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EBECC/ Dwayne Stephens Auto Sales T20 finals on tomorrow

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBECC/ Dwayne Stephens Auto Sales T20 finals on tomorrow

The East Bank Essequibo Cricket Committee/ Dwayne Stephen Auto Sales T20 tournament will conclude tomorrow at Vergenoegen ground under lights. Vergenoegen SC will play South Side A in the first semi...

EBDCA Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-over tourney bowls off today

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBDCA Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-over tourney bowls off today

The East Bank Demerara Cricket Association (EBDCA) Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-over tournament will commence today with Uprising playing Silverbullet at Laluni and Laluni facing Sandpipers tomorrow at...

Linden dominates this year’s National STEAM Competition

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Linden dominates this year’s National STEAM Competition

Yesterday saw the conclusion of the Biennial National Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair, which commenced on Wednesday. It was held under the theme, “Science, Technology,...

NSC supports RHTY&SC 2018 Calendar of Activities

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC supports RHTY&SC 2018 Calendar of Activities

The National Sports Commission, under the Directorship of Christopher Jones, for the third successive year, has partnered with Guyana’s leading Youth and Sports Organisation, the Rose Hall Town...

Hickey costs East Canje man four years in jail

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hickey costs East Canje man four years in jail

A man who decided to woo a 13-year-old girl who was visiting his sister and kissed her on her neck causing hickeys has been jailed for four years. The man, Takurdyal Bisssondyal, 19, a fisherman of...

South Essequibo CC T20 to commence on Sunday

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Essequibo CC T20 to commence on Sunday

The South Essequibo Cricket Committee on Thursday last, launched its second edition of its round robin T20 Invitational tournament at Imam Bacchus Library. Defending champions Imam Bacchus Sports...

Gunman robs BOURDA MARKET

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman robs BOURDA MARKET

A vendor was robbed at gunpoint yesterday at 02:00hrs while selling greens from his truck on North Road. The man who is known as ‘Greens Boy,’ said he was on his truck going about his daily...

Corona Futsal Semi Finals on tonight at Gymnasium

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corona Futsal Semi Finals on tonight at Gymnasium

The long awaited semifinals of the Corona Cup futsal tournament will kick off tonight at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue where the final two teams who will contest for the $600,000 1st prize...

“I was invited to resume duty at NCN” — NCN Berbice manager

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “I was invited to resume duty at NCN” — NCN Berbice manager

At Thursday’s monthly statutory meeting at the Regional Democratic Council, Region Six, the reinstatement of the Berbice Branch Manager for the National Communications Network (NCN) was one of...

Road to Mecca V tips off today

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Road to Mecca V tips off today

The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) will be a hive of activity for the next three weeks with the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National Basketball Championship (also known as Road to...

Clearer understanding of the impact of illicit drugs needed – OAS

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Clearer understanding of the impact of illicit drugs needed – OAS

The Organization of American States (OAS) has identified the need for a clearer understanding of the impact illicit drugs on Guyana and the rest of the hemisphere. Jean-Ricot Dormeus, OAS...

Teen ID’d in gunpoint robbery among three held with firearm

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teen ID’d in gunpoint robbery among three held with firearm

A 16-year-old boy, who allegedly slapped a 34-year-old painter after robbing him at gunpoint, is among three persons in custody following the discovery of firearms and ammunition at ‘C’ Field,...

“I was invited to resume duty at NCN” — NCN Berbice manager

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “I was invited to resume duty at NCN” — NCN Berbice manager

At Thursday’s monthly statutory meeting at the Regional Democratic Council, Region Six, the reinstatement of the Berbice Branch Manager for the National Communications Network (NCN) was one of...

GRA no longer holding back on application of Property Tax—Statia

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA no longer holding back on application of Property Tax—Statia

By Kiana Wilburg There is a huge misconception when it comes to Property Tax. Many believe that it refers to a tax on a building. But according to Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority...

Gov’t project clashes with private farm lands in E’bo

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t project clashes with private farm lands in E’bo

Several farmers on the Essequibo Coast are severely aggrieved after hundreds of thousands of dollars in sucker plants were recently destroyed. These residents who farm on the East side of Riverstown...

World Customs body lauds GRA’s modernisation drive

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on World Customs body lauds GRA’s modernisation drive

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) came in for high praises from the Secretary-General of the World Customs Organisation (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, for its “determined” efforts at modernization. In a...

The essential thing about life, WPA doesn’t understand

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The essential thing about life, WPA doesn’t understand

Once your thought patterns have taken shape, then, wherever you are, whichever part of the world you were born into you must, as a matter of vital survival, you must understand one fundamental fact...

Jagdeo will surprise us with the candidate for 2020

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo will surprise us with the candidate for 2020

DEAR EDITOR, I believe that if the decision in third term case allows for Jagdeo to run again for President, he will do so, but somehow I also feel that he is giving a lot more thought to 2020 than...

Things have not changed much since those days

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Things have not changed much since those days

DEAR EDITOR, On the subject of mosquitoes, some years ago, while watching a TV cookery programme, I learnt that garlic and mosquitoes were natural enemies. Thus, a question that had puzzled me from...

The sugar industry remains too important for haphazard decision-making

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sugar industry remains too important for haphazard decision-making

DEAR EDITOR, Region #6 RDC Councillor, Mr Haseef Yusuf in letters appearing on April 04 in two dailies contended that the entire GuySuCo should be privatised. While the GAWU agrees that Mr Yusuf is...

Labelling of a welcome ceremony as excess sounds desperate

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Labelling of a welcome ceremony as excess sounds desperate

DEAR EDITOR, In response to my letter on the welcome home for the Honourable Prime Minister, Minette Bacchus attempts to demonstrate that the APNU+AFC government is acting without prudence and proper...

Detecting police misconduct

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Detecting police misconduct

Dear Editor The avowed intention of Government is the reform of the Guyana Police Force. Incidents of misconduct in the professional (and personal) lives of officers and ranks have reinforced the...

Raise the height of the Parking Meter

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Raise the height of the Parking Meter

DEAR EDITOR, The debate, the protests, the familiar organisational dislocation in the City Council –over-ruled by a Town Clerk – all cumulate into a serious joke. As a consequence, in order not...

Government’s flip-flop on GuySuCo continues

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government’s flip-flop on GuySuCo continues

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU/AFC Coalition continues to be ambivalent in its approach to the sugar industry. While in opposition, they bemoaned that the sugar industry is a “drain on the treasury”, that...

TIT-FOR-TAT DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TIT-FOR-TAT DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY

On March 14, 2018, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from Britain after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his...

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Dolphin Secondary, East Ruimveldt seal Round-5 victories in Republic Bank U-18 Football League

Electrician killed after trucks collide on Sheriff Street

Dead: Carlton Smartt Kaieteur News- A 42-year-old contractor was crushed to death on Tuesday morning after two trucks collided... more