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Pouderoyen woman freed of common-law husband’s murder

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Pouderoyen woman freed of common-law husband’s murder

The 12-member mixed jury yesterday returned a formal verdict, under the direction of Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, finding Nicola Joseph not guilty of the murder of her common-law husband Curtis McKinnon....

Contractors vie for Kaikan strip rehab contract

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Contractors vie for Kaikan strip rehab contract

A total of eight bids were opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday, for the Construction and Rehabilitation of the Kaikan Airstrip, which has an...

Costly mistake for Guyanese

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Costly mistake for Guyanese

Barbados (Barbados Today) – Guyanese national Mohamed Kazim Khan found himself in a heap of trouble for “mistakenly” putting a small bottle of insecticide in his pocket when he went into...

NIS to commence countrywide compliance campaign

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NIS to commence countrywide compliance campaign

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will be executing a countrywide campaign in an effort to engage employers, self-employed persons and employees on matters relating to compliance and benefits....

South Georgetown Inter-School Athletics competition commences

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Georgetown Inter-School Athletics competition commences

-‘Champions of Champions’ set for later this week The South Georgetown, District 13 Inter-School Track and Field Competition started yesterday at the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Ground...

GRA: Jamaican poultry feed meets CARICOM criteria for duty free waivers

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA: Jamaican poultry feed meets CARICOM criteria for duty free waivers

A quarrel over the importation of Jamaican poultry feed is not likely to see any immediate restrictions by Guyana. This is because Jamaican authorities are insisting that the feed meets requirements...

110 graduate with Masters at Nations

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 110 graduate with Masters at Nations

The fourth annual graduation of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme that the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) offers in collaboration with Nations School of Business and...

Inquiry into former soldiers’ welfare wrapping up

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Inquiry into former soldiers’ welfare wrapping up

Former military ranks are asking to be better reintegrated into civilian society as the Veterans Commission of Inquiry (COI) wraps up. Retired Warrant Officer, Lennox Hardy, told the COI that more...

National Secondary Schools cricket…

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Secondary Schools cricket…

Sachin Singh follows up 101 with unbeaten 79 for Chase Academy – Four schools advance to next round By Sean Devers National U-17 opener Sachin Singh hit an unbeaten 79 to follow-up his 101 in...

Education Specialist highlights tactic to improve regional education

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Education Specialist highlights tactic to improve regional education

Members of the Caribbean Community will have to work harder to encourage donors to extend their support. This notion was earlier this week amplified by Caricom’s Education Sector Specialist, Dr....

Major project launched for Rupununi communities to benefit from Norway funding

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Major project launched for Rupununi communities to benefit from Norway funding

WWF-Guianas and the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB), with funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), on Monday launched their Opt-in Readiness Project in...

GCF President admits to issues plaguing the body

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF President admits to issues plaguing the body

– promises to address cyclists concerns amidst plans lift the sport By Franklin Wilson Just over a year into their four-year term, the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) main constituents, the...

E’bo fisherman gets seven years for killing co-worker

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo fisherman gets seven years for killing co-worker

A 39-year-old fisherman who stabbed his co-worker to death while out at sea, has been sentenced to seven years in jail. This was after he pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, but guilty to the...

Bunbury’s results overshadow many

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bunbury’s results overshadow many

By Rawle Welch Reeling from a shower of stinging criticisms about his performance after twenty-plus years, President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K. Juman Yassin attempted to answer his...

GASP School’s Scrabble Initiative…

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GASP School’s Scrabble Initiative…

Annandale Secondary/President’s College latest beneficiaries of project Students of the Annandale Secondary School, Annandale North ECD and those of the President’s College, Golden Grove ECD,...

Drug convict Barry Dataram begs for leniency

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Drug convict Barry Dataram begs for leniency

-jailed 4 more years for forging passport, other offences Drug convict Barry Dataram yesterday begged for leniency and said he forced his reputed wife Anjanie Boodnarine to flee the country with him,...

PM says what Jamaican Government’s spend on athletes’ celebration a token gesture

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on PM says what Jamaican Government’s spend on athletes’ celebration a token gesture

Jamaica Observer – Prime Minister Andrew Holness believes the Government’s Salute to Rio Sports Ambassadors Celebrations are justified, as the State could never repay the athletes for their...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League – EDFA:

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League – EDFA:

Glasgow continues ripping form for BVTU; BAPSC also shine BV Triumph United (BVTU) star marksman, Omari Glasgow has continued his dominance and hunger for goals against opposing teams on the East...

2016 Elite Caribbean Road Cycling Championships –

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2016 Elite Caribbean Road Cycling Championships –

High air fare, other costs puncture Guyana’s male team representation Guyana will not be under starters’ orders in the male segment of this year’s Elite Caribbean Road Cycling Championships...

Why Clarkston never benefitted from World Hopes Training Camp?

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Why Clarkston never benefitted from World Hopes Training Camp?

By Rawle Welch Let me immediately open this missive by saying that while I commend the respective entities that have come forward and supported young Caribbean table tennis champion Kaysan...

Good Success NY Group dominoes tourney set for October 23

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Good Success NY Group dominoes tourney set for October 23

Good Success New York Group dominoes competition will be contested on October 23 at Carlosh Sports bar in Wakenaam starting at 10:00hrs. The competition, which was launched on Sunday on the 16-square...

Solemn atmosphere as boxing technician, Maurice ‘Bizzy’ Boyce interred

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Solemn atmosphere as boxing technician, Maurice ‘Bizzy’ Boyce interred

There were no tears but the atmosphere was charged with sorrow and grief when boxing affiliates joined with other friends and family of boxing technician Maurice ‘Bizzy’ Boyce to bid a final...

Moses century hands SS Jaguars victory, Maria’s Pleasure overcome Cavaliers

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Moses century hands SS Jaguars victory, Maria’s Pleasure overcome Cavaliers

By Zaheer Mohamed A fine century by Nokta Moses guided Sans Souci Jaguars to a 20-run victory over Good Success, while Maria’s Pleasure defeated G Square Cavaliers by 48 runs when the semi-finals...

Gary Best to lead probe into latest mining pit death

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gary Best to lead probe into latest mining pit death

Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Gary Best was yesterday sworn in to investigate, examine and report on the causes, conditions and surrounding circumstances that led to death of Keon Wilson,...

Lands and Surveys to offer online lease application service next year

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Lands and Surveys to offer online lease application service next year

Even as government continues to work towards an efficient and professional public service sector through, in part, the implementation of digitised systems, the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission...

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(Cricinfo) – Shadman Islam finished the first day of the Dhaka Test against West Indies tantalisingly unbeaten on 99 after bad light interrupted the final session. When stumps were finally...

Time for a reset of economic strategy

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s economic gurus would do well to put aside, if only for a moment, their celebratory charts, their impressive growth statistics, the glossy Article IV IMF reports and their seemingly inexhaustible supply of reasons why everything is proceeding according to plan, and...

Are We All Ukrainians?

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 19 October, accepting the award of Ukraine’s Order of Merit, I said that my commitment to Ukraine rests on a principle essential to small nations everywhere: sovereignty is the freedom to govern ourselves, preserve our identity and decide our future....

India’s cockroaches, Guyana’s parasites

Oct 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Police out in force. Tens of thousands in India. Is there a war? Indeed, there is. The Modi government apparently has scant tolerance for students, young unemployed and, of course, Muslims. Hence, that ready army of cops with sticks, and demonstrators ready to go to...

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