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Porkknocker stabbed to death, reputed wife on the run

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker stabbed to death, reputed wife on the run

The murder of a 32-year-old man at Baramita, has once again exposed the lack of law and order in the small North West District community. Junior Brandt, a porkknocker, was discovered dead...

N/A businessman arraigned on murder charge

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on N/A businessman arraigned on murder charge

Popular New Amsterdam businessman and remigrant Charles Bristol also known as Charles Henry, ‘Wheels’ or ‘Charlie’, of Main and Lad Lane, New Amsterdam, was yesterday charged with the capital...

AFC repeats call for end to drug purchases monopoly

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC repeats call for end to drug purchases monopoly

With more than $5B in the 2014 Budget for the purchase of drugs and medical supplies, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has reiterated its call for the urgent establishment of the Public Procurement...

Rohee blames GT&T for faulty 911 service

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee blames GT&T for faulty 911 service

– Phone company insists it is 24-hr police responsibility Home Affairs Minister and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Clement Rohee in updating the media on the...

Rodney COI moves into high gear on Monday

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney COI moves into high gear on Monday

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the June 1980 death of historian/politician, Dr. Walter Rodney, is set to move into high gear from next Monday with the start of the public hearings phase. The...

Man kills brother following drinking spree

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills brother following drinking spree

– Hides body under carpet By Romila Boodram Constant fighting between two brothers ended in the brutal slaying of one early Monday morning at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The...

Dem boys seh…Every holiday is madness

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Every holiday is madness

Every holiday people does get real crazy. Dem who does drive pun de road does behave madder than de people who live in Fort Canje. And some of these same people is national leaders. Ash Knee drive he...

Final Medals table at Carifta Games 2014

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Final Medals table at Carifta Games 2014

Guyana claimed four medals at the Carifta Games at Stade Municipal Pierre Aliker in Martinique over the Easter weekend to end among the top performers overall. Double defending champion Cassey George...

Two Taekwondo athletes qualify for CAC Games

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Two Taekwondo athletes qualify for CAC Games

The Guyana Taekwondo Association (GTA) has revealed that two of its athletes have qualified to participate in the upcoming Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) to be held in Veracruz, Mexico,...

Memorex U-17 cricket bowls off tomorrow in Berbice

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Memorex U-17 cricket bowls off tomorrow in Berbice

The Memorex Under-17 two-innings cricket competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) sponsored by Memorex Enterprise of New Amsterdam is set to get cracking tomorrow. Games will be...

Regional First-Class cricket Jamaica squeeze past Barbados in thriller, to face Winward Islands in final

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional First-Class cricket Jamaica squeeze past Barbados in thriller, to face Winward Islands in final

The deplorable batting in this year’s Regional First-Class four-day cricket tournament continued yesterday at the Kensington Oval with Jamaica losing seven wickets for 61 runs as they narrowly...

UDCA T10 Tourney…Muritaro crowned Champions

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on UDCA T10 Tourney…Muritaro crowned Champions

Home team Muritaro won the Upper Demerara Cricket Association (UDCA) triangular T10 cricket tournament which was recently held at the Muritaro Upper Demerara River ground. Muritaro beat Young...

Letter to the Sports Editor GFF congress will be an interesting one

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor GFF congress will be an interesting one

Dear Sports Editor, I read with ‘great’ amusement an article in your dailies on the 20th of April 2014, titled ‘Time for the GFF General Council to awake and do what’s...

Shiv’s 82 helps Derbyshire to 1st innings

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shiv’s 82 helps Derbyshire to 1st innings

DERBY, England – West Indies middle order batsman Shiv Chanderpaul scored his fourth half century of the season to help inspire Derbyshire to first innings lead over Hampshire on the third day...

Aruwai Mining/DC Promotions T20 tourney semis to come off on May 3

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Aruwai Mining/DC Promotions T20 tourney semis to come off on May 3

Following the postponement of competition initially due to the inclement weather and then the subsequent re-construction of the new Bartica Community Centre, DC Promotions group has informed that the...

Linden Secondary Schools U-19 b’ball semis on today

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Secondary Schools U-19 b’ball semis on today

The stage is set for this year’s 10th Linden Secondary Schools Under-19 basketball championship semi finals where the defending champions Christianburg/Wismar take on Linden Foundation in the...

GFF U-17 Inter Association… East Bank hosts Bartica today

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF U-17 Inter Association… East Bank hosts Bartica today

Competition in the Guyana Football Federation Under-17 Inter Association competition is set to continue today at the Grove Playfield when the East Bank Football Association hosts their counterparts...

What’s next for George and Baird?

Apr 23, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on What’s next for George and Baird?

By Rawle Welch If the preformances of double gold medalist Cassie George and gold and silver medalist Kadecia Baird were not enough to evoke a more vociferous national conversation on the development...

First Lady observes Int’l Mother Earth Day

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on First Lady observes Int’l Mother Earth Day

International Mother Earth Day is observed on April 22, each year. Yesterday, Guyana’s First Lady, Deolatchmee Ramotar observed the occasion by planting a sijan tree and pigeon peas plants at State...

Litterbug jailed for escaping police custody during “blackout”

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Litterbug jailed for escaping police custody during “blackout”

A litterbug, who admitted to using a power outage to jump through a window and escape custody, was yesterday sentenced to one year imprisonment when he was taken before Magistrate Geeta...

Concerned residents claim businessman built “secret road” behind CJIA, GDF base

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Concerned residents claim businessman built “secret road” behind CJIA, GDF base

Residents of Timehri North are expressing grave concern over what they are convinced is a major security threat for not only their community, but for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF)’s military base,...

Sooba condemns Mayor’s actions over Easter Day revenue collection

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba condemns Mayor’s actions over Easter Day revenue collection

Town Clerk, (ag) Carol Sooba has condemned the actions of Mayor Hamilton Green, whom she claimed sabotaged the Easter Monday Revenue collection exercise by law enforcement officers along the...

Providence Stadium shooting…‘DJ Casual’ recuperating at private hospital

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Providence Stadium shooting…‘DJ Casual’ recuperating at private hospital

– overcrowding at GPHC Recovery Room prompts transfer After undergoing surgery for two bullet wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Popular Radio Host Curtis ‘DJ...

Minister maintains there was no recent breakout at NOC

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Minister maintains there was no recent breakout at NOC

…amid allegations of inmates being sexually harassed Contrary to reports carried in an article by an online news outfit that 16 youngsters escaped from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), over sexual...

Corentyne man on trial for rape and robbery

Apr 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man on trial for rape and robbery

A Corentyne resident who is accused of robbery and rape committed on a female resident of No 73 village is on trial for the offences in the Berbice High Court. The man, Beesham Gopaul called...

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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