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‘No choice but to live by decision of higher authority’ – Ramdin

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘No choice but to live by decision of higher authority’ – Ramdin

ESPNCRICINFO – Denesh Ramdin, the West Indies wicketkeeper, has said he will have no choice but to accept the selectors’ supposed decision to keep him out of the Test squad for the upcoming...

Lexroy Rigby wins Bartica Mayor CARICOM DAY Road Race

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lexroy Rigby wins Bartica Mayor CARICOM DAY Road Race

On Saturday 2nd July 2016 the Bartica Mayor’s CARICOM Day Road Race got off to a start at 3.00pm with a large turnout of athletes, competing in the 3 miles event. Athletes competing in various...

FFTP widens wheelchair distribution programme

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on FFTP widens wheelchair distribution programme

For many years Jimeel Davis has been allowed to play an integral role in the operation of an organisation that thrives on a mission to help the materially poor while bringing them closer to their...

Top prizes and exciting action as Rising Sun Turf Club stages one day horseracing event

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top prizes and exciting action as Rising Sun Turf Club stages one day horseracing event

The Rising Sun Turf Club has planned a one day horse race meet at its facility next Sunday, July 17 and Turfites are guaranteed of a day of competitive racing. There are 5 potentially exciting races...

Foreign Ministry Sports Promotion cricket tournament on today

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Foreign Ministry Sports Promotion cricket tournament on today

The action should be engrossing and the competition stiff when the Foreign Ministry Sports Promotion Team stages a cricket tournament dubbed ‘Workplace Tapeball Cricket Competition’ at the...

Barbados overcome Jamaica

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barbados overcome Jamaica

Barbados defeated Jamaica by eight wickets when the Regional Women’s Supoer 50 tournament continued yesterday. Batting first, Jamaica were sent packing for 47 in 19 overs at Enmore. No batter...

Alness Race track horserace meet on today

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alness Race track horserace meet on today

The Alness Race Track at Alness Corentyne Berbice is expected to come alive today when that entity stages a grand one day horserace meet. Five races are listed for the day and with prize monies...

RHTYSC/TCL Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Camp bowls off tomorrow

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC/TCL Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Camp bowls off tomorrow

Trinidad Cement Ltd has renewed its sponsorship of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS Cricket Academy for the 5th consecutive year at the cost of $230,000. The company on Friday last handed...

Shokoguy Karate-Do of Guyana returns from USA championship victorious

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shokoguy Karate-Do of Guyana returns from USA championship victorious

This year’s ten member team from the Shotokan Karate-Do of Guyana (SHOKOGUY-National Park) returned from the USA after successfully attending the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF)...

Taxpayers and their compliance with VAT – Part 1

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Taxpayers and their compliance with VAT – Part 1

By Kiana Wilburg It’s no secret, the significant role tax revenue plays in financing a country’s planned development activities. So important is its role that countries are keen to protect...

Amerindians should be consulted on development – Rohee

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News 1

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Clement Rohee, recently met with villagers from communities in the North and South Rupununi. He noted that there needs to be meaningful...

Sore Throat: Knowing when it’s dangerous

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sore Throat: Knowing when it’s dangerous

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine As we are fast approaching the flu season, many persons will develop a sore throat as part of their symptoms. For the most part, a sore...

Region Five REO transferred to Region Seven

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five REO transferred to Region Seven

…Chairman cites incompetence; unfair treatment at Regional Tender Board level The Region Five Executive Officer, Roderick Edinboro, has been transferred to the Region Seven RDC. It had been...

National Songs and National Unity

Jul 10, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on National Songs and National Unity

By His Excellency Brigadier David A. Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Guyana’s national songs have their origin in the centenary celebration of unification in 1931. British...

What the 50th Independence Arch means to Agricola

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on What the 50th Independence Arch means to Agricola

By Feona Morrison A week ago, I was standing at the Agricola Road Head, East Bank Demerara when I overheard a group of young men talking about how they were proud that the 50th Independence Arch was...

The unfortunate case of two young boys

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The unfortunate case of two young boys

By Adam Harris It was shortly after midnight when the telephone roused me from my much needed sleep. A fire was raging on Hadfield Street. I placed a few calls to some reporters but got no one....

Emancipation 2016 launched

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation 2016 launched

Emphasis to be placed on Guyana’s rich African Heritage – ACDA The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) has unveiled a list of intriguing activities for this year’s...

For a well connected, knowledge-based nation

Jul 10, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on For a well connected, knowledge-based nation

September 2016 will witness the grand opening of the long-awaited ICT Centre of Excellence located on the University of Guyana Turkeyen campus, inside the building that currently houses the National...

Police record 20 percent drop in serious crimes

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police record 20 percent drop in serious crimes

– lowest in ten years in ‘A’ and ‘F’ Divisions The Guyana Police Force has recorded a 20 percent reduction in serious crimes, with ‘A’ and ‘F’ Divisions having the lowest crime...

A world long gone

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

On Monday, July 4, I walked out of the Waterchris Restaurant on Waterloo Street with business woman, Allison Butters-Grant and Dr. David Hinds. Allison’s car was nearest to the entrance, so we all...

HIGH PROFILE ROBBERY ACCUSED JAILED

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on HIGH PROFILE ROBBERY ACCUSED JAILED

Three of four men who were implicated in 2013 in a daring high profile robbery in the island of Wakenaam, in the Essequibo River were each sentenced to jail on Thursday when the lengthy case came to...

The decline of the Working People’s Alliance

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 3

Twelve years after his assassination, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) believed that Walter Rodney still lived. In 1992, the Working People’s Alliance was hell bent on denying Dr. Cheddi...

CCJ still to be the regional court of appeal

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ still to be the regional court of appeal

by Oscar Ramjeet After ten years of inauguration only four countries, Guyana, Barbados, Belize and recently Dominica have joined the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Two children died in a fire that started in the most unlikely of places – a home for children. This is going to haunt the government more than anyone else. Now there is going to be a rush to...

Zika virus – still a very prevailing health challenge

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Zika virus – still a very prevailing health challenge

By Sharmain Grainger I have written a number of articles over the months about the Zika virus. But towards the end of last week, for the first time, I was actually confronted with the symptoms of the...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Every New Year’s Eve, like clockwork, we engage in a ritual that is predictable as... more