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Aishalton teacher receives support from Opposition bloc

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Aishalton teacher receives support from Opposition bloc

John Adams, the Aishalton, Region Nine teacher who was allegedly assaulted by a Presidential Guard, has received support from members of the Opposition Bloc, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)...

Big profits for smuggled alcohol, chicken from Suriname

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Big profits for smuggled alcohol, chicken from Suriname

Alcohol smuggling appears to be one of the biggest problems on the Suriname border, a senior Customs official has said. In recent times, law enforcement workers managed to seize liquor which nearly...

Patient waits over 24 hours for treatment at GPHC Emergency Unit

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Patient waits over 24 hours for treatment at GPHC Emergency Unit

The Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is a section of the institution where one would think one can access speedy treatment. However this was not the case for...

Security guard jailed, fined $1M for fake licence plate

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard jailed, fined $1M for fake licence plate

A security guard who plastered a false licence plate to a car he was using back in 2013 has been fined $1M and jailed for 24 months. Leroy Holder, of Lot 25 D’Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust, was...

Regent Street chain snatcher gets 36 months

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Regent Street chain snatcher gets 36 months

A La Parfaite Harmonie taxi driver, who took advantage of a woman and robbed her of the gold chain she was wearing but did not cater for the response of an alert public spirited citizen, has been...

Union gearing up to attend most if not all overseas competitions -TD retained

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Union gearing up to attend most if not all overseas competitions -TD retained

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Peter Green accompanied by executive members Petal Adams and Terrence Grant along with Head Coach of the men’s team Theodore Henry and PRO Esan...

NAGICO Super50 cricket semi-final Jaguars aim to advance to first final in 6 years Face Jamaica in Day/Night semis today

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAGICO Super50 cricket semi-final Jaguars aim to advance to first final in 6 years Face Jamaica in Day/Night semis today

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In Association with Carib Beer, GT&T Lifetime Reality & Cascadia Hotel Since winning the last of their nine titles in 2005, Guyana has reached the semi-final on...

PM to commission Angoy’s Avenue electricity project today

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PM to commission Angoy’s Avenue electricity project today

With more than 90 per cent of households now receiving electricity for the first time in Angoy’s Avenue, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and a senior team from Guyana Power & Light (GPL) are...

South Africa take series against feeble West Indies

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Africa take series against feeble West Indies

ESPNcricinfo – With every day they remain in South Africa, West Indies’ chances of pulling together a respectable World Cup challenge falters before our eyes. They made only 122 at Buffalo...

Letter to the Sports Editor Essequibo Cricket Board should not participate in GCB elections

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor Essequibo Cricket Board should not participate in GCB elections

Dear Editor, The Berbice Cricket Board has publicly announced that its executives will not be participating in the upcoming Biennial General Meeting (BGM) of the Guyana Cricket Board scheduled for...

Golden Jaguars commence encampment from today

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars commence encampment from today

Ahead of the February 1st friendly international between host Barbados and Guyana, the Golden Jaguars will commence encampment from today leading up to their departure next week. The 27 players...

Contractor slow off the mark on East Bank Berbice road

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor slow off the mark on East Bank Berbice road

“But it is so how some of these contractors behave! Why should the residents of East Bank Berbice suffer when we have the money—We signed the contract with you—Come and do the damn work!”- MP...

Flying Ace Cycle Club to hold annual awards and Presentation ceremony

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club to hold annual awards and Presentation ceremony

One of Guyana’s top cycling clubs, the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice will on Saturday 31st January hold their 14th annual presentation and awards ceremony at the New Amsterdam Town Hall...

GABCA asks Coaches to formally register

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABCA asks Coaches to formally register

With an aim of continuing to systemise Coaching in Guyana, the newly formed Guyana Amateur Basketball Coaching Association (GABCA) is asking that all affiliated Coaches register with the association...

Entries for GSCL Inc Republic Cup close tomorrow

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries for GSCL Inc Republic Cup close tomorrow

Entries for the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc. (GSCL) Republic Cup tournament will be closed at 14:00 hrs tomorrow. The tournament will be launched on Wednesday 29 at GNIC Sports Club, while...

Woodpecker Products contribute trophies to GSSF

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Woodpecker Products contribute trophies to GSSF

The Guyana Sport Shooting Federation (GSSF) has recently received a donation of trophies from Mrs. Luana Fernandes, Owner and Managing Director of Woodpecker Products located at Lot 40, Fourth...

Second GBTI/RHTY&SC Tapeball tourney for Corentyne Schools launched Male and female teams to contest

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Second GBTI/RHTY&SC Tapeball tourney for Corentyne Schools launched Male and female teams to contest

The second edition of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) / Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) tapeball cricket tournament for secondary schools in the Lower and Central...

Outgoing British envoy regrets “some targets” not reached

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Outgoing British envoy regrets “some targets” not reached

Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, M.P., yesterday bid farewell to outgoing British High Commissioner, Andrew Ayre, who is set to end his duties in Guyana shortly. According to a...

Bosai worker says he was wrongfully detained by police …demands apology from employers

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bosai worker says he was wrongfully detained by police …demands apology from employers

Jerry Joseph of Wismar, Linden, an employee of Bosai Bauxite INC, is demanding that the Management of Bosai make a public apology to him in the local media, as he has suffered ‘’defamation of...

Bibi Shadick appointed UG Pro-Chancellor -as position for Registrar is advertised

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bibi Shadick appointed UG Pro-Chancellor -as position for Registrar is advertised

After being without a Pro-Chancellor for just over seven months, the University of Guyana (UG) has finally been able to fill that void. A statement issued by the tertiary institution yesterday...

Motivational speaker helps youths maximize their potential

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Motivational speaker helps youths maximize their potential

Motivational Speaker, Astell Collins, is on a mission to help Guyanese youth maximize their potential and steer them in the direction of becoming leaders with a difference through a series of...

GTU to facilitate legal representation for teacher who TSC refused to appoint

Jan 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU to facilitate legal representation for teacher who TSC refused to appoint

“I’m smiling because I was taught by my mother that whenever you are extremely annoyed, smile before you say or do the wrong thing,” was how Administrative Field Officer of the Guyana Teachers...

THE PRICE AT THE PUMP

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PRICE AT THE PUMP

How is it that oil prices declined by more than half over the past six months and yet the prices that Guyanese consumers were being asked to pay at the pumps remained relatively unchanged? This is...

Which university?

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Which university?

Recently there was a desultory and defensive response to our editorial “Higher Education at UG?” in which we had bemoaned the dearth of research in our sole tertiary institution. We questioned...

The PPP has never won an election using ideas

Jan 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP has never won an election using ideas

All Donald Ramotar wanted to do was to pose with his casual top and denim jeans and do the routine stuff – meet villagers, open conferences, travel abroad. He liked that. That was his idea of the...

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The PPP is in the grip of the bourgeoisie

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur news- The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) stands at a crossroads. Once the vanguard... more