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Bag-snatcher shot dead

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bag-snatcher shot dead

– after robbing woman in minisbus A bag-snatching thief was shot dead at around 10:30 hrs yesterday after posing as a passenger and robbing a woman who was travelling in a minibus near Covent...

Mahaica man murdered at slaughter house

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica man murdered at slaughter house

– captured suspect reportedly confesses Police have detained a man who allegedly stabbed his cousin to death early yesterday morning during an argument at an Abattoir in Helena No. 1,...

Man tied in goat pen, beaten and set alight

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man tied in goat pen, beaten and set alight

Three men on Thursday morning beat and doused an Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam man with gasoline in a goat pen, chained him down, set him on fire and then escaped. According to labourer Corwin...

Sanjeev Datadin under fire for appointment in Sir Ron Sanders case

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sanjeev Datadin under fire for appointment in Sir Ron Sanders case

St John’s, Antigua – The appointment of Sanjeev Datadin, a Guyanese attorney with strong ties to the government, as special constable working along with the team of investigators...

GGMC denies knowledge of US-based mining company

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC denies knowledge of US-based mining company

…as reports of definitive agreement surface North Springs Resources Corp., a United States-based mining company may within 24 hours reach an agreement with the Government of Guyana to...

Putting a lid on crime

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Putting a lid on crime

The year is less than one week old but on the criminal scene it would seem as though it is an extension of the year just concluded. There has already been one high profile robbery....

THE Guyana CRICKET BOARD IS IN THE RIGHT

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE Guyana CRICKET BOARD IS IN THE RIGHT

Imagine that you are living in your house. You own the building and everything inside; it is your property. One day you turn up at your home to find the locks on your doors changed by a...

Dem boys seh…Commissioner Rush Ann and Knee Ass tek de cake

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Commissioner Rush Ann and Knee Ass tek de cake

Some people does try fuh point fingers when dem don’t even got a hand to help dem fingers. Tek de case of a man who believe that he could be Police Commissioner. He jump up and decide...

Must Guyanese really have to go through this nonsense?

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Must Guyanese really have to go through this nonsense?

Dear Editor, Sometimes it appears as though time, progress and development seem to march right past Guyana, especially when one looks in particular at the state of our politics. The...

Tradition says that the past Speaker should continue in that position

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tradition says that the past Speaker should continue in that position

DEAR EDITOR, In the European tradition, at least until the 17th century, Parliamentary Speakers were seen as agents of the Kings who carried out the dictates of monarchs wielding...

GECOM performed admirably in elections

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM performed admirably in elections

Dear Editor, The opposition PNC-APNU has been calling for the heads of GECOM following its defeat at the just concluded elections. The management and conduct of the latest election is...

Looking ahead with excited optimism

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Looking ahead with excited optimism

Dear Editor, The dawn of a new year always brings with it a renewed sense of hope for a better future. The past year had been quite a challenging one, not only locally, but also at the...

A case for the MMU

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A case for the MMU

Dear Editor, Guyana’s media landscape can be considered vast in comparison to its population size. The landscape is also expected to be expanded through the introduction of privately...

GCB receives green light for Guyana’s participation in Regional T20

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB receives green light for Guyana’s participation in Regional T20

-Team leaves today Shortly after 12:00 hrs yesterday, the controversy surrounding whether the national T20 squad would have been able to participate in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) sanctioned...

Gov’t to seek CARIOM support for IMC decision

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gov’t to seek CARIOM support for IMC decision

The Guyana government, which has used a court ruling to wrestle away the authority of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and place it into the hands of an Interim Management Committee (IMC), is...

Phillip George laid to rest

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Phillip George laid to rest

After glowing tributes from the local basketball community, family and friends, former national basketball coach, Phillip George was laid to rest yesterday at the LeRepentir Cemetery following...

Builders Lumber Yard renews sponsorship for D’Andrade

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Builders Lumber Yard renews sponsorship for D’Andrade

-distance athlete to defend title at Bigi Broki Waka 10k Builders Lumber Yard, located on Lombard Street has renewed its sponsorship arrangement with distance athlete, Lionel D’Andrade ahead of the...

Cricketers urged to intensify training on verge of Guyana Softball League tournaments

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricketers urged to intensify training on verge of Guyana Softball League tournaments

The Guyana Softball League will collaborate with several of its affiliates to host a countrywide preparatory T10 softball cricket tournament for males and females teams around the...

Final whistle blown on ‘Golden Jaguar’ Shawn Bishop

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Final whistle blown on ‘Golden Jaguar’ Shawn Bishop

GFF extends sympathy to family & football fraternity The football fraternity in Guyana has been plunged into a state of shock with the passing of ‘Golden Jaguar’ Shawn...

Reggie Goberdhan Memorial Volleyball League competition final set for tomorrow

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reggie Goberdhan Memorial Volleyball League competition final set for tomorrow

The Berbice Volleyball Association will be holding the final of the Reggie Goberdhan Memorial Volleyball League Competition 2011 tomorrow, Sunday Jan 8, at the GTM Court in New...

‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Dominoes on at three venues

Jan 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Dominoes on at three venues

Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire in honour of his 57th birthday will be hosting a massive Dominoes Competition staring tomorrow at three venues and end on Saturday, January 14, at Transport...

Guyoil fuel contamination… Company dispatches fresh gas to customers

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyoil fuel contamination… Company dispatches fresh gas to customers

After numerous complaints about the contamination of Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) fuel in Essequibo, the company is addressing the problem and has immediately delivered fresh gasoline...

In face of fraud allegations…Sir Ronald Sanders secures legal representation

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on In face of fraud allegations…Sir Ronald Sanders secures legal representation

In light of the recent fraud allegations leveled against Guyana-born Sir Ronald Sanders and other officials by the Antiguan authorities, Solicitors BCL Burton Copeland has issued a statement on...

Raphael Trotman unlikely for 10th Parliament

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Raphael Trotman unlikely for 10th Parliament

“I will not be involved in the business of playing politics or being in the Chamber for the sake of being here knowing that my ability to offer genuine representation is stymied or...

Auditor General investigates City Hall’s financial discrepancies

Jan 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General investigates City Hall’s financial discrepancies

Auditor General, Deodat Sharma has confirmed that his office has commenced investigations into the financial discrepancies outlined by City Hall in a recent letter addressed to the Minister of...

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Thomas’ hat-trick inspires D.C Caesar Fox 10-5 victory, as Annai Sec’ hammer Dolphin

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more