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Fighter capture KV Contracting Services dominoes

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fighter capture KV Contracting Services dominoes

Fighter chalked up 81 games to win the KV Contracting Services dominoes competition which was played on Friday night at Romain Sports bar 115 Industry Market Square, East Coast Demerara. Witnessed by...

Andrew’s Art on board with RHTY&SC, MS

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Andrew’s Art on board with RHTY&SC, MS

– Club to host Andrew Juman Memorial 20/20 Tournament Advertisement agency, Andrew’s Art on Saturday last became the latest corporate entity to come on board with Guyana’s leading youth and...

Relatives await DNA on skeletal remains

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives await DNA on skeletal remains

– believed to be missing woman Relatives have renewed their appeals for police to investigate the disappearance of Basmattie Anantram, who disappeared from her Seawell, Corentyne home under...

Nand Persaud, Sky Plus Inc. Sprint Classic Horserace meet…Banks DIH Limited, Trophy Stall and 4R bearings among major sponsors

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nand Persaud, Sky Plus Inc. Sprint Classic Horserace meet…Banks DIH Limited, Trophy Stall and 4R bearings among major sponsors

With the Sprint Classic Horserace meet organised by the Nand Persaud Group of Companies through its Sky Plus Incorporated Promotion Group gaining momentum, a number of organisations, individuals and...

Women’s World Cup Qualifiers 2017 India skittle Thailand for 55 in second win

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Women’s World Cup Qualifiers 2017 India skittle Thailand for 55 in second win

ESPNCRICINFO – Mansi Joshi, the medium pacer, took three wickets in a single spell as India shot out Thailand for 55 and then completed the chase in 12.4 overs to register their second...

Guyana to play in B’dos Beach International Soccer Tourney

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to play in B’dos Beach International Soccer Tourney

By Sean Devers in Barbados Guyana will be one of five teams scheduled to participate in the inaugural Barbados International Beach Soccer tournament at the Brandon Beach, Spring Gardens here in...

Tshanna Cort is Junior Calypso Monarch again

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tshanna Cort is Junior Calypso Monarch again

By: Brushell Blackman For the second consecutive year, 20-year-old Tshanna Cort has been crowned Junior Calypso Monarch. Watched by a modest crowd, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday...

Second half of Stag Elite League Season 2 rescheduled

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Second half of Stag Elite League Season 2 rescheduled

Georgetown: The second half of the Stag Elite League, originally scheduled to begin February 5, 2017, yesterday with the League Leaders Tournament, has been rescheduled to February 26, March 1 and 5,...

Pollution caused by mining will not be tolerated

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Pollution caused by mining will not be tolerated

– Min. Broomes Mining activities which adversely affect the livelihoods of residents will no longer be tolerated by authorities, particularly the Ministry of Natural Resources. Junior Minister of...

C6 crowned Tenth Street dominoes champs

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on C6 crowned Tenth Street dominoes champs

C6 marked 44 games to win the final of the Tenth Street Sports bar four-game Dominoes competition which was contested recently at Tenth Street Sports bar, Diamond, East Bank Demerara. Spartans placed...

Guyana National Referees Council receives sponsorship

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana National Referees Council receives sponsorship

Georgetown: The Guyana National Referees Council (GNRC) has received a donation of gears from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation Inc. (GPC) on Friday, 27th January, 2017. The donation was made...

Law school: The failure of 50 years of Independence

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Law school: The failure of 50 years of Independence

The Attorney-General in commenting on the law school that soon will be established, remarked that UG receives 200 law applicants each year. That figure goes down because not all are accepted; just...

Linden Town Week officially launched

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Town Week officially launched

“Reflect, refocus- moving forward with unity and strength for our development’ is the theme for Linden Town Week 2017. And members of VYBZ Entertainment are brimming with optimism that this...

ONCE UPON A PASTIME

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on ONCE UPON A PASTIME

I suppose I should begin this with “Once upon a time…” but if that opening phrase preferred by story-tellers like Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson were mandatory, almost every political speech...

Advances are not loans

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Advances are not loans

It is not unknown for a government ministry, department of corporation to grant advances to members of staff. The issuance of advances is a regular and common financial practice which has been...

Exxon Mobil and American oil interest in Guyana

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Exxon Mobil and American oil interest in Guyana

Dear Editor, On Feb. 3, 2017 President Trump signed the Executive Order “Core Principles for Regulating the United States’ Financial System,” which is his way of “doing a big number” on the...

Pricing structure must reflect economic reality

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pricing structure must reflect economic reality

Dear Editor, I was originally only going to focus this letter on the “alternative facts” spread by Bharrat Jagdeo’s picayune ‘media empire’ (iNews/TVG/Radio Guyana/MTV) regarding the...

Former PPP official says PPP is not true to Marxism-Leninism

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former PPP official says PPP is not true to Marxism-Leninism

Dear Editor, Hyder Ally in a letter dated January 27th and captioned “My party, the PPP, is guided by the principles of Marxism-Leninism” tried to convince readers that the PPP post Jagan...

Mayor asserts that the parking meters will stay

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor asserts that the parking meters will stay

Dear Editor, On February 3, 2017 an allegedly People Progressive Party (PPP) sponsored protest was held on the northern side of City Hall, Regent Street, Lacytown. The protest was against the...

The protest last Friday is the rise of civil society

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The protest last Friday is the rise of civil society

Dear Editor, For far too long we have been looking at our country’s future through the lens of politics and two political parties, the PPP and PNC (or whatever it’s called now). Like most former...

High praise for the Fire Service

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on High praise for the Fire Service

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my sincere appreciation to the Guyana Fire Service for the prompt and efficient service which undoubtedly contained the recent fire to the top flat at my home in...

A healthy body must accompany a healthy mind

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A healthy body must accompany a healthy mind

Dear Editor, One boasts of never in his entire life putting a cigarette to his mouth – as if he is the only one. Another boasts of not eating meat for over the last 20/30 years. Still says; “I...

Ministry of Finance embarked on a wrong policy direction

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ministry of Finance embarked on a wrong policy direction

Dear Editor, It would be negligent of me, to let another example of poor public policy under the Granger administration pass without offering my remarks. The Guyana Chronicle of February 2, 2017,...

His defence of this imposition on citizens is misguided fanaticism

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on His defence of this imposition on citizens is misguided fanaticism

Dear Editor, Rickford Burke’s treatise on the goodness of parking meter revenue for development and the need for civic education is an excursion into obscurity and misguided fanaticism for bad...

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

Dear Editor, I wish to support the excellent letter written by Dr. David Hinds in KN of 1/2/17 making a strong case against terminating the services of proficient and effective officials on the basis...

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An Open Letter to the election observer missions

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-Later this year, you will arrive in Guyana as protectors of the integrity of our democracy.... more