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Daniel Razick crowned Assuria Open Singles Classic Champion

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Daniel Razick crowned Assuria Open Singles Classic Champion

2014 Trophy Stall Novice Doubles Champion Daniel Razick completed his Novice stint by defeating 2014 GBTI Novice Singles finalist Charles Adams 6-1. Throughout the match Razick showed perfect form...

A real fear or a new hobby horse?

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A real fear or a new hobby horse?

The private life of a soldier is not so private after all, especially if that soldier had climbed to the rank of officer in the army. Today, the fact that some of these military men have come out in...

Elderly Providence accident victim succumbs

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly Providence accident victim succumbs

The 75-year-old woman whose right leg was crushed by a truck on the Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road last Monday, has succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)....

Man slashes son’s neck

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man slashes son’s neck

A Richmond Housing Scheme troubled father is now in hiding after he attempted to kill his toddler son, Thursday night. According to reports, the father of three, attempted to cut his son’s neck...

Lawyer challenges Luncheon’s name on candidates’ list

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer challenges Luncheon’s name on candidates’ list

A lawyer known for taking on complex constitutional matters, has gone to court challenging the legality of Secretary of Cabinet, Dr. Roger Luncheon, on the list of candidates for the ruling...

Baby allegedly punched in head…Investigation at a standstill

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Baby allegedly punched in head…Investigation at a standstill

‘Her mother neglected her and moved on’- Police source Investigations into the alleged beating of an infant, which has left her nursing a fractured skull, is at a standstill, according to a...

Hospital health and safety committee presented with badges

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hospital health and safety committee presented with badges

Two dozen employees of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were yesterday conferred with badges of occupational safety and health as Guyana gears up to observe World Day of Occupational...

Presidential debates… PSC expresses disappointment in political parties’ inability to compromise

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential debates… PSC expresses disappointment in political parties’ inability to compromise

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has expressed disappointment in the fact that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change...

Hospital reports will be more transparent under coalition government

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hospital reports will be more transparent under coalition government

As politicians continue to make their commitments to the Guyanese public in the lead-up to general and regional elections on May 11, the APNU+AFC coalition has said that health reports will become...

US Charge D’Affairs joins in benevolent activities

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US Charge D’Affairs joins in benevolent activities

United States Charge D’Affaires, Bryan Hunte, recently spent the entire day in Berbice joining with executives of the Food for the Poor Guyana (FFP) INC and the St. Francis Community Developers...

Minister Anthony to promote heritage awareness, to attract tourists

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Anthony to promote heritage awareness, to attract tourists

Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in collaboration with the National Trust of Guyana (NTG), is now seeking to list Georgetown, and some areas outside of the Capital City as historic landmarks....

Nageer seeks legal advice over Health Minister’s ‘slap and strip’ tirade

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nageer seeks legal advice over Health Minister’s ‘slap and strip’ tirade

Embattled Health Minister Dr. Bheri Ramsaran’s recent ‘slap and strip’ tirade may land him before the courts, if women rights activist Sherlina Nageer’s attorney gives her the green light to...

GUYANA IS NO CHINA

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA IS NO CHINA

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) has a point. It is hard to reconcile how the APNU+AFC coalition arrived at a projected 7% average economic growth when one of its proposals is to develop...

Workers urged to be more proactive with health and safety

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Workers urged to be more proactive with health and safety

As Guyana prepares to observe the World Day for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), workers have been urged to be more proactive when dealing with their health and safety, rather than leaving the...

Holocaust controversy has relevance for the election campaign

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Holocaust controversy has relevance for the election campaign

A controversy broke out last week between the FBI and Poland. It led to an intervention by the American Government. The Director of the FBI said that Poles were accomplices in the Holocaust committed...

Hostility during election period is a dangerous development –PSC Chairman

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hostility during election period is a dangerous development –PSC Chairman

Scorching criticisms and “eye-opening” accusations which have been characteristic of the election rhetoric thus far, caused the Private Sector Commission (PSC), yesterday, to urge the political...

Dr. Doobay’s wife murder… Accused maintains confession statement is false

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dr. Doobay’s wife murder… Accused maintains confession statement is false

Shakir Mohamed, the man accused of killing the wife of prominent doctor Ramsundar Doobay, has maintained that the contents of the statement police gave him to sign were false. Mohamed, 32, of Lot 127...

Inner Wheel Club of Georgetown Central pledges continuous support to Help & Shelter

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Inner Wheel Club of Georgetown Central pledges continuous support to Help & Shelter

Recognizing the work being done by Help and Shelter to better the lives of abused women in Guyana, President of the Inner Wheel Club of Georgetown Central, Isha Husain-Singh, has said that the club...

E’bo leads in suicide

Apr 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo leads in suicide

A 73-year-old Richmond Housing Scheme pensioner has been recorded as Essequibo’s latest suicide. Fitzroy Augustus Oriley Grant, a Berbician, died Friday morning moments after his relatives rushed...

Our past festers and the coalition campaigns on forgetting history

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our past festers and the coalition campaigns on forgetting history

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to thank Mr Tarron Khemraj for pointing out that I am no advocate for the PPP and its government in his last SN column, “History matters, but ….” I believe most readers of...

Whose legacy is the current PPP following?

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Whose legacy is the current PPP following?

Dear Editor, Two items form the centrepiece of the PPP’s campaign – Amaila Falls and hydro power and the 20 billion (100 million US dollars) for the sugar industry, along with a host of...

The PPP is not serious about being an ethnically balanced party

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP is not serious about being an ethnically balanced party

DEAR EDITOR, Over the last few days Ms. Elisabeth Harper has taken quite some flak from several speakers, writers and the public. I am less interested in jabbing at Ms. Harper than I am in...

Banks need to change their attitude

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Banks need to change their attitude

DEAR EDITOR, I noted with alarm, recently, news that a businessman was robbed while in the compound of a commercial bank at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. He was reportedly told by security guards at...

Guyana needs objective research on critical issues

Apr 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs objective research on critical issues

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana, unlike say Trinidad, Jamaica, or Barbados is yet to build a sound “research culture”. Guyana is badly in need of national development research (objective, critical,...