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Alana brings home Guyana’s first Int’l crown

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Alana brings home Guyana’s first Int’l crown

…receives royal welcome at Moleson Creek ferry terminal By Leon Suseran History was made yesterday as newly- crowned Miss India Worldwide, Guyanese Alana Seebarran was...

Teen drops dead during Berbice Mash

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teen drops dead during Berbice Mash

Fourteen year old Keisha Thompson was just beginning to enjoy herself at the annual Berbice float parade in New Amsterdam yesterday when she began feeling unwell. Not long after the girl, who hails...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald get tie up wid de lying

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald get tie up wid de lying

Imagine people got de nerve fuh deny that dem doing thing in secret. De Waterfalls paper talk bout de deal wid Ansa McAl and tell de whole country how de government sign a secret deal. It tek all of...

‘The Sniper’ annihilates ‘Big Truck’ as two CABOFE titles exchange hands

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘The Sniper’ annihilates ‘Big Truck’ as two CABOFE titles exchange hands

In a night of fistic fury, when all of the big talkers were cut down to size, Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, who had earlier referred to Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox as garbage, paid dearly for his...

Persaud successfully defends title; DeNobrega, Shaw & Isaacs take other categories

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persaud successfully defends title; DeNobrega, Shaw & Isaacs take other categories

21st R&R Int. Mash 40-miler Robin Persaud, a member of the Carlton Wheelers Cycle Club (CWCC) successfully defended his number-one status, easing to victory in the 21st Mashramani 40-mile cycle...

SCOUTS SPOTTED! Teams doing homework on Golden Jaguars

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on SCOUTS SPOTTED! Teams doing homework on Golden Jaguars

If there was any lingering doubts about the seriousness that surrounds the Golden Jaguars upcoming third round 2014 world-cup qualifiers versus Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador, events during the...

Jamaica take first innings lead

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaica take first innings lead

Jamaica replying to Guyana’s 294, took a first innings lead, reaching 388/6 up to press time in their Regional 4-day cricket match in Antigua. Jamaica were led by Brendan Nash with an unbeaten 165,...

Tutorial Academy Secondary School claims title

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tutorial Academy Secondary School claims title

Beef Humphrey Memorial/ BHS Inter School Basketball Tournament By Samuel Whyte After two days of competition Tutorial Academy Secondary School (TASS) upstaged their counterparts to walk away with the...

Greenidge questions suitability of Amaila Falls for Hydro-power

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge questions suitability of Amaila Falls for Hydro-power

….queries why Guyana ignored Brazil’s proposal for 200+MW plant “It’s a big project…It is a huge project and we cannot afford to make a mistake here.” Former Minister...

Carl Greenidge hammers IDB President

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Carl Greenidge hammers IDB President

…says Moreno sidelined Regional Officials from senior positions By Gary Eleazar The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) commands a hefty loans and grants portfolio in the Region but...

Mahdia police launch major assault on interior criminals

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia police launch major assault on interior criminals

Despite the numerous reports of murders and armed robberies in Guyana’s interior, the people of Mahdia, the gateway mining community in Region Eight, are a little more at ease these...

Africanised bees torment West Coast Berbice residents

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Africanised bees torment West Coast Berbice residents

– First Lady takes team to exterminate hive in one home In light of the recent attack by Africanised bees which stung to death an elderly woman in Cane Grove, Mahaica, some...

NPC refutes reports of mismanagement of Zoological Park

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on NPC refutes reports of mismanagement of Zoological Park

The National Parks Commission (NPC) has issued a statement clarifying what they describe as “gross misconceptions by various stakeholders and sections of the media regarding the...

Govt. to receive another US$40M from LCD funds

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to receive another US$40M from LCD funds

Guyana is due for another payment of US $40M from the Norwegian Government for the funds generated from the LCDS. US $70M has already been released thus far, according to Minister of Natural...

Cops seek advice on ‘gas stove explosion’ death

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek advice on ‘gas stove explosion’ death

Police are preparing to submit a report to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the death of Anand Persaud, as conflicting reports continue to surface on how the 25-year-old met...

Mashramani celebrations in New Amsterdam a big street party

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mashramani celebrations in New Amsterdam a big street party

– despite absence of some major floats Berbicians can boast of having two Mashramani celebrations in one week. Following on the heels of the celebrations organised by the New Amsterdam...

Commercial zone turned into squatter settlement

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Commercial zone turned into squatter settlement

After 2010 Mahdia fire… By Keeran Singh A section of Mahdia’s commercial zone which was destroyed by a massive fire in July 2010 has now become a squatter settlement. The...

Speeding driver killed in Maria’s Lodge crash

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding driver killed in Maria’s Lodge crash

Michael Persaud, 20, of Johanna Cecilia, died early yesterday morning after his vehicle PHH 6595 slammed into a culvert at Maria’s Lodge, a few rods from where he resided with his...

Diplomatic Corps hands over new building to special needs school

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Diplomatic Corps hands over new building to special needs school

The Diplomatic Corps handed over a new building yesterday to the New Amsterdam Special Needs School in Vryman’s Erven that would greatly ease the growing student population at the...

Opposition Leader expresses disappointment in Region One development

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition Leader expresses disappointment in Region One development

– welcomes Manganese mining company in area Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier David Granger has expressed disappointment at the snail’s pace of development in Region One, which is bigger...

DESIGNING WOMEN

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on DESIGNING WOMEN

If the Devil wears Prada, who wears Louis Vuitton? The answer came this Carnival when the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, showed up at a pre-Carnival event,...

OLD BROOMS DO NOT SWEEP CLEAN

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on OLD BROOMS DO NOT SWEEP CLEAN

Why is it that the people of Guyana which has a democratically elected government, and has had such governments for the past nineteen years, should have to learn about a major investment/deal for the...

Dental Council moving against bogus practitioners

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dental Council moving against bogus practitioners

“We are tired of quackery,” said Chairman of the Dental Council, Dr Ovid Isaacs, as he revealed aggressive moves to ensure that members of the public are not subjected to substandard dental...

Pirates hijack boats in Corentyne River

Feb 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Pirates hijack boats in Corentyne River

– fishermen alive and safe in Suriname Some Berbice fishermen are thanking God for being alive after being attacked and robbed by pirates around midnight on Saturday last. Reports are that...

One must be wary of any agreement the government enters into

Feb 27, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on One must be wary of any agreement the government enters into

Dear Editor, Thanks for your latest exposure of the secret deals of the Bharrat Jagdeo regime. One would love to believe that all agreements entered into by the Guyana Government are entered into...

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The private sector were cheerleaders for foreign investment

Peeping Tom… “The private sector were cheerleaders for foreign investment” Kaieteur News – The cries... more