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Reliance Hustlers capture four-team 10/10 trophy

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reliance Hustlers capture four-team 10/10 trophy

Led by an entertaining 82 from former senior Essequibo inter-county batsman Narindra Madholall, Reliance Hustlers defeated Bush Lot Trendsetters by seven wickets to capture the four-team trophy on...

Magnum “Mash Cup” futsal competition launched Over $800,000 in cash prizes on offer

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Magnum “Mash Cup” futsal competition launched Over $800,000 in cash prizes on offer

The inaugural Magnum ‘Mash Cup” futsal tournament sponsored by Ansa Mcal Trading Company was launched yesterday at the Windjammer International Restaurant and Bar. The competition, which kicks...

Wins for Enterprise SC, Ogle CC and Lusignan CC

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wins for Enterprise SC, Ogle CC and Lusignan CC

The Enmore Community Centre Cricket Club in association with East Coast Cricket Committee and D&E Tent Rental 10/10 competition got started last weekend with three matches at the Lusignan...

Local officials to officiate in Caribbean Club Championship

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local officials to officiate in Caribbean Club Championship

Two locally-based FIFA referees have been appointed match officials for the Caribbean Club championship held in Trinidad and Tobago from yesterday to February 4. Guyana’s Gladwyn Johnson and Kevin...

Scores turn up for job fair at WCD

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Scores turn up for job fair at WCD

A job fair hosted by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) Chamber of Commerce saw scores of residents of Patentia and surrounding areas being...

Gunman shoots at restaurant customer

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots at restaurant customer

– flees with $6,000 and documents An Eccles, East Bank Demerara civil engineer was shot at by a robber who had trailed him to a Robb Street restaurant, at around 14.00 hrs yesterday. Police...

No bail for miner on ganja trafficking charge

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for miner on ganja trafficking charge

A West Ruimveldt man who allegedly claimed he was keeping a quantity of marijuana for his friend, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison for the offence. Thirty-nine-year-old Randy Grant, of...

Guyana, Cuba pledge to increase trade, cooperation

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Cuba pledge to increase trade, cooperation

– New Ambassador accredited Guyana and Cuba are well-placed to further strengthen economic cooperation. The signing of an agreement for the export of Guyana’s rice to Cuba and the signing of...

Woman accused of attempting to smuggle ganja in packets of cheese sticks

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Woman accused of attempting to smuggle ganja in packets of cheese sticks

One week after a mechanic was caught by officers at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts attempting to sneak two packets of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka into the court lock-ups, a woman found...

Lawyer freed of causing death charge

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News 1

…after prosecution fails to prove case Presiding Magistrate Allan Wilson yesterday dismissed the matter against Attorney-at-law Keisha Chase, who was on trial for causing death by dangerous...

‘Nothing sinister about Bridging Deed’

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Nothing sinister about Bridging Deed’

Minister Trotman to consult Sir Shridath Ramphal on release of key document While the Government has released the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) it has with ExxonMobil, it is still to make...

The sick are stealing from the dying

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

I do not know whether to scream or to cry. I do not know which is worse, the terrifying robbery of the visually impaired or that heart-wrenching letter from a doctor practicing in the United Kingdom...

Sugar estate communities targeted for Gatekeepers’ programme

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar estate communities targeted for Gatekeepers’ programme

Intended to reach those within communities who may be in dire need of counselling or guidance to deal with some of life’s circumstances, the Caribbean Voice, a non-governmental organisation [NGO],...

Needs of newly-diagnosed diabetics amplified at GDA training seminar

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Needs of newly-diagnosed diabetics amplified at GDA training seminar

With an ultimate intent to educate newly-diagnosed diabetics about their condition, proper eating habits, use of medicine and how to guard against complications, the Guyana Diabetic Association [GDA]...

Removing the layers from the great America

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Removing the layers from the great America

Dear Sir, I’m the least of all persons that wasn’t infuriated by the comment emanating from the United States 45th democratically elected President, Donald Trump, referring to Haitian and African...

Region Two is responsible for the Charity wharf

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region Two is responsible for the Charity wharf

Dear Editor, Reference is made to recent articles published in the media on the Charity Wharf and its current state of disrepair. In one article, published in the January 20, 2018 edition of Kaieteur...

A most dishonest lawyer

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I will like to publish a story with evidence of one property having two transports processed through one lawyer. This lawyer took money from me and gave me my transport through the legal...

Tucville murder trial begins… Live rounds, spent shells retrieved from shooting scene

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Tucville murder trial begins… Live rounds, spent shells retrieved from shooting scene

-Detective recalls Two live rounds and a spent shell were retrieved from a shooting scene at Turning Point, Tucville, Georgetown, where Mocha, East Bank Demerara resident Ryan Clementson was...

Remove the crime habitat and win the fight

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remove the crime habitat and win the fight

Dear Editor, There is a concept called the Fire Triangle – Without sufficient heat, a fire cannot continue. Without fuel, a fire will stop. Without sufficient oxygen, a fire cannot begin, and...

Council pays tribute to late Junior Garrett

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Council pays tribute to late Junior Garrett

Dr. Cheddi Jagan lived what he preached

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Cheddi Jagan lived what he preached

Dear Sir, Dr. Cheddi Jagan was known to be a man of the people. When he was declared the winner of the Central Demerara constituency in the 1947 general election, he said, ”We, the people, have...

POLICE ADMINISTRATION POST 2015: WHERE IS THE CHANGE?

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on POLICE ADMINISTRATION POST 2015: WHERE IS THE CHANGE?

Dear Editor, As a citizen, I automatically have rights endowed on me by our constitution – one of these is to be protected and served by the enshrined GUYANA POLICE FORCE (Police) and the...

JUDGE ARIF BULKAN’S ALREADY ILLEGAL “APPOINTMENT” CREATES A BAD PRECEDENT

Feb 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on JUDGE ARIF BULKAN’S ALREADY ILLEGAL “APPOINTMENT” CREATES A BAD PRECEDENT

Dear Editor, On the 17th of January 2018, Dr. Arif Bulkan was appointed by President David Granger as a temporary Justice of Appeal, albeit without the necessary recommendation of the Judicial...

Sweeper-cleaners stage picketing exercise in Region Five

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sweeper-cleaners stage picketing exercise in Region Five

Sweeper-cleaners from Region Five on Tuesday, last, staged protest action outside the RDC office in Fort Wellington, West Coast of Berbice. The workers are claiming that since they are paid by the...

QC NY Alumni Assoc. to host Student Conference here next week

Feb 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on QC NY Alumni Assoc. to host Student Conference here next week

A diverse team of local and diasporic Queen’s College of Guyana alumni and friends, has been assembled to lead workshops and other activities during the upcoming conference with the students at the...

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Jagdeo is a liability to Irfaan Ali

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Bharrat Jagdeo has long represented an unsettling paradox in Guyana’s politics. He... more