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Services upset Mines 7-0, Maintenance halt Operations 2-0 to reach final

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Services upset Mines 7-0, Maintenance halt Operations 2-0 to reach final

General Services secured an upset win to end the reign of defending champions Mines who were dumped 2-0 from the 2012 championship, while Mark Louis’s hat-trick of goals paved the way...

2012 Golf Season begins with Stag Beer Tourney

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2012 Golf Season begins with Stag Beer Tourney

Guyana’s golfers are coming out of hibernation after several months of inclement weather, as the 2012 season gets off to a late start with this week’s opening tournament sponsored...

Overseas coaches to hold coaches programme ahead of Scotia Pepsi football tourney

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Overseas coaches to hold coaches programme ahead of Scotia Pepsi football tourney

Three overseas coaches will begin a two-day coaches course today ahead of the start of the tournament phase of the Scotia/Pepsi Schools football Academy this weekend. Trinidad and...

Masters Football Association formed

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Masters Football Association formed

Following a meeting which was convened on March 1 and attended by representatives of eight clubs the Georgetown Masters Football Association was formed with the mandate to run...

Den Amstel, Pele, Alpha United, Milerock draw first blood in GFF 2012 Super League

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Den Amstel, Pele, Alpha United, Milerock draw first blood in GFF 2012 Super League

The Youthful Den Amstel Football Club (FC) trounced the seasoned Victoria Kings 5-1 at Uitvlugt ground last Sunday when the 2012 edition of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super...

QC students collect prizes as Mash Inter-Class Table Tennis tournament concludes

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on QC students collect prizes as Mash Inter-Class Table Tennis tournament concludes

Several table tennis players received their respective prizes after successfully participating in the Mashramani Inter-Class Table Tennis tournament organized by the Queens College...

Gov’t electronic sector backbone to be ready by mid-year – Alexei Ramotar

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t electronic sector backbone to be ready by mid-year – Alexei Ramotar

The Government of Guyana’s infrastructural backbone to support the electronic component of its services is progressing with one of two projects almost 85% complete as all the fibre optic...

$400M bid received to provide army ration

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $400M bid received to provide army ration

– Two tenders submitted in pencil A new housing area is being developed at Farm, East Bank Demerara with bids yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board...

PUC has recovered $8M for overbilled customers

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PUC has recovered $8M for overbilled customers

– opens branch in Berbice By Leon Suseran The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) now has an official presence in the Berbice area. The statutory body, which has oversight of the utilities...

Guyana holds Toronto mining seminar…Consortium interested in gold refinery

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana holds Toronto mining seminar…Consortium interested in gold refinery

Guyana, in collaboration with the High Commission of Canada, held its first ever mining seminar in Toronto at the PDAC Conference and Exhibition on Sunday. Minister of Natural Resources and...

One hospitalised as E’bo security guards come under attack

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One hospitalised as E’bo security guards come under attack

Sasenarine Chand, also known Sugrim of Alliance, Essequibo Coast, remains a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital, one day after he was severely chopped by two unknown bandits at the...

Sandpit owner complains of police no-show after second robbery

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sandpit owner complains of police no-show after second robbery

A prominent sandpit located along Foster Street, Kuru Kururu, was robbed on Saturday -the second time in five years- and the owner is complaining about the police’s sloth in coming to...

Nokta elected Chairman of Protected Areas Commission

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Nokta elected Chairman of Protected Areas Commission

Following closely on the heels of the landmark Protected Areas Act of 2011, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MoNRE) has constituted the Board of Directors for the...

Police nabs four after… Bandits brutalize veteran media worker in pre-dawn attack

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police nabs four after… Bandits brutalize veteran media worker in pre-dawn attack

Veteran media worker, Deodat Ramsook, 61, and his wife Devika Ramsook, 57, of 45 Race Course, Springlands, Corriverton, were brutally robbed by three armed masked bandits who broke into their home...

Body of GNSC guard recovered at Den Amstel foreshore

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Body of GNSC guard recovered at Den Amstel foreshore

Police have recovered the body of 46-year-old security guard Walter Hamilton, who had been missing since Sunday after falling off the Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) wharf while on...

Voltage fluctuation cause Grove/Diamond water problems

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Voltage fluctuation cause Grove/Diamond water problems

The water current shortage in the Grove/ Diamond area has been caused by voltage fluctuation and nothing else. This was according to the Assistant Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Water...

Visiting medical team treats Linden residents

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Visiting medical team treats Linden residents

Scores of residents on the Wismar shore were yesterday afforded the opportunity of accessing free medical intervention at the Christianburg Health Centre. Delivering the medical services was...

Carpenter hit by speeding car succumbs

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Carpenter hit by speeding car succumbs

-driver on station bail The 20-year-old carpenter who was struck down by a speeding car at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) succumbed to his injuries Sunday last after spending a week in...

Man found dead opposite Russian Embassy

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man found dead opposite Russian Embassy

The Guyana Police Force is investigating the death of a dreadlocked man who was found lying on a parapet opposite the Russian Embassy, Rupert Craig Highway, East Coast Demerara. The deceased,...

Neesa Gopaul PI…Mother questions police witness in lawyers’ absence

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopaul PI…Mother questions police witness in lawyers’ absence

Prosecution witness, Corporal Rawl Nedd, attached to the crime lab at Criminal Investigations Department (CID) took the stand yesterday to present his evidence-in-chief in the Preliminary...

Retraction

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Retraction

Former Region Six Executive Officer, Desmond Kissoon, was at the centre of an investigation resulting from the purchase of a low bed. He was subsequently dismissed. He moved to the...

It’s Goodbye! Mr. Pethadine

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on It’s Goodbye! Mr. Pethadine

By Practitioner Let me start by apologizing in advance to any reader I might offend with the intensely personal nature of this article – my rationale is recounting what I’ve been through is the...

Rose Hall woman who slapped teacher on $8,000 bail

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall woman who slapped teacher on $8,000 bail

Vanessa D’Andrade, 26, of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Albion Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of assaulting a school- teacher....

Construction works on Hadfield Street upsets Car Care owner

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Construction works on Hadfield Street upsets Car Care owner

Present construction at a location on Hadfield Street has a businessman concerned about the future of his building and he is calling for the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to...

Thief tells magistrate, the devil is a liar

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Thief tells magistrate, the devil is a liar

An 18 year-old man will spend the next two years in prison after he was caught red handed in a woman’s house. The accused, Rondell Stoby, made his appearance at the Providence Magistrates’ Court...