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Guyanese youth cops 2017 Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Award

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese youth cops 2017 Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Award

Fiji (Caribbean 360) – Young Guyanese activist and animator, Jubilanté Cutting, was one of four awardees of the coveted Nelson Mandela-Graça Machel Innovation Awards for 2017. She won the...

Man shot after allegedly stealing female guard’s phone

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man shot after allegedly stealing female guard’s phone

A 27-year-old man was shot in the right leg at around 05:00 hrs yesterday, after allegedly attacking an armed guard who was trying to apprehend him for stealing a woman’s cellphone. Police said...

Indigenous villages’ elections to be held before mid-year

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Indigenous villages’ elections to be held before mid-year

All necessary arrangements are in place to ensure that the Indigenous Village Elections are conducted in 2018, as provided for by law. This assurance was given by Minister of Indigenous Peoples’...

Miner refused bail for ganja in fowl pen

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Miner refused bail for ganja in fowl pen

A miner who was under surveillance by police ranks was yesterday remanded to prison after he was allegedly caught hiding 124 pounds of marijuana in a fowl pen. Teshawn Haywood, 27, of Third Street...

Duo to stand trial for 2015 murder of Hamson’s owner

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Duo to stand trial for 2015 murder of Hamson’s owner

Two men were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court in Georgetown for the murder of businessman Farouk Ghanie, whose lifeless body was found lying in a pool of blood at the back of his...

Voir dire ongoing in Pegasus taxi driver murder trial

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Voir dire ongoing in Pegasus taxi driver murder trial

Justice Brassington Reynolds will on Monday rule in the voir dire (trial within a trial) in the trial of Lorenzo Forde who is accused of the December 28, 2013 murder of Pegasus Hotel taxi driver,...

Moves apace to significantly reduce maternal, neonatal death rates by 2021

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Moves apace to significantly reduce maternal, neonatal death rates by 2021

“It is every one’s desire, I’m sure, that every pregnancy ends with a healthy baby and a healthy mother.” This was the assertion of Director of Maternal and Child Health [MCH] within the...

Thomas Lands, Vlissengen Road new Mash route to Durban Park

Dec 09, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Thomas Lands, Vlissengen Road new Mash route to Durban Park

– Friday night ‘limes’ to spice up season Minister of Social Cohesion with Responsibility for Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. George Norton, on Thursday announced the new route for the much...

GuyanaNRA IPSC Regional Director Hopkinson shoots well at BNRA/IPSC Nationals

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GuyanaNRA IPSC Regional Director Hopkinson shoots well at BNRA/IPSC Nationals

Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) / International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Regional Director Harold ‘Top Gun’ Hopkinson recently returned from the Barbarian National...

Ministry of Social Cohesion tapeball set for tomorrow

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of Social Cohesion tapeball set for tomorrow

The Ministry of Social Cohesion will be hosting a knock out Tapeball competition tomorrow at the National Cultural Centre Tarmac starting at 09:00hrs. At stake are trophies, medals and cash...

CGI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships…Chanderpaul 140th fifty keeps Jaguars ahead despite Smith’s unbeaten 49

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on CGI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships…Chanderpaul 140th fifty keeps Jaguars ahead despite Smith’s unbeaten 49

By Sean Devers Shiv Chanderpaul’s 120-ball 59 was decorated with seven fours and was mainly responsible for Guyana Jaguars getting a 77-run lead over the Windwards Volcanoes on the second day of...

Mohamed’s Enterprise/New Era Entertainment Futsal tourney continues tonight…-Bakewell partners with New Era to bring exciting promotion

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed’s Enterprise/New Era Entertainment Futsal tourney continues tonight…-Bakewell partners with New Era to bring exciting promotion

The fourth annual Mohamed’s Enterprise/New Era Entertainment Futsal tournament, that will see one of the 26 teams competing walk away with $500,000 come this Boxing Night (December 26th), continues...

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...