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Record three tons in an innings for Guyana in first match under Golden Arrow Head

May 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Record three tons in an innings for Guyana in first match under Golden Arrow Head

By Sean Devers As we celebrate our Golden Jubilee 50th Anniverary as an Independent nation it is important to understand history and those who made life easier for us in all aspects of nation...

Four Horseman Promotion / Port Mourant Turf Club ‘Golden Jubilee Meet…

May 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Four Horseman Promotion / Port Mourant Turf Club ‘Golden Jubilee Meet…

Dem A Watch Me, She’s Royal to battle in L& Lower Class Dem A Watch Me out of the Rocky Stables and owned by R. Ramsammy is among a number of horses listed to compete in this weekend’s Four...

Usain Bolt visits Germany for hamstring, set to race Blake, Powell

May 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Usain Bolt visits Germany for hamstring, set to race Blake, Powell

NBC Sports – Usain Bolt visited a German doctor for “slight discomfort” in one of his hamstrings after his first race since Aug. 29 in the Cayman Islands on Saturday, his coach said,...

It will be a long haul

May 18, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on It will be a long haul

The age ranges and features of many persons appearing in our courts in recent times for various violations, some of them most gruesome, tell a story. The images yesterday (online and on television)...

New Institutional Review Board appointed

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Institutional Review Board appointed

With Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, at its helm, a new Institutional Review Board has been put in place. This is according to the Official Gazette dated May 5, 2016 which notes...

Destruction of road to repair koker makes residents unhappy

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Destruction of road to repair koker makes residents unhappy

Residents of the Little Diamond Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, are unhappy with a contractor’s approach to carry out repairs to a koker in their village. The road that the contractor used to...

Emergency safety plan developed for D’Urban Park jubilee celebrations

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emergency safety plan developed for D’Urban Park jubilee celebrations

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC), in partnership with other stakeholders, has developed a Mass Causality plan to ensure citizens’ safety during the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations at...

I am taking my outside children to see the Georgetown clean-up hypocrisy

May 18, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I am taking my outside children to see the Georgetown clean-up hypocrisy

I have one daughter in my marriage and three outside daughters – Gypsy, Dusty and Princess. The first two are cats. The other is my dog. Believe me; you can come to love your pet with equal...

Hinterland Electrification Company to get millions worth of line equipment

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Hinterland Electrification Company to get millions worth of line equipment

During the opening of bids at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), yesterday, several companies vied for a contract to supply hardware for the Lethem Power Company’s...

Linden records zero maternal deaths

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden records zero maternal deaths

Minister within the ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings paid a visit to Linden for one of the scheduled activities for ‘Linden Town Week’, the Annual Health fair which was held at the...

Linden Town Week kicks off

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Town Week kicks off

The much anticipated Linden Town Week was officially launched at the Linden/ Georgetown bus park on Sunday evening. A sizeable crowd turned up to witness the event that was declared open by Linden...

Police get laminating machine to facilitate ID card production

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police get laminating machine to facilitate ID card production

Police ranks will now be able to flash a proper identification card whenever they have to, thanks to Canada-based businessman Dr. Roberto Jacgobin. Yesterday Dr. Jacgobin, who has a working...

GTU hopeful of favourable court ruling

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GTU hopeful of favourable court ruling

…but prepared for adverse outcome Although a ruling in the matter involving the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is still pending, the latter body is...

Cops nab suspect in fatal stabbing

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops nab suspect in fatal stabbing

Police have detained a suspect in last Saturday’s fatal stabbing of Gordon Ross, 26, in Hadfield Street. The suspect was taken into custody yesterday. Ross was found lying in what appeared to be an...

Guyana formally inducted into Islamic Development Bank

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana formally inducted into Islamic Development Bank

Guyana has been recently welcomed into the membership of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) with a grand, formal ceremony that was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, expressed Finance Minister, Winston...

Taxing sugary beverages could be on the horizon – Health Minister

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Taxing sugary beverages could be on the horizon – Health Minister

Government, through the Ministry of Public Health, could soon be looking to implement tax on sugary beverages. Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton noted that this move, if followed through,...

Brazilian company to boost agri diversification

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian company to boost agri diversification

-10,000 acres to be put under cultivation in Berbice Guyana’s efforts to diversify its agricultural sector are set to receive a major boost from a Brazilian company, New Frontier Agriculture Guyana...

“Three pound of weed” gets man four years jail

May 18, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “Three pound of weed” gets man four years jail

…and $30,000 fine City Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday sentenced a father of two to four years imprisonment after she found him guilty on a drug trafficking charge. Lloyd Sadloo, 34, of...

Accountant Nigel Hinds named new GWI Chairman

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Accountant Nigel Hinds named new GWI Chairman

Government has named accountant, Nigel Hinds, as the new Chairman of the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI). According to a notice in the Official Gazette of April 29, Hinds, of Nigel Hinds Financial Services,...

Cops link Stafrei Alexander to two more killings, robbery spree

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops link Stafrei Alexander to two more killings, robbery spree

Recently-captured murder suspect Stafrei Alexander is now being implicated in two more killings at Linden and a spate of robberies at Berbice. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum disclosed yesterday that...

Problems with the economy

May 18, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Problems with the economy

Disappointment and disgust are just some of the words that can be used to describe the analysis that the reason why disposable income is on the decline, is because of the reduction in the drug trade...

Arjoon and Gouveia have dishonoured their undertaking

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Arjoon and Gouveia have dishonoured their undertaking

Dear Editor, It is thoroughly disgraceful that both the President and Vice President of NATA, Annette Arjoon-Martins and Gerry Gouveia, have continuously and repeatedly dishonored and violated their...

The killing fields of Guyana

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The killing fields of Guyana

Dear Editor, Oh dear what can the matter be. On the verge of our 50th independence anniversary we are being consumed by a monster; the pervasive crime that stalk the land and rule the waves. In the...

Donald Ramotar is nothing but a hypocrite

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Donald Ramotar is nothing but a hypocrite

Dear Editor, ‘Comrade’ Ramotar continues to “open his mouth” in yet another feeble attempt to convince Guyanese that our suspicions about his capacity for cogent formulations were sound. The...

President Granger’s social cohesion plan needs more vision

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger’s social cohesion plan needs more vision

Dear Editor, The actions to foster Social Cohesion cannot be piecemealed! We are either in or out! I listened in horror last Wednesday night as I sat in the National Cultural Center and heard the...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more