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Dolphin Award of Excellence …Jennifer Cipriani becomes fourth recipient

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dolphin Award of Excellence …Jennifer Cipriani becomes fourth recipient

Long time friend and supporter of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Jennifer Cipriani on Friday last became the fourth recipient of the...

First Lady to unveil RHTY&SC biggest ever Christmas Village on Dec. 20

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on First Lady to unveil RHTY&SC biggest ever Christmas Village on Dec. 20

Christmas programme kicked off on Saturday last The cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club launched their biggest ever Christmas programme which would include the hosting of the...

Fudadin congratulated by RHTY&SC

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fudadin congratulated by RHTY&SC

The Patron, President and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club has extended congratulations to one of its own members, Assad Fudadin on his achievement of scoring his fifth first...

YBG Age-Group Basketball Tourney …Plaisance Sec., St. Roses High, North Georgetown, Marian Academy are latest winners

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on YBG Age-Group Basketball Tourney …Plaisance Sec., St. Roses High, North Georgetown, Marian Academy are latest winners

Plaisance Secondary School and Marian Girls were the latest winners from week four of Youth Basketball Guyana’s Age-Group Tournament, which continued with seven games on Saturday at the Cliff...

Preparations for Guyana Cup heating up; over 40 entered for $10M race meet

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations for Guyana Cup heating up; over 40 entered for $10M race meet

With less than two weeks away for the much anticipated Guyana Cup Re-Match horse race meet at the famous Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC), preparations are heating up. Nine races are on the card for the...

Malta Supreme/LABA Championship…Retrieve Raiders, Victory Valley Royals secures wins

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Malta Supreme/LABA Championship…Retrieve Raiders, Victory Valley Royals secures wins

Retrieve Raiders (RR) defeated Flames 68-31 while Victory Valley Royals edged past Amelia’s Ward Jets 60-57 when play in the Banks DIH Malta Supreme, basketball championship continued at the...

US$44M WCD Road behind schedule, to be completed before contractual deadline – Contractors

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US$44M WCD Road behind schedule, to be completed before contractual deadline – Contractors

“We have confidence in the current administration’s plans for Guyana’s infrastructural development”- Brian Tiwarie By Mondale Smith Despite several setbacks, efforts to afford residents 30...

Gov’t, EU partner to prepare new sea defence manual

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t, EU partner to prepare new sea defence manual

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is looking at ways to improve Guyana’s sea defence system, and is currently finalising a coastal engineering design manual, with the support of the...

Murdered taxi driver’s killer will be brought to justice – Commander assures

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered taxi driver’s killer will be brought to justice – Commander assures

…as ‘Cops and Faith’ reaches out to victim’s relatives Commander of the Police West Demerara Division, Senior Superintendent Stephen Mansell, has assured the relatives of murdered taxi driver...

Region Two farmers to benefit from $$M projects

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two farmers to benefit from $$M projects

The Ministry of Agriculture has invited tenders for rehabilitating drainage pumps in Essequibo, maintenance works on the main drains in Region Three and repairs on machinery on East Coast Demerara...

EAT AND DRINK ALL YOU CAN!

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, PPP Column Comments Off on EAT AND DRINK ALL YOU CAN!

It used to be said that “membership has its privileges”. Then it became “friends with benefits”. Now it is membership with uncapped benefits and benefits without caps. This column deals with...

Guyanese sues Delta after wrongfully busted for coke

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese sues Delta after wrongfully busted for coke

-Suitcase had been breached here in 2010 (NY Post) A former Yankee Stadium security guard, who was wrongfully busted for cocaine possession at Kennedy Airport in 2010 is suing Delta Airlines,...

Guyanese pays US$40,000 fine on drug conviction

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese pays US$40,000 fine on drug conviction

Bridgetown, Barbados – Guyanese, Lyndon Aubrey Kennedy, who admitted to having illegal drugs in his possession in Barbados, showed himself to be a man with deep pockets, as he immediately paid...

GPHC records significant decrease in neonatal deaths

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC records significant decrease in neonatal deaths

– Mortality rate drops from 35% to 7% There has been a significant decrease in the deaths for babies born at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) directly, as a result of the...

Region Ten gets bitumen plant

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten gets bitumen plant

For the first time Region Ten has its own bitumen plant, thus making life easier for residents to have better roads. Regional Chairman Renis Morian, during a visit to the plant in Wisroc on Tuesday,...

City Detective, IT Specialist battle for 2015 ‘Best Cop’

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City Detective, IT Specialist battle for 2015 ‘Best Cop’

As the year comes to an end, a fierce but friendly battle is playing out in the Guyana Police Force for this year’s Best Cop award. The accolade is the most coveted award in the Force. Over the...

Works underway to fix sabotaged E’bo pumps – PM Nagamootoo

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Works underway to fix sabotaged E’bo pumps – PM Nagamootoo

Government says that it has ordered the repairs of several pumps on the rice-growing Essequibo Coast which are believed to have been sabotaged. The pumps are being repaired by the Regional...

Drunken stunt rider crashes into church fence…loses part of leg one day before birthday

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken stunt rider crashes into church fence…loses part of leg one day before birthday

A 24-year-old man who was said to be the head of a “Wheelie” stunt crew, tried once too often to show off his skills, and is now without a part of his left leg, which had to be amputated, after...

Parents complain of school’s penny-bank payout delay

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Parents complain of school’s penny-bank payout delay

Parents of former St. Gabriel’s Primary School students visited Kaieteur News yesterday to express their frustration over the school’s delay to commence their penny-bank payout. The penny-bank...

Canadian-based Guyanese gets four years for drug trafficking

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Canadian-based Guyanese gets four years for drug trafficking

Almost nine months after he was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, trying to smuggle close to 10 kilos of cocaine out of Guyana, Canadian citizen Arthur Manget was found...

Chief Justice retires; will Chief Mike retire too?

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Chief Justice retires; will Chief Mike retire too?

Space will not permit a discussion of Chief Mike, so I will confine this commentary to Chief Justice, Ian Chang. He goes on retirement leave next Tuesday. Will he occupy a spot on South Road or Croal...

UG meeting to hear concerns about protracted ‘washroom’ woes

Dec 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG meeting to hear concerns about protracted ‘washroom’ woes

Adequate access to potable water coupled with a daunting sewage issue at the University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen campus, is being viewed as a possible health threat, and the Students’ Society is not...

Bel Air housewife accused of fleecing millions from friend

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bel Air housewife accused of fleecing millions from friend

– released on $200,000 bail A 28-year-old housewife accused of swindling more than $7M from her friend, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, yesterday, to answer 17 fraud-related...

Constitutional reform is necessary

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Constitutional reform is necessary

Long before the election was held in May, the coalition had complained bitterly about the Constitution and vowed to reform it when elected to office. Now that it is elected, it has the opportunity to...

West R/veldt man remanded for shooting at cops

Dec 09, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on West R/veldt man remanded for shooting at cops

A well-known West Ruimveldt footballer was yesterday remanded to prison after being accused of shooting at two police officers. Holder Pedro a/k Solo, 41, of Lot 61 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, is...

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The PNCR and AFC are a blight on democratic politics

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have forfeited... more