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Losing Caribbean title a reality -Ninvalle

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Losing Caribbean title a reality -Ninvalle

Guyana is on the road to losing the Caribbean Championship title without throwing a punch and the winner by knockout would be the perennial lack of sponsorship. Up to yesterday afternoon the Guyana...

STAG ‘Skills for Gold’ 7-a-side tournament kicks off tonight at #5 Ground

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG ‘Skills for Gold’ 7-a-side tournament kicks off tonight at #5 Ground

Sixteen teams will begin the journey tonight in their attempt to claim $200,000 and 10 gold rings, when the STAG Beer ‘Skills for Gold’ 7-A-Side football tournament kicks off at the #5 Ground...

Berbice Cricket Board Senior First Division 50 overs competition…Albion CC, RHTYSC & Blairmont secure wins

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board Senior First Division 50 overs competition…Albion CC, RHTYSC & Blairmont secure wins

THE Berbice Cricket Board Senior 50 over competition continued over the last weekend at venues across the county. At the Port Mourant Community Center, hosts RHTYSC defeated Upper Corentyne Cricket...

Berbice Cricket Board Second Division competition…#48 Challengers, Kennard’s Memorial CC & Cut & Load dominate

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board Second Division competition…#48 Challengers, Kennard’s Memorial CC & Cut & Load dominate

Cricketing action in the Berbice Cricket Board’s Second Division 40 overs competition continued, as teams battle to qualify for the next round of the competition. In the Upper Corentyne Area, #48...

GOA doping control sessions conclude at Lilliendaal

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA doping control sessions conclude at Lilliendaal

By Zaheer Mohamed Doping is the occurrence of one or more anti-doping rule violations including use of prohibited substance, presence of a banned substance in an athlete’s sample, failure to file...

EBFA/Ralph Green U-11 League…Semi Finals line up to be decided today

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA/Ralph Green U-11 League…Semi Finals line up to be decided today

The semi finals line up for the 2nd annual Ralph Green sponsored East Bank Football Association Under-11 league will be decided today when the final three matches of the round-robin stage are...

National Chess Player, Anthony Drayton, carts off spoils in Caribbean Chess Cup tourney

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Chess Player, Anthony Drayton, carts off spoils in Caribbean Chess Cup tourney

Candidate Master, Anthony Drayton, defied a prolonged period of inactivity and retained his form to win the Inaugural Caribbean Chess Cup staged in Bridgetown, Barbados, November 28-December 3 last....

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Competition…Could any of the remaining teams stop Sparta Boss?

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Competition…Could any of the remaining teams stop Sparta Boss?

-‘Gold is Money’ favoured against Bent Street The question on everyone’s lips is whether any of the remaining teams in the Georgetown Zone of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’...

FAIR, FACTUAL AND HONEST REPORTING

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on FAIR, FACTUAL AND HONEST REPORTING

The media is referred to as the fourth estate. Its objectives include keeping checks and balances on the three branches of government—executive, legislative and the judiciary. An independent media...

Region Two mayor, REO put differences aside for development

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two mayor, REO put differences aside for development

Decades of political friction in Region Two, may finally come to an end as members of both the Opposition and Government on Thursday last, agreed to work in the interest of the Region’s citizens....

GWI launches ‘Holiday Slash and Cash’ promotion

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GWI launches ‘Holiday Slash and Cash’ promotion

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has launched its Christmas Promotion called ‘Holiday Slash and Cash’, which entails five differing deals offered by the company. All GWI customers paying off their...

Escapee for High Court trial over Alexander St. murder

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Escapee for High Court trial over Alexander St. murder

Senior Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday ruled that a prima facie case had been established against prison escapee, Pascal Smith, for the murder of an Alexander Street, Georgetown resident, and...

Questions journalists must ask the AFC leadership

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Questions journalists must ask the AFC leadership

We are in bad shape in this country in every sphere of life – politics, business, public service, academia, journalism, security sector, agriculture, human rights record etc. We just do not...

Parallel treasuries

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Parallel treasuries

The buck stops with Granger! He shall have to decide now what action will be taken against those persons who deceived this nation in relation to the signing bonus which the government received. The...

Guysuco’s management and government should provide G$90,000/mth to displaced sugar workers.

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guysuco’s management and government should provide G$90,000/mth to displaced sugar workers.

Dear Editor, After reading my own article published in your letters column on December 6, 2017, within the context of the unfolding news of sugar workers being sent home, I could not stop tears...

GAWU precipitated the demise of the sugar industry

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU precipitated the demise of the sugar industry

Dear Editor, As a former GAWU General Council member from 1991-2000, at every meeting each field secretary has to report on the various estates each represents. I was the representative for the rice...

The Prime Minister cannot be a friend of the sugar workers

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Prime Minister cannot be a friend of the sugar workers

Dear Editor, Prime Minister and First Vice President, Moses Nagamootoo, writing in the December 3, 2017 Guyana Chronicle, spent a great deal of his column entitled “Different strategy in changing...

The truth is ‘profits before people’

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth is ‘profits before people’

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Guyana’s President David Granger is in Kenya telling people to put people before profits. Yet, with the sacking of thousands of people and increased stealth...

Has the AFC sold its morality?

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has the AFC sold its morality?

Dear Editor, The major news outlets have reported that in a leaked email to Alliance For Change (AFC) members, Dr. Rohan Somar, from the New York AFC said the appointment by the PNC Executive...

The plight of a calf tests human morals

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The plight of a calf tests human morals

Dear Editor, It seems like ignoring issues affecting Berbicians is becoming an accepted pattern by those in authorities. We are being ignored about the withdrawal of the Guysuco redundancy letters;...

St Rose’s demolition will not be cheap

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on St Rose’s demolition will not be cheap

Dear Editor, Permit me a space in your newspaper to express my disappointment in some pseudo contractors who are bent on mischief. As president of the P.T.A of St Rose’s High School and being fully...

The antics of the APNU/AFC and PPP continue

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The antics of the APNU/AFC and PPP continue

Dear Editor, The antics of the APNU/PNC Government and opposition PPP continue. So, too, are their hypocrisy, lies and skullduggery. Today it’s about oil and sugar. US oil company, ExxonMobil did...