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2015 NBS Second Division 40 overs cricket competition for teams in Berbice…

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2015 NBS Second Division 40 overs cricket competition for teams in Berbice…

France (134), Jaundoo (119) put Skeldon in last 16 Play-offs Edinburgh also through Skeldon Community Centre defeated No.71 by 168 runs in their final Zone P preliminary match to complete a clean...

Petama Enterprise/ Motor Trend Softball Finals set for tomorrow afternoon at DCC

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Petama Enterprise/ Motor Trend Softball Finals set for tomorrow afternoon at DCC

Petama Enterprise of Delph St., C/ville, and Motor Trend of Enmore, Softball Finals, which is run by GFSCA, is set for tomorrow evening at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground from 5:00pm. ...

Mix Up rewarded for winning Joseph dominoes title

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mix Up rewarded for winning Joseph dominoes title

Mix Up received the first prize of $150,000 and a trophy for winning the Faye Joseph welcome home dominoes tournament which was contested recently at Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt. Mix Up marked 80...

GTU secures audience with President Granger

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU secures audience with President Granger

– after airing concerns affecting teachers After raising concerns earlier this week of a number of issues affecting teachers in the public education system, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU)...

Mash Costume and Float Parade shifted to May – Govt. confirms

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mash Costume and Float Parade shifted to May – Govt. confirms

It is confirmed. February 23rd – Republic Day – next year will not see the traditional Costume and Float Parade being held. Rather, these have been pushed back to May, when Guyana is set to...

Christmas Tree light-up this evening at Rahaman’s Park

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Christmas Tree light-up this evening at Rahaman’s Park

The Tourism Ministry in collaboration with entrepreneur, Ray Rahaman, and a number of large businesses in Georgetown, will be giving a huge Christmas treat to hundreds of children from the...

Guyana looking at all opportunities to assist with Climate Change

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana looking at all opportunities to assist with Climate Change

– Presidential Advisor By Mondale Smith Guyana is looking at all available opportunities to assist with Climate Change, says Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Rear Admiral Gary Best....

Govt. meets GPSU, commits to honouring labour agreements

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. meets GPSU, commits to honouring labour agreements

After more than a decade of saying it has been sidelined by the government of the day, it appears that things are on the mend for the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU). Yesterday, Minister of...

UG ramps up security but criminal activities still abound – Students’ Society

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG ramps up security but criminal activities still abound – Students’ Society

While there has been some evidence of ramped up security at the University of Guyana (UG), the issue of security continues to be a major sore point at the tertiary institution. Although efforts are...

HOW ABOUT ROTATING THE PRESIDENCY?

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW ABOUT ROTATING THE PRESIDENCY?

Former executive member of the Peoples National Congress Reform, Mr. Sherwood Lowe has developed a most insightful framework that is necessary for intra-coalition power sharing. His letter published...

Who and where are these untouchable, golden men?

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Who and where are these untouchable, golden men?

I promised my readers that intermittently from now to the actual day of May 26, 2016, I will be arguing the point that there aren’t scientific, economic and philosophical reasons for the people of...

UGSS calls out Council on failure to award scholarships

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UGSS calls out Council on failure to award scholarships

The University of Guyana (UG) has thus far failed to fulfill its promise to award 10 scholarships to top performing students who have been excelling academically. But the University of Guyana...

Robb Street Granny murder trial…Defence witness presents alibi for #1 accused

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robb Street Granny murder trial…Defence witness presents alibi for #1 accused

Defence witness Adele Campbell told the court yesterday that Orwin Hinds, the number one accused in the matter, had been with her on the night that 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris met her...

Aiming above the subsistence level

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Aiming above the subsistence level

When people talk about resource-rich Guyana, they talk about a country that seems to have been blessed with everything necessary for its survival and the continued existence of its people at an...

Essequibo rapist caught in the act

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Essequibo rapist caught in the act

Residents of Richmond Housing Scheme are relieved after a rapist who was creating havoc in that area was caught red-handed violating a mentally challenged woman on Wednesday night. According to...

Third man remanded for America St. robbery

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Third man remanded for America St. robbery

Another man was yesterday charged for allegedly ambushing and robbing two America Street money-changers earlier this month. Calvin Johnson, 34, of Lot 154 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown,...

Teen remanded for stabbing man with screw driver

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen remanded for stabbing man with screw driver

Eighteen year-old Akeem Dazzell was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of intent to commit murder, after he was arraigned before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’...

FITUG is driven by a conspiratorial concept of numbers

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on FITUG is driven by a conspiratorial concept of numbers

Dear Editor, FITUG was re-established out of the instigation of and direction from the PPP to further and gave support to this party’s policy of domination and anti-working class agenda. Their...

President Granger knows why he chose Majeed for Cuba

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger knows why he chose Majeed for Cuba

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to comment on Freddie Kissoon’s column captioned “The APNU-AFC Government is becoming inscrutable” In his column, Mr. Kissoon attempts to question the recent...

There is no decent leadership in key institutions in Guyana

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no decent leadership in key institutions in Guyana

Dear Editor, Guyana has undoubtedly descended into a state of perpetual lawlessness over the last decade or so, as is evidenced by the decadence we see daily in the family, schools, in public and...

Clinton Williams enumerate his CEO’s achievements

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clinton Williams enumerate his CEO’s achievements

Dear Editor, On November 16, 2015, writing under the name of Donald Alexander, someone apparently in pursuit of a personal agenda, wrote a letter titled: “Many things are not right at the Board of...

Admired Indian religious leaders in New York pass on

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Admired Indian religious leaders in New York pass on

Dear Editor, Ashok Singhal, an iconic Hindu Leader, who has deep admiration for Indo-Guyanese and other Indo-Caribbean people has passed on. Singhal-ji, held in great esteem by Hindus worldwide, was...

Do teachers really have friends in high places since the May 2015?

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do teachers really have friends in high places since the May 2015?

Dear Editor, In 1987 in a march from Buxton to Kitty organized by the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy (PCD), the current Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnarine made a stirring speech on behalf...

Why did the police allow this lawlessness on November 11?

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why did the police allow this lawlessness on November 11?

Dear Editor, Diwali, for the first time in Guyana was observed for two days. For the first day people lit diyas and hardly were there any firecrackers. This day was largely peaceful, but the next...

Some suggestion for the police on crime-fighting

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some suggestion for the police on crime-fighting

Dear Editor, On Wednesday the 18th of November your editorial caption, ”The crime-fighting effort must be strategic” and in today’s editorial caption, ”The police and the crime fight”....

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