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Opposition wants to seize power through the backdoor – Govt.

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition wants to seize power through the backdoor – Govt.

Government has accused the political opposition of looking to seize power through the backdoor by transferring it to the legislature where it has a one-seat majority. This was the charge by Minister...

Brutally stabbed wife says… “Ladies, there’s nothing like a second chance…run for your life!”

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brutally stabbed wife says… “Ladies, there’s nothing like a second chance…run for your life!”

“Ladies, there’s nothing like a second chance. Run for your life.” This is the advice of Tomeakca Miller-Patterson, the West Bank Demerara woman who was stabbed close to two dozen times about...

Rodney CoI to determine whether security forces spied on Opposition

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney CoI to determine whether security forces spied on Opposition

– Witnesses invited to submit written statements One week after its three international members were appointed, the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has gone public, inviting witnesses...

City Hall 2014 budget…Minister’s rejection is to continue micro-management – Mayor

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall 2014 budget…Minister’s rejection is to continue micro-management – Mayor

By Zena Henry City Mayor Hamilton Green has taken to task Minister within the Local Government Ministry Norman Whittaker, for his “indicated rejection” of the Council’s 2014 budget, claiming...

Administrative challenges ahead for Top Cop-in-waiting

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Administrative challenges ahead for Top Cop-in-waiting

The imminent departure of current Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell at the end of this month could be a double blow for the organization, which could find itself in a leadership crisis....

Two bodies found in one day

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two bodies found in one day

The bodies of two elderly males were recovered on separate sides of the Demerara River yesterday. One of the bodies was discovered in a drain on the southern side of Mandela Avenue near the John...

Man gets 18 years for killing wife

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets 18 years for killing wife

Sixty-one year-old Godfrey Stewart called ‘Dougla,’ of Yarrowkabra Linden-Soesdyke Highway, was on Monday sentenced to 18 years in jail, for killing his reputed wife, Jacqueline George. Stewart,...

Anti-Money Laundering legislation amendment…APNU increases ‘stop-and-search’ limit to $10M

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-Money Laundering legislation amendment…APNU increases ‘stop-and-search’ limit to $10M

By Dwijendra Rooplall A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) in a public missive announced yesterday that it has increased the limit to its amendment for the Anti-Money Laundering legislation which...

Dem boys seh…A Trini scamp coming to lecture ‘bout scampishness

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…A Trini scamp coming to lecture ‘bout scampishness

Ah Kneel sue de Waterfalls paper because dem boys seh that he and Cliffy does meet six days a week fuh su su. De thing about is it that is not lie. Every day he does deh at Sleep In and sit down wid...

Vizion Sports and Ent. Group presents football and music to titillate the mind and soul

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vizion Sports and Ent. Group presents football and music to titillate the mind and soul

The four football teams that are scheduled to clash when the curtains go up on the Vizion Sports and Entertainment Group Caribbean Inter Club Football Competition scheduled for this afternoon at the...

GTTA awards Mash TT winners

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA awards Mash TT winners

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) awarded the various winners of the Mashramani tournament yesterday at the National Gymnasium with Director of Sport, Neil Kumar lauding the association for...

Scotiabank /GCB Kiddy Cricket Festival…Helena trounce Zealand by 13 runs in Upper East Coast final

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank /GCB Kiddy Cricket Festival…Helena trounce Zealand by 13 runs in Upper East Coast final

By Zaheer Mohamed Helena defeated Zealand Primary School by 13 runs to win the final of the Upper East Coast district of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)\ Scotiabank nationwide Kiddy cricket...

Thirteen clubs to do battle in CFU Club Championship Cup

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thirteen clubs to do battle in CFU Club Championship Cup

Alpha United drawn in Group 3 Guyana’s top club, Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United is one of 13 clubs from the Caribbean that will be doing battle from March 19-26 for the top three places in the 2014...

Missed Anti-Money Laundering deadline… Opposition responsible for whatever consequences Guyanese may encounter

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Missed Anti-Money Laundering deadline… Opposition responsible for whatever consequences Guyanese may encounter

– PPP The People’s Progressive Party (PPP), through its Junior Minister of Finance Juan Edghill, has laid responsibility for whatever consequences Guyanese may encounter by not meeting the...

59-year-old still treading with the young, completes 20K Road Race

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on 59-year-old still treading with the young, completes 20K Road Race

At the age of 59, many persons would be considering not too strenuous activities, however, there are some that are ‘young at heart’ and can still rival their younger counterparts. One such...

Courts supports NPCG Sports Festival

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Courts supports NPCG Sports Festival

Furniture giant Courts yesterday threw their support behind the Para Sports Festival which is scheduled for March 9 at the Guyana Defense Force ground. Yesterday at their Main street location, the...

Blatter: I’m sure it will be a great success -100 days to go

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blatter: I’m sure it will be a great success -100 days to go

FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter has spoken of his excitement ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ as the countdown reaches 100 days (yesterday) until the tournament’s Opening Match between...

“Poor batting cost Guyana against Jamaica”-Coach Crandon

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Poor batting cost Guyana against Jamaica”-Coach Crandon

By Sean Devers in Jamaica In Association with Sterling Products Ltd, Auto Fashion & Payless Variety Store Guyana’s Head Coach Esaun Crandon says the unfortunate last-minute unavailability of...

QC Sports Dept to host inter club football

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on QC Sports Dept to host inter club football

Queen’s College Sports Department will be hosting a 5-a-side male and female Inter Class small goal football competition tomorrow at the School’s Auditorium commencing from 15:30hrs. The...

Boxers vie for lucrative purses as Jamaica unveils ‘Contender’ boxing tournament

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxers vie for lucrative purses as Jamaica unveils ‘Contender’ boxing tournament

Four local professional boxers are scheduled to leave these shores for Kingston, Jamaica where they will match gloves with their Caribbean counterparts when the Jamaican Boxing Board unveils the 3rd...

NAWF Girls U17 Inter-Secondary Schools Football defending champs Leonora held to draw by Zeeburg

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAWF Girls U17 Inter-Secondary Schools Football defending champs Leonora held to draw by Zeeburg

Defending champions Leonora Secondary were held to an exciting 1-1 draw by Zeeburg Secondary when play in the National Association of Women Football kicked off their Under-17 competition on Monday...

UNAIDS marks first “Zero Discrimination Day”

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UNAIDS marks first “Zero Discrimination Day”

Even as Guyana, the Caribbean and the rest of the globe, have been working simultaneously towards combating the scourge of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), efforts have been directed to...

Less than four years later…Multimillion dollar Leguan koker remains faulty

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Less than four years later…Multimillion dollar Leguan koker remains faulty

Despite being built less than four years ago, at a whopping cost of $94M, the koker located at Waterloo village, Leguan continues to operate in a faulty manner. This is a major inconvenience to...

UG students protest changes to Education Degree programme

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UG students protest changes to Education Degree programme

Several third-year students of the Faculty of Education on Monday evening staged protest action at the University of Guyana (UG)’s Turkeyen Campus in response to a drastic move by the tertiary...

Three entities bid to dispose of non-infectious waste at GPHC

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three entities bid to dispose of non-infectious waste at GPHC

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) received bids for the provision of services for the collection and disposal of non-infectious waste. The bids were opened yesterday at the National...

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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