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D’ Edward overcome Everest CC in T20 fixture

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on D’ Edward overcome Everest CC in T20 fixture

D’ Edward Sports Club of West Bank Berbice defeated hosts Everest Cricket Club in a T20 fixture played on Tuesday. D’ Edward SC batted first and scored 114-8. The visitors were off to slow start...

Osmond Cummings Third Annual Memorial Extravaganza kicks off Sunday

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Osmond Cummings Third Annual Memorial Extravaganza kicks off Sunday

Nigel ‘Mice’ Cummings in collaboration with Botofago Football Club for the third year hosts the Osmond Cummings Memorial Football Extravaganza at the Silvertown All Stars Community ground on...

Umrao, another young Berbice cricketer gets sponsorship from New York based Guyanese

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Umrao, another young Berbice cricketer gets sponsorship from New York based Guyanese

Albion Cricket Club, Berbice and National U-17 left arm spinner and lower order batsman Kelvin Umrao is the latest young Berbice cricketer to receive sponsorship from Guyanese living in New York. The...

Everest Cricket Club congratulates Yadram

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Everest Cricket Club congratulates Yadram

Everest Cricket Club has extended congratulations to all-rounder Bhaskar Yadram for his success on his recent tour to South Africa and Zimbabwe with the West Indies U-19 team. Yadram, who hails from...

GSCL Inc to host Prime Minister’s Cup in October

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc to host Prime Minister’s Cup in October

The Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc (GSCL Inc) will be hosting Guyana’s Premier softball tournament dubbed the Prime Minister’s Cup in October. According to Secretary of the GSCL Inc...

Paradise Invaders, NA Utd score victories in Namilco football in Berbice

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Paradise Invaders, NA Utd score victories in Namilco football in Berbice

Two matches were played in Berbice as action in the GFF/Namilco Flour Power Under-17 football tournament continued with one game at the Paradise Ground on the West of Berbice, while the other was...

Windies, Guyana players on show in 7-a-side GUYSA fund raiser Sunday

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies, Guyana players on show in 7-a-side GUYSA fund raiser Sunday

On Sunday Guyanese Students Association (GUYSA) will be holding its first fund raiser on Guyanese soil with what promises to be an exciting 7-a-side six overs cricket competition with the action...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Burnham’s GOG was last Government interested in Sports

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Burnham’s GOG was last Government interested in Sports

Dear Editor, A letter headlined ‘Amazed by operations of our Government and sporting authorities’ from a Mr. Robert Trim in the Sunday July 30th issue of the Kaieteur News caught my attention....

Resaul is top performer at the ITF/COTECC U-12 Development Championships

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Resaul is top performer at the ITF/COTECC U-12 Development Championships

Guyana boys place 3rd Vadeanand Resaul of Sheltez Tennis club was the spark for the future of Guyana’s tennis at the pre-qualifying rounds of the ITF/COTECC Under-12 Development Championships held...

Intricate Creations to represent Guyana at Carifesta

Aug 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Intricate Creations to represent Guyana at Carifesta

With her new Carifesta Rose and “Unit-3 Bouquets” creations making waves on the market, Intricate Creations is set to go places. The group which recently came on the scene has been taking the...

CASC participants visit to Red Cross Children Convalescent Home

Aug 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CASC participants visit to Red Cross Children Convalescent Home

The children living at the Guyana Red Cross Society Children Convalescent Home received a special visit from the Caribbean Award Sub-Regional Council (CASC) participants today. Assistant Field...

THE TWO SIDES TO CRIME

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE TWO SIDES TO CRIME

Like any other country, the growth, development and prosperity of Guyana can only effectively take place in an atmosphere of peace and stability. During the reign of the PPP government, crime and...

Handyman gets bail on simple larceny charge

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Handyman gets bail on simple larceny charge

Forty-one-year-old Devon Rodney of Lot 177 James Street, Albouystown, yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer a break and enter...

APNU+AFC and the messy broadcast legislation

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU+AFC and the messy broadcast legislation

The APNU+AFC can be excused for the mess it is about to create in relation to Broadcasting legislation. The PNCR had very limited experience in running a liberalized media; the party was weaned on...

COI into the assassination is to divert nation’s attention

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on COI into the assassination is to divert nation’s attention

Dear Editor, Many of us are of the opinion that The Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the assassination plot to kill The President is fast turning out to be a comical affair. In addition to its...

Fake Jamaican accent from deejays screaming noise from minibuses

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fake Jamaican accent from deejays screaming noise from minibuses

Dear Editor, Some years ago there was an attempt at curbing the noise pollution assailing us daily in public. Like so many things, it was just for a while before the ‘noise merchants’ were...

The President is isolated from reality

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The President is isolated from reality

Dear Editor, As long suspected, President David Granger lives in a cocoon, isolated from reality, and blames the PPP/C for all the incompetence and administrative failures of his Administration. In...

African Guyanese need to return to entrepreneurship

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on African Guyanese need to return to entrepreneurship

Dear Editor, Prior to 1964, I vividly remember our African brothers being involved in agriculture especially the cultivation of ground provisions, rice, fruits and vegetables. Also, they dominated...

The prison system is in a state of national emergency

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The prison system is in a state of national emergency

Dear Editor, The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has been carefully studying the responses to the prison incidents over the last three weeks and holds the view the problems are that of national...

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce can go to hell!

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce can go to hell!

Generally, citizens feel that a party should not govern for too long. There is no time frame, but after three five-year terms, voters become fatigued and instinctively yearn for new faces. When the...

HOPKINSON HAS DEMANDED VALUE FOR MONEY FROM CONTRACTORS

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on HOPKINSON HAS DEMANDED VALUE FOR MONEY FROM CONTRACTORS

Dear Editor, The previous Administration was heavily criticized and even exposed by audit reports for condoning substandard work from many contractors in Region 2, some of whom are still bidding for...

Do not take for granted what the government says

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not take for granted what the government says

Dear Editor, It becomes necessary to teach one’s self the stories of the past and to accept everything else with a grain of salt. More so living in a pronouncedly divided society doesn’t help...

GPL working to eradicate illegal connections

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL working to eradicate illegal connections

Dear Editor, Over the last 12 years, the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) has removed in excess of 80,000 illegal connections across Guyana. For this reason, the power company will apply new...

Old story from Wakenaam Island for our politicians’ benefit

Aug 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Old story from Wakenaam Island for our politicians’ benefit

Dear Editor, As a little boy growing up in the island of Wakenaam, I often listen to the gaff of my late nana (grandfather) and his friend the late David of Great Troolie Island while they drank a...

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The illusion of compliance

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- A company can meet the letter of the law. It can tick every box, hit every target. Yet,... more