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Rasheed bowls Everest CC to huge win over GYO

Rasheed bowls Everest CC to huge win over GYO

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rasheed bowls Everest CC to huge win over GYO

Left arm spinner Javed Rasheed finished with match figures of 11-65 to guide Everest to a huge 342 run mauling of Gandhi Youth Organisation in the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket...

Guinness Cage/Three Peat Promotions Indoor Championship… Ravenous desire to succeed Sparta Boss could produce two riveting semi-finals

Guinness Cage/Three Peat Promotions Indoor Championship… Ravenous desire to succeed Sparta Boss could produce two riveting semi-finals

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness Cage/Three Peat Promotions Indoor Championship… Ravenous desire to succeed Sparta Boss could produce two riveting semi-finals

Now that it has been established Sparta Boss is no longer the kings of the indoor format, the search for the new bosses in the sport begins tonight when the semi-finals of the inaugural Guinness Cage...

Gafoors, Ally shine as Aurora Knightriders book final berth

Gafoors, Ally shine as Aurora Knightriders book final berth

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gafoors, Ally shine as Aurora Knightriders book final berth

Led by an entertaining half century from right handed opener Timur Gafoor and a clinical bowling display from off-spinner Reshad Ally, Aurora Knightriders defeated Affiance Stars in the second...

EVERYBODY’S SLEEPING

EVERYBODY’S SLEEPING

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on EVERYBODY’S SLEEPING

One of the things that I have always dreaded is attending the after-lunch sessions of a conference or seminar. I struggle to keep my eyes open during these sessions. There is the tendency, especially...

Media Assoc. fights GNBA’s attempt to collect outstanding fees

Media Assoc. fights GNBA’s attempt to collect outstanding fees

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Media Assoc. fights GNBA’s attempt to collect outstanding fees

The Guyana Media Association (GMA) yesterday expressed dissatisfaction at the fact that the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is looking to collect outstanding fees owed by local...

GPL considering three solar farms

GPL considering three solar farms

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL considering three solar farms

It seems as though the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) is moving towards diversifying its energy supply to its customers by creating an energy mix. On Sunday, the power company advertised for...

Should subordinates be punished for carrying out terrible orders of their superiors?

Should subordinates be punished for carrying out terrible orders of their superiors?

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 3

We should never underestimate the familiarity with political issues by the ordinary man and woman in the street. Countless numbers have come up to me and when they start to talk, you are simply...

Security improves at West Demerara Regional Hospital

Security improves at West Demerara Regional Hospital

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Security improves at West Demerara Regional Hospital

The West Demerara Regional Hospital administrator, on Thursday evening, notified Minister within Ministry of Public Health Dr. Karen Cummings that security provisions at the hospital have shown...

New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

With the intention to give young people across the country a step ahead into a developing industry, the National School of Music has this year advanced its tuition to 30 students and teachers in the...

New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

With the intention to give young people across the country a step ahead into a developing industry, the National School of Music has this year advanced its tuition to 30 students and teachers in the...

World Suicide Day observance… Suicide can be prevented once signs are not ignored — Health Minister

World Suicide Day observance… Suicide can be prevented once signs are not ignored — Health Minister

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on World Suicide Day observance… Suicide can be prevented once signs are not ignored — Health Minister

Suicide is preventable, once the signs and actions of those prone to the psychological endemic are not ignored. This was the perspective of Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, (MoPH) Dr....

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

Climate change is not a myth. Scientists have blamed the increase in temperature on green-house gas emissions. For years, the United Nations has recognized the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on...

Coconut tree crashes through roof

Coconut tree crashes through roof

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Coconut tree crashes through roof

A squall that swept across Linden yesterday uprooted several trees and damaged the roofs of quite a few houses and other buildings. The most disastrous occurred in Poker Street, Wismar, where a...

Taxi driver remanded for discharging gun at man

Taxi driver remanded for discharging gun at man

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Taxi driver remanded for discharging gun at man

A taxi driver was yesterday denied bail after he made an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Thirty-three-year-old Lester Joseph of South Ruimveldt appeared before Principal...

Cook, porter busted with ganja at police station

Cook, porter busted with ganja at police station

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cook, porter busted with ganja at police station

Two persons, who were allegedly busted with a total of 80 grams of marijuana at the Sherima Police Station, were both remanded to prison after they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and...

