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‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schools Football Competition LTI, MHS register wins

Mar 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schools Football Competition LTI, MHS register wins

In another hapless display, Marcia Craig’s Educational Institute suffered another heavy defeat this time at the hands of Linden Technical Institute (LTI) who hammered them 11-0 as...

Seetaram/Kirton win GDA Tournament

Mar 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Seetaram/Kirton win GDA Tournament

The combination of Nicholas Seetaram / Dudley Kirton carted off the Draw Doubles when the Guyana Darts Association (GDA) organised tournament was played on Friday evening,...

AAG President congratulates record-breaking quartet

Mar 15, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on AAG President congratulates record-breaking quartet

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Colin Boyce has extended sincerest congratulations to the record-breaking quartet that competed at the Millrose Games and set a...

City Hall wants Govt. to foot street lighting Bill

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall wants Govt. to foot street lighting Bill

With a modest budget of $1.9B this year, City Council is hoping that Central Government would relieve it of its heavy street lighting bill. According to Junior Garrett, Chairman of the Finance...

Govt. spends $700M procuring solar panels

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. spends $700M procuring solar panels

Government under the Hinterland Electrification Programme (HEP) has distributed some 1,888 solar home systems of the 11,000 systems earmarked for free distribution. Pilot testing took...

RUSAL under fire

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on RUSAL under fire

…company’s behaviour is an ‘eye-pass’ to Guyanese-AFC The Alliance For Change (AFC) party has called for a review of the RUSAL contract, with the Guyana government,...

No tax waiver for delinquent City dwellers in 2012

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on No tax waiver for delinquent City dwellers in 2012

…will be pursued vigorously in Municipal Court-Garrett The aggressive pursuit of delinquent taxpayers and restoring Georgetown as the “Garden City” was highlighted among City Hall’s...

City school comes under ‘demonic attack’

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on City school comes under ‘demonic attack’

Pandemonium permeated the atmosphere yesterday at the St. Winefride’s Secondary School, when several students broke out in convulsions as if in a state of ‘demonic possession.’ Reports...

North West bound MV Kimbia forced to abandon voyage

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on North West bound MV Kimbia forced to abandon voyage

The MV Kimbia which was destined for the North West District having left Port Georgetown at around 13:00 hours yesterday was forced to return to its departure point after encountering a...

Incoming CARICOM boss plugs accountability

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Incoming CARICOM boss plugs accountability

“The people of the Caribbean wanted us to make changes to this Institution… and make the changes immediately” By Gary Eleazar On the issue of whether the recently held 23rd Intercessional...

Petition calls for new UG council

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Petition calls for new UG council

…says very existence of the 49 year old institution is at stake The Operation Rescue UG Team, which includes students, academic and non-academic staff of the University of Guyana (UG)...

Money for juvenile facility was paid to Ministry of Human Services – Rohee

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Money for juvenile facility was paid to Ministry of Human Services – Rohee

The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that $1.5M that was allocated for the purchase of dietary items for inmates of the Juvenile Holding Centre in Sophia was received and paid to Ministry of Labour,...

CI couple endure half-hour long robbery ordeal

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CI couple endure half-hour long robbery ordeal

“They keep telling me that they gun kill all two of us and then one of them put a gun in my wife mouth,” Victim A Cornelia Ida couple was forced to endure a half hour long robbery at gun-point,...

Teens nabbed minutes after robbing American

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teens nabbed minutes after robbing American

Two youths who attacked an American National and took away his cellular phone at knifepoint did not cater for the alertness of ranks of a police anti crime mobile unit. The youths were...

Linden murder…Disabled man found floating with throat slit

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden murder…Disabled man found floating with throat slit

The Old England/Sibierien (mines) community was on Sunday afternoon plunged into shock and mourning after the body of a resident was discovered afloat in the river. According to reports, the...

Escaped prisoner faces Magistracy five years later

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Escaped prisoner faces Magistracy five years later

Five years after escaping from police custody, Osmon Griffith, a man held for allegedly committing simple larceny in 2007 and had escaped during his incarceration, was yesterday back in the...

Murder PI begins for Sophia man found sleeping with dead wife

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Murder PI begins for Sophia man found sleeping with dead wife

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) for Michael Anthony Persaud who is accused of murdering his estranged wife back in December, yesterday got underway before Magistrate Judy Latchman. Persaud was...

Cocaine over the CJIA fence…No Caribbean Airline staff detained

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cocaine over the CJIA fence…No Caribbean Airline staff detained

Caribbean Airlines confirmed the drug bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport when on March 11, last, Security Agents in Guyana seized a quantity of narcotics found within the...

Guyanese nabbed in South Africa with cocaine in laptops

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese nabbed in South Africa with cocaine in laptops

Three suspected drug mules appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court, South Africa next week, Gauteng police said on Wednesday. They were arrested at OR Tambo...

Man jailed for selling undercover cop $100 bag

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for selling undercover cop $100 bag

A man who sold an undercover policeman a $100 bag of marijuana will spend the next four years in jail. The accused, 55 year-old Lennox Maynard, of 308 Block Y Golden Grove, made his...

Insufficient judicial officers still affecting flow of justice – Justice George

Mar 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Insufficient judicial officers still affecting flow of justice – Justice George

The delay of cases has been a major factor that has been contributing to the backlog of cases. In fact, according to Justice Roxanne George there is an urgent need for these factors to be...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more