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3 bullet riddled bodies found in Berbice backdam

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News 1

-cops detain farmer Fear gripped the small Black Bush Polder Village of Mibicuri, Berbice yesterday, after the bodies of three men, with gaping bullet wounds, were found in the Kokrit Savannah...

GPHC Matron sent on administrative leave

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Matron sent on administrative leave

-but Nursing Association not pleased with decision The Director of Nursing Services (Matron) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Sister Collene Hicks, has been sent on...

Death penalty… UN Human Rights Representative welcomes President’s call for national consensus

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News 1

President David Granger, during a recording of his weekly television interview programme, “The Public Interest”, had reiterated his position that he does not intend to order the execution of...

KN Grenade Attack… Government has a right to seek international help – Trotman

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on KN Grenade Attack… Government has a right to seek international help – Trotman

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman, during a recent Post-Cabinet Press Briefing, defended the Government’s request to seek international help over the grenade attack...

Corrupt practices by contractors will no longer be condoned –Junior Finance Minister

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News 1

By Kiana Wilburg Contractors who produce shoddy work, unreasonable cost over runs, trading of insider information and other corrupt practices will no longer be condoned within the public procurement...

Kohli, Ashwin put India on top untidy Windies

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kohli, Ashwin put India on top untidy Windies

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – An error-strewn performance, coupled with Virat Kohli’s maiden Test double hundred and a third Test hundred by Ravi Ashwin, left West Indies facing a massive fight for...

Bolt wins but hurdler Harrison takes the glory

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bolt wins but hurdler Harrison takes the glory

LONDON (Reuters) Usain Bolt delivered on his top billing by winning the 200metres at the London Diamond League on Friday but the Jamaican was upstaged for once as American sprint hurdler Kendra...

Pepsi Hikers Annual Hockey Camp opens Monday

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Hikers Annual Hockey Camp opens Monday

The Hikers Hockey Club will stage its Annual two-week Hockey Camp from July 25th (Monday) to August 6th, 2016 at St. Stanislaus College on Brickdam. The Camp is opened to children between the ages of...

Fitness Paradise set to host 3rd Gym Expo at Princess Hotel next Sunday

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Paradise set to host 3rd Gym Expo at Princess Hotel next Sunday

Ganpat and Vincent to Guest Pose The date is Sunday July 31st next and the venue is the Ramada Georgetown Princess Hotel from 19:00hrs when the 3rd edition of Fitness Paradise Gym Expo is held. This...

MoPH Soft Shoe Football Competition winners receive prizes

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on MoPH Soft Shoe Football Competition winners receive prizes

Winners of the recently concluded Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) ‘Stop Gender-based Violence’ Soft Shoe Football Competition received their respective prizes yesterday during a simple ceremony...

Pan American Junior Badminton Championships, Peru 2016 – day 3

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pan American Junior Badminton Championships, Peru 2016 – day 3

Guyanese players succumb at quarter-finals hurdle Guyana’s leading Male & Female Badminton Players, SUNBURST Narayan Ramdhani & Priyanna Ramdhani both lost in the Quarter Finals at the Pan...

Day 2 WICB Women’s t20… Jamaica, B’dos & Trinidad win on day two

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Day 2 WICB Women’s t20… Jamaica, B’dos & Trinidad win on day two

Guyana go down to Bajans by 49 runs By Sean Devers An unbeaten 62 from West Indies player and Barbados Skipper Shaquana Quintyne powered her team to a second consecutive victory by beating Guyana by...

YBG will complete NSBF in October

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on YBG will complete NSBF in October

Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) has issued a statement where it says that it will now put the completion of the 2016 National Schools’ Basketball Festival (NSBF) into priority, announcing new dates...

XXXIX Caribbean Football Union Ordinary Congress on today

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on XXXIX Caribbean Football Union Ordinary Congress on today

GFF President, Wayne Forde, pursues CFU Executive position President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, arrived in Miami USA yesterday and will contest for an executive Committee...

11th annual GBTI cycle road race set for Berbice tomorrow

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on 11th annual GBTI cycle road race set for Berbice tomorrow

The Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) through its coach and Organising Secretary, Randolph Roberts continues to keep the sport of cycling on the move in Berbice as it organise yet another cycling event in...

Bound in wardrobe… Cops detain villager, recover computer, other stolen items

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bound in wardrobe… Cops detain villager, recover computer, other stolen items

Police have detained a suspect in connection with the murder of 53-year-old Terry Lakhan, whose nude body was found around 23.30 hrs on Thursday in his Back Street, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara...

Fund raising 10/10 Softball cricket fixed for GCC July 30 and 31

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fund raising 10/10 Softball cricket fixed for GCC July 30 and 31

Paul‘s Importer/Distributor in association with the Georgetown Cricket Club will stage a 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition at the GCC, Ground Bourda on July 30th and 31st featuring 16- Teams vying...

Caribbean Junior Squash Championships 2016 Guyana on course to retain title

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Junior Squash Championships 2016 Guyana on course to retain title

On the penultimate day of the team championships it has boiled down to a straight fight between Team Guyana and Barbados to decide who will be the Overall Team Champions. In the Girls Team...

COST EFFECTIVE VACANCY ADVERTISEMENTS

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on COST EFFECTIVE VACANCY ADVERTISEMENTS

Dear Editor; Many vacancy advertisements in the local media seem to ignore some basic criteria of cost effective advertising such as the need to catch the attention of potential candidates and to...

Sherod Duncan should be given a car

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sherod Duncan should be given a car

Dear Editor; Each time the Mayor of Georgetown opens her mouth she ends up putting her foot inside of it. Her most recent gaffe before winging out to Chile was to announce that the Deputy Mayor is...

Migrating tertiary-educated Guyanese, a National Tragedy – Minister Roopnaraine

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Migrating tertiary-educated Guyanese, a National Tragedy – Minister Roopnaraine

The 2016 report by the World Bank on Migration and Remittances has shown that 93 per cent of all persons leaving Guyana have obtained a tertiary education. Minister of Education Dr. Rupert...

Passing it on!

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Passing it on!

The container tax threatens the livelihoods of a number of ordinary workers. If this tax is consented to, it could see less work for these persons because the business community is going to try to...

$21.5M contracts inked to improve river defence- NAREI

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $21.5M contracts inked to improve river defence- NAREI

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) on Wednesday inked two contracts totaling $21.5M with S&K Construction Services to improve river defence on the coastland. A...

Guyana‘s first robotics youth training camp gets underway

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana‘s first robotics youth training camp gets underway

To harness the power of information technology, the next generation must take a bold step towards equipping themselves with the skills needed to do so. This is the notion expressed by United...

Private hospital introduces newest heart procedure, saves ailing patient’s life

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Private hospital introduces newest heart procedure, saves ailing patient’s life

– Medical Council being urged to examine non-referral stance of some institutions “Make arrangements to travel to the (United) States or prepare to die,” that was the advice that was...

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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

Let us not be silent witnesses!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more