Eyewitness testifies in inquest into death of pedestrian

Eyewitness testifies in inquest into death of pedestrian

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Eyewitness testifies in inquest into death of pedestrian

A coroner’s inquest into the death of Sew Persaud, who was struck down and killed by a minibus on April 21, last year, at the Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara, continued yesterday before...

The perks that the Fabulous Four gets at City Hall

The perks that the Fabulous Four gets at City Hall

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The perks that the Fabulous Four gets at City Hall

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Nadine Jerrick on the current Town Clerk (TC) in KN of Sept 9th 2017. This is of one of the beauties of letters to the editor in that one gets news of troubling...

A certain newspaper is playing a dangerous game of incitement

A certain newspaper is playing a dangerous game of incitement

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A certain newspaper is playing a dangerous game of incitement

Dear Editor, There is a crisis of honour and truth facing the Indian intellectual community in Guyana and in the Diaspora. It’s been long recognized that the Guyana Times, using Vishnu Bisram and...

Trump’s action constitutes one of the most inhuman acts against humanity

Trump’s action constitutes one of the most inhuman acts against humanity

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trump’s action constitutes one of the most inhuman acts against humanity

Dear Editor, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), was introduced by President Obama in 2012 and brought hope and structure to the lives of 800,000 young people to date with the...

This mistreatment by GTT is shameful

This mistreatment by GTT is shameful

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This mistreatment by GTT is shameful

Dear Editor, I have cause to once again seek recourse through your newspapers in having a simple issue rectified by GTT. I have exhausted every possible and conceivable avenue and unlike Freddie...

Guyanese have no idea what a dump UG is

Guyanese have no idea what a dump UG is

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese have no idea what a dump UG is

Dear Editor, I have read so many of Freddie’s columns that although I seldom read letters to the newspaper, I quickly spotted from the title of the letter: ‘UG and the failed leadership of...

City Council’s actions that defy logic

City Council’s actions that defy logic

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council’s actions that defy logic

Dear Editor, It was quite agonizing and indeed simply appalling to sit in the Chambers of the City Hall in Georgetown recently and witness the Mayor and Councillors engage in an exercise that not...

Problems with the new garbage collectors

Problems with the new garbage collectors

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Problems with the new garbage collectors

Dear Editor, Since discontinuing the garbage collection services of its two main disposal agents in Georgetown, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has obtained the services of a number of small...

The hypocrisy, double standards and cheap shots of Bharrat Jagdeo

The hypocrisy, double standards and cheap shots of Bharrat Jagdeo

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The hypocrisy, double standards and cheap shots of Bharrat Jagdeo

Dear Editor, In the media on August 28th 2017 the opposition leader Mr. Jagdeo declared that he disagrees that PPP/C NDC councilors are uncooperative and categorically stated that these councilors...

These critics overlook the positive achievements of the PPP

These critics overlook the positive achievements of the PPP

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on These critics overlook the positive achievements of the PPP

Dear Editor, David Hinds has conveniently overlooked the positive changes that the PPP has made to our Constitution; to Parliament; to the Judiciary; and to the economy. The PPP reduced the massive...

Khalil, Pollard and Barker reign supreme as BCQS Int’l Masters concludes

Khalil, Pollard and Barker reign supreme as BCQS Int’l Masters...

Feb 11, 2025

Kaieteur Sports–Guyanese squash players delivered standout performances at the 2025 BCQS International Masters Tournament, held at the Georgetown Club, with Jason-Ray Khalil, Regan Pollard, and...

Cricket West Indies passes historic governance reform at special meeting of shareholders

Cricket West Indies passes historic governance...

Feb 11, 2025

Archery Guyana hosts thrilling 2024 National Indoor Youth Open, showcasing the next generation of archery talent

Archery Guyana hosts thrilling 2024 National...

Feb 11, 2025

Prashad claims victory at the recently concluded DEMLIFE Golf Tourney

Prashad claims victory at the recently concluded...

Feb 11, 2025

West Indies & Sri Lanka top their respective pools with hard earned victories in Round 1 of the OVER-50s World Cup

West Indies & Sri Lanka top their respective...

Feb 11, 2025

Allicock, Amsterdam named in GBA training squad 2025 Caribbean Boxing Championships

Allicock, Amsterdam named in GBA training squad...

Feb 10, 2025

Are we better off today than we were before first oil?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-If you had asked me ten years ago what I wanted for Guyana, I would have said a few things:... more

OAS Secretary General Election and renewed OAS Consensus

Antiguan Barbudan Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The upcoming election... more

Jagdeo on contract awards

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News-Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo has a defence relative to contract awards. ... more