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Fat cats unmasked… ‘Disgraceful’ OP operating ‘Dharm Shala’ for friends, cronies

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fat cats unmasked… ‘Disgraceful’ OP operating ‘Dharm Shala’ for friends, cronies

…super salaries being paid to do little or nothing, “mostly nothing” – Moses Nagamotoo Attorney-at-law Moses Nagamootoo, who made headlines on Nomination Day when he defected from...

PNCR 17th Biennial Congress gets underway…55 year-old Party charts renewed course for Govt. of National Unity

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR 17th Biennial Congress gets underway…55 year-old Party charts renewed course for Govt. of National Unity

By Gary Eleazar The People’s National Congress Reform yesterday opened its 17th Biennial Congress at its Headquarters Congress Place. The highlight of this year’s Congress is expected to be the...

Man, 74, surrenders after killing stepson

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 74, surrenders after killing stepson

A 74-year-old man has already surrendered his fate having admitted to fatally stabbing of his 34- year-old stepson. The man waited patiently for the police to arrive, 30 minutes after stabbing his...

UK ballistics expert willing to examine bullets removed from slain Lindeners

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UK ballistics expert willing to examine bullets removed from slain Lindeners

-AFC seeks clearance from Top Cop A United Kingdom ballistics expert is willing to come here to examine the bullet fragments that were extracted from two of the Linden victims. Alliance For Change...

Porter dies despite airlift to city

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Porter dies despite airlift to city

Orin Hutson, 20, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last evening, a few hours after a truck in which he was traveling, toppled, pinning him for almost...

Man beats peacemaker

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man beats peacemaker

A man was yesterday placed on self bail after appearing at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer a charge of assault. The man, 43-year-old Paul Louis of Lot 43 East Ruimveldt, was placed on...

Linden protest bites deep…Mining, logging camps starved, Govt. weighs options

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden protest bites deep…Mining, logging camps starved, Govt. weighs options

– fuel skyrockets, cash runs out The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment yesterday met with representatives of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and the...

Young athletes light London 2012 Olympic flame

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young athletes light London 2012 Olympic flame

The Queen has declared the London Olympics officially open, before seven young athletes were given the honour of lighting the ceremonial flame. The show featured celebrities and sportspeople from all...

Dem boys seh…Ohh Pee does pay de sweet man and de sweet woman

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Ohh Pee does pay de sweet man and de sweet woman

Uncle Donald going to Linden fuh talk to de people. He send message and he going with de whole army. Nuff of dem Minister who shoulda go before Uncle Donald now decide that dem gun guh wid he. All of...

Gayle, Powell tons give WI edge

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gayle, Powell tons give WI edge

Centuries by Chris Gayle and Kieran Powell, who put on 254 for the first wicket, put West Indies on the path to securing a sizeable first-innings lead, but a few late strikes after tea gave New...

Headquarters take Police Athletics title again

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Headquarters take Police Athletics title again

-Guyana wins A Class category By Juanita Hooper Headquarters came out victorious again in the Annual Police Athletics Sports yesterday evening to retain their title when the final day of the three...

Taxi driver shot at following collision

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver shot at following collision

A typical case of fleeing the scene of an accident, yesterday almost ended in serious injury or even death as a bullet grazed a taxi driver who chased a minibus that “bumped” into the car he...

Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Championships…

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Championships…

Brodras, Cadets, Tigers secure victories The Annual Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Championships lived up to its name on the first night of action as traditional favourites were placed...

Linden vows continued struggle

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden vows continued struggle

“No retreat, no surrender!”, was reiterated by speaker after speaker at yesterday’s meeting at Wismar to mark the 10th day of Linden’s struggle against increased electricity tariffs for the...

Cop jailed for drug possession

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cop jailed for drug possession

Former policeman, Antonio Singh Balroop, 24, of Lot 5 Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice, who was a serving member of the force when he was caught with 17 grams of marijuana at the home of a...

Madness in the face of the enemy

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Madness in the face of the enemy

Dear Editor, An acceptable definition of madness is to do the same thing over and over again, yet expect a different result. In 1961, two months before the PNC contested the general elections, Mr....

Hundreds flock Leonora Primary School for Guyana Watch Medical Outreach

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds flock Leonora Primary School for Guyana Watch Medical Outreach

– team treats 2,271 patients in five days Sixty-eight-year-old Sunita Ganga, of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara walked out of the Leonora Primary School smiling yesterday, her hands...

Priyanna Ramdhani in the medal hunt at Pan Am Junior Badminton tourney

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Priyanna Ramdhani in the medal hunt at Pan Am Junior Badminton tourney

The XXI Pan American Junior Badminton Championships which is being held in Alberta, Canada continued with the Doubles and Mixed Doubles Events. Guyana’s Priyanna Ramdhani once again...

UG Fellows share One World Youth Project

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UG Fellows share One World Youth Project

In partnership with the University of Guyana (UG), international non-profit organization One World Youth Project (OWYP) selected two distinguished student Fellows to attend a leadership conference in...

Venezuelan caught trying to sell illegal gun and ammunition

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan caught trying to sell illegal gun and ammunition

A 25-year-old boat operator from Venezuela will know his fate next Monday when he is expected to be sentenced for having an illegal .45 pistol and illegal ammunition for the said firearm in his...

Woman died of strangulation

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman died of strangulation

The report emerging from the post mortem performed on 22-year-old Rohanie Tegwantte and her reputed husband, 24-year-old Rabinandan Ramadhar, revealed that Tegwantte died as a result of asphyxiation...

Indigenous vs. Amerindian

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Indigenous vs. Amerindian

Dear Editor, I was confused by the headline “Indigenous Peoples Commission hands over first report to House Speaker”. More attentive persons would recognise the euphemistic use of the terminology...

Support for inquiry on collapse of Harbour Bridge

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for inquiry on collapse of Harbour Bridge

Dear Editor, I endorse the view expressed by Peeping Tom (Jul 24) that an inquiry is needed into the collapse of the Demerara Harbour Bridge. The partially sunken bridge has been the subject of...

Man who stabbed uncle to be sentenced on Monday

Jul 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man who stabbed uncle to be sentenced on Monday

A 25-year-old mason from D’Andrade Street, Newtown, was yesterday remanded to jail until next Monday when Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry is scheduled to sentence him. The mason pleaded guilty to...

Japanese swim coach lauded for excellent job as ‘Learn to swim’ programme concludes

Jul 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Japanese swim coach lauded for excellent job as ‘Learn to swim’ programme concludes

Director of Youth and Sports, Neil Kumar extended gratitude to Japanese swimming coach, Kumiko Inuzaka when the curtains came down on the ‘Learn to swim’ programme, staged under the...