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New vehicle registration system effective today

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New vehicle registration system effective today

–police to have monthly list of defaulters A new system that will see Motor Vehicle Licences (MVL) being sold on the anniversary of the registration is expected to go into effect today....

No word yet of missing cargo vessel Oliver L – Minister Benn

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on No word yet of missing cargo vessel Oliver L – Minister Benn

Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn has reported that there has been no sign of the cargo vessel MV Oliver L in the territorial waters of Guyana, Trinidad, nor in Venezuela. A team...

Overseas visitor’s Christmas season spoilt by armed bandits

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas visitor’s Christmas season spoilt by armed bandits

-narrowly evades bullet intended for his head When Rupert Angus planned his Christmas visit back home to Guyana to see his mother, the last thing on his mind was an encounter with gunmen. But...

Cabinet gives go-ahead for six contracts

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet gives go-ahead for six contracts

Cabinet this week gave its “no objection” to the award of six contracts. In the agriculture sector, a contract to the value of 69.5 million, will go towards the supply, delivery and...

A strange sales girl and vanishing water in 2011

Jan 03, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A strange sales girl and vanishing water in 2011

For every minute you live in this world, you meet a person that causes you to reflect on just what makes up the human being. I happen to know the owner of Bakewell very well. I hope that if he reads...

Addressing the phenomenon of mental health

Jan 03, 2012 KNews Editorial 2

We Guyanese are not very subtle (and certainly not very kind) when we speak of the unfortunate souls who, afflicted with one or another mental shortcoming, live in our midst. “Mad people”...

AN APPLE AND A MANGO

Jan 03, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on AN APPLE AND A MANGO

This past Christmas, apples were retailing cheaply in Guyana. A succulent apple could have been had for as low as $60 each. If you haggled you could have gotten a discount. On the other...

Dem boys seh…Nuff people crying

Jan 03, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nuff people crying

De New Year break wid some people complaining how dem mek resolution and how dem had to break dem same resolution. Tek de case of de man who own a newspaper. He mek a resolution that he...

Is CARICOM or the UN going to intervene in Guyana cricket now?

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Is CARICOM or the UN going to intervene in Guyana cricket now?

DEAR EDITOR, Things are looking comical for Minister Anthony’s IMC or we can say Clive Lloyd’s IMC. Let us retrace our steps before we describe the circus. The Chief Justice refused an injunction...

Guyana’s 2011 Elections – “A Political Watershed”

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s 2011 Elections – “A Political Watershed”

DEAR EDITOR, The historic importance of the 2011 elections is yet to be played out, but what is irrefutably true is that the scourged politics of race which has bedevilled Guyanese politics since the...

Guyana was spared a disaster of astronomical proportions

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana was spared a disaster of astronomical proportions

Dear Editor, It has been said time and time again, that Guyana is a Blessed Nation. On November 28, that statement was proven to be true, for Guyana was spared a disaster of astronomical proportions....

T&T’s Caledonia AIA lift championship despite dismal crowd support at K&S final

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on T&T’s Caledonia AIA lift championship despite dismal crowd support at K&S final

The theory which advocates that sports and politics are combustible mixes and should not be experimented with, was forcefully exemplified when Guyanese responded to a boycott call by the youth arm of...

GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup… Thousands witness ‘the Hammer’ win $3million

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup… Thousands witness ‘the Hammer’ win $3million

– Beacons upset Sunburst Camptown for 3rd place Thousands of football fans braved the inclement weather to converge at the GFC ground to witness the finals of the GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup...

Sewkarran hits 53 & 81 for Bath; Andrews grabs 6-31 & hits 63 for Police

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Sewkarran hits 53 & 81 for Bath; Andrews grabs 6-31 & hits 63 for Police

The 2011 Memorex Enterprise-sponsored Leslie Amsterdam Memorial Under-17 two-innings cricket competition in Berbice which resumed recently saw the prolific Avishkar Sewkarran continuing his good...

RHTY&SC maintains benevolence during yuletide season

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC maintains benevolence during yuletide season

The seven cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) for the 20th successive year hosted a highly successful Christmas Charity Programme for the less fortunate in the...

Letter to the Sports Editor… Lumumba’s role in the GFA Banks Beer Knockout Cup

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor… Lumumba’s role in the GFA Banks Beer Knockout Cup

Dear Sir, With financial sponsorship amounting to $1,000,000 from Mc Neal Enterprise of which Ministerial Advisor on Empowerment, and Member of Parliament, Odinga Lumumba is an integral part, it...

Rising Sun end of year horserace meet postponed due to inclement weather

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Rising Sun end of year horserace meet postponed due to inclement weather

Due to the inclement weather the authorities and organizers of the Grand Finale Annual New Year’s Day horserace meet which was scheduled for New Year’s Day 2012 at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima...

RHTY&SC honours PMSS Teacher and Student of the Term

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC honours PMSS Teacher and Student of the Term

The seven cricket teams of the Rose Hall Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) last week honoured the Teacher and Student of the term at the Port Mourant Secondary School (PMSS). The duo was honoured...

Peeping Tom should stop being facetious

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Peeping Tom should stop being facetious

Dear Editor, I can understand that Peeping Tom supports the PPP and given the tone of his writings, he definitely supports President Donald Ramotar. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem...

Encouraging good behaviour in public

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Encouraging good behaviour in public

Dear Editor, The talk around town, post-election, is about things that are ‘new’. New President, National Assembly, Speaker, politics, parliamentarians, faces, GECOM, ships, deals, contracts and...

Interior worker goes missing

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Interior worker goes missing

– did not make contact with family in nine months Family members of 30-year-old Besham Narine of Lot 2 Adventure, Essequibo Coast are now frantic because they have not heard from him in...

Geeta Singh-Knight back in the news

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Geeta Singh-Knight back in the news

By Gary Eleazar While there are some who may not want too many changes this New Year there are others who would love to see some. In fact there are reports that there are some with senior...

Twelve New Year’s babies

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Twelve New Year’s babies

The mothers of 12 babies born on New Year’s Day at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), New Amsterdam Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and Woodlands Hospital received gifts...

School dropout raped, suspect on bail

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on School dropout raped, suspect on bail

Relatives of a 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by one of her relatives have expressed disgust over the release of the perpetrator. Reports are that the victim and the perpetrator...

Cheekies rewards new mothers

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cheekies rewards new mothers

For the second time ever, the Cheekies family from Ansa McAl Trading went countrywide to honour mothers of New Year’s Day babies. The presentation of “Cheekies Bundle of Joy” gift...

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Hauls from Persaud and Farley highlight MVP Sports Girl’s U11 Football Tourney commencement

The PPP is in the grip of the bourgeoisie

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur news- The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) stands at a crossroads. Once the vanguard... more