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RHTYSC Cricket teams, F&H Printery donate to Police ‘B’ Division Crime Campaign

May 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC Cricket teams, F&H Printery donate to Police ‘B’ Division Crime Campaign

The eight cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS and the F&H Printery of John Street, Campbellville of Georgetown on Friday last donated $100,000 worth of stickers to the...

Mother of missing woman’s worst fear realized

May 23, 2016 KNews News 1

By Romila Boodram Six years of anxiety came to a shocking end yesterday for Champa Seonarine. The woman, who had long suspected that something terrible had befallen her daughter Babita Sarjou, had...

Can President Granger give Guyana this 50th Anniversary gift?

May 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can President Granger give Guyana this 50th Anniversary gift?

My wife has a special problem with life in Guyana. It is a special problem and it is too formidable to be solved. She insists that when she’s driving with me, I must take streets that have traffic...

Global Health Care Supplies INC makes major contribution to RHTYSC, MS

May 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Global Health Care Supplies INC makes major contribution to RHTYSC, MS

The outstanding work of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS continues to attract support from corporate Guyana. The Club in 2016 has...

Region 5 Department of Education host Independence rally

May 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region 5 Department of Education host Independence rally

The Department of Education, Region Five, held their Independence March/Rally on Friday, with some 250 students participating in the event. One body of students marched from Bath Settlement, while...

Rising Star Track Club, OP host successful fitness walk

May 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Star Track Club, OP host successful fitness walk

Over 100 athletes converged at Mandela and Homestretch Avenue yesterday to participate in a fitness walk organised by the Rising Star Track Club in collaboration with the Office of the President in...

Vintage cars

May 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Vintage cars

Missigher upsets Forde to win Jubilee 10k Road Race

May 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Missigher upsets Forde to win Jubilee 10k Road Race

Winston Missigher upset Guyana’s foremost road race runner, Cleveland Forde yesterday to win the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Golden Jubilee 10km Road Race. Missigher ran 32:46 in his...

Min of Health Soft Shoe Football starts tomorrow

May 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Min of Health Soft Shoe Football starts tomorrow

The second edition of the Annual Petra Organisation-organised Soft Shoe Football Competition which is being sponsored by the Ministry of Health under the ‘Stop Gender-based Violence’ theme will...

REAR RESEARCH FINDINGS

May 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on REAR RESEARCH FINDINGS

“Someone tell Kim Kardashian and Beyonce Knowles to have a celebratory buck’s fizz, because a study conducted by the University of Oxford reveals women with bigger bums are stereotypically...

GUYANA HAS NOT LIVED UP TO POST-INDEPENDENCE EXPECTATIONS

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor; As Guyanese prepare to celebrate or observe or ignore the nation’s 50th anniversary of political independence, I cannot help joining others in asking the sobering question: What...

PPP executive says Cheddi Jagan was the Independence architect

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP executive says Cheddi Jagan was the Independence architect

Dear Editor; Guyana has come a long way since the attainment of political independence fifty years ago. Our political and constitutional landscape has undergone fundamental changes from colonialism...

Guyana has badly deteriorated in the moral sphere

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has badly deteriorated in the moral sphere

Dear Editor; Our society has suddenly become a place where curse words or ‘’cuss words’’ are the order of the day, and it seems as if we have no law to incriminate those using them from day...

Independence flashback with Burnham

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Independence flashback with Burnham

Dear Editor; A Canada-West Indies conference was held in the month of July 1966 at the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, Ontario. After two days of deliberations, a special black-tie dinner was...

The political parties are Guyana’s real problem

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The political parties are Guyana’s real problem

Dear Editor; Guyana, the city of El Dorado, the land of many waters, 83,000 square miles of moderate tropics ,747 thousand people – East Indians, Africans, Chinese, Europeans, Amerindians and...

President Jagdeo jeapordized retirees’ future

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Jagdeo jeapordized retirees’ future

Dear Editor; We need constitutional reform to place limits on the powers of the President. The NIS is a pension fund for the nation’s retirees, and only the Board of Directors has the power to...

Too big for Guyana

May 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Too big for Guyana

The scale of the duty free concessions granted to a foreign-owned company, and which was reported on in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, would tend to suggest that the Chinese firm’s plans...

IDB is in violation of the rights of Amerindians

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on IDB is in violation of the rights of Amerindians

Dear Editor; Over the past two decades the government, both past and present, has been taking active steps to recognize and preserve the rights of indigenous peoples in Guyana. The...

Air Services Ltd versus Correia Companies

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Air Services Ltd versus Correia Companies

Dear Editor; I refer to a letter published in Stabroek News on Wednesday May 18, 2016 headed, “Correia’s Companies not Air Services and Roraima Airways invested the money required under the...

Cricket is the most successful game Guyana produced

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cricket is the most successful game Guyana produced

Dear Editor; What are we going to celebrate in sports? Are we going to recognise that cricket is the most successful game in which Guyanese have participated and led not only in our country but in...

I support the City Council efforts but not its methods

May 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I support the City Council efforts but not its methods

Dear Editor; I write with concern at the utter disregard for the wellbeing of our vendors who have been offering a service to the public at large. The removal of vendors from Stabroek Square is long...

GUYANA AFTER 50 YEARS

May 23, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on GUYANA AFTER 50 YEARS

On May 26, 2016, Guyana celebrates its 50th Independence Anniversary, but not in the best of shape economically than it was five decades ago. Despite the various political, economic and social...

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DEMLIFE Golf Tournament tees off today at LGC

Due diligence on investments must become a priority

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In 1985, the Forbes Burnham government looking for economic salvation, entered into a memorandum... more