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Xtreme Clean & Maintenance /GT Beer ‘Gold Rush’ Futsal Tournament…Underdog teams announcing their presence on big stage

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Xtreme Clean & Maintenance /GT Beer ‘Gold Rush’ Futsal Tournament…Underdog teams announcing their presence on big stage

– action resumes next Tuesday at the same venue Albouystown created the biggest upset on Night 3 of the inaugural Xtreme Clean & Maintenance /GT Beer ‘Gold Rush’ Futsal Tournament which...

BFA / J’s Golden Arrow U20 Tourney …Hopetown United Rangers and Paradise Invaders notch full points

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on BFA / J’s Golden Arrow U20 Tourney …Hopetown United Rangers and Paradise Invaders notch full points

Hopetown United Rangers and Paradise Invaders are the latest teams to record victories when the Berbice Football Association (BFA) / J’s Golden Arrow Under-20 tournament continued on Saturday night...

Caesar upsets Perry in 200m showdown

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caesar upsets Perry in 200m showdown

Guyana’s first CARIFTA Games 100m gold medalist, Compton Caesar made it clear that his performance in Curacao weeks ago was no fluke when he outran his senior counterpart, Rupert Perry in the 200m...

GSCL Inc congratulates Speedboat, Regal Masters on Independence Cup success

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc congratulates Speedboat, Regal Masters on Independence Cup success

The Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc (GSCL Inc) has extended congratulations to Speedboat and Regal Masters on their success in the Independence Cup which concluded on Sunday at Everest. Led by...

RHTY&SC congratulates Club Secretary/CEO on Appointment as GNNL Director

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC congratulates Club Secretary/CEO on Appointment as GNNL Director

The Management and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S would like to congratulate Mr. Hilbert Foster, our long serving Secretary/CEO on his appointment as a Director of the...

GCB’s Hand-in-Hand Inter-County U-19 cricket …First round washed out yesterday

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB’s Hand-in-Hand Inter-County U-19 cricket …First round washed out yesterday

B’ce face off with Dem tomorrow at Providence in feature game After a few days of the sunny weather, heavy early morning showers yesterday washed out the first round of the Guyana Cricket Board’s...

Foster urges Blairmont Cricketers to Develop a Culture of hard work and dedication

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Foster urges Blairmont Cricketers to Develop a Culture of hard work and dedication

Long Serving Secretary/CEO of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, Hilbert Foster on Thursday last issued an appeal to young cricketers at the Blairmont Cricket Club (BCC) to develop a culture...

AAG names 50 athletes for South American Junior Championships

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on AAG names 50 athletes for South American Junior Championships

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) yesterday released a team of 50 athletes that will represent Guyana at this weekend’s South American Junior Championships that will be held at the National...

Fitness Express support for Campbell to compete at Sports World Classic in T&T

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express support for Campbell to compete at Sports World Classic in T&T

Guyana’s leading supplement and fitness products supplier, Fitness Express has once again thrown its support behind 2016 CAC silver medalist and two-time national Men’s Physique Champion,...

Shariff stays in charge as Whichy Poo takes feature event at KMTC Horse Race meet

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shariff stays in charge as Whichy Poo takes feature event at KMTC Horse Race meet

The Shariff Stable showed their opponents who is boss as Witchy Poo ridden By Colin Ross and trained by Zahir Shariff took the feature G3 and lower event when the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC)...

Mike’s Pharmacy, Nauth Motor Spares, Trophy Stall softball…Wellman Masters, Trophy Stall Angels, 4 R Lioness, Sunrisers Masters triumph

May 30, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike’s Pharmacy, Nauth Motor Spares, Trophy Stall softball…Wellman Masters, Trophy Stall Angels, 4 R Lioness, Sunrisers Masters triumph

Wellman Masters, Trophy Stall Angels, 4R Lioness and Sunrisers Masters registered victories when the Mike’s Pharmacy, Nauth Motor Spares and Trophy Stall softball tournament commenced on Sunday. At...

PAC raises concerns over IAST’s management

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PAC raises concerns over IAST’s management

Several questions were raised concerning the management of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) as it relates to the presence of the head of the Institute, Dr. Suresh Narine in...

NOT TOO LATE

May 30, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on NOT TOO LATE

The generation from which the two major parties in Guyana, the People’s National Congress (PNC) and the People’s Progressive Party(PPP) spring, remembers well the hopes and dreams of a young...

Health care impacted by limited regulatory and monitoring capacity

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Health care impacted by limited regulatory and monitoring capacity

The global food, beverage, medical technology and pharmaceutical industries have become powerful. But therein lies a problem for Small Island and Developing States [SIDS], and countries with low...

Kaieteur National Park threatened with pollution from illegal mining

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur National Park threatened with pollution from illegal mining

On Sunday last, an operation was launched at the Kaieteur National Park by members of the joint services and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) following a discovery by the Protected...

The tribe, eugenics and ugly minds in the PPP

May 30, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The tribe, eugenics and ugly minds in the PPP

Can you mentally zone out when you hear on television and read in the newspapers what PPP leaders say? I have friends who embrace this zone out theory. They say when you hear nonsense all the time,...

Nursing programme standards cannot be compromised

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nursing programme standards cannot be compromised

– Health Education Director insists …but education system being blamed for producing substandard students “The people who are involved in the training of doctors, lawyers and the other...

E’bo businessman takes another plunge with second supermarket

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo businessman takes another plunge with second supermarket

Eight years ago, businessman Iftikar Mohamed, better known as ‘Ifti’, established the first supermarket “Safeway” on the Essequibo Coast. Yesterday, he became the first businessman to...

Abused Guyanese granny chopped to death in Trinidad apartment

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Abused Guyanese granny chopped to death in Trinidad apartment

An abusive relationship ended in murder on the weekend as Guyana-born grandmother Enid Rosaline Periana, 62, was chopped to death inside the man’s apartment in Madras Road, St Helena. Police...

Unpreparedness gets GPHC CEO, Financial Director thrown out of PAC

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Unpreparedness gets GPHC CEO, Financial Director thrown out of PAC

Two officials from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were yesterday asked to leave the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting after their responses were deemed as inadequate in...

GRA and flexibility

May 30, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GRA and flexibility

The Guyana Revenue Authority is a master of political diversion. Faced with a slew of allegations about its operations, including its policy of flexibility towards the importation of motor vehicles...

Guyana “not taking sides” in Venezuela’s crisis

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana “not taking sides” in Venezuela’s crisis

– Foreign Ministry briefed by local envoy on situation The Government of Guyana has made it clear that it is unwilling to take sides in the internal crisis currently enveloping neighbouring...

Find bogus kidney donor and jail her- says father-in-law

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Find bogus kidney donor and jail her- says father-in-law

Chamer Bhooj is 70. He can hardly walk and barely speaks. While he struggles to care for himself, he has to support his wife, 59-year-old Bibi Azmat Deen, who suffered a nervous breakdown and had a...

Corentyne woman dead after beating over dope

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne woman dead after beating over dope

In a severe case of domestic violence, a mother of three is now dead after her lover mercilessly beat her. She succumbed to the injuries received at the hands of the man she once shared a...

Nandlall denies stealing $2M in Law Reports

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall denies stealing $2M in Law Reports

Yesterday, Former Attorney General (AG) and Opposition Parliamentarian Anil Nandlall pleaded not guilty to a larceny charge which alleged that he stole some $2M in LexisNexis Law Reports of the...