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Passenger found on roadway died of Malaria

May 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Passenger found on roadway died of Malaria

Kelroy Kaser, who was found dead on the Versailles Public Road, West Bank Demerara last Sunday succumbed from malaria. This was revealed yesterday following a postmortem. The...

Expected heavy rainfalls pose threat to rice farmers

May 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Expected heavy rainfalls pose threat to rice farmers

While May/June is known for its frequent periods of rainfall that can lead to flooding at some parts of the country, the heavy downpours experienced on Thursday have caused many residents to...

No arrests yet in goldsmith robbery

May 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on No arrests yet in goldsmith robbery

No arrests have been made of the two unmasked men, who viciously beat and stole some $2M in jewelry and cash from popular goldsmith, Pegeshwar, a/k “Peggy”, of Good Hope, Essequibo...

Film producers, craft exporters can now tap into EU funding

May 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Film producers, craft exporters can now tap into EU funding

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), in collaboration with the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Carib Export), is set to host a workshop on the Direct Assistance Grant...

Drug Dealer jailed for four years

May 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Drug Dealer jailed for four years

Sunil Tahal, called Coco, 36, of St. John Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, who the court heard was a regular, was on Friday sentenced to a total of four years in jail after he pleaded...

Diamond taxi driver’s bound body dumped in Enmore

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond taxi driver’s bound body dumped in Enmore

Residents of Logwood, Enmore, awoke yesterday morning to the shocking discovery of the bound body of Diamond taxi driver Rajendra Puran lying in a drain in their East Coast Demerara community....

Gold miner stabbed to death in apartment

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner stabbed to death in apartment

A 43-year-old gold miner was found murdered in his apartment shortly after lunch yesterday when worried relatives went looking for him. Bryan Dickson, also known as ‘Son Son’ and...

$21B Budget cut not cast in stone – Luncheon

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $21B Budget cut not cast in stone – Luncheon

– Greenidge insists Amaila Falls project not threatened By Gary Eleazar While not elaborating, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday reiterated...

Lawlessness in the ‘gold bush’…Charges laid as raids reveal significant illegal mining, guns

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Lawlessness in the ‘gold bush’…Charges laid as raids reveal significant illegal mining, guns

By Leonard Gildarie In its strongest campaign yet, government has announced plans to continue indefinitely its countrywide offensive on illegal mining, with a number of charges being laid...

Brazen bandits rob E’bo goldsmith over $2M

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Brazen bandits rob E’bo goldsmith over $2M

An early morning robbery on popular goldsmith, Pegeshwar, also known as ‘Peggy’, of Good Hope, Essequibo Coast, has left the man $2M poorer. Raw silver and cell phones were...

Media and Country

May 04, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Media and Country

US Ambassador to Guyana, Brendt Hardt, has reportedly complimented the government for opening up of the airwaves by granting eleven new radio licences. However he advised that “this...

GUTTER POLITICS

May 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUTTER POLITICS

Guyanese are masters of making excuses. Whatever their failings, it is often impossible for a Guyanese to admit that they lost, were ill-prepared, or that their opponent was...

Intoxication with power destroys rationality

May 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Intoxication with power destroys rationality

The world is old. A few thousand years. The lessons to be learnt are enormous. But we humans don’t want to see. Power blinds us. In leadership, power becomes an invulnerable...

Dem boys seh…Cabinet cheap and de police force get wutless

May 04, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Cabinet cheap and de police force get wutless

Some people can really go to great lengths to show that things really bad. Dem had Cabinet meeting Wednesday. Dem boys know that every Cabinet meeting does got food and drinks. If is...

Youthful Guyana hold Martinique to 2-2 draw

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Youthful Guyana hold Martinique to 2-2 draw

St. Luces, Martinique – Second half goals by Captain Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams and winger Dwight Peters earned a young ‘Golden Jaguars’ outfit a hard fought 2-2 draw against Martinique, at...

Southern Caribbean Qualifying Round for the Rugby WC 2015…Preparations in overdrive-Henry

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Southern Caribbean Qualifying Round for the Rugby WC 2015…Preparations in overdrive-Henry

Quizzed on the state of affairs in relation to the national team’s preparations for their upcoming engagements against Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Caribbean Qualifying...

Caribbean Container FIDE Rating tournament…Khan’s clan lead points standing

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Container FIDE Rating tournament…Khan’s clan lead points standing

Junior chess player, Anthony Drayton employed shrewd tactics and drew his match with FIDE rated player Shiv Nandalall (1715) while his colleague Cecil Cox defeated another FIDE rated player,...

‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris returns to the ring for USBA title

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris returns to the ring for USBA title

The boxing pundits have written him off but former World Boxing Association (WBA) Light Welterweight champion, ‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris is not done yet and is scheduled to square off against...

Horatio says he did not compete in Suriname’s Teleg 10k

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Horatio says he did not compete in Suriname’s Teleg 10k

-Police Sports Office requests results from Suriname Dennis Horatio of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and an athlete of the Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) yesterday afternoon made it clear to...

Hand in Hand 2nd Div. 40 over cricket/West Berbice…

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand in Hand 2nd Div. 40 over cricket/West Berbice…

Bath, Rainbow Generation, D’Edward and Sundown into quarter finals The inaugural Hand-In-Hand second Division 40 over cricket competition, organised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)...

R&D Engineering, Wartsila sustain support

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on R&D Engineering, Wartsila sustain support

R&D Engineering Services Inc. and Wartsila both sustained their support of the upcoming mega President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic with contributions for the third successive year of the...

Nothing but hot air and a pander to supporters

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nothing but hot air and a pander to supporters

Dear Editor: Unless the IDB intimated to President Donald Ramotar it was worried about the impact of the Budget cuts on the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric project (AFHEP), then your news...

Scotiabank / Pepsi School Football Academy …New Campbellville & Christ Church win

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank / Pepsi School Football Academy …New Campbellville & Christ Church win

The Scotiabank/Pepsi School’s Football Academy continued with two games recently at the Ministry of Education Sports Complex Ground, Carifesta Avenue, Thomas Lands. On Tuesday May 1,...

PPYC retains Digicel National U23 title for 3rd year

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on PPYC retains Digicel National U23 title for 3rd year

– Coach Lyndon Wilson says it feels great Lyndon Wilson, Coach of Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) who has produced local qualifier (Winston George) for the London Olympic Games,...

Gibson, Sammy pleased to have Gayle back

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gibson, Sammy pleased to have Gayle back

West Indies have openly embraced the return of their premier batsman Chris Gayle, who on Wednesday committed to making himself available for selection for the one-day leg of their tour of...

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The PPP is in self-destructive mode

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News –The PPPC is not some scrappy garage band trying to book a gig at the Seawall Bandstand.... more