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Rubis executive gunned down in Meadowbrook home

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rubis executive gunned down in Meadowbrook home

A senior Rubis Guyana Inc. employee was shot dead at around 22.30 hrs on Wednesday in his Lot 262 Jamoon Drive, Meadowbrook home, allegedly by a lone gunman who fled with his victim’s jewellery and...

Mining pit cave-in leaves one dead

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mining pit cave-in leaves one dead

Yet another life has been snuffed out due to a mining pit cave-in, on this occasion at Jumbie Creek, Potaro. Twenty-five year-old Orlando Archer of 65 Pattensen, South Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara,...

Two NCN editors sent packing over misuse of funds

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Two NCN editors sent packing over misuse of funds

By Abena Rockcliffe Two editors of the National Communications Network (NCN) were handed dismissal letters yesterday afternoon following an internal investigation into what management deemed as a...

South Road, Grove slayings…Former ‘killing squad’ ranks under close arrest

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on South Road, Grove slayings…Former ‘killing squad’ ranks under close arrest

A corporal, a lance corporal and a former sergeant were taken into custody yesterday as the probe intensified into allegations that they were part of a now-disbanded squad that carried out several...

Watchdog groups complicit in conspiracy of silence – PPP

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Watchdog groups complicit in conspiracy of silence – PPP

An apparent conspiracy of silence is slowly taking over the country. At least this is according to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). During a press conference held yesterday morning, Party...

57 years for insurance manager’s killer

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 57 years for insurance manager’s killer

Former hospital employee Clive Knights has been sentenced to 57 years in prison for the 2012 murder of former Insurance Executive, Bert Whyte. The sentence was handed by Justice Navindra Singh at the...

De whole of Freedom House crying

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De whole of Freedom House crying

De shoes does always be more tight when it deh pun de other foot. Dem boys pass by Freedom House de other day and dem hear nuff crying. De government send home some people and all of dem run to...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Friendship, Tucville register emphatic wins

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Friendship, Tucville register emphatic wins

Despite no play in Berbice due to the inclement weather that forced the Organisers of this year’s Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition to postpone the game between Manchester and Tagore...

RHTY&SC/Edward B. Beharry Co. Ltd Anti-Drugs/Suicide Campaign for Region 6 Schools

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC/Edward B. Beharry Co. Ltd Anti-Drugs/Suicide Campaign for Region 6 Schools

The 10 cricket teams which represent the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) will launch one of their largest ever programmes since becoming involved in personal development programmes...

Marshall double strike gives Mackenzie High comfortable win

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marshall double strike gives Mackenzie High comfortable win

Forward Jessie Marshall scored twice to lead Mackenzie High to a comfortable 3-1 victory Linden Foundation Secondary when the 5th Annual Digicel National Schools Football Championships continued...

Death of Simon Budhoo is a loss to RHTY&SC

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Death of Simon Budhoo is a loss to RHTY&SC

The Management and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) were thrown into a state of mourning on Monday at the sudden death of its Assistant Organising Secretary and...

Andrews says she stayed in BVI to support male team

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Andrews says she stayed in BVI to support male team

By Edison Jefford National senior basketball player, Kean Andrews has indicated that she stayed in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, following the completion of the Women’s category of the Caribbean...

TCL Cricket Academy to cater for 100 youths in Berbice

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on TCL Cricket Academy to cater for 100 youths in Berbice

By Franklin Wilson Some one hundred youths (male & female) between the ages of 8 – 18 years-old would be the beneficiaries of the TCL Guyana Inc. and Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club...

SUNBURST sponsors Narayan Ramdhani for Pan Am Junior C/ships

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on SUNBURST sponsors Narayan Ramdhani for Pan Am Junior C/ships

National Junior and Senior Badminton champion Narayan Ramdhani has received sponsored from the Continental Group of Companies through the popular local SUNBURST Orange Juice. This is not the first...

Ross to compete at 33rd NABBA World C/ships

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ross to compete at 33rd NABBA World C/ships

Guyana’s most recognized international bodybuilder Hugh Ross is set to hit the stage for the first time this year when he competes at the 33rd NABBA World Championships tomorrow at the Dolmen...

STSC to host 4-a-side football

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on STSC to host 4-a-side football

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee (STSC) and Bannas Foundation will be hosting a Father’s Day four-a-side small goal and penalty shoot out football competition tomorrow and Sunday at Burnham...

Budget Office critical to advancing quality of economic governance – Dr. Thomas

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Budget Office critical to advancing quality of economic governance – Dr. Thomas

By Kiana Wilburg For nearly 23 years, there has been the longstanding issue of distrust in statistics regarding the performance of the country when produced by the government. This led to scathing...

Ministry conducts first outreach in Orealla/Siparuta

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry conducts first outreach in Orealla/Siparuta

The Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs took its first official ministerial outreach to Region Six, where a team led by Minister Sydney Allicock and Minister within the Ministry, Valerie...

PPP elections petition to be filed shortly

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP elections petition to be filed shortly

More than a month after the APNU+AFC coalition was officially declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as the winner of the 2015 general and regional elections, the PPP is yet to file its...

GECOM places official elections results online

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM places official elections results online

In the face of continued criticism from the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has made the official results of the 2015 General and Regional Elections...

US experiences global technical problems with visa systems

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US experiences global technical problems with visa systems

The United States of America Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana yesterday issued a press statement that served to inform certain visa applicants that the dates for them to pick up their visas have been...

A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

Jun 19, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

Last Saturday, June 13, 2015, marked the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Walter Rodney. It rained heavily on that day, but even if there was sunshine, there were not going to be any...

Termination of matron blown out of proportion – Health Minister

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Termination of matron blown out of proportion – Health Minister

“It was blown out of proportion,” said Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, of the termination of the service of Director of Nursing Services, Colleen Hicks. Word of the termination of...

Kuru Kuru chopping victim loses arm

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kuru chopping victim loses arm

Kuru-Kuru resident Glenford Kitt was yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after receiving treatment on his right arm which was severed just above the elbow, by...

Teen hospitalised following hit-and-run

Jun 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Teen hospitalised following hit-and-run

Eighteen year-old miner, Mark Henry, of Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice, is now a patient of the male surgical ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after being hit by a...

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