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LALTA ‘RISHI’ DIGAMBER RETAINS WDCA PRESIDENCY

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on LALTA ‘RISHI’ DIGAMBER RETAINS WDCA PRESIDENCY

West Demerara businessman Lalta ‘Rishi’ Digamber retained the Presidency of West Demerara Cricket Association unopposed for a second consecutive term. The proprietor of Brandi’s Furniture and...

Insel Air announces special fares

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Insel Air announces special fares

Insel Air, the new airline which intends to service the Guyana to Aruba, Curaçao and Miami route has outlined new introductory prices for customers who wish to fly for the first six months. Until...

Large turn-out at May Day rally in New Amsterdam

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Large turn-out at May Day rally in New Amsterdam

By Leon Suseran With loud chants for housing, higher salaries and better working conditions, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and Guyana Postal and...

Vandalism cost GT&T $32M in 2013

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vandalism cost GT&T $32M in 2013

— appeals being made for communities to be vigilant A pricey and usually unexpected dilemma faced by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is vandalism. And it is the belief of the...

GSCL Inc Independence Cup bowls off tomorrow

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc Independence Cup bowls off tomorrow

By Zaheer Mohamed The inaugural Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc (GSCL Inc) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission, Independence Cup will commence tomorrow at several venues in...

Woodpecker backs Arrival Day T20 in Enmore

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Woodpecker backs Arrival Day T20 in Enmore

Quest International has received the backing of Woodpecker Products for the hosting of their Arrival T20 tournament in Enmore on May 5. The entity has sponsored the first and second place team...

Walter Rodney COI…Friend unaware WPA leader tried to invoke disturbances

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney COI…Friend unaware WPA leader tried to invoke disturbances

By Latoya Giles Reverend Reuben Gilbert, the father of PPPC Parliamentarian Kwame Gilbert, said that he was unaware that his now deceased friend Dr. Walter Rodney was trying to accumulate...

The visa revocation: A mendicant, primitive country insults the USA

May 02, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The visa revocation: A mendicant, primitive country insults the USA

It has to be the most comical opera in international relations since Thucydides wrote his fantastic book two thousand years ago on relations among states and titled, “The Peloponnesian Wars.” Any...

Trans Pacific supports Arrival Day T20

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trans Pacific supports Arrival Day T20

Trans Pacific Motor Spares and Auto Sales has thrown their support behind Arrival Day T20 competition in Enmore which is slated for May 5. The company handed over a cheque of an undisclosed amount to...

Hotdog seller, 19, remanded for robbing Chinese shop owner

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Hotdog seller, 19, remanded for robbing Chinese shop owner

An alleged gun-toting teenage boy was remanded to prison for purportedly robbing a Chinese shop owner of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, articles and electronic gadgets. Matthew Gasper, 19,...

Over four decades and counting

May 02, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Over four decades and counting

Many Caribbean people continue to wonder the region will ever achieve its most elusive dream. That dream, which has endured for over four decades, is for the establishment of a Caribbean Single...

There is a serious crisis in labour in Guyana

May 02, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on There is a serious crisis in labour in Guyana

There is a serious crisis in labour in Guyana. And it has nothing to do with the differences between the Federation of Independent Trade Unions in Guyana (FITUG) and the Trades Union Congress...

Kwakwani Park resident remanded for hardware store burglary

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kwakwani Park resident remanded for hardware store burglary

A man who hails from Kwakwani Park, Berbice, was recently remanded to prison by a city Magistrate for allegedly burgling a hardware store at 111 Miles, Mahdia. The accused, Peter Giddings, appeared...

Howard Eastman registers spectacular knockout to stay in contention for big payday

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Howard Eastman registers spectacular knockout to stay in contention for big payday

By Michael Benjamin Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman unleashed a two fisted attack that had Jamaican, Derrick ‘Guts’ Spencer reeling and eventually counted out in the second round...

Letter to the Sports Editor Is Administration harming Guyanese football?

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor Is Administration harming Guyanese football?

Dear Editor, Suspending local federations? Placing eight year bans on senior officials? A letter produced by the Vice President of the National football federation publicly asking for the resignation...

Time for something to be done about the use of roads in Kwakwani

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for something to be done about the use of roads in Kwakwani

Dear Editor, A recent accident in the Kwakwani Community brought out a very troubling fact about the community’s roads. No one can be successfully prosecuted for any traffic offense in Kwakwani...

Pressure needs to be placed on the GNBA to review the broadcasting fee

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pressure needs to be placed on the GNBA to review the broadcasting fee

Dear Editor, Given recent reports in the nation’s dailies regarding the plight of owners of broadcasting stations meeting the prohibitive license fee to the Guyana National Broadcast Authority...

Da Costa clearly has an obsession with the PPP

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Da Costa clearly has an obsession with the PPP

Dear Editor, Mr. Mark Da Costa, in his response published in the Stabroek News dated April 18, to my letter, has clearly indicated that he has an obsession with the PPP and its leaders. This...

Diminishing the dignity of shoppers

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Diminishing the dignity of shoppers

Dear Editor, I have not been in the vicinity of Longden and America Streets for quite some time, one day in last week I ventured in the vicinity, I saw a spanking new edifice. with the trade name...

UG Inter Faculty Cricket finalists decided

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on UG Inter Faculty Cricket finalists decided

The University of Guyana (UG) Inter Faculty Cricket continued on Tuesday with semi-final action at the Turkeyen Campus. The first semi final saw the Faculty of Social Sciences defeating the...

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more