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Surama FC football tourney commences today

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Surama FC football tourney commences today

Surama Football Club (SFC) of North Rupununi will be hosting its annual tournament commencing today at 09:00hrs, today. The tournament which is being sanctioned by the Rupununi Football Association...

ASATT Invitational Swimming Championship 2017…Dorado Speed Swim Club represented by strong 18-member team

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on ASATT Invitational Swimming Championship 2017…Dorado Speed Swim Club represented by strong 18-member team

The Dorado Speed Swim Club (DSSC) is being represented by a 18-member team at the annual Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago (ASATT) Invitational Swim Meet which swam off yesterday...

CWI Digicel Regional 4-Day C/Ships …Bramble’s maiden ton leads Jaguars recovery; shares 118-stand with Shiv Chanderpaul

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Digicel Regional 4-Day C/Ships …Bramble’s maiden ton leads Jaguars recovery; shares 118-stand with Shiv Chanderpaul

By Sean Devers Shiv Chanderpaul and Anthony Bramble joined forces at 41-4 and with a century stand and spearheaded a recovery to lift Guyana to 274-8 at the end of the first day of the seventh round...

Single parents continue to secure loans under microcredit scheme

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Single parents continue to secure loans under microcredit scheme

A few years after it was launched the Women of Worth; (WOW) Initiative was described as very successful especially among single mothers. The programme which was designed to help single parents...

C’bean C/Ships in St. Lucia …Allicock, Williamson & Lewis through to semis

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on C’bean C/Ships in St. Lucia …Allicock, Williamson & Lewis through to semis

Keevin Allicock moved one step closer to a successful defence of his Caribbean Bantamweight title which he won last year in the second edition of Caribbean Development Boxing Championships (now the...

Softball action set for Ogle on Sunday

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball action set for Ogle on Sunday

The Ogle Community Centre ground, East Coast Demerara will be the venue for exciting softball action when the East Coast Appreciation Day celebration committee hosts a softball cricket competition on...

UDFA GT Beer Football…Defending champs Silver Shattas beat Topp XX; Blueberry Hill needle Amelia’s Ward

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on UDFA GT Beer Football…Defending champs Silver Shattas beat Topp XX; Blueberry Hill needle Amelia’s Ward

Silver Shattas got their campaign off to a good start with a 3-1 win over Topp XX while Blueberry Hill continued their climb towards the next round by needling Amelia’s Ward Panthers when the Upper...

GFF/Corona Super 16 year-end tourney …Action kicks off tonight at MSC ground with double-header

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/Corona Super 16 year-end tourney …Action kicks off tonight at MSC ground with double-header

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) in partnership with Top Brandz Distributors, Corona Beer Super 16 year-end tournament kicks off tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden with two...

Guyana Chronicle article misleading – GFF

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Chronicle article misleading – GFF

No Missing Funds The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) wishes to categorically and equivocally state that the article titled “GFF’s 2016 Financial Statements Reveal 45.7M Unaccounted Debts and...

Farmers voice concerns in light of climate change

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers voice concerns in light of climate change

Aware of the fact that climate change has been affecting countries worldwide, the World University Service Canada (WUSC) yesterday held a multi-stakeholder consultation at Herdmanston Lodge,...

Procurement officer accused of defrauding friend of over $5.8M

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement officer accused of defrauding friend of over $5.8M

A 21-year-old man who allegedly told his friend that he was in position to grant him a firearm, a motor pick-up and a National Identification Card, was yesterday charged for defrauding the...

No, Mr. Trump, Torture Doesn’t Work

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on No, Mr. Trump, Torture Doesn’t Work

(Republished from the N.Y. Times) In one of his first acts as president, Barack Obama signed executive orders closing America’s secret prisons overseas, banning torture and authorizing an end to...

One week after rank damages vehicle…Matter sent to Commissioner, likely for DPP

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on One week after rank damages vehicle…Matter sent to Commissioner, likely for DPP

As investigations continue into the incident where a police rank in ‘B’ Division Berbice was the first to cause damage to the newly donated vehicles, it was related that the matter has been sent...

Miner remanded over Venezuelan boat captain’s killing

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Miner remanded over Venezuelan boat captain’s killing

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday remanded a miner to prison, for the murder of a Venezuelan boat captain. Thirty-six-year-old David Gaskin, of 649 Kuru Kuru, Linden/Soesdyke Highway,...

The President is in a tangled web

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The President is in a tangled web

Either the President is terribly misinformed or somebody is confusing him when it comes to the signing bonus paid by Exxon Mobil to the government. The President has said that the money is in an...

“Feral Cuff” starring Priya Manickchand

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “Feral Cuff” starring Priya Manickchand

When the then-Education Minister, Priya Manickchand displayed unbecoming conduct in front of an invited audience at the residence of the US Ambassador on the occasion of American Day of Independence...

It is important that the truth overcomes the “rubberstamp news”

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is important that the truth overcomes the “rubberstamp news”

DEAR EDITOR, The issue of the consideration of the 2018 Budget Estimates and the way the Parliament is managed is one for the elected Parliamentarians, the selected Speaker and the other appointed...

Someone wants lawlessness to prevail

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Someone wants lawlessness to prevail

Dear Editor, In your daily papers dated 2017/12/14 on page 11, I read an article where business owners are asking for the change of the Charity magistrate court day from Monday to Thursdays, because...

The holidays are here and so are the scams

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The holidays are here and so are the scams

Dear Editor, As usual, during any season, prices seem to increase without a reason. Most would say there’s a shortage; that’s why. Likewise, there are many companies that would have some...

The Private Sector Commission is not supportive of the government

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Private Sector Commission is not supportive of the government

Dear Editor, Like many sectors in this country that were infiltrated and some strategically designed to facilitate this action, so must it be understood about the Private Sector Commission. This body...

Freddie Kissoon and some others are distorting the facts of history

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon and some others are distorting the facts of history

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon’s column in the Kaieteur News of December 12, 2017, headlined ‘Violent when in power, still violent when out of power’ is an abhorrence and absolute falsification...

Those illegal liquor parlours

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those illegal liquor parlours

Dear Editor, I read an article in your letter column in the December 8, 2017, where a Mr Mohamed Faizool made a complaint about illegal sales of alcohol and alcoholic beverages in the Essequibo Coast...

Siting the Indian immigration memorial monument

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Siting the Indian immigration memorial monument

Dear Editor, There has been some controversy about the appropriate location for the Indian Immigration Memorial Monument which the Indian Government has already kindly donated to Guyana. So far, an...

Whither collective bargaining in the public service?

Dec 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Whither collective bargaining in the public service?

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President, Patrick Yarde, and another GPSU Executive have been members of the outgoing Public Service Commission (PSC). Patrick Yarde also served...

Granger takes full responsibility for secret $18M Exxon fund

Dec 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Granger takes full responsibility for secret $18M Exxon fund

…Some Cabinet members were in the dark President David Granger claimed full responsibility for the secrecy surrounding the U.S. $18 million signing bonus from United States oil giant, ExxonMobil....

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A coalition of shared disgrace

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The APNU and the AFC deserve each other. They deserve to be shackled together in a coalition... more