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12 murders in 27 days

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 12 murders in 27 days

– similar number of homicides in January 2010 Twelve people, including a 21-year-old teacher, a US-based citizen and a 14-year-old boy were murdered in the first 27 days of this year. A similar...

Chinese to invest US$1 billion in projects here – Ambassador Yu

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese to invest US$1 billion in projects here – Ambassador Yu

Chinese companies are getting ready to invest some US$1 billion in various projects in Guyana, Chinese Ambassador, Yu Wenzhe has said. To date, the total investment from China is over US$100 million...

Egypt’s Mubarak sacks cabinet

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Egypt’s Mubarak sacks cabinet

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refuse to bow to demands that he resign, after ordering troops and tanks into cities in an attempt to quell an explosion of street protest against...

Digicel launches ‘Royalty’ Mash band

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel launches ‘Royalty’ Mash band

Digicel yesterday unveiled its “Royalty” themed Mash band for this year, announcing that it will be competing for King of the Band and hoping to win other prizes. Last year, the company placed...

Dem boys seh… Woolford get cuss and he can’t cuss back

Jan 29, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Woolford get cuss and he can’t cuss back

Ever since de waterfalls paper start talking bout corruption, everybody joining in. Bharrat tell dem soldiers that de people who does deal wid gold and diamond corrupt. But as old people seh, wrong...

Cabinet Secretary collapses, rushed to city hospital

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet Secretary collapses, rushed to city hospital

Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon was early yesterday morning rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after collapsing while preparing for work. Reports are that Dr. Luncheon was rushed to the...

Hit and run driver nabbed on Harbour Bridge

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hit and run driver nabbed on Harbour Bridge

A hit-and-run driver led police on a chase over the Demerara Harbour Bridge around 20:30 hrs after slamming into a motorcyclist and slightly damaging two cars on the East Bank Demerara public road....

Parents protest state of Philadelphia Primary

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Chanting “We want a new school” parents and students of Philadelphia Primary School in Vergenoegen, West Coast Demerara, yesterday protested the condition and state of the school in which the...

STARR Computers offers new technology for drivers’

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on STARR Computers offers new technology for drivers’

– GPS, Night vision and high resolution features available STARR Computers Inc. (STARR) once again has hit the market with the launch of another innovation in computer engineering. This time...

All set for Children’s Mashramani programme

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on All set for Children’s Mashramani programme

Some activities associated with the Children’s Mashramani 2011 celebration have already begun and plans are on stream for the others. According to Desiree Wyles-Ogle of the Allied Arts Unit,...

Final year Social Work students undertake community project

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Final year Social Work students undertake community project

As part of a course requirement for DSW 314: Community Practice, five final year Social Work students conducted an intervention with a less fortunate single-parent family in the North East La...

Scotiabank Kiddies cricket launched

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Hunt for new Mascot begins By Sean Devers The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in collaboration with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and Scotiabank launched its 2011 Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket programme...

Chandrika warms up for Jamaica with unbeaten ton

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Chandrika warms up for Jamaica with unbeaten ton

Twenty-two year old former West Indies Under-19 opening batsman Rajendra Chandrika yesterday warmed up for Guyana’s opening Regional 4-day match against host Jamaica from next Friday with an...

$747M allocated for sports this year

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Director of Sport, Neil Kumar, in his budget presentation on Tuesday evening, revealed that a whopping $747M has been allocated in the 2011 budget as Capital Expenditure for sports, which is...

Berbice to be represented at National U15 Boxing c/ships

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Berbice to be represented at National U15 Boxing c/ships

As was stated in their yearend review, The Pocket Rocket Boxing gym is going all out to stay on top of the game in their quest to be the number one gym in Guyana. The Gym located in New Amsterdam...

Man on bail for allegedly buying stolen laptop

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man on bail for allegedly buying stolen laptop

Vivian Neville found himself in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday to answer a charge of knowingly receiving a stolen laptop. According to the police, on January 24 last, in Georgetown,...

Stag & El Dorado Male/Female Softball tourneys to continue tomorrow

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Stag & El Dorado Male/Female Softball tourneys to continue tomorrow

The Stag Beer & El Dorado Rum nationwide softball cricket competitions for male and female teams and the male over-40 tournament is set to continue tomorrow at various venues throughout the...

Human Services Ministry orders that sodomised 3 year-old be counseled

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services Ministry orders that sodomised 3 year-old be counseled

With tears in her eyes, the mother of the three-year-old boy who was sodomised two weeks ago by his 14-year-old neighbour, visited Kaieteur News yesterday to voice her dissatisfaction over the length...

Berbice Bridge Company demanding $10,000 fine wrongfully

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice Bridge Company demanding $10,000 fine wrongfully

Narindra Latchman, a general contractor of Enmore is accusing the Berbice River Bridge Company Incorporated (BRBCI) of wrongfully demanding a fine from him for leaving his 4X4 Pick-up parked at the...

Haynes Foundation partners with YBG

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Youth basketball website in the making The Haynes Basketball Foundation has partnered with Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG), which will be launched tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, in a...

Priest publishes memoir

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Priest publishes memoir

Spending a total of 43 years on our shores, Anglican priest Fr Derek Goodrich, A.A. has certainly earned the name ‘Guyanese’ in many ways. Just over a decade after leaving here to return to his...

Surinamese rice miller nabbed in Berbice after 16-year run from jail

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Surinamese rice miller nabbed in Berbice after 16-year run from jail

Berbice police has nabbed a Surinamese man who disappeared since 1995 after being jailed in Guyana for issuing bounced cheques to rice farmers. Police officials yesterday confirmed that Krishna Paul...

NSC annual Mash Table Tennis Tourney to serve off on February 11

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on NSC annual Mash Table Tennis Tourney to serve off on February 11

GTTA to run off seniors and masters Feb 18-20 The annual Mashramani table tennis competition sponsored by the National Sports Commission (NSC) is slated to serve off on Friday February 11 and...

Ricks & Sari cycling meet set for next Saturday

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Ricks & Sari cycling meet set for next Saturday

National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed’s 2011 season is set to pedal off next Saturday at the National Park with the 18th Annual Ricks & Sari Agro Industries 11-race cycling Meet. Competitors...

Police issue wanted bulletin for gunslinging husband

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police issue wanted bulletin for gunslinging husband

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for interdicted presidential guard Malvin Raymond Taylor, called Mark, 33, who allegedly attempted to kill his wife, Sharon Taylor, and her sister, Michelle...

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Nandu and Thorne return home after invaluable exposure with WI U19s in England

Hamilton Green, Aubrey Norton, Roysdale Forde and human nature

Kaieteur News – One of the most painful ironies of civilization, is that the ordinary folks want to be ruled by educated... more

Christmas parties will have to be cancelled

Kaieteur News – In less than six weeks, the number of active COVID-19 coronavirus cases has increased five times. It... more