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Bandits invade church, rob, shoot worshipper

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits invade church, rob, shoot worshipper

Three armed bandits last evening brazenly invaded the Triune Mystical House of Bethel during a service and shot one worshipper after robbing him. The men apparently had singled out worshipper Gregory...

Lima Sands residents frustrated over impassable roads

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lima Sands residents frustrated over impassable roads

If the person who erected a sign in Lima Sands is to be believed, some residents may not go to the polls for the upcoming national elections if those in authority fail to improve the infrastructure...

Guyanese man who burned girlfriend’s face with electric iron jailed for 13 years

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man who burned girlfriend’s face with electric iron jailed for 13 years

A Queens man who burned his girlfriend’s face with a hot iron while their three children watched was sentenced to 13 years in prison last Wednesday by a judge who called the gruesome attack...

Dem boys seh…De government heading fuh more problems

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De government heading fuh more problems

Things happening real fast. Guyana now introducing a television channel that gun only play religious service. And all dem pastor happy. De government giving dem a chance to reach more people and once...

Housing Minister still to face ‘Parliamentary Trial’

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Minister still to face ‘Parliamentary Trial’

…eight months on and the $4B fiasco still not addressed Almost eight months after the Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran ruled that a prima facie case for contempt of the House had...

Health Minister to fire unregistered doctors

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister to fire unregistered doctors

– names of physicians handed over to police Senior Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, has issued a stern warning that all physicians who fail to renew their license will be sacked. Once...

Journalism community must be wary of what Govt. agrees to

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Journalism community must be wary of what Govt. agrees to

Freedom of Information legislation… – media expert Access to Information Legislation in theory is a good thing but the journalism community as well as others that would want to utilise...

Girl, 13, hangs self

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Girl, 13, hangs self

The relatives of 13-year-old Selena Fredericks, of Reliance Village, Essequibo Coast, are still trying to comprehend why the first form Anna Regina Multilateral student took her own life. Selena was...

Pit bulls perish in D’urban Street blaze

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Pit bulls perish in D’urban Street blaze

An early fire gutted a building at Lot 63, D’urban Street, Wortmanville, and several pit bulls perished in the inferno. The building was occupied by one man called “Guthrie” and he was taken...

Permaul’s 8-39 leads Guyana’s fight back

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Permaul’s 8-39 leads Guyana’s fight back

– but CCC’s last pair frustrate Guyana By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, Queensway & Leisure Inn A career best 6-39 from 21-year-old left-arm spinner Veerasammy...

Bandits strike again in Good Hope

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits strike again in Good Hope

For the second time in less than a week, bandits invaded the quiet East Coast Demerara village of Good Hope, and for the second time, they escaped without any hindrance after pillaging two business...

Driver jailed for 2005 death of schoolgirl

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Driver jailed for 2005 death of schoolgirl

Justice for Trishana’s family after five years… It took five long years, but justice was served last Friday when a magistrate sentenced truck driver Godfrey Gomes to jail for causing the...

Mayor’s Cup continues today at GFC

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup continues today at GFC

Coordinator of the Mayor’s Cup Committee, Lennox Arthur, has informed Kaieteur Sport that the Mayor’s Cup football tournament will continue today at the Georgetown Football Club ground. Today’s...

Mierock astound host Intermoengotapoe 2-1; to face T&T’s Defense Force in Rd 2

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mierock astound host Intermoengotapoe 2-1; to face T&T’s Defense Force in Rd 2

By Franklin Wilson What can be described as a dream debut in the Caribbean Football Union’s Club Champions Cup, Milerock FC booked their place in the second round of competition following a...

Referees Course for students starts tomorrow

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Referees Course for students starts tomorrow

The Referees Course for students attending the Scotia Bank/ Pepsi School Football Academy will start tomorrow and run until Thursday, at the Ministry of Education ground (formerly Softball...

UDFA ‘Man Up! Champion for Change’ Under-23 tournament starts today

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on UDFA ‘Man Up! Champion for Change’ Under-23 tournament starts today

The Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) “Man Up! Be a Champion for Change” Under 23 football tournament is set to kick off today with a double header, at Mackenzie Sports Club ground,...

Battle of warriors as Jones goes after Eastman in historic title fight

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Battle of warriors as Jones goes after Eastman in historic title fight

It’s four days away from the March edition of the monthly ProAm boxing card, scheduled for this Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) and Kwesi ‘Assassin’ Jones, wary of the quality...

Health Ministry monitoring packaging, labelling of products

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry monitoring packaging, labelling of products

The Ministry of Health through its Food and Drug Department is currently on a mission to address the problem of inappropriate labelling and packaging of products intended for human consumption. ...

Cigarettes boxes should carry picture-based warnings – Health official

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cigarettes boxes should carry picture-based warnings – Health official

Graphic pictures of throat cancer and rotting teeth among other diseases related to tobacco smoking are strongly being advocated to be shown on cigarette boxes, in an effort to reduce the smoking...

Disaster lurks at Meadowbrook Drive

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Disaster lurks at Meadowbrook Drive

Used by the Minister Robinson Benn and hundreds of other commuters to access their homes and work places, Meadowbrook Drive is a road where disaster lurks. The road is located just off the Mandela...

Phagwah in Prashad Nagar

Mar 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Phagwah in Prashad Nagar

THE Central Body of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha, invited the public to its annual Phagwah Mela and Bazaar on the lawns of the Sanskritik Kendra in Ganges Street, Prashad Nagar yesterday.

We need to get past the frivolous drivel that passes for politicking

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to get past the frivolous drivel that passes for politicking

Dear Editor, It is amazing that every time some Guyanese politicians approach a general election, much campaigning is done around events that have occurred decades in the past. What is fascinating to...

Another testimony of the degeneracy engulfing society

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Another testimony of the degeneracy engulfing society

Dear Editor, As aptly said by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamour of the bad people,...

Discrepancies in govt. stories

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Discrepancies in govt. stories

Dear Editor, Demerara Waves internet radio reported on 20 March that, “the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has denied responsibility for screening containers of logs for export, instead saying...

An act of kindness

Mar 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on An act of kindness

Dear Editor, My wife fell and struck her head on the concrete outside the Bakewell establishment on Albert Street. She was bleeding heavily from the wound on her head. A young man (a total stranger)...

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Guyana’s oil bonanza is being squandered by political duels

Kaieteur News – In Guyana, politics and economics have always danced an ill-fated tango. It is difficult to say which... more