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Business owner drops dead, four trapped chinese rescued

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Business owner drops dead, four trapped chinese rescued

– As fire razes four regent street buildings An early morning fire on Regent Street yesterday left millions of dollars in damage and losses and one businessman dead. Businessman,...

Bel Air businessman murdered, wife, infant daughter terrorized

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bel Air businessman murdered, wife, infant daughter terrorized

-killers posed as Customs Officers A 45-year-old businessman was bound and murdered in his Bel Air Village, East Coast Demerara home at around 20:00 hrs yesterday by three men whom he let into...

China’s Ye Shiwen is clean, says BOA boss Moynihan

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on China’s Ye Shiwen is clean, says BOA boss Moynihan

BBC Sport- Teenage Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen is not a drug cheat, the British Olympic Association’s chairman has said, after a US coach cast doubt on her world record-breaking swim. Lord Colin...

Dem Boys Seh…Today is de last chance fuh Uncle Donald emancipate he self

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh…Today is de last chance fuh Uncle Donald emancipate he self

Is never easy when a person tek over a job from somebody who behave like dem de own it. Is even worse yet when de person that hand over did mek people feel like if he own dem too. De Big Rat mek sure...

Gajraj bemoans poor Maths, English performance at Agri School

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gajraj bemoans poor Maths, English performance at Agri School

– as 111 students graduate The Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), last evening graduated a batch of 111 students during its 48th convocation at the institution in Mon Repos, East Coast...

Emancipation and unified purpose

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Emancipation and unified purpose

Today is the one sure day that Guyanese of African ancestry will don their finest garb that reminds them of their ancestry, and assemble at the various locations where there will be Emancipation Day...

Suriname auto dealership commissions Berbice branch, decries red tape

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname auto dealership commissions Berbice branch, decries red tape

A Surinamese auto dealership is hoping to make its mark on the Guyanese market with the Monday commissioning of an office in Guyana. Pan American Motors Incorporated will be providing Guyanese with a...

Hicks wins Grenville Felix Cycle Road Race

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hicks wins Grenville Felix Cycle Road Race

Up and coming cyclist, Andrew Hicks in a time of 1:15.00 out-sprinted the field to take top honours when the Flying Ace Cycling Club of New Amsterdam in collaboration with the Felix Family staged a...

Emancipation Day Message from His Excellency, President Donald Ramotar

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation Day Message from His Excellency, President Donald Ramotar

I extend hearty greetings to all Guyanese on the occasion of Emancipation Day, 2012. This day which is also popularly known as Freedom Day marks the anniversary of that very first Emancipation Day,...

EZjet joins KMTC race meet as DDL continues sponsorship

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on EZjet joins KMTC race meet as DDL continues sponsorship

There is always a first time for everything and yesterday marked EZjet Air Services Inc. debut as a sponsor with Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) Post-Emancipation race meeting. The race...

Emancipation Messages:

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation Messages:

Alliance For Change As Guyanese engage in Emancipation observances this year, the Alliance For Change (AFC) urges all Guyanese to reflect on the true state of our freedom. The AFC notes that...

I will fight against racial discrimination in my country

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I will fight against racial discrimination in my country

Emancipation Day 2011 was already passed when in the same month a startling confession was made in the High Court by one of the most powerful men who control State power in Guyana. The event was the...

McDonald anxious to regain top position in Emancipation Open Scrabble Championships

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on McDonald anxious to regain top position in Emancipation Open Scrabble Championships

Less than one week after turning in her worst performance in a tournament, National Scrabble Champion, Abigail McDonald will attempt to reinstate herself as a force to be reckoned with when...

Americans storm to women’s team gold

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Americans storm to women’s team gold

LONDON (Reuters) – Jordyn Wieber sparkled and Gabby Douglas dazzled as the United States stormed to the Olympic women’s gymnastics team gold on Tuesday. Two days after an inconsolable Wieber...

$Machel Montano fracas lands boyfriend in court for gun-butting$

Machel Montano fracas lands boyfriend in court for gun-butting

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Machel Montano fracas lands boyfriend in court for gun-butting

A man who reportedly threatened to kill his girlfriend and who allegedly forced a gun in her mouth, was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown...

Ansa McAl is 20!

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa McAl is 20!

ANSA McAL Trading Ltd is celebrating its 20th anniversary and its Managing Director, Beverley Harper, has promised that the company will be celebrating in fine style with its employees, customers and...

Gov’t hosts landmark procurement conference

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t hosts landmark procurement conference

– as corruption reports bite Faced with embarrassing reports questioning transparency in the award of massive contracts, the government will this week meet key stakeholders to outline the...

Power crisis again in Berbice

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Power crisis again in Berbice

…160 blackouts in 2012 The performance of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has been deteriorating in Berbice over the past few months. Countless blackouts have gripped the East and West...

Taffin Khan assumes ‘top of the ladder’ position in Red Cherry Ladder chess tournament

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Taffin Khan assumes ‘top of the ladder’ position in Red Cherry Ladder chess tournament

National chess champion, Taffin Khan, has accumulated 45 points to assume the lead position when action in the Red Cherry Ladder chess tournament continued at the Keishar’s Sports Club Sunday...

Bedasie powers Wales Masters to 30-run win

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bedasie powers Wales Masters to 30-run win

Canadians play final game tomorrow against E/Bank Under an almost cloudless sky and in glorious sunshine at Everest yesterday, the touring Inverhaugh Cricket Club from Canada failed to break...

Woman goes missing after receiving threatening phone calls

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman goes missing after receiving threatening phone calls

Nanda Ramcoobeer, aged 39, of Lot 1695 Tuschen Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara has been missing for the past eight days. Her disappearance comes after several threats were made by an unknown...

Phelps breaks medal record with relay gold

Aug 01, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Phelps breaks medal record with relay gold

LONDON (Reuters) – Michael Phelps won the right to call himself the greatest Olympian of all time when the U.S. team destroyed the field in the 4×200 metres freestyle relay on Tuesday to...

Linden killings…Cops say no ‘definite conclusion’ yet on ballistic tests

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden killings…Cops say no ‘definite conclusion’ yet on ballistic tests

The Guyana Police Force is refuting a Kaieteur News article which stated that the shotgun cartridges with copper-coated pellets inflicted the injuries on the Linden protesters two Wednesdays...

Emancipation

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation

Granger beckons return of lost PNCR leadership

Aug 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Granger beckons return of lost 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 at the conclusion of...

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Thomas’ hat-trick inspires D.C Caesar Fox 10-5 victory, as Annai Sec’ hammer Dolphin

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more