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Harry, Boston lead Strikers to victory

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Harry, Boston lead Strikers to victory

Outstanding performances by Roderick Harry and Lindon Boston guided Strikers to victory when the Robert Williams Memorial Dominoes competition continued on Saturday night last at Meadowbrook. Harry...

NEE Second Annual Mashramani Futsal Tournament… NAlico-NAfico Insurance Co. hands over trophy

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NEE Second Annual Mashramani Futsal Tournament… NAlico-NAfico Insurance Co. hands over trophy

NAlico-NAfico Insurance Company yesterday handed over the first place trophy to New Era Entertainment (NEE) for their upcoming Second Annual Mashramani Futsal Tournament to be played at the Mackenzie...

Health Ministry honours Vector Control workers

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry honours Vector Control workers

It wasn’t merely deemed a job, but a passion for workers attached to the Vector Control Services Unit of the Ministry of Health when they engaged in sustained efforts to tackle an outbreak of...

For a clean campaign

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on For a clean campaign

Stretching all the electoral timing stipulations to their limits, general elections are less than four months away. We hope that in the political campaign that will be waged for the duration, the new...

Students react with disappointment at UG

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Students react with disappointment at UG

— Reports of VC hospitalization dampen meeting to end industrial action Intense industrial action at the University of Guyana (UG) might very well be proving to be too much for Vice Chancellor (VC)...

Canadian Govt. offers electoral help to GECOM

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian Govt. offers electoral help to GECOM

Director of the Central America and Caribbean Relations Division of the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, Johanna Forest, recently paid a courtesy call on the Chairman of the Guyana...

Rohee stumbles over claims that Govt. slow to fight corruption

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee stumbles over claims that Govt. slow to fight corruption

By Abena Rockcliffe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary and Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, failed yesterday to defend allegations that the governing Party has taken a laid...

Almost five years later…Mother of missing daughter determined to find her

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Almost five years later…Mother of missing daughter determined to find her

By Romila Boodram November of this year will be exactly five years since 28-year-old Babita Sarjou, a mother of one, disappeared without leaving a trace. The young mother vanished after telling her...

THE GUYANA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE SHOULD BE DISBANDED

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE GUYANA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE SHOULD BE DISBANDED

It is bewildering that the PPPC administration continued with the Guyana Prize for Literature. There seemed no plausible reason why the Prize should have been continued to upkeep the tradition of the...

More theories from Raphael Trotman

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on More theories from Raphael Trotman

Raphael Trotman is not Clement Rohee. You don’t take on Rohee because you know Rohee cannot influence even school children with his inelegant semantics. Raphael Trotman is not Manzoor Nadir whom...

Jagdeo libel case…Court grants plaintiff third adjournment to appeal ruling

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo libel case…Court grants plaintiff third adjournment to appeal ruling

…defence says enough time wasted Lawyers for former President Bharrat Jagdeo, the plaintiff in the Frederick Kissoon libel case, have been granted a third adjournment by High Court Judge...

Banks DIH Linden Branch sold $912.9M in 2014

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH Linden Branch sold $912.9M in 2014

By Jacquey Bourne Under the theme ‘Refreshing Partnerships’ for the financial year 2013 to 2014, Banks DIH Linden branch total sales was $912.9M, an increase of 7.3%, according to the Branch...

Malcolm re-elected Jamaica Umpires head

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Malcolm re-elected Jamaica Umpires head

Jamaica Star – Kingston, Jamaica – Former West Indies umpire, Norman Malcolm, says now that he has been re-elected president of the Jamaica Cricket Umpires Association (JCUA), his mandate...

Costa Rican fined for falsified travel document

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Costa Rican fined for falsified travel document

A Costa Rican man was yesterday fined $30,000 after he admitted to making a false entry on a passenger declaration form at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), recently. Osmari Jesus Peres...

Repeat offender gets two years for $100, wedding band

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Repeat offender gets two years for $100, wedding band

Ivor Greene, an unemployed resident of Lot 77 D’Urban Street, Lodge, was yesterday sentenced to two years imprisonment by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court...

Suspected bottle attack and robbery sends man to jail

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected bottle attack and robbery sends man to jail

Cornell Grimes, a resident of Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, yesterday pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge against him, read by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. It was alleged that on...

Causing death driver for court today

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Causing death driver for court today

Jeweller Satyanand Rampersaud, 29, who police said drove recklessly and caused the deaths of two Essequibo young men, on Sunday, was slapped with four charges yesterday. Rampersaud is scheduled to...

Father of one accused of murdering money changer

Feb 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Father of one accused of murdering money changer

More than seven months after a city money changer was shot dead outside a night spot after a gang of three men robbed him, the police yesterday brought a 20-year-old man before the courts to be...

Former Windies batsman vexed by Bravo’s decision to quit Tests

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former Windies batsman vexed by Bravo’s decision to quit Tests

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Former Test batsman Bryan Davis believes all-rounder Dwayne Bravo should have been a fixture in the West Indies team over the years. The 31-year-old Bravo...

‘Underdogs’ continue to rule the roost as Mayor’s Cup Football Championship continues

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Underdogs’ continue to rule the roost as Mayor’s Cup Football Championship continues

By Michael Benjamin When underdogs, Golden Grove, defeated Grove Hi Tech in the first major upset of the inaugural night of the Mayor’s Cup Football Championship and another lowly rated team,...

If the government insists on keeping the Guyana Prize, it must pay attention to the development of local writers

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on If the government insists on keeping the Guyana Prize, it must pay attention to the development of local writers

DEAR EDITOR, In response to Ms. Ryhaan Shah’s letter on the Guyana Prize, published in both Stabroek News and Kaieteur News of February 2: Ms. Shah says, “I think it is a serious disservice to...

Guyana’s 19th century educational system is irrelevant and inimical to students

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s 19th century educational system is irrelevant and inimical to students

DEAR EDITOR, In this modern era, the PPP regime’s archaic approach to education has proven to be irrelevant and inimical to the interests of most students. In part, the programmes developed by the...

The Opposition parties must be clear in their message

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Opposition parties must be clear in their message

DEAR EDITOR, It grieves me daily to know that the party I voted for in 1992, which promised to usher in a new era of a ‘lean, clean and mean government’, has failed us miserably. This slogan that...

All races need to feel secure and only a Govt. of National Unity can ensure this

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on All races need to feel secure and only a Govt. of National Unity can ensure this

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana needs a Government of National Unity if we are to become a Modern Society based on Rule of Law, good governance and social inclusion as opposed to social cohesion. The country is...

Returning to the land is the solution

Feb 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Returning to the land is the solution

DEAR EDITOR, Guysuco’s nagging problem is the production of sugar at a cost above its market price. In trying to solve this problem it has been concentrating on two issues: capitalization and...