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2011 NBS 2nd div. 40 over competition…No.48 Challenger and Whim National A qualify for playoffs

Mar 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2011 NBS 2nd div. 40 over competition…No.48 Challenger and Whim National A qualify for playoffs

No.48 Challengers and Whim National A are the latest teams to reach the last-16 playoffs of the 2011 New Building Society Second Division 40 over cricket competition in Berbice after...

ECB throws weight behind cricket IMC

Mar 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB throws weight behind cricket IMC

After a meeting with the Honourable Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Frank Anthony and Chairman of the IMC, Clive Lloyd, the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) has informed that it would...

Chanderpaul, Deonarine among the runs against T&T

Mar 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chanderpaul, Deonarine among the runs against T&T

Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Narsingh Deonarine, two of the three Test batsmen in the Guyana team scored half-centuries against Trinidad and Tobago yesterday on the opening day of their...

Sacked laptop boss now at OP

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sacked laptop boss now at OP

– Enjoys same terms and conditions “Tensions” over the implementation of the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project led the government to eventually let go of project head Sesh...

Insurance company staffer sought for fraud

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Insurance company staffer sought for fraud

A staffer of CARICOM General Insurance Company Inc. is being sought by police for a multi-million dollar fraud at the Regent Street Company. In a notice published today in Kaieteur News, the...

Govt challenges reconstitution of Parliamentary Committee

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt challenges reconstitution of Parliamentary Committee

Government and opposition lawyers yesterday argued in court about the constitutionality of the Parliamentary Committee of Selection. The opposition parties which hold a majority have voted for...

Daily maintenance, inspections crucial for DHB

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Daily maintenance, inspections crucial for DHB

Pull quote: “This bridge is about maintenance, maintenance, maintenance you never stop maintaining it. So when you get to one end you have to restart the other end because something else will...

GTU flays Chief Education Officer for statement on student failure

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GTU flays Chief Education Officer for statement on student failure

-says ‘No Child Left Behind policy poorly implemented The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is calling on the Chief Education Officer (CEO), Olato Sam, to provide data or evidence to substantiate his...

Guyanese woman charged with kidnapping baby from NY hospital

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman charged with kidnapping baby from NY hospital

New York (Times Ledger) – Police officers located a missing Guyana-born woman and her baby in Richmond Hill after the eight-month-old was allegedly taken from Queens Hospital Center Wednesday...

Body of drowned fisherman recovered under wharf

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Body of drowned fisherman recovered under wharf

Relatives have recovered the body of 48-year-old fisherman Ruben Yarde, who disappeared in the Aruka River, in Mabaruma, last week Saturday. The victim’s brother, Rudolph Yarde, told...

‘Greener’ solutions dominate Region Six School Science Fair

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Greener’ solutions dominate Region Six School Science Fair

The use of alternative energy in a world threatened by Global Warming was the central theme at the Region Six Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair held this week. The two-day annual event, the...

Families should stop accepting compensation in fatal accident cases

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Families should stop accepting compensation in fatal accident cases

-Road safety Council Chairman Chairman of the Guyana National Road Safety Council, Nigel Erskine is concerned about the spate of cases in which relatives of road death victims are...

Boat collision victim still to receive compensation

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Boat collision victim still to receive compensation

-almost four years after The man who was awarded $9.5M by Justice Franklin Holder after sustaining grave injuries during a boat collision in the Demerara River almost four years ago, is yet to...

Grassroots women demand accountability from women parliamentarians

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Grassroots women demand accountability from women parliamentarians

While some women across Guyana celebrated “International Women’s Day” at home two Thursday’s ago, some chose to observe the day on Thursday last by letting their voices be heard...

$10M North Ruimveldt Police Outpost commissioned

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $10M North Ruimveldt Police Outpost commissioned

The newly built $10.3M North Ruimveldt Police Outpost was officially commissioned yesterday by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee and Acting Commissioner of Police Leroy Brummell....

GECOM restarts registration from Monday

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM restarts registration from Monday

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced the commencement of yet another phase of registration that is expected to last three months. According to GECOM yesterday, the third Cycle of...

Bartica police clamp down on taxi service

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica police clamp down on taxi service

The Bartica Police Station Traffic Department launched a Road Campaign, yesterday, in an attempt to control the high incidence of traffic violations on the Bartica’s Road Network in...

ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Through this “Question & Answer” column, we seek to answer the questions of our loyal readers. We appreciate your comments and questions about the...

Phagwah Day murder accused remanded

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Phagwah Day murder accused remanded

The man accused of stabbing to death 41-year-old carpenter and father of three Abdool Ghandi, was yesterday remanded to jail after facing Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown...

Dredge owner remanded on drug and gun charges

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dredge owner remanded on drug and gun charges

A Potaro dredge owner was yesterday remanded for allegedly having possession of an illegal firearm, ammunition and narcotics. Stanley Clement was alleged to have had a .38 revolver with...

Man gets five years for ‘feeling’ woman

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets five years for ‘feeling’ woman

Ryan Eastman, 29, of Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice, has become one of the first men to be jailed under the New Sexual Offences Act. He was on Friday sentenced to five years in...

Pensioners drop dead seconds apart

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioners drop dead seconds apart

As some would say, the angel of death passed through Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara yesterday, taking the lives of two pensioners, who collapsed seconds apart and a few yards away from...

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THE MAN ON HORSEBACK

Kaieteur News – There used to be a running joke about the late President of Guyana, Forbes Burnham and horseback riding.... more