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Rose Hall Town Area ‘H’ Ground undergoing major upgrading

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rose Hall Town Area ‘H’ Ground undergoing major upgrading

The Rose Hall Town Community Centre known as the Area ‘H’ Ground is currently undergoing some major restoration work due to the efforts of Guyana’s number youth and sports organisation and the...

Achievers, D’ Edward, Blairmont triumph

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Achievers, D’ Edward, Blairmont triumph

Achievers, D’ Edwards and Blairmont recorded wins when the West Berbice Cricket Association, Singh Travel Service Under-19, 50 Overs Competition continued recently. Kevin Sinclair set No.5 ground a...

Namilco makes massive donation to RHTY&SC Cricket Teams’ Christmas Village

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Namilco makes massive donation to RHTY&SC Cricket Teams’ Christmas Village

The National Milling Company Ltd (Namilco) on Saturday last make a significant contribution towards the hosting of the 3rd Annual Berbice Christmas Village that would be organised by the ten cricket...

Flying Ace Cycle Club holds Annual General Meeting today

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club holds Annual General Meeting today

The Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) of Berbice is scheduled to hold its annual General meeting today at Corriverton, Upper Corentyne. High on the agenda is the election of office bearers and the...

Metro rides with Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day race-meet

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Metro rides with Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day race-meet

For the eighth year in succession, Metro Office and Computer Supplies has thrown its support behind the signature Boxing Day horserace meet organised by the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club. At a...

Gangster Domino wins inaugural Mackeson “King Of the Domino” tournament

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gangster Domino wins inaugural Mackeson “King Of the Domino” tournament

One of the largest dominoes competition to ever be played in Guyana with action in the three counties (Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice) including areas Linden and Bartica, the recently concluded...

Star Boys claim Desmond Hoyte Memorial 5-a-side football

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Star Boys claim Desmond Hoyte Memorial 5-a-side football

Star Boys Football team won the Hugh Desmond Hoyte Memorial 5-A-Side football competition which was played recently at the Love and Faith Church Ground. In the finals which went down to penalties...

Plans apace to make professional nurses certificate degree programme

Dec 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Plans apace to make professional nurses certificate degree programme

Moves are being made to move the Professional Nursing programme from merely a certificate programme to a full-fledged degree programme. Information in this regard has been forthcoming from the...

CHRONIC PROBLEMS!

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CHRONIC PROBLEMS!

There is something that is not right in Guyana and is actually preventing it from developing. In terms of basic governance, decision-making and proper education and health care services, Guyana...

GGMC to perform duties of petroleum commission

Dec 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC to perform duties of petroleum commission

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) will soon begin performing some of the functions of the Petroleum Commission as outlined in the Petroleum Commission Bill of 2017. This disclosure was...

Almost 500 contractors interested in Public Infrastructure contracts for 2018

Dec 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Almost 500 contractors interested in Public Infrastructure contracts for 2018

-‘prequalifying’ bids read at NPTAB’s final session Securing close to 500 prequalifying bids at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board’s (NPTAB), final session for the...

Demise of the AFC: Political culture in an age of decay

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Demise of the AFC: Political culture in an age of decay

In my column of Monday 27th of last month, I undertook to do a series on the fading societal acceptance of the AFC. In that first piece, I laid the theoretical groundwork for looking at the...

Sugar is dead. The funeral is to be announced later

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Sugar is dead. The funeral is to be announced later

The decline in sugar production is a direct response to the signals that the workers in the industry were receiving from the government. Following the decision to close Wales, it became evident to...

ARE WE PUTTING NEW WINE INTO OLD WINE-SKINS?

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on ARE WE PUTTING NEW WINE INTO OLD WINE-SKINS?

Dear Editor, The excitement obvious from the media reports in the December 19, 2017 issue on the graduation of the first batch of cadets from the Civil Service Training College is quite...

Sex in City Hall—Season Two

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sex in City Hall—Season Two

Dear Editor, Well it seems to be Season Two for the local ‘Sex and the City’ drama series that is ongoing at the City Hall in our capital. One cannot forget Season One, starring a Lance Corporal...

The Parking Meter contract cannot be resurrected

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Parking Meter contract cannot be resurrected

Dear Editor, The recent High Court quashing of the parking meter by-laws must be music to the ears of most Guyanese and just about the best Christmas present for the private sector, not least among...

Fleecing the workers

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fleecing the workers

Dear Editor, It seems to us like (Damon) and Cuffy (Kofi), we too are fighting several enemies at the same time the (Colonial Masters) the (Company) the house slaves (officers) at the labour...

Why the fuss over the agreement with Exxon

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why the fuss over the agreement with Exxon

Dear Editor, From media reports there seems to be a furor over which choice of Agreement with Exxon Mobil Corporation Guyana ought to find suitable for full satisfaction to all concerned. If there is...

Trotman’s decision to drop powers may not be wise

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trotman’s decision to drop powers may not be wise

Dear Editor, Reports suggest that Minister of Natural Resources, Hon. Raphael Trotman is considering reducing the powers now vested in him. It allows him to control our patrimony. What has triggered...

A serious allegation against City Hall

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A serious allegation against City Hall

Dear Editor, Please refer to letter captioned “City Hall is a special place” penned by Shanta Singh, which appeared in the Monday December 18, 2017, edition of your newspapers. The tone and...

SOME REWARDS ARE WORTHY OF QUESTIONING

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on SOME REWARDS ARE WORTHY OF QUESTIONING

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to the article in your yesterday’s edition of a police officer’s receipt of a number of awards. As I read the article, I was both amused and dazed as to how this...

A sexist rant from a government advisor

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A sexist rant from a government advisor

Dear Editor, In an Op-ed piece published on December 6, 2017 in the state-owned Guyana Chronicle, captioned ‘On the school system, predators and Society’s Good People’, self-styled ‘senior...

Crazy situations on the road

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crazy situations on the road

Dear Editor, So another life was lost to crazy driving on Vlissengen Road on Monday last. The driver and conductor were interested only in saving the speaker boxes from the overturned bus lying in...

Caught between a rock and a hard place

Dec 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Caught between a rock and a hard place

Dear Editor, Whether Minister Broomes, who stopped the Public Service Commission from performing or Harmon who stopped the Police Service Commission from promoting senior cops, or the officers of MMA...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more