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Letter to the Sports Editor…Can the GFF explain the Advertisement!

May 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Can the GFF explain the Advertisement!

Dear Sports Editor, Reference is hereby made to the above caption as it relates an advertisement appearing in KN 24. 04. 16. Pg 24: sub-headed, “CALL FOR ADVERTISERS-Guyana/Canada INTERNATIONAL...

CBC, GABF officially sign host treaty for U-16 Championships

May 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on CBC, GABF officially sign host treaty for U-16 Championships

– Guyanese teams to be named next month By Edison Jefford The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) and Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) officially signed the host treaty for the...

Jason Leitch of Central Corentyne scores century and half century in same game

May 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jason Leitch of Central Corentyne scores century and half century in same game

2016 Dalchand Rambharose Inter-Secondary School Under-15, Two-innings Cricket Magnificent batting display by Jason Leitch led Central Corentyne Secondary School to first innings victory over Winifred...

Bakewell partners with GFF for Guyana/Canada international friendly

May 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bakewell partners with GFF for Guyana/Canada international friendly

In preparation for the international friendly between Guyana’s Golden Jaguars and the Canadian Olympic team on May 15, local bread giants, Bakewell has partnered with the Guyana Football Federation...

Overseas sponsors, Government of Guyana to make major investment

May 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Overseas sponsors, Government of Guyana to make major investment

May 22 Guyana 50th Independence Anniversary Horserace meet gets bigger Systems are beginning to fall in place for the 50th Independence Anniversary Horserace meet which is one of the biggest sporting...

Guyana to participate in AML/CFT forum, workshop

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to participate in AML/CFT forum, workshop

Government has granted its approval for Lancelot Wills, Manager (ag), Legal Services, Division, Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to attend the KAW Management Services Limited’s Eighth Annual...

Cabinet to soon discuss final constitutional reform report

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet to soon discuss final constitutional reform report

The final report on proposed constitutional reform that will guide a new political culture in Guyana has been completed. The report was handed over to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday...

Mahdia shopkeeper held for 2007 murder of customer

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia shopkeeper held for 2007 murder of customer

The hunt for a shopkeeper who allegedly murdered a miner nine years ago ended this week, after police apprehended the suspect at an East Bank Demerara location. Police said that Alvin Calder, called...

Bandits shoot mute artist in home invasion

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot mute artist in home invasion

A mute artist is nursing a gunshot wound to his abdomen, which he sustained when bandits invaded his 1129 ‘B’ Field Sophia home early yesterday morning. Rixon Williams, who shares the house with...

It was murder

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on It was murder

A man of unsound mind who the police had earlier in the week found nursing a wound to his head, was murdered. The post mortem examination on the 67-year-old deceased concluded that the man had died...

Police Association says Berbice Chambers of Commerce are ungrateful

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police Association says Berbice Chambers of Commerce are ungrateful

The Police Association (PA) of the Guyana Police Force has lashed out at the Central Corentyne and Berbice Chambers of Commerce, calling them ungrateful and irresponsible bodies. The Association,...

National Toshaos Council refutes claims of Govt’s interference

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on National Toshaos Council refutes claims of Govt’s interference

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) has condemned the act by one of its members, who issued a statement to the press suggesting that Government is interfering with the workings of the council....

Man succumbs to stab wounds at GPHC

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man succumbs to stab wounds at GPHC

In the wee hours of Saturday morning a group of people on their way home from the White Castle fish shop found an unconscious man who appeared to be the victim of an assault. The man was transported...

Battle erupts over Art Williams and Harry Wendt Engineering School

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Battle erupts over Art Williams and Harry Wendt Engineering School

A war has erupted at the Aircraft Owners Association of Guyana (AOAG) over a recent decision to transfer a not-for-profit engineering school there and to convert it into a company. At least two...

The Dept. of Culture… Determined to protect Guyana’s cultural heritage and property

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Dept. of Culture… Determined to protect Guyana’s cultural heritage and property

By Jarryl Bryan Guyana is a bedrock of culture and home to several distinct ethnicities, spread out along the length and breadth of the country. The ancestors of modern Guyanese people have all come...

Worried Corentyne rice farmers raise concerns with Agri Minister

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Worried Corentyne rice farmers raise concerns with Agri Minister

Farmers of Skeldon and surrounding communities in Region Six voiced their concerns and shared suggestions for the rice industry’s development with Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, and a...

TVG “ain’t gon see a licence for 2016″- GNBA

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on TVG “ain’t gon see a licence for 2016″- GNBA

By Abena Rockcliffe- Campbell Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop’s constant refusal to furnish the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) with the audited financial statements of his...

Accused child killer denies giving statement to police

May 01, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Accused child killer denies giving statement to police

Earlier this week, Ryan Bobb Semple, who is accused of sodomizing and murdering a nine-year-old boy, has denied providing police with a caution statement but admitted that he signed the said...

Kitty Market shaping up nicely…30% of works completed so far

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty Market shaping up nicely…30% of works completed so far

Following years of neglect, the historic Kitty Market – still under rehabilitation, is scheduled to make an impressive come back. With plans of making it into a modern market and the transformation...

$297M in contracts approved for supply of drugs, infrastructural development

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $297M in contracts approved for supply of drugs, infrastructural development

Cabinet has granted its approval for the award of contracts to the tune of $297,940,140 in the areas of health and infrastructural development. Four agencies were awarded contracts for the supply of...

My biggest concern is to make Guyana safe for you and your children

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on My biggest concern is to make Guyana safe for you and your children

-Granger tells PNCR General Council meeting The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Council meeting, yesterday, examined the crime situation. The venue for the forum was Congress...

LABOUR DAY MESSAGES

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on LABOUR DAY MESSAGES

From the GOVERNMENT The Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana salutes all workers on this historic Labour Day, 2016. It is the work of the people of Guyana that “safeguard[s] and...

Hire Indian consultant for $50M road loan

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Hire Indian consultant for $50M road loan

– India tells Guyana India has proposed to extend a US$50M line of credit to the Guyana Government for the East Bank/East Coast Road linkage project, but the condition is that the latter would...

Refrain from corruption – Police Training Officer tells recruits

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Refrain from corruption – Police Training Officer tells recruits

The Guyana Police Force has boosted its strength by an additional 63 ranks as it prepares to play its part in securing the nation during Guyana’s 50th Anniversary of Independence. After rigorous...

Prison officer recounts procedural difficulties during riot

May 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prison officer recounts procedural difficulties during riot

Prison Officers testifying at the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into the March 2 and 3, Camp Street Prison riot have revealed that there were a number of technical difficulties on the day of the...

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Govt. to scrap children’s textbook that attacks former Toshao

Kaieteur News- Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain, issued an apology on Thursday afternoon, after the current Toshao... more