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Waste disposal crew smuggle ganja, cigarettes to Lusignan Prison

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Waste disposal crew smuggle ganja, cigarettes to Lusignan Prison

weapons, cell phones, tattoo machines unearthed at NA and Timehri prisons The disposal crew outside the Lusignan Prison was reportedly there to pick up human waste. But police suspected that...

Prison officer detained in suspected smuggling probe at Timehri

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Prison officer detained in suspected smuggling probe at Timehri

A prison officer seconded to the Timehri Prisons was in custody last night as police and Prison officials investigate reports that he colluded with at least one prisoner to smuggle prohibited items...

House approves $116M to operationalize SARA

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on House approves $116M to operationalize SARA

The National Assembly yesterday passed a total of $116M that will be used to operationalize the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA). This sum was approved via a supplementary provision requested by...

Private Sector appeals for Tobacco Bill to be sent to Select Committee

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Private Sector appeals for Tobacco Bill to be sent to Select Committee

Like Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (DEMTOCO), the Private Sector Commission is appealing for policy makers to send the rigid Tobacco Control Bill to a special select committee. The...

Govt. not keen on sending Tobacco Bill to Select Committee

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. not keen on sending Tobacco Bill to Select Committee

…but DEMTOCO continues to question Guyana’s ability to enforce strict anti-smoking regulations By Kiana Wilburg In spite of relentless criticisms, it appears that the Government will stand...

Gunmen hit two E-Networks outlets in two days

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen hit two E-Networks outlets in two days

– staff, customers bound and robbed – staff, customers bound and robbed Gunmen struck at a second E-networks Inc. outlet in two days, escaping in a car after invading a facility at Lot 15...

Teachers have a role to help detect children’s learning challenges — Educator

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers have a role to help detect children’s learning challenges — Educator

Teachers are not doctors nor are they psychologists, but they certainly can take note of some issues faced by children within their charge in the school system. This was amplified yesterday by...

Cevons people rushing to go to jail

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cevons people rushing to go to jail

When a man got something that you want and de man ain’t selling, dem got ways to get de thing. All you got to do is create a stage wheh he want something bad and got to get it. That is when you...

New Magisterial District formally opens in Upper Demerara

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Magisterial District formally opens in Upper Demerara

– President says access to justice in the Region will improve significantly President David Granger said yesterday that the opening of Guyana’s 10th Magisterial District is not an instruction...

Woman charged with killing lover gets $250,000 bail

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Woman charged with killing lover gets $250,000 bail

A mother of two was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail after she appeared before Senior Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Twenty-one-year-old Lisa Hayley of 55 David...

Albion cane cutters picket Estate’s Admin Office

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Albion cane cutters picket Estate’s Admin Office

Over reassembly of working gangs Scores of cane cutters from Albion Estate staged a picketing exercise outside of the Estate’s Administrative Office yesterday morning. The workers were protesting...

Trio remanded over Highway murder

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trio remanded over Highway murder

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Dhanpaul Dookie, whose body was found with multiple stab wounds on July 27, last, at Uitspa Village, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. The men...

Several supplementary provisions approved for govt. agencies

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Several supplementary provisions approved for govt. agencies

The National Assembly yesterday went into Committee of Supply where a number of supplementary financial provisions were considered and approved. These provisions were presented in Financial Paper No....

GPL gives explanations for recent blackouts

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL gives explanations for recent blackouts

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL)’s coastal power supply is returning to normalcy. In an interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI) Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), at GPL,...

Hockey Board lays multi-purpose plastic tile surface at Sports Hall

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hockey Board lays multi-purpose plastic tile surface at Sports Hall

To also benefit Basketball and Futsal With the permission of the Ministry of Sport, the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) has imported an Indoor Plastic Tile Floor similar to what is used in North America...

