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New Year breaks with two murders

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Year breaks with two murders

By: Romila Boodram A 50-year-old miner, who stopped four teenagers from throwing squibs into his yard and at people on Old Year’s Night, was later stabbed to death by one of the young men. The...

Ann’s Grove man is the country’s first murder victim for 2015

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ann’s Grove man is the country’s first murder victim for 2015

By Romila Boodram An Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD) mother is grieving the loss of her 21-year-old son even as she starts the New Year. About 15 minutes after the world rang in 2015, Errol...

Declarations short by 97,000 ounces… Gold miners demand same incentives as big operators to stay alive

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Declarations short by 97,000 ounces… Gold miners demand same incentives as big operators to stay alive

As gold closed out a dismal 97,000 ounces short of its original 2014 target, local miners have stepped up calls for radical changes that will see real incentives to keep the industry alive for small...

Day 5: Difficult terrain hampers search for missing plane

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Day 5: Difficult terrain hampers search for missing plane

Rescue workers sacrificed their New Year holiday to continue search efforts for missing Air Services Limited (ASL) Britten Norman Islander 8R-GHE and still organizers are no closer to finding the...

Two dead, one injured in Cemetery Road accident

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Two dead, one injured in Cemetery Road accident

Another roadside accident in the wee hours of New Year’s Day morning, in La Penitence, Cemetery Road, has left two dead and one injured. Dead is 61 year-old, George Barker of Freeman Street,...

Man wanted for killing wife captured in Corentyne hideout

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man wanted for killing wife captured in Corentyne hideout

The hunt for the suspect in the Corriverton domestic violence murder is over with the arrest of the main suspect. The man who was on the run for close to three weeks was nabbed in a house in which he...

Teen found in creek died from drowning

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Teen found in creek died from drowning

– postmortem Despite suggestions that he was kidnapped and murdered, police have unearthed no evidence of foul play in the death of 14-year-old Dhaniram Ramgopaul, whose body was fished out of...

Ramotar’s “Jagdeo slap” remarks unbecoming of a President – AFC Leader

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar’s “Jagdeo slap” remarks unbecoming of a President – AFC Leader

– “Ramotar was the victim of many verbal slaps from Jagdeo, so he knows what he is talking about” Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan asserts that President Donald...

Wanted bus driver fingered in another road death

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted bus driver fingered in another road death

A fugitive for more than a year on a causing death by dangerous driving charge was apprehended and hauled before the courts after he claimed the life of a 12 year old student last Sunday. Howard De...

Lisa Ramotar hired as Gold Board’s new GM

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lisa Ramotar hired as Gold Board’s new GM

The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) has a new General Manager (GM) -Lisaveta “Lisa” Ramotar, daughter of President Donald Ramotar. Ramotar was hired on a one-year contract after 15 applications were...

Construction to start soon on Eccles/Diamond alternative road link – Pres. Ramotar

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Construction to start soon on Eccles/Diamond alternative road link – Pres. Ramotar

Government says it will soon start constructing an alternative link between Diamond and Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara, as part of long-term strategies to ease congestion in the area. During his...

4th Annual GFA/Banks Cup Round Robin Knockout tournament

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 4th Annual GFA/Banks Cup Round Robin Knockout tournament

Gregory Richardson, Dwight Peters sink GDF as Alpha FC cart off the spoils By Michael Benjamin They have won numerous accolades, earning the envious tab of the best local football unit and the...

Ashni try fuh get away to 704

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ashni try fuh get away to 704

Some people does married and believe that dem is bachelor but de Holy Book always seh that de two shall become one. Brassington never carry Ashni to church suh he never know that piece of de...

SOUTH AFRICA V WEST INDIES, 3RD TEST, CAPE TOWN, 1ST DAY… Harmer, Steyn benefit from wasteful Windies

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on SOUTH AFRICA V WEST INDIES, 3RD TEST, CAPE TOWN, 1ST DAY… Harmer, Steyn benefit from wasteful Windies

ESPNcricinfo – Dale Steyn’s two wickets were the sole rewards for South Africa’s quicks on the opening day yesterday of the third Test – enough to take him past Makhaya Ntini’s 390...

Religious Service ushers in RHTY&SC Silver Jubilee anniversary

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Religious Service ushers in RHTY&SC Silver Jubilee anniversary

Multi-million Christmas Charity Programme Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) which was formed in 1990 by three-time Commonwealth...

Samuels, Sparman, head Prison, Fire Service promotions

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Samuels, Sparman, head Prison, Fire Service promotions

Approval has been granted for the Substantive Appointments within the Guyana Prison Service with effect from 3rd December 2014: AS SENIOR SUPERINTENDET OF PRISONS Mr. Gladwin Samuels –...

2014 was most successful year for Guyana’s cricket at Regional level

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2014 was most successful year for Guyana’s cricket at Regional level

By Sean Devers After a poor start to the year by Guyana’s senior team which failed to win a single game in the Regional Four-Day First-Class tournament, this country completed its most successful...

Grove Hi Tech flay Ann’s Grove 5-0 to lift title

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grove Hi Tech flay Ann’s Grove 5-0 to lift title

NA United tame Cougars 5-1 for third The inaugural Stag Super XV1 knock-out football tournament climaxed on New Year’s night last at the #5 Community ground West Coast Berbice with Grove Hi Tech...

Builders Lumber Yard renews D’ANDRADE SPONSORSHIP

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Builders Lumber Yard renews D’ANDRADE SPONSORSHIP

Builders Lumber Yard yesterday renewed its long-standing sponsorship arrangement of distance-running ace, Lionel D’Andrade, who opens his 2015 competition season tomorrow morning with the Bigi...

RISING TO THE OCCASION

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RISING TO THE OCCASION

Housewives were stronger in 1987. They had to be. They needed the extra muscle power. People back then also generally were early to bed and early to rise. They had to be. Twenty-eight years ago, it...

New School term begins on Tuesday

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New School term begins on Tuesday

Public schools across the country are scheduled for a Tuesday January 6, 2015, opening. This is according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Education which notified public schools of the...

You could get a presidential slap and maybe a kick in 2015 for being stupid

Jan 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on You could get a presidential slap and maybe a kick in 2015 for being stupid

This is the first issue of the New Year and naturally it should start with the analysis of the contents of 2014. But that can wait because in my column, prioritizing the Ramotar tape scandal (in my...

Father of one granted bail for wounding elderly man

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Father of one granted bail for wounding elderly man

A 22-year-old father of one from West Ruimveldt, Georgetown accused of pushing an elderly man into a window was yesterday granted bail to the tune of $70,000. Michael Clarke appeared at the...

GRA did well with “challenging” $135B target – Sattaur

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA did well with “challenging” $135B target – Sattaur

– to share plastic drivers ID info with other agencies The country’s tax collection authority says it has done “well” in meeting the targeted $135.3B it had set itself for 2014. According...

Guyanese among two ex-cons pardoned by NY Governor

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese among two ex-cons pardoned by NY Governor

NEW YORK, CMC – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has pardoned two Caribbean-born ex-convicts of robbery and drug charges that threatened their immigration status. Cuomo, in exercising his...

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The PPP is in the grip of the bourgeoisie

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur news- The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) stands at a crossroads. Once the vanguard... more