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Breaking News!!! Granger wins PNCR leadership

Jul 30, 2012 knews News Comments Off on Breaking News!!! Granger wins PNCR leadership

… says party won’t go it alone at next election with him at the helm BY Gary Eleazar The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) this year celebrates its 55th anniversary and Sunday’s 17th...

Water cannon finally sent to Linden

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Water cannon finally sent to Linden

Linden unrest continues… – residents reject proposal to ‘suspend’ tariff hikes The contentious Kara Kara Bridge remained under the control of Joint Services Ranks for...

Rift widens between Miners’ Association and GGMC

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rift widens between Miners’ Association and GGMC

– calls renewed for removal of Minister Persaud, Joe Singh Small and medium scale miners are resolute that the disrespect meted out to them by Government must end. They are...

Basil Williams is new PNCR Chairman

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Basil Williams is new PNCR Chairman

– Granger and Greenidge in dead heat for leadership post Attorney at law Basil Williams was last night declared the new Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform. Williams replaces...

Abused woman dies eight days after beating

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Abused woman dies eight days after beating

– reputed husband on the run, lover arrested Eight days after sustaining a “sound trashing” allegedly at the hands of her reputed husband, Seekumarie Singh, succumbed to...

Staffing process for Family Court underway

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Staffing process for Family Court underway

– JSC interviewing prospective judges Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has announced that two contracts have been awarded for the provision of...

Dem boys seh…Everybody want to be Baby Burnham

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Everybody want to be Baby Burnham

Everybody want lead de PNC. And is funny how de whole country sit down and wait fuh see who gun end up de leader. Corbin cause de problem. He sit down and mek people believe that dem had to train...

PSC wants Gov’t. to make good on promises given to Linden

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PSC wants Gov’t. to make good on promises given to Linden

– urges removal of blockades The Private Sector Commission, reeling from the effects of the Linden standoff, is urging the Government to take prompt action and set target...

Hindu school first to introduce CAPE in Region 3

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hindu school first to introduce CAPE in Region 3

The privately own Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) Hindu secondary school located at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, is slated to introduce Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination...

11-year-old girl missing

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 11-year-old girl missing

Since Saturday last, Devika Selall went missing from her Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara community after being sent to the shop. Kaieteur News understands that her recent disappearance is the second...

Ralph Seeram should ask whether it is the PPP that wants to take Guyana back to the sixties

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ralph Seeram should ask whether it is the PPP that wants to take Guyana back to the sixties

Dear Editor, Ralph Seeram, sitting in his perch in North America, plays a good blame game. His piece titled “Does the opposition want to take Guyana back to the sixties” (KN, July 29, 2012) is...

Justice eludes parents of child killed almost six years ago

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Justice eludes parents of child killed almost six years ago

Six years after the driver of a speeding car killed his nine-year-old son, Deodat Loaknauth remains angry, despondent and bewildered that the culprit will never spend a single day...

Guyana claim Bronze and Silver at Pan Am Badminton C/ships

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana claim Bronze and Silver at Pan Am Badminton C/ships

The XXI Pan American Junior Badminton Championships in Alberta, Canada concluded on July Saturday for the Guyana Team with Priyanna Ramdhani gaining two Bronze Medals and one Silver. The presentation...

Splashmin’s drowning…Survivor still hospitalized

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Splashmin’s drowning…Survivor still hospitalized

Thirteen year-old Paramdev Nanan who was pulled from the creek at Splashmin’s Fun Park two Sundays ago is said to be on the road to recovery and is expected to be back home with his family soon....

SQUASH CHAMPIONS

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on SQUASH CHAMPIONS

LCD, village governance for discussion at Toshaos’ Council confab

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on LCD, village governance for discussion at Toshaos’ Council confab

The Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), village governance, legislative issues and resource management are among several issues to be discussed with President Donald Ramotar and Cabinet members,...

BUY, BLOWS AND BUTTER NUTS

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on BUY, BLOWS AND BUTTER NUTS

My Uncle Jacob had a shop in Calcutta Settlement, deep in the heart of the Central Trinidad countryside. In those days, electricity had not yet reached the village and we used a Coleman gas-lamp...

Ramnarine is new WCC Chairman

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramnarine is new WCC Chairman

Moses Ramnarine replaced Sheik Ahmad as Chairman of the Wakenaam Cricket Committee when the body held its Annual General Meeting and Elections Saturday evening at the Wakenaam Community Centre...

Police failed to heed Special Branch warning about Linden

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police failed to heed Special Branch warning about Linden

By Dale Andrews The Guyana Police Force failed to heed the words from the intelligence unit and plan effectively for the current protest actions taking place in the mining town of...

Mr. Seeram: What if three cane-cutters were killed by the police in a similar scenario?

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Seeram: What if three cane-cutters were killed by the police in a similar scenario?

Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading Ralph Seeram’s article titled: “The Opposition wants to take Guyana back to the Sixties” (KN, July 29th). Seeram makes nice-sounding arguments: Opposition must...

Churches show support for Linden protests

Jul 30, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Churches show support for Linden protests

Several religious bodies from the Christian faith in particular, yesterday, endorsed the major stakeholders’ decision of raising the ante on government, as they petitioned God’s...

Five Guyanese in Caledonia AIA side to face Seattle Sounders tomorrow

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Five Guyanese in Caledonia AIA side to face Seattle Sounders tomorrow

CONCACAF Club C/ships Walter ‘Boyd’ Moore heads a list of five (5) ‘Golden Jaguars’ selected on Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA’s 20-man squad to travel to Seattle for the Trinidad...

Michael Dos Santos flexes his way to top honours at Hugh Ross Classic

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Michael Dos Santos flexes his way to top honours at Hugh Ross Classic

Displaying superb biceps and amazing ‘six packs’ (abdominals) among other physical attributes, Michael Dos Santos flexed his way to top honours in the heavyweight category and later returned to...

WICB Under-19 Tournament Roundup

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB Under-19 Tournament Roundup

Guyana, leading by 71 on first innings, were 114-6 in their second innings at the close on the second day of their opening round clash with Leeward Islands in the Regional Under-19 Championship...

We must dismantle the racist victim themes now used for sinister political agendas

Jul 30, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must dismantle the racist victim themes now used for sinister political agendas

Dear Editor, I have known Hubert Edwards and his wife Parvati for some thirty years. The complex implications of an interracial marriage though somewhat common with other Guyanese was always back...

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more