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Diamond taxi driver’s bound body dumped in Enmore

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond taxi driver’s bound body dumped in Enmore

Residents of Logwood, Enmore, awoke yesterday morning to the shocking discovery of the bound body of Diamond taxi driver Rajendra Puran lying in a drain in their East Coast Demerara community....

Gold miner stabbed to death in apartment

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner stabbed to death in apartment

A 43-year-old gold miner was found murdered in his apartment shortly after lunch yesterday when worried relatives went looking for him. Bryan Dickson, also known as ‘Son Son’ and...

$21B Budget cut not cast in stone – Luncheon

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $21B Budget cut not cast in stone – Luncheon

– Greenidge insists Amaila Falls project not threatened By Gary Eleazar While not elaborating, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday reiterated...

Lawlessness in the ‘gold bush’…Charges laid as raids reveal significant illegal mining, guns

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Lawlessness in the ‘gold bush’…Charges laid as raids reveal significant illegal mining, guns

By Leonard Gildarie In its strongest campaign yet, government has announced plans to continue indefinitely its countrywide offensive on illegal mining, with a number of charges being laid...

Brazen bandits rob E’bo goldsmith over $2M

May 04, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Brazen bandits rob E’bo goldsmith over $2M

An early morning robbery on popular goldsmith, Pegeshwar, also known as ‘Peggy’, of Good Hope, Essequibo Coast, has left the man $2M poorer. Raw silver and cell phones were...

Media and Country

May 04, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Media and Country

US Ambassador to Guyana, Brendt Hardt, has reportedly complimented the government for opening up of the airwaves by granting eleven new radio licences. However he advised that “this...

GUTTER POLITICS

May 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUTTER POLITICS

Guyanese are masters of making excuses. Whatever their failings, it is often impossible for a Guyanese to admit that they lost, were ill-prepared, or that their opponent was...

Intoxication with power destroys rationality

May 04, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Intoxication with power destroys rationality

The world is old. A few thousand years. The lessons to be learnt are enormous. But we humans don’t want to see. Power blinds us. In leadership, power becomes an invulnerable...

Dem boys seh…Cabinet cheap and de police force get wutless

May 04, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Cabinet cheap and de police force get wutless

Some people can really go to great lengths to show that things really bad. Dem had Cabinet meeting Wednesday. Dem boys know that every Cabinet meeting does got food and drinks. If is...

Youthful Guyana hold Martinique to 2-2 draw

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Youthful Guyana hold Martinique to 2-2 draw

St. Luces, Martinique – Second half goals by Captain Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams and winger Dwight Peters earned a young ‘Golden Jaguars’ outfit a hard fought 2-2 draw against Martinique, at...

Southern Caribbean Qualifying Round for the Rugby WC 2015…Preparations in overdrive-Henry

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Southern Caribbean Qualifying Round for the Rugby WC 2015…Preparations in overdrive-Henry

Quizzed on the state of affairs in relation to the national team’s preparations for their upcoming engagements against Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Caribbean Qualifying...

Caribbean Container FIDE Rating tournament…Khan’s clan lead points standing

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Container FIDE Rating tournament…Khan’s clan lead points standing

Junior chess player, Anthony Drayton employed shrewd tactics and drew his match with FIDE rated player Shiv Nandalall (1715) while his colleague Cecil Cox defeated another FIDE rated player,...

‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris returns to the ring for USBA title

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris returns to the ring for USBA title

The boxing pundits have written him off but former World Boxing Association (WBA) Light Welterweight champion, ‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris is not done yet and is scheduled to square off against...

Horatio says he did not compete in Suriname’s Teleg 10k

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Horatio says he did not compete in Suriname’s Teleg 10k

-Police Sports Office requests results from Suriname Dennis Horatio of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and an athlete of the Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) yesterday afternoon made it clear to...

Hand in Hand 2nd Div. 40 over cricket/West Berbice…

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand in Hand 2nd Div. 40 over cricket/West Berbice…

Bath, Rainbow Generation, D’Edward and Sundown into quarter finals The inaugural Hand-In-Hand second Division 40 over cricket competition, organised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)...

R&D Engineering, Wartsila sustain support

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on R&D Engineering, Wartsila sustain support

R&D Engineering Services Inc. and Wartsila both sustained their support of the upcoming mega President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic with contributions for the third successive year of the...

Nothing but hot air and a pander to supporters

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nothing but hot air and a pander to supporters

Dear Editor: Unless the IDB intimated to President Donald Ramotar it was worried about the impact of the Budget cuts on the Amaila Falls Hydro-Electric project (AFHEP), then your news...

Scotiabank / Pepsi School Football Academy …New Campbellville & Christ Church win

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank / Pepsi School Football Academy …New Campbellville & Christ Church win

The Scotiabank/Pepsi School’s Football Academy continued with two games recently at the Ministry of Education Sports Complex Ground, Carifesta Avenue, Thomas Lands. On Tuesday May 1,...

PPYC retains Digicel National U23 title for 3rd year

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on PPYC retains Digicel National U23 title for 3rd year

– Coach Lyndon Wilson says it feels great Lyndon Wilson, Coach of Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) who has produced local qualifier (Winston George) for the London Olympic Games,...

Gibson, Sammy pleased to have Gayle back

May 04, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gibson, Sammy pleased to have Gayle back

West Indies have openly embraced the return of their premier batsman Chris Gayle, who on Wednesday committed to making himself available for selection for the one-day leg of their tour of...

Winston Brassington must come clean

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Winston Brassington must come clean

Dear Sir, I refer to your article titled “There is some concern over engineering services for Amalia road” in Sunday April 28th edition of Kaieteur News. In the article Walter...

Disbursement from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disbursement from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund

Dear Editor, The government-owned Guyana Chronicle carried one article and one letter on 30 April, 2012 criticising Amerindian members of the National Assembly who voted to reduce those components of...

A much needed publication

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A much needed publication

Dear Editor, I would like to commend the Ministry of Home Affairs for publishing the list of ticketable offences for drivers. It is something the driving public – excluding those crazy,...

Is the church in Guyana dead?

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the church in Guyana dead?

Dear Editor, Let me begin by saying that I am huge supporter of the church in Guyana, and that I want to see it succeed. But I have been waiting to see if the church in Guyana is still alive....

Defining the deafening silence of the GPA on attack of State media

May 04, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Defining the deafening silence of the GPA on attack of State media

Dear Editor, An interesting scenario currently exists in the local press corps today. While some media workers on the lower level pat their GINA colleagues on the back in sympathy and whisper...