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Police identify mastermind in bank customers’ robberies

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police identify mastermind in bank customers’ robberies

Police investigators are busy building a case against a man who they believe is the mastermind behind several armed robberies committed on persons leaving city banks with large amounts of cash. The...

Bus operators claim victimisation from police sergeant

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bus operators claim victimisation from police sergeant

– also cite abuse of security cameras Minibus operators protested outside the Ministry of Public Security yesterday, after what they deemed was continuous victimisation from a police sergeant...

21 firms bid to rehab PM’s residence

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 21 firms bid to rehab PM’s residence

Bids for the rehabilitation of the Prime Minister’s residence, described as being in a deplorable state, were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board. Some 21...

Petrocaribe supplies to continue despite low world prices

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Petrocaribe supplies to continue despite low world prices

Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Delcy Rodríguez, and Minister of Petroleum and Mining, Asdrúbal Chávez, yesterday assured the 15th Meeting of the Energy Ministerial Council of...

2013 AG Report reveals…Amerindian Purposes Fund improperly maintained

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 2013 AG Report reveals…Amerindian Purposes Fund improperly maintained

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs now renamed the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs, was cited for several financial improprieties in the 2013 report of the guardian of the national purse....

Enterprise family loses $$M in mid-morning fire

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprise family loses $$M in mid-morning fire

A family of five is now counting losses estimated at over 17 million dollars, after a mid-morning fire completely destroyed their residence at Enterprise Gardens, East Coast Demerara. It is suspected...

PPP/C takes control of seven regions

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C takes control of seven regions

– Solomon, Corlette, Crawford among RDC heads to roll – Protests hit Region One against new Chairman Yesterday morning saw the election of Regional Chairmen and Councilors from across...

Blind Rohee brucking up de Pee Pee Pee

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Blind Rohee brucking up de Pee Pee Pee

Old people got a saying that people shouldn’t see something by day and then go and look for it at night. But dem got some people who, day or night, more blind than a bat. Somebody send a video to...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Defending champs one step closer to title defence

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Defending champs one step closer to title defence

National champions Christiansburg /Wismar Secondary School made another giant leap towards the defence of their title after beating archrival Mackenzie High School (MHS) 3-1 yesterday to seal the...

IKD Chairman and Chief Instructor Grades 95 Karate Students at the YMCA

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on IKD Chairman and Chief Instructor Grades 95 Karate Students at the YMCA

Ninth Dan Shuseki Shihan Frank Woon-A-Tai, founder of the International Karate Daigaku, graded 95 Karatekas of the ASK-Guyana at the YMCA Thomas Lands on Sunday last. Woon-A-Tai was assisted by 6th...

Digicel Schools’ Football Championships …Defending Zone Champs Charity maul Abram Zuil; Cotton Field beat Wakapoa on PK

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Schools’ Football Championships …Defending Zone Champs Charity maul Abram Zuil; Cotton Field beat Wakapoa on PK

By Sean Devers in E’bo The second day of the Region Two Zone in the Digicel Schools’ Football Championships was played at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) ground on the Essequibo Coast on Monday...

Sachia Vickery beaten by 8th seed Russian in Wimbledon first round

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sachia Vickery beaten by 8th seed Russian in Wimbledon first round

Teenager Sachia Vickery, who is born to Guyanese parents, playing out of the United States, was beaten in the first round of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, England yesterday. Vickery...

Budget of 4M for Guyanese on WI Team to World LR Shooting C/ships in USA…

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Budget of 4M for Guyanese on WI Team to World LR Shooting C/ships in USA…

Demerara Mutual Assurance Society and Scotiabank on board By Franklin Wilson Corporate support for Guyana’s members on the West Indies Team that will contest this year’s 2015 Palma Match, Team...

East Ruimveldt win Police Youth Group U-15 Football title

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Ruimveldt win Police Youth Group U-15 Football title

East Ruimveldt won Central Georgetown’s Police Youth Group Under-15 Football Tournament on Sunday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, carting off the Banks DIH Agua Mist Water-sponsored...

GFF outfit Essequibo Referees

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF outfit Essequibo Referees

Following a Beginners Referees Course held in the Cinderella County of Essequibo a few weeks ago, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) presented the Essequibo Referees Council with Admiral branded...

North Georgetown triumph over St. Winifred

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on North Georgetown triumph over St. Winifred

Forward Nehemiah Gomes scored twice in the first half as North Georgetown Secondary overcame St. Winifred 4-3 when the Digicel National Schools football championships continued yesterday at the...

Boxing Coach Roldan completes successful stint with GABA

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing Coach Roldan completes successful stint with GABA

By Zaheer Mohamed Forty eight-year old Cuban Boxing Coach Francisco Roldan has successfully completed a three-year stint with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA). During his stay Roldan held...

RHTY&SC cricket teams and GPF ‘B’ Division donate school bags to less fortunate students

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC cricket teams and GPF ‘B’ Division donate school bags to less fortunate students

Cricket teams of the Rose Hall Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) and ‘B’ Division of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Friday last donated over $250,000 worth of school bags to less fortunate...

CPL tickets go on sale at the Guyana National Stadium from today

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on CPL tickets go on sale at the Guyana National Stadium from today

CPL OPCO (Guyana) Inc. has announced the opening of its Ticket Office from today at the Guyana National Stadium ahead of Guyana’s hosting of four matches in the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League...

NSBF to host Media Day on Saturday

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSBF to host Media Day on Saturday

– Regional Finals for Friday To commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG), the host of the National Schools’ Basketball Festival (NSBF), will for the first time on...

Education sector lacking effective ICT plan – Minister Roopnaraine

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education sector lacking effective ICT plan – Minister Roopnaraine

– STEM, Liberal Arts and Civics for close attention “The use of information technology is easily one area that can be said we have utterly failed in, in terms of holistic, innovative...

After failed ‘exorcism’…Manslaughter convict ‘Mother Alves’ now on attempted murder charge

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on After failed ‘exorcism’…Manslaughter convict ‘Mother Alves’ now on attempted murder charge

Self-proclaimed spiritualist Patricia Alves, who was convicted ten years ago for causing a woman’s death during an ‘exorcism’ is in trouble again. This time she is charged with attempted...

Governance Minister warns Region 10 investors to respect laws

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Governance Minister warns Region 10 investors to respect laws

A team of senior Government officials visited Region 10 over the past weekend with investors and warned that the laws of Guyana should be respected. The team was led by Minister of Governance,...

PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT

Guyana does not have a Minister of the Environment, but if there is any country on planet earth that needs one, it is surely Guyana. Everyone should respect nature and the environment but in Guyana...

COURTESY HAS TO BEGIN AT THE TOP

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on COURTESY HAS TO BEGIN AT THE TOP

It was refreshing to hear from the Minister of Tourism that the government is going to place emphasis on courtesy. This time we know the new campaign is not simply a war on bad manners but an...

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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