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All roads lead to Albion as Sentinel Security joins sponsorship team

May 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on All roads lead to Albion as Sentinel Security joins sponsorship team

BCB/Berbice Chambers Independence T20 Cup 2014… Sentinel Security joins a long list of sponsors as the lighting towers are mounted at the famous Albion Sports Complex for the...

Education Ministry facilitates overseas eye surgery for boy, 6

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry facilitates overseas eye surgery for boy, 6

Thanks to the timely intervention of the Ministry of Education, Naresh Ramotar, the six-year-old boy who was stabbed in the eye with a pencil, is currently in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for...

RHTYSC 24th Annual Awards Ceremony…Ashkay Homraj, Shemaine Campbelle and Rajiv Ivan are outstanding performers

May 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC 24th Annual Awards Ceremony…Ashkay Homraj, Shemaine Campbelle and Rajiv Ivan are outstanding performers

Guyana’s leading youth and sport organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club on Sunday last hosted its 24th annual awards ceremony at the St. Francis Xavier Training Centre. Dozens of...

CSV/BVF course underway

May 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on CSV/BVF course underway

With the aim of improving the game locally, the South American Volleyball (CSV) in conjunction with the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) has embarked on a six- day basic referee international...

GBA takes sport to interior community as expansion programme continues

May 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA takes sport to interior community as expansion programme continues

They have taken the sport to Linden and Berbice in open air affairs and only recently they have staged the National Novices boxing championships on California Square, East Ruimveldt. The objective is...

Organising Committee intensifying preparations – Hope

May 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Organising Committee intensifying preparations – Hope

– Launch to be held outside G/town Sponsorship and Events Manager of Digicel, Gavin Hope ,speaking recently confirmed that the Organising Committee responsible for putting all the systems in...

Letter to the Sports Editor…UDCA applauds APNU & government for the cricket bill

May 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…UDCA applauds APNU & government for the cricket bill

Dear Editor, The Upper Demerara Cricket Association (UDCA) wishes to express its profound appreciation to A Party for National Unity (APNU) and the PPP Government for combining their...

COPA Airlines to get all clear this week

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on COPA Airlines to get all clear this week

…Promises not to be fly by night operation The Panama-based COPA Airlines is this week expected to receive full clearance from civil aviation authorities to begin flying, a senior executive said...

GWI denies contributing to delay of EBD four-lane road project

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GWI denies contributing to delay of EBD four-lane road project

By Latoya Giles The Guyana Water Company is denying that its pipelines have caused a delay with the multi-million-dollar East Bank Demerara four-lane expansion road project. Contrary to what...

GCCA receives telephone record of pilot in Region Eight crash

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GCCA receives telephone record of pilot in Region Eight crash

Investigators probing last January’s plane crash which occurred at the Ogle International Airport have received the telephone records of Fenix Airways pilot Raul Seecharran who is accused of using...

Legal action to be instituted against vendors of counterfeit products – Food and Drug Dept

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Legal action to be instituted against vendors of counterfeit products – Food and Drug Dept

Deliberately exhibiting a known counterfeit product for sale could attract a fine as little as $6,500 or as much as $65,000 or even prison time, which from all indications may not be a harsh enough...

Plans in the making to extend subsidised countrywide renal service

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Plans in the making to extend subsidised countrywide renal service

In light of the fact that Guyana has a high kidney failure rate, strategic moves are being made by a privately-operated medical facility to take dialysis services to sections of the country where it...

Pensioners forced to petition Parliament for their benefits

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioners forced to petition Parliament for their benefits

The plight of scores of pensioners has engaged the National Assembly and the House voted yesterday to have the matter dealt with in a Special Select Committee. The petition on behalf of the...

2011 police pellet shooting…“I honestly felt that I was going to be killed by the police”- James bond

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 2011 police pellet shooting…“I honestly felt that I was going to be killed by the police”- James bond

By Zena Henry Attorney- at -law, Parliamentarian and member of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), James Bond has joined calls to the local police force to act on the “rogue elements” that...

NICIL claims Badal misled Stockfeeds shareholders

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL claims Badal misled Stockfeeds shareholders

The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), headed by Winston Brassington, is accusing Chairman and Managing Director of Guyana Stockfeeds Inc. (GSI), Robert Badal, of...

Ministry of Health launches investigation into N/A Hospital maternal death

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Health launches investigation into N/A Hospital maternal death

…mother died of clotting – PM An investigation has been launched into the recent maternal death at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. Public Relations Officer (PRO) Michael Itwaru stated...

Banks DIH’s first half profits fall amidst lower sales

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH’s first half profits fall amidst lower sales

Soft drinks and beer giant, Banks DIH Limited, is reporting a drop in its revenues for the first six months of its new financial year. This has been blamed partly on a dip in sales. According to the...

“I would go to the NOC….I’m willing to help” – Dr Faith Harding

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “I would go to the NOC….I’m willing to help” – Dr Faith Harding

By Latoya Giles Former Presidential Candidate and Child Development Psychologist, Dr. Faith Harding, has stepped up to the mantle and is willing to offer her expertise to the New Opportunity Corps....

Police Commissioner’s Community Outreach…CGX boost programme with $2M

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police Commissioner’s Community Outreach…CGX boost programme with $2M

In a bid to further improve the functions of the Guyana Police Force, CGX Energy Inc. donated $2M to assist with the Community Outreach Programmes. The presentation was made recently by Co-Chairman...

Vinood Gopaul remanded, more charges pending

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vinood Gopaul remanded, more charges pending

Two times prison escapee and murder and robbery with violence accused, Vinood Gopaul, 24, of 34 Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, on Tuesday appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Albion...

Ask Chancellor Carl Singh; ask Attorney Gino Persaud too

May 22, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ask Chancellor Carl Singh; ask Attorney Gino Persaud too

Do I have any sympathy with the plight of the current graduates in law whose future as lawyers is uncertain because Hugh Wooding Law School is telling them that there is no guarantee that they will...

Police Detective murder…Accused to know fate today

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police Detective murder…Accused to know fate today

Justice Dawn Gregory is today expected to sum up the murder trial of Desiree Jeffers, who was indicted for the unlawful killing of Police Detective Igris Bobb –Blackman. After the summing up, the...

NOISE NUISANCE

May 22, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on NOISE NUISANCE

When the police announced zero tolerance against noise nuisance many people breathed a sigh of relief and indeed, we appear to have grown inconsiderate of others. Many of us live in neighbourhoods...

Neighbours find remigrant dead

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Neighbours find remigrant dead

A security guard, who was a remigrant, was discovered dead with marks about his body early yesterday morning. Neighbours made the gruesome discovery. The man, said to be in his sixties, was...

Missing Pomeroon teen now source of concern

May 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Missing Pomeroon teen now source of concern

It has been almost a week since 15-year-old Ruel Paul Fredricks, formerly of Siriki Sands, in the Upper Pomeroon River, went missing. Despite collaborative interventions by members of the Guyana...

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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