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Meet Guyana’s CBC U16 Youth Basketball Team

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meet Guyana’s CBC U16 Youth Basketball Team

Guyana’s male team will play Aruba Sunday night at 8:30pm in their first game of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Guyanese are in Group...

Ministries sign MoU with Peace Corps for resource management support

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ministries sign MoU with Peace Corps for resource management support

In a bid to support ongoing activities of resource management in order to either create a natural resource management plan, or to help kick-start an existing plan, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

Thrilling matches seen in Lucozade Inter-Club hockey

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thrilling matches seen in Lucozade Inter-Club hockey

Play in the Lucozade Inter-Club Hockey Tournament continued on Tuesday with some thrilling matches, at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue. First off was the clash between Old Fort ‘A’ and...

Lincoln Lewis takes aim at the Coalition Govt.

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters 3

Dear Editor; Those who suffered under the PPP/C and/or were disturbed over that party’s mismanagement of the nation’s business want this government to succeed, for the sake of Guyana and her...

GFA/Stag Premier League Set for sizzling climax on Sunday @GFC

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA/Stag Premier League Set for sizzling climax on Sunday @GFC

The 2016 Georgetown Football Association / Stag sponsored Premier League champions will be crowned on Sunday when the final four matches in the associations senior season will all be contested...

Serious accusations against the City Police

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious accusations against the City Police

Dear Editor, The hypocrisy, the gall and the contempt by the senior officials at City Hall is most disgusting. In a recent news report, a Georgetown City Councillor was accused of invading the...

Pharmacy Council of Guyana Clarifies What?

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pharmacy Council of Guyana Clarifies What?

Dear Editor; I refer to a letter by the Pharmacy council captioned, Pharmacy Council clarifies.” I am a prospective graduate of the Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy, University of Guyana. The...

GPHC Chairman amplifies need for improved nurses’ wages

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Chairman amplifies need for improved nurses’ wages

Nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are stretched to the limit. This state of affairs was on Tuesday amplified by Chairman of the hospital’s Board of Directors, Dr. Carl...

Pall of gloom envelops GAWA as stalwart Sydney ‘Skipper’ Paul passes on

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pall of gloom envelops GAWA as stalwart Sydney ‘Skipper’ Paul passes on

Death is inevitable yet when it occurs it produces deep pain and remorse and currently the members of the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) are undergoing such experiences following the...

We could not afforded the lavishness of the 50 year celebration

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We could not afforded the lavishness of the 50 year celebration

Dear Editor; To fête or not to fête- That’s the Question. It has been one month since we (Guyanese) reached and celebrated fifty years as an “ independent” nation. There have been (and still...

National U-17 trials continues tomorrow with 40 players in contention

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on National U-17 trials continues tomorrow with 40 players in contention

Forty players have been shortlisted by the Guyana Football Federation’s Technical team following trails on Saturday last as preparations for this year’s Caribbean Football Union’s Men’s...

A pensioner fainted in the sun

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A pensioner fainted in the sun

Dear Editor; As you know, the lack of proper accommodation for our senior citizens who must go to the various post offices every month-end to collect their Old Age pensions and NIS benefits etc has...

When you beg, conditions are attached

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on When you beg, conditions are attached

Dear Editor, Sunday papers (June 26,2016) carried a notice issued by the Registrar of the Supreme Court requesting that all Attorneys-at-Law attend an orientation session on the new High Court Rules...

Region Five Chairman pushes for remigrant scheme

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five Chairman pushes for remigrant scheme

Situated south of the Region Five administrative office block at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice, about half a mile from the public road, is a rapidly developing housing scheme known as...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U17 League – Weekend fixtures

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U17 League – Weekend fixtures

West Demerara Football Association Saturday July 2nd Team Team Time Venue Beavers vs Wales United 12:00hrs Den Amstel Sunday July 3rd Eagles vs Slingerz 12:30hrs Den Amstel Bartica Football...

Political interference at UG

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Political interference at UG

Dear Editor; The new Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana has reportedly said that he is prepared to walk away from the job if there is any political interference by government in the...

Hinterland communities in need of more activities

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hinterland communities in need of more activities

The Region 7 community of Waramadong hosted one game in this year’s Digicel Schools Football Championship last Sunday and what was witnessed was another fine exhibition of the host putting on a...

Property Protection Agency has killed my future

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Property Protection Agency has killed my future

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your newspaper to express the struggle I, a poor man, have to go through in order to collect the little benefits I am entitled to. My name is Raman Khan and I...

GRA wants another crack at finding new chief

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA wants another crack at finding new chief

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) seems to be experiencing difficulties in finding a new chief. Yesterday, the tax collection authority disclosed that it will be publishing fresh invitations for...

SCOTIABANK CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup Guyana to face Jamaica and Suriname in Round 3

Jul 01, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on SCOTIABANK CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup Guyana to face Jamaica and Suriname in Round 3

Qualifying as the best first runner-up from Round 2, Guyana’s Golden Jaguars have been drawn to play Jamaica and old rivals Suriname in Round 3 Group 1 of the Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup...

Three to be charged for gold miner’s murder

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Three to be charged for gold miner’s murder

Three men are scheduled to appear in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court today in relation to the murder of porkknocker Shawn McDonald, whose bound and battered body was found in a metal container at...

Guyana no longer on TIP “Tier 2 Watch List”

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana no longer on TIP “Tier 2 Watch List”

The annual Trafficking in Persons report published by the United States Department of State has disclosed that Guyana is no longer on the “Tier 2 Watch List” but has moved up to “Tier 2”....

House approves $800M in supplementary spending

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on House approves $800M in supplementary spending

Despite fierce scrutiny, the National Assembly on Thursday evening approved almost $800M in extra-budgetary spending that was put forth by the Government for the period September 1, 2015 to December...

Permanent Secretary’s $10B in bank accounts… This must represent start of corruption cleanup campaign -WPA Executive Member

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Permanent Secretary’s $10B in bank accounts… This must represent start of corruption cleanup campaign -WPA Executive Member

Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. David Hinds, insists that the recent arrest of a Permanent Secretary (PS) allegedly found with billions of dollars in different bank...

Parking meter contract handed over to AG

Jul 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Parking meter contract handed over to AG

A review of the parking meter contract has commenced and will undergo its second stage by Attorney-General Basil Williams. This was told to the media at a post Cabinet press briefing hosted by the...

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Windies captain Brathwaite stresses bravery, belief ahead of Pakistan Test Series

No conflict of interest exists

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Accusations of conflict of interest have a peculiar way of rising to the surface in Guyana.... more