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Robbery suspect shot dead by off duty cop

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery suspect shot dead by off duty cop

A 34 year old Diamond East Bank Demerara man was shot dead early last night in what police are describing as a failed robbery bid perpetrated on an off duty police officer. Ryan Couchman was shot in...

Security guard strangles self trying to scale fence

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard strangles self trying to scale fence

A 64-year old security guard attached to Best Buy Auto Sales located in Queenstown, Georgetown was found dangling from the top of the fence of the car dealership early yesterday morning. Dead is...

Ramotar’s boast of ‘25% growth’ is challenging our intelligence – Greenidge

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar’s boast of ‘25% growth’ is challenging our intelligence – Greenidge

A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Shadow Minister of Finance Carl Greenidge has described the President Donald Ramotar’s boast that the economy grew by 25 percent, as far from the truth...

Bad weather shortens search hours for missing ASL carrier

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bad weather shortens search hours for missing ASL carrier

Inclement weather remains an obstacle in the search for the Air Services Limited (ASL) Britten Norman Islander which went missing last week Sunday. Search efforts which are ongoing in the Mahdia,...

Workers saw hell in 2014 – GTUC

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Workers saw hell in 2014 – GTUC

It is the view of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) that 2014 was a year where workers from various sectors in Guyana continued to “catch hell.” Analysing the labour situation in Guyana,...

Dem boys seh…Lawyer got money wha forklift can’t pick up

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Lawyer got money wha forklift can’t pick up

Nuff of dem lawyers selfish. Dem boys believe and dem got proof. Dem know that nuff of dem got tons of cash that if you pile de money up in $5,000 bills and put it on pallets, JFL or DSL biggest...

GOA’s noticeable shift in policy, focus need to be highlighted

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA’s noticeable shift in policy, focus need to be highlighted

By Rawle Welch Not much information is usually divulged about the deeds of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) so many of us as reporters have had little to say about the entity’s interaction and...

Seven-year-old walks away from plane crash that kills parents

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Seven-year-old walks away from plane crash that kills parents

A seven-year-old girl who survived a plane crash and then trekked nearly a mile through dense woods to get help held out hope that her parents, sister and cousin might somehow have survived, too,...

Lifeguard Certification Course to be conducted next month

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lifeguard Certification Course to be conducted next month

By Sean Devers Patrick D’Almada, Canadian Lifesaving Society Instructor/Trainer based in Toronto along with Stuart Fraser from the Jamaican Lifesaving Society – who are both Guyanese born,...

Guyanese need to be governed, not ruled

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese need to be governed, not ruled

– Dr. Faith Harding By Leon Suseran Political activist and former Government Minister, Dr. Faith Harding believes Guyana can only move forward when political leaders start to govern the...

Bannas Foundation to host 5-A-Side football

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bannas Foundation to host 5-A-Side football

Bannas Foundation and Blackstallion Sports Committee will be hosting a 5-a-side small goal and penalty shootout football competition today at Vryheid’s Lust play field starting at 09:00 hrs. Teams...

SA VS. WI, 3RD TEST, CAPE TOWN, 3RD DAY…De Villiers ton gives hosts slight edge

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on SA VS. WI, 3RD TEST, CAPE TOWN, 3RD DAY…De Villiers ton gives hosts slight edge

ESPIcricinfo – AB de Villiers produced the outstanding innings that the Cape Town Test craved, but even his redoubtable efforts have yet to shake off West Indies. Facing a first-innings deficit...

Cop may have concocted a story of ‘coming under fire’

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cop may have concocted a story of ‘coming under fire’

Charges are likely to be instituted against a Police Constable, who according to sources, mistakenly shot himself on New Year’s Day and then concocted a story of coming under fire, to his...

Kumar Sangakkara closes in on Don Bradman’s double ton record

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kumar Sangakkara closes in on Don Bradman’s double ton record

BBC Sport – Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara scored his 11th Test double century to move one behind Australia legend Don Bradman’s all-time record. He made 203 on day two of the second Test...

So the President’s daughter still bakes

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on So the President’s daughter still bakes

Dear Editor, You come across the most appalling idiocies and absurd asininities in this country and when you think you have seen it all, more come to shock you. It will never end once there is a...

Ministry to intensify efforts to tackle smuggling in the prison

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry to intensify efforts to tackle smuggling in the prison

It is the brazen boast of prisoners that there is nothing that cannot be had behind the prison walls whether it is illegal or not. Then there is the conviction that most of the contraband found...

It takes a stupid person to know another stupid person

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on It takes a stupid person to know another stupid person

Dear Editor, The Religious Community and Civic Organizations have a moral responsibility to add their voices in condemnation to the latest outburst of threats by another PPP leader against the...

President’s pronouncement on Amaila Falls is unachievable in such a short time

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on President’s pronouncement on Amaila Falls is unachievable in such a short time

Dear Editor, In his New Year’s address, President Ramotar attempted to assure Guyanese that during his new term of office (yet to be announced) he will achieve financial closure for an estimated...

Guyanese will have to decide what to do with Donald and his administration

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese will have to decide what to do with Donald and his administration

Dear Editor, Donald Ramotar and the PPP administration have not announced a date for early elections in their New Year’s message. If the character and agenda of him and the PPP are anything to go...

Electricity woes and the nation

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Electricity woes and the nation

For some three decades Guyana has been plagued by power shortages. These shortages date back to the days when the country was cash-strapped and could not replace the generators and turbines that had...

2014: A bright year for the Tourism Sector

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 2014: A bright year for the Tourism Sector

A GINA FEATURE Tourism as a sector is very important for showcasing a country’s cultural diversity, as well as its socio-economic potential. And with the attention “Destination Guyana” is...

Region Ten Chairman’s Youman Nabi message

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten Chairman’s Youman Nabi message

As the world, and more particularly our Muslim brothers and sisters, celebrate the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), we are reminded of the true essence and meaning of life which the Holy Prophet...

Muslims countrywide observe Youman Nabi

Jan 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Muslims countrywide observe Youman Nabi

Muslims countrywide observed Eid Milad-un-Nabi or Youman Nabi yesterday which underscored the struggles for justice, peace and equality while reflecting on the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad....

2014 produced “Killamaan” 2 and Nandlall

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 2014 produced “Killamaan” 2 and Nandlall

The year 2014 may be remembered for the birth of Killamaan 2. By now most Guyanese know who Killamaan1 is. Only Guyana in this entire world of almost 200 sovereign states could have produced...

BE IT RESOLVED…

Jan 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on BE IT RESOLVED…

There is a story about a woman named Delilah who went to a psychiatrist complaining that she could not get the song “The Green, Green Grass of Home” out of her head. It was such a massive...