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Survivors recollect horrifying ordeal

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Survivors recollect horrifying ordeal

Several hours after 12 persons lost their lives on the No. 19 Corentyne Public Road, their relatives and close friends were still trying to grapple with the horrific news of the manner in which they...

Contractors overpaid by millions of dollars – Auditor General

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Contractors overpaid by millions of dollars – Auditor General

The findings of the accounts of Guyana remain almost unchanged, according to Auditor General, Deodat Sharma. Sharma recently presented the 2009 Auditor General’s report to Speaker of the National...

Slain bandit was before court for $2.2M fraud

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Slain bandit was before court for $2.2M fraud

Blankenburg shootout… The bandit who was slain in last Friday night’s shootout with businessman Ryan Boodhoo at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara, was also a confidence trickster who was...

Norman McLean – A Major General and a ‘Special Person’

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Norman McLean – A Major General and a ‘Special Person’

“We need to underline the importance of education to bring talented youths to the point of achievement through education then we could say that we have started the reconciliatory process.” By...

Fip Motilall survives 40-foot fall

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fip Motilall survives 40-foot fall

This vehicle, transporting the controversial Amaila Falls access road contractor Makeshwar “Fip” Motilall, plunged down a 40-foot ravine at a location near 45 Miles, Mabura Road two Saturdays...

Dem boys seh… Fip flips forty feet

Oct 31, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Fip flips forty feet

Cat got nine lives. At least that is wha dem boys seh. When dem see a cat dead pun de road dem does seh that de cat live reckless and use up all dem life. Dem boys seh that Fip got to be a cat...

Revetments may not be enough

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Revetments may not be enough

East Bank Road: The East Bank Demerara Public Road was laid out early in the colonial days when all of the countryside was plantations and not the villages that abound now. Over the years, as the...

GPHC launches investigation into death of seven-year-old

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC launches investigation into death of seven-year-old

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday said that it has launched an internal investigation into the death of seven-year-old Quincy Jr. Softleigh, who died Friday at the hospital...

“Police Day Care Centre”- a blessing for police officers

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on “Police Day Care Centre”- a blessing for police officers

The Juliet Griffith Day Care Centre, also known as the “Police Day Care Centre”, located at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary, was established on October 3, 1994, an initiative of the late...

Debt collector accuses City treasurer of bribery

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Debt collector accuses City treasurer of bribery

…says he has witnesses to prove his contention Leon Phillips, who is a debt collector, is contending that he was wrongfully assaulted by ranks of the City Constabulary, when he was escorted out of...

Japan gives US$2 billion for conservation work in developing countries

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Japan gives US$2 billion for conservation work in developing countries

…Conservation International lauds effort Conservation International, which works on conservation projects here in Guyana, has welcomed the announcement by Japan that it will provide US$2 billion in...

Minibus crashes into cow

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus crashes into cow

This minibus was transporting passengers along the East Coast Demerara route yesterday, when it collided with a cow. Eyewitnesses recalled that a man was “chasing his cows”, when one of them ran...

Guyana mulls importing plywood

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana mulls importing plywood

– boiler repairs, replacement could take at least 18 months By Leonard Gildarie Following the sudden closure of its plywood factory at Land of Canaan and the ripple effect fallout from the loss...

Tulsidai Ramsarran is best NCERD graduate

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Tulsidai Ramsarran is best NCERD graduate

The National Centre of Education and Resource Development (NCERD) at its annual graduation and prize giving exercise at the Queens College auditorium on Thursday. The Best Graduating Student was...

‘Golden Jags’ have a score to settle with Haiti

Oct 31, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jags’ have a score to settle with Haiti

Dear Editor, When the Golden Jaguars meet Haiti in the opening match of the Digicel Caribbean Championship second round in Soca Land on November second, only one word Skipper Howard Lowe will whisper...

Rice farmers now selling directly to Venezuela

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Rice farmers now selling directly to Venezuela

Confidence in the Venezuelan rice market has risen considerably with farmers now clamouring to grab a foothold, authorities say. The disclosure was made yesterday as several rice farmers from...

AFC to identify Presidential Candidate today

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on AFC to identify Presidential Candidate today

The Alliance For Change will today, at its Special National Convention at the Ocean View International Hotel, announce who the party has selected as its Presidential Candidate. At a retreat earlier...

Grieving husband concerned at silence from hospital

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Grieving husband concerned at silence from hospital

Chandradatt Gobin, the husband of the 21-year-old mother who died at the New Amsterdam Hospital one week ago, after delivering her baby, is peeved over the way the health authorities had handled the...

Illegal construction being scrutinised in the city

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal construction being scrutinised in the city

Persons who dare to undertake construction work within the confines of the city of Georgetown without due approval, could be subjected to immense loss, as the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown has...

Police patrol crashes while transporting dead man

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police patrol crashes while transporting dead man

A police patrol motor vehicle, PJJ 9093, collided with a minibus at the junction of Sandy Babb Street and Vlissengen Road, Kitty, yesterday, while transporting a dead man to the Georgetown Public...

Contractors make site visit to Tipperary Hall

Oct 31, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Contractors make site visit to Tipperary Hall

Advisor to the President on Community Development, Odinga Lumumba, met with potential contractors for a site visit and pre-bid meeting in preparation for the re-construction of the Tipperary Hall,...

Cartoons – Sun. Oct. 31

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All roads lead to Rising Sun Turf Club Rodeo today

Oct 31, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on All roads lead to Rising Sun Turf Club Rodeo today

The day has finally arrived and its Rodeo time again and the Place to be is the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park, West Coast Berbice, where the Rising Sun Rodeo Committee brings off a grand one day...

Alpha United, Fruta Conquerors advance

Oct 31, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha United, Fruta Conquerors advance

By Rawle Welch Alpha United behind a double from Shavane Seaforth registered an impressive 4-2 win over Linden’s Milerock as play in this year’s NaMilCo Knockout Football Festival continued on...

Is this a case of a person being the law unto himself?

Oct 31, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Is this a case of a person being the law unto himself?

Dear Editor, Last Sunday, 24th October, some boys of Saraswati Vidya Niketan (more popularly known as the Swami School), Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, were sent by the school’s deputy...