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Linden puts together formidable team for Boyce/Jefford Classic VII

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden puts together formidable team for Boyce/Jefford Classic VII

Upper Demerara Schools Track Club and Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) are expected to present a formidable force for this weekend’s Boyce/Jefford Track and Field Classic VII at the...

Sparton claim Joseph and Green dominoes crown

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sparton claim Joseph and Green dominoes crown

Sparton marked 49 games to win the final of the Faye Joseph and Andrea Green four-game dominoes competition which was contested on Sunday night at Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt. Beast and Rage...

Guyana arrives in Jamaica for Caribbean Pre-Cadet TT Championships

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana arrives in Jamaica for Caribbean Pre-Cadet TT Championships

Guyana’s National Pre-Cadet team will begin its quest today for regional honours at the 2106 Caribbean Pre-Cadet table tennis championships scheduled for the National Arena, Kingston Jamaica August...

Guyana capture WCDF three-hand title

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana capture WCDF three-hand title

Guyana successfully defended their three-hand title when the World Council Dominoes Federation staged their international tournament recently in Antigua. Guyana chalked up 14 points to finish ahead...

Vigilante killing… Slain bandit’s accomplice leads cops to gun

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News 1

The second suspect who was beaten by vigilantes in Pearl, East Bank Demerara on Saturday night, last, when he and his accomplice, Seon Clarke escaped from police earlier in the day, took...

Ministry expects shipment of Yellow Fever vaccine on Thursday

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry expects shipment of Yellow Fever vaccine on Thursday

-as several countries waive vaccination requirement A shipment of Yellow Fever Vaccine is expected by Thursday. This is according to Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, who during an...

Resurrecting the old ways

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 1

There is nothing more frustrating than when a people expect so much and get so little. They went to the polls in larger than ever numbers because they had become frustrated at the level of corruption...

Progress or retrogression?

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Progress or retrogression?

December 5, 2016 is Budget Day, a decision that is consistent with the policy of the government to have an early Budget. It took more than three months for the new government to produce its first...

Govt. optimistic about introducing expanded maternity leave

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. optimistic about introducing expanded maternity leave

…but more needed to be done to promote idea – Health Minister The World Health Organisation (WHO) has long recommended exclusive breastfeeding for newborn infants for the first six months of...

NTC Conference commences…President recommends establishment of Nat’l Indigenous People’s Authority

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NTC Conference commences…President recommends establishment of Nat’l Indigenous People’s Authority

During the opening of the 10th Annual National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference, which kicked off yesterday at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, Liliendaal, President David Granger recommended the...

East Ruimveldt girl is Blind Society’s top CSEC candidate

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on East Ruimveldt girl is Blind Society’s top CSEC candidate

– pass rate declines, but performances still laudable With five passes at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), 17-year-old Melieka Crawford of East Ruimveldt,...

Promoting safety high on GGMC’s agenda

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Promoting safety high on GGMC’s agenda

…as Mining Week Festivities kick-off Acting Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, Newell Dennison on Sunday said that the GGMC will be seeking to advocate and enforce the...

APNU+AFC making a mockery of transparency and accountability systems – Edghill

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News 1

The settlements, the kickbacks, and the rampant corruption at some Ministries spell clearly that the officials of this new government have already begun filling their pockets. Therefore, they will be...

There is significant need to reform the Guyana Police Force – USAID Report

Aug 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on There is significant need to reform the Guyana Police Force – USAID Report

According to a report (an assessment of Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in Guyana) compiled by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), there is a significant need to...

USAID’s Democracy Report is flawed

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 3

There is a USAID (United States Agency for International Development) report that is making the news. The essential point is that government has to shape the impulse for a democratic, free society....

Teen remanded for murder of Laing Ave. man

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen remanded for murder of Laing Ave. man

A 19-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Orin David, who was gunned down on Emancipation Day in front of his Laing Avenue, Georgetown home. Regus Lamazon of 51 D’Urban...

Driver in fatal accident granted bail

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Driver in fatal accident granted bail

Almost one month after disc jockey (DJ) Wavel Sheik Sabsook was killed in an early morning accident at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, his friend Shameer Mohamed was yesterday released on $1M bail on a...

Demise of Guyana’s manufacturing; the factors

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demise of Guyana’s manufacturing; the factors

Dear Editor, There are several factors that contributed to the demise of Guyana’s once thriving manufacturing sector. Smuggling is the number one killer of Guyana’s manufacturing industry; high...

More information on mismanagement at GWI

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I read the article on the Guyana Water Inc in your Sunday August 21 edition and I am extremely disgusted with what is happening in Guyana. It appears that corruption and nepotism...

Questions need to be asked about this particular suicide

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Questions need to be asked about this particular suicide

Dear Editor, Permit me to pen my thoughts regarding the suicide death of Vinod Balkarran, which took place recently at the Georgetown Hospital. Sad but true, beyond any shadow of a doubt, hospitals...

Time for policies that lead to sustainable community development

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for policies that lead to sustainable community development

Dear Editor, The Office of the President must be in constant contact with the United Nations, the Organization of American States and European Nations etc. For example there are both international...

Criminality on Tourists is totally unacceptable

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Criminality on Tourists is totally unacceptable

Dear Editor, One of the major industries in Guyana will be tourism. Many of its aspects have to do with Amazonian trekking (trekking of the Amazon jungle), bird watching, mountainous jungle hikes,...

I can’t stand this dead fish smell any longer

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I can’t stand this dead fish smell any longer

Dear Editor, My name is Natalie Slow Gonsalves, and I am writing this letter appealing to the relevant authorities about this situation in my community of Timehri, East Bank Demerara that is causing...

Usain Bolt competed for Jamaica not the Caribbean

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Usain Bolt competed for Jamaica not the Caribbean

Dear Editor, Respectfully, Jamaican Usain Bolt will bow out as the best track athlete we have ever witnessed in the 100 meters and 200 meters. Did Usain Bolt ever have any competition during his...

Is Bharrat Jagdeo acceptable for Guyana?

Aug 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Bharrat Jagdeo acceptable for Guyana?

Dear Editor, Of recent and in times past Guyanese were bombarded with racist comments, statements and rhetoric’s from irate and discontented politicians especially Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo that spells...

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The tirade against the independent media continues unabated

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- In every democracy worth its salt, the press serves as the watchdog, the thorn in the side... more