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Evaluators receive critical training on IDB-funded projects

Nov 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Evaluators receive critical training on IDB-funded projects

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) have concluded a three-part series of workshops aimed at improving the...

CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships…Jaguars aim to extend gap on points table

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships…Jaguars aim to extend gap on points table

Face 2nd placed Red Force in D/N game tomorrow By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Vnet Communications Defending champions and front runners Guyana Jaguars, will hope their top order,...

The circus has taken over Guyana

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

It will never stop; the circus will go on indefinitely. The circus has taken over Guyana. On the front page of the Wednesday edition of this newspaper is a photograph of the building that houses...

Shotokan Karate-Do of Guyana Nationals a huge success

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shotokan Karate-Do of Guyana Nationals a huge success

Amin, Rodrigues, Black and Morgan recognized Recently the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall experienced an explosion of energy with the Shotokan Karate-Do of Guyana (SHOKOGUY) 2017 National Karate...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – East Bank…Grove Hi Tech and Herstelling Raiders flay opponents; Warriors also win

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – East Bank…Grove Hi Tech and Herstelling Raiders flay opponents; Warriors also win

Grove Hi Tech successfully ended the inaugural season of the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 Intra Association League/East Bank Football Association leg on a winning note on...

Obesity and physical inactivity put women at excess risk of diabetes – CARPHA

Nov 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Obesity and physical inactivity put women at excess risk of diabetes – CARPHA

Diabetes, a major contributor to premature death, is estimated to affect 10-15 percent of the adult population in the Caribbean Region. The disease is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure,...

GJA completes successful year

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GJA completes successful year

The Guyana Judo Association (GJA) has completed a successful year following the recent hosting its year end Championship under the theme: “Courage”. The event was held in observance of the World...

Berbice Cricket Board Under-15 Inter Zone competition…Upper/Central Corentyne continue dominance, West Berbice beat NA/Canje

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board Under-15 Inter Zone competition…Upper/Central Corentyne continue dominance, West Berbice beat NA/Canje

The Third and final round of the Berbice Cricket Board’s Inter Zone 50 overs cricket competition was contested under the watchful eye of Chairman of Selectors, Mr. Leslie Solomon and his panel, as...

Bartica market to undergo $20M renovation

Nov 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica market to undergo $20M renovation

Residents of Bartica, Region Seven, will soon be the beneficiaries of a modern market. During an interview with the Department of Public Information, Town Clerk Phebe Wallerson...

Non-playing clubs should not vote in elections, BCB in good hands

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Non-playing clubs should not vote in elections, BCB in good hands

Dear Sports Editor, Imagine if we were to have national elections and anyone from the Diaspora in North America can vote, even if they have not been to Guyana in 30 years and have given up their...

GFF Elite League Season III opens Sunday

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Elite League Season III opens Sunday

– Greater focus on players this season as six clubs added to pool The Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Elite League Season III is scheduled to kick off on Sunday, at the National Track and...

North R/veldt man charged with killing peacemaker

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on North R/veldt man charged with killing peacemaker

Yesterday, 26-year-old Jermaine Abel was remanded to prison for the murder of 27-year-old Hafeez Douglas, who he allegedly stabbed to death during a fight with his younger brother. Abel appeared...

The Guyana Gold Board should be dissolved

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Guyana Gold Board should be dissolved

The Guyana Gold Board must be prohibited from purchasing any more gold. It must confine itself to regulating the gold mining sector. The laws of Guyana allow for the Guyana Gold Board to be...

Everest CC Masters beat Guyana UK CC in T20 fixture

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Everest CC Masters beat Guyana UK CC in T20 fixture

Everest Cricket Club Masters defeated the visiting Guyana UK Cricket Club by six wickets in a T20 fixture played on Friday last at Everest. Steady bowling by the home team restricted the visitors,...

USA & Guyana — similarities in response to changes in economic activities

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on USA & Guyana — similarities in response to changes in economic activities

Dear Editor, There was the time in the USA when the primary mode of transportation was by stagecoach. This mode of transportation gave rise to many areas of employment. Coaches had to be built and...

Responding to the call for the ExxonMobil contract

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to the call for the ExxonMobil contract

Dear Editor, We thank you for the opportunity to respond to a letter appearing in the November 14, 2017 edition of the Stabroek News and headlined ‘Guyanese need the release of the Exxon contract...

Gaskin can’t suck cane and blow whistle

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gaskin can’t suck cane and blow whistle

Dear Editor, I have read with interest the comments made by President David Granger’s son-in-law, Minister Dominic Gaskin, in attempting to justify, and poorly so, the AFC denial of being consulted...

DIVISIVE STRATEGY

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on DIVISIVE STRATEGY

Dear Editor, Listening to Bharrat Jagdeo, is to try the soul, since his tirades continue to be filled with desperations of lies, as he tries to garner sympathy from wherever such may be possible. But...

British and American interest heartening

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, It is indeed heartening to learn that both the US Ambassador and the British High Commissioner are paying attention to the current imbroglio surrounding the unilateral appointment of...

Guyanese have been subjected to culture war

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese have been subjected to culture war

Dear Editor, There is the saying that when America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold. That saying is tied to the reality that the world seems to gobble up whatever is spilled from the US of A....

Disputed Land

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disputed Land

Dear Editor, Upon reviewing my DVR cameras earlier, I noticed the Health Inspector of the Craig-Caledonia NDC, and a strange man looking in the bushes of the South-Western boundary of a parcel of...

The suicide rate is not what WHO says it is

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The suicide rate is not what WHO says it is

Dear Editor, Recently The Caribbean Voice received the following message from Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, former PPP/C Minister of Health. “When I was Minister of Health, I openly disagreed with them...

GAWU is committed to helping GuySuCo

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU is committed to helping GuySuCo

Dear Editor, Our Union was not surprised to read the comments of GuySuCo’s Senior Communications Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas, contained in an article titled “Despite low attendance, GuySuCo...

Encouraging flooding on the Essequibo Coast

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Encouraging flooding on the Essequibo Coast

Dear Editor, On my visit to the National Communication Network Inc. building on Monday, November 13, last, I saw a contractor filling the drainage canal opposite the education building with white...

ANOTHER DISTURBING AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT

Nov 15, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on ANOTHER DISTURBING AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT

For years, Auditor General Deodat Sharma has on numerous occasions exposed massive irregularities at various government departments and state agencies, especially the misuse of state funds by public...

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Windies captain Brathwaite stresses bravery, belief ahead of Pakistan Test Series

No conflict of interest exists

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Accusations of conflict of interest have a peculiar way of rising to the surface in Guyana.... more