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Taxi driver’s battered body found off Corentyne highway

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver’s battered body found off Corentyne highway

By Melissa Johnson NUMBER SEVEN VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – The battered body of a taxi driver was found yesterday morning in a canal at Number Seven Village, which is along the Number Nineteen Highway....

Protest reaches city

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Protest reaches city

Outraged relatives and friends of slain schoolboy Kelvin Fraser yesterday intensified their actions, as the group staged another protest outside the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Brickdam Police...

Children find newborn in canal with throat slit

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Children find newborn in canal with throat slit

Police are investigating what looks very much like the murder of a newborn boy whose partly decomposed body with its throat slashed was fished out of the Cowan Street Canal in Kingston, around midday...

GRA moves to investigate Christopher Ram

Jun 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GRA moves to investigate Christopher Ram

Sources within the Guyana Revenue Authority have reported that a directive has been given for the Authority to investigate the dealings of Chartered Accountant and Managing Partner of Ram and McRae,...

Little Miss Moniques Cotillion programme set for launch today

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Little Miss Moniques Cotillion programme set for launch today

Today the Annual Little Ms. Monique’s Cotillion is set for Launching at the Ocean View Hotel at 14:00hrs. The Little Ms. Monique’s Cotillion Programme not only excels in traditional cotillion...

Bartician gets nod to head miners’ body

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Bartician gets nod to head miners’ body

– warns members not to be complacent Bartica resident, Fred McWilfred, was yesterday overwhelmingly supported by miners to take over the helm of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie can really run

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie can really run

Uncle Freddie run like if he had de devil pun he tail. He run faster than Usain Bolt. And unless de police was de devil then he had a right to run because de police was after he fuh disturbing de...

Digicel /GCB Summer Smash Twenty20 bowls off today in Berbice

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel /GCB Summer Smash Twenty20 bowls off today in Berbice

$1Million in cash & trophies at stake By Franklin Wilson With the aim of selecting the best possible Twenty20 team to represent Guyana in the WICB Regional Twenty20 tournament next month in...

Recommendations for Disciplined Services approved six years later

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Recommendations for Disciplined Services approved six years later

By Gary Eleazar Some six years after the Report of the Disciplined Forces Commission was sent to a Special Select Committee for approval, 40 plus meetings, several changes in committee members and...

LABA looking to host League Finals tonight

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA looking to host League Finals tonight

– tomorrow set as alternative date if it rains The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) is hoping that the weather is much more favourable than it had been in the past days so that it...

Emphasis on training as region’s surgeons meet

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Emphasis on training as region’s surgeons meet

With major emphasis on lifting the level of surgery and surgical training in the Caribbean, the Eighth Caribbean College of Surgeons Conference (CCOS) was kicked into motion yesterday with an opening...

Junior C/wealth silver medalist Clevon Rock to lead boxers to CAC Games

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior C/wealth silver medalist Clevon Rock to lead boxers to CAC Games

He won a silver medal and was the only boxer to procure such an accolade at the Junior Commonwealth Games held in Pune India in 2008, and was subsequently adjudged Junior Sportsman of the year. Now...

“We often live above our means” says President Jagdeo

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on “We often live above our means” says President Jagdeo

– as eighth C’bean College of Surgeons conference gets underway By Sharmain Cornette It was a fusion of cultural activities last evening during the opening ceremony of the Eighth Caribbean...

Gold Striders Track and Field Games postponed

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gold Striders Track and Field Games postponed

-Police, GDF opts out of unsanctioned meet By Edison Jefford Gold Striders Track and Field Games was yesterday postponed for unknown reasons following a Kaieteur Sport query with Director, Derill...

Berbice Board names teams for Digicel Twenty20

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Board names teams for Digicel Twenty20

The Digicel Countrywide Twenty20 tournament bowls off today at the Port Mourant Cricket Ground. The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has named their three teams to participate in the tournament with the...

John Barnes shares his thoughts on the best attacking players for the World Cup

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on John Barnes shares his thoughts on the best attacking players for the World Cup

As the teams got ready for the kick off of the World Cup in South Africa this week, there was some bad news on the injury front with England suffering a massive loss in the form of Rio Ferdinand, who...

New Amsterdam/Canje and Lower Corentyne to battle

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Amsterdam/Canje and Lower Corentyne to battle

The Area ‘H’ Ground is the venue tomorrow and Sunday for the final of the Diamond Fire & General Insurance Company Under-19 Inter-zone tournament, organised by the Berbice Cricket Board. The...

Still no word on kidnapped businessman

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Still no word on kidnapped businessman

With no new clue as to whether 46-year-old kidnapped businessman, Fabian Gonsalves, called Vampa, might be alive, police have confirmed that to date they are still no new developments. Essequibians...

Barbados, T&T to host Regional 20/20

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barbados, T&T to host Regional 20/20

International TV Coverage expected By Sean Devers in Trinidad The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is using the hype created by the recent 20/20 World Cup in the Caribbean to sell their inaugural...

Wounded 73-yr-old succumbs

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Wounded 73-yr-old succumbs

– suspect likely to face murder charge The 73-year-old poultry farmer who was viciously attacked on Monday evening last, succumbed in the wee hours yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital....

Heavy rainfall expected this weekend

Jun 11, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Heavy rainfall expected this weekend

Local officials are warning that heavy rains are likely this weekend as a weather condition which saw downpours in neighbouring Trinidad & Tobago head to this country. Today, cloudy skies with...

Spicing things up!

Jun 11, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Spicing things up!

Two commendable governmental initiatives were unveiled last week. The first was a micro-financing scheme for single mothers. The second was a meeting by the Ministry of Agriculture to promote the...

Mr. Slowe should disclose what he knows about the Lindo Creek mass murder

Jun 11, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Slowe should disclose what he knows about the Lindo Creek mass murder

Dear Editor, Mr. Paul Slowe has been a loose canon over the past few days making headline after headline in the daily newspapers and blowing the whistle on the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in which he...

GNBS launches national accreditation focal point

Jun 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS launches national accreditation focal point

In celebration of World Accreditation Day the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Wednesday held a symposium which served to launch the National Accreditation Focal Point to sensitize...

Man denied treatment for TB after refusing to take HIV test

Jun 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man denied treatment for TB after refusing to take HIV test

Popular Calypsonian Derrick Mangal well known as ‘Bright Colours’ is angry with officials at a public health facility for refusing to give him medication for his Tuberculosis because he declined...