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Fireworks expected in Benjamin Sports season opening Cycle race today

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fireworks expected in Benjamin Sports season opening Cycle race today

All of the country’s top cyclists are expected to don their cycling gear and head to Berbice today when former national cyclist Wilbert Benjamin in collaboration with the Flying Ace Cycle Club...

GFF Recognises service of Referees Instructors

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Recognises service of Referees Instructors

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Thursday last paid tribute to three Referee Instructors (RI) for their dedicated work and commitment in the areas of refereeing and referee development in...

Endurance Race/Fun Day to start off GMR&SC season

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Endurance Race/Fun Day to start off GMR&SC season

The Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) will open its season with the staging of an Endurance race and Fun Day on February 8, at the South Dakota Circuit. According to an official from...

Top teams gear up as Mayor’s Cup Football Championships set for grand launch this week

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top teams gear up as Mayor’s Cup Football Championships set for grand launch this week

Twenty years ago, the Mayor’s Cup Football Championships joined an illustrious group of tournaments on the local sports calendar and since then, has earned its place as one of the eagerly awaited...

Nurse: Guyana will be a force again!

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nurse: Guyana will be a force again!

By Santokie Nagulendran Battles between Barbados and Guyana usually evoke images of Cricket in the Caribbean, yet that has all changed this month as high levels of excitement and anticipation are...

Ninvalle for AMBC meeting in Argentina

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ninvalle for AMBC meeting in Argentina

President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Steve Ninvalle is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aries, Argentina to attend an executive and National Federation meeting of the Americas Boxing...

Did you know?

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Did you know?

Did you know that Johnson Charles 177 vs Barbados at Shaw, Tobago during the Nagico Regional One Day Tournament surpassed the previous highest regional one day score of 153, which was held by...

Despite many events horseracing in 2014 still disappointing

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Despite many events horseracing in 2014 still disappointing

Absence of legislation biggest bugbear By Samuel Whyte A review of things in the horseracing arena for 2014 has shown that not much have changed from previous years and it can be simply concluded in...

Bartica IMC official speaks out on behalf of miners

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica IMC official speaks out on behalf of miners

In light of moves to reduce the cost of production in the mining industry, calls are being made for a reduction in the access toll required to enter the mining districts. Public Relations and Press...

Elections date well orchestrated, opposition must work around obstacles

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Elections date well orchestrated, opposition must work around obstacles

– Political analyst By Zena Henry “You wanted the date; you got the date, now you got to run with it,” was the response by Political analyst and former Presidential Advisor Ramon Gaskin...

The pastor with a sordid past

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The pastor with a sordid past

– Is this unsolved murder a revenge killing? By Michael Jordan It was close to 30 years after his wife’s murder that the killers paid Pastor Motielall Persaud a visit. They say it was raining...

Is the PPP using the CXC exams as insurance against E-Day protests?

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Is the PPP using the CXC exams as insurance against E-Day protests?

The date has been set and the race is on. The opposition got its election date and now to defeat the ruling PPP government, the PNC/APNU and the AFC are in talks, working on a strategy. They plan to...

GTU prepared to share evidence to refute Manickchand’s “less than honest” claims

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU prepared to share evidence to refute Manickchand’s “less than honest” claims

Although Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, has insisted that there is no backlog of eligible teachers awaiting their duty free concessions for vehicles, word out of the Guyana Teachers’ Union...

Book Review… A Disturbing Tale of Lost Innocence

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review… A Disturbing Tale of Lost Innocence

Book: Daisy McIntosh Author: Roger Panton Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Roger H. Panton’s ‘Daisy McIntosh is an unnerving tale set in Jamaica. Against the backdrop of rural living, decades ago, is...

That Commission of Inquiry

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on That Commission of Inquiry

With the Rodney Commission of Inquiry due to restart, we reprint this editorial Much has already been written about the Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of renowned...

Sri Lanka seizes car fleet ‘not returned’ by ex-President

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sri Lanka seizes car fleet ‘not returned’ by ex-President

(BBC) Sri Lankan police say they have seized more than 50 state-owned vehicles not returned after former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was toppled in elections. The 53 vehicles, said to include...

Sunday Cartoon

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

GWMO, GDDMA call for speedy resolution to end GGMC strike action

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GWMO, GDDMA call for speedy resolution to end GGMC strike action

Almost three weeks into the strike started by workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, (GGMC) for increases in wages and salaries, officials of the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation,...

Father, teen son charged with unlawful wounding

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Father, teen son charged with unlawful wounding

A carpenter and his 17-year-old son accused of brandishing a machete and chopping another man were remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on an unlawful wounding charge. Matin...

World Leprosy Day… Disease can be completely cured

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on World Leprosy Day… Disease can be completely cured

– Dr Morris-Wilson By Rabindra Rooplall Guyana will be joining the world today (January 25) in observance of World Leprosy Day as local efforts are intensified to raise awareness about the...

Bermudan suspected of swallowing cocaine intercepted at CJIA

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bermudan suspected of swallowing cocaine intercepted at CJIA

Drugs agents from the Guyana Police Force are anxiously waiting to examine the bodily contents of a female Bermudan to confirm that she did ingest cocaine in an attempt to smuggle the drug to her...

The Story Within The Story… The possibilities of a smartphone and the Internet

Jan 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… The possibilities of a smartphone and the Internet

I am very disappointed this week. We were supposed to examine the coconut industry. It has been doing superbly, so much so that I have been getting reports that Suriname is taking off a significant...

A carefully orchestrated plan by Govt. to frustrate residents of Mahdia

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A carefully orchestrated plan by Govt. to frustrate residents of Mahdia

Dear Editor, At the opening of mining week in August of last year a top level delegation from the mining sector including the chairman of GGDMA, the Chairman of GGMC and the Permanent Secretary of...

Does Caribbean Integration have practical value? Astute reflections of Owen Arthur

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Does Caribbean Integration have practical value? Astute reflections of Owen Arthur

By Sir Ronald Sanders There is no doubt about the passion of Owen Arthur, one of the Caribbean’s foremost economists and thinkers, for the economic integration of the Region. As the Prime Minister...

Anger could have caused May 11 to be identified

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Anger could have caused May 11 to be identified

When President Donald Ramotar announced the date for elections, I was certain that he did so in anger and did not take anything into consideration. First, he prorogued Parliament with the hope of...

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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