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Henry optimistic that the team will be ready for Las Vegas challenge

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Henry optimistic that the team will be ready for Las Vegas challenge

Coach / Player of the national rugby team currently preparing for the Las Vegas, Theodore Henry, in an interview with Kaieteur Sport shortly before they embarked on a training session at the...

GMR&SC host back to back events

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC host back to back events

With this weekend’s Fun-Day being used as a precursor for the February 5 Meeting at the South Dakota Circuit, motor racing fans will certainly have a quick double dose of excitement...

Peters shines as Cullen Young Warriors record consecutive wins

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Peters shines as Cullen Young Warriors record consecutive wins

Cullen Young Warriors recorded consecutive victories as the South Essequibo Cricket Committee U-19 twenty\20 Tapeball competition commenced last Sunday at Zorg on the Essequibo Coast....

Berbice FA aiming for productive 2012

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice FA aiming for productive 2012

Senior, junior & female tourneys planned for 1st quarter The Berbice Football Association (BFA) in a bid to be more competitive at the national level is leaving no stones...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Getting it right Orin, response to Orin Davis letter

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Getting it right Orin, response to Orin Davis letter

Dear Editor, Mr Editor, permit me space in the newspapers so I can respond to my friend Orin Davis who submitted a letter in response to mine’s recently. Hello Orin, this is Theresa,...

Govt. not ‘hogtied’ to Amaila Falls hydro contract-AFC

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. not ‘hogtied’ to Amaila Falls hydro contract-AFC

…party calls for Luncheon’s resignation The Alliance For Change (AFC) says that the Government is not ‘hogtied’ to contracts signed by President Bharrat Jagdeo, especially the...

Cocaine in pineapples, watermelons…Guyana link seen as Canadians arrest 6

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cocaine in pineapples, watermelons…Guyana link seen as Canadians arrest 6

Toronto, Canada (Toronto Sun) – Would you like pineapple with your cocaine? Some watermelon with your weed? In a highly-tainted fruit salad caper, six Toronto-area accused drug importers were...

Guyana’s press freedom ranking remains unchanged

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s press freedom ranking remains unchanged

-Govt. says radio licences not for any “lagoo bagoo” Guyana’s press freedom ranking remained unchanged for 2011/2012, a report by the press freedom watchdog Reporters without Borders indicated...

Georgetown Hospital refutes report that its food is terrible

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Georgetown Hospital refutes report that its food is terrible

The Georgetown Public Hospital has refuted reports that its food to patients is terrible. “Management wishes to state unequivocally that for the past year, the quality of meals prepared for...

CGX gets land in Berbice for possible oil refinery

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CGX gets land in Berbice for possible oil refinery

– Financing with Trinidadians explored The government has leased a “sizeable” plot of land to Canadian oil exploration company CGX that could be used to develop some type of oil...

Advertising for Registrar…UG: We are not sidelining Alexander

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Advertising for Registrar…UG: We are not sidelining Alexander

Reports that current Registrar of the University of Guyana, Dr. Vincent Alexander, is likely to be sidelined for the position of Registrar, were effectively debunked by officials of the...

Dead fishes on Berbice beach not unusual-Agri Ministry

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dead fishes on Berbice beach not unusual-Agri Ministry

Numerous dead fishes were found on the beaches of the upper Corentyne, Berbice, causing local villagers to become alarmed. The sightings are said to be an annual occurrence by the locals and...

Trini doctors forced to suspend surgery on brain tumour girl

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Trini doctors forced to suspend surgery on brain tumour girl

Six-year-old Zeneiah Loo, who left Guyana on Friday for a hospital in Trinidad to have brain surgery, has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Community Hospital of Seventh...

Antigua opposition demands explanation for Guyanese lawyer’s appointment

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Antigua opposition demands explanation for Guyanese lawyer’s appointment

St. John’s, Antigua – The opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) is demanding full disclosure from authorities about the move to have Guyanese attorney Sanjeev Datadin appointed to assist...

UG students, staffers to protest Kissoon’s dismissal

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UG students, staffers to protest Kissoon’s dismissal

Students and workers, including senior staff, of the University of Guyana will today begin a protest over the termination of Freddie Kissoon’s contract, and other issues which affect the...

Little Diamond residents demand burial ground be weeded

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Little Diamond residents demand burial ground be weeded

“More of a haven for bandits, than one for the dead,” is what one resident of Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara, described their community’s burial ground to be like. Complaints of...

Mon Repos businessman, family beaten by bandits

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos businessman, family beaten by bandits

Two bandits turned a section of Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara into a semi war zone, when they fired off several rounds as they made good their escape after robbing the Mangal and...

Busted drug ring…Wanted Nigerian, cosmetologist refused bail

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Busted drug ring…Wanted Nigerian, cosmetologist refused bail

A Nigerian national and a Guyanese woman were yesterday remanded to jail for allegedly conspiring to post 510 grammes of cocaine via the Georgetown Post Office Corporation (GPOC). The...

Stewartville murder trial…Crying witness recalls seeing accused with gun

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stewartville murder trial…Crying witness recalls seeing accused with gun

The seventh witness called by the Prosecution testified yesterday that some two weeks after the alleged shooting to death of Vishnu Santie, she saw the number two accused with a gun and he told her...

Drug counselor murder PI starts

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Drug counselor murder PI starts

The Preliminary Inquiry into the matter against indicted anti-narcotics cop, Sherwin Smith, who is accused to killing drug rehab counselor Ralph Turpin last year, got underway yesterday. Smith who is...

Providence, accused of rape, given a lifeline

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Providence, accused of rape, given a lifeline

After about two hours of deliberation, a mixed jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty in a case involving an East Coast Demerara man accused of raping a woman. The defendant, Steve...

Mon Repos residents angry about appalling streets

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos residents angry about appalling streets

Though the office of the Regional Democratic Council is one street away from the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) village, the streets are in a terrible condition and residents are upset. Several...

Amaila Falls hydro project…Loans of $588M will cost Guyana US$187M in fees during construction alone

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls hydro project…Loans of $588M will cost Guyana US$187M in fees during construction alone

The top brass of Sithe Global are currently in Guyana and met with several media operatives yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel to provide an update on the 165MW Hydroelectric Power Plant to be...

Govt’s US$1.5M claim to Fip’s performance bond in jeopardy

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt’s US$1.5M claim to Fip’s performance bond in jeopardy

A claim that has been laid by the Government of Guyana in relation to the US$1.5M Performance Bond that had been issued to Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall is now in jeopardy. This money, which on the...

GT&T employee injured as utility pole topples with him

Jan 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T employee injured as utility pole topples with him

Osmond Yaw, an employee of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) who was among several persons conducting extensive work for the company in Lethem, sustained injuries after...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more