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TIME FOR MORE PEEPING TOMS

May 09, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TIME FOR MORE PEEPING TOMS

What happened in Ohio where three young women were held hostage in a house for over ten years without the knowledge of neighbours could never have happened here in Guyana. Never! There is no...

APNU Councilor apologizes to Region Three Chairman

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU Councilor apologizes to Region Three Chairman

After being barred from speaking at Regional meetings several months ago, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Councilor, Kathlene Armstrong, yesterday presented a written apology to Regional...

NSC’s 31st annual 3-stage Cycle Race preparations pedaling on

May 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC’s 31st annual 3-stage Cycle Race preparations pedaling on

-event set for May 18 – 19 starting in Berbice Plans for the 31st edition of the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Independence 3-Stage Cycle Road Race have been progressing...

Student strikes teacher in head

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Student strikes teacher in head

A part-time teacher attached to the Christ Church Secondary School was struck in her head with a plank by one of her students, yesterday afternoon. According to reports, Lonnetta...

Guyana-born US-wanted fugitive captured in England

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born US-wanted fugitive captured in England

One of New York’s most wanted men, Guyana-born Sean Lopes, 47, was on Monday captured in England after nine years on the run. Lopes, according to a Business Insider report yesterday,...

Rotary Club of Stabroek promotes the Arts for Charity

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rotary Club of Stabroek promotes the Arts for Charity

The work of a service club in providing resources to meet the needs of the disadvantaged members of a society is not without challenges. Innovative and feasible ways must be devised. Such was...

Prosecution expected to wrap up case in Fyrish manslaughter retrial

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution expected to wrap up case in Fyrish manslaughter retrial

The prosecution is expected to wrap up its case today when the third trial of manslaughter accused, Wazim Mohamed, 26, called “Junior” of Mara, East Bank Berbice, continued in the Berbice...

Meet the Caribbean short and long range fullbore shooting champions

May 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meet the Caribbean short and long range fullbore shooting champions

2nd Ulric Pollydore Powerade 11-Race Memorial Meet set for Saturday at National Park

May 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2nd Ulric Pollydore Powerade 11-Race Memorial Meet set for Saturday at National Park

Cyclists will be eager to get in some much needed competitive practice ahead of the 31st annual Three Stage National Sports Commission sponsored Road Race and will have that opportunity when...

Pouderoyen resident dies after falling from scaffold

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Pouderoyen resident dies after falling from scaffold

A father of three young children was yesterday pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation minutes after falling from a scaffold on High and Leopold...

Orealla Toshao: Peneux’s allegations the actions of a bad loser.”

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Orealla Toshao: Peneux’s allegations the actions of a bad loser.”

Toshao of Orealla Village in Region Six, Floyd Edwards, says that the Council is considering taking resident Carl Peneux to court for unfounded and malicious allegations against the Village Council....

The evidence in the Walter Rodney death

May 09, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The evidence in the Walter Rodney death

A lady wrote a letter in both independent dailies this week and declared that there is evidence that President Forbes Burnham was not involved in the plot to murder Rodney. What is the evidence? She...

BCB/Universal DVD T20 Competition for teams in Berbice…Gajanand Singh ton leads Young Warriors to 71-run win over Upper Corentyne

May 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Universal DVD T20 Competition for teams in Berbice…Gajanand Singh ton leads Young Warriors to 71-run win over Upper Corentyne

The Berbice Cricket Board/Universal DVD T20 for First Division teams in Berbice continued last weekend with just one match possible due to heavy rains. Universal DVD/Young Warriors...

Postman remanded for cocaine trafficking

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Postman remanded for cocaine trafficking

Yesterday, Syaer Grant-Stewart, 19, a postman who resides at “H” Grant Sand Road, Soesdyke, appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court charged with possession...

GCCI ought to be fair to gain the respect of the people

May 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GCCI ought to be fair to gain the respect of the people

Dear Editor, Since 2003, the Government had approved the Procurement Act, which allows for the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission, in accordance with Section 212 of the...

Residents not pleased with ‘completed’ Coldingen road rehabilitation

May 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Residents not pleased with ‘completed’ Coldingen road rehabilitation

Residents of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, are livid over what was passed as repair works to the Coldingen Access Road. The work was completed earlier this week and according to residents,...

Kudos to the malaria clinic staffers

May 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos to the malaria clinic staffers

DEAR EDITOR, On Tuesday, May 7, 2013, I went to the Malaria Clinic in Georgetown to do a smear test and discovered that hundreds of persons were being processed by an efficient staff...

The South African Government’s initial decision has proven to be a terrible miscalculation

May 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The South African Government’s initial decision has proven to be a terrible miscalculation

Dear Editor, President Jacob Zuma and the ANC-led South African Government’s decision to name Forbes Burnham as a recipient of The Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo Award, South...

Hypocrisy that defines the DNA of this country

May 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hypocrisy that defines the DNA of this country

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon gets it partially wrong in his column “East Indians in Guyana 1964- 2013” (KN, May 6, 2013). Kissoon stated “From 1964, Guyana was a country of contest...