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Marudi police brutality…Beaten woman refuses to meet Police Commissioner

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marudi police brutality…Beaten woman refuses to meet Police Commissioner

– upset at “did anybody die” comment Varverona Prince, the woman who was beaten by a police rank on the Marudi trail, is refusing to meet with Police Commissioner...

100 years of aviation…Brazil squadron thrills sea wall crowd

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 100 years of aviation…Brazil squadron thrills sea wall crowd

Scores turned out at the Kitty sea wall to observe the celebration of the centenary of aviation in Guyana as seven Brazilian smoke squadrons performed a live air show yesterday....

Missing contractor reported dead, then migrated

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Missing contractor reported dead, then migrated

– PUC faced with several cases of overpaid contractors By Abena Rockcliffe The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), an arm of parliament mandated to scrutinize the Auditor General’s...

Girl mauled by pitbull to miss SSEE exams

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Girl mauled by pitbull to miss SSEE exams

When pupils countrywide sit the annual Secondary School Entrance Examinations (SSEE) today, little Amanda Phillips will not be among them. The 11-year-old of Sookhu Street No.2 village East Canje,...

Truck driver flees after killing motorcyclist

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver flees after killing motorcyclist

The country’s road fatality figure climbed by one last night when a 34- year- old vendor was left dead on the Bee Hive Public Road after he was struck down by a Canter truck which was eventually...

Dem boys seh…Khurshid miss de Brazilians

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Khurshid miss de Brazilians

Is one hundred years since people start flying in Guyana and since then dem flying like if dem born wid wings. De first plane in Guyana coulda barely stay up now dem plane doing all kind of things in...

Vieiras’ dominate GMR&SC season opener

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vieiras’ dominate GMR&SC season opener

It was the day of the Vieiras’ as they completely dominated their respective categories to emerge champions when the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) staged its first Meet of the...

Unyielding St. George’s crowned Milo champs

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Unyielding St. George’s crowned Milo champs

– Tucville finish third Tournament Most Valuable Player and Best Goalkeeper Royston Dublin deserved every accolade bestowed on him following the completion of the final of the Milo / Petra...

Crème de la crème of sports honoured as MCY&S hosts 2012 Sports Awards Ceremony

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Crème de la crème of sports honoured as MCY&S hosts 2012 Sports Awards Ceremony

By Michael Benjamin During the year 2012, Guyanese sports men and women defied abnormal vicissitudes; from poor infrastructure to unavailability of adequate funding, to attend international events...

Joseph triumphant in category A

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Joseph triumphant in category A

Two-time Caribbean junior champion Nyron Joseph served up under-19 campaigner Steven Xavier to a straight-game beating to capture the Category A title on the final day of the Toucan Industries Kool...

MSC secure draw against DCC

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on MSC secure draw against DCC

Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) managed to hold on for a draw against Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) when action in the Georgetown Cricket Club first division 2 day competition continued yesterday at DCC....

Robin Persaud shaves 3 minutes off last year’s time

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Robin Persaud shaves 3 minutes off last year’s time

Flying Stars Cycle Club’s Robin Persaud stormed to victory in the 6th Cheddi Jagan Memorial Cycle Road Race on the West Demerara yesterday and in the process shaved 3 minutes off last year’s...

Exciting battles expected at Mayor’s KO Football quarterfinal tomorrow at GFC

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exciting battles expected at Mayor’s KO Football quarterfinal tomorrow at GFC

The matches’ tomorrow night at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground, Bourda in the opening quarterfinal round of matches in the annual Mayor’s knockout football tournament promises to be...

Businesswoman’s murder in Bartica…Brazilian suspect found, but can’t be extradited

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Businesswoman’s murder in Bartica…Brazilian suspect found, but can’t be extradited

Brazilian police have located the woman suspected of killing businesswoman Elisangela Silva Figueara in Bartica last month, an official confirmed. But the suspect will have to be tried in her...

Antigua teen of Guyanese parentage making a name for himself

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Antigua teen of Guyanese parentage making a name for himself

– lands music and acting contracts By Leon Suseran A young Antiguan teen born to Guyanese parentage is making a name for himself. His talented singing has taken him to Hollywood where he was...

THE PPP AND THE FALKLAND/ MALVINAS DISPUTE

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP AND THE FALKLAND/ MALVINAS DISPUTE

The Guyana government was correct in not granting a high-level audience to a recent delegation from the Falkland Islands or Malvinas. It would have been awkward for either the Foreign Minister or...

Enterprising Lindener helping deportees reintegrate into society

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprising Lindener helping deportees reintegrate into society

“We were treated as aliens in the countries that deported us here, and now we are in the country of our birth and we are further alienated. We are still being treated as aliens, and...

Miner shot after biting cop in the face

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Miner shot after biting cop in the face

A 30-year-old miner was shot in the leg at around 02:00 hrs yesterday at Kurupung, Mazaruni, allegedly after biting a policeman in the face. Police identified the shot man as Sean McDonald, 30, of...

Family seeks answers from cops over bullet-riddled corpse

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Family seeks answers from cops over bullet-riddled corpse

By Zena Henry The family of a 27-year-old man, whose decomposing body was found in a clump of bushes last February, is seeking answers from the police to say something in relation to...

Woman in decades-long search for siblings

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Woman in decades-long search for siblings

Donna Sergeant is seeking to solve a decades- old mystery: the whereabouts of the offspring of the playboy dad she hardly knew. Donna Sergeant has spent the last several years trying to find...

The National Assembly ought not to be bound by a provisional decision

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The National Assembly ought not to be bound by a provisional decision

Dear Editor, In the Guyana Chronicle dated 18th March, 2013, Attorney General A. Nandlall declared that “any attempts to cut the Budget this year, by the combined Opposition, will again bring it in...

Freddie needs to stop shifting the goal post

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie needs to stop shifting the goal post

Dear Editor, My friend, Freddie Kissoon, needs to stop shifting the goal post and stick to the issue. Reference is made to his letter “Lincoln, talk only makes sense when the autocracy is still...

Air Services helicopter breaks down on Home Stretch Avenue

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Air Services helicopter breaks down on Home Stretch Avenue

An Air Services Limited helicopter was yesterday left grounded on Home Stretch Avenue when it encountered mechanical trouble during an exhibition show in celebration of Guyana’s 100...

Guyanese must continue to fight to undo Jagdeo’s eye pass

Mar 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese must continue to fight to undo Jagdeo’s eye pass

Dear Editor, The minority PPP government is well aware of the effective role of sloganeering in political propaganda. Thus it is no surprise that it has turned to sloganeering to help defend former...

Trevor Smith…making and selling kites for 34 years

Mar 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Trevor Smith…making and selling kites for 34 years

By Rehana Ashley Ahamad When one thinks about the word career, he or she automatically thinks about what they want to be for the rest of their lives. And for 50-year-old Trevor Smith, it means just...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

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