Toronto-based group aims to boost science literacy in Guyana

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Toronto-based group aims to boost science literacy in Guyana

A Toronto-based non-profit organization is hoping raise the scientific literacy among secondary students and teachers in Guyana. The group, Pueblo Science, is conducting a workshop at...

USA Sports Envoy conducts Basketball clinic in Guyana

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on USA Sports Envoy conducts Basketball clinic in Guyana

A two-day Basketball Clinic for 50 young aspiring Guyanese, conducted by American Coach Elvis Valcarcel and Associate Coach Agnus Berenato along with NBA representative Allison Feaster concluded...

GT Beer Keep Your 5 Alive KO Futsal Tourney… Future Stars and West Front Road-Gold is Money for tomorrow’s Finale

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT Beer Keep Your 5 Alive KO Futsal Tourney… Future Stars and West Front Road-Gold is Money for tomorrow’s Finale

The battle lines will be drawn tomorrow night at the National Gymnasium when the final of the GT Beer Keep Your 5 Alive KO Futsal Tournament is contested between two sides whom the pundits would not...

Integrated health service delivery network launched in Region One

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Integrated health service delivery network launched in Region One

The Integrated Health Service Delivery Network (IHSDN) was yesterday launched in Mabaruma, Region One to help mend the fragmentation in Guyana’s health care system. The launch saw the...

Media operators voice concerns over Broadcast Bill

Aug 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Media operators voice concerns over Broadcast Bill

Several media operators’- particularly representatives of Channel 93 – are highly concerned about some of the measures outlined in the Broadcast (Amendment) Bill 2017. MBC Media, which is an...

RHTYSC Patron’s Green Economy Trophy… Nine teams advance to 2nd round as tournament starts in blaze of glory

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC Patron’s Green Economy Trophy… Nine teams advance to 2nd round as tournament starts in blaze of glory

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club/Kares Engineering Inc Patron’s Green Economy Softball Cricket Tournament got underway on Saturday last in a blaze of glory at the Hampshire Cricket...

Defiant Sinclair frustrates Barbadians

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defiant Sinclair frustrates Barbadians

Basseterre, St Kitts, CMC – Kevin Sinclair narrowly missed out on a hundred as Guyana frustrated Barbados to draw their third round game in the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday....

Kares Engineering Inc is title sponsor for Boyce and Jefford Classic 8

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kares Engineering Inc is title sponsor for Boyce and Jefford Classic 8

By Zaheer Mohamed Sports play an integral role in building a nation, so in order to ensure that the nation’s youths get a fair opportunity to excel, Kares Engineering Inc. has contributed...

Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association concludes 2nd Annual Exams

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association concludes 2nd Annual Exams

The Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association concluded their 2nd annual examinations on Saturday last at the New Gove Diamond Primary School. Students from the Black Cobra Karate Club and Iron...

14th Annual Seven Seas Cycle Meet on tomorrow at National Park

Aug 04, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on 14th Annual Seven Seas Cycle Meet on tomorrow at National Park

Regan Rodrigues Memorial set for Sunday Exciting action is anticipated this weekend as the 14th annual Seven Seas and Regan Rodrigues Memorial cycle events are set to be held tomorrow and Sunday,...

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Kaieteur Sports – The spirit of discipline, excellence, and competition was on full display as ISKF Guyana successfully hosted its Annual Independence Karate Tournament on Saturday, June 6, 2026,...

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(Kaieteur News) – In 1978, a movie was released by United Artistes. The Wild Geese was not a spectacular box office hit but given that it was in part an action movie, it did reasonably well to turn a small profit and to have a sequel. The plot was quite simple. It was about a group […]

Language is Infrastructure – Why Antigua and Barbuda’s...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, led by Prime Minister Gaston Browne, to make...

UG Green Institute Prelim. Report Pt. 1

Jun 10, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) did its 60th Independence Survey. Titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society Being Built. The Preliminary Report is out. It’s a start. Guyanese get to hear from academics with their models and...

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