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Cop shoots, kills schoolboy, 15

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cop shoots, kills schoolboy, 15

A Patentia, West Bank Demerara family is calling on the authorities to ensure that justice is served after a 15-year-old member of the family was shot and killed by the police, yesterday. Around...

Govt. insists it has Hand in Hand bond

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. insists it has Hand in Hand bond

…accuses Kaieteur News of distortion The government yesterday issued a statement saying it wished “to draw the attention of the pubic (sic) another outrageous fabrication,” published by...

$3.2 M stolen from Agricola Post Office

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on $3.2 M stolen from Agricola Post Office

Pensioners and other persons who visited the Agricola Post office early yesterday morning had to be turned away as there were no monies at the institution to conduct business. Around 07:00 hours...

Opposition questions necessity of US$18M Hope Canal

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition questions necessity of US$18M Hope Canal

The multibillion-dollar Hope Canal project came under the scrutiny of the National Assembly last Thursday as the Minister of Agriculture was questioned on the need for a relief channel to the East...

Logging operations grind to a halt

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Logging operations grind to a halt

By Leonard Gildarie Logging operations in the Berbice River, have come to a halt after rising waters blocked a key crossing at Kwakwani, leaving scores of trucks stranded with cut lumber. Government...

Kwame gun be de adviser for de Waterfalls boss

Jun 08, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Kwame gun be de adviser for de Waterfalls boss

Old people does always quick to offer advice to young people. Even Paul Keens-Douglas does talk bout old people and dem advice. He always claim how old people always right. Dem boys seh that is...

Bandits rob Betsy Ground businessman again

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits rob Betsy Ground businessman again

By Samuel Whyte with additional reporting by Melissa Johnson Police are on the hunt for three bandits, two of whom are said to have carried out a daring daylight robbery around 07:30 hrs on popular...

Carpenter charged with Mon Repos murder

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Carpenter charged with Mon Repos murder

Forty-eight-year-old carpenter, Chanderband Indar of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the murder of Ravindra Singh of Annandale, East Coast Demerara. Indar was remanded to...

Upgrading teacher educators being addressed by Education Ministry

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Upgrading teacher educators being addressed by Education Ministry

The upgrading of teacher educators is crucial even as efforts are made to improve the delivery of education. While addressing a gathering at the Cyril Potter College of Education, yesterday, Minister...

File on Diamond hit-and-run death with DPP

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on File on Diamond hit-and-run death with DPP

Police are still to ascertain whether anyone will be charged in connection with the hit-and-run death of Ramona Harris two months ago. Traffic Chief Neil Semple said that he had sent the file on the...

Two prisoners escape from the Number Fifty-one Police Station

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two prisoners escape from the Number Fifty-one Police Station

NUMBER FIFTY-ONE VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – Police in Berbice are searching for two prisoners who escaped from the Number Fifty-one Police Station. The men, 30-year-old Raymond Seelall and Nawaz Mohamed,...

Sheep reproduces four lambs, livestock farmer elated

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Sheep reproduces four lambs, livestock farmer elated

A delighted livestock farmer was amused and excited to learn that her three-year-old sheep delivered four lambs, one being an ewe. Although some sheep regularly throw large litters of lambs, most...

Missing boy may have been murdered

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Missing boy may have been murdered

– police to investigate Indra Persaud, of Friendship Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara has received reports that her son has been murdered in Mahdia. The woman, who had reported that her...

Soyini Fraser could win a ticket to Vietnam

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Soyini Fraser could win a ticket to Vietnam

– Miss Guyana Earth Q&A ends By Neil Marks Today, I’ll not deal with plastic, the one and a half hour I had to wait, or a backdrop that kept falling down. But it is preposterous...

Residents cite former Top Cop’s chicken farm for environmental problems

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Residents cite former Top Cop’s chicken farm for environmental problems

A major controversy is brewing and is threatening to get out of hand as residents of a section of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, prepare to protest the continued rearing of poultry by...

YCG continues to educate communities on HIV/AIDS

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on YCG continues to educate communities on HIV/AIDS

By Rabindra Rooplall Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) has completed another HIV/AIDS community outreach programme in Regions Three, Four and Eight last month, according to voluntary counsel and testing...

Relatives yet to get PM report

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Relatives yet to get PM report

Annoyed relatives of Damian Lindore, 23, the Linden Taxi driver who was found dead on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway two weeks ago, are peeved at the fact that the government pathologist is refusing to...

China Trading owners threaten legal action against ex-employees

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on China Trading owners threaten legal action against ex-employees

Proprietors of China Trading, Jason and Lily Wang, say that legal action is being considered against any other persons who come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct during their employment...

Essequibo students replant mangroves for World Environmental Day

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Essequibo students replant mangroves for World Environmental Day

In observance of World Environmental Day, the Guyana Mangrove Restoration project has undertaken one of its newest initiatives, the first of many planned activities, which includes the experimental...

Management to discuss report on suspended lecturer this month

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Management to discuss report on suspended lecturer this month

Management of the University of Guyana (UG), later this month, is set to discuss a report which a special body has prepared involving a lecturer who was suspended last year following allegations of...

Impact of mercury to be assessed by Health Ministry with $12M WWF grant

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Impact of mercury to be assessed by Health Ministry with $12M WWF grant

Intended to garner greater understanding of the health implications resulting from occupation and other forms of exposure to mercury among vulnerable members in mining communities, a grant agreement...

Police nab three after robbery

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Police nab three after robbery

Three men have been arrested and stolen gold jewellery recovered with the help of public spirited persons, following an armed robbery committed on a man at about 21:15h yesterday at Hyde Park,...

GCC & Hikers share the spoils in Mr. Toppers Indoor

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GCC & Hikers share the spoils in Mr. Toppers Indoor

Hikers’ men did just enough to spoil GCC’s parade, denying them a possible first ever clean sweep in all four divisions of the Mr., Toppers Indoor Hockey Championships which ended on...

‘Lady Jags’ getting ready for Cuba clash

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Lady Jags’ getting ready for Cuba clash

Locals two games away from qualifying for CONCACAF Gold Cup By Franklin Wilson With yet another change to the schedule by the Caribbean Football Union for the Women’s Gold Cup competition,...

Guyana Defence Force march off with Mayor’s Cup

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Defence Force march off with Mayor’s Cup

After two weeks of pulsating action in the final rounds of the competition, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) emerged as the top team when the curtains came down on this year’s edition of the...