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Sports Administrator Gervy Harry blast GVF for non-attendance at BVA awards

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sports Administrator Gervy Harry blast GVF for non-attendance at BVA awards

Long Serving Sports Administrator Mr. Gervy C. Harry blasted the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) for their ineptitude and disrespectful behaviour. Harry was speaking at the Berbice Volleyball...

Rose Ramdehol Auto Sales and Hero partners with Petra 3rd annual futsal toruney

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rose Ramdehol Auto Sales and Hero partners with Petra 3rd annual futsal toruney

Through their Hero line of motorcycles, Rose Ramdehol Auto Sales has thrown its support behind Petra’s third annual Futsal tournament which kicks off Saturday at the National Gymnasium. Rose...

Guyana Beverage Inc. continues to support Fruta Conquerors

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Beverage Inc. continues to support Fruta Conquerors

The Guyana Beverage Incorporated (GBI) under its Fruta Brand has signed with Tucville based club Fruta Conquerors for the 20th consecutive year during a simple but significant ceremony yesterday at...

GFF host successful coach and referee training course in Moruca

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF host successful coach and referee training course in Moruca

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) held a two-day training course for a total of 47 coaches and referees of the Moruca Sub-District as part of strengthening the capacity of the Region for football...

Former national cyclist donates new Fuji Carbon Fibre Road Bike to budding cyclist

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former national cyclist donates new Fuji Carbon Fibre Road Bike to budding cyclist

Overseas based former national cyclist Wilbert Benjamin is still doing more for others. The kind hearted Berbician still has the heart to continue to share his benevolence with his fellow countrymen...

East Demerara teams gear up for hectic weekend U-15, 17 and Senior Leagues on the cards

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Demerara teams gear up for hectic weekend U-15, 17 and Senior Leagues on the cards

After taking a bettering from the weather since the last quarter of 2017, football teams are keeping their fingers crossed with the hope that competitive action which is scheduled to start this...

BCB holds executive meeting today…Various committees to be named, other plans made

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB holds executive meeting today…Various committees to be named, other plans made

The newly elective executive committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has already gotten down to business just two days after being elected. The new body was elected on Sunday at a meeting held...

ISO accreditation soon for Forensic lab

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ISO accreditation soon for Forensic lab

Guyanese will soon directly benefit from an ISO-accredited Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL). Through the Citizens Security Strengthening Programme (CSSP), improvements are currently being...

Ganja found stashed in music box -Six arrested at Itaballi checkpoint

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja found stashed in music box -Six arrested at Itaballi checkpoint

Six persons, including a female, were taken into custody yesterday afternoon by police ranks stationed at the police checkpoint at Itaballi, Puruni Road, Mazaruni River, Region 7. This was after the...

Mechanic gets four years for robbery at gunpoint

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic gets four years for robbery at gunpoint

A 21-year-old auto mechanic was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail after he opted to plead guilty to an armed robbery charge. Shaquille Wilburg of Public Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, was...

Lindo Creek COI ‘postponed until further notice’

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lindo Creek COI ‘postponed until further notice’

After dates were set for its commencement, the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the 2008 Lindo Creek killings has been postponed indefinitely. An advertisement in yesterday’s Kaieteur News advised...

Work begins on Guyana’s first solar farm in Region 1

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Work begins on Guyana’s first solar farm in Region 1

Work on Guyana’s first ever Solar Farm in Mabaruma, Region One (Barima-Waini) has begun. The construction of the $264M mega solar farm is being executed in three phases. The first phase will...

Forestry Commission sees less revenue in 2017

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Forestry Commission sees less revenue in 2017

The forest sector faced several challenges in 2017, among them being a lower overall global demand, lower prices for tropical timber products, and a general contracting of international markets....

Two hospitalised after fishing boat explodes

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two hospitalised after fishing boat explodes

Two men are now hospitalised after the vessel they were in reportedly exploded last Monday, some six miles away from the Moruca River mouth, within the vicinity of Leo Beach [Region One]. The victims...

Ilegal power connections removed from Seawall Bandstand area -Ministry complains of vandalism of highway lights

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ilegal power connections removed from Seawall Bandstand area -Ministry complains of vandalism of highway lights

Following a recent spate of vandalism, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is calling on public-spirited citizens to play their part in reporting cases of destruction of property or illegal...

$550M cocaine-in-lumber bust trial… Alleged trafficker was monitored for almost two hours -CANU rank testifies

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $550M cocaine-in-lumber bust trial… Alleged trafficker was monitored for almost two hours -CANU rank testifies

Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) investigator Lindon Thompson said that he had alleged drug trafficker Nazim Gafoor under surveillance for almost two hours on separate occasions during May and...

Monday’s power shutdown due to entangled mains, burst conductors

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Monday’s power shutdown due to entangled mains, burst conductors

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) say that entangled mains contributed to the shutdown of the interconnected Demerara-Berbice system on Monday evening. The power company explained that at...

Govt. committed to upholding constitution in judicial appointments – Harmon

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. committed to upholding constitution in judicial appointments – Harmon

Minister of State Joseph Harmon, has expressed concerns at the recent statement of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) in relation to the appointment of Chief Justice, and Chancellor of the Judiciary....

Body in Triumph cemetery…Cops seek publichelp to find BV teen’s killers

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Body in Triumph cemetery…Cops seek publichelp to find BV teen’s killers

Crime Chief Paul Williams is appealing to the public for assistance in solving the murder of Beterverwagting teen, Rainella Benfield, whose battered body was found last December in a cemetery at...

Enmore man beaten after bandits invade homes of families

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Enmore man beaten after bandits invade homes of families

Police are investigating reports of armed robberies committed on two Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) families early yesterday morning, allegedly by three masked males, all of whom were armed with...

Ministry belatedly approves funding for kidney failure patients

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry belatedly approves funding for kidney failure patients

A decision by the Ministry of Public Health to withhold financial support to two kidney failure patients has been rescinded. The two patients, 28-year-old Richard Manpersaud of Campbellville,...

Oil don’t spoil

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Oil don’t spoil

Yesterday’s column should have read that under the petroleum laws of Guyana, a company’s prospecting licence can only be renewed two times, for up to a total of six years after the expiration of...

7 policemen at my gate on Sunday night

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 7 policemen at my gate on Sunday night

I love my country, but that love has never and will never come before conscience, in which I believe lies the soul of a human, and the soul is where our essential decency exists. I will never...

UK auditors give thumbs up to forest legality systems – GFC

Feb 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on UK auditors give thumbs up to forest legality systems – GFC

The agreement between Guyana and the Kingdom of Norway is still on the cards, and according to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), the regulatory agency continues to be integrally involved in the...

FAILING OUR YOUTHS

Feb 21, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on FAILING OUR YOUTHS

In 1886, the US abolitionist Frederick Douglass said “where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel, that society is an...

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Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Development for whom?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, has declared with great confidence that there... more