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Log export doubles in 2014

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Log export doubles in 2014

Guyana’s log exports for the first eight months of this year have more than doubled compared to the same period of 2013. According to the Forest Products Development and Marketing Council of Guyana...

Guyana Ronald Ramjattan knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News 1

Although he left these shores more than a decade ago, Ronald Ramjattan still has a very prevailing presence in Guyana, throughout the Caribbean and further afield. He is the business mogul standing...

Taxi driver’s mutilated body found in Tuschen

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver’s mutilated body found in Tuschen

Police are hunting for the killers of a 48-year-old taxi driver, whose body was found at around 23:30 hrs on Friday on Sheriff Street, Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo. Abdool Hassan, a...

APNU not interested in talks on Budget 2015

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU not interested in talks on Budget 2015

By Kiana Wilburg A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Shadow Finance Minister, Carl Greenidge has categorically stated that his coalition is “not the least bit interested” in talks with...

A consummate professional…OB/GYN Dr. Narine Sooknanan is a ‘Special Person’

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on A consummate professional…OB/GYN Dr. Narine Sooknanan is a ‘Special Person’

“My life has and continues to be dedicated to helping my fellow human being in whatever tangible way I can. That will never change.” By Leon Suseran Though he is intensely modest and would not...

Dem boys seh…Some people waiting to strike like cobra

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Some people waiting to strike like cobra

Some people deh like cobra. Dem raise dem head and dem set, waiting to strike at de Waterfalls paper and de boss man fuh suck he blood. One cobra deh in jail already. Wha dem don’t realize is that...

$80.704M road upgrades completed in Region Three under CRIP

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News 1

The Ministry of Housing and Water, through its Community Roads Improvement Programme (CRIP), has paved the way for over 2000 residents to directly benefit from improved roads in Anna Catherina,...

Efforts underway to boost mental health services in Guyana- Health Minister

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Efforts underway to boost mental health services in Guyana- Health Minister

Despite significant challenges which prevent Guyanese from accessing quality mental health services in a timely manner, Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran has noted that plans are actively...

8th MCYS Ride for Life 5-Stage Cycle Road Race …‘Fishy’ Williams nails double stage wins; Greaves leads overall with final stage on today

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on 8th MCYS Ride for Life 5-Stage Cycle Road Race …‘Fishy’ Williams nails double stage wins; Greaves leads overall with final stage on today

By Franklin Wilson It was all the Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams solo show again yesterday in the Cinderella County of Essequibo when he coasted to back to back stage wins in the 8th Ministry of Culture...

Courts/Petra Organization Pee Wee Football Competition…Defending champs St. Pius, Marian and Tucville among those advancing

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Courts/Petra Organization Pee Wee Football Competition…Defending champs St. Pius, Marian and Tucville among those advancing

Needing a win to revive their chances of qualifying for the next stage, defending champs St. Puis registered a 2-1 win over F.E. Pollard when the Courts/Petra Organization Pee Wee Football...

Boxing Tales from the crypt – boxers with a strange sense of humour

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing Tales from the crypt – boxers with a strange sense of humour

By Michael Benjamin There are always interesting anecdotes making their rounds in boxing that lends a lighter side to the fistic sport. One of the popular ones is of the boxer who went out upon the...

Did you know?

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Did you know?

Our Did you know series with Charwayne Walker continues this week as we look at the only international drawn series in Guyana’s football history with Trinidad and Tobago. Did you know that the only...

BCB/2014 New Building Society Limited second division 40-over cricket in Berbice…

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/2014 New Building Society Limited second division 40-over cricket in Berbice…

Mohabir slams 152 n.o leads Young and Restless to 318 for 5 – Latchman takes 5 for 7 and scores 60 n.o. Opening batsman Vishal Mohabir slammed the highest individual score of the 2014 New...

“The bubble has burst for West Indies! Déjà vu, all over again, maybe!”

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on “The bubble has burst for West Indies! Déjà vu, all over again, maybe!”

Says Colin E. H. Croft “Synchronicity” tells of related events happening all at once, participants seeing them as meaningful coincidences. In business, travel, health, even with present Ebola...

Kashif and Shanghai Organisation delivers computers to MHS and CWSS

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kashif and Shanghai Organisation delivers computers to MHS and CWSS

The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation on Thursday handed over computers to the Mackenzie High School and Champions of its Inter-school football Championship Christianburg Wismar Secondary School...

USA based boxers to highlight card in GBA National Open Boxing Championships

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on USA based boxers to highlight card in GBA National Open Boxing Championships

Just over a month after topping their counterparts from the Guyana Defence Force, boxers of the Republican Boxing Gym are getting ready to replicate the feat when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA)...

Bayley overlooked again

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bayley overlooked again

By Edison Jefford The Sports Department of the Guyana Police Force is demanding that the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) consider Kevin Bayley for national selection following what has certainly...

The curious case of Guyana’s Technical Director

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on The curious case of Guyana’s Technical Director

By Santokie Nagulendran In January 2014, the GFF announced Mark Rodrigues as Technical Director for the Men’s Senior National Team, which up until that point, had not played a competitive game for...

GCA’s Hadi first division two-day cricket …Nanan (7-35), Sookdeo (94*) put GCC in command

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s Hadi first division two-day cricket …Nanan (7-35), Sookdeo (94*) put GCC in command

Hemraj’s 51 ensure Everest bat all day By Sean Devers Left-arm spinner Raj Nanan snatched 7-35 from 13.4 overs, his fourth five-wicket haul in three games for the season, to destroy GYO at Bourda,...

GCA/NBS second division 40-over tourney…TSC, GNIC, DCC register victories

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA/NBS second division 40-over tourney…TSC, GNIC, DCC register victories

Persaud, Belle slam centuries, Husband grabs 5 Transport Sports Club (TSC), GNIC and Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) recorded victories when the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/New Building Society...

East Georgetown Champion of Champions athletics meet concludes

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Georgetown Champion of Champions athletics meet concludes

Youth is the time of athleticism; when the human body performs unbelievable feats. This fact could not have been more forcefully emphasized than Friday afternoon when children from 11 primary and...

Ramdass House wins CHS Inter-House Competition

Oct 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdass House wins CHS Inter-House Competition

Ramdass (D) House won Central High School (CHS) Inter-House Track and Field Competition last week at the Base Camp Ayangana Ground, Thomas Lands. After the Field Events, which was held at the Guyana...

State media a no-show at workshop on Local Government Elections

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on State media a no-show at workshop on Local Government Elections

As the calls for Local Government Elections continue to pour in, the Canadian High Commission along with the Guyana Press Association has embarked on a two day media workshop to train local...

Grandfather wants justice for pregnant 12-year-old

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News 1

The grandparents of a 12-year old girl, who is due to give birth to a baby in a few weeks time, are upset that the man who is reportedly responsible for her pregnancy may get off scot free. The child...

AFC calls for comprehensive strategy to address Suicide

Oct 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC calls for comprehensive strategy to address Suicide

As she pointed out the fact that Guyana has the highest global rate of suicide which is four times the global average, Alliance For Change (AFC), Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes identified the...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more