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Cancer Survivors honoured as GTT hosts benefit dinner

Oct 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cancer Survivors honoured as GTT hosts benefit dinner

The spirit of resilience, the determination to fight and win, hope, and the need for greater awareness were all highlighted at the first ever GTT hosted Pinktober Benefit Dinner on Wednesday....

UG overcome Everest CC by four wickets

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on UG overcome Everest CC by four wickets

University of Guyana defeated Everest Cricket Club by four wickets when action in the Georgetown Cricket Association New Building Society Ltd second division 40-over tournament continued on Saturday....

Regal SCC, Regal Sports on board with GSCL Inc Prime Minister’s T20 cup

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal SCC, Regal Sports on board with GSCL Inc Prime Minister’s T20 cup

Regal Stationery and Computer Centre and Regal Sports are the latest in a string of entities to throw their support behind the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc (GSCL Inc) for the staging of its...

Brusche’s Classic Basketball…Colts cruise past Sonics 71-56, Royals brush aside Raiders 96-56 to reach semifinals

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brusche’s Classic Basketball…Colts cruise past Sonics 71-56, Royals brush aside Raiders 96-56 to reach semifinals

The pre-tournament favourites from Georgetown and Linden eased through to the semifinals when the 6th Brusche’s Classic Invitational basketball tournament got started Saturday night at the...

Kwakwani lands to be regularised, over 500 residents to benefit

Oct 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Kwakwani lands to be regularised, over 500 residents to benefit

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) Commissioner Trevor Benn and a team yesterday visited Kwakwani, Upper Demerara-Berbice to initiate a process, which is expected to be completed in six...

Moses, how can you destroy your legacy so carelessly?

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Moses, how can you destroy your legacy so carelessly?

Writing in this newspaper yesterday, Moses Nagamootoo asserted; “The caveat is that the list has to be not unacceptable to the President. In a case where the Leader of the Opposition failed to...

The call of non-cooperation by Bharrat Jagdeo must be rejected

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The call of non-cooperation by Bharrat Jagdeo must be rejected

Dear Editor, It is clear to see that Mr. Jagdeo and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) are politicising Mr. Granger’s unilateral but constitutionally provided for, appointment of the new GECOM...

The Baccoo’s Halloween

Oct 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Baccoo’s Halloween

By Michael Jordan The crash of shattered glass woke me. I scrambled up and switched on the bedroom light. A large claybrick slab lay on the floor. A draught of cold breeze came through a gaping hole...

Giftland Mall boss calls out Sherod Duncan

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Giftland Mall boss calls out Sherod Duncan

Dear Editor, Allow me a few words on MR Sherod Duncan, who comes across as our brightest hope, a proverbial knight in shining amour and his recent disclosure that he takes responsibility for not...

President choreographs a new dance with words of the constitution

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on President choreographs a new dance with words of the constitution

Dear Editor, On the matter of president Granger’s acting unilaterally to appoint the chairman of the GECOM I wish to comment as follows: The constitution does provide one condition for the...

Sophia residents who helped the PNC perpetuate violence are now victims

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sophia residents who helped the PNC perpetuate violence are now victims

Dear Editor, My first reaction to the violent expulsion of The Sophia Squatters was “it serves them right” or the usual “it good for them,” but my humanity precluded me from making such a...

More time should not have been given to GBTI by the courts

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on More time should not have been given to GBTI by the courts

Dear Editor, With due respect, the CJ erred in granting more time to GBTI to find missing documents. Had the Chief Justice (CJ) invoked the penal clause of the Anti-Money Laundering & Counter...

The President acted in accordance with the constitution

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The President acted in accordance with the constitution

Dear Editor, I hear some folks talk about Carter agreement and some tradition and norms on the selection of the GECOM chairman. Any arrangements, agreements, compromise, or accord that violates the...

Granger: Lethem’s township an opportunity to partner closely with Brazil

Oct 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Granger: Lethem’s township an opportunity to partner closely with Brazil

President David Granger says that the elevation of a community like Lethem to township status is a transformative and defining moment in the country’s history, which will serve as a catalyst...

Guyana needs to nurture the culture of argument and discourse

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs to nurture the culture of argument and discourse

Dear Editor, Guyana’s democracy is missing a vital component, that is, argument. The very foundation of democracy itself rests on argument and discourse. Argumentation is a necessary component of...

Expressing my disgust on the leadership of APNU in Linden

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Expressing my disgust on the leadership of APNU in Linden

Dear Editor, Upon reading an article in your letter section of your 11/10/2017 edition “Region Ten Lacks Dedicated, Nationalists Leadership’, it brings to light the very thing that disgust me and...

Baccoo, Old Higue, to feature at Sueria Manufacturing Halloween Festival

Oct 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Baccoo, Old Higue, to feature at Sueria Manufacturing Halloween Festival

– Fright Maze with creatures from local folklore, kids to have faces painted with Guyanese characters Move over Dracula, Leprechaun and Abominable Snowman. Mr. Baccoo, Mr. Jumbie and Mrs. Old...

Lincoln Lewis has a lot of explaining to do about his activism

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lincoln Lewis has a lot of explaining to do about his activism

Dear Editor, The ramblings of Lincoln Lewis, published by the government controlled Guyana Chronicle, on Sunday, October 8, 2017, under the headline ‘Responding to Bharrat Jagdeo’s baseless...

Waiting for the approval for cultivation of industrial hemp

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Waiting for the approval for cultivation of industrial hemp

Dear Editor, We the Executives and Members of the Region 10 Industrial Hemp and Agriculture Farmers Group are peeved that the beneficial hemp is illegal even though communities, the economy and the...

Charge the station ranks with manslaughter over this death

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Charge the station ranks with manslaughter over this death

Dear Editor, Reading the newspapers, I came across an article whereby a person at a wake house was beaten by four men. When he went to the police station he was arrested and placed in the lock-ups,...

The knock down, knock out blow of President Granger

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The knock down, knock out blow of President Granger

Dear Editor, So we have some serious disagreements within the family. The parent of one side of the family decides to pull its support from the efforts of the family to prevent our neighbor from...

I hope this letter enlightens past President and PM, Sam Hinds

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I hope this letter enlightens past President and PM, Sam Hinds

Dear Editor, I penned this letter and sent it off during the holiday of Diwali with the hope that the light of Diwali, as metaphorized here, will enlighten Past President and Past Prime, Mr Samuel...

The PPP has the record of being the oldest party in Guyana

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP has the record of being the oldest party in Guyana

Dear Editor, The PNC observed this month of October its 60th anniversary as a political party. According to PNC General Secretary, Amna Ally, a number of activities were carried by the Party in...

Voicing our concerns can indeed bring about changes

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Voicing our concerns can indeed bring about changes

Dear Editor, I am happy to say that just two days after a letter titled “Police lawlessness daily on the harbour bridge” was published in your newspaper on the 17th October, 2017, the situation...

NO MORE EXCUSES

Oct 23, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on NO MORE EXCUSES

While some things are moving in the right direction under the present government, many others are not. In fact, things seem to be at a standstill in terms of the audit reports which have exposed...

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