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Uitvlugt Primary students sent home

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt Primary students sent home

– meet appalling physical conditions as school reopens While teachers across Guyana welcomed students yesterday at the beginning of the New Year, those at Uitvlugt Primary School had to...

Special ministerial team tackling Cane Grove rice dust pollution

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Special ministerial team tackling Cane Grove rice dust pollution

A long simmering environmental problem at Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, over dust pollution from a rice mill, is being addressed by a government team of ministers. On Monday, the group...

Social activists picket OP

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Social activists picket OP

– call for treason accused to be pardoned Yesterday, social activist Mark Benschop, columnist Freddie Kissoon and Trade Unionist Norris Witter picketed the Office of the President,...

Guyanese home among four firebombed in NY

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese home among four firebombed in NY

– suspect held after car stakeout New York – A man suspected of five New York City fire bombings, including on the home of a Guyanese family, was arrested yesterday by cops who...

Drug rehab counsellor’s killing…PI adjourned until Jan. 17

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Drug rehab counsellor’s killing…PI adjourned until Jan. 17

The matter against interdicted anti-narcotics cop, Lance Corporal Sherwin Smith, who is charged with the September 15, 2011 murder of 54-year-old drug rehab counsellor Ralph Turpin, has been...

Stella Ramsaroop unveils Sisterhood project

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stella Ramsaroop unveils Sisterhood project

Women’s issues activist Stella Ramsaroop has launched a new venture – “Stella’s Sisterhood of Support and Service (S4) Foundation”. The project is intended to promote the continued...

Juvenile court matters…Effective communication could be catalyst for reduction

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Juvenile court matters…Effective communication could be catalyst for reduction

Prominent member of the Children’s Legal Aid and Attorney-at-Law, Jaya Manickchand, believes that effective communication among ranks of the Guyana Police Force and Social Service workers could be...

Blanchard murder PI commences Friday

Jan 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Blanchard murder PI commences Friday

After several appearances at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, the matter against John Blanchard, the father accused of hacking to death his three young children, has been transferred to the...

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...

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Guyanese MMA star Harris set for octagon return on January 11

Jagdeo is a liability to Irfaan Ali

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Bharrat Jagdeo has long represented an unsettling paradox in Guyana’s politics. He... more