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MoH Soft Shoe Football Competition…Defending champ Sparta Boss in action tonight

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on MoH Soft Shoe Football Competition…Defending champ Sparta Boss in action tonight

The Ministry of Health Soft Shoe Football Competition continues this evening with six more matches, at the Parade ground on Middle and Carmichael Streets, starting from 19:00hrs. The opening fixture...

Food for the Poor is twenty-five

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor is twenty-five

Food for the Poor (FFTP) Guyana celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on June 3, 2016. The non-profit ecumenical Christian organization came to Guyana on June 3, 1991. FFTP has a number of...

CIOG presents ‘prayer for the nation’ to President Granger

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CIOG presents ‘prayer for the nation’ to President Granger

President David Granger yesterday received a courtesy call from members of the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), who presented him with a prayer for the nation etched on a brass-plated...

The City Council is making a mistake

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The City Council is making a mistake

The Georgetown City Council should have gone to tender for the supply of parking meters. The Council has acted contrary to expectations by moving ahead, without tenders, for two companies to provide...

GAIL Foundation makes donation to Mahaica Children’s Home

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GAIL Foundation makes donation to Mahaica Children’s Home

With its motto being “Giving Abundantly in Life”, the GAIL Foundation yesterday made a kind donation of playground equipment to the children of the Mahaica Children’s Home, East Coast Demerara....

Cabinet approves $9.4M for heart surgery for 18 children

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $9.4M for heart surgery for 18 children

Cabinet has approved financing to the value of $9.4M or the equivalent of US$44,750 for a team from the International Children’s Heart Foundation (Baby Heart) to perform cardiac operations on 18...

Health Minister touts delayed pregnancies

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister touts delayed pregnancies

…as fears associated with Zika Virus persist The continued caution over the Zika Virus has certainly not lessened. In fact Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton said that “persons...

Struggling in a “donkey-cart” economy

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 2

No one is born popular. Popularity is earned based on one’s actions or positions. In a recent survey of citizens in several countries, Pope Francis, the 79-year-old Argentinean, has been considered...

Post-Cabinet press briefings to resume next week

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Post-Cabinet press briefings to resume next week

President David Granger, early yesterday, announced that the traditional post-Cabinet press briefings are to continue and that the next one will be held next week. He made this announcement during...

Police assessing implementation of safe city programme

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police assessing implementation of safe city programme

Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, is in Mexico City to get a first-hand look at its safe city programme. The intention is to have a similar programme implemented here. The Crime Chief, along and an...

Man beats partner with paddle, chokes mother-in-law

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man beats partner with paddle, chokes mother-in-law

…threatens to shoot woman’s brother With the number of women murdered by their partners standing at 11 for the year thus far, at least one mother is holding out that she will not be the twelfth...

Beaten taxi driver still unconscious

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Beaten taxi driver still unconscious

…as cops seek to locate assailants The 44-year-old taxi driver who was brutally beaten Tuesday night when he was allegedly lured into Plum Park, Sophia during a failed carjacking, remains in an...

GWI to acquire tankers for emergency situations

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GWI to acquire tankers for emergency situations

The Guyana Water Incorporated is looking at ways to improve its emergency response system. The water company is in the process of acquiring three mobile water tankers to dispense potable water in...

President meets with Guyana’s new envoy to South Africa

Jun 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President meets with Guyana’s new envoy to South Africa

President David Granger on Tuesday received paid a courtesy call by Ambassador Designate to South Africa, Dr. Cecil Kenrick Hunte, at the Ministry of the Presidency. Dr. Hunte, a Howard University...

Moral hypocrisy breeds physical barbarism

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Moral hypocrisy breeds physical barbarism

Why was the world overrun by the counter-culture of the sixties, commonly referred to as the Age of the Hippies? The rebellion of the young in the sixties came about just fifteen years after the end...

Duo accused of $900 robbery granted bail

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Duo accused of $900 robbery granted bail

Two men appeared in court yesterday, for allegedly robbing a man of $900 cash and a BLU cell phone with a knife on Wednesday at Duncan Street, Campbellville. Anthony Hendricks, 18, of 153...

18 months for car-stealing ‘investigator’

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 18 months for car-stealing ‘investigator’

An 18-month prison sentence was imposed on a 21-year-old man after he confessed to stealing a Toyota Raum motor car on Tuesday. Romario Henry of 12C Herstelling, East Bank Demerara admitted that he...

Prohibited stimulant, cocaine land four in court

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Prohibited stimulant, cocaine land four in court

Three persons who were reportedly caught by undercover police officer selling an illegal stimulant were on Wednesday charged with possession of the prohibited items after they appeared in the...

Anil Nandlall says he an obligation to reply

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall says he an obligation to reply

Dear Editor, The issue of the admission of LLB graduates of the University of Guyana to the Hugh Wooding Law School has once again raised its head in the public domain. The matter has been obfuscated...

The pastor describes Guyana has a soulless country

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The pastor describes Guyana has a soulless country

Dear Editor, To say that Guyana is losing its soul would be to suggest that it had one. Maybe it did. I might seem cynical, however, really do not remember when it did possess one. Of course I have...

The Housing Minister may be out of control

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Housing Minister may be out of control

Dear Editor, I am an employee of CH&PA and we are in a crisis situation. The new minister Valerie Patterson is doing her own thing and running the agency out of the Ministerial Secretariat. Like...

In defence of Donald Ramotar

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on In defence of Donald Ramotar

Dear Editor, Guyana Sugar Corporation’s Senior Communications Officer, Audreyanna Thomas’ letter, published on June 4, 2016 captioned ”Ramotar confused business with politics on...

GOLDEN JUBILEE SYMPOSIA SERIES CAME TO QUEENS, NEW YORK

Jun 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on GOLDEN JUBILEE SYMPOSIA SERIES CAME TO QUEENS, NEW YORK

Dear Editor, June 5th was a day of perfect spring weather in New York, a day to go out in shirt sleeves. It was also the day when the Jubilee Independence Committee (50 award-winning members)...