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Elizabeth Styles ECD 40-over cricket… Buxton Carl Hooper CC ‘A’ snatch victory from jaws of defeat

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Elizabeth Styles ECD 40-over cricket… Buxton Carl Hooper CC ‘A’ snatch victory from jaws of defeat

In brilliant sunshine on a ground surrounded by houses with spectators in them watching what turned out to be a riveting contest in Mahaica, Buxton snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a...

White Tiger Martial Arts Academy hosts second Taekwondo examination

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on White Tiger Martial Arts Academy hosts second Taekwondo examination

White Tiger Martial Arts Academy hosted its second Taekwondo examination on 25 March last at the New Amsterdam Town Hall. Fifteen students participated in this examination scoring between 66 and 79...

TSC and School Boards on path to promote more teachers

Apr 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on TSC and School Boards on path to promote more teachers

Efforts are being made by both the Teaching Service Commission [TSC] and the Ministry of Education’s School Boards Secretariat to fill some crucial positions within the public school system. By way...

Chinese businessman charged with receiving $8M worth in stolen foodstuff

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Chinese businessman charged with receiving $8M worth in stolen foodstuff

A Chinese national who is the proprietor of Convenient Supermarket, located on Durban Street, Georgetown, was yesterday charged for receiving $8M worth in stolen foodstuff. Xin Lin, 29 of Lot 3...

Over 100 booths for annual Harmony Village

Apr 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Over 100 booths for annual Harmony Village

As the Ministry of Social Cohesion’s Department of Youth, Culture and Sport prepares to host its annual Harmony Village on Thursday, Technical Advisor of the planning committee, Olive Gopaul...

Georgetown Chamber still to meet Minister over parking meter concerns

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Georgetown Chamber still to meet Minister over parking meter concerns

-set to file objections over bylaws The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the Movement against Parking Meters, (MAPM) have said that they would be taking steps to file their...

Trial begins for Black Bush truck driver accused of killing 12 persons

Apr 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Trial begins for Black Bush truck driver accused of killing 12 persons

Forty-six year-old truck driver Chetram Moonsammy, who is charged with 12 counts of causing death by dangerous driving, stood in the Berbice High Court yesterday before Justice Brassington Reynolds...

Unlucky thief gets 18 months for stealing water pump

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Unlucky thief gets 18 months for stealing water pump

Two months after Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman fined a handyman for stealing two zinc sheets from the Guyana Public Union Sports Complex building, he was yesterday back before the said...

GNBS now internationally certified

Apr 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS now internationally certified

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is now internationally certified, as it has attained its ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Certificate. Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin...

Father of eight remanded after escaping from Police custody

Apr 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Father of eight remanded after escaping from Police custody

Paul Archer, 47, was yesterday remanded by Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. He was initially charged for fraudulent conversion, and was later charged for escaping from...

The pressure is back

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The pressure is back

The public are bracing themselves for difficult times. All indications are that the crisis in the economy will get worse and bring greater pressures on citizens. The reintroduction in Georgetown of...

The people of this nation have no match elsewhere

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The people of this nation have no match elsewhere

Here is a quote from a letter written by a prominent Guyanese, in the Kaieteur News in November last year, and directed at me and David Hinds, after we disagreed with the way President Granger...

Mr John got it wrong

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr John got it wrong

Dear Editor, The GAWU recognized that Mr Earl John in a letter appearing in the April 06, 2018 Stabroek News responded to some aspects of the contentions our Union raised in its letter that appeared...

The level of insensitivity demonstrated by political leaders and supporters needs to be checked

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The level of insensitivity demonstrated by political leaders and supporters needs to be checked

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Moses Nagamooto is back and was welcomed at the airport by a flag waving entourage of government and party officials, and other well-wishers. According to the government...

Separating race from politics

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Separating race from politics

Dear Editor, We have made a fateful and depressive decision to align our political system along racial lines. We have seen its destruction unravel us. I have always wondered why we must be in a...

Returning the prisoner

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Returning the prisoner

Dear Editor Some days, positive news emerges. All is not lost. The mother who promptly returned her son to the police following his escape from custody must be commended. Such actions are setting the...

Lack of infrastructure facilities adversely impacting development of pomeroon river communities

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lack of infrastructure facilities adversely impacting development of pomeroon river communities

Dear Editor, On April 5, it was reported in the State News Media that Junior Public Infrastructure Minister, Annette Ferguson, who was accompanied by Regional Councillor Juilian Cummings, visited the...

Bartica in need of nursing school

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bartica in need of nursing school

Dear Editor, Over one hundred residents, young people in particular, are calling on the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government for the establishment of a...

Needed – a mechanism to defuse ticking time bombs

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Needed – a mechanism to defuse ticking time bombs

Editor, TCV has been in the forefront of calling for mental health training for all police officers which would not only make them better prepared to handle cases involving mental health issues such...

National Consensus to Save and Revitalise the Sugar Industry

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on National Consensus to Save and Revitalise the Sugar Industry

Dear Editor, There are public calls for high level national conferences to find an agreement on ways to save and revitalise the Sugar Industry of Guyana to make it a viable and profitable industry...

Lula’s arrest is shameful

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lula’s arrest is shameful

Editor, The arrest and sentencing of former President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, is one of the most shameful pages in the recent history of Latin America. It is hard not to conclude that this is a...

Unprecedented plots to kill the President

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unprecedented plots to kill the President

Dear Editor, Several news agencies reported that a trio, including of a pensioner, will soon be charged with threatening to assassinate His Excellency President David Granger. This is the third time,...

GuySuCo privatization offers no assurance

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo privatization offers no assurance

Dear Editor, Region 6 RDC Councillor, Mr Haseef Yusuf, in letters appearing in the April 4, Guyana Times and Kaieteur News titled “Save GuySuCo another $45B” and “Halt the trial and error...

BOTH PARTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE

Apr 10, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on BOTH PARTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE

Guest Editorial In office for almost three years, the government has passed four national budgets and yet Guyanese still do not have a better grasp of its fiscal policy for the ensuing year. It is...

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Guyana recorded over 10 000 dengue cases in 2024

Kaieteur News- Guyana recorded just over 10,000 dengue cases in 2024, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony revealed during an... more