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Twins Beer Garden (Bayo) sponsors Upper Corentyne U19 Cricket Competition

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Twins Beer Garden (Bayo) sponsors Upper Corentyne U19 Cricket Competition

The Upper Corentyne Cricket Association has secured sponsorship from the Twins Beer Garden (Bayo) of Corriverton to sponsor and U19 cricket 50 overs cricket competition for teams in the Upper...

Guyana got value for money with forensic audits –Junior Finance Minister

Jul 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana got value for money with forensic audits –Junior Finance Minister

…But expresses disappointment with some of the auditors’ failure to “call a spade, a spade” By Kiana Wilburg Regardless of what the critics might say, Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma,...

Boucher hundred frustrates T&T victory bid

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boucher hundred frustrates T&T victory bid

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Opener Leniko Boucher stroked an attractive hundred to steer Barbados to the safety of a draw, in their opening three-day game of the Regional Under-19 Championship...

Guyana’s Benson and Hedges Triumph 1975

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Benson and Hedges Triumph 1975

Guyana playing under the captaincy of Timur Mohamed won the 1975 Benson and Hedges Regional Under 19 Cricket Championship. The land of many waters zoned with the Windward Islands and host Trinidad...

Police issue wanted bulletin for drug trafficker

Jul 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police issue wanted bulletin for drug trafficker

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a bulletin indicating that Obina Hendricks also called “Hiney” is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to Trafficking in Narcotics on July 11,...

Sophia’s ‘killer gang’ forces mother to run from home

Jul 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia’s ‘killer gang’ forces mother to run from home

– After gang members threaten to rape her daughters A mother of seven has been forced to leave her home and run for her life with her children after members from the notorious gang, “Gaza...

Schoolboy succumbs after road accident

Jul 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolboy succumbs after road accident

Fifteen year old Yanick Schultz, of Number 8 Village, West Coast Berbice, and a student of the Fort Wellington Secondary School, died on Thursday, at the Georgetown Public Hospital. He succumbed to...

Duo remanded after denying armed robbery charges

Jul 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Duo remanded after denying armed robbery charges

A robbery accused was allowed to plead to six charges of robbery under-arms after he agreed to have the offences tried in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Adrian Daly of Albouystown, Georgetown,...

Guyana’s stupidity claims another victim

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s stupidity claims another victim

As I often hear people say, “Two wrongs do not make a right.” And indeed that is so. One of the incidents that will live with me always was a bicycle accident on Woolford Avenue. Dr. Perry Mars...

The government boots

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The government boots

No one is saying that persons in the military should not be employed within the public service. The main concerns are the favoring of persons in the military for jobs, the large number of persons...

GTU President worried teachers’ interests being sidelined

Jul 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GTU President worried teachers’ interests being sidelined

Teachers within the public education system are frustrated and very worried about their stalled promotions. Promotions for the eligible teachers have been stalled for the past two years pending a...

Still no bail for attempted murder accused

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Still no bail for attempted murder accused

A bail application made by Attorney Mark Conway on behalf of attempted murder accused, Uttanpad Sewnaraine, was denied by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. Sewnaraine, 39, a bus driver of Campbellville,...

Absence of defence counsel delays ruling in TIP case

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Absence of defence counsel delays ruling in TIP case

A ruling which was expected to be made yesterday, in a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) case by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan was deferred until September 5, due to the absence of Defence Counsel. It is...

Son of murdered block maker testifies in PI

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Son of murdered block maker testifies in PI

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara block maker, Nathan Persaud, continued before Magistrate Judy Latchman with a testimony from his son. Nathan Persaud...

Teen gets bail for wounding another

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen gets bail for wounding another

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan released a teenager on $50,000 bail after he appeared before her on a wounding charge. Anfernee Clonmell, 18, is accused of unlawfully and maliciously wounding Tarrick...

CELEBRATING EMANCIPATION DAY

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CELEBRATING EMANCIPATION DAY

Like other English speaking CARICOM countries, Guyana will celebrate Emancipation Day on Monday in observance of the abolition of slavery 182 years ago in 1834. However, there are those who say that...

The death of 14 year old, Ryan Persaud

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The death of 14 year old, Ryan Persaud

Dear Editor, When will the police open back up the case of the 14 year of Ryan Persaud that was shot by a certain businessman’s son in September 2013 or will the DPP keep file in cold storage. I am...

Stringent dress codes for visitors should be abolished

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, It is high time that the dress code/rules for visitors to public offices, including RDC compounds be reexamined. Upon remigrating to Guyana in 2014 after 25 years overseas, it was a...

Four concerns of mine I would like to discuss

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Four concerns of mine I would like to discuss

Dear Editor, A few things bother me, and I wish you will tolerate and accommodate my comments and consider them worthy of publication. I wish to explain a very elementary fact that if I criticize or...

The pain and grief of the masses must be addressed

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The pain and grief of the masses must be addressed

Dear Editor, I wish to use this opportunity to respond simultaneously to an article and a letter which appeared in Stabroek News (SN) and Kaieteur News (KN) respectively on July 16 and on July 20,...

Time to hold Bharrat Jagdeo accountable

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time to hold Bharrat Jagdeo accountable

Dear Editor, We sometimes gripe when we lose in a competition and we accuse everyone of this or that. We often times fail to internalise and see where we went wrong. Mr Jagdeo is on a collision...

Thanks to Dr. Niamatali

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thanks to Dr. Niamatali

Dear Editor, In the 1980’s I was in my 40’s – a patient of Doctor Niamatali. He gave me the best advice — if you do not stop smoking, don’t return to see me. It was the best choice I...

Dismantling of the Constitution and the Rule of Law

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters 2

Dear Editor, Countries in the English- speaking Caribbean are often described by Constitutional theorists as “constitutional democracies”. This is so for many reasons. Their constitution is their...

I am not in favour of the death penalty

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am not in favour of the death penalty

Dear Editor, To hang or not to hang has been a topic in Guyana, the Caribbean and the entire free world for several decades. It became a hot debate in Guyana following the visiting of Navi Pillay of...

The East Canje Reunion is in its 9th year

Jul 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The East Canje Reunion is in its 9th year

Dear Editor, Providing an opportunity to reunite with fellow village people, families, friends, even neighbours from the same village area, large gatherings planned by the Guyanese Diaspora in the...

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Desecration, Disrespectful, and Disgraceful

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The solemnity of Babu Jaan, a site meant to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Cheddi... more