA U-23 basketball continues at MSC Hard Court in Linden

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA U-23 basketball continues at MSC Hard Court in Linden

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association is cashing in on the Christmas spirit as they have adjusted their rescheduling of matches to continue their Under 23 championship for clubs in...

BCB give thumbs up to the Government for the formation of IMC

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB give thumbs up to the Government for the formation of IMC

The Berbice Cricket Board has given the thumbs up to the Government of Guyana for appointing an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to run the affairs of cricket in Guyana. Following is...

Guyanese Code swapper can’t wait for match

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Code swapper can’t wait for match

Sunshine Coast Daily – Guyanese man mountain Kevin McKenzie remembers when he first laid eyes on Broncos captain Sam Thaiday in action. “Geez, he’s really cool. I’d like to...

Entries roll in for Rising Sun $7M horserace meet on New Year’s Day

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries roll in for Rising Sun $7M horserace meet on New Year’s Day

With less than a week away for the grand Finale in the 2011/2012 horseracing season, entries are rolling in for the New Year’s Day mega meet. With the venue being the famous Rising...

Woodpecker Junior Badminton tourney concludes

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Woodpecker Junior Badminton tourney concludes

The Annual Woodpecker Junior Christmas Singles Tournament 2011 concluded at the Queens College Badminton Courts on December 23 with the remaining matches to decide the champions in the...

UNION OF THE GOVT. & MASSES AGENDA

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on UNION OF THE GOVT. & MASSES AGENDA

Dear Editor, Minority governments can never be a precondition for the majority opposition in the legislature to internalize the illusion that, by virtue of its majority, it has an...

The forgotten GuySuCo workers

Dec 28, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The forgotten GuySuCo workers

Dear Editor, We, the retired employees of GuySuCo, and former workers of their Blairmonth, Rose Hall, Albion and Skeldon locations respectively, have been dedicated workers for 25 to 40...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more