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Boys killed after Tundra slams into utility pole

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News 40

– six others injured Two young boys were killed and six others injured at around 10:00 hrs yesterday when a speeding Toyota Tundra they were travelling in turned on its side after...

PPP/C launches re-election bid at Albion

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C launches re-election bid at Albion

– former PNCR MP joins campaign The incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday launched its re-election bid at Albion with less than the mammoth crowd that was expected in...

Son on the run after almost severing father’s neck

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Son on the run after almost severing father’s neck

Two men are presently nursing chop wounds following separate chopping incidents in the Pomeroon River on Saturday night. Both men were wounded by members of their respective families,...

Two weeks after fire…Repair works still to commence at Wismar/Christianburg Secondary School

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News 1

More than two weeks after an early morning fire damaged a section of the Wismar/Christianburg Secondary School, no rehabilitative works have been done, and both the Principal and teachers have...

Several to be honoured for World Teachers Day 2011

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Several to be honoured for World Teachers Day 2011

Under the theme ‘Teachers for Gender Equality’, Guyana will be joining over 100 countries on October 5 to celebrate World Teachers’ Day 2011 in acknowledging the efforts of teachers in an...

Dem boys seh…Big Man keep de hydro seed

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Big Man keep de hydro seed

Soup is something that some does only drink when dem sick. Some people does only drink soup pun a Sunday and then only when it got nuff obstacles. De more sophisticated people does drink soup when...

Beekeepers exposed to creation of end-product training session

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Beekeepers exposed to creation of end-product training session

About 20 beekeepers attached to the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project yesterday participated in the third beekeepers’ training session which focused on the conversion of bee hives’ by-products...

Agriculture and Guyana

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Editorial 1

October has been designated ‘Agriculture Month’; October 16 is the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1945. It was agriculture that forced the...

Patients occupying new wing at GPHC

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Patients occupying new wing at GPHC

Patients are already being moved into the newly built In-Patient facility at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. This disclosure was made by Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy...

Mayor calling on D’Urban Street residents to remove ‘old parked vehicles’

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mayor calling on D’Urban Street residents to remove ‘old parked vehicles’

The Mayor and City Council is once again appealing to residents of D’Urban Street, between Chapel and Victor Streets to remove their old vehicles from the road. Mayor Hamilton Green...

Prefabricated housing company ‘Habiquad’ launches first home

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News 9

A new housing company, Global Building Systems; ‘Habiquad’ launched its first prefabricated house in La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara Friday last. In attendance at the event...

Nurses benefitting from ‘Critical Care Nursing Programme’

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News 1

Nurses in Guyana are now benefitting from a new programme based on critical care nursing. The programme was undertaken by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) as the second...

Record participation as Big Ride event concludes

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Record participation as Big Ride event concludes

A large contingent of cyclists graced the starting line at the junction of the Rupert Craig Highway and the University of Guyana Access Road, and led by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Frank...

N/A Town Day leaves piles of garbage

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on N/A Town Day leaves piles of garbage

– underage drinking was rampant Huge piles of garbage and thick layers of broken bottles on Sunday morning were remnants that remained of the partying and revelry of the New...

Bush Lot United Turf Club Horserace meet set for Oct. 9

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bush Lot United Turf Club Horserace meet set for Oct. 9

The recently reorganized Bush Lot United Turf Club of West Coast Berbice which was once one of Guyana’s leading race tracks is making moves to get itself up and running as quickly as possible as...

EU funded sea defence programme cannot meet October-month-end deadline

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on EU funded sea defence programme cannot meet October-month-end deadline

The European Union-funded Euros 17M programme to reconstruct 1.6 kilometers and rehabilitate approximately 18 kilometers of sea defence across the coastland will not be completed on its...

Development to start in schools says GFF president ag.

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Development to start in schools says GFF president ag.

“One of the things that does not only affects football but sports in general, is the fact that sports is not included in the curriculum of schools and any wise organization would recognize that...

First winner of the ongoing Ashmin’s home makeover promotion

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on First winner of the ongoing Ashmin’s home makeover promotion

Kunti Persaud was the winner of the monthly draw in the Ashmin’s Home Makeover Promotion. She was awarded a certificate valued up to $500,000, which would be used only to...

John Edwards powers to bronze medal

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports 1

Guyana’s most decorated powerlifter ‘Big’ John Edwards powered his way to a bronze medal at the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) 28th World Men’s Masters Championships which took...

UGBC hosts Software Freedom Day

Oct 03, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UGBC hosts Software Freedom Day

The Guyana Linux Users Group (GLUG) in collaboration with the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) held a Software Freedom Day (SFD) event to celebrate Free and Open Source...

MCYS males defeat Floodlights, 4R Lioness better MCYS females

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on MCYS males defeat Floodlights, 4R Lioness better MCYS females

Last Friday night at their Carifesta Avenue Sports Club Ground, the Ministry of Culture Youth & Sports male softball team defeated Floodlights in a thrilling encounter. Floodlights batted first...

Young Achievers win Third Division Tournament

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Achievers win Third Division Tournament

Despite the fact that it was a Third Division Competition, Guyana’s most dominant volleyball club Young Achievers of West Demerara junior side captured the Cellsmart-sponsored event when they...

Butts’ brutal assault leads GNIC to victory

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Butts’ brutal assault leads GNIC to victory

Despite 10-wkt-haul from DCC’s Bishun By Sean Devers In a thrilling encounter that went right down to the wire in fading light at the DCC ground yesterday, 54-year-old former Test player Clyde...

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

Dorothy Parker was famous for her sense of humour and acerbic wit. US President, Calvin Coolidge, was taciturn to the extreme. Coolidge’s attitude so rankled Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter...

THE NEW CARPET BAGGERS

Oct 03, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NEW CARPET BAGGERS

And everyone thought that the former Executive President of Guyana, Forbes Burnham, was a cunning old fox. Wrong! The PPP regime is making him look like a boy scout with their conniving ways! Burnham...