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Group wants Norway to delay payment to Guyana

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Group wants Norway to delay payment to Guyana

– attempts to undermine commitments to combat climate change – Govt. Just days before Norway’s Minister of Environment and International Development, Mr. Erik Solheim is scheduled to...

AFC Councilor accuses NCN of refusing advertisement

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC Councilor accuses NCN of refusing advertisement

Alliance for Change (AFC) Region Four Councillor and Member of the National Executive of the party, Michael Carrington is peeved with a position taken by the National Communication Network (NCN) for...

East Bank squatters face demolition today

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on East Bank squatters face demolition today

Over 50 squatters between the East Bank Demerara villages of Farm and Herstelling whose shacks have been erected in close proximity of the river defense structures have up to today to relocate from...

Guns, drugs, cash and gold found in Kitty raid

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guns, drugs, cash and gold found in Kitty raid

Police on Saturday night arrested a man in whose possession they unearthed an unlicensed firearm, a quantity of drugs, cash and jewellery following a chase through the street of Bel Air. A statement...

Relatives and residents deny man was a thief

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives and residents deny man was a thief

Mandela Avenue “vigilante” death… By Latoya Giles The badly battered body that was found on Mandela Avenue early Saturday morning has been identified as Avocado Square, East Ruimveldt resident...

Dem boys seh….Bruck got bruck back

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Bruck got bruck back

Imagine these days people can break down somebody house because dem don’t like it. A man build he house in Republic Park and was a real dream house that look like dem castle in de days of old. De...

Man’s body fished out of Enmore trench

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s body fished out of Enmore trench

The body of Manoj Devanand Singh, 43 of 13th Street, Foulis, East Coast Demerara was fished out of an Enmore trench by police at around 06:00 hours yesterday, hours after he was reported missing....

Police still to arrest LRO employee fingered in car theft

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police still to arrest LRO employee fingered in car theft

Up to press time yesterday police were still to make an arrest in relation to the stolen car saga in which a LRO employee has been fingered. This newspaper was told that the man fingered as the...

GPP calls for temporary waiver on fuel taxes

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPP calls for temporary waiver on fuel taxes

Concerned for the average citizen, given the alarming increases for goods and services across Guyana, the Guyana Peoples Partnership is calling on the government to immediately reduce the Value...

Snow cone vendors to wear special badges

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Snow cone vendors to wear special badges

Intended to educate vendors on food safety and to encourage proper food hygiene practices, the Meat and Food Hygiene Department of the Mayor and City Council recently spearheaded a seminar for snow...

Business poor for La Penitence vendors

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Business poor for La Penitence vendors

Ever since the commencement of construction of the La Penitence bridge to accommodate the four lane highway, vendors who ply their trade on Sundays outside the market are not too happy with the pace...

Guyana’s powerlifters continue impressive run

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s powerlifters continue impressive run

Guyana’s team of powerlifters to the regional championships staged in the Cayman Islands over the weekend, continued their impressive performance on the final day with Randolph Morgan, ‘Big’...

Jessica Stephenson continues to develop admirably

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jessica Stephenson continues to develop admirably

Guyana’s lone athlete to the CONSANAT Youth Championship in Lime Peru, Jessica Stephenson achieved another personal best time of 2:44.80 in the 200m Breaststroke, in which she finished 4th on day 4...

Disgraced! Guyana crushed by T&T in three days

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Disgraced! Guyana crushed by T&T in three days

Finish last for 3rd consecutive year By Sean Devers at Providence Guyana’s horrendous 2011 Regional cricket campaign ended in more disgrace for the home team who lost by an innings and 45 runs to...

Bissoon Singh re-elected ECCB President

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bissoon Singh re-elected ECCB President

Hopes ECCB 1st division teams can play in GCA competitions Bissoon Singh and his entire Executive Committee was returned en-bloc to serve for another two-year term when the East Coast Cricket Board...

Alonzo Greaves cops top spot

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alonzo Greaves cops top spot

By Franklin Wilson Alonzo Greaves returned to winning ways in the Cinderella County of Essequibo yesterday to cart off the top spot along with four of the 8-prime prizes when the 4th Annual Cheddi...

Wakenaam/Leguan beat Bartica “B” in latest quarterfinal action

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wakenaam/Leguan beat Bartica “B” in latest quarterfinal action

Wakenaam and Leguan combined defeated Bartica “B” by 21 runs in the latest quarterfinal action of Carib and D&C promotions floodlight twenty/20 cricket competition on Friday evening at the...

US-based teen donates tennis accessories to local association

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on US-based teen donates tennis accessories to local association

At a brief presentation before the first meeting of the newly elected executive of the Guyana Tennis Association on March 17, last, Zak Roberts, a 15-year-old high school student in Florida, USA...

Guyana to benefit from IDB financing of business climate in the Caribbean

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to benefit from IDB financing of business climate in the Caribbean

Several programmes helping region diversify its economy and attract new investments The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is financing several programs to improve the business environment, foster...

Bandits attack Zeelugt Chinese Restaurant

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits attack Zeelugt Chinese Restaurant

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are currently searching for three men whom they believe were responsible for a robbery at a Chinese Restaurant in Zeelugt on the West Coast of Demerara. This...

‘Hate Mongers’ should not be tolerated in societies – ERC Chairman

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hate Mongers’ should not be tolerated in societies – ERC Chairman

…. the more we learn about each other, the more we will love, respect and tolerate each other Over 300 persons from 65 communities and 75 organisations were involved in a lecture by the Ethnic...

Logger claims losses

Mar 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Logger claims losses

Hospitalised logger Claude Clarke, 41, believes that his co-worker took advantage of his injury to rob him of close to 10 pennyweights of raw gold and cash. Clarke who was airdashed to the city last...

Sacking of Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton is a direct assault on young professionals

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sacking of Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton is a direct assault on young professionals

Dear Editor, The sacking of Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton is nothing short of a direct attack on young professionals in Guyana. The Chancellor and the other members of the Judicial Service Commission...

It’s time the Executive Committee of the PPP moves away from this backwardness

Mar 28, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s time the Executive Committee of the PPP moves away from this backwardness

Dear Editor, The PPP is now struggling to deal with the legacy bequeathed to it by its maximum leaders, the Jagans, that is, the party’s institutionalised and undemocratic process of identifying...

Victory Valley Royals open schools’ tournament

Mar 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Victory Valley Royals open schools’ tournament

The Victory Valley Royals yesterday held a gala opening for the seventh edition of its schools’ tournament at the Mackenzie Sports Club Court where major stakeholders in the sport gave the event...

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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