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Half centuries for Sukhu and Chowramootoo highlight latest action

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Half centuries for Sukhu and Chowramootoo highlight latest action

2015 A Ally and Sons Inter Secondary Schools U-17 Berbice cricket … The 2015 A Ally and Sons Inter Secondary School Under-17 Cricket Competition for schools in Berbice continued recently with...

Haniff and Bacchus are ‘The President’s 9-Hole Golf League’ leaders

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Haniff and Bacchus are ‘The President’s 9-Hole Golf League’ leaders

Positions at the top 5 or so places continue to change each week as golfers vie to excel in the exciting President’s 9-Hole Golf League at the Lusignan Golf Club. At the end of the 3rd week’s or...

GMR&SC Club Day on Sunday

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC Club Day on Sunday

The Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) will be hosting a Club Day this Sunday, at the South Dakota Circuit, starting from 10:0hrs. According to information received, the entity will...

Police Youth Group to host Appreciation Day of Sports at Leopold Street Saturday

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police Youth Group to host Appreciation Day of Sports at Leopold Street Saturday

Under the theme: ‘We love the Community’, Guyana’s Police Force and members of the Central Georgetown community will be holding an Appreciation Day of Sports on Saturday between Leopold and...

Letter to the Sports Editor…A golden opportunity to right local cricket presents itself

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…A golden opportunity to right local cricket presents itself

Dear Mr. Editor It is my observation that the Demerara Cricket Board would be holding a meeting to elect its Executive Officials on 30th April, 2015 at GNIC Sports Club Woolford Avenue Georgetown....

Stray catchers conducting “runnings” with impounded animals

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Stray catchers conducting “runnings” with impounded animals

Domestic cattle farmers on the West Coast of Demerara, are appealing to the Ministry of Home Affairs to rein in stray catchers, who they say have established their personal businesses from their...

Missing Carnegie student never showed up for school

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Missing Carnegie student never showed up for school

Relatives and friends of 17-year-old Shondel Ann Peters of 19 L’Oratoire, Number One Canal West Bank Demerara are still trying to locate the teen after she went missing on Monday last. The teenager...

Maternal deaths, mental health high on APNU+AFC health agenda

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Maternal deaths, mental health high on APNU+AFC health agenda

The coalition, A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC), has stated that if it is voted into government, maternal deaths and mental health will be top priorities on its...

Burma Road Tragedy…Relatives of victims still grapple with grief

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Burma Road Tragedy…Relatives of victims still grapple with grief

By Jarryl Bryan Approximately two months after one of the most deadly accidents in recent memory, relatives of the Burma Road victims are still reeling from the shock of the multiple deaths that...

Police allegedly arrest, brutalise Linden man

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police allegedly arrest, brutalise Linden man

Delroy Rockcliffe, 21, of 103 Second Street, Silvertown, was yesterday arrested after he was allegedly brutalised by police ranks. It is alleged that six armed police ranks beat Rockcliffe while he...

Ex-military officers do not influence our decision-making— GDF Chief of Staff

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-military officers do not influence our decision-making— GDF Chief of Staff

Head of the Guyana Defence Force, Chief of Staff Brigadier General, Mark Phillips, has reminded his ranks that President Donald Ramotar is still the Commander in Chief and the organization’s...

Lethem Police ranks claim no knowledge of investigations into miner’s assault

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem Police ranks claim no knowledge of investigations into miner’s assault

A 23-year-old miner, Melvin ShewPrasad, formerly a Second Lieutenant in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), is yet to be contacted by the Lethem police station for a status report on his alleged assault....

Protestors call for resignation of Minister Ramsaran following abusive statements

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Protestors call for resignation of Minister Ramsaran following abusive statements

Dozens of protestors gathered outside the Ministry of Health’s Brickdam offices yesterday, calling for the resignation of Health Minister, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran for his verbally abusive statements...

Rehab of Kingelly Well Station….GWI regrets disruption, service restored

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rehab of Kingelly Well Station….GWI regrets disruption, service restored

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has apologized to all residents for the reduction in service experienced during the last three months as a result of rehabilitation works at the Kingelly Well Station,...

The arrogant and sick Government Minister

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The arrogant and sick Government Minister

On Monday, a Minister of Government created quite a stir during a confrontation with a female protestor outside the Whim Magistrate’s Court. In the process he demonstrated the kind of arrogance...

Urling, Dodson, Harper, Jagan and reality

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Urling, Dodson, Harper, Jagan and reality

When Emily Dodson took on the case of asking the court to rule that the two-term limitation on the presidency was unconstitutional, it came as an intensive and extensive shock to me. Ms. Dodson and I...

MV Sabanto damages bollard at Parika Ferry Stelling

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on MV Sabanto damages bollard at Parika Ferry Stelling

The Maritime Administration Department, (MARAD) has reported that the M.V. Sabanto has damaged a bollard at the Parika Ferry Stelling. A bollard is a short vertical post. Originally it meant a post...

60 million to be vaccinated during Vaccination Week

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 60 million to be vaccinated during Vaccination Week

As part of the observance of Vaccination Week in the Americas, some 60 million children and adults in 45 countries are slated to be vaccinated against a number of diseases. This is according to the...

Post mortem says 5-month-old died of brain haemorrhage

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Post mortem says 5-month-old died of brain haemorrhage

The long overdue autopsy for dead five-month-old, Kevon Critchlow was yesterday collected by the child’s mother, Suemede Critchlow. The results were a repeat of the preliminary post mortem,...

National sex offenders registry could be a reality

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on National sex offenders registry could be a reality

Amidst calls for interventions and improved mechanisms, which will help to curb the incidence of sexual violence, and violent sex crimes in Guyana, calls for a national register for sex offenders has...

THE CONSTITUENCY THAT WILL DECIDE THE ELECTIONS

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE CONSTITUENCY THAT WILL DECIDE THE ELECTIONS

A cat and mouse game is being played out between the ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) and the opposition coalition APNU+AFC. Both sides seem to be waiting on each other to make the...

Breaking the silence on domestic violence

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking the silence on domestic violence

By: Phylicia Richardson Guyanese from as far as North America have voiced their opinion on the predominance of violence against women in Guyana. Ten women have been murdered in less than four months;...

CANU security guards charged for stealing cocaine from drug bust

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on CANU security guards charged for stealing cocaine from drug bust

Two security guards attached to the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) appeared before a city Magistrate yesterday to answer charges stemming from the disappearance of cocaine that was in their...

Manickchand calls Health Minister’s abusive outburst ‘sexist’

Apr 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Manickchand calls Health Minister’s abusive outburst ‘sexist’

—Elisabeth Harper dubs it ‘unacceptable and an affront to women’ Sexist, disrespectful, vulgar and stupid were some of the adjectives used by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, in a...

Doobay’s wife murder…Accomplice confessed to involvement in killing- Police witness

Apr 23, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Doobay’s wife murder…Accomplice confessed to involvement in killing- Police witness

The caution statement that police obtained from murder accused, Shakir Mohamed, was yesterday admitted into evidence before the court. Mohamed, of Lot 127 Latchuni Street, Better Hope, East Coast...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In 1985, the Forbes Burnham government looking for economic salvation, entered into a memorandum... more