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Regal are Winston Murray Memorial Softball champs

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal are Winston Murray Memorial Softball champs

By Zaheer Mohamed Regal underlined their status as one of the most decorated Softball cricket teams locally when they defeated Speed Boat XI by 61 runs to capture the Fourth Annual Winston Murray...

Terror at Prospect Scheme…Berserk ex-soldier shoots woman, kills self after disarming cop

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Terror at Prospect Scheme…Berserk ex-soldier shoots woman, kills self after disarming cop

– served 14-yr-sentence for killing colleague in Haiti By Rabindra Rooplall Panic gripped the East Bank Demerara community of Prospect at around 14.45 hrs yesterday after a 43-year-old...

Pawning of Marriott…Govt. must make entire AHI and Republic Bank deal public – Prof. Thomas

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pawning of Marriott…Govt. must make entire AHI and Republic Bank deal public – Prof. Thomas

…Says Brassington is running desperate “The government would be making a foolish mistake continuing this project without consultation with stakeholders” By Abena Rockcliffe All that has...

$$M US auction vs. Guyana’s gifting of airwaves…Sinister plot to control people’s minds

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $$M US auction vs. Guyana’s gifting of airwaves…Sinister plot to control people’s minds

– done to pave way for dictatorial take-over When he compared the multimillion dollar auction of six blocks of airwaves in the US to the gifting of Guyana’s to certain persons by...

Mother settles Berbice baby-snatcher case for $500,000

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mother settles Berbice baby-snatcher case for $500,000

The young Berbice mother whose nine-day-old son was kidnapped by a woman earlier this year has accepted $500.000 compensation from the accused. Sandra McLean, the mother of little Yuvesh...

AFC accuses PPP of racial campaigning – urges GECOM to investigate

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC accuses PPP of racial campaigning – urges GECOM to investigate

“This can undermine the social fabric of our nation, and excite racial insecurity and fear throughout Guyana” – Nagamootoo Alliance For Change Vice Chairman Moses Nagamootoo has suggested...

APNU slams Govt. on wage and salary increase without negotiations

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU slams Govt. on wage and salary increase without negotiations

– “another paltry ‘freck’ for Public Servants” A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has condemned the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) government for their move to arbitrarily...

Rd 3: WICB Four-Day Franchise Cricket…Permaul (8-26) decimates Bajans

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rd 3: WICB Four-Day Franchise Cricket…Permaul (8-26) decimates Bajans

Jaguars on course for third consecutive win By Sean Devers Guyana Jaguars left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul spun webs around the Barbados Pride’s batsmen yesterday at Providence to spoil that...

Dem boys seh…One lie does bring another

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…One lie does bring another

When people tell one lie dem does got to tell nuff others because dem does forget the first lie. De fat crook tell suh much lie that whenever he open he mouth he got to wonder if is another lie he...

Score’s Even proves who is boss

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Score’s Even proves who is boss

Returns to winning ways with victory at Rising Sun The atmosphere was set the crowd was in and the ‘A’ and lower event lived up to all expectations. When it was done it was Score’s Even that...

Mouthwatering showdown in the Men’s Physique category at Flex Night

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mouthwatering showdown in the Men’s Physique category at Flex Night

The Men’s Physique category of the Flex Night event is set for a mouthwatering showdown come December 7 at the National Cultural Centre. On the Flex Night agenda for the first time, this event has...

Guyana Cup Rematch fixed for Sunday 21st December at Port Mourant

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Cup Rematch fixed for Sunday 21st December at Port Mourant

Over $10M up for grabs The organizers of the Guyana Cup Horserace meet has organised the Guyana Cup Re-match. The event, which is set for Sunday 21st December at the Port Mourant Turf Club, is...

Guyanese ladies claim another CAC Games Squash medal

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese ladies claim another CAC Games Squash medal

Veracruz, Mexico, – Guyana completed its participation in the XX11 CAC Games here in Veracruz Mexico, with another bronze medal for the Ladies and a fifth place showing for the Men. The women...

Umada Cup 2014 Chess Championships…Tight battle for championship honours as T&T’s Esan Wiltshire, assumes lead

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Umada Cup 2014 Chess Championships…Tight battle for championship honours as T&T’s Esan Wiltshire, assumes lead

By Michael Benjamin A tight battle for championship honours is envisaged when the curtains come down on the 2014 Umada Cup Chess Championships at the Sleep Inn Hotel, Brickdam, Stabroek, today....

DDL growing rapidly, says Chairman to shareholders in Berbice

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on DDL growing rapidly, says Chairman to shareholders in Berbice

The Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) held its Annual Stakeholders’ Reception on Sunday at the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) tarmac on the Corentyne. The event took a more informal...

FOLLOW THE PLANE

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FOLLOW THE PLANE

I must remember to be careful when choosing taxis in which to travel. If per chance one of those vehicles should, while I am not travelling with it, be involved in the commission of a crime, there...

Local Calypso music …Too much politics, too little entertainment?

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local Calypso music …Too much politics, too little entertainment?

By Kiana Wilburg Local Calypsonians who rely too heavily on the political turbulence to craft songs of “significance” may be walking on a tight rope at the next round of Calypso Mashramani...

Gun-toting carjackers steal another taxi

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gun-toting carjackers steal another taxi

A driver from City Taxi Service is counting his losses after three gun-toting bandits escaped with his Toyota Carina after dragging him out of his vehicle at around 01.45 hrs last Wednesday. Nazir...

Agricola woman hit by truck succumbs

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola woman hit by truck succumbs

Sixty-two-year-old Fatimah Jamal, who was struck by a truck on the East Bank Demerara public road Friday, succumbed to her injuries yesterday. Mrs. Jamal, of Lot 101 Ceasar Street, Agricola,...

LUSCSL serving Wismar for over fifty years

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on LUSCSL serving Wismar for over fifty years

The Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL) LUSCSL is one of the oldest Cooperatives in Guyana. LUSCSL, formerly the Wismar/Christianburg Electricity Supply Cooperative...

Community projects

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Community projects

We are told that the “Impact Albouystown Project’ reintroduced by the current police administration has led to spinoff initiatives in several other communities namely Angoy’s Avenue;...

Seaman charged with causing relative’s death while driving drunk

Dec 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Seaman charged with causing relative’s death while driving drunk

The man who was at the wheels of the car which overturned and crashed two Mondays ago on the Betsy Ground Public Road, causing the death of his relative, has been charged with two counts. Davendra...

Khamraj Lall’s arrest is only the tip of the iceberg

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Khamraj Lall’s arrest is only the tip of the iceberg

Dear Editor, After being banished into exile since a tape recording revealed that he was soliciting sex from a 14 year old boy, Kwame McKoy has finally resurfaced but once again for all the wrong...

LET THE RIGHT ONE WIN

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on LET THE RIGHT ONE WIN

I read somewhere that the word “politics” is really two words and not one, something like “harass”. The writer explained that the first syllable “poli” or “poly” means “many”...

It is not a decision for David Granger alone to make

Dec 01, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on It is not a decision for David Granger alone to make

Just a cursory acquaintance with politics in the world would tell you that after government changes hands, if the previous regime had engaged in repellant forms of wrong-doing, prosecution follows....