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GASP EMANCIPATION SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT…

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GASP EMANCIPATION SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT…

Belony denies Krakowsky to return to the podium Despite accruing 5 points and finishing among the top six in the previously staged Open championships, Leon Belony failed to make it on the podium by...

Moruca Expo 2016 a success…Miss Santa Cruz crowned Miss Moruca

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Moruca Expo 2016 a success…Miss Santa Cruz crowned Miss Moruca

The Moruca Expo 2016 held on Saturday at the Kumaka recreational ground was a success. The Expo was held under the theme “Moruca— our home our culture our pride”. Minister of Indigenous...

Most Guyanese deportees are from Trinidad– Statistics

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Most Guyanese deportees are from Trinidad– Statistics

More than 156 Guyanese have been deported from Trinidad and Tobago between a period in 2015 and June 2016. The figure represents the highest number on the list of countries from which Guyanese have...

Prime Minister, Ministers participate in Hopetown soiree

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prime Minister, Ministers participate in Hopetown soiree

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo; Vice President and Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan; Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson; and Minister in the Ministry of Indigenous...

Houston Fatal accident victim still unidentified

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Houston Fatal accident victim still unidentified

The woman who was struck down on the East Bank Demerara Public road (EBD) in the vicinity of Houston on Friday night has still not been identified. According to reports no relative has come forward...

Mashabo’s oldest is 107

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mashabo’s oldest is 107

On Sunday, the Elliott family of Mashabo, an Amerindian community located on the western half of the Essequibo Coast, outdid themselves to observe the birth anniversary of the oldest resident of the...

Emancipation 2016….Bachelors Adventure to commemorate 183rd anniversary of Demerara Slave Revolt

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation 2016….Bachelors Adventure to commemorate 183rd anniversary of Demerara Slave Revolt

As part of emancipation observance, the community of Bachelors Adventure will commemorate the 183rd anniversary of the Demerara Revolt. Given the significant milestone, organisers are hosting a...

178 years of emancipation…Emancipation energy will develop Buxton–says Dr. David Hinds

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 178 years of emancipation…Emancipation energy will develop Buxton–says Dr. David Hinds

By Jarryl Bryan One of the first villages ever bought by former slaves after emancipation, Buxton, was host to a series of pre-emancipation activities on Sunday night. It started with a complex...

The BV/Triumph NDC has failed us

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The BV/Triumph NDC has failed us

Dear Editor; I am writing this letter so that the Chairman and councilors of the BV/Triumph NDC will act on the concerns described below. I am a very concerned villager. It is now five (5) months...

The problems teachers face

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The problems teachers face

Dear Editor; I read with much interest an article published on July 28, 2016 captioned “School dropouts in Guyana…UNICEF initiative aims at root causes” and was perturbed about some of the...

Procurement Commission names are disappointing

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Procurement Commission names are disappointing

Dear Editor, The names selected for the Procurement Commission is astonishing. Nothing will ever change in this country. The commission will contain persons who are members or strong supporters of...

206 graduate from BIT Programmes in Region 5…

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 206 graduate from BIT Programmes in Region 5…

“I urge you to seize the opportunities provided to you with one hand and with the other, seek to develop your communities, which in turn will have an impact on your Region and ultimately your...

GUYANA NEEDS A COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL CONTENT LAW

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on GUYANA NEEDS A COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL CONTENT LAW

Dear Editor, Oil has been found in Guyana and optimistically production will begin in 2020. This offers Guyana the incredible opportunity of leap frogging beyond the annual incremental 3-5 % economic...

Market front chopping- woman stable, arm saved

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Market front chopping- woman stable, arm saved

Wanita Heerelall, 31, who was brutally chopped by her ex-lover at the La Penitence market on Sunday, successfully underwent surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) late Sunday...

Carpenter drowns as ‘Blacka’ claims another life

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Carpenter drowns as ‘Blacka’ claims another life

The Emancipation Day celebration took a deadly turn for one family yesterday, when a 27-year-old man drowned in the Lamaha Canal, popularly known as the “Blacka” in ‘B’ Field Sophia. The dead...

Professor Persaud fought against apartheid

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Professor Persaud fought against apartheid

Dear Editor; Guyanese born Professor, Bisnodath Persaud played a very important role for Blacks in the South African anti-apartheid fight. It counts among his excellent work during his life time as...

Hilary Clinton’s vision for Americans of Caribbean Descent

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hilary Clinton’s vision for Americans of Caribbean Descent

Dear Editor; .Editor’s note: this is the conclusion of Mr. Kirton’s letter carried in last Sunday’s edition. .Get Incomes Rising and Create Good-Paying Jobs: Hillary has said getting incomes...

GPHC seeks to reduce patient traffic by relying on West Dem. Hospital

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC seeks to reduce patient traffic by relying on West Dem. Hospital

Reducing the patient traffic at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) has long been a matter gaining the attention of the administration of the public health facility. In order to help address this...

West Demerara residents suffer intermittent blackouts …GPL says situation caused by ‘system trip’

Aug 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on West Demerara residents suffer intermittent blackouts …GPL says situation caused by ‘system trip’

Christmas came early for some residents of West Demerara (Region Three) – well, at least the fairy light aspect – compliments of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL). However, the flickering...

ADMINISTRATORS HAVE FAILED OUR CRICKETERS

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on ADMINISTRATORS HAVE FAILED OUR CRICKETERS

Dear Editor; We have watched with consternation and despair, the performance of the West Indies cricket team during the first Test match against India in Antigua, which ended on Sunday 24 July, 2016...

More evidence of the PPP’s discrimination against African-Guyanese

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 4

Yesterday I looked at discrimination against African Guyanese after the PPP came to power in 1992. It started with the Jagan Government, continued when Mrs. Jagan became President. But it was under...

A DISGRACEFUL LEADER

Aug 02, 2016 KNews Editorial 3

Spewing hate and pandering to race will not get the opposition leader any respect from the people. It appears that he is caught between a rock and a hard place and has become desperate; not knowing...

Berbice triple murder… Smiling teen killer ‘finished off’ victims with bullets to head

Aug 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice triple murder… Smiling teen killer ‘finished off’ victims with bullets to head

The teenager who killed 15-year-old Jaikarran Chandradeo and two men was reportedly smiling as he recalled wounding his victims and then “finishing them off” with shots to the head. This is the...

Bullet riddled bodies at Berbice… Main suspect charged in 2013 with murder

Aug 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bullet riddled bodies at Berbice… Main suspect charged in 2013 with murder

Reports are emerging that one of the suspects in the Mibicuri triple murder had several previous brushes with the law, and was even charged with murder. Carlton Chetram was recently released from...

Body on La Grange road… Boy 16, says he used hammer to kill handyman

Aug 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Body on La Grange road… Boy 16, says he used hammer to kill handyman

A16-year-old boy has reportedly confessed to using a hammer to bludgeon 49-year-old James Stewart after the 49-year-old man pushed him off his bicycle. Stewart was found dead at the junction of Unity...