February 2017

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Man burns house two weeks after wife drinks kerosene

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man burns house two weeks after wife drinks kerosene

A Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) man allegedly set his house on fire, two weeks after his wife drank kerosene in an attempt to escape from domestic violence. The man has been identified as...

Jagdeo is a real, real badman

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo is a real, real badman

When Jagdeo was president he set such an example that now that a new government is in place people can’t believe that what dem tek fuh granted was crookishness. Is now dem boys see why Jagdeo vex...

Parking meter fiasco…NO LAWYERS WERE PRESENT DURING CONTRACT SIGNING -Mayor

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parking meter fiasco…NO LAWYERS WERE PRESENT DURING CONTRACT SIGNING -Mayor

While it is not imperative to always have lawyers present during the actual signing of contracts, most legal minds would advise that this be done in any scenario that puts a country’s resources at...

Laureus Awards 2017: Bolt, Biles, Rosberg, Atherton and Leicester among winners

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Laureus Awards 2017: Bolt, Biles, Rosberg, Atherton and Leicester among winners

BBC Sport – Usain Bolt and Simone Biles claimed the top accolades at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco. Eight-time Olympic sprint champion Bolt and four-time Olympic gold gymnast Biles...

Pride will play tough cricket, warns Carter

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pride will play tough cricket, warns Carter

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Ace batsman Jonathan Carter has warned that Barbados Pride will be at their best for the semi-finals of the Regional Super50 which bowl off in Antigua today. Last...

Taking Chances: Arinze continues to excel in athletics and academics

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Taking Chances: Arinze continues to excel in athletics and academics

By Edison Jefford Guyanese sprint prodigy, Arinze Chance, who is one of the finest products to have emerged from the National Schools Championship, continues to take his chances in Trinidad and...

Berbice Volleyball Association holds one day extravaganza for schools on Friday

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Volleyball Association holds one day extravaganza for schools on Friday

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) will be hosting a volleyball extravaganza for secondary and primary schools in East Berbice Corentyne, Region six. The BVA, which is one of the most active...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Clarifying my position on the AAG Elections

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Clarifying my position on the AAG Elections

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper to sensitise the sporting public, and more particularly, the athletics fraternity on my position as it relates to track and field in Guyana. The...

West Demerara /East Bank Demerara Guinness Competition…Group stage conclusion and quarter-finals on this evening

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Demerara /East Bank Demerara Guinness Competition…Group stage conclusion and quarter-finals on this evening

The final round of the group stage and quarter-finals to be played this evening when play in the West Demerara/East Bank Demerara Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Competition resumes, at the...

Prem’s Electrical supports Regal for Florida Cup

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Prem’s Electrical supports Regal for Florida Cup

Prem’s Electrical of Alexander Street, Bourda, have supported Regal for the Florida Softball Cup which is set to commence on February 24. Prem’s Electrical manager Ms. Nirmala presented a cheque...

Savage Masters overcame Regal Masters to take Ogle CC softball crown

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Savage Masters overcame Regal Masters to take Ogle CC softball crown

Savage Masters defeated Regal Masters by three runs to win the final of the Ogle Community Centre softball tournament which was contested on Sunday. Batting first, Savage Masters managed 131-3 off...

Local weightlifters gear up for competitive trials for international meet

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local weightlifters gear up for competitive trials for international meet

The nation’s top weightlifters will vie for a spot on the team to represent Guyana at the Manuel Suarez Weightlifting Tournament scheduled for March 20 – 26, 2017 in Havana, Cuba when the...

DCC sends condolences to Harper family

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC sends condolences to Harper family

The President, Executive and members of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) regret the passing of Mrs. Lynette Harper, the mother of two of the stalwart members of the club– Roger and Mark Harper. The...

Alleged purse snatcher beaten to death at Good Hope

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged purse snatcher beaten to death at Good Hope

– female AFC Councilor, father detained Police are questioning a female Alliance For Change Councillor and her father, in connection with the vigilante-style beating death of a 22-year-old man...

Dismissal for health workers found abusing int’l donations – Minister Lawrence

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Dismissal for health workers found abusing int’l donations – Minister Lawrence

Heads will roll among Public Health Ministry staffers guilty of abusing international donations and whose departments under-perform forcing chunks of its budget to return annually to the Finance...

No anniversaries for APNU and the Cummingsburg Accord

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on No anniversaries for APNU and the Cummingsburg Accord

July 2016 came and went and maybe not even one Guyanese outside of the APNU circles could recall it was the birth anniversary of the formation called APNU. You tend at first glance to say it was a...

BK Int’l to get final payment in $1B Haags Bosch ‘sweetheart’ deal

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on BK Int’l to get final payment in $1B Haags Bosch ‘sweetheart’ deal

The government is expected to make the final payment of the $1.1B settlement to contractor, BK International, over the operations of the Haags Bosch Landfill site, aback of Eccles, East Bank...

Oral health high on Ministry’s agenda – Minister Cummings

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Oral health high on Ministry’s agenda – Minister Cummings

The best quality professional oral health care, particularly for vulnerable populations, is prominently listed on the 2017 agenda of the Ministry of Public Health. This is according to Minister...

Essequibo businessman begins bottling coconut water

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo businessman begins bottling coconut water

Guyana is well known as the Land of Many Waters, but it would soon be known as the land of pure and genuine coconut water. Successful entrepreneur of the Essequibo Coast, Roopan Ramotar, has...

GPHC recruits optometrists to tackle diabetic retinopathy

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC recruits optometrists to tackle diabetic retinopathy

Cases of cataract, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma have been identified as some of the more frequent conditions seen at the Ophthalmology Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

Grant secured for music development

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Grant secured for music development

Teachers and students will soon be afforded the opportunity to be trained to create music, using technology. The National School of Music has acquired a grant to introduce a music programme that...

Regional Officers live rent free in Government quarters

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Officers live rent free in Government quarters

-should have been paying rent In an astonishing admission at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting at Parliament on Monday, it was revealed that 27 Region Six officers lived rent free in...

Rosignol, New Amsterdam Stellings to be rehabilitated

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rosignol, New Amsterdam Stellings to be rehabilitated

-Construction of roads in Region Ten imminent During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), contractors vied for the contract to rehabilitate the...

42 kilos coke bust…Two Guyanese plead guilty in Bajan court to cocaine trafficking

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 42 kilos coke bust…Two Guyanese plead guilty in Bajan court to cocaine trafficking

Barbados (Barbados Today) -Four men, two of them Guyanese nationals, appeared in the No. 5 Supreme Court yesterday to answer drug charges dating back to 2011. Ryan Oneal Nowell, of Maxwell Avenue,...

LIFE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LIFE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED

In Guyana, many take life for granted. Lest we forget, life is precious. It is the most prized gift from the Creator to mankind. But in the midst of all the death around us in Guyana—murders,...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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