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CT scanners to be operational at NA, Bartica hospitals

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CT scanners to be operational at NA, Bartica hospitals

Two years after acquiring Computerised Tomography (CT scan) machines, the New Amsterdam and Bartica Regional Hospitals will finally be able to provide the much-needed service to residents. Following...

Government to request Surinamese witnesses in recent piracy attack probe

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Government to request Surinamese witnesses in recent piracy attack probe

Guyana would be making an official request to the Surinamese government, to have seven persons who may have information on the recent piracy attacks on Guyanese fishermen, provide such information to...

Army ranks hoist Golden Arrowhead in Brooklyn’s flag ceremony

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Army ranks hoist Golden Arrowhead in Brooklyn’s flag ceremony

In observance of Guyana’s 52nd Independence Anniversary, five ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) participated in a flag raising ceremony and reception held at the Brooklyn Borough Hall in New...

WIFBSC 2018 Championships – Barbados… Guyana dominate X-Class prize list at presentation; T&T to host in 2019

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on WIFBSC 2018 Championships – Barbados… Guyana dominate X-Class prize list at presentation; T&T to host in 2019

Apart from being presented with the Milex/Crown Mining Cup for successfully retaining the Long Range Championship, Guyana took away most of the individual prizes in the X-Class when the West Indies...

Boxing Coach Orland Rogers continues his quest with Mahdia outing

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing Coach Orland Rogers continues his quest with Mahdia outing

Boxing coach Orland ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers has been moving across Guyana training young persons in the art of boxing. Rogers is being fueled by the National Sport Commission and the Guyana Boxing...

Balram Narine rides away with FACC Independence 40 miles cycle road race

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Balram Narine rides away with FACC Independence 40 miles cycle road race

The Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) of Berbice held a 10-lap, 40 miles cycle road race around the town of New Amsterdam to celebrate Guyana’s 52 Independence Anniversary celebrations. The winner was...

Manufacturers offered options of sourcing power directly from natural gas plant

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Manufacturers offered options of sourcing power directly from natural gas plant

More than 200 Guyanese will be employed during the civil works and construction phase for natural gas and liquid petroleum plants. This was revealed by Minister of Public Infrastructure, David...

GFSCA Softball cricket… Walk-overs mar Sunday’s action; Bell View beat GT at Malteenoes

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFSCA Softball cricket… Walk-overs mar Sunday’s action; Bell View beat GT at Malteenoes

The female version of the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association’s (GFSCA) Back to Eden, Permaul’s Trading, Trophy Stall and Khan’s Trading 20-over softball Cricket tournament was...

Letter to the Sports Editor… Kudos to Minister Norton for Calling out the Illegal GCB

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor… Kudos to Minister Norton for Calling out the Illegal GCB

Dear Sports Editor, Minister George Norton’s recent pronouncement that the current Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has been illegal for years is a bold and profound statement of fact. Arguably, it’s...

La Grange man jailed for ganja farm

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on La Grange man jailed for ganja farm

A three-acre cannabis cultivation, two camps, a quantity of dried cannabis, along with dry ration and utensils, was found at Ituni Road, Upper Demerara last Saturday during an eradication exercise by...

Johnson heads new management Committee at Parika Salem SC

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson heads new management Committee at Parika Salem SC

Suitable facilities are of utmost importance for the development of an athlete’s career and with this in mind the Parika Salem Sports Club has elected a new management committee to overlook the...

Soldier freed of robbery charges, remain on remand for illegal gun and ammo

May 29, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Soldier freed of robbery charges, remain on remand for illegal gun and ammo

A former Lance Corporal of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) who was charged earlier in the year for allegedly carrying out a series of robberies around Georgetown, by trailing victims on his motorcycle...

GFF Congress got good business done-says President Forde – Insurance Policy for players & Officials approved

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Congress got good business done-says President Forde – Insurance Policy for players & Officials approved

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday held its Congress at the Sleep INN Hotel and GFF President Wayne Forde described it as very successful and informative event. “We shared a lot of...

Former cop walks free on perjury charge

May 29, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Former cop walks free on perjury charge

Former Police Constable Bharrat Shattapaul, 29, of Lot 47 Princeton, Corriverton, who was dismissed from the Guyana Police Force after being charged with possession of narcotics and was subsequently...

E’bo Business man donates engine to Pomeroon Farmers Association

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo Business man donates engine to Pomeroon Farmers Association

Farmers in the Pomeroon are now to benefit from a brand new engine, which was donated to the Pomeroon Farmers Association [PFA], by Pomeroon Oil mill yesterday. The engine was handed over by the...

Qauntum Leap… From Dollar Wings to Kingdom Style

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Qauntum Leap… From Dollar Wings to Kingdom Style

By Enid Joaquin. “Everything around me right now is only because of God…and I always tell Him that I want to become a big business man with no fewer than 20 employees. Right now I have...

Off-duty cop sniffs out bag of ganja in Linden minibus

May 29, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Off-duty cop sniffs out bag of ganja in Linden minibus

Last Thursday, an off-duty policeman who was a passenger in a route 43 minibus in Linden, observed the suspicious behaviour of another passenger who possessed a bulky 10kg rice bag. “The constable...

Woman convicted of trafficking young girl

May 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Woman convicted of trafficking young girl

Loretta Hyman, a shopkeeper of Parika, East Bank Essequibo (Region Three) was last week, sentenced to three years’ in prison for the trafficking a young girl in the Mowasi Backdam area back in...

Deportee jailed on break and enter charge … recently served five years for breaking into same house

May 29, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Deportee jailed on break and enter charge … recently served five years for breaking into same house

Chetram Singh, called “Roy”, 28, a deportee of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, who was recently released from jail after serving five years has been jailed again, this time for three...

Exxon is blowing off a whole lot of gas

May 29, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Exxon is blowing off a whole lot of gas

ExxonMobil, one of the richest multinational corporations in the world, is showing off about some bird seed money that it is spending in Guyana. The company ran an episode (Episode 4 to be precise)...

Syeada Manbodh: Comical mystery in Guyana

May 29, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Syeada Manbodh: Comical mystery in Guyana

The national awards under every government since Independence have been an incestuous affair with the people who make the determination best left to select which is the nicest toy children need at...

The problem we face in our school system is not just discrimination

May 29, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on The problem we face in our school system is not just discrimination

DEAR EDITOR, The problem we face in our school system is not just discrimination, nor even primarily discrimination, although that certainly does exist. We also have problems with parents who cannot...

Mixed feelings about Independence

May 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mixed feelings about Independence

DEAR EDITOR, Happy Independence to our leaders, our Government, the Opposition and all my fellow Guyanese! This is an appropriate time to remember all the people who have sacrificed for our...

Kuru Kuru/Laluni Road

May 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kuru Kuru/Laluni Road

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to encourage the CEO of National Drainage & Irrigation Authority (NDIA), the Honourable Minister of Agriculture, the Honourable Minister of Public Infrastructure, the RDC and...

More hypocrisy; but not surprising

May 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on More hypocrisy; but not surprising

DEAR EDITOR, Bharrat Jagdeo’s response to the current heightened issue of sentencing for small amounts of marijuana was as predictable as the next piece of propaganda emanating from Robb Street....

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The Windfall Tax paradox

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