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GFF successfully concludes FIFA grassroots programme in Region two

GFF successfully concludes FIFA grassroots programme in Region two

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF successfully concludes FIFA grassroots programme in Region two

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Thursday concluded an annual Federation of International Football (FIFA) Grassroot Programme in Region 2...

2017 COURTS Pee Wee… Quarter-final matches on today at Thirst Park

2017 COURTS Pee Wee… Quarter-final matches on today at Thirst Park

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2017 COURTS Pee Wee… Quarter-final matches on today at Thirst Park

The Courts Pee Wee football tournament resumes today with quarter-final action at the Banks DIH, Thirst Park ground. Before the quarter-finals, there will be four matches that will see round of 16...

GSCL Inc Prime Minister’s T20 Cup… SCV All stars, Regal Masters and All stars, Speedboat, NY Hustlers, Farm among victors

GSCL Inc Prime Minister’s T20 Cup… SCV All stars, Regal Masters and All stars, Speedboat, NY Hustlers, Farm among victors

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc Prime Minister’s T20 Cup… SCV All stars, Regal Masters and All stars, Speedboat, NY Hustlers, Farm among victors

By Zaheer Mohamed Several local and overseas teams made their intentions known from as early as the opening round when the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc Prime Minister’s T20 Cup got off to...

GTT Pinktober 10K Winner represents Guyana at South American 10K in Suriname

GTT Pinktober 10K Winner represents Guyana at South American 10K in Suriname

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTT Pinktober 10K Winner represents Guyana at South American 10K in Suriname

Even more good things have emerged from GTT’s just concluded Pinktober 5K/10K run/walk with the selection of the 10K winner, Rickie Williams to represent Guyana at the South American 10k being held...

Archery Guyana meets with Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton

Archery Guyana meets with Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archery Guyana meets with Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton

On Wednesday last, Directors of Archery Guyana paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton at the Ministry’s headquarters on Main Street. During the visit they...

Turbo Knockout football tournament… Pouderoyen and Kuru Kururu Warriors are latest winners

Turbo Knockout football tournament… Pouderoyen and Kuru Kururu Warriors are latest winners

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turbo Knockout football tournament… Pouderoyen and Kuru Kururu Warriors are latest winners

The Petra/Turbo Knockout football tournament continued on Thursday evening at the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Carifesta Avenue with two more sizzling contests under lights. The feature match of...

Esau grabs six as Independence A beat MMZ B by seven wickets

Esau grabs six as Independence A beat MMZ B by seven wickets

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Esau grabs six as Independence A beat MMZ B by seven wickets

Reaz Esau grabbed six wickets to propel Independence A to a seven-wicket victory over Meten-Meer-Zorg when the West Demerara Cricket Association T20 tournament continued on Sunday last. MMZ B batted...

Stage set for Banks DIH/ Citizens Bank Golf today

Stage set for Banks DIH/ Citizens Bank Golf today

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stage set for Banks DIH/ Citizens Bank Golf today

The stage is set for the Banks DIH Limited/Citizens Bank Inc. Stableford Golf tournament billed for today at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara. Close to 60 golfers including overseas...

RHTYSC/Busta Champion of Champions Softball Semis, Finals scheduled for tomorrow

RHTYSC/Busta Champion of Champions Softball Semis, Finals scheduled for tomorrow

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC/Busta Champion of Champions Softball Semis, Finals scheduled for tomorrow

The Area ‘H’ Ground in Guyana’s smallest township, Rose Hall Town would be a buzz of activities with the Finals of the 2017 Busta Champion of Champions Softball Tournament tomorrow. The...

Conflict arises between EITI’s need for openness and Govt.’s secretive behaviour – Ram

Conflict arises between EITI’s need for openness and Govt.’s secretive behaviour – Ram

Oct 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Conflict arises between EITI’s need for openness and Govt.’s secretive behaviour – Ram

Guyana has finally become a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). This is a body that calls for accountability in the natural resources sector. With that salient point...

While we obsess over Trump, China is making history

While we obsess over Trump, China is making history

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on While we obsess over Trump, China is making history

(Republished from The Washington Post – By Fareed Zakaria, Opinion writer) While news and analysis in the United States continue to be obsessed with President Trump’s daily antics and...

Following fallout from meeting with Education Ministry…GTU invited to meet with President Granger on Monday

Following fallout from meeting with Education Ministry…GTU invited to meet with President Granger on Monday

Oct 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Following fallout from meeting with Education Ministry…GTU invited to meet with President Granger on Monday

The fallout from the meeting between the Guyana Teachers Union [GTU] and the Ministry of Education has been gaining attention at the highest level. In fact, the union’s executive members will on...

