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Linden Water Rehab Project…Pipelaying commences at Mackenzie

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Water Rehab Project…Pipelaying commences at Mackenzie

By Rabindra Rooplall The Linden Water Supply Rehabilitation Programme (LWSRP) is moving apace. The capacity of the services will cater for a growing Linden population that will benefit...

$17M river heist/Dweive Kant Ramdass murder… GUILTY!!! Ex-Coast Guard ranks sentenced to death

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on $17M river heist/Dweive Kant Ramdass murder… GUILTY!!! Ex-Coast Guard ranks sentenced to death

By Latoya Giles The three ex-Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard ranks charged with the August 2009 murder of Bartica gold miner Dwieve Kant Ramdass, were yesterday all found guilty and sentenced to...

Dem Boys Seh… De airport project mekking some people tun vampire

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… De airport project mekking some people tun vampire

People mekking a lot of noise about how expensive de airport toilet gun be. Dem also talking about the urinal and how it expensive more than similar urinal in Guyana. Dem same people got to keep...

Brazilian gold miner shot dead by bandits

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian gold miner shot dead by bandits

A 52-year-old Brazilian gold miner was shot and killed by bandits early yesterday morning at Sorabaro Road, North West District. Dead is Jose Francisco De Sousa Lima, formerly of Brazil and Charity...

High-ranking Region Three official arrested on sexual assault allegations

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High-ranking Region Three official arrested on sexual assault allegations

A high-ranking official of the Region Three Democratic Council was arrested by police yesterday after a 37-year-old mother of three accused him of sexually assaulting her. The woman, an employee at...

Strategic Action Security saga… Police to send two files to DPP for advice

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Strategic Action Security saga… Police to send two files to DPP for advice

The police are in the process of preparing two files to send to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice pertaining to the discovery of stolen items, worth millions of dollars, reportedly...

Gunmen shoot at cops after robbing Mibicuri household

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen shoot at cops after robbing Mibicuri household

A gang of heavily-armed bandits escaped with some $2M in cash and jewellery at around 18:30 hrs on Monday after beating and terrorizing the occupants of a Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder, Berbice home....

President Ramotar calls for non-interference at US pre-Independence Day celebration

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on President Ramotar calls for non-interference at US pre-Independence Day celebration

he fact that the relationship between Guyana and the United States has evolved since forging diplomatic ties in 1966, was highlighted last evening by President Donald Ramotar as he offered remarks at...

EU abolition of quotas… Sugar producers says time too short to fix problems

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on EU abolition of quotas… Sugar producers says time too short to fix problems

Sugar-producing countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) have expressed alarm over a four-year deadline that will see the end of quotas in the European Union. The ACP,...

$4M Dental Clinic commissioned in Sophia

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on $4M Dental Clinic commissioned in Sophia

Come August, residents of Sophia and its environs will receive high quality dental care, as a result of a $4M Clinic which was commissioned yesterday at the Community Centre at ‘B’ Field. The...

Sparendaam plane crash… Cabinet ‘approves’ compensation for affected residents

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sparendaam plane crash… Cabinet ‘approves’ compensation for affected residents

– Woman wants company to pay costs Cabinet has approved compensation for residents whose properties were destroyed or severely affected when an American-registered aircraft crashed at...

Free zone, policies recommended for sexual harassment in the workplace

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Free zone, policies recommended for sexual harassment in the workplace

The Women and Gender Equality Commission has viewed with concern the continued rise in domestic and gender-based violence. It says the matter, along with sexual harassment, “needs to be addressed...

Man, 73, remanded for alleged car theft

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 73, remanded for alleged car theft

A 73-year-old man who was described as a regular car thief and who was on the run for over eight months, was yesterday remanded to jail by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh when he appeared before him...

St. Joseph Mercy Hospital’s North Wing officially reopened

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on St. Joseph Mercy Hospital’s North Wing officially reopened

By Tiffanne Ramphal The newly renovated North Wing of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital was yesterday officially reopened and rededicated in the presence of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds; members of the...

Caricom Heads meet to mull new direction for growth, development

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Caricom Heads meet to mull new direction for growth, development

The effects of the current economic climate on Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major...

Relatives fear foul play in farm labourer’s disappearance

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives fear foul play in farm labourer’s disappearance

Relatives of Cove and John resident Sasenarine Seepersaud fear that he has fallen victim to foul play after he disappeared without a trace last month at Hog Island, Essequibo. Seepersaud, 35, called...

Bridge enhancements for Regions One and Two

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bridge enhancements for Regions One and Two

Under the Ministry of Public Works bids were opened for the rehabilitation of the Windsor Castle/ Hampton Court Bridge in Region Two. The bids were opened yesterday by the National Procurement and...

Ethical nursing crucial to good healthcare

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ethical nursing crucial to good healthcare

– Hospital Administrator The importance of ethical nursing was recently emphasised as a crucial factor in the delivery of healthcare. In fact, according to Administrator of the...

Academics can be enhanced by the Arts

Jul 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Academics can be enhanced by the Arts

– Allied Arts Administrator In light of the need for more teachers of the Arts, Administrator of the Ministry of Education’s Allied Arts Unit, Ms Desiree Wyles-Ogle, is advocating for more...

Digicel/Powerade Nationwide Schools Football C/ship… Morgan’s Learning Centre booted; Dolphin drub Marian Academy 15-0

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel/Powerade Nationwide Schools Football C/ship… Morgan’s Learning Centre booted; Dolphin drub Marian Academy 15-0

Goals on both sides of the break was enough to send Kingston Secondary into the next round of the 2013 Digicel/Powerade Nationwide Schools Football Championship which continued yesterday, at the...

Mackenzie High defeat New Silver City on penalty kicks

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackenzie High defeat New Silver City on penalty kicks

Mackenzie High School defeated New Silver City 4-3 on penalties in their Digicel/Powerade Schools football match yesterday at the Wisburg Secondary School Ground in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden....

El Dorado joins CPL as official league partner

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on El Dorado joins CPL as official league partner

By Sean Devers Marketing Director of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Sharda Veeren-Chand yesterday announced that El Dorado Rum had signed on as Official Partner for the Limacol Caribbean...

Great benefits in store as new form of Martial Arts introduced locally

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Great benefits in store as new form of Martial Arts introduced locally

On the Saturday June 29 last fans trooped to the Hotel Tower, Main Street, Georgetown where they were treated to a display of Canoeira when the Capoeira Mesticagem Guyana held its first Batizado...

Tharanga, Jayawardene cane India

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tharanga, Jayawardene cane India

“Can’t seem to win a toss,” Angelo Mathews said suggesting he can’t catch a break nowadays when Sri Lanka were inserted on a track that has responded to West Indies quicks better than best of...

Scott’s Jewellery joins list of sponsors

Jul 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scott’s Jewellery joins list of sponsors

Scott’s Jewellery became the latest entity to offer sponsorship for the fourth edition of the Boyce & Jefford Track & Field Classic, announcing its partnership with the event for the first...

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EBDCA/D&R Construction 40-Over Cricket Competition continues

Land, taxes and penalties

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more