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Forgotten Youth Foundation wins Pepsi U-16 title

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forgotten Youth Foundation wins Pepsi U-16 title

The Forgotten Youth Foundation Gym walked away with the Champion Gym title when two-day Pepsi Michael Parris Under-16 boxing competition was held recently at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis gym in...

GFF appoints first Women’s Development Officer

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF appoints first Women’s Development Officer

The Guyana Football Federation is pleased to announce the appointment of former Lady Jaguars national team captain Tricia Munroe as the organisation’s first Women’s Development Officer (WDO), a...

Soesdyke man to serve just over 12 years for killing wife

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soesdyke man to serve just over 12 years for killing wife

A father of three was yesterday, initially, sentenced to 25 years in prison after he admitted to killing his reputed wife during a 2013 domestic dispute. According to the indictment, Shameer Ali, 46,...

Entrepreneurship programme to empower youths launched

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Entrepreneurship programme to empower youths launched

Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin has urged ninety youths from Sophia and Angoy’s Village, Corentyne, Berbice to get on a path that could take them in the right direction. He was at the time...

UG symbolizes the tragic failure of this country

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on UG symbolizes the tragic failure of this country

I remember in the late eighties, Glen Khan, of Laparkan fame, had purchased Fogarty’s Store. Khan brought a guy from Miami, (I think Furnival was his name) to run the business. What Furnival did...

National Emergency Response programme gradually expanding – Medical Director

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on National Emergency Response programme gradually expanding – Medical Director

Moves are apace to expand the national Emergency Medical Service [EMS] by this year end. This is according to EMS Medical Director, Dr. Zulfikar Bux. According to Dr. Bux, currently the services of...

Defects on Turn-key houses to be corrected by weekend

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Defects on Turn-key houses to be corrected by weekend

…average of $400,000 spent thus far on each home The average cost to rectify one turn-key home thus far, at Perseverance on the East Bank Demerara, is approximately $400,000, an official from...

PAHO/WHO commends Guyana immunisation gains

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO/WHO commends Guyana immunisation gains

…as Vaccination Week begins This year marks 40 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Guyana. It is a programme of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health...

Former Bourda Post Office robbery accused to face trial for abducting cop

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former Bourda Post Office robbery accused to face trial for abducting cop

Three men who had been accused of carrying out a multi-million-dollar robbery at the Bourda Post Office are set to stand trial at the High Court in Georgetown for abducting a member of the Guyana...

FAKE NEWS

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on FAKE NEWS

The term fake news has been used constantly by Donald Trump during the presidential election campaign in the United States. At the time, there were several reports about possible Russian interference...

Trinidad Tax lawyer is newest member of Guyana Bar

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad Tax lawyer is newest member of Guyana Bar

Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George admitted Trinidadian lawyer and tax practitioner, Gillian Wolff, to practise at the Guyana Bar. She welcomed her to Guyana and to the legal profession last Tuesday....

Public justice and the media

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Public justice and the media

What happens if a public servant sees something happening that is wrong, complains about it – not once but twice – only to find that nothing is being done about the matter? What is the...

Canecutter who hacked off reputed wife’s wrist turns self in

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Canecutter who hacked off reputed wife’s wrist turns self in

Warren Dennis, the canecutter who hacked off his reputed wife’s left wrist at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerraa, has surrendered to the police. A senior police official confirmed that a brother...

Yellow Fever is at our borders – Medex cautions

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Yellow Fever is at our borders – Medex cautions

– urges persons to be immunised as M&CC launches Vaccination Week “Yellow Fever is at our borders, so we need to ensure that we are immunised,” warned Chief Health Visitor, Medex Berris...

CH&PA set to unveil new housing solutions in ‘model village’

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA set to unveil new housing solutions in ‘model village’

Government, through the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), will be moving to unveil new housing solutions in its model village at an exposition slated to be held in May, at...

Phone credit leads to prison brawl

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Phone credit leads to prison brawl

Inmates from the New Amsterdam Prison on Saturday during a prison brawl sustained injuries about their bodies after a fight erupted. The injured prisoners have been identified as 18-year- old Kishon...

Guyana’s ranking improves – 2016 Human Development Report

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s ranking improves – 2016 Human Development Report

The 2016 Human Development Report (HDR) has grouped Guyana in the ‘Medium Human Development’ category and ranked at 127. Out of the 188 countries examined, Guyana is listed as a ‘Developing...

Linden Town Week gets underway

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Town Week gets underway

Linden Town Week was declared open, Sunday, by star athletes and Linden students, Compton Caesar and Shantoba Bright, to thunderous applause from a hometown crowd that was still hyped from their...

Key UK visit seen as critical for Guyana’s investment agenda

Apr 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Key UK visit seen as critical for Guyana’s investment agenda

President David Granger yesterday said that Guyana’s future as an investment capital is a promising one and that foreign investors are keen on the country’s investment potential in light of...

Bicycle bandit jailed for 56 months

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bicycle bandit jailed for 56 months

Michael Whyte, 39, push cart vendor, was yesterday jailed for 56 months for robbing a woman at knife point on Avenue of the Republic Georgetown. Whyte appeared before City Magistrate Judy Latchman...

A bizarre protest by PPP parliamentarian, Harry Gill

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A bizarre protest by PPP parliamentarian, Harry Gill

Dear Editor, On the 15th April, 2017 MP Harry Gill and few PPP bad boys staged a bizarre protest at the Region 5 Expo and Trade Fair at Bath Settlement where the Region 5 Expo was held, astonishing...

Vincent Alexander accuses law student of dishonesty

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vincent Alexander accuses law student of dishonesty

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News of Sunday, April 23 carried an article “intended career quashed, as the University moves to CCJ” in which specific mention is made of me, including that “Repeated...

The government does want this sum of 120 Million American dollars

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The government does want this sum of 120 Million American dollars

Dear Editor, If a government wants to support the most vulnerable in any society, then give people the opportunity to succeed. Deliver a stronger school system; deliver functional hospitals; deliver...

My take on the situation in Venezuela

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on My take on the situation in Venezuela

Dear Editor, I don’t see any peaceful way Venezuela’s incumbent government is going to give up power. Venezuela’s going to look like Syria. In any society where citizens vote for, and then come...

Startling disclosure by Child Protection Agency

Apr 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Startling disclosure by Child Protection Agency

Dear Editor, Reference is hereby made to the above caption as it relates to the publication of an article captioned “765 cases of child abuse reported to CPA” KN: 09. 04. 17. Editor, while it’s...

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more