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GNRA year-end competition fires off Sunday …Braithwaite wins latest Recorded Shoot

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GNRA year-end competition fires off Sunday …Braithwaite wins latest Recorded Shoot

Guyana’s leading marksmen are set and ready to take on each other from Sunday at the Timehri Rifle and Pistol Ranges when the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) three-day competition fires...

Guyana Jaguars practice match …Chanderpaul, Chandrika hit fifties at Bourda, game still wide open

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Jaguars practice match …Chanderpaul, Chandrika hit fifties at Bourda, game still wide open

By Sean Devers Shiv Chanderpaul and Rajendra Chandrika registered half centuries to leave the practice game between Leon Johnson’s X1 and Vishaul Singh’ X1 wide open yesterday at the end of day...

WICB president Cameron assures potential franchise players of decent livelihood

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB president Cameron assures potential franchise players of decent livelihood

President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron recently wrote the potential Caribbean Franchise players assuring them of a decent livelihood. The president stated that the WICB...

First women’s football development summit concludes

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on First women’s football development summit concludes

Philadelphia – CONCACAF concluded its “Let’s Develop Women’s Football” conference, a two-day gathering of prominent global leaders in women’s football. The event was highlighted by...

UG hosts successful athletics championships

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on UG hosts successful athletics championships

Returning to the University of Guyana (UG) Campus for its annual Inter-Faculty Track and Field Championships, which was held last Saturday at the Turkeyen Campus East Coast Demerara, the nation’s...

President Ramotar is also on trial with Mr. Nandlall

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ramotar is also on trial with Mr. Nandlall

Do you recall the famous case in West Indian ODI cricket in which captain Chris Gayle ordered his spinner, Sulieman Benn to leave the field? Gayle later told reporters that Benn could not do the type...

The Anil Nandlall recording…Government will remain silent – Dr. Luncheon

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The Anil Nandlall recording…Government will remain silent – Dr. Luncheon

The Government will remain “silent” on the issue regarding the Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall following the release of a recorded conversation between the Minister and a reporter from...

FOR NAVIN

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FOR NAVIN

Navin Chandarpal is dead. May his soul Rest in Peace. He was a stalwart of the political struggles. He was part of the heroic struggle for the restoration of free and fair elections in Guyana and a...

CADVA offers reward for information in missing person case

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CADVA offers reward for information in missing person case

The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Association (CADVA) has announced that it will be offering a cash reward to anyone who provides useful information to the whereabouts of missing mother of...

Ebola virus could prove disastrous for Guyana – APNU Shadow Health Minister

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ebola virus could prove disastrous for Guyana – APNU Shadow Health Minister

“The results can be disastrous,” said Dr. George Norton of any case of the Ebola Virus arriving in Guyana. Dr. Norton, the Shadow Minister of Health within A Partnership for National Unity...

It would be ‘rather foolish’ to call LGE – Ramotar

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on It would be ‘rather foolish’ to call LGE – Ramotar

By Abena Rockcliffe Even as he exuded great confidence that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would be victorious at any Local Government Elections (LGE), President Donald Ramotar told a group...

Parents of runaway schoolgirl losing hope

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parents of runaway schoolgirl losing hope

Almost four weeks since she ran-away from home, the parents of 15-year-old Alicia Johnson are losing hope. They have acquired no information leading to her current whereabouts. Two days after her...

Overseas doctors conduct health awareness clinic

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas doctors conduct health awareness clinic

A health awareness clinic conducted by three overseas doctors yesterday at the Grove Health Centre, East Bank Demerara (EBD) saw a number of patients benefitting from nutrition, mental health and...

Sooba calls off meeting to address dilapidated Stabroek Market Wharf

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba calls off meeting to address dilapidated Stabroek Market Wharf

A meeting organized by members of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC), to address issues affecting vendors occupying sections of the badly dilapidated Stabroek Market Wharf, was...

Tree kills Issano miner

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tree kills Issano miner

Rusco Deally, 36, a Westbury, Essequibo miner died after a huge tree limb fell, pinning him at Issano, Middle Mazaruni, recently. The incident which occurred last week at Issano, in the Interior,...

Meeting of the General Assembly…188 countries condemn Cuban blockade – GCSM President

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Meeting of the General Assembly…188 countries condemn Cuban blockade – GCSM President

In a recent meeting of the General Assembly 188 countries condemned the blockade on Cuba, prior to this meeting of the General Assembly, nearly 160 countries and international organizations sent...

Neal & Massy rebrands as MASSY

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Neal & Massy rebrands as MASSY

Neal & Massy has simplified its name. It is now MASSY. Members of the media and public were at a cocktail reception and presentation last evening at Starlite Square, Montrose, East Coast Demerara...

Duo gets 36 months for city carjacking

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Duo gets 36 months for city carjacking

Two men have been jailed for 36 months for stealing a man’s car earlier this year. Kirtland Scott, 23, of Friendship, East Coast Demerara, and Mortimer Chan were sentenced by Magistrate Ann...

US Human Rights: A Chinese Take

Oct 30, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on US Human Rights: A Chinese Take

We have all become accustomed to the US Government issuing “Human Rights Reports” on other countries, including Guyana. It is perhaps a sign of the increasingly important role that the report on...

Drinking buddies murder trial accused pleaded guilty

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Drinking buddies murder trial accused pleaded guilty

Dharampaul Gopaul, called ‘Pauline Gulliver’, 47, of Side Line Dam, Port Mourant, Corentyne who is on trial for the murder of Mukesh Gopaul, called ‘Muca’, on February 6, 2009 at 52, Side...

Labourer on $100,000 bail in $8.9M burglary

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer on $100,000 bail in $8.9M burglary

A 20-year-old labourer accused of breaking into his employer’s storeroom and swiping $8.9M in articles was granted $100,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday....

Ptolemy Reid Rehab renovations completed

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ptolemy Reid Rehab renovations completed

Yesterday provided good news for the children of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC). The renovations on facilities were completed. The revitalization project, which was sponsored by...

Rice farmer wife, relatives brutalized and robbed

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rice farmer wife, relatives brutalized and robbed

Gun stolen Police have held a number of persons as investigations continue into the armed robbery committed on Jaiswah Boodnarine, called Kauwash, 59, a rice farmer of Number 56 Village, Corentyne,...

Essequibo criminal sessions open

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo criminal sessions open

The October sessions of the Essequibo Criminal Assizes opened on Tuesday, with a simple ceremony to acknowledge the installation of presiding Judge, Justice Franklin Holder, at the Suddie High Court....

Former President’s College student admitted to bar

Oct 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Former President’s College student admitted to bar

Former President’s College student, 24-year-old Rushanna Danielle Tinisha Marks, was yesterday admitted to the Bar after having her petition presented by Attorney at Law Roger Yearwood before...