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Digicel Guyana Open Golf Tournament

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Guyana Open Golf Tournament

Persaud, Deo will have to be at imperious best to retain titles; over 80 entries expected By Rawle Welch Defending champions in the Men’s and Ladies categories of the prestigious Digicel Guyana...

The National Coach Speaks

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on The National Coach Speaks

STAG Elite Teams Battle For Play Off Spots Pele has emerged as the runaway horse in the Stag Elite League and with the return of experienced midfielder Konata Mannings, they are definitely the team...

GBSA to launch league in December

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBSA to launch league in December

Throws support behind Team Unity for GFF Elections The Rollin Tappin led Guyana Beach Soccer Association (GBSA) is working towards launching a national beach soccer league by mid December that will...

Better Hope overcome Ogle

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Better Hope overcome Ogle

Better Hope defeated host Ogle by 52 runs when the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association (ECDCA)/Tropical Mist Water Under-19 40-over tournament commenced last Saturday. Better Hope batted first...

Guyanese are using “pirated” computer software

Oct 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese are using “pirated” computer software

The Guyana National Computer Incident Response Team (GNCIP) is advising that many Guyanese computer home users are using Microsoft Windows in an unlicensed manner. The GNCIP, which falls under the...

The US Embassy needs to ask the police a question

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The US Embassy needs to ask the police a question

In Guyana, violence against women is a “federal” offence, meaning it is not confined to geographical location of a police station. The world has frowned upon men bullying women. The courts...

Readying for oil: Key seminar set for this weekend

Oct 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Readying for oil: Key seminar set for this weekend

In light of ExxonMobil’s significant oil find in Guyana, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will host a workshop on...

Abuse survivor decries actions of Landlord

Oct 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Abuse survivor decries actions of Landlord

A mother of two has accused her landlord of trying to evict her by removing her door and sending gunmen to terrorize her, even though she has paid three months’ rent. On Wednesday, the landlord...

Man wanted for Berbice River cutlass killing surrenders

Oct 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man wanted for Berbice River cutlass killing surrenders

A man who was wanted for a murder at Gaetroy Village, Berbice, has turned himself in to the police. Kumar Bowham called “Roy,” 23, of Lot 94 Theatre Alley, New Amsterdam, Berbice is accused of...

The government and the rice sectors

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The government and the rice sectors

Over the past decade under the PPP, the productive sectors in the Guyanese economy were crippled. We had bumper production in rice, but how productive was the industry? The PPP did very little to...

Two testify at PI into sex worker’s murder

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Two testify at PI into sex worker’s murder

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of transgender sex worker, Nephi Noel commenced yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Ron ‘Andel’...

Guyana and Belize are identical in many dimensions of life

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana and Belize are identical in many dimensions of life

Dear Editor, Belizians are going to the polls on Wednesday November 4 either to elect a new government or to give the incumbent, UDP another five years term of office. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has...

Who’s cleaning up?

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who’s cleaning up?

Dear Editor, All over Guyana, oversized signs not trees are being planted; signs that destroy the landscape with messages that could hardly be read. Pray, tell me, who Ok’ed these signs? The...

Congratulations to Minister Ramjattan for his Diwali date stance

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to Minister Ramjattan for his Diwali date stance

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper to congratulate Swami Aksharananda for his succinct and cogent articulation of the 2014 Diwali celebration in Guyana that seems to have the Hindu...

Guyanese in New York turned up in large numbers for slain police officer

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese in New York turned up in large numbers for slain police officer

Dear Editor, I applaud KN’s coverage of the shooting, memorial service and funeral relating to slain Guyanese born New York police officer Randolph Holder. Much credit goes to many New York...

E-Governance cable project has many unanswered questions

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on E-Governance cable project has many unanswered questions

Dear Editor, Does Guyana have the intellectual capital to plan, build and operate both a Core Digital Backbone and a Modern Data Center? Last Sunday (10/25) I was reading an article in Stabroek News...

Swami Vidyanandji was a great monk

Oct 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Swami Vidyanandji was a great monk

Dear Editor, It was around noon on October 28 that I received a telephone call from the Principal of the Hindu College, Cove and John that “guruji has passed away an hour ago”. Swami Vidyanandji,...

Guyana light-years away from being blacklisted

Oct 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana light-years away from being blacklisted

…as FATF lauds APNU+AFC Govt. over positive steps taken-Williams Guyana under the coalition government of A Partnership for National Unity plus Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) is light years away...

NY says farewell to Guyanese-born cop

Oct 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NY says farewell to Guyanese-born cop

(New York Times) For the fourth time in less than a year, they gathered, rank-and-file New York City officers in their dress blue uniforms, colleagues from distant police departments, ordinary New...

11-year-old among girls rescued in Baramita

Oct 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 11-year-old among girls rescued in Baramita

– as residents call on Minister Broomes to sweep community An 11-year-old child was among several girls that were picked up in a bar at Baramita on Saturday night, following a visit by Minister...

Hijacked ‘Red House’ land has to be returned – AG

Oct 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hijacked ‘Red House’ land has to be returned – AG

…you cannot use Public Office to rob the State—AG Williams The 99-year lease that governs the use of land on which sits the heritage building known as Red House will be quashed. Government is...

City Halls demolition hammer falls on Globe Yard

Oct 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City Halls demolition hammer falls on Globe Yard

Several families and single occupants who reside in four derelict buildings at the infamous ‘Globe Yard’ are about to be out of house and home. Most have resided there for more than 15 years, but...

Pradoville 11 Scandal…AG Chambers gathering evidence against Jagdeo, fmr. Ministers

Oct 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Pradoville 11 Scandal…AG Chambers gathering evidence against Jagdeo, fmr. Ministers

The Attorney General Chambers is still in the process of gathering evidence in the matter related to a 15-acre tract of land at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara. The land was transformed into a posh...

Some people shaking in dem boots

Oct 29, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people shaking in dem boots

Do nothing, fear nothing. Dem boys mother always use to tell dem that. Nuff time when some of dem see de police dem use to continue doing wha dem was doing because dem know that dem didn’t do...

Plenty skills, spills and thrills at Rising Sun Rodeo

Oct 29, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Plenty skills, spills and thrills at Rising Sun Rodeo

On a sun baked day with plenty of action, Rodeo fans had a full platter of action as the Rising Sun Rodeo Committee successfully held another action packed, fun filled day of breathtaking...

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more