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Brassington dodges questions on Marriott Hotel

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brassington dodges questions on Marriott Hotel

… displays rude, vulgar behaviour Chairman of Atlantic Hotels Inc, (AHI) Winston Brassington, yesterday continued dodging from Kaieteur News on the Marriott Hotel issue. So rude was Brassington...

Abandoned elderly patients overwhelm GPHC

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Abandoned elderly patients overwhelm GPHC

The incessant problem of patients being abandoned by their loved ones at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC) has taken its toll on the institution. When Kaieteur news visited the...

Ex-cop among two charged with execution style murder

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop among two charged with execution style murder

Two men were on Wednesday charged with the capital offence of murder. The men, former policeman Antonio Singh Balrup, 26, of Lot 5 Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice; and Solomon Milton, called...

St. Lucia quarantines cargo ship after Guyanese crew member dies

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on St. Lucia quarantines cargo ship after Guyanese crew member dies

Several Guyanese crew members were ordered quarantined by St. Lucian health authorities after one of their own died on board a St. Vincent and the Grenadines registered cargo ship. According to the...

Miner forges gold declaration form to obtain duty free concession – court hears

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miner forges gold declaration form to obtain duty free concession – court hears

Stemming from a desperate attempt to obtain an All Terrain vehicle, (ATV) by means of a duty free concession, an alleged fraudster, was placed on a total of $200,000 bail after he appeared at the...

Keith Lowenfield, is new Chief Election Officer

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Keith Lowenfield, is new Chief Election Officer

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has picked one of its top officials as the new Chief Elections Officer (CEO). Keith Lowenfield is one of four persons shortlisted from 14 applications, GECOM...

Anti Money Laundering Legislation…Chief Parliamentary Counsel completes APNU amendments

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti Money Laundering Legislation…Chief Parliamentary Counsel completes APNU amendments

…Govt. tables counter amendments to Committee Chief Parliamentary Counsel (CPC), Cecil Dhurjon, has completed drafting the amendments proposed by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). The draft...

25th CARICOM Intersessional…‘Blacklisted’ Guyana will have repercussions across the Region

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 25th CARICOM Intersessional…‘Blacklisted’ Guyana will have repercussions across the Region

… Regional Commission established to study legalizing ‘Marijuana’ Guyana’s failure to pass the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill (AML/CFT), so far, was the...

Dem boys seh…Brassy suck he teeth pun de nation

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brassy suck he teeth pun de nation

… everybody know wha suck-teeth means Cheddi was a man who know how to lead. He dead and gone but he party people still talking he name. Dem saying all de good tings that Cheddi teach. Donald...

Regional four-day cricket…Guyana & W/Wards hoping to rebound

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional four-day cricket…Guyana & W/Wards hoping to rebound

Face-off from today at Providence By Sean Devers The Windward Islands have blown hot and cold in their first two matches in this year’s Regional Four-Day cricket competition, while Guyana, hit by...

Kalamadeen believes that extra time will benefit him

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kalamadeen believes that extra time will benefit him

If what Irfaan Kalamadeen disclosed to Kaieteur Sport yesterday is true, then the Group 4 Division could see a frenetic battle for supremacy and at the same time provide exhilarating action...

Guyana Horse Racing Authority releases list of officer bearers

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Horse Racing Authority releases list of officer bearers

Following the completion of the election of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority (GHRA), the body has released the list of all officer bearers that will be in place for the next year. When the elections...

GCUC names committees

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCUC names committees

The Guyana Cricket Umpires Council (GCUC) recently named their respective committees at an executive meeting held at the Georgetown Cricket Club pavilion. The fund raising and entertainment...

Rising Star are Skeete T20 champs

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Star are Skeete T20 champs

Rising Star won the South Essequibo Cricket Committee (SECC)/Edward Skeete and family T20 competition after defeating El Dorado SC by 30 runs in the final played on Sunday last at Pomona. Rising...

Mayor’s All Star youth team to tour Suriname

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s All Star youth team to tour Suriname

The Mayor’s All Star youth soccer team will tour neighbouring Suriname from March 18-21. Joshua Kamal has been named captain of the squad which will play a practice game against Alpha United at the...

Windball cricket opens

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windball cricket opens

Friendship Secondary School went down to Queenstown by 8 wickets when play in the Al Sport & Tour Promotions Windball Cricket Competition opened recently, at the National Park Tarmac. Taking...

GTTA league…TTA, MSC, BOG triumph

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA league…TTA, MSC, BOG triumph

Table Tennis Academy (TTA) A and B, Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) A and Bank of Guyana (BOG) A notched up victories when the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) league tournament continued on...

Business School TT contest back on GTTA calendar

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Business School TT contest back on GTTA calendar

– tournament serves off tomorrow at Gymnasium The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) launched the 2014 edition of the Business School Mini Cadet, Cadet and Junior Team’s Table Tennis...

Entries, sponsors pour in for Port Mourant Turf Club Meet

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries, sponsors pour in for Port Mourant Turf Club Meet

Entries have started to pour even as a number of sponsors have gotten on board for next Sunday, March 16th, grand one day horserace meet organised by the Port Mourant Turf Club in association with...

Corporate 15-15 cricket set for Malteenoes on Phagwah day

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corporate 15-15 cricket set for Malteenoes on Phagwah day

As part of its efforts to raise funds for its developmental drive, Malteenoes Sports Club which had a record seven players in the 1987 National Under-19 team which toured Jamaica, will be hosting a...

DCB U-15 Inter Zone tourney…Georgetown crush West Dem; East Coast trounce East Bank

Mar 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCB U-15 Inter Zone tourney…Georgetown crush West Dem; East Coast trounce East Bank

Bookie slams 100, Lovell hits 50, Hathiramani grabs 6, Bhojnarine 5 By Zaheer Mohamed Georgetown and East Coast registered victories when the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) U-15 50 overs Inter Zone...

Bitter sugar politics…Agri. Minister, APNU Exec. member clash over ailing sugar industry

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bitter sugar politics…Agri. Minister, APNU Exec. member clash over ailing sugar industry

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy through a public missive yesterday dismissed the calls by the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to scrap the sugar industry and make moves towards...

Major jump in vehicles, passengers’ use of state ferries last year

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Major jump in vehicles, passengers’ use of state ferries last year

Vehicles using the state-run ferry services increased by 44 percent last year with the passenger movement experiencing a 17 percent jump when compared to 2012. According to Transport and Harbours...

Police issue bulletin for suspect in interior shopkeeper’s murder

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police issue bulletin for suspect in interior shopkeeper’s murder

Police have identified the main person of interest as they continue to probe the murder of shopkeeper Sheniza Khan Bhola, who was found dead in her shop at Rock Creek Backdam, Cuyuni/Mazaruni last...

“We have failed our students” – UG Vice Chancellor

Mar 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “We have failed our students” – UG Vice Chancellor

— introduces Committee to hear students’ concerns bi-semesterly Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Professor Jacob Opadeyi, yesterday conceded that “we have failed our...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more