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Gunmen hijack post office van with cops, $90M

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen hijack post office van with cops, $90M

…steal rifle, dump cop and vehicle in cemetery Staff of the Bourda Post Office did not have to turn away old age pensioners but shortly after the money was taken into the post office three armed...

Road fatality victim identified as wanted criminal

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Road fatality victim identified as wanted criminal

…Six remain hospitalized, two still critical One of the three killed in a road crash on Monday has been identified as a wanted criminal Andrew Doris, 19, of 150 Vryheid Lust East Coast Demerara....

Visa revocation story was April Fools’ hoax

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Visa revocation story was April Fools’ hoax

An article appearing on page seven in the Wednesday Edition headlined “US revokes four Gov’t officials’ visas –in major money laundering, bribery probe” was merely an April Fools’ joke....

Scholarship for top CSEC student may be in limbo due to absence of Appropriation Act –Luncheon

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Scholarship for top CSEC student may be in limbo due to absence of Appropriation Act –Luncheon

Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon expressed yesterday that the absence of an Appropriation Act may very well be the reason why government has not been able to honour its promise of granting a...

K/News reporters walk out after being insulted at Brassington’s press conference

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on K/News reporters walk out after being insulted at Brassington’s press conference

Management of Kaieteur News yesterday said it is condemning in the strongest terms the disrespect shown to its reporters by a Public Relations Consultant who Government has been hiring to defend a...

NGSA kicks off

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NGSA kicks off

– “Results have been improving every year”— says CEO This year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) kicked off yesterday, and saw 15,200 primary school students from all over Guyana...

Woman was dismembered in her house

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman was dismembered in her house

Relatives and neighbours of US based Samantha Benjamin are still reeling from shock, after it was confirmed that the dismembered body found on the Annandale foreshore last week Thursday was...

Guyana vex visa story not true

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Guyana vex visa story not true

De whole of Guyana was happy when dem read de Waterfalls paper early yesterday. Dey know when dem read de paper every day is like reading part of their religious book. Well yesterday was All Fools...

IKD Chairman, Chief Instructor Grades 107 Karate Students at the YMCA

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on IKD Chairman, Chief Instructor Grades 107 Karate Students at the YMCA

Ninth (9th) Dan Shuseki Shihan Frank Woon-A-Tai, founder of the International Karate Daigaku, graded over 100 Karatekas of the ASK-Guyana at the YMCA Thomas Lands on Sunday last and was assisted by...

Golden Jaguars to face Suriname in friendly on April 30

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars to face Suriname in friendly on April 30

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will be seeking to maintain their unbeaten run so far this year (2 wins 1 draw) when they take on Suriname on Thursday April 30, 2015 at the Andre Kamperven Stadium in the...

Guyana’s CARIFTA Games team grounded

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s CARIFTA Games team grounded

– Thompson will be lone representative By Edison Jefford After four years of consistent performances at the Caribbean’s most prestigious Junior Track and Field Championships, The CARIFTA...

Noble House Seafoods recommits to GCA Cricket

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Noble House Seafoods recommits to GCA Cricket

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will begin the defense of their Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Noble House Seafoods two-day second division title against Malteenoes at DCC on April 11 in one of...

USACA Guyana cricket tour…Nat U-17 spinners stifle USA U-18s, avenges first match loss

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on USACA Guyana cricket tour…Nat U-17 spinners stifle USA U-18s, avenges first match loss

By Sean Devers In bright sunshine at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, the United States of America Cricket Academy (USACA) Under-18 side lost by two wickets to the Guyana Under-17 team when...

NBS 40 overs Second Division Cricket …RHT Bakewell ‘A’ crush Port Mourant by 10 wickets

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NBS 40 overs Second Division Cricket …RHT Bakewell ‘A’ crush Port Mourant by 10 wickets

A hostile spell of fast bowling from veteran pacer Sherain Murray and an explosive fifty by Khemraj Mahadeo propelled Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘A’ to a crushing 10 wicket victory over arch-rivals...

2015 CFU Club Championship Phase 1 …Alpha hosts Group 1 at Providence from April 15

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2015 CFU Club Championship Phase 1 …Alpha hosts Group 1 at Providence from April 15

Alpha will begin their quest for to advance to the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League when they host Suriname’s Inter Moengotapoe and Trinidad and Tobago’s Central FC from April 15 at the...

Stoby blows the field away in Blenheim Trust 5K

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stoby blows the field away in Blenheim Trust 5K

Carrot Bay – BVI based Guyanese journalist Reuben Stoby continued his sudden dominance on the road racing scene by whipping the field in the 2nd race of the Blenheim Trust 5K series in Carrot Bay...

GCA/Brain Street U-15…Bookie, Singh hit centuries, Maloney grabs 6

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA/Brain Street U-15…Bookie, Singh hit centuries, Maloney grabs 6

Centuries by Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) pair Alphius Bookie and Sachin Singh and a six-wicket haul by Transport Sports Club’s Akeem Maloney highlighted last Tuesday’s action in the Georgetown...

Big parties absent from GECOM’s briefings on Nominations Day

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Big parties absent from GECOM’s briefings on Nominations Day

The two main political groups contesting the upcoming general elections were absent Tuesday during a critical briefing on Nominations Day which is to be held on Tuesday. According to the Guyana...

Increase in Region 10 malaria cases ‘likely migratory’

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Increase in Region 10 malaria cases ‘likely migratory’

Concerns about an outbreak in sections of Region 10 have been put to rest by officials of the Ministry of Health. This has reportedly been the direct result of a proactive response by the Ministry of...

Trial date set for alleged sexual assault by Bartica DEO

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trial date set for alleged sexual assault by Bartica DEO

A trial for the sexual assault matter involving the Region Seven District Education Officer (DEO), Akbar Chindu, is slated to commence on April 22, next. The trial date was announced yesterday by...

Vanessa Kissoon, four others face court for ‘breach of peace’ at PPP/C meeting

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Vanessa Kissoon, four others face court for ‘breach of peace’ at PPP/C meeting

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon appeared before the Linden Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, charged with heckling the speakers at the People’s...

GT&T launches plan to boost internet speed

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T launches plan to boost internet speed

– also slashes prices for qualifying customers by 50% Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday announced the implementation of 10 megabytes per second (MBPS) internet speeds,...

US, FFP commission model farm in New Amsterdam

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US, FFP commission model farm in New Amsterdam

Compliments of US Government, Food for the Poor, Oldendorf Carriers, St Francis Community Commissions and All Saints Scot’s Church, Food For the Poor Guyana Incorporated, commissioned an Integrated...

Nationality over ethnicity

Apr 02, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Nationality over ethnicity

One Guyanese who proudly identifies himself as such is being pilloried. As fate would have it, even the national leaders despite taking an oath of allegiance to the country, Guyana, and wrapping...

‘Abused women need professional help’- Dr. Dawn Stewart

Apr 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Abused women need professional help’- Dr. Dawn Stewart

Incidents of domestic violence have been plaguing this country for over a decade. Statistics indicate that there were 1,078 reported cases in 2006; 3,621in 2007; and the number has been increasing...

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