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Ralph Ramkarran resigns from PPP over corruption issues

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ralph Ramkarran resigns from PPP over corruption issues

– party stalwart since 1962 In a shocking move yesterday, senior Executive Member of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Ralph Ramkarran, tendered his resignation to party General...

Jamaica Govt. blocks regulator from investigating CJIA contractor

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaica Govt. blocks regulator from investigating CJIA contractor

The Jamaican Government has gone to court to block an investigation into three major infrastructural projects, including a US$600M one with China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC). CHEC is the...

MV Torani moors on Wakenaam stelling

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on MV Torani moors on Wakenaam stelling

The M.V. Torani yesterday crashed into Wakenaam Stelling, Region Three, causing panic among passengers. The vessel ripped the decking from the stelling and sent zinc sheets that formed the wall of...

Dem boys seh…De Waterfalls paper got proposal just like dem Chinee

Jul 01, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Waterfalls paper got proposal just like dem Chinee

Is not everybody believe in thiefing and corruption. Cheddi was one and he teach all of dem in he party fuh be clean. Today that principle dead just like Cheddi. Tek Jagdeo. He accept a Chinee...

Serving the nursing profession over 40 years… Javitrie Eugene is a ‘Special Person’

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Serving the nursing profession over 40 years… Javitrie Eugene is a ‘Special Person’

“If I had to live my life all over again, there are two things I would do: serve Jesus and do nursing. I just love nursing and I wish that those who have chosen this career would so love it.” By...

Trinidad police hunt mystery “Guyanese” woman

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad police hunt mystery “Guyanese” woman

Trinidad (Newsday) – A phone call from a woman with a Guyanese accent led police to a house in Gasparillo early yesterday morning. There they found the body of 69-year-old Andre Joachim, a...

Fedders Lloyd put in lowest bid for specialty hospital

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fedders Lloyd put in lowest bid for specialty hospital

Fedders Lloyd Corporation Ltd of India put in the lowest bid to construct the specialty hospital on Lower East Coast Demerara. The company put in a bid of US$23.2 million with a 23 per cent discount,...

Melanie woman was buried in shallow grave with her cell phone

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Melanie woman was buried in shallow grave with her cell phone

Joan Durant, the woman whose body was dug up from an unfinished bathroom in her Melanie Damishana home was buried with her cellular phone. The phone was recovered in a handbag which the woman was...

‘I have literally taken GT&T to every door’

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘I have literally taken GT&T to every door’

“…proud to have been your friend and brother, your colleague and compatriot” – Yog Mahadeo Colleagues, A good leader must be strong and responsible for everything, both good and...

Gayle, Pollard shine in big win

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Gayle, Pollard shine in big win

Any worries that the first Twenty20 international in Lauderhill, Florida, would be a dreary contest because of a slow pitch were allayed by an exhibition of power hitting from the West Indian...

“People don’t fail, plans fail”

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on “People don’t fail, plans fail”

– NBA Legend tells clinic participants NBA Legend and Miami Heat Community Liaison, Wali Jones motivated hundreds of children that participated in his clinic yesterday with pep talks,...

King assures he will be present and competitive

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on King assures he will be present and competitive

He is considered one of the best to ever take to the racing circuit in Guyana and even though he has been in the sport for over two decades, his enthusiasm, dexterity and sharpness of mind is second...

Fitness Express / GAPF / Intermediate & Claude Charles Mem. Powerlifting on today

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express / GAPF / Intermediate & Claude Charles Mem. Powerlifting on today

The Fitness Express sponsored Guyana Amateur Powerlifing Federation (GAPF) Intermediate and Claude Charles Memorial Powerlifting championships are set to ignite the Saint Stanislaus College...

IPA on board HRC Train

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on IPA on board HRC Train

– finals set for July 28 & NCC International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) has maintained their partnership with the Hugh Ross Classic Body Building and Fitness Show which finals are set for...

Independence Day T20 $1M profit distributed by BCB & BCC&DA

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Independence Day T20 $1M profit distributed by BCB & BCC&DA

The Organising Committee of the recently held Independence Twenty20 Cup tournament, on Wednesday last handed over the profits of the event to several organisations and clubs in Berbice. The...

Medgar Evers track star Kadecia Baird has chance to run for Guyana in London Olympics

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Medgar Evers track star Kadecia Baird has chance to run for Guyana in London Olympics

(New York Daily News) – Kadecia Baird is usually a blur on the racetrack. The rising senior from Medgar Evers registered the fastest time in the country when she ran the 400 meters in 52.14 at...

Cricket action at Uitvlugt today

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Several of Guyana’s top softball cricket teams will vie for attractive prizes today at the Uitvlugt ground in a 10/10 softball tournament and a hard ball 20/20 match between Zeeburg X1 and West...

Clive Atwell clinches bantamweight crown, Edmond DeClou retains middleweight title

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Clive Atwell clinches bantamweight crown, Edmond DeClou retains middleweight title

By Michael Benjamin On a night of fistic fury where three boxers failed to beat the count, Clive Atwell stopped Rudolph Fraser to take the local bantamweight title, while Edmond DeClou pounded out a...

GDF’s Bentick and Scott win gold

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on GDF’s Bentick and Scott win gold

By Juanita Hooper Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Tyshon Bentick and Ashanti Scott outclassed the field yesterday morning in the Open Male and Female category when the Ministry of Culture, Youth and...

P&P Insurance Brokers supports RCMTC&SF, Banks DIH Caricom Day horserace meet

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on P&P Insurance Brokers supports RCMTC&SF, Banks DIH Caricom Day horserace meet

More business entities and Horses are quickly getting themselves in line with the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club & Sports Facilities for the Mega Grand Annual July 2nd CARICOM Day...

GCA holds Fund Raising Curry-Q

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA holds Fund Raising Curry-Q

Competitions recommence The Georgetown Cricket Association will be holding its annual CURRY-Q tomorrow, Monday July 2 at the Muslim Youth Organisation ground. Meals will be served between 12 Noon and...

“West Indies v New Zealand-Could this be the rise of the Phoenix?”

Jul 01, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on “West Indies v New Zealand-Could this be the rise of the Phoenix?”

Colin E. H. Croft This weekend, West Indies restarts that quest for recognition as a re-emerging force in world cricket. After that most disappointing tour against England in May and June, the next...

CC Nicholson Hospital probe…Major communication gap led to birth in barber shop

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CC Nicholson Hospital probe…Major communication gap led to birth in barber shop

Investigations by the Ministry of Health have revealed massive gaps in communication at the Dr. CC Nicholson’s Hospital. These resulted in a 23-year-old giving birth at a barber shop,...

Six-yr-old with brain tumour awaits surgery

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Six-yr-old with brain tumour awaits surgery

Six-year-old Shurlock Semple has been diagnosed with a brain tumour by doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and has been in the institution’s Intensive Care Unit for...

Gangs in schools a major concern for the Education Ministry

Jul 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gangs in schools a major concern for the Education Ministry

The growing number of gangs in schools countrywide continues to be an issue for the Ministry of Education. This is according to Minister Priya Manickchand, who expressed her concern...

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Keevin Allicock – the next torchbearer for Guyanese professional boxing

Sometimes the best of leaders fail

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Jimmy Carter’s presidency fell victim to global and domestic upheavals. His single term... more