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Hopkinson competes and wins in Suriname shoot

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hopkinson competes and wins in Suriname shoot

Competing with an unfamiliar high recoiling .40 calibre CZ Tactical Sport pistol made in the Czech Republic that was loaned to him by his Surinamese counterpart, Regional Director, Mr. Serge Tjin...

Berbice Amateur Basketball Association 2017 tournament games rescheduled

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Amateur Basketball Association 2017 tournament games rescheduled

The Berbice Amateur Basketball Association 2017 Tournament for team in Berbice and sponsored by Nigel Hinds Financial has seen the rescheduling of games after the contest between Canje Knights and...

RHTY&SC Teams to construct Community Projects, host $3M Patron’s Outreach

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Teams to construct Community Projects, host $3M Patron’s Outreach

The eight cricket teams of Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, over the next two months would be heavily involved in several Community Projects. The projects would be constructed under the...

GASA/FINA host five days Intermediate Officials Clinic

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GASA/FINA host five days Intermediate Officials Clinic

-Ahead of Goodwill swim championships set for August As Guyana prepares to host a seven nations Goodwill swim meet in August, preparation of officials are paramount. In this regard a five-day follow...

Aliann Pompey Invitational Meet fixtures released

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Aliann Pompey Invitational Meet fixtures released

The fixtures for the Aliann Pompey Invitational Meet slated for July 15th at the Lenora Stadium has been released. With the Banks DIH Men’s 100m being the headliner and featuring the famed Kim...

Task Force to combat noise nuisance established

Jul 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Task Force to combat noise nuisance established

– Silent zones to be enforced The Ministry of Public Security, in collaboration with other various stakeholders, has taken the initiative to establish an Inter-Agency Task Force to combat noise...

Results of NGSA 2017…Public schools produce many candidates in top one percent

Jul 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Results of NGSA 2017…Public schools produce many candidates in top one percent

Although private schools have dominated a number of top performing places at the 2017 National Grade Six Assessment [NGSA], there were also a several public schools that have also stood out. Among...

Guyana appoints Honorary Consul to São Paulo

Jul 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana appoints Honorary Consul to São Paulo

Dr. Carlos Zimmermann Neto has been appointed Honorary Consul of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The appointment was made on July 4, 2017 by H.E. George Talbot,...

Alert neighbours save Norton St. property from fiery destruction

Jul 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Alert neighbours save Norton St. property from fiery destruction

A family of seven was spared the agony of being rendered homeless after fire broke out in the bottom flat of their home at lot 14-14 Norton Street Wortmanville. A woman who resided in the upper flat...

COST-CUTTING IS NOT THE ANSWER

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on COST-CUTTING IS NOT THE ANSWER

The PNC has a funny way of managing the economy. In the seventies when the oil crisis hit, it should have been expanding rather than contracting economic activity. Sugar prices were high, bauxite was...

A violently ugly incident is waiting to happen

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A violently ugly incident is waiting to happen

If there is anything I have learnt in my long years in media functions is that governmental leaders from top to bottom have a deterministic conceptualization of journalism – it is to be used in the...

MEDICAL INCOMPETENCE COSTING LIVES

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on MEDICAL INCOMPETENCE COSTING LIVES

There is no disagreement on whether or not the State should provide health care to the people because if the provision of health care is left in the hands of private providers, some life-saving,...

THAG elects new board

Jul 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on THAG elects new board

The Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana, (THAG) has elected a new board which will serve for a one-year period, from 2017-2018. The new board was appointed during the entity’s Annual...

$500,000 bail for driver charged with causing friend’s death

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on $500,000 bail for driver charged with causing friend’s death

Twenty-seven year-old Tecona Welcome yesterday made another appearance before Magistrate Alisha George in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a charge of causing death by dangerous...

UG on course to improving research capabilities

Jul 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UG on course to improving research capabilities

A school of graduate studies and research is currently on the cards for the University of Guyana [UG]. In fact, according to Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, he intends to...

Laing Ave. execution-style murder…Duo for High Court trial

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Laing Ave. execution-style murder…Duo for High Court trial

Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday determined at the conclusion of the Preliminary Inquiry (Pl) into the murder of Orin David, who was gunned down in front of his Laing Avenue West...

Over 5,000 ganja plants destroyed in Ituni backdam

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Over 5,000 ganja plants destroyed in Ituni backdam

An intelligence-led operation conducted by ranks of the Guyana Police Force on Wednesday at Ten Miles Backdam, Ituni, Upper Demerara River, has resulted in the destruction of a four-acre cannabis...

Guyana’s only choice is to take it or leave it

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s only choice is to take it or leave it

Dear Editor, All the talk about unfairness with regard to the Exxon deal is just the same verbal diarrhea that caused the plywood and cardboard companies to pack up and leave. Moreover, you don’t...

In large cities these things don’t happen, why then in Guyana?

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on In large cities these things don’t happen, why then in Guyana?

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the recent botched robbery at the Republic Bank Water Street branch several days ago. I once shared a few local case studies with my hostage and crises...

Over three billion dollars owed to the City Council

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Over three billion dollars owed to the City Council

Dear Editor, The Mayor and Councilors of the City of Georgetown wishes to urge rate -payers to ensure that their accounts are up to date. The records of the Council reveled that some rate-payers have...

We, the youths need to save our generation and the ones to come

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We, the youths need to save our generation and the ones to come

Dear Editor, Guyana is a beautiful country inhabited by beautiful people, however, that does not negate the fact that we have mountainous issues. What I have noticed with time is, we as a people...

150 years of the bible of socialist economics

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on 150 years of the bible of socialist economics

Dear Editor, Dr. Henry Jeffrey’s column captioned “Freedom” makes for interesting reading and introduces some new insights in the rather complicated writings of Karl Marx as embodied in his...

A suggestion for dealing with EXXON negotiations

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A suggestion for dealing with EXXON negotiations

Dear Editor, When my letter here is published, I hope it is read by the ministers and president of Guyana. Regarding the money from the oil production, my understanding is that Guyana will get 2% in...

These bank robbers preyed on people before

Jul 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on These bank robbers preyed on people before

Dear Editor, There is a song by one of the Jamaican artistes that runs like this, and I have substituted boy for girl “Pretty boy with bad character” this sums up the essence of the robbery that...

Rogue bank employee planned to report to work after robbery

Jul 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rogue bank employee planned to report to work after robbery

Suspects plotted the heist for three months Hijacked car the night before Once the plot to rob the Republic Bank Limited on Tuesday was successful, 24-year-old Jamal Haynes would have returned to...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It must be exhausting to live inside Bharrat Jagdeo’s head. The man wakes up every morning... more