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Grandmaster Monasingh Memorial Martial Arts Tournament held

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grandmaster Monasingh Memorial Martial Arts Tournament held

The Grandmaster Monasingh Memorial Tournament was held recently at the New Amsterdam Town Hall which was hosted the White Tiger Martial Arts Academy. This was done to commemorate the life of the late...

West Indies Sports Complex supports Malteenoes Cricket Academy

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies Sports Complex supports Malteenoes Cricket Academy

The West Indies Sports Complex on Robb Street has joined those individuals and business entities which is offering support of the two-week Malteenoes Cricket Academy which starts on July 23. On...

Mobile pumps for the city by year-end

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mobile pumps for the city by year-end

Georgetown will have three mobile pumps by December, just in time for the next rainy season. In a recent interview with the Department of Public Information, Chief Executive Officer of the National...

GDF officer graduates with key degree in the U.S.

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GDF officer graduates with key degree in the U.S.

The Guyana Defence Force has recently added to its ranks another officer graduating with a Master of Arts Degree in Strategic Security Studies and a War College Diploma in International...

National Toshaos Conference begins July 16

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on National Toshaos Conference begins July 16

The 12th annual National Toshaos Conference (NTC), which brings together toshaos and other leaders from Guyana’s 215 hinterland communities, will be held from July 16 -20. The conference at the...

‘There will be greater enforcement by GGMC to curb unsafe sandpit practices’

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘There will be greater enforcement by GGMC to curb unsafe sandpit practices’

– Minister Broomes Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes promised greater enforcement by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to curb unsafe sand mining...

Stafrei Alexander faces second trial for attempted murder

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Stafrei Alexander faces second trial for attempted murder

Murder accused Stafrei Alexander will, next Monday, go on trial again for allegedly shooting his fellow Laing Avenue, Georgetown resident, Curtis Thom. Alexander, who was among the inmates that broke...

Shooting death of woman by ex-GDF Captain…PI to start next Tuesday

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shooting death of woman by ex-GDF Captain…PI to start next Tuesday

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Travel Agent, Reona Payne, who was allegedly shot dead by Orwain Sandy, a former Captain in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), will commence next week...

Police constable testifies in Kescia Branche murder PI

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police constable testifies in Kescia Branche murder PI

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of secondary school teacher, Kescia Branche continued yesterday, before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts....

Barbados PM wants to deepen cooperation with sub-regional group

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Barbados PM wants to deepen cooperation with sub-regional group

CASTRIES, St. Lucia (CMC) – The Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley, has signaled her intention to deepen political and economic cooperation with the nine nation Organisation of Eastern...

Hostile political environment

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Hostile political environment

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has failed since May 2015 to have any meaningful engagement with the APNU+AFC administration. The PSC has been generally ignored by the government. The government...

Covent Garden Secondary retains JOF Haynes Regional debating title

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Covent Garden Secondary retains JOF Haynes Regional debating title

For a second consecutive year, Covent Garden Secondary School has captured the Region Four JOF Haynes Debating Competition title. They secured the title by defeating Bladen Hall Multilateral. Covent...

Gym instructor charged for stabbing sister

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gym instructor charged for stabbing sister

An instructor attached to the Buddy’s Gym was yesterday charged and released on $50,000 bail for allegedly stabbing his sister. Thirty-two-year-old Darius Ramsammy of Castello Housing Scheme,...

Here is a piece of Guyana for you

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Here is a piece of Guyana for you

As a human rights activist, I get countless emails, texts, telephone calls from complete strangers of which 98 percent are deleted. The volume is just too much. I erase them out of the fear that the...

Here is a piece of Guyana for you

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Here is a piece of Guyana for you

Police inaction always breeds lawlessness

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police inaction always breeds lawlessness

Dear Sir I am writing this in the hope that its contents will attract the attention of someone who has the authority to stop our slide into an anarchic situation from which it will be difficult to...

Guyana attends lymphatic filariasis meeting in India

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana attends lymphatic filariasis meeting in India

Guyana wants increasing collaboration with its global partners in vector bionomics research, vector control strategies, and acceptability of the mass drug administration (MDA) exercise, Minister...

Visited by the GWI inefficiency

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Visited by the GWI inefficiency

Dear Editor, In the newspaper of 20th June, 2018 I see that GWI has been given the green light to increase its water rates. Everywhere around me I see it is just more of the same, moving forward to...

Corporate Governance and GBTI

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corporate Governance and GBTI

Dear Editor, Corporate Governance refers to the system by which companies are directed and controlled (Cadbury, 1992) – that is, “the framework of rules, relationships, systems and processes...

The Private Sector Commission is politicised

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Private Sector Commission is politicised

Dear Editor, The main reason that the Giftland Group keeps its distance from the PSC, cocktail circles and other such organizations, is due to the heavy politicization of these Agencies to follow...

The regional administration refuses to pay

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The regional administration refuses to pay

Dear Editor, I am the owner of Hyper Sounds Music system. I played, on September 8, 2017 for the Education Department for Literacy Road March. The said activity was from Jaigobin Tarmac in Henrietta...

Come GTT—Do more

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Come GTT—Do more

Dear Editor, Please permit me a few lines in your newspapers to ask the Guyana Telephone Telegraph (GTT) to do more. Sir, I find it strange that the company has such a slogan, “GTT do...

Paradise under siege from scrap metal

Jun 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Paradise under siege from scrap metal

Dear Editor, An appeal was made to President David Granger to help free our communities of Paradise /Bachelors Adventure and Melanie Damishana on the East Coast of Demerara. The Lands and Surveys...

CCJ orders prescriptive title to Guyanese family involved in land dispute

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ orders prescriptive title to Guyanese family involved in land dispute

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ordered that Rajpattie Thakur in her capacity as the executrix of the will of her mother, Dolarie Thakur, be declared the rightful owner of land at Plantation...

Former GDF Officer Oliver Hinckson dies

Jun 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Former GDF Officer Oliver Hinckson dies

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer and treason accused Oliver Hinckson died yesterday after a prolonged period of illness. He was 74. Hinckson, a Sandhurst-trained soldier, became a household...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more