Frying small fish instead of roasting the big rats

Frying small fish instead of roasting the big rats

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Frying small fish instead of roasting the big rats

It is not surprising that agents of the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) are undertaking investigations into the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), based on the findings of an audit which were done a...

‘Search warrant was uncalled for’ – GEA

‘Search warrant was uncalled for’ – GEA

Oct 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Search warrant was uncalled for’ – GEA

The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), under investigation for billions of dollars worth in fuel purchases, as well as some questionable issuance of licences, is upset, saying that Thursday’s raid on its...

Advisors call for Parliamentary body to oversee Oil and Gas sector

Advisors call for Parliamentary body to oversee Oil and Gas sector

Oct 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Advisors call for Parliamentary body to oversee Oil and Gas sector

Several local and regional advisors are urgently calling for the establishment of a parliamentary body to oversee the oil and gas sector but more importantly, the works of the Petroleum Commission...

GPSU’s Yarde faces questions over union’s effectiveness

GPSU’s Yarde faces questions over union’s effectiveness

Oct 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU’s Yarde faces questions over union’s effectiveness

… as options weighed on Govt.’s payout offer The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is weighing several options, but prefers to be guided by members on the matter of strike action in response to...

October 2017 is passing but the Russian evolution has passed

October 2017 is passing but the Russian evolution has passed

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on October 2017 is passing but the Russian evolution has passed

October 2017 marks one hundred years of one of the greatest events in human history. The Russian Revolution has left an inerasable stamp and indelible legacy on the world. In any discussion on the...

Unless Jagdeo mends his ways, there is no hope for the PPP

Unless Jagdeo mends his ways, there is no hope for the PPP

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, When I read Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s Blog, ‘The Conversation Tree’ on “The Fall of the PPP” I am bewildered as to why the Leader of the Opposition is still hell-bent on...

Nonsense passes for analysis

Nonsense passes for analysis

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nonsense passes for analysis

Dear Editor, As leader of the Organisation for the Victory of the People (OVP), I have unapologetically voiced my criticism of APNU+AFC policies and performance in government. I have voiced my...

In defence of Anil Nandlall

In defence of Anil Nandlall

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on In defence of Anil Nandlall

Dear Editor, I am often amused of the rambling of some of our writers to the press. In the news of October 26, I read of Lincoln Lewis lambasting Anil Nandlall for reporting on the sole selection and...

An appropriate sentence for a bestial crime

An appropriate sentence for a bestial crime

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An appropriate sentence for a bestial crime

Dear Editor, Whatever brand of description, sex offenders are outside the pale of humanity. Take the offence of rape, the unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina,...

THE EVIL OF RACISM

THE EVIL OF RACISM

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE EVIL OF RACISM

Dear Editor, While positive changes have occurred at certain times in various situations, racism not only persists in our world, but in many places, it is powerfully resurgent. The ethnic cleansing...

Set up the Integrity Commission now if you want to fight corruption

Set up the Integrity Commission now if you want to fight corruption

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Set up the Integrity Commission now if you want to fight corruption

Dear Editor, The Attorney General, Basil Williams, and his surrogates seem to be staring at the sky, while the pretense that ‘all is well’ continues. Truly, “anti-corruption is everybody’s...

Burnham hurt Guyana socially and economically

Burnham hurt Guyana socially and economically

Oct 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Burnham hurt Guyana socially and economically

Dear Editor, Laudable exhortations portraying the late Forbes Burnham as a prophet of so-called social cohesion in Guyana are risible, to say the least. Burnham was a megalomaniac whose policy...

Billion$ fuel purchase racket… Investigators swoop down on GEA

Billion$ fuel purchase racket… Investigators swoop down on GEA

Oct 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Billion$ fuel purchase racket… Investigators swoop down on GEA

–after agency refuses to hand over documents The challenges of the police Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) to investigate a number of state agencies are continuing. Yesterday, the unit, which...

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We need a DOGE

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- You know, it’s funny how people in government are always talking about efficiency. And... more

Why the U.S. Should Strengthen Trade Ties with the Caribbean

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- A rules-based international trading system has long been a foundation of global commerce,... more

Financial institutions grabbing Guyana’s goodies

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- O Lord, Guyana is now in for it. As if the already swollen American invading... more