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BREAKING NEWS: Rubis executive shot dead

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS: Rubis executive shot dead

Rubis Guyana Inc. executive accountant Jason Cort was shot dead at around 22.30 hrs on Wednesday in his Meadowbrook home. Kaieteur News understands that Cort, 27, had just arrived home when he was...

PetroCaribe money …PM details trail of missing US$$

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PetroCaribe money …PM details trail of missing US$$

The PetroCaribe fund is unable to pay rice farmers. US$141M from the fund was distributed to various Government agencies and projects under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration. This...

PPP/C was never serious about participating in LGE…Surujbally comment just another excuse – Trotman

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C was never serious about participating in LGE…Surujbally comment just another excuse – Trotman

In the wake of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) expressing reticence about participating in long awaited Local Government Elections (LGE) should Dr. Steve Surujbally still be Chairman...

Cabinet approves $3.8B for sugar sector…We are not pouring money down a dark hole – Minister of State

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $3.8B for sugar sector…We are not pouring money down a dark hole – Minister of State

The sugar industry is saddled with $90B in debt until 2017. Its growth has been retarded by grave mismanagement. And though the country spends more and more to produce sugar, it is still unable to...

Discontinued specialty hospital funds to help boost primary health care – Govt.

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Discontinued specialty hospital funds to help boost primary health care – Govt.

Primary health care is poised for some much needed financial attention. According to Minister in the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, Government is currently considering diverting funds...

Jagdeo coming as Opposition Leader

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo coming as Opposition Leader

Old people got a saying. When a man ain’t doing well dem does seh that he fall from grace. Well Donald ain’t only fall from grace, he fall and smash up. Up to de other day he was talking from...

Digicel School’s Football Championships …L’Aventure claw back to KO West Demerara in Region 3 opener 2-1

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel School’s Football Championships …L’Aventure claw back to KO West Demerara in Region 3 opener 2-1

By Franklin Wilson L’Aventure Secondary dealt the first blow in the Region 3 leg of this year’s Digicel School’s Football Championships firing back in the closing moments to defeat West...

New Silvercity boot host Wisburg out of competition after 3-2 win

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Silvercity boot host Wisburg out of competition after 3-2 win

5th Annual Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition …. By Rawle Welch New Silvercity commenced their quest for top honours in this year’s Digicel Nationwide Schools Football...

Four NBA Heavyweights That Are in the Midst of a Dreadful Season

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Four NBA Heavyweights That Are in the Midst of a Dreadful Season

The NBA season is well underway, and there are some big names who are currently having a tough time of it. Even some of the most dominant and championship-caliber teams have found themselves...

Experienced six headline Player Draft

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Experienced six headline Player Draft

Half dozen players with Test match experience have been included in the list of 90 entered in the Player Draft of the West Indies Cricket Board Professional Cricket League. The Player Draft, which...

Defending champs, Bahamas blow away Guyana

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending champs, Bahamas blow away Guyana

– Bermuda take revenge for home series loss The defending champions, Bahamas won convincingly against Guyana 89-69 in their Group B preliminary play of the 2015 Men’s Caribbean Basketball...

RHTY&SC names team for BCB fundraiser…..Caricom Championship 2015

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC names team for BCB fundraiser…..Caricom Championship 2015

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, playing under the banner of Gizmos and Gadgets, one of the top cricket teams in Berbice and Guyana, has named a strong team for the Berbice Cricket Board...

GDA President Faye Joseph to host massive Father’s Day Tournament

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDA President Faye Joseph to host massive Father’s Day Tournament

President of the Georgetown Dominoes Association (GDA) Faye Joseph has organised a massive Father’s Day Competition which will see most of the top teams in country participate for prize monies...

GCB Coaching Education programme underway in Berbice

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB Coaching Education programme underway in Berbice

By Zaheer Mohamed The Berbice leg of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Ministry of Education/Scotiabank coaching education programme got underway yesterday at the Port Mourant Cricket Club, Berbice with...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Is the WICB serious about cricket development or merely bluffing

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Is the WICB serious about cricket development or merely bluffing

Dear Sports Editor, World Cup 2015 has been over for some time now and we are in another phase of West Indies cricket. WI Cricket fans seem to have already forgotten the embarrassment that was...

GMSA STANDS AGAINST VENEZUELA’S AGGRESSION

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GMSA STANDS AGAINST VENEZUELA’S AGGRESSION

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Ltd. takes this opportunity to throw the weight of the entire Manufacturing and Services sectors behind the nation’s response to the...

Water level drops in conservancy

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Water level drops in conservancy

– as discharge continues through Hope Canal Since the discharge of water via the eight-door sluice of the Northern Relief Channel recommenced on Tuesday morning, the operation has continued...

Gov’t pledges Commission of Inquiry into sugar industry

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t pledges Commission of Inquiry into sugar industry

In the face of a perilous sugar industry, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo vowed that a Commission of Inquiry will be launched to fix the sugar industry. He said this at the 67th Enmore Martyrs...

No money spent from public purse on Ministers’ visit to USA – Minister of State

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on No money spent from public purse on Ministers’ visit to USA – Minister of State

The speculations were high over the last few days, regarding President David Granger’s recent trip to the USA. With little information made available to the public on the purpose of the trip, it...

Insurance Executive murder …Accused alleges that sodomy lead to murder – Police witness

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Insurance Executive murder …Accused alleges that sodomy lead to murder – Police witness

A caution statement admitted in the murder trial of Clive Knights stated that he had confessed to stabbing Insurance Executive, Bert Whyte. Whyte, a former Assistant Company Secretary at Guyana and...

Bandits leave slippers, knife behind in failed robbery

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits leave slippers, knife behind in failed robbery

The police are now hunting three bandits who are on the run after they were unable to rob an East Canje business man. The entire scenario was caught on Close Circuit Television (CCT) and the...

Kuru Kuru man chopped, likely to lose arm

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kuru man chopped, likely to lose arm

Glenford Kitt, of Lot 383 Kuru Kuru Soesdyke/Linden Highway, is now at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a severe chop to one of his arms following a confrontation with...

The middle finger that no one wanted to stop

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The middle finger that no one wanted to stop

I am not on Facebook but daily I hear from my friends about what takes place on social media on Guyanese topics. I have been told that there has been strong support for medical doctor, Vindya...

Inaugural Int’l yoga day…Yoga presentations to be open to general public at Kalyan shopping plaza

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Inaugural Int’l yoga day…Yoga presentations to be open to general public at Kalyan shopping plaza

June 21, 2015 marks the inaugural international day of yoga, a day first approved by the United Nations last year and the Indian High Commission of Guyana yesterday unveiled an itinerary of...

Top US schools showcased at local College Fair

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Top US schools showcased at local College Fair

Around the world, schools such as Harvard University are well known to students. Even here in Guyana, such top schools are highly coveted by students and on Tuesday, hundreds of Guyanese got the...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more