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BREAKING NEWS : Former Top Cop Laurie Lewis is dead

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS : Former Top Cop Laurie Lewis is dead

Former Commissioner of Police Laurie Leyland Lewis died quietly in at his home on the East Coast of Demerara around midday today. He was 71 years old. Lewis was suffering from a prolonged...

NCN investigation report leaked…“If criminal charges are not laid against Sattaur and Goolsarran, then Ramotar supports corruption” – Ramjattan

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on NCN investigation report leaked…“If criminal charges are not laid against Sattaur and Goolsarran, then Ramotar supports corruption” – Ramjattan

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling for a full blown inquiry into the entire operations of the National Communications Network (NCN) after a damning report that was leaked to a Parliamentarian...

E.C.D. four-lane extension…Contractor rejects bribery demand

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on E.C.D. four-lane extension…Contractor rejects bribery demand

– leads to non-payment and contract termination One of the contractors working on the four-lane East Coast Demerara Highway is convinced that the abrupt termination of his...

One Mile Primary School torched, suspected arsonists detained, 25 others held

Aug 13, 2012 knews News Comments Off on One Mile Primary School torched, suspected arsonists detained, 25 others held

– men who invaded site threatened to kill female guard Arsonists struck once again in the wee hours in Linden yesterday, completely destroying the One Mile Primary School after...

Several shot in clashes with police

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Several shot in clashes with police

Linden crisis… – two soldiers injured by ‘friendly fire’; 27 arrested Two soldiers and about 10 civilians were injured yesterday after police opened fire to...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald honnymoon over bai

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald honnymoon over bai

Dem boys de bet dem last dollar that de Donald will be a no-nonsense man. And dem boys still believe that he is a good man but the honnymoon is over… it is time fuh action. The whole country...

Guyana spinners pull off big win

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana spinners pull off big win

Bridgetown, Barbados— Guyana pulled off a superb come-from-behind victory by 53 runs over Windward Islands as the fourth round of matches in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 three-day...

Robin Persaud and Cleveland King are inaugural champs

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Robin Persaud and Cleveland King are inaugural champs

Buxtonian 4 Life 172nd Anniversary Cycle Road Race By Franklin Wilson Robin Persaud and Cleveland King emerged the respective Open and Mountain Bike champions when the inaugural Buxtonian 4 Life...

Fred Collins in ominous form leading up to Caribbean championships

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fred Collins in ominous form leading up to Caribbean championships

Carts off Open Championships With less than three weeks to the Caribbean Championships scheduled for the Bank of Guyana Sports Club from August 23rd- 26th, former national scrabble player, Fred...

Overseas-based Guyanese cyclist continues to support local club

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese cyclist continues to support local club

Presents $200,000 cycle to local rider Overseas-based cyclist and a former top rider on the local scene and a member of the Flying Aces Cycling club of Berbice, Franco Crawford continues to support...

Banks DIH Cool Boys 1st, GPF 2nd, Banks DIH Contractors 3rd

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Cool Boys 1st, GPF 2nd, Banks DIH Contractors 3rd

Next Level/R1 Vodka Inter Corporation Dominoes Final Banks DIH Cool Boys cooled off the opposition to take the top prize and trophy, when the Fourth Annual Inter Corporation Dominoes competition came...

Monty Belle dies in freak accident at Mainstay Regatta

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Monty Belle dies in freak accident at Mainstay Regatta

An atmosphere of gloom overcame the start of yesterday’s Lake Mainstay Regatta in the first event, the 90hp category over 4 laps, after a freak accident on the second turn of the race resulted in...

Chatterpaul Deo cops Tony’s Auto Sales Golf tourney

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chatterpaul Deo cops Tony’s Auto Sales Golf tourney

Chatterpaul Deo was triumphant in the Tony’s Auto Sales Medal Play golf tournament under tough conditions at the Lusignan Golf Course Saturday. Deo shot net 68 from gross 82 playing off 14 Handicap...

Coach of female ruggers concerned about players’ confidence level

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Coach of female ruggers concerned about players’ confidence level

“I am concerned about their confidence,” were words Guyana’s female National Rugby Coach Shane Grant-Stuart said in an interview with Kaieteur Sport when he was questioned about the team’s...

Education Minister heartened with results of Math, English pilot programme

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister heartened with results of Math, English pilot programme

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has finally responded to critics, asserting that her Ministry’s ambitious programme to improve Mathematics and English at this year’s Caribbean Secondary...

Car crashes into N/A Town Arch base

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Car crashes into N/A Town Arch base

The driver of this car lost control early yesterday morning and crashed into the base of the New Amsterdam Town Arch located at Main Street. According to security guards working nearby, they heard a...

CPG hosts training seminar for West Berbice youths

Aug 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CPG hosts training seminar for West Berbice youths

The Community Policing Group (CPG) of the Number Three Sub- Division on the West Coast of Berbice held a two-day training seminar for youths in that area. The event was sponsored by the Ministry of...

UNCLE DONALD IT IS TIME FOR ACTION!

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on UNCLE DONALD IT IS TIME FOR ACTION!

An open letter to the President of Guyana Dear President Ramotar, You are a most likeable person. Some say that you are more likeable than Santa Claus and that you are too nice a man to be involved...

Hugh Cholmondeley should be given the Order of Roraima posthumously

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hugh Cholmondeley should be given the Order of Roraima posthumously

Dear Editor, I am saddened at the passing of Hugh Cholmondeley, the pioneer of broadcasting in Guyana, the man who worked tirelessly as of September 1968, almost round the clock to launch GBS...

The PPP has decided on a military solution to the Linden problem

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP has decided on a military solution to the Linden problem

Dear Editor, WPA views the decision by the President and his government to order the use force in Linden a mere three weeks after the police killed three protestors and injured several others, as a...

Suspended for challenging the GTU elections in court

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suspended for challenging the GTU elections in court

Dear Editor, On Tuesday 24th of July 2012 by the way of a motion moved by Ms. Collins, I along with two other members were suspended from holding any office in the Guyana Teachers’ Union for two...

No reason for a new Harbour Bridge

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on No reason for a new Harbour Bridge

Dear Editor, Whilst reading Sunday 5th August paper, I came across the article where the APNU is calling for a new Harbour Bridge and heard no mention again which I suspected that what is taking...

It takes more than functioning fire hydrants for effective firefighting!

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on It takes more than functioning fire hydrants for effective firefighting!

Dear Editor, I do hope that this letter receives your attention and is published, so that the general public can be duly edified about the above caption. Since as strange as it may seem, my...

These Committee members should exclude themselves from this hearing

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on These Committee members should exclude themselves from this hearing

Dear Editor, I refer to today’s new item which indicates the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG) has written to Mr. Carl Greenidge, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee,...

Linden and the Abyss

Aug 13, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Linden and the Abyss

The news that early yesterday morning – dubbed as “International Youth Day” – Linden’s One Mile Primary School was the latest in a string of buildings to be set ablaze, has to mark...

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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