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Jagdeo issued radio licences, frequencies outside Broadcasting Act

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo issued radio licences, frequencies outside Broadcasting Act

– PSC The Private Sector Commission is concerned that President Bharrat Jagdeo before demitting Office in 2011, issued radio licences and frequencies outside of the Broadcasting...

High tides swamp coastal communities

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High tides swamp coastal communities

Coastal Guyana yesterday was drenched with flood waters due to extremely high tides combined with severe winds. Affected areas included the East Coast Demerara highway, communities on...

Investigators relying on CCTV to track down cop’s killers

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Investigators relying on CCTV to track down cop’s killers

– getaway car not yet located Detectives probing the fatal shooting of their colleague Corporal Romain Cleto will be relying heavily on footage from surveillance cameras in the downtown...

Murder of ‘Plastic City’ teen…Alleged killer was prime suspect in girlfriend’s 2001 murder

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Murder of ‘Plastic City’ teen…Alleged killer was prime suspect in girlfriend’s 2001 murder

By Michael Jordan Sixty-three-year-old Randolph Josiah, who is being charged today for the murder of his 14-year-old stepdaughter, was also the prime suspect in another brutal murder 12 years ago....

Man knifed to death at Lusignan bar

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man knifed to death at Lusignan bar

Police on the East Coast of Demerara were able to capture a resident identified as ‘Skinny’ hours after he had allegedly slashed a man’s throat while at a bar in Lusignan. According to reports,...

Dem boys seh…Everybody Cutting

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Everybody Cutting

When dem government people build school dem put nuff things in place including things to create fleas. People find that out when dem had to shut down Queen’s College. Now de same thing happening in...

Local engineers feel they are being overlooked

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local engineers feel they are being overlooked

– GAPE president By Abena Rockcliffe Even as the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) celebrated its 45th anniversary, the organization’s president, Joel Trotman expressed that...

Three dead in separate accidents

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Three dead in separate accidents

Three people, including a child, have died over the weekend as a result of road accidents. The first was Mukesh Mangar, a 38 –year-old porter of Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, who fell from...

Great Britain Rifle Shooting Team due today

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Great Britain Rifle Shooting Team due today

The Great Britain Rifle Team will arrive in Guyana this evening to engage their Guyanese counterparts during this week as part of a four-nation Caribbean tour. The team is being captained by Nigel...

Russians survive epic against Coomacka; Silver Bullets, Silent Assasins, Half Mile / One Mile make semis

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Russians survive epic against Coomacka; Silver Bullets, Silent Assasins, Half Mile / One Mile make semis

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition Not even the inclement weather managed to dampen a night of enthralling action in this year’s Linden segment of the Guinness ‘Greatest of...

Shiv strokes 2nd Derbyshire half-century

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shiv strokes 2nd Derbyshire half-century

DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND – James Taylor’s century was not his most free-flowing. It actually took him more balls to get there than any of the previous 13 in his first-class career and it is hard...

New GFF being guided by Regional and World bodies’ recommendations – Persaud

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on New GFF being guided by Regional and World bodies’ recommendations – Persaud

Vice-President of the Guyana Football Federation Ivan Persaud speaking at Saturday’s media briefing at the Demerara Harbour Bridge Head Office responding to queries regarding the activities of the...

ILAHI, Persaud star in Farm’s win over Nandy Park by 9 wkts

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on ILAHI, Persaud star in Farm’s win over Nandy Park by 9 wkts

EBDCA\Good Wood 40-over tourney Left arm pacer Asif Ilahi and Shivram Persaud grabbed 5 wickets each when Farm dismantled Nandy Park by 9 wickets when action in the East Bank Demerara Cricket...

GAPF names 13-Member Team for 3 Int. C/ships

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAPF names 13-Member Team for 3 Int. C/ships

– elite lifters to lead medals assault; fund-raising BBQ set for May 5 The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has named a strong 13-member team including two females that will lead...

Caribbean Premier League Begins Hiring Campaign

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Premier League Begins Hiring Campaign

WICRICNEWS – As preparations for the biggest sporting spectacle in the Caribbean continue in earnest, the Caribbean Premier League organisers have announced that they will begin hiring staff in...

IT IS THE OLD THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THE NEW

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IT IS THE OLD THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THE NEW

The tragedy of the PPP, the fact that it today finds itself in the unexpected and unpredictable position of not having a parliamentary majority, must be laid squarely at the feet of its leadership,...

Decisions following Meeting of WICB Directors

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Decisions following Meeting of WICB Directors

Minister Ricky Skerritt & Grace Kennedy’s Don Wehby elected non-member directors Nero, Reis re-elected non-member directors Port of Spain, Trinidad– The Board of Directors of the West Indies...

Are we paying ineligible persons Old Age Pension?

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are we paying ineligible persons Old Age Pension?

Dear Editor, It was the late Sheila Holder who raised this issue some four years ago but no action from the PPP. The PPP has failed to rectify this total breakdown in the system of Governance...

Diamond residents slam ‘shoddy’ road repairs

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond residents slam ‘shoddy’ road repairs

Placing asphalted concrete on the Diamond Avenue ‘B’ pothole filled road during the current rainy conditions has not found favour with residents who believe that the contractor is...

This sort of journalism has no place in a modern country

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This sort of journalism has no place in a modern country

Dear Editor, Please allow me to use your letter columns to comment on the continued abuse of the state owned National Communications Network (NCN) by the Government of Guyana. Quite apart from the...

Baby allegedly gets skin infection after injection

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Baby allegedly gets skin infection after injection

Yet another complaint against the New Amsterdam Hospital has surfaced. This time, scaly spots and lesions have started to appear about the body of a seven- month- old baby, Fiona...

Leon Belony spells his way to the spoils

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Leon Belony spells his way to the spoils

GASP Open Scrabble Championship They say that sometimes words get in the way but for Leon Belony, who has been struggling to clinch the prime podium spot for most of the year, words flowed freely and...

Changes to Volleyball 2nd Division fixtures

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Changes to Volleyball 2nd Division fixtures

The Guyana Volleyball Federation National (GVF) 2nd division tournament which was slated for May 11, 2013 has been shifted to the May 19, 2013. The GVF National 2nd division competition is sponsored...

Enmore would be the ideal place to settle!

Apr 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Enmore would be the ideal place to settle!

Dear Editor, I have discovered the beauty of Guyana all the way in Calgary this week. I met a gentleman who visited Guyana in 1985, I had had this etched memory of him in English shorts and camera...

East Canje family living in abhorrent conditions

Apr 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje family living in abhorrent conditions

– forced to halt construction of new home An East Canje Berbice family of ten is being forced to live under intolerable conditions and a court battle is preventing them from...

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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