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DDL supports KMTC Phagwah Meet

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on DDL supports KMTC Phagwah Meet

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under their Ivanoff brand has thrown support behind the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) for the staging of its Phagwah Meet which is set for Sunday at Bush Lot...

Dem Amstel Mash Cup …Uitvlugt Warriors to face Pouderoyen in tomorrow’s final

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dem Amstel Mash Cup …Uitvlugt Warriors to face Pouderoyen in tomorrow’s final

It will be the renewal of fierce rivalry between the West Bank and West Side when Uitvlugt Warriors and Pouderoyen face off in the championship match of the Den Amstel Mash Cup organised by the Den...

Bulls, Pacesetters clash in epic re-match tonight

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bulls, Pacesetters clash in epic re-match tonight

Mackeson Mecca III heats up Linden’s Half Mile Bulls and Pacesetters will clash in what is expected to be an epic battle for a Final Four place tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when the...

Regal Masters skipper Kippins confident of chances at 13th Florida Softball Cup

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal Masters skipper Kippins confident of chances at 13th Florida Softball Cup

Regal Masters’ Skipper Troy Kippins has expressed confidence ahead of his team’s opening fixture against Tri State Masters as the 13th Florida Softball Cup bowls off today at Brain Picoloo Park....

Gittens Birth Anniversary dominoes set for Sunday

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gittens Birth Anniversary dominoes set for Sunday

Lyall Gittens will be hosting his birth anniversary dominoes tournament on Sunday at R and R Sports Club, Meadowbrook starting at 13:00hrs. Entrance fee is $12,000 and among the teams set to take...

YBG unveils NSBF Regional Conferences

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on YBG unveils NSBF Regional Conferences

Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) launched the 11th Edition of the National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) Regional Conferences yesterday. The Conferences is set to bounce off April 15 at the Cliff...

17 men burned to death but the causation goes on

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 17 men burned to death but the causation goes on

A man was sentenced to prison for stealing a cell phone. This happened days after the worst prison riots in any English-speaking country in the Caribbean, and trust me, Jamaica has some of the most...

Broadcasting Authority considering new fees for TV, radio operators

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Broadcasting Authority considering new fees for TV, radio operators

-warns of stricter monitoring on programs The Board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) said it last week successfully hosted a session with television broadcasters to update them of...

BVI police charge Guyanese woman for alleged wrongful beating of translator

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on BVI police charge Guyanese woman for alleged wrongful beating of translator

British Virgin Islands (BWI News) – A Guyanese woman who lives at Purcell Estate on Tortola, it appears, ended up beating the wrong woman she thought was having an affair with her male lover....

Mystery fire guts absent family’s Good Hope house

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mystery fire guts absent family’s Good Hope house

A Guyanese family, currently on holiday overseas, will have to seek alternative shelter when they return after fire of unknown origin gutted their house at Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara...

Book on Guyanese, European cultural heritage to be produced

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Book on Guyanese, European cultural heritage to be produced

The Guyana Heritage Society and the European Union, in collaboration with the National Trust of Guyana, will jointly produce a book on shared Guyanese and European cultural heritage. The publication...

Robbery/home invasion on land court judge…Oral and caution statements to be admitted as evidence

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robbery/home invasion on land court judge…Oral and caution statements to be admitted as evidence

Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul, who is presiding over the trial of the five men accused of robbing land court judge Nicola Pierre, has ruled that all caution and oral statements made by the men will...

Vigil held in Crum-Ewing’s honour

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Vigil held in Crum-Ewing’s honour

A vigil which saw the participation of mostly family members was held yesterday at Carmichael Street, Georgetown, in honour of assassinated activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing. His mother, Donna Harcourt,...

Local Govt. Commission imminent

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Local Govt. Commission imminent

The relevant laws were passed in 2013, giving the green light for the establishment of a Local Government Commission, and this body is expected to come on stream shortly. This was revealed at City...

High vandalism in turn-key homes discovered during Minister’s visit

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on High vandalism in turn-key homes discovered during Minister’s visit

Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Valarie Sharpe-Patterson, visited Perseverance, East Bank Demerara, on Wednesday where she discovered several instances of vandalism of the turn-key homes...

NCERD to spearhead curriculum revamp for education system

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NCERD to spearhead curriculum revamp for education system

Plans to revamp the public school curriculum are on the cards for the Ministry of Education. And the key player behind this undertaking will be the National Centre for Educational Resource...

Helping difficult children

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Helping difficult children

In Guyana, as in almost all other countries, children are considered the most precious gifts to parents and society as a whole. They are welcome in every culture as a continuance of the human race....

Teen’s body with stab wounds found at Goedverwagting

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Teen’s body with stab wounds found at Goedverwagting

Police are trying to track down the individual who stabbed a 19-year-old and left his body on the Goedverwagting, East Bank Demerara Railway Embankment. The body of Sherwin Lynch, of Sparendaam...

President calls on society to remove impediments to gender parity

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President calls on society to remove impediments to gender parity

Guyana is poised to achieve gender equality and ensure that all women and girls are empowered. This assertion was made by President David Granger earlier this week on the occasion of International...

Major countrywide campaign to deal with consumers’ rights

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Major countrywide campaign to deal with consumers’ rights

The Consumer Affairs Division of the Ministry of Business will intensify its campaign to ensure that consumers better understand their rights. Since assuming responsibility for the Consumer Affairs...

Full speed ahead for Sophia Ring Road Project

Mar 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Full speed ahead for Sophia Ring Road Project

Works in ‘E’ Field, Sophia have been completed as the Sophia Ring Road Project, which seeks to link ‘A’ through ‘E’ fields, continues to progress smoothly. The works in Cummings Park,...

We don’t want this casino period!

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We don’t want this casino period!

Dear Editor, Relative to a report in the media and captioned HOW CAN A LICENCE BE GRANTED FOR A CASINO IN CHURCH STREET? A government release was expected but seeing that none so far reported, I...

Hard-working policemen were denied monies due

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hard-working policemen were denied monies due

Dear Editor, I perused the recent list of police promotions announced by the Police Service Commission. It left me in a quandary. I am both happy and sad. Happy that despite the wrangling, tangling...

In an election, winners must govern for all people

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on In an election, winners must govern for all people

Dear Editor, “If you do not vote, other people who vote will choose your community representatives, and you will have no voice in the decision-making process. The importance of having a voice in...

I am disappointed in the President’s attitude

Mar 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am disappointed in the President’s attitude

Dear Editor, The measly sum of $100,000 offered to the dead prisoners is at best an indication of the value Grander and his advisors place on the life of the prisoners and at worst an insult to the...