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Carolan Lynch arms, ammo trial continues

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Carolan Lynch arms, ammo trial continues

Former beauty queen, Carolan Lynch, was once again in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court as her trial for illegal arms and ammunition possession charges continued. Sergeant Cassandra Anthony, who is...

Freddie Kissoon – Iconoclastically positive

May 17, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Iconoclastically positive

In my piece for Monday last, I indicated that there were two forthcoming essays on the complex process that characterized the relationship of Africans with the closing years of Forbes Burnham and the...

Polygraph test not illegal/unconstitutional

May 17, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Polygraph test not illegal/unconstitutional

Dear Editor, I find it imperative to respond to the writer’s letter (05-14-08) where he stated that polygraph testing is both illegal and unconstitutional. The writer was misinformed when he wrote...

D’Urban Street stabbing murder…

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on D’Urban Street stabbing murder…

Arrest warrant issued for suspect

Impromptu speaking competition…

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Impromptu speaking competition…

Annandale Secondary, School of the Nations victorious The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) sponsored Inter-Secondary School Impromptu speaking competition for fourth formers continued with...

Courts rewards 12 lucky customers in ‘Treat Mom like a Star’ promotion

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Courts rewards 12 lucky customers in ‘Treat Mom like a Star’ promotion

Yesterday Courts hosted a presentation ceremony for winners of its Mother’s Day Promotion ‘Treat Mom like a Star’ at its Main Street location yesterday, and presented 12 lucky winners with...

Response to the Kaieteur News editorial

May 17, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Response to the Kaieteur News editorial

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to the Kaieteur News editorial of Sunday, May 4th 2008, and wish to state that, while I agree with some of the information, it is very clear that the writer...

Guyanese are tired

May 17, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese are tired

Dear Editor, Jagdeo and the PPP/C Government are evil for viewing entertainment as more important than easing the burden of the rising cost of living on the people of Guyana. Yes, it will be an...

ACDA to recruit young Guyanese for one-year ‘Life Changing’ programme

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on ACDA to recruit young Guyanese for one-year ‘Life Changing’ programme

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), through the Social Inclusion Fund of the Inter American Development Bank, will during this month and early June recruit and select 30 young...

Peeping Tom – Corbin & Jagdeo Have the Solutions

May 17, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Corbin & Jagdeo Have the Solutions

I came home to find my granddaughter emptying her piggy bank. Curious I asked her what she was going to buy this time with her small savings. Her answer surprised me. She answered that the money was...

New York-based Guyanese association creates McAndrew Awards

May 17, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on New York-based Guyanese association creates McAndrew Awards

The Guyana Cultural Association of New York 2008 Awards ceremony will take place in New York City next month. Under the theme ‘Caribbean People in Harmony through Culture’, the awards ceremony is...

A practical guide to visiting Guyana for CARIFESTA

May 17, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on A practical guide to visiting Guyana for CARIFESTA

Dear Editor, So his Excellency President Jagdeo says that there will be more people in Guyana for CARIFESTA than were here for Cricket World Cup. All hail His Excellence for his vision and foresight....

The Berbice River Bridge

May 17, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Berbice River Bridge

The news that the Berbice River Bridge is likely to be completed come September is welcome. In a recent tour, the media was told that the bridge was close to fifty per cent complete and work is...

Campbellvile Shooting… Dead Youth Was Main Target

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Campbellvile Shooting… Dead Youth Was Main Target

-Cops Investigators are still baffled over last Wednesday night’s shooting in Campbellville that claimed the life of 21-year-old Arjune Narine Singh, and resulted in injuries to three other...

No approval for protest march…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on No approval for protest march…

‘I’m walking to my chambers’ – Corbin Hundreds assembled at Mandela Avenue and Joseph Pollydore Street for a protest march and rally but when leader of the People’s National Congress

Man nabbed with friend’s gun at 3:00 a.m

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man nabbed with friend’s gun at 3:00 a.m

Police have detained a licenced firearm holder after he gave a fictitious explanation of how his shotgun ended up in the hands of another Rosignol, West Bank Berbice resident. The friend, too, was...

Berbice bridge a reality in September-BCCI

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice bridge a reality in September-BCCI

…tolls to be on par with current ferry charges By Leonard Gildarie The much-touted and long-awaited Berbice River Bridge is on schedule and should be open to traffic early September, according to...

112 not out! Oldest woman in South America

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on 112 not out! Oldest woman in South America

Today, Ms. Matilda Lewis will be 112 years old, making her the oldest living person in Guyana and in South America. She is only one of 76 people older than 110 years on the planet. But as the years...

Corbin’s bodyguard arrested for murder, robbery under arms

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin’s bodyguard arrested for murder, robbery under arms

“If there is evidence that I am in bed with criminals then they (police) should come and arrest me” – Corbin. Some time around 2:00hrs yesterday Cyrus Boyce, personal security detail...

The time has come for labour to once again be independent

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The time has come for labour to once again be independent

Dear Editor, It is important that as the President of the GTUC I do not allow recent comments expressed in the media by various sectors of society to go unnoticed. To do so will be a failure on my...

Man axed to death over interest in friend’s wife

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man axed to death over interest in friend’s wife

A 29-year-old man who expressed a sexual interest in the wife of a friend who had earlier invited him to his home for a drink was chopped to death with an axe. Armanand Dhanraj was found lying in his...

Lindeners fully apprised of role for CARIFESTA X

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners fully apprised of role for CARIFESTA X

Several officials and residents of Linden were yesterday given a detailed explanation of how to prepare for the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) X and were also privileged to witness a sample...

Wismar mystery fire leaves eight homeless

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Wismar mystery fire leaves eight homeless

Eight people were left homeless yesterday after a fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey house at around 19:00 hrs at Lot 153 Half Mile, Wismar. The building is the property of Volda Bonus,...

Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

May 16, 2008 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

When a bug bite you, you does really scratch and of late, bug biting a lot of people. One bite Da Silva and he call a press conference. De whole issue was a li’l thing. Buddy sell he hotel and is...

Export licence row…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Export licence row…

Alesie likely to get mill, export licences shortly -Minister Persaud The Ministry of Agriculture has intervened in a row between the Ruimzeight Rice Processors Inc, a part of the Alesie Group, and...

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