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Breaking News: Dameon Belgrave killing… Cops charged with manslaughter

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News: Dameon Belgrave killing… Cops charged with manslaughter

– granted $250,000 bail each Two Tactical Services Unit ranks were today charged with manslaughter in connection with the October 7, 2012 shooting death of 21-year-old Dameon Belgrave. But...

Two cops to face manslaughter charges

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two cops to face manslaughter charges

Dameon Belgrave killing… – one accused rank goes missing Two police ranks are likely to appear in court today on manslaughter charges related to the October 7...

Fire ravages Craig property

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fire ravages Craig property

A 53-year-old Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) man is now homeless after a fire destroyed his two-storey house at around 11:45hrs yesterday. Harry David, the owner of the burnt out...

GEA employee’s disappearance linked to fuel smugglers?

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GEA employee’s disappearance linked to fuel smugglers?

A week has now passed and police have still found no trace of 25-year-old Guyana Energy Agency employee LeVoy Taljit. Police sources yesterday said that they are still continuing to...

APNU not stalling Local Govt. bills

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on APNU not stalling Local Govt. bills

– David Granger Opposition Leader David Granger has refuted Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud’s claim that his party is responsible for local government bills being stuck at...

Dem boys seh…Dem wicked people worried

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem wicked people worried

De year coming to an end and nuff people worried bout wha de New Year gun bring. Fuh some of dem, de past year had grief because some of de people who dem been holding on now got new people holding...

Shopkeeper’s family peeved at robbery victim’s release

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shopkeeper’s family peeved at robbery victim’s release

Relatives of shopkeeper Eileen Gibson are upset that police have released a man who allegedly beat the 56-year-old shopkeeper into a semi-conscious state during a robbery on Boxing Day....

My weight loss year

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on My weight loss year

By Leon Suseran The year 2012 is almost over. Many of us would have made resolutions when the year just began. I made mine a few months earlier; coming on to the end of 2011— to lose the weight. I...

Minnows rule the roost

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Minnows rule the roost

Powerhouses Pele and Alpha sent packing The pundits had predicted the results and already some had mentally inscribed the Alpha United insignia on the ‘Holy Grail’ while a great many has...

Two shocking and disgusting things about this particular video

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Two shocking and disgusting things about this particular video

Dear Editor, Peace unto you and the reading public. I happened to catch a glimpse of a music video on the morning program Daybreak on Cable 65. It was a song featuring Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull. Two...

Artificial Insemination Lab produces 548 new animals

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Artificial Insemination Lab produces 548 new animals

With the use of the 14,000 straws of pure bred semen which was imported from the United States of America at a cost of US $20 to US $30 per straw, specialists at the recently...

Beyond the ethnic reflex

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Beyond the ethnic reflex

The rumination of the African-American intellectual Glen Loury on the constraints of identity politics is salutary for Guyanese at this time: We are all familiar with what I will call the “identity...

Police Sergeant under close arrest over theft

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police Sergeant under close arrest over theft

One of three police ranks allegedly involved in ransacking and unlawfully removing $139,000 from a Wakenaam house remains under close arrest. However, the other two have reportedly fled...

Captain of regional vessel suspended from operating

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Captain of regional vessel suspended from operating

Pomeroon boat tragedy… The Captain of the Regional Administration vessel that was involved in the Pomeroon tragedy has been suspended from operating any vessel, a police official...

Mr. Kissoon’s obsession with lovely lasses dressed as wenches

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Kissoon’s obsession with lovely lasses dressed as wenches

Dear Editor, Like Mr. Kissoon, I spent a good part of my adult life living and studying in England. But unlike Mr. Kissoon, based solely on the position he has taken on this issue, I frequented many...

2012: Human Services Ministry sustained focus on vulnerable, heightened domestic violence awareness

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 2012: Human Services Ministry sustained focus on vulnerable, heightened domestic violence awareness

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security continued to cater for the segments of the population who were affected adversely by poor socio-economic circumstances. These are the people, who...

Improving nation’s food security status-among 2012 goals

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Improving nation’s food security status-among 2012 goals

Safeguarding Guyana’s food security was one of the milestones for achievements in the agriculture sector for 2012 and this effort was consolidated with the acknowledgement that the sector is...

CURTAINS FOR CHRISTMAS

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on CURTAINS FOR CHRISTMAS

Home on the range on Christmas Eve but there being no deer and antelope around I had to make do with chicken. In my lexicon, Good Housekeeping is not a standard of sanitation that is impossible to...

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATGEY

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATGEY

Under Cheddi Jagan, the government designed, with the assistance of the Carter Center and a range of Guyanese stakeholders, a National Development Strategy. This was in recognition of the fact that...

The ubiquitous Bissoondyal continues with his national hypocrisy

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on The ubiquitous Bissoondyal continues with his national hypocrisy

Dear Editor, I noticed recently in the news media, the National Disgruntled Cricket Administrators Group (NDCAG) and Roger Harper hosting a Press Conference again urging the Government to intervene...

Motorcyclist dies in Aubrey Barker Road accident

Dec 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist dies in Aubrey Barker Road accident

A motorcyclist did not live to see the year 2013 as he was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) at around 20:00hrs last night following an accident on...

Gordon impressed with local squash

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gordon impressed with local squash

World number 57th ranked professional squash player Christopher Gordon was delighted with his overall experience of the local squash community and thinks that the sport has a very promising future....

GCA enjoys fruitful 2012

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA enjoys fruitful 2012

The Georgetown Cricket Association closed its 2012 season for the Christmas holidays, and planned to resume on the 12th January, 2013 weather permitting. The GCA had planned to run off 9 competitions...

The 1823 Monument site was already settled on by the Jagdeo administration

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The 1823 Monument site was already settled on by the Jagdeo administration

Dear Editor, The relatively young Frank Anthony is the Minister of Culture and was a Commissioner on the Ethnic Relations Commission. Being given the opportunity to serve this nation at the named...

Narine breaks into T20 top 10 rankings

Dec 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Narine breaks into T20 top 10 rankings

DUBAI, UAE (CMC) — West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine has broken into the top 10 of the latest International Cricket Council Twenty20 player rankings. The wily Trinidadian bowler rose three spots...