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Cops detain businessman who had land dispute with slain granny

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

– Police still to release photo of killer to media Police have detained a Montrose, East Coast Demerara resident in connection with last Saturday’s brutal murder of 77-year-old Carmen Ganesh,...

Vaitarna now exporting chopped lumber

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

GFC Commissioner says this is “some level of value added operations” By: Kiana Wilburg It has been over three years since the Indian logging company Vaitarna Holding Private Incorporated (VHPI),...

Shot, hacked, burnt, beheaded, strangled…20 women murdered in six months

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

…as homicides reach 94 Shot, hacked, beheaded, burnt, strangled. That’s been the fate of 20 women within the past seven months, according to recently-compiled murder statistics by Kaieteur...

Gov’t’s instruction to millers to take back rice a “backward step” – RPA

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

– has legal, economical ramifications By Jarryl Bryan Almost 300 containers of rice that were earmarked for shipment to Venezuela but were left sitting on a local wharf after Venezuela ordered...

Cuban national shot, robbed of $9,000

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

A Cuban national was shot in the chest and robbed of $9,000 at around 13.25 hrs in Regent Street. According to reports, Mirko Cardenos, 35, and another Cuban national were in the vicinity of Acme...

Dem boys seh…Other people going to de Maldives

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 0

When de news come out that de Shaat scamp was heading to Maldives dem boys get a shock. Dem know that nuff people running out of Guyana, some of dem to avoid answering questions about some of de...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Christianburg / Wismar do it again

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

– Annai beat Waramadong The question of who could stop defending champion Christianburg / Wismar was answered emphatically yesterday in the final of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football...

Goat thieves strike again at Berbice

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

Livestock and rice farmer Manoj Kumar Singh, 43, of Don Robin Farm, East Coast Berbice, is at his wits end since he continues to lose stock to thieves on a regular basis. The man who recently...

WI Fullbore Shooting Team confident ahead of World Championships

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

Captain John Nelson backing his shooters to do well By Franklin Wilson in Ohio, USA compliments of NAMILCO, Ringbang, Crown Mining Supply, Fazias Collection, Queensway The best long range shooters...

Houston residents blame “careless Contractor” for flooding

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

Following the discovery of a sea defence breach at sections of Houston, East Bank Demerara a few days ago, residents are calling for it to be fixed urgently as their premises are under threat....

Hardyal, Haslim shine as Regal capture Emancipation Softball Cup

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

Forbes Burnham Memorial set to bowl off this weekend Mahendra Hardyal and Khalid Zaman shared 10 wickets between them as Regal Masters defeated Success Masters by nine wickets to capture the...

Sponsors begins to roll in for Guyana Cup 2015 horserace meet

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

Sponsors have begun to roll in as massive preparations continue for the ninth annual Guyana Cup Horserace meet. The $25M mega meet compliments of the Port Mourant Turf Club and the Jumbo Jet Business...

President issues call for change in Regional tertiary education

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

– during launch of UWI St. Augustine campus President David Granger has called for higher education in the Caribbean to be reconfigured to support greater innovativeness in areas of...

Guyanese secure six medals at Special Olympics World Games

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

The Guyana Delegation to the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles California, which consists of four athletes and two officials, has won a total of six medals, 1 gold, 3silvers and 2bronze. In...

BCB CARICOM Cup T20 Cricket at Albion…Police/Bermine capture title under lights

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

By Sean Devers At a venue where West Indies beat Pakistan in 1977 in the first ever ODI in the Caribbean, Police & Bermine combined beat favorites Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets in the Final...

Longest running serialised radio drama reaches pivotal 200 episode mark

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

….as new website is launched for mobile listeners Merundoi, Guyana’s longest running serialised radio programme aired its season four 200th episode late last week as the show also launched...

Chelsea Edghill secures US Scholarship

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

Multiple Junior National Sportswoman winner, Caribbean, National Junior Champion and Junior Olympian, Chelsea Edghill was accepted on a partial scholarship to Lindenwood University, Missouri....

Boyce & Jefford host Annual Officials Refresher Course

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

The Boyce & Jefford Track and Field Committee yesterday hosted its annual Offficials’ Refresher Course in Linden ahead of the upcoming August 15-16 Track and Field Classic at the Mackenzie...

Cops nab bandits after attack on sawmill operator

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

– guns, loot recovered Police have detained three men and are hunting for a third following a gunpoint robbery at Coomaka, Linden, at around 13.00 hrs yesterday, in which gunmen relieved a...

Director of Sport expresses sadness at blind cricketer’s passing

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

In a release, Director of Sport Christopher Jones said, “The National Sports Commission regrets to inform the nation of the passing of Gordon Sandiford, member of the Guyana Blind Cricketers...

Lindeners want Son Chapman martyrs to be accorded national recognition

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

This year, July 6th to be exact, the mining town of Linden observed the fifty first anniversary of one of the most horrific tragedies in Guyana’s history- the blowing up of the Son Chapman...

Rain, no race at Bush Lot

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

The continuous and unseasonal rain fall continues to have a chilling effect on outdoor sporting activities countrywide. While recent words of assurances by Director of Sports Christopher Jones that...

Guyana win back-to-back U-19 one-day titles

Aug 03, 2015 KNews Sports 0

Hetymer’s 55 sees Guyana to 4-wkt win against Jamaica Guyana retained the WICB Under-19 One-Day Championship with a four-wicket win over Jamaica at Manchester High School today. Set 246 to win,...

Full steam ahead for maternity ward expansion – Health Minister

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

…but GPHC overhaul on hold By Desilon Daniels Months after the sod was turned for a $263M expansion of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) maternity ward, it is now all systems...

Government to push small business development

Aug 03, 2015 KNews News 0

Micro-enterprises in Guyana will be given a level playing field, as opportunities to expand and enhance this area of business and promote entrepreneurialship will soon be the focus of Government....

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Volda, Simona and Priya: Life is about people

I did a column in which I took the position that in this current age, women are due for their rightful place in the sphere... more

The people get a better government than they deserve

It is said that the people get the government they deserve. This statement is a falsehood. The government is much... more