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Foo, Motie, La Fleur propel Titans to victory

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Foo, Motie, La Fleur propel Titans to victory

Outstanding performances by Jonathan Foo, Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai and Eugene LaFleur guided Universal DVD Berbice Titans to a 29-run victory over Universal President’s XI in the final of the...

Scarcity of male graduates a concern…106 graduate from IDCE Berbice

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Scarcity of male graduates a concern…106 graduate from IDCE Berbice

The scarcity of males pursuing certificate and diploma programmes at the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) Berbice Centre overshadowed the institution’s Annual Graduation...

Rest of the World emerge champions in Golf Club Tournament

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rest of the World emerge champions in Golf Club Tournament

With their love for the game and their spirits undaunted by the recent arson on valuable club equipment Thursday night, golfers turned out with high enthusiasm on Saturday 20th December for the Club...

Gafoor’s Foundation donates funds to six NGO’s

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gafoor’s Foundation donates funds to six NGO’s

The Gafoor Foundation made its Annual contribution to six Non-Profit Organizations (NGO) recently. Executive Chairman, Mr. Sattaur Gafoor, handed over the cheques to representatives of the various...

NAGICO Super50 practice match…Chandrika’s 53 spurs Barnwell’s XI to win in low scoring game against Singh’s XI

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAGICO Super50 practice match…Chandrika’s 53 spurs Barnwell’s XI to win in low scoring game against Singh’s XI

By Sean Devers The inability to build on good starts is becoming an epidemic at all levels of West Indies cricket and Saturday was no different when the Guyana Cricket Inc held its last practice...

Trafficked at 14

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Trafficked at 14

…now rescued and thriving in state care When most people hear about trafficking in persons, they often think of a vulnerable girl being carted off to the interior regions of Guyana and forced into...

Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association holds awards ceremony

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association holds awards ceremony

The Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association had their social event and award ceremony last Sunday at La Parfaite Harmony W.B.D. Both events were successful. Several students were awarded for...

Retrieve residents to GWI: We need water for Christmas

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Retrieve residents to GWI: We need water for Christmas

“All I want for Christmas is water,” may well be the wish for residents of Retrieve, Linden, and they are looking to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), rather than Santa Claus, to fulfill this...

The Caricom Chairman contradicts himself

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Caricom Chairman contradicts himself

Dear Editor, According to a Stabroek News report (12/11/2014) the Chairman of Caricom, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne stated that Caricom is “not too concerned at this point”...

Brigadier Phillips opens new army base in Berbice

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brigadier Phillips opens new army base in Berbice

Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Mark Phillips commissioned a modern Army Base at Strand, New Amsterdam on Saturday. Ranks will occupy the base by February 1, 2015; moving...

The Minister does not have a clue as how to solve crime

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Minister does not have a clue as how to solve crime

Dear Editor, We are not happy with the way the new Commissioner of Police, Mr. Seelall Persaud is running the Guyana Police Force. After almost a year on the job, he has not done anything substantial...

One victim from Mabura Road accident identified

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on One victim from Mabura Road accident identified

Relatives have identified one of the two victims from Friday’s fatal accident at Eight Miles Mabura Road. A sister identified him as 25-year-old Cion Rouse, a miner from Duke Street, Kingston and...

This is Bogus engineering

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is Bogus engineering

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in your paper dated December 20, 2014, re: the Hope Canal, and to state from what I observed after a visit to the site just over a week ago, lots of work is yet to...

Victims of La Penitence fire suspicious of origin

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Victims of La Penitence fire suspicious of origin

Faith King, the mother who lost her home and all of its belongings in a fire on Friday, at the 183 Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown residence, believes that the blaze was the result of a...

Partisan politics and slave wages are the underlying causes of poverty in Guyana

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Partisan politics and slave wages are the underlying causes of poverty in Guyana

Dear Editor, Below the surface of Guyana’s artificial political peace there exists an antagonistic ethnic monster waiting its moment of opportunity to explode. The PPP cabal’s pretense that...

THE SPECIAL ONES

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE SPECIAL ONES

Jose Mourinho is not the only “special one” at the Chelsea Football club in England. One in five children surveyed at a mall in England believes that Jesus plays for Chelsea and is...

Ronald Daniels raised me up; the panty thief brought me down

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ronald Daniels raised me up; the panty thief brought me down

I got to know Ronald Daniels during the long years of my libel trial. He was the assistant to Nigel Hughes. Although he was training to be a lawyer that was not what was impressive about Ronald. It...

The dirt will simply wash back into the drains

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The dirt will simply wash back into the drains

Dear Sir, It was with seasonal joy that I welcomed a clean-up of the drains around my Queenstown neighbourhood over a week ago. The drains were cleaned and the filth and dirt were piled on the...

If only we try

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on If only we try

When people talk about resource-rich Guyana, they talk about a country that seems to have been blessed with everything necessary for its survival and the continued existence of its people at an...

Outstanding teachers honoured in Bartica

Dec 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Outstanding teachers honoured in Bartica

In recognition of the value and contributions of teachers, the Bartica Association – New York, in collaboration with the Bartica/Three Miles Board of Governors, sponsored a Teachers’...

CHARITY AT CHRISTMAS

Dec 22, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CHARITY AT CHRISTMAS

The mad rush to Christmas is about to take place. The next few days are going to be frenetic as Guyanese do as they do well, make a mad dash to ensure that every thing is in place for Christmas day....

DPP has compromised the integrity of her office

Dec 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on DPP has compromised the integrity of her office

– Dr. David Hinds A recently released report by the Ombudsman, Justice Winston Moore, has raised shocking questions about the role played by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the...

US$18M Hope Canal set for Dec. completion

Dec 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US$18M Hope Canal set for Dec. completion

More than two years past the deadline, a $3.6B man-made canal critical to help drainage on East Coast Demerara, is nearing completion with just few minor works left to be done. According to...

Disaster follows a Berbice woman

Dec 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Disaster follows a Berbice woman

… grandmother dies, uncle killed, husband jailed and baby dies, all in two weeks A family already suffering from the effects of two deaths in the family and one person being remanded to jail, has...

Overseas-based Guyanese brings Christmas cheer to McDoom

Dec 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese brings Christmas cheer to McDoom

As Christmas inches closer, hundreds of little boys and girls rushed to get a glimpse of good ole’ Saint Nicholas and his little helpers yesterday. It’s the season of goodwill and Santa, as he is...

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Shadman hits fifty, WI drop three catches on truncated day

A little room to breathe and a podium of their own!

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Week after week, the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)... more