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BCB hosts successful junior wicketkeepers clinic

Feb 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB hosts successful junior wicketkeepers clinic

The Special Events Committee (SEC) of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) in association with its Coaching Department on Sunday last hosted a successful coaching clinic for junior...

No time for Opposition to make input on 2012 budget

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on No time for Opposition to make input on 2012 budget

While it has been conceded by all stakeholders involved that the tripartite arrangement initiated by President Donald Ramotar is very pertinent in seeking consensus on a range of issues, the...

Four students rushed to hospital after consuming ‘hot-dogs’

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Four students rushed to hospital after consuming ‘hot-dogs’

Four grade six students from St. Ambrose Primary School, Georgetown, were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday after they reportedly ate “hot dogs”...

Counseling ordered for mother accused of harming six-year-old

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Counseling ordered for mother accused of harming six-year-old

A woman, believed to be mentally challenged, was yesterday placed on self bail, provided that she attends counseling for allegedly mistreating her six-year-old son. The mother, Ashley...

Child with brain tumour dies in TT Hospital

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Child with brain tumour dies in TT Hospital

Brain tumour patient, seven- year-old Zeneiah Loo died Tuesday at 1:30am at the Community Hospitals of Seventh- Day Adventists in Trinidad. The child succumbed after spending more than...

Troubled teen back in school after more than one year

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Troubled teen back in school after more than one year

After being ejected from the New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary School (NAMS), troubled teenager Charles Henry is back in school. He is now attending the Berbice Educational Institute, where he was...

Two years later and no clues in HIV Counsellor’s death

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two years later and no clues in HIV Counsellor’s death

Losing a loved one is always painful for family and friends and more so, when that person is murdered. But what hurts and haunts those affected is when time passes and the murderer was...

Notorious criminal arraigned on five more charges, many more pending.

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Notorious criminal arraigned on five more charges, many more pending.

Mark Lee Young, called ‘Junior’, 36, a suspect in the recent Rosignol pawnshop robbery, was back in court yesterday, this time at New Amsterdam. Lee Young appeared before Magistrate...

More Child Care Protection officers being hired

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on More Child Care Protection officers being hired

The Child Care Protection Agency is currently increasing its manpower to decentralize child protective services to rural, hinterland and riverain communities. According to Ann...

Truancy, school dropout rampant in Pomeroon

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Truancy, school dropout rampant in Pomeroon

The state of students as young as 12 years old not attending school in the Pomeroon area, has been brought to the attention of the Education Department in Region Two. Officials at the...

Landlord beats mother, daughter

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Landlord beats mother, daughter

A West Bank Demerara businessman, on Tuesday last, seems to have found a ‘new way’ in giving his tenants a notice “to move”. The businessman, who rents his private property to...

Guyanese appointed Managing Director of Barbadian Insurance Company

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese appointed Managing Director of Barbadian Insurance Company

A Guyanese has been appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited. Ingrid Innes (Ingrid Kassim) previously resided at Duke Street,...

Ministry donates money to East La Penitence

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry donates money to East La Penitence

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday honoured one of several promises made to the Hackett family of East La Penitence, last October. The promise came after a tree fell...

Situation at UGBC “absolutely normal”, says Director

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Situation at UGBC “absolutely normal”, says Director

Campus doing research on plantain disease, dead fish on sea shores Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) Professor Daizal R. Samad, has said that classes are...

Flights to Matthew’s Ridge resume

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Flights to Matthew’s Ridge resume

Assistant Aviation Inspector, Alphonso Mangah, has said repairs to the Matthews Ridge Airstrip are completed and regular flights to the area have resumed. The deterioration of the airstrip...

Simple larceny accused found with cocaine at court

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Simple larceny accused found with cocaine at court

A man, who was initially brought to court on a charge of simple larceny, was yesterday slapped with a charge of narcotics possession for the purpose of trafficking. He was reportedly found with two...

Boat collision victim discharged

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Boat collision victim discharged

Nandanie Singh, whose baby perished on February 5, last, following a boat collision in the Cuyuni River, was on Monday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Singh,...

Decomposed body found hanging

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found hanging

Police were on Tuesday summoned to Airy-Hall Sands, to launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of 36-year-old labourer, Ganesh Ramnarine, whose decomposed...

Two state officers take the stand in Colin Jones PI

Feb 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two state officers take the stand in Colin Jones PI

Already being committed to the High Court for allegedly attempting to murder police ranks at the Brickdam Police Station, Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Basil Morgan, Anthony Watson and Jahfar Sampson made...

$8M Uitvlugt robbery…Cops let suspects go after seizing loot

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $8M Uitvlugt robbery…Cops let suspects go after seizing loot

Their job is to catch the criminals and whenever possible, recover stolen loot. But some ranks of the Police Force’s Tactical Services Unit (TSU) are currently under close arrest as...

Opposition may seek to surcharge for illegal Govt spending

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition may seek to surcharge for illegal Govt spending

“In this country, men believe that they can break the law and do whatever it is that they like because those who are close to the government have been able to get away with it”- APNU MP Carl...

Convict sacrifices freedom for ganja

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Convict sacrifices freedom for ganja

An inmate, who was serving a six-month sentence in prison for simple larceny, was mere hours away from being a free man, as his sentence would have been up today, but found himself on the...

Granger flays Ramotar on election rigging claims

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Granger flays Ramotar on election rigging claims

….says it’s untrue, unstatesmanlike and should be withdrawn Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier (ret’d) David Granger has lashed out at President Donald Ramotar’s assertion that the 2011...

Hassar curry poisoning…Teen remanded on attempted murder charge

Feb 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hassar curry poisoning…Teen remanded on attempted murder charge

A Mahaica teen has been remanded to a juvenile holding centre after being charged with attempted murder of her parents and four siblings. It is alleged that on Friday, February 10, last, at...

Greek Tragedy

Feb 15, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Greek Tragedy

Greece is burning as the country struggles to comply with conditions set by the IMF, the European Community Bank (ECB) and Germany, to secure the loans necessary for it not to default on its...

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