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GCB & Richard Jodah receives plaques from GCC

May 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB & Richard Jodah receives plaques from GCC

GCC yesterday presented a plaque to President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Drubahadur at the Club’s Pavilion in appreciation for a generous donation of a four inch Industrial Pump. The Pump...

Marines seize 6,000 kilos marijuana on Guyana-bound ship

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Marines seize 6,000 kilos marijuana on Guyana-bound ship

The Dutch marines intercepted a 6,000 kilograms shipment of marijuana on the Caribbean Sea on Thursday morning. According to the Dutch Ministry of Defense, this is the largest catch ever. The...

Tamika Miller Story…Courts continues support to domestic violence survivor

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Tamika Miller Story…Courts continues support to domestic violence survivor

More than a year after life seemed over for Tamika Miller-Patterson, she continues to receive support to renew her life that was threatened by domestic violence. Courts Guyana on Thursday presented...

Emergency works ongoing on damaged Linden/Lethem road

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Emergency works ongoing on damaged Linden/Lethem road

Emergency works are being conducted on sections of the Linden/Lethem road which collapsed in recent days. According to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, temporary bypasses are currently under...

Losing can be traumatic

May 23, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Losing can be traumatic

Over time people have been known to suffer loss and the experience is always bitter. No one likes to lose. Cricket teams lose and there are always analyses of the loss. England, more than any other...

Mining pit tragedy…Miners died from asphyxiation, multiple blunt force trauma

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mining pit tragedy…Miners died from asphyxiation, multiple blunt force trauma

Post mortem examinations conducted on the bodies of the ten miners killed in the Mowasi mining pit collapse have revealed that they died of asphyxiation and multiple blunt force trauma about the...

Int’l observers were duped – PPP/C

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l observers were duped – PPP/C

But party distances self from Ramsammy’s statements The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) believes that international observers who came for the recently concluded elections, had been...

Assorted items thrown over prison walls

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Assorted items thrown over prison walls

A bag of assorted items was thrown over the walls of the Camp Street prison yesterday morning by a man, according to a police source. According to reports alert police ranks challenged the man on...

Allegations surface of deliberate move to shut down CHI

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Allegations surface of deliberate move to shut down CHI

– as Health Minister promises to look into neglect of institution A delay in the completion of a Cardiac Catherisation Laboratory to accommodate a much needed Hybrid machine to help improve the...

New AG meets staff, urges professionalism

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New AG meets staff, urges professionalism

The newly appointed Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams, formally met with the staff of his Ministry yesterday, in the conference room of the Ministry’s Carmichael...

India’s President of India congratulates Granger

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on India’s President of India congratulates Granger

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has congratulated President David Granger on his assumption of office as the Executive President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. In his message to...

PPP yet to determine position on new Govt., Parliament

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP yet to determine position on new Govt., Parliament

As the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) continues to contest the results of the 2015 elections, the party has indicated that it is yet to determine its position with regard to the new...

Vigorous marketing plan among strategies to improve tourism- Hughes

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Vigorous marketing plan among strategies to improve tourism- Hughes

By Jarryl Bryan A few days after being sworn in, Minister of Tourism Cathy Hughes has projected plans to improve Guyana’s tourism sector through a vigorous marketing strategy. This strategy,...

Assault and accident…Brothers critical after truck chase and crash

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Assault and accident…Brothers critical after truck chase and crash

A small mishap quickly escalated into a thrilling movie scene on Thursday afternoon. Four persons are now injured; two are listed as critical as a result of an assault and accident. Injured are...

Rebranding a dinosaur

May 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Rebranding a dinosaur

The PPP used the word, “rebrand” in its press release after a meeting of its central committee. It announced that it intends to rebrand the party with changes to the party itself, its...

Stabroek Lions Club makes donation to Amerindian Hostel

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek Lions Club makes donation to Amerindian Hostel

The Stabroek Lions Club made another generous donation yesterday to the Amerindian Hostel Princess Street, Georgetown, location as part of the Lions International week of service. This presentation...

Guyanese man wanted in slaying of DC rich family captured

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man wanted in slaying of DC rich family captured

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities said in court documents made public Friday that more than one person is responsible for the slayings of four people inside the mansion of a wealthy Washington family...

Bandits posing as guests rob guest house

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits posing as guests rob guest house

Businessman Intiaz Yakub, the owner of the Swiss Guest House and General Store on the Upper Corentyne, is now counting his losses after two bandits who had earlier checked into the hotel as guests...

Child killer pardon…Ramotar defends decision

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Child killer pardon…Ramotar defends decision

Less than a week after Donald Ramotar pardoned child killer Ravindra Deo, the former President has defended the presidential pardon. He says that it is within his rights as the President to pardon...

Essequibo criminal sessions open

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo criminal sessions open

The May-October session of the Criminal Assizes of the Suddie High Court in Essequibo, will hear almost 20 criminal matters over that period. The opening ceremony held on the lawns of the Richard...

City Hall identifies constraints

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall identifies constraints

The Mayor and City Council is appealing to all Guyanese to pay more attention to the way they treat city drains as these are vital to public health and safety. The city is drained by 12 canals which...

GRIL versus National Hardware …Eddie Boyer grilled about destruction of disputed property

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRIL versus National Hardware …Eddie Boyer grilled about destruction of disputed property

The legal dispute between local commercial giants, National Hardware and Guyana Realty Investment Limited (GRIL) over prime land in the city continued yesterday, with National Hardware’s owner,...

PPP continues protest on E’bo

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP continues protest on E’bo

The People’s Progressive Party which has found itself as the main opposition party, having lost the 2015 elections by over some four thousand votes to the APNU/AFC coalition, is continuing to...

Last Sophia fire victim succumbs after months in hospital

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Last Sophia fire victim succumbs after months in hospital

Shawn White a victim of a disastrous fire on January 4 last, succumbed to his injuries months later at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, GPHC. The inferno completely destroyed a two-storey...

Cocaine busts at Ogle Airport…Woman held with cocaine in vagina

May 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cocaine busts at Ogle Airport…Woman held with cocaine in vagina

The worst thing that someone can do besides setting oneself on fire -is to let someone use that individual as a drug mule, some would say. But for many it’s a chance for them to get a better life....

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Body of Chinese national who fell from new Demerara River bridge recovered

Dem signs need calibrating

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- Dem boys bin pass one of dem fancy speed meter signs wah de guvament put up fuh tell drivers... more