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RHTY&SC Cricket Teams to host 4th Annual Scotia Bank Children Mash Parade

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Cricket Teams to host 4th Annual Scotia Bank Children Mash Parade

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS ten cricket teams and its Over-35 Group on Friday 23rd February, 2018 would be hosting its 4th Annual Bank of Nova Scotia Children Mash. The Parade...

Berbice Volleyball Association Annual General Meeting for Sunday

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Volleyball Association Annual General Meeting for Sunday

The Berbice Volleyball Association will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday commencing at 10:00hrs at the Guysuco Training Center Port Mourant Corentyne Berbice. Main topics on the...

Berbice Volleyball Association Annual General Meeting for Sunday

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Volleyball Association Annual General Meeting for Sunday

Ninvalle in Dubai for AIBA Congress

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ninvalle in Dubai for AIBA Congress

President of the Guyana Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle arrived in Dubai yesterday to attend the AIBA Extraordinary Congress set for later this week. The Congress will see affiliates voting on a...

Queen’s College Sports Committee hosts Mashramani Cricket tourney

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Queen’s College Sports Committee hosts Mashramani Cricket tourney

The Queen’s College Sports Committee (QCSC) has organised a cricket competition that will be competed amongst first, second and third form Boys’ and Girls’ teams. The competition which began...

RHT Pepsi Under-19 Team defeat Paradise by 141 runs – Make donation to Club

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Pepsi Under-19 Team defeat Paradise by 141 runs – Make donation to Club

The Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 Team led by Kevin Sinclair on Sunday last defeated the Paradise Cricket Club Under-19 Team by 141 runs in a specially arranged cricket match at the Paradise Cricket...

UG to commemorate 100th birth anniversary of Dr Cheddi Jagan

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on UG to commemorate 100th birth anniversary of Dr Cheddi Jagan

The University of Guyana (UG) has commenced planning to commemorate the birth centennial of the late President, Dr. Cheddi B. Jagan. The commemoration is slated for March this year, a statement from...

Minister Lawrence stresses importance of professional attitude

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Lawrence stresses importance of professional attitude

–as Ministry launches 2018 work programme with full support from partners Parting ways with any employee who dares to obstruct the Ministry’s progressive vision is not something that Minister...

Convicted fraudster slapped with ten fraud related charges, gets $1.5M bail

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Convicted fraudster slapped with ten fraud related charges, gets $1.5M bail

One week after being slapped with eight fraud related charges, a real estate officer once again appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where two additional fraud charges were read to him....

GGMC waives 50 percent on arrears for rented lands

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC waives 50 percent on arrears for rented lands

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has offered to waive 50 percent of arrears on outstanding rental to miners holding medium scale properties. In an invited comment, yesterday, Minister...

Sweepers/Cleaners protest low income, working conditions in Linden

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sweepers/Cleaners protest low income, working conditions in Linden

Sweepers and cleaners in Linden protested in front of the Regional Democratic Office on Wednesday bearing placards demanding an increase in salary, better working conditions and to be made permanent...

APNU/AFC Councillor secures bail for wounding chips vendor

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on APNU/AFC Councillor secures bail for wounding chips vendor

A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) Councillor and member of the Community Development Council (CDC), yesterday appeared before the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court to...

The PM’s Rep only confirmed what I have said

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PM’s Rep only confirmed what I have said

DEAR EDITOR, I am most elated that Mr. Gobin Harbhajan has tacitly agreed that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has indeed forsaken his principles of frugality and a lean and clean Government, and...

Family seeks help to find missing 16-year-old

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Family seeks help to find missing 16-year-old

A distraught father is appealing to the public at large to help him find his 16-year-old daughter who went missing since Monday. Crystol Muss, 16, of 73 Self Help, Amelia’s Ward, left home on...

Boosting the education drive

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Boosting the education drive

The responsibility of educating the citizens of our nation has been placed squarely on the shoulders of the government of the day. Successive governments have gladly accepted this responsibility and...

Seeram’s Bar, Wiltshire Dominoes set for Sunday

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Seeram’s Bar, Wiltshire Dominoes set for Sunday

Seeram’s Bar of First Street, Alexander Village in collaboration with Mark Wiltshire will be hosting a dominoes competition on Sunday at the above address starting at 14:00hrs. Entrance fee is...

What is GRA doing about insider trading?

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is GRA doing about insider trading?

DEAR EDITOR, I am the shareholder of a beverage company here. During a light engagement over the last weekend with one of my colleagues (who is also a shareholder at the same company), he expressed...

More regulations are needed for housing

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on More regulations are needed for housing

DEAR EDITOR, The great efforts by Guyana’s Housing Authorities to provide information and sensitisation to the public must be commended. However, with the absence of qualified and experienced...

There is no basis or justification for Ravi Dev’s roar!

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no basis or justification for Ravi Dev’s roar!

DEAR EDITOR, On the eve of 2018, Ravi Dev attempted another roar. His features are referred to as “The Roar of Ravi Dev”. This time, he roared at Henry Jeffrey’s reiterated proposal...

A proposal to advance Inclusion and Transparency (Oil and Gas)

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A proposal to advance Inclusion and Transparency (Oil and Gas)

DEAR EDITOR, Every Guyanese hopes to partake in the promised boon from our natural resources and simultaneously fears it all going terribly wrong with Guyana becoming a failed state from the...

NBS behaved more like a multinational corporation than an indigenous entity

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on NBS behaved more like a multinational corporation than an indigenous entity

DEAR EDITOR, The imbroglio involving the New Building Society and its erstwhile managers is indeed a landmark case which will be remembered for years to come. Corporate social responsibility (CSR,...

E’bo appeals for re-opening of Onderneeming sand, loam pits

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo appeals for re-opening of Onderneeming sand, loam pits

The Region Two Democratic Council continues to pursue the Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, for the re-opening of the Onderneeming sand and loam pits. This is according to the Region...

Lethem, Mabaruma, Bartica receive vehicles

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem, Mabaruma, Bartica receive vehicles

In an effort to build capacity within the regional administrations, Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, on Wednesday handed over vehicles valued at $18M, to representatives of Mabaruma, Bartica,...

Jagdeo: Embourgeoisification of a working class party

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Jagdeo: Embourgeoisification of a working class party

I wish to quote words former president, Bharrat Jagdeo uttered days ago; “And I made it clear that the PPP is open to people. It was set up as a working-class party. It was not set up as a party...

Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

As the Ministry of Social Protection (MoSP) continues its efforts to digitise the old age pension system in coastal Guyana, the exercise will see information technology being utilised to eliminate...

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GPF arrests Presidential Guards by 48 runs as cricket action gets underway

Due Process, Not Distraction

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the following release from the Office of the Leader of the Opposition: “MORE PPP DESPARATION:... more