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India announces US$35 computer for poor

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on India announces US$35 computer for poor

NEW DELHI (AP) — India introduced a cheap tablet computer Wednesday, saying it would deliver modern technology to the countryside to help lift villagers out of poverty. The computer,...

Sharma’s Suspension… Jagdeo misled nation about Broadcasting Committee – Corbin

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sharma’s Suspension… Jagdeo misled nation about Broadcasting Committee – Corbin

The constitutionality and impartiality of the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting which reportedly recommended an eight-month suspension for CNS TV 6 to President and Minister of Information,...

PPP running scared, losing stronghold supporters-AFC

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP running scared, losing stronghold supporters-AFC

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it has been receiving reports from activists and sympathisers, of lies and slander being peddled on the PPP platform at their public meetings....

Investiture ceremony slated for October 21

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News 1

The Investiture ceremony for the 2011 National Awardees is scheduled to take place on October 21, next, at the National Cultural Centre, Homestretch Avenue. In the post-1992 era the...

Teachers honoured at World Teachers’ Day 2011 celebration

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers honoured at World Teachers’ Day 2011 celebration

As teachers across the country yesterday joined in celebrating World Teachers’ Day 2011 under the theme “Teachers for Gender Equality”, a selected number of these stalwarts was honoured...

Piari Landing attack…Two more gunmen float up

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Piari Landing attack…Two more gunmen float up

Members of the Joint Services continued their operation in the Cuyuni area where they began a massive hunt for the remaining gunmen in last Sunday night’s reign of terror at Piari Landing in...

Dem boys seh…Hydro money going in a “B”-ig man pocket

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Hydro money going in a “B”-ig man pocket

Dem contractor tek dem thiefingness too far. Dem even thief from de party. Dem tek money fuh put up billboard wid Donald face and dem do cock wuk. Dem put up de board night time because dem...

Harris’s harvest, Hamilton’s hambroline, history’s heaven

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Harris’s harvest, Hamilton’s hambroline, history’s heaven

Next to Heaven, the most reassuring place is history. History tells us what we didn’t know. History opens our eyes. And history makes liars of those who try to fool us. Shall we look at history,...

8th Hand In Hand 11 Race Cycle Meet…Pollydore captures feature race; Reece is top juvenile

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 8th Hand In Hand 11 Race Cycle Meet…Pollydore captures feature race; Reece is top juvenile

Overseas based Guyanese cyclist Godfrey Pollydore was a class above the field when he won the feature 35-lap school boys and invitational race at the National Park yesterday when the...

DeClou plans to throw bombs at Eastman in ‘Thirst Park Explosion’ this month end

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on DeClou plans to throw bombs at Eastman in ‘Thirst Park Explosion’ this month end

Over the past months, Edmond DeClou’s activities in the boxing ring and more particularly on the ProAm boxing cards have endeared him to boxing buffs and many have opined that the Lindener...

Police extend lead over Soldiers

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police extend lead over Soldiers

-GDF unfazed with 46-point deficit By Edison Jefford The Police arrested their chances to secure the first title defence of the Inter-Services Track and Field Championships in the New...

‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite rolls into the ring for decisive Russian encounter

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite rolls into the ring for decisive Russian encounter

Former World Boxing Council (WBC) Cruiserweight champion, Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite will step into the ring for a bout slated for Russia on November 4, but while he is certain of the...

‘Washed out match a major set-back’-King

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Washed out match a major set-back’-King

Another game fixed for today at Bourda By Sean Devers Guyana begin their Regional Super 50 campaign at the Guyana national Stadium on October 19 when they face the Windward Islands in one of...

Bakewell Softball Results for October 2

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bakewell Softball Results for October 2

The GFSCA organized Bakewell Male/Female nationwide softball tournament continued last Sunday at various venues. Results are as follows: Taliban def. Oldendorf Carriers by 84 runs....

Gorgon leaps 6.02m, Saint Stanislaus College and Winfer Gardens Primary dominate

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gorgon leaps 6.02m, Saint Stanislaus College and Winfer Gardens Primary dominate

Inter-zone/ Inter-school Championships With just one registered throw of 32.22m after two consecutive fouls, Yekinni Favourite of Princeston College was rightfully able to claim...

Freddie Kissoon vs Jagdeo libel case…Dr Luncheon stresses public tendering in contract awards

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon vs Jagdeo libel case…Dr Luncheon stresses public tendering in contract awards

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s legal team yesterday tried to impress upon the court that the public tendering process involved in the distribution of land and in the award of contracts. As he...

Will the palm tree be restored to the ballot?

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Will the palm tree be restored to the ballot?

The elections date is due to be announced this week. There is going to be an uproar if the President chooses to announce the date of elections at his party’s second major political...

Distorting the facts

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Distorting the facts

Historians have been known to reproduce conditions that have not been accurate. For example, Guyanese have for years grown up hearing about the Berbice Slave Rebellion on February 23,...

Benefits of power-sharing

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Letters 4

Dear Editor, With APNU contesting the upcoming elections on a platform of shared governance and power-sharing in the form of a Government of National Unity (GNU), the debate on the...

Levels of corruption have reached new heights of human shamefulness

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Levels of corruption have reached new heights of human shamefulness

DEAR EDITOR, Despite miles of distance and years of time our history emerges to explain the past, clarify the present and predict the future. Recently, while at a park in Vancouver,...

Jagdeo’s failure is greater than any other Guyanese leader because he represented a greater promise of change

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo’s failure is greater than any other Guyanese leader because he represented a greater promise of change

Dear Editor, Of all the leaders we have had, Bharrat Jagdeo had the finest alignment of any constellation of events and circumstances. He represented the strongest promise for change,...

The silence of foreign diplomats on the Sharma issue is shameful

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The silence of foreign diplomats on the Sharma issue is shameful

Dear Editor, Your Editorial of October 5 on the closure of Channel 6 and the actions by the president against Mr. Sharma sums up all aspects of this case and I applaud your concise and...

The irregular supply of water in Mahdia is frustrating

Oct 06, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The irregular supply of water in Mahdia is frustrating

Dear Editor, The irregular supply of water from the Salbora Reservoir to the Mahdia Community is frustrating. The erratic flow is socially and domestically inconvenient, moreso in this...

Brazilian woman beaten to death

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian woman beaten to death

Even as police hunt the remaining gunmen from last Sunday’s raid on the mining community of Piari, another team of investigators is probing the murder of a Brazilian woman in the same area. Reports...

Several successful surgeries recorded at Bartica Hospital

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Several successful surgeries recorded at Bartica Hospital

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Bartica District Hospital, coordinated a Remote Area Medical (R.A.M.) outreach in Region Seven. The RAM’s programme is managed by...

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