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Residents watch as driver dies in car

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Residents watch as driver dies in car

Traffic ground to a near halt early yesterday morning in the vicinity of Versailles, West Bank Demerara, as passing motorists attempted to catch a glimpse of the lifeless body of 24-year-old Levi...

Jagdeo illustrates daily why he is unfit to lead Guyana

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo illustrates daily why he is unfit to lead Guyana

…present evidence fuelling allegations – AFC While promising a more comprehensive response at a later date Leader of the Alliance for Change Raphael Trotman, says that the President is daily...

Paralysed accident victim dies

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Paralysed accident victim dies

Forty-seven-year-old Lilowtie Persaud finally succumbed to her injuries after clinging to life for the past three weeks. Reports are that Persaud died some time after 11:00 hours yesterday while a...

GDF officer excels at US military college

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GDF officer excels at US military college

The Guyana Defence Force’s Colonel Bruce Lovell copped a distinguished graduate award along with two writing awards at the Awards and Recognition Ceremony of the Industrial College of the Armed...

Elderly woman raped at Senior Citizen Home

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly woman raped at Senior Citizen Home

A woman said to be in her 80s was yesterday morning rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after it was believed that she was sexually molested by an intruder. Following a doctor’s examination it...

Legal Affairs Ministry did not consult with Magistracy

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Legal Affairs Ministry did not consult with Magistracy

Lay Magistrates… The Ministry of Legal Affairs, which is currently being headed by Attorney General Charles Ramson, is yet to consult with the Magistracy on the Summary Jurisdiction (Lay...

Region Six improves at National Grade Six Assessment

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six improves at National Grade Six Assessment

By Melissa Johnson REGION SIX, EAST BERBICE, CORENTYNE – Region Six Education Officer Shafiran Bhajan is heartened by the performance of students in East Berbice/Corentyne at the 2009 National...

Two Matthews Ridge residents hospital following stabbing incident

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Two Matthews Ridge residents hospital following stabbing incident

Two persons were air dashed to the city after they were both stabbed in separate incidents. Reports are that 36-year-old Terry Welcome, of Big Creek Matthews Ridge, was attacked at his home on...

Boiling water lands on toddler

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Boiling water lands on toddler

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital are battling to save the life of a 20-month-old baby who was almost cooked when a pot of boiling water fell on him yesterday morning. The toddler, Brandon...

Multiple prison escapee gets three more years

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Multiple prison escapee gets three more years

…already serving 15 years Eighteen-year-old Theon Smith, of Annandale, East Coast Demerara, sentence was yesterday increased by three more years after he made a court appearance before...

‘We are coming back well laden on August 6’

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘We are coming back well laden on August 6’

…Says Manager Johnson at U-19 farewell dinner By Sean Devers Manager of the Guyana Under-19 cricket team, Alvin Johnson, feels this year’s unit is not the best ever produced by this county, but...

Meusa wins Sasha Cells CARICOM Chess tournament

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meusa wins Sasha Cells CARICOM Chess tournament

Wendell Meusa made it three in a row after capturing the senior top prize in the Sasha Cells chess tournament which concluded on Caricom Day at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club. Muesa ended the...

Pompey runs slowest time this season

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pompey runs slowest time this season

…but remains unbeaten in Ireland Aliann Pompey expressed disappointment over her slowest time this season even though she won the 400m at the International Athletics’ 58th Cork City Sports at the...

Pomeroon River boat mishap claims life of 11-year-old

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon River boat mishap claims life of 11-year-old

Another bizarre boat mishap in the Pomeroon River has claimed the life of an 11-year old boy. Leon Abrams, of Teneze Ferne, Lower Pomeroon, was pronounced dead at the Charity Hospital after he was...

Central Essequibo win 1st Digicel D’ Bimmer Flex Twenty20 festival

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Central Essequibo win 1st Digicel D’ Bimmer Flex Twenty20 festival

Central Essequibo defeated South Essequibo to win the first ever Digicel D’ Bimmer Flex Twenty20 cricket festival, played at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground on Saturday. In the final, South...

Man remanded for sex with underaged relative

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Errol William, 32, of Perth, Essequibo Coast, who had engaged in repeated sexual intercourse with a relative, between July 2007 and January 15, last, was told by magistrate Faith Mc Gusty that he...

Business School sponsors BFA junior tournament

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Business School sponsors BFA junior tournament

The Berbice Football Association (BFA) has attracted sponsorship from the Managing Director of The Business School, James Bovell, and will be running off a junior tournament for schools and clubs to...

Motorcycle collision survivors stable

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcycle collision survivors stable

The two motorcycle collision that had claimed the lives of 21-year-old Ragnauth Narine, of Johanna Cecilia, and 40-year-old Mahendranauth Deonarine, of Lima Housing Scheme, on Saturday at La Belle...

Ganja accused to remain in jail despite denial

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja accused to remain in jail despite denial

William Sandiford, a pork knocker, of Wisrock, Linden, who was caught with 31 grams of cannabis at Buch Hall, Essequibo was refused bail by Magistrate Faith McGusty. Sandiford, 46, was charged with...

DCC contributes to National Under-19 cricketers

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC contributes to National Under-19 cricketers

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) has produced several outstanding Guyana cricketers including Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs and Roger Harper. On Monday the Queenstown club made a financial contribution to...

Excitement galore as Beach Soccer returns to Linden

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Excitement galore as Beach Soccer returns to Linden

Silver Shattas emerge champions; Marlon Benjamin is player of the tournament Approximately two months subsequent to the inaugural beach soccer competition in Linden, football buffs were treated to...

FACTS 3 Finals slated for Cliff Anderson Sports Hall

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on FACTS 3 Finals slated for Cliff Anderson Sports Hall

After heated competition on the night of the semifinals of FACTS3- fashion house at the Umana Yana on June 13, six spokes models and six student designers are all set for their final face-off on ...

Sports Minister disappointed with Twenty20 schedule

Jul 08, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sports Minister disappointed with Twenty20 schedule

“We knew what games were set for Guyana from the media” – GCB The off-the-field controversies of West Indies cricket are once again overshadowing the game itself and this time the...

Adam Harris house burgled

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Adam Harris house burgled

Laptop, Camera etc. taken “People are always looking at you and when you least expect they pounce on you” said Adam Harris, Kaieteur News editor, after his house was burgled Monday night. On...

Ketley Primary NGSA results up a notch

Jul 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ketley Primary NGSA results up a notch

The top one percent performers at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) this year were drawn from a number of primary schools some of which have either never been included in the prestigious group...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more