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Woman’s semi-nude body found Zeelugt cemetery

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s semi-nude body found Zeelugt cemetery

For the second time in two weeks, police on the West Coast of Demerara are faced with another brutal case of rape and murder. The partly nude body of 40 year-old Afroze Ali, called...

‘Fip’ Motilall signed away any right to legal redress

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Fip’ Motilall signed away any right to legal redress

By Gary Eleazar Makeswhar ‘Fip’ Motilall the President of Synergy Holdings, whose contract for the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Plant Access road was recently...

Jamaican team leaves after completing probe

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican team leaves after completing probe

Top Cop rape allegations….. The Jamaican Investigators who were brought in to investigate rape allegations against embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene have completed their work and the...

T&T Farmers in land row claim: Guyanese ‘squeezing us out’

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on T&T Farmers in land row claim: Guyanese ‘squeezing us out’

An invasion of Guyanese farmers in the food basket of Aranguez is stirring up a hornet’s nest among Trinidadian farmers who claim they are forced to pay exorbitant rent for agricultural lands and...

Dem boys seh…This Bee got to lose he contract too

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…This Bee got to lose he contract too

Some people still talking bout de contract dem tek way from Fip. Uncle Donald did meet wid de man and talk to he one month before de contract get tek way. Was a warning. Now dem boys seh that he...

Fledgling university reveals ambitious plans to expand

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fledgling university reveals ambitious plans to expand

Premised on a mission to help develop health services in Guyana while caring for its people, the Greenheart Medical University (GMU) has been making an impact in the society. Although it opened its...

Robbery, kidnapping trio remanded

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery, kidnapping trio remanded

Quick and decisive work by members of the Guyana Police Force resulted in the arrest, positive identification, charge and subsequent remanding to jail of three of the suspects in the daring daylight...

Essequibo students become more computer savvy

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo students become more computer savvy

Forty-two students from Essequibo have now become more computer savvy after completing a one-month Information Technology (IT) training programme at the Essequibo Technical Institute (ETI. The four...

Berbice Sweeper/cleaners receiving irregular and late payments

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice Sweeper/cleaners receiving irregular and late payments

Sweeper/Cleaners attached to several Berbice schools have complained about the irregular and late payments that they have been experiencing for a very long time. They have not been paid for November...

PPYC arrests three awards at AAG Annual Awards Ceremony

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on PPYC arrests three awards at AAG Annual Awards Ceremony

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) conducted their Annual Awards Ceremony under the motto “Moulding and shaping our athletics for 2012 and beyond” at YMCA, Thomas Lands last Saturday...

Barbados beat Jamaica in Regional T20

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barbados beat Jamaica in Regional T20

Barbados thrashed Jamaica by 62 runs at North Sound to inflict a first defeat on their opponents. In what has been a low-scoring tournament by Twenty20 standards, Barbados managed a match-winning 157...

Malteenoes SC hold special meeting with club’s cricketers Thursday

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Malteenoes SC hold special meeting with club’s cricketers Thursday

The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) will be holding a special meeting with all cricketers registered with the club on Thursday January 19, 2011 at the Club’s Pavilion, Thomas Lands, Georgetown...

Devers to miss C’bean Cup t20 after suffering seizures

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Devers to miss C’bean Cup t20 after suffering seizures

Past champions Guyana begin the second phase of their 2012 Caribbean Cup t20 regional cricket campaign on Tuesday in Barbados against Canada and a notable absentee from their contingent is Guyana’s...

APNU to hone in on vexatious issue of Mining in demarcated lands

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on APNU to hone in on vexatious issue of Mining in demarcated lands

By Gary Eleazar With the formation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, coupled with the fact that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) does not have enough seats to...

Tilapia farming boosted aquaculture in 2011

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Tilapia farming boosted aquaculture in 2011

Tilapia farming contributed to half of all local freshwater fish production last year, statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture show. Total fresh water fish production for last year...

Assaulted four month old has 50% chance of recovery

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Assaulted four month old has 50% chance of recovery

– perpetrator still on the run Patrice Hardy, the four month old baby girl who was pushed out of the arms of her mother and suffered a fractured skull as a result of the fall, is...

First-time mom blames GPHC for baby’s death

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on First-time mom blames GPHC for baby’s death

A 21-year-old woman is alleging that the carelessness of the staff at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) may have caused her baby’s death, last Tuesday. The woman,...

Rosignol schoolgirl raped

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rosignol schoolgirl raped

– parents say police are dragging feet on matter The parents of a West Berbice teenage girl are desperately appealing to the police to arrest the man who raped their 16- year- old...

Guyanese Medical students to soon benefit from Post Grad. Prog in India

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Medical students to soon benefit from Post Grad. Prog in India

Guyanese Medical students could be able to benefit from a Post Graduate Medical Programme in a matter of months. This disclosure was made recently by Dean of the Greenheart Medical...

Raining Bottles caused Pandemonium at Fandemonium

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Raining Bottles caused Pandemonium at Fandemonium

(By Mondale Smith) The Hits and Jams entertainment team has expressed great disappointment at some overzealous patrons whose actions brought a premature end to an evening of fun and...

New York temple donates GY$1.6M to local charities

Jan 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New York temple donates GY$1.6M to local charities

Six charitable organizations around Guyana benefited from a GY$1.6M donation from a New York, USA, Hindu temple. The Mandir, “Vighneshwar”, was founded 14-years ago and has since...

A PADLOCK GOVERNMENT

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A PADLOCK GOVERNMENT

When you think of the source of electricity that powers your household appliances, you do not often think about the generating plants which feed electricity to the national grid. You...

KUNG POO PANDA TOO: LEGENDS OF AWFULNESS

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on KUNG POO PANDA TOO: LEGENDS OF AWFULNESS

You’ve heard about Kung Fu Panda but what about Kung Poo Panda? If you thought that Kung Fu Panda was a knockout wait until you try Kung Poo Panda. According to media reports, a...

Parliament must still review the Amaila Falls road project

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parliament must still review the Amaila Falls road project

Dear Editor, If the PPP thinks this latest nasty act of chicanery will work, it will have another think coming. Let me be absolutely clear on the PPP’s cancellation of Fip Motilall’s epic...

Miners, Loggers, Amerindians: who has more rights to lands and natural resources?

Jan 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Miners, Loggers, Amerindians: who has more rights to lands and natural resources?

Dear Editor, As President Ramotar and Minister Persaud meet with stakeholders of natural resources (KN Sunday, January 15, 2012), one cannot but miss that no mention has been made of another group of...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

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