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Signing of Linden agreement abruptly called off

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Signing of Linden agreement abruptly called off

– Region Ten wants probe into shooting of protestors, nothing more Signing of an agreement between the Government of Guyana and Region Ten was abruptly called off last evening as Linden...

Linden Health Centre damaged by fire

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Health Centre damaged by fire

It was more heartache for Lindeners yesterday when a section of the Vivienne Parris Health Centre at Spieghtland in Central Mackenzie, which provides service for almost 400 persons each month, was...

New GPC sues Kaieteur News in NY

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New GPC sues Kaieteur News in NY

New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation, using the name New GPC Inc., has filed an action in the New York Supreme Court alleging defamation by Kaieteur News. The company’s owner, Dr. Ranjisinghi...

Cricket mascot Joseph Taylor commits suicide

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cricket mascot Joseph Taylor commits suicide

Well known Regent Street vendor and cricket mascot, Joseph Taylor died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) early yesterday after ingesting a poisonous substance. Taylor, of Prashad...

Bajan robber gets life sentence for blaze that killed Guyanese, five others

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bajan robber gets life sentence for blaze that killed Guyanese, five others

Barbados (Nationnews) – Four families in Barbados, one in St Vincent and one in Guyana are coming to terms with the news that at least one of the men responsible for the senseless...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald is a sleeping beauty

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald is a sleeping beauty

Uncle Donald confused. He claim how he teach he party people to avoid corruption, but like nobody ain’t listen or learn. Everybody believe that he gun deal wid all who get ketch but de man sit down...

Yassin exposes Kumar

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Yassin exposes Kumar

By Edison Jefford and Rawle Welch President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K. A. Juman Yassin yesterday described comments emanating from Director of Sport, Neil Kumar’s assessment...

Hetmyer ton spurs Guyana to mammoth total and win over Windwards

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hetmyer ton spurs Guyana to mammoth total and win over Windwards

Bridgetown, Barbados — A superb century by opener Shimron Hetmeyer was the highlight of the second round of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 50-over tournament as he led Guyana to 59-run...

Mackeson/EDFA Senior League resumes…Ann’s Grove needles BVTU; Victoria & Mahaica also win

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson/EDFA Senior League resumes…Ann’s Grove needles BVTU; Victoria & Mahaica also win

After a forced break in competition due to rain, the Mackeson sponsored East Demerara Football Association Senior league got cracking last weekend with four matches. The break brought new...

Persad shine with bat & ball as Trinis begin Guyana tour with win against Everest

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persad shine with bat & ball as Trinis begin Guyana tour with win against Everest

On a day blessed with glorious sunshine a small but raucous crowd saw Trinidad club side KNT Cosmos squeeze past host Everest by three runs on Sunday with a ball to spare in their...

Suriname retains 2012 Goodwill Swimming Championship

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Suriname retains 2012 Goodwill Swimming Championship

– George & van Lange only gold medalist individually Onika George joined Guyana’s Olympian Britney van Lange of Bishops High School on the golden podium on the final day (Sunday)...

Reece returns to winning ways with convincing victory

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reece returns to winning ways with convincing victory

It was long in coming and former national junior cycling champion Neil Reece used the occasion of the staging of the Seventh Annual Franco Crawford 46 miles cycle road race to put in a...

Monty Belle laid to rest

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Monty Belle laid to rest

Speedboat racer, the late Orin Keith Montgomery ‘Monty’ Belle was laid to rest last Sunday at the Sorrow Hill Cemetery Bartica. Bell died as a result of being...

Trophy Stall sponsors Centre Point pools tourney

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall sponsors Centre Point pools tourney

The Trophy Stall of Bourda Market and the City Mall has reiterated its commitment towards the development of sport by tapping into sport at the community level. The company, through its...

CXC gears to set up expert working group

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CXC gears to set up expert working group

– welcomes probe into Council’s operation The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is currently on a mission to set up an Expert Working Group on the teaching and learning of...

Minister, senior education officials meet parents, teachers of burnt-out school

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Minister, senior education officials meet parents, teachers of burnt-out school

– Propose alternative venues Minister of Education Priya Manickchand along with senior officials of the Ministry of Education and regional officials yesterday met with teachers and...

Nandy Park residents bemoan incomplete road works

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Nandy Park residents bemoan incomplete road works

There has been a growing number of complaints by residents, especially those of Nandy Park, over incomplete road works and large craters which have not only been a great inconvenience, but are an...

Agreement reached on Commissioners for inquiry into Linden deaths

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Agreement reached on Commissioners for inquiry into Linden deaths

– CARICOM names Jamaican, Trini jurists – Justices Claudette Singh, Cecil Kennard from Guyana The government and the opposition have reached agreement on the commissioners for...

CXC touts secondary level competence prog. as means to improve CSEC results

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CXC touts secondary level competence prog. as means to improve CSEC results

The local Ministry of Education is currently examining the possibility of introducing the Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence (CCLSC), with a view of further bolstering its...

Shot robbery suspect escapes from hospital

Aug 21, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shot robbery suspect escapes from hospital

Police have launched a manhunt for a wounded prisoner who escaped from the Georgetown Hospital early yesterday morning. James Hutson, of Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, was nursing a...

Murray smashes way to Table Tennis honours in Berbice

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Murray smashes way to Table Tennis honours in Berbice

National junior Table Tennis player Bryton Murray smashed his way to championship honours when he defeat all and sundry to win a junior Table Tennis competition which was played recently at...

IPF/FESUPO South American Powerlifting C/ships…‘Big’ John powers to Masters M1 Gold; passes Cat. 2 Referee Exams with distinction

Aug 21, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on IPF/FESUPO South American Powerlifting C/ships…‘Big’ John powers to Masters M1 Gold; passes Cat. 2 Referee Exams with distinction

Like he has done on so many occasions in competition before, Guyana’s most accomplished powerlifter ‘Big’ John Edwards has yet again proven his class at the International level. Putting aside a...

RAF’s/MYO Inter Jamaat T10 KO Cricket Tourney…Registration deadline extended to August 25

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CWI Cricket West Indies suspends Alzarri Joseph for two matches

A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more