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Breaking News…. Early morning fire destroys billions on Regent Street

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News…. Early morning fire destroys billions on Regent Street

– business owner drops dead An early morning fire has left billions of dollars in damages and losses as fire gutted five buildings which housed several businesses on Regent Street in the...

Rohee’s no confidence motion…Water cannon is really a water can – Felix

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee’s no confidence motion…Water cannon is really a water can – Felix

By Gary Eleazar The National Assembly yesterday reconvened and members continued trading barbs across the aisle in the ‘Hallowed Chambers,’ sometimes descending into downright ‘bitter’...

Joe Harmon challenges figures paid to ‘fat cats’

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Joe Harmon challenges figures paid to ‘fat cats’

The Guyana Government has paid to state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) some $8.7M between April 1 and July 18, this year for advertisements airing lamentations relative to the effects of...

GuySuCo pays for US-based chairman to fly in every month

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo pays for US-based chairman to fly in every month

– also pays for lodging The cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) buys a return ticket every month for its Chairman, Dr Rajendra Singh, who is based in New Jersey, the Minister...

Razor blade joke quashes friendship

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Razor blade joke quashes friendship

… one jailed the other receives 15 cm slash What was supposed to be a joke has cost a man 18 months of his freedom yesterday when he was sentenced to jail for slashing his friend on the neck with a...

Shotgun cartridges with copper-coated pellets killed Linden trio – police

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shotgun cartridges with copper-coated pellets killed Linden trio – police

By Michael Jordan Ballistic tests have revealed that ranks firing shotguns loaded with copper-coated cartridges killed the three Linden protesters and injured several others, a senior police official...

Dem boys seh…Clement buy a water can fuh a water cannon

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Clement buy a water can fuh a water cannon

People always know that you don’t put money in a stupid man hand. He does buy anything and people does rob he. Clement get money fuh buy a water cannon and de Chinee people know that he ain’t too...

15-year-old schoolgirl wins swimming gold

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 15-year-old schoolgirl wins swimming gold

(Daily Mail)- Just weeks ago 15-year-old, Ruta Meilutyte was sitting with classmates at Plymouth College. Yesterday, she became an Olympic champion. The Lithuanian swimming prodigy, taught and...

IPF/NAPF Regional Powerlifting Championships

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on IPF/NAPF Regional Powerlifting Championships

-Thomas smashes Commonwealth, national records Guyana’s Anis Ade-Thomas smashed his Commonwealth Dead-Lift record en route to a silver medal at the just-concluded International Powerlifting...

Linden may be destroying its future

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Linden may be destroying its future

There is an admonition that bears remembering today, even as the Lindeners maintain their protest that began with their objection to the electricity hike announced by the government in the wake of...

Jaguar, Quick Silver, Iron Charlie,Out and Bad dominate Bartica Regatta

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaguar, Quick Silver, Iron Charlie,Out and Bad dominate Bartica Regatta

A late start to Bartica’s Summer Regatta 2012 last Sunday saw the scheduled programme of seventeen Power Boats Racing events, running way beyond the scheduled time, as the races concluded in fading...

RAPAC to hold libation ceremony in Berbice

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on RAPAC to hold libation ceremony in Berbice

The group, Revival Awareness and Perpetuation of African Culture (RAPAC ) will be holding a Libation ceremony this evening to herald in the Emancipation celebration in Berbice this year....

Domestic travel industry sees significant improvement – Benn

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic travel industry sees significant improvement – Benn

– Evidence reflective in increase of traffic at Ogle Over the years the domestic aircraft industry has seen significant growth with the traffic at the Ogle aerodrome recording a 50 per cent...

Mahdia fuel price may reduce by Thursday

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia fuel price may reduce by Thursday

…neighbouring Region Nine experiences fuel shortage Fuel price in Mahdia may reduce by Thursday as some businessmen are now utilizing the Bartica to Mahdia route to transport the much needed...

Linden protests…Mahdia-bound goods truck reportedly hijacked

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden protests…Mahdia-bound goods truck reportedly hijacked

…bauxite ship to leave empty, logs stranded in Kwakwani A Mahdia businessman, David Adams, was yesterday tallying his losses after a truck laden with $4.5M in stocks was allegedly hijacked by six...

Three testify as ‘cocaine for Thailand’ trial commences

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Three testify as ‘cocaine for Thailand’ trial commences

Three witnesses testified yesterday on behalf of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) as the drug trial against the three men who allegedly intended to ship 1.7 kilograms of cocaine out of Guyana...

Accident claims life of retarded man

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Accident claims life of retarded man

Tragedy struck the residents of Lot 117 New Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, early yesterday morning, as a vehicular accident claimed the life of one of them. Dead is 46 year old Motieram...

NICIL revenue in 2005 was $33.3 billion

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL revenue in 2005 was $33.3 billion

– Audit report says NCN had no register of its assets NICIL, the entity that manages Government investments and is responsible for selling state assets, recorded revenues worth $33.3...

Digicel America Street branch burglarized

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel America Street branch burglarized

Unknown persons, sometime over the weekend, broke into the Digicel’s America Street Branch and made off with a quantity of high end cellular phones and computers. The discovery was made early...

The rehabilitation of the Bartica/Potaro roadway is essential

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The rehabilitation of the Bartica/Potaro roadway is essential

DEAR EDITOR, About 10 years ago, I had appealed to the Ministry of Works, via the press, to rehabilitate the Bartica-Potaro Road, a motorable stretch of 111 Miles back in the 1930s way up to the...

Police to seek advice on disposal of Lindo Creek remains

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police to seek advice on disposal of Lindo Creek remains

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud will soon be seeking advice on the disposal of the remains of the eight miners who were slaughtered at Lindo Creek, four years ago. Speaking with this newspaper yesterday,...

Dying Guyanese woman granted wish for Canadian citizenship

Jul 31, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dying Guyanese woman granted wish for Canadian citizenship

Ottawa, Canada (o.canada.com) – Heavily sedated and barely conscious on her deathbed, Veronica Singh-Boles had little to gain from Canadian citizenship. Cervical cancer would claim her...

Guyana and T&T win Under-19 Cricket fixtures

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana and T&T win Under-19 Cricket fixtures

Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago recorded victories, while the Windwards and host Barbados played out a draw in latest matches in the Regional Under-19 three-day cricket Championship yesterday in...

Much more than a telecoms war

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Much more than a telecoms war

Dear Editor, The ongoing battle between Digicel and GT&T over the latter’s monopoly on international calls is much more than a telecommunications war. This fight which really shouldn’t be...

Linden is another Cuba

Jul 31, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Linden is another Cuba

DEAR EDITOR, For decades now economic sanctions have been imposed on Cuba by the United States government. These sanctions came simply because of fear. The United States feared that communism would...