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Guyana Ladies destroy Bermuda 5-0

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Ladies destroy Bermuda 5-0

Guyana began its bid to retain the Ladies Team Title at the Caribbean Squash Championships at the Queens Park Oval Squash Courts, Trinidad on Thursday Evening. They made a clean sweep of Bermuda...

Businessman makes generous contribution to community

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman makes generous contribution to community

Last week, a Pourderoyen, West Coast Demerara businessman awarded several successful Secondary School Entrance Examination (SSEE) students with monetary prizes and shared out hampers to the elderly...

Keep guns away from ‘depressed’ persons – Police warn

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Keep guns away from ‘depressed’ persons – Police warn

Relatives of persons who are experiencing any form of mental illness, are being urged to always keep an eye on their loved ones, and if those individuals have firearms in their possession, then take...

Another car hijacked, driver thrown out at La Parfaite Harmonie

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News 1

Less than a week after a Schoonord, West Bank Demerara resident lost his car, when three men forced him to drive to an isolated area in La Parfaite Harmonie, another driver has reportedly experienced...

Essequibo teen perishes in car crash

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo teen perishes in car crash

Nineteen-year-old Chandi Dyal Singh, also known as ‘Vikash’, of Lot ‘H’ Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast, is the country’s latest road fatality. Singh was involved in an accident on the...

Girl found in Hope Canal was murdered – PM reveals

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Girl found in Hope Canal was murdered – PM reveals

What had first seemed like a tragic case of drowning, has now turned into a murder investigation, with police revealing yesterday that Malika Hamilton, the 14-year-old whose body was found in the...

GPHC Board Chairman calls for more professionalism

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Board Chairman calls for more professionalism

…as moves are made to improve the institution A call for more professionalism at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is being made by Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Carl...

GuySuCo’s pursuance of ‘negative’ culture demotivating workforce – GAWU

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo’s pursuance of ‘negative’ culture demotivating workforce – GAWU

The Guyana Agriculture and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) yesterday claimed that the actions of the Guyana Sugar Corporation is demotivating sugar workers. The Union expressed this notion during a...

CORRECTION/APOLOGY

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CORRECTION/APOLOGY

Chief Psychiatrist, Dr. Bhiro Harry, who operates out of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, has informed this publication that Mr Theodore Adams was never his patient Adams shot his wife,...

Dredge continues to sit in Mazaruni River

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dredge continues to sit in Mazaruni River

One month ago this publication reported on a sunken dredge in the Mazaruni River. According to reports received yesterday the dredge is still sitting in the river and the situation has worsened,...

West Berbice murder accused to face judge and jury

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on West Berbice murder accused to face judge and jury

Two men who were part of a marauding gang that caused terror by perpetrating two brutal murders within seven days, on the West Coast of Berbice, have been committed to stand trial in the next session...

Education Ministry’s budget expenditure amounts to $15.5B in six months

Aug 13, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Education Ministry’s budget expenditure amounts to $15.5B in six months

In the first six months of 2016, a sum of $15.5 billion, or 38 percent of the total budgeted sum of $40.3 billion, was expended in the education sector. This is according to information provided in...

Wells built for 25 years only last five – 18 will cost $200M to rectify – GWI

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Wells built for 25 years only last five – 18 will cost $200M to rectify – GWI

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is currently in the process of rectifying 18 defective wells located throughout the country. The cost is in excess of $200M. These wells, according to the Chief...

Foulis man remanded for cocaine in fish

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Foulis man remanded for cocaine in fish

Kapil Haresh Thakur of Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, has been remanded to prison on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. According to the facts provided to the...

Recent oil find spurs introduction of business incubator – public-private partners ink agreement to collaborate

Aug 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Recent oil find spurs introduction of business incubator – public-private partners ink agreement to collaborate

Guyana recent oil find has provoked interest in many factions, particularly the business community. It is already anticipated that the discovery will result in a number of spin-off businesses being...

I hope President Granger knows charity begins at home

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I hope President Granger knows charity begins at home

A schoolgirl is on work-study at the Kaieteur News. So she accompanied the journalist that covers the courts. The student was stopped from entering the magistrates’ courts because one of the...

City Hall has no secret bank accounts

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Hall has no secret bank accounts

Dear Editor, A statement, in the media, on the financial situation at the Mayor and City Council attributed to Councillor, Mr. Bishram Kuppen attracted the attention of the City’s administration....

Accreditation of Arya Samaj Pandits to perform licensed marriages

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Accreditation of Arya Samaj Pandits to perform licensed marriages

Dear Editor, Please find below a letter I wrote to President Granger. My organization would like for it to be published in the press. Dear President Granger, I write to seek your intervention...

A supporter takes issue with an anti-Burnham letter

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A supporter takes issue with an anti-Burnham letter

Dear Editor, Please allow me the space in the letter columns to respond to Mr. GHK Lall’s letter titled “Mr. Burnham trampled on social cohesion, national unity,” This letter appeared in the...

Cabinet cannot investigate itself

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Cabinet cannot investigate itself

The person who owns that property in Sussex Street, which is being rented by the Ministry of Public Health to store medicines, is one lucky fellow. The man should go and buy a lottery ticket. He has...

Words from the Bible were written by men like us

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Words from the Bible were written by men like us

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to the letter supporting the death penalty by one Elder Small in a recent issue. First of all, the writer has used as his main elements for its justification...

The drugs bond contract; conflict of interest

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The drugs bond contract; conflict of interest

Dear Editor, I make reference to an article carried in your August 11 edition captioned “President orders into drugs bond contract”, and wish to point out that the President having appointed two...

Stop these attempts to divide Guyanese

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop these attempts to divide Guyanese

Dear Editor, It has been quite some time now that I have deliberately sought to stay out of the otherwise venous political limelight of Guyana for the mere fact – it seems to create mostly enemies...

GECOM replies to Freddie Kissoon

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM replies to Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, Many have documented that Mr. Frederick Kissoon does not carry out research before making unwarranted, sometimes scandalous, statements about institutions and persons. In a column (dated...

Suggestions for Amerindian heritage month

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suggestions for Amerindian heritage month

Dear Editor, Please allow my letter to be published in your newspaper, so my contribution to the planning of our Amerindian heritage month programme of activities, can be taken into consideration for...

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Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more