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GFF President ready for ‘uphill’ task in 2016

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF President ready for ‘uphill’ task in 2016

– Cites CONCACAF licensing, STAG Elite League as biggest achievement in 2015 President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Wayne Forde in a release described the year 2015 as one of the...

Basketball exceeded expectations in 2015

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball exceeded expectations in 2015

By Edison Jefford Local basketball exceeded all expectations last year, if the sport is to be analysed on the basis of domestic activity and programmes, with its one disappointment being the...

Prominent international Muslim Scholars to visit Guyana for Youman Nabi

Jan 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prominent international Muslim Scholars to visit Guyana for Youman Nabi

The Muslim Community in Guyana is scheduled to be graced with the presence of three prominent renowned and respected Muslim scholars, as the Muslim community of Guyana, through The Anna Catherina...

Relatives remember loved ones lost in 2015

Jan 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives remember loved ones lost in 2015

By: Romila Boodram While 2015 might have been 52 wild and wacky weeks of fun, comedy and laughter for some of us, it was a tough year for a few, who would have lost their loved ones in the most...

Red Region wins two races as Juts Call me Boss takes feature at Rising Sun

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Red Region wins two races as Juts Call me Boss takes feature at Rising Sun

Just call Me Boss of the Jagdeo Stable with Jockey Nicholas Patrick in control enacted sweet revenge as it won the feature D and lower 1400M event when the Rising Sun Turf Club held the inaugural...

FIRE IN WE WIRE

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on FIRE IN WE WIRE

Three men – an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman had joined the French Foreign Legion and after a few months of the intolerable Saharan desert heat, attempted to desert. They were caught and...

Australia’s spinners peg West Indies back in Sydney rain

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Australia’s spinners peg West Indies back in Sydney rain

SYDNEY (Reuters) Australia’s spinners Nathan Lyon and Stephen O’Keefe took key wickets between rain showers to peg West Indies back to 207 for six at the end of a weather-disrupted opening day of...

Islamic State executes ‘British spies’ and threatens to invade UK

Jan 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Islamic State executes ‘British spies’ and threatens to invade UK

LONDON, Jan. 3 (UPI) — The Islamic State released a video showing what it says is the execution of five men who were working for British intelligence services. In the 11-minute film released by the...

Full computerization among 2016 plan for GPOC

Jan 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Full computerization among 2016 plan for GPOC

By Jarryl Bryan The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is moving to make its services on par with other postage companies such as FEDEX and DHL, for 2016. This will include fully computerizing...

THE DEMERARA HARBOUR BRIDGE AND CRIME-FIGHTING

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE DEMERARA HARBOUR BRIDGE AND CRIME-FIGHTING

Human intelligence is becoming more important in solving crimes than any of the other traditional factors. As societies become more complex and increasingly impersonal, however, the building of...

GETTING ITS PRIORITIES RIGHT IN 2016

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on GETTING ITS PRIORITIES RIGHT IN 2016

The holidays are over and despite the talk about a recession from the opposition and other critics, it is not yet looming over Guyana. But whether Guyana was in a recession or not, it would not have...

Yes, Guyana does not want its remigrants

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Yes, Guyana does not want its remigrants

Dear Editor, It was with a sense of irony and much amusement that I read the letter titled “Does Guyana need its remigrants”? My own question would be “Does Guyana want its remigrants”?...

Is this man in fact, the father of marijuana?

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this man in fact, the father of marijuana?

Dear Editor, In recent weeks the media has been reporting on several calls for the decriminalization of the use and possession of marijuana. Discussions involving this topic have even engaged the...

The Pergola Promenade: National Monument or disgrace?

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Pergola Promenade: National Monument or disgrace?

Dear Editor, The “Pergola Promenade “was financed by the six institutions under the umbrella of the Cooperative Financial Administration during the eighties and was dedicated to the sterling...

Former Prime Minister Hinds, bats for his political party

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former Prime Minister Hinds, bats for his political party

Dear Editor, I write to make the case that (Privatization Unit/NICIL has been good for people and country. I would be failing in my duty if I were not to. I put myself on record also, that I have...

Should the President discipline Minister Patterson?

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Should the President discipline Minister Patterson?

Dear Editor, It has been reported in the media that the Cabinet has given clear instructions to the Minister of Finance to send Mr. Winston Brassington on administrative leave pending the outcome of...

GECOM says Guyana can look forward to fair LGE

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM says Guyana can look forward to fair LGE

Dear Editor, It is imperative that a response be made to the very disingenuous remarks attributed to Mr. Vishnu Bandhu, Leader of the United Republican Party (URP) in an article which was published...

Interesting electoral reform suggestions

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Interesting electoral reform suggestions

Dear Editor, I have a few suggestions with regards to needed electoral reforms: 1. Integrate LGEs with National/Regional Elections. To be fair to the past administrations, and assuming that there...

Biting the bullet over David Ramnarine

Jan 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Biting the bullet over David Ramnarine

Dear Editor, The new government appears indecisive at times. Some may label it flexible, or maintaining fluidity in its options, and lacking the official dogmatism hitherto the order of the day....

Delayed action on forensic audit reports is worrying – Dr. David Hinds

Jan 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Delayed action on forensic audit reports is worrying – Dr. David Hinds

By Kiana Wilburg The government’s sloth or indecisiveness over the forensic audits is becoming worrying to the nation, expressed University Professor, Dr. David Hinds in a recent interview with...

GRA swoops down on Sattaur’s home, takes away gun, PC and Ipad

Jan 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA swoops down on Sattaur’s home, takes away gun, PC and Ipad

Officials late last week descended on the Pradoville One, Goedverwagting home of Head of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, taking away his firearm and other property belonging to...

Ramjattan is harassing Ashni Singh – says Ramotar

Jan 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan is harassing Ashni Singh – says Ramotar

Recent comments by Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, to the effect that justice will be served when it comes to the illegal spending of $4.5B from the Consolidated Fund by the former...

Mon Repos man stabs cousin to death

Jan 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos man stabs cousin to death

By Suraj Narine An East Coast Demerara community was rocked by news of a murder on New Year’s Day. Dead is 34-year-old Ganesh Ramlakhan, a carpenter of 127 First Street, Mon Repos Pasture. The...

Corentyne man killed

Jan 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man killed

A Corentyne resident was questionably the country’s first reported murder victim. He was killed just ten minutes into the New Year. The celebrations were just beginning to soak in when it was...

Gang knocks down Cane Grove man then beats him to death

Jan 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gang knocks down Cane Grove man then beats him to death

Police on the East Coast of Demerara are in the process of rounding up members of a gang that beat a 22-year-old Cane Grove, Mahaica labourer, so bad and left him lying on the road that he succumbed...

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The PPP has started the intimidation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic... more