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Volleyball resumes in Berbice after a break due to inclement weather

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Volleyball resumes in Berbice after a break due to inclement weather

Volleyball action resumes in Berbice tomorrow, Sunday 14th August, after a break due to the inclement weather as the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) season continues. Teams are busy preparing to...

NDC overcome Baksh XI

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NDC overcome Baksh XI

New Doctors Clinic (NDC) defeated Nadir Baksh XI by 48 runs in a 10-over softball fixture played recently at Everest Cricket Club. Batting first, NDC posted 166 all out in 10 overs with Kellon...

NAMILCO/GFF Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League…

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO/GFF Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League…

UDFA matches continues today at Wisburg ground Action in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) leg of the GFF/Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 League is set to continue today at the...

Ramdhnai to start 5-year Badminton Academy next month

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdhnai to start 5-year Badminton Academy next month

To be a champion in sports you have to have these four factors Dedication, Time, Discipline & Sacrifice and Sunburst National Badminton player Narayan Ramdhnai has mastered all four and was...

Nigel Hinds resigns from National Sports Commission

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nigel Hinds resigns from National Sports Commission

Nigel Hinds resigned yesterday from the National Sports Commission (NSC) with immediate effect after serving just under a year. Hinds is incumbent Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF)...

3rd Rock Entertainment Open Basketball

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on 3rd Rock Entertainment Open Basketball

Bulls seek semifinal berth against Flames tonight as upstarts Kwakwani face Falcons Reigning champions Half Mile Bulls are expected to win their group stage match when they face the challenge of...

Wolf’s Challenge Cup continues on Sunday

Aug 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wolf’s Challenge Cup continues on Sunday

The Wolf’s Challenge Softball Cup is set to continue tomorrow with matches at Malteenoes SC and Gandhi Youth Organisation grounds. At MSC, Regal Masters will take on Mike’s Wellman at 10:00hrs,...

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...

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The Vice President has it wrong!

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Now, according to Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, the government’s anti-corruption system... more