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National TT Team competing in tri-nation tourney in Suriname

Mar 26, 2011 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on National TT Team competing in tri-nation tourney in Suriname

Guyana’s national table tennis team is currently competing against Suriname and French Guiana in a tri-nation tournament in Suriname after departing Thursday. Edinho Lewis; Nigel Bryan; Joel...

Sacked Magistrate sues over dismissal

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Sacked Magistrate sues over dismissal

Former Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton, in a writs of Certiorari and Mandamus which was filed yesterday before Justice Dianne Insanally, is claiming that she was not afforded due process or a fair...

Explosion precedes mystery fire at Leonora

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Explosion precedes mystery fire at Leonora

…completely guts top storey A fire of unknown origin has left a Leonora, West Coast Demerara family homeless after their two-storey wooden house was destroyed yesterday afternoon. Toolsieram Hurry,...

LRO employee fingered in car theft

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on LRO employee fingered in car theft

Police on the lower East Coast of Demerara are currently looking for an officer attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority licence office who has been finger in the theft of a Toyota Allion car. The...

US$1M medical center being stymied by M&CC – says CIOG President

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US$1M medical center being stymied by M&CC – says CIOG President

Plans by the Central Islamic Organisation Guyana (CIOG) to implement a US$1M medical centre that will also accommodate a dialysis centre, are being stymied by officials of the Mayor and City Council....

Dem boys seh…Rob-bert and Khurshid grumbling

Mar 26, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Rob-bert and Khurshid grumbling

Whenever de rain fall Rob-bert does happy. Is only then he does get a chance to walk about and pretend that he wukking. Is only then he does get a chance to peep at dem pump like if he know wha going...

Toddler undergoes surgery, slowly recovering

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Toddler undergoes surgery, slowly recovering

Three-year-old toddler, Amanda Sankar, is slowly recovering from a surgery she underwent to repair a fractured skull which she sustained as a result of a fall from the upper flat of her parents’...

Hundreds attend Lions Club Career Fair

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Hundreds attend Lions Club Career Fair

A few hundred students turned up at the Girl Guides Association building yesterday to participate in the Lions Club of D’Urban Park’s annual ‘Career Fair”. This career fair is held annually...

Beware of house lot scam artists – Police Force

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Beware of house lot scam artists – Police Force

– Four persons lodge reports for this year Members of the public are being advised to be aware of scam artists that pretend to be in a position to sell properties while using a false identity...

Georgetown Chamber calls for more fire prevention

Mar 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Georgetown Chamber calls for more fire prevention

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry in light of the recent spate of fires both in the urban and the rural areas, has come out in condemnation and is urging stakeholders to adhere to the...

Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst OJ U-15 League kicks off today

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst OJ U-15 League kicks off today

The inaugural Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst Orange Juice Under-15 League for City teams is expected to finally get off the mark today at the Georgetown Football Club Ground with four matches....

Morgan and Barker powers to gold on day one

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Morgan and Barker powers to gold on day one

Randolph Morgan of Body Max Gym copped gold in the 82.5kg / 83.0kg weight class while the lone female on the team Dawn Barker of Upper Demerara Barbel Club claimed gold in the 90.0kg / 84.0+kg...

Essequibo employer beats worker with cutlass

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo employer beats worker with cutlass

Oma Persaud, a poor housewife, of La’Resource Village, Essequibo Coast, is pleading with the relevant authorities for some sort of justice after her husband was beaten severely by his employer....

South Ruimveldt Primary student wins local Kiddy Cricket Mascot Competition

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on South Ruimveldt Primary student wins local Kiddy Cricket Mascot Competition

South Ruimveldt Primary School student, eight-year-old, Runako Williams was yesterday presented with his prize after winning the local Kiddy Cricket Mascot presentation, beating out 144 entries from...

Bad road restricts visit to Linden Hospital

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bad road restricts visit to Linden Hospital

The road outside the state of the art Linden Hospital Complex is in such a deplorable condition at present, that several residents of the mining town are of the view that it would not be long before...

Homeowners $30,000 lands habitual thief in trouble

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Homeowners $30,000 lands habitual thief in trouble

Safaraj Azeez 30, found himself before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of break and enter. On March 21, last, in Georgetown the...

Scholarship in honour of eminent Berbician

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Scholarship in honour of eminent Berbician

The Leartis V.R Patterson Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of an eminent Berbician and past educator formerly of Nurney, Corentyne, was established by another profound Berbician scholar, Dr....

The Jeffrey syndrome

Mar 26, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Jeffrey syndrome

In 1992, Dr. Henry Jeffrey became a Minister in the PPP Government. He held senior portfolios in that regime for seventeen years. I remind readers that seventeen by world standards is a long time for...

GFF hosts Women’s trials

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GFF hosts Women’s trials

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will be holding trials for the female team (Local Lady Jags) today and tomorrow at the GFC Ground commencing at 15:00hrs and 07:00hrs respectively. According to a...

Giftland Office Max & Interline Fitness Gym donate

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Giftland Office Max & Interline Fitness Gym donate

Giftland Office Max and Interline Fitness Gym have both made contributions to the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) ahead of their annual Novice and Intermediate...

GPHC reports success with Emergency Medicine residency programme

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC reports success with Emergency Medicine residency programme

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is reporting a successful emergency medicine residency programme. Under the programme, teaching staff of Vanderbilt University train local doctors in...

Guyana ink deal to reopen Manganese mining at Matthews Ridge

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana ink deal to reopen Manganese mining at Matthews Ridge

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Major General (rtd) Joe Singh, who is the new Chairman for the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, and Executive Chairman of Reunion Manganese Incorporated, David...

KLM Basketball Extravaganza

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on KLM Basketball Extravaganza

More than just a game for Ravens – Coach Tonight, basketball fans and players will converge at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the Kevin Lawrence Memorial Basketball Extravaganza, where...

State Prosecutors, Police Prosecutors undergo specialised training

Mar 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on State Prosecutors, Police Prosecutors undergo specialised training

State Prosecutors from the Chambers of the Directors of Public Prosecutions and senior investigating ranks as well as Police Prosecutors from the Guyana Police Force are ending a two-day...

Excitement grows as battle for semi-final spots heigthens

Mar 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Excitement grows as battle for semi-final spots heigthens

Football fans, relieved that the rains have abated, are expected to turn out in their droves when the excitement continues in the Mayor’s Cup football extravaganza tomorrow evening with an exciting...