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Young female boxer gets gears from Michael Carryl

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young female boxer gets gears from Michael Carryl

Female amateur boxer Taseka Howard was the recipient of some gears from United States based Guyanese Michael Carryl yesterday. Howard, who is the daughter of former boxer Vincent Howard, received...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Response to Chronicle Article

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Response to Chronicle Article

Dear Editor, Thanks for the opportunity to reply to an article on the Sports page of the Guyana Chronicle on October 20th, 2015, “GFF suspends technical development officer for three months”....

Banks on Board ‘Tour Guyana’ 5-Stage cycling

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks on Board ‘Tour Guyana’ 5-Stage cycling

The ninth annual five-stage Cycling Race dubbed ‘Tour Guyana’ peddles off from Skeldon in Upper Corentyne Berbice on Thursday October 29 for the start of the first stage. The Tourism Ministry is...

Copa Airlines adds two more weekly flights

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Copa Airlines adds two more weekly flights

More than 15 months after starting operations to Guyana, Panamanian-owned Copa Airlines has announced plans to add two more flights every week. That will make it a total of four flights weekly by the...

NCN’s satellite uplink facilities superior to TVG’s

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NCN’s satellite uplink facilities superior to TVG’s

…as PM Nagamootoo labels state of affairs downright criminal “We believe either there has been collusion or a massive recklessness with regard to assets purchased with the tax-payers...

Carjacking family gang for court today

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Carjacking family gang for court today

Two men believed to be part of a gang responsible for the shooting and carjacking committed on a Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara taxi driver are expected to appear in court today. The suspects, Seon...

Report on Sugar Industry…Chairman appeals for acceptance of GuySuCo CoI recommendations

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Report on Sugar Industry…Chairman appeals for acceptance of GuySuCo CoI recommendations

– “Our finding may not find favour with many…” By Abena Rockcliffe Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) set up to examine the Sugar Industry, Vibert Parvatan, on Tuesday presented...

Ramotar says it is too early to reflect

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ramotar says it is too early to reflect

As I entered the door of my home on Tuesday around 8.25 pm, the television was on and Donald Ramotar was on the screen. He was being interviewed by the HGPTV newscast. The question I heard was, what...

TRANSPARENCY AND THE BUSINESS DECLINE

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TRANSPARENCY AND THE BUSINESS DECLINE

I am once again asking the media that when reporting on appointments made by the government, be it to Boards or to public offices, to kindly indicate the age of the persons being appointed. The media...

Loss of accreditation results in medical degree not being valid outside Guyana

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Loss of accreditation results in medical degree not being valid outside Guyana

– Dean calls for Government’s support to remedy state of affairs The medical degrees of the 46 students set to graduate from the University of Guyana (UG) School of Medicine this year will be...

Guyanese woman in US Medicaid fraud pays back US$85,000

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman in US Medicaid fraud pays back US$85,000

New York (New York Daily News) – A Bronx woman who committed one of the borough’s biggest ever cases of benefits fraud got off with five years’ probation Tuesday after paying back a hefty...

Berbice October sessions open

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice October sessions open

The Ceremonial opening of the October 2015 Criminal session of the Berbice High Court attracted the usual pomp and ceremony outside the Berbice High Court building on Esplanade Road, New Amsterdam....

Guyana for the first time to receive top Regional CAPE award

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana for the first time to receive top Regional CAPE award

– to again receive four top regional CSEC awards With Cecil Cox of Queen’s College (QC) being named the Most Outstanding Overall candidate at the 2015 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency...

Ranks should not hide to trap unsuspecting drivers – Traffic Chief

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ranks should not hide to trap unsuspecting drivers – Traffic Chief

Traffic ranks lurking amid trees and stationary vehicles to trap unsuspecting drivers with speed guns, is hazardous to both the lawmen and road users, according to the Traffic Chief, Dion Moore. The...

Modifying the system of voting

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Modifying the system of voting

The Canadians went to the polls on Monday and before most of them would have retired to bed that night they would have known the results of the elections. The polls closed at six that evening and by...

Mexico cooperates with Guyana on the preservation of the historical archive

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mexico cooperates with Guyana on the preservation of the historical archive

In the framework of celebration for the 50th anniversary of independence, the Governments of Guyana and Mexico are collaborating to promote bilateral cooperation that includes a project for the...

Guyana-born NYPD cop shot dead in Harlem

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born NYPD cop shot dead in Harlem

One day after a US-based Guyanese, NYPD officer was fatally shot, flags flew at half mast yesterday in New York. The NYPD housing officer was fatally shot to the head on Tuesday night, by a...

Canal man clings to life after road accident

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Canal man clings to life after road accident

A 49-year-old Canal #2 resident is currently battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), following an accident on the West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road last...

E’bo man found floating in canal

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo man found floating in canal

An Aberdeen family, whose relative Mahesh Narine a/k “Big” 30, a rice farmer whose decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench in the back dam early Wednesday morning, is making...

After two years on the run…Captured fugitive charged with attempted murders

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on After two years on the run…Captured fugitive charged with attempted murders

Bail was refused for captured fugitive, Shawn Maltus Fordyce, who was yesterday slapped with four counts of attempted murder. He is accused of trying to kill his wife, Dorothy Blackman-Fordyce, his...

Multi-million dollar bids opened for Mahdia road work

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-million dollar bids opened for Mahdia road work

During Tuesday’s session at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance, bids were opened for the contractors to undertake infrastructural works on several...

Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

A visibly emotional James Wong was on Tuesday acquitted of a carnal knowledge charge. He was found not guilty of the allegation by a mixed 12-member jury. Wong had been indicted for having Carnal...

Little evidence that Ministerial Salary Increase leads to Good Governance

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Little evidence that Ministerial Salary Increase leads to Good Governance

Dear Editor, One of the contentions of the coalition government regarding ministerial salary increase is the argument put forward by the President himself that higher salary increase for ministers...

Assets Recovery Unit needs to investigate these Region 2 land sales

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Assets Recovery Unit needs to investigate these Region 2 land sales

Dear Editor, Just before May elections prime properties in Region Two were given to rich PPP/C loyalists for under market value. Prime property in Anna Regina next to the Republic Bank which was...

Remembering Professor Raymond T. Smith

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remembering Professor Raymond T. Smith

Dear Editor, I read a recent letter about the anthropologist Professor Raymond T. Smith and noted the debate about the origin of his nationality. Allow me to add some spice to this intriguing...

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