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PPP hails revolutionary Una Mulzac

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PPP hails revolutionary Una Mulzac

Life-long revolutionary and internationalist, Una Mulzac, who contributed to Guyana’s anti-colonial struggle for independence, passed away on January 21, after dedicating years to the fight...

Bandits nabbed minutes after LBI robbery

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits nabbed minutes after LBI robbery

Quick action by ranks of a Tactical Services Unit (TSU) anti-crime patrol operating on the East Coast of Demerara, shattered the getaway plans of two bandits, minutes after they had...

CROSQ celebrates 10th anniversary

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CROSQ celebrates 10th anniversary

CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this month, and according to Public Relations Officer of Guyana’s National Bureau of...

UN envoy expresses confident in PANCAP

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UN envoy expresses confident in PANCAP

Confidence in Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP)’s ability to build on past successes to reverse or even eliminate the spread of AIDS was expressed by Professor Edward...

Veteran photojournalist Ken Moore passes away

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Veteran photojournalist Ken Moore passes away

Veteran photographer and Golden Arrow of Achievement recipient Ken Moore passed away yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation following a brief period of illness. He was 72....

Scotiabank ‘spreads love’ to the less fortunate

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank ‘spreads love’ to the less fortunate

With the season of love in the air, residents of the Salvation Army Women’s Home and those at the Archer’s Home were last Saturday treated to a pre-Valentine’s lunch, as a reminder that...

Shot thief sentenced to 18 months

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shot thief sentenced to 18 months

A known thief, who was shot twice in the leg by a man whose property he removed items from, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. Carlos Grant, who appeared before Magistrate Hazel...

Agricola man charged with discharging firearm at police

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola man charged with discharging firearm at police

Terrence John of Water Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, is currently before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly discharging a firearm at police...

Corentyne rape victim pleads for justice

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne rape victim pleads for justice

A 17-year-old girl (name given) of Bush Lot Farm on the Corentyne, wants the 28-year-old man from Kildonan Village, who she claims raped her in late November last year, to be brought to...

Two state officers take the stand in Colin Jones PI

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two state officers take the stand in Colin Jones PI

Already being committed to the High Court for allegedly attempting to murder police ranks at the Brickdam Police Station, Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Basil Morgan, Anthony Watson and...

One dead, nine homeless in two seperate fires

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One dead, nine homeless in two seperate fires

Police apprehended a man who set ablaze his house at 69 Parika Sea Dam, East Bank Essequibo, leaving his wife and seven children homeless yesterday. The man who is in custody at Parika Police...

Senior citizen dies in Diamond fire

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Senior citizen dies in Diamond fire

By Zena Henry and Rehana Ahamad The tiny community of Little Diamond was plunged into shock last night when an 82-year-old woman was burnt to death in an early evening blaze....

Magistrate shortage affects East Demerara courts

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate shortage affects East Demerara courts

The recent resignation of Magistrate Fazil Azeez has plunged the Magistracy once again into a mini crisis. Azeez left the bench at the end of last year forcing a reassignment of Magistrates in...

Blairmont sugar workers shut down estate

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Blairmont sugar workers shut down estate

…demand removal of Estate Manager By Leon Suseran Hundreds of sugar workers attached to the Blairmont Estate, West Bank Berbice converged in front of the Administrative Office and...

Police officers still in custody…Escaped criminals were positively identified more than six times.

Feb 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police officers still in custody…Escaped criminals were positively identified more than six times.

…operated minibus repeatedly without drivers’ licences The police high command are peeved and are conducting intense investigation after high profile criminal, Richard Barrow,...

Transaction and transformation: Comparing Hoyte and Ramotar

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Transaction and transformation: Comparing Hoyte and Ramotar

I was hesitant about doing this piece. The last time I compared Guyanese presidencies was at an academic conference in which some thugs, centrally directed, tried to destroy the event and I ended up...

THE PPP IS REAPING WHAT IT HAS SOWN

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP IS REAPING WHAT IT HAS SOWN

What happens, as in the case of APNU, when you give an election your best shot and still lose by close to eight percentage points? What happens when this loss occurs when your main political...

The focus is on love

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The focus is on love

Today is supposed to be the day when love beats all. The entire country should be holding out flowers in any form, be they in bouquets or in clusters, to each other. It is the day when...

Dem boys seh…Today love gun be expensive

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Today love gun be expensive

Today is a special day. Rich people like all dem who mek money doing funny things like thiefing gun spend like crazy. Dem is de ones who gun buy some big box of chocolate. Dem is de...

This Amaila Hydro Project needs to be seriously and comprehensively reviewed

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on This Amaila Hydro Project needs to be seriously and comprehensively reviewed

Dear Editor, There has been a significant upsurge in interest in the Amaila Road Project (Motilall’s road) and the Amaila Hydro Project, no doubt occasioned by termination of the...

Guyana-born judge to preside at historic hearing in Belize

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana-born judge to preside at historic hearing in Belize

DEAR EDITOR, Belize is the first country to conduct a criminal trial without a jury, and a Guyanese will be the first judge to preside at the hearing. The country’s parliament passed...

The PPP is the last government on this planet which should speak about intractable postures

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP is the last government on this planet which should speak about intractable postures

Dear Editor, I have been watching patiently as our new political situation unfolds. I have seen numerous signs that the PPP does not understand the current dispensation, starting with...

Guyanese acculturating American football

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese acculturating American football

Dear Editor, I was never attracted to American sports like football (played with the hands as opposed with the foot) and baseball (with some similarities to cricket). I watched parts of...

Lucille Mittelholzer, M.B.E; Matchmaker

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lucille Mittelholzer, M.B.E; Matchmaker

DEAR EDITOR, On February 9th 2012, this proud daughter of Guyana turned the grand old age of 101. Miss Lucille Irene Mittelholzer M.B.E, has lived a life that has touched many. So much...

Our children must be better cared for and protected

Feb 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our children must be better cared for and protected

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter invites the Ministers of Education and Human Services to inform the Guyanese people what they are doing and propose to do about the rape, sexual abuse...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more