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GABF to award team with cash incentives

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF to award team with cash incentives

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) will give each player and official of the winning men’s Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship team $100,000 each. President of the...

Minibus drivers granted $300,000 bail each for brothers’ deaths

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Minibus drivers granted $300,000 bail each for brothers’ deaths

Mohendra Rambowar, 31, of 1621 Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo; and Devon Headley 27, of 793 Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo; were both charged with two counts of causing...

Bissan’s Trading supports Malteenoes Cricket Academy

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bissan’s Trading supports Malteenoes Cricket Academy

Bissan’s Trading of 94 King Street Georgetown has come on board the sponsorship team in support of this year’s two-week Malteenoes Cricket Academy which starts on July 23. Proprietor of...

Bartica Football Association clubs receive prizes for Independence Cup

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bartica Football Association clubs receive prizes for Independence Cup

GFF President Wayne Forde last weekend presented cheques to the amount of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000) to first, second and third-placed winners respectively of the...

Govt. announces three-fold increase in state pension -historian, Noel Menezes a beneficiary

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. announces three-fold increase in state pension -historian, Noel Menezes a beneficiary

Following a decision of the Cabinet, state pension has been increased almost three-fold to $360,000 annually, up from $120,000. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, who made the announcement, yesterday,...

Teenager freed of attempted murder

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teenager freed of attempted murder

An unemployed teenager who used a knife to inflict several stabs wounds on another resident walked out of the Berbice High Court a free man, recently. Stephan Fordyce, called” Blacka”, 19, of...

GPHC health education institute gets much needed accommodation boost with new facility

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC health education institute gets much needed accommodation boost with new facility

The newly commissioned facility, which houses the Oncology Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC), is set to boost the work of the Institute of Health Science Education (IHSE)....

Second drowned cousin washes up at Buxton

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Second drowned cousin washes up at Buxton

Four days after two cousins went for a swim at the Mahaica seawalls and drowned while swimming, the second body has turned up at the Buxton foreshore. Timothy Robinson, 14, and his 10-year-old cousin...

Mom gets three years for cocaine at CJIA

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mom gets three years for cocaine at CJIA

A single mother of two who was nabbed while attempting to smuggle a quantity of cocaine via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, (CJIA) Timehri last Monday, was yesterday sentenced to three years...

Guyana signs agreement for establishing law school

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana signs agreement for establishing law school

From June 18 to June 20, 2018, Attorney General, Basil Williams, and members of the local Joseph Haynes Law School (JHLS) committee met with representatives of the Jamaica joint venture partners. The...

A business guide to ignorant Guyanese business people

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A business guide to ignorant Guyanese business people

I know of no political theory, and there has never been such a theory that postulates that economic development and financial stability can take place once wealth exists. In other words, if a country...

Guyana to draw from CARICOM on Marijuana

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to draw from CARICOM on Marijuana

Cabinet is still gathering information before rolling out a comprehensive approach in response to wider calls for legalization of marijuana, at least in small quantities. Minister of State, Joseph...

The CCJ decision does not hurt the PPPC

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The CCJ decision does not hurt the PPPC

Forbes Burnham once warned his political opponents that shooting him was a waste, another Rasta would take his place. Forbes Burnham, of course was no friend of Rastafarians – he attacked the local...

No shortage of insulin—says Health Ministry -40ft container arrived since February -drug packed in cold storage container in Diamond, EBD

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on No shortage of insulin—says Health Ministry -40ft container arrived since February -drug packed in cold storage container in Diamond, EBD

Director of the Materials Management Unit (MMU) Ministry of Health, Cecil Jack, yesterday put to rest allegations that there is a shortage of insulin at health facilities in some parts of the...

DPP conducts outreach to Orealla and Siparuta

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on DPP conducts outreach to Orealla and Siparuta

Residents of the Orealla and Siparuta Communities in Region Six, last week expressed their delight when they were afforded the opportunity to meet with representatives of the Office of the Director...

Extradition proceeding for US murder suspect… Defence challenges suspect’s name

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Extradition proceeding for US murder suspect… Defence challenges suspect’s name

One of the three lawyers representing US murder suspect, Troy Thomas, is now challenging the name of his client. This challenge comes almost one month after, Justice Jo-Ann Barlow made the ruling in...

Car abandoned, suspects arrested after police shootout

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Car abandoned, suspects arrested after police shootout

Four suspects are now in police custody after an alleged shoot-out with ranks on their police mobile patrol vehicles. According to a high ranking police source, ranks in Berbice received a tip-off...

Pensioner dies after wedding house beating -father and son held

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner dies after wedding house beating -father and son held

A father and son are in custody in connection with the death of a 71-year-old man, who succumbed last Tuesday after being badly beaten at a La Retraite, West Bank Demerara wedding house. Relatives...

I commend Barbados’ PM for leading the way in treating with our Haitian sisters and brothers

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on I commend Barbados’ PM for leading the way in treating with our Haitian sisters and brothers

DEAR EDITOR, The opportunity is being taken to publicly commend Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley for leading the way in treating with our Caribbean sisters and brothers of Haiti, with her...

PPP Presidential candidate dilemma

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP Presidential candidate dilemma

DEAR EDITOR, Now that former President Bharrat Jagdeo has been legally barred from becoming President again, the lid has been blown off the candidates’ can over at Freedom House. Potentials are...

Basil Williams wasn’t the only lawyer who represented me

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Basil Williams wasn’t the only lawyer who represented me

DEAR EDITOR, I have noticed that the race for Chairmanship of the People’s National Congress is heating up, and the three ‘Old School’ candidates are campaigning aggressively....

3 arrested over missing Berbice school vouchers

Jul 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 3 arrested over missing Berbice school vouchers

The police in Berbice have confirmed that three persons have been arrested in connection with missing vouchers from the Regional Education Officer’s office in New Amsterdam, Berbice. Regional...

A new force in the education system is putting our children first

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A new force in the education system is putting our children first

DEAR EDITOR, I write to congratulate all of the children who did so well at this year’s grade six assessment examinations. I have observed in the news media all of the joy and excitement –...

I am a distraught teacher who has been mistreated, but who can I turn to for help?

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am a distraught teacher who has been mistreated, but who can I turn to for help?

DEAR EDITOR, I am a distraught teacher who feels that the treatment meted out to me by some officials at the Department of Education Region 4 has been discriminatory to the point where I believe that...

Dr. Norton’s pronouncements on the Guyana Prize puzzled me

Jul 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Norton’s pronouncements on the Guyana Prize puzzled me

Dear Editor, I was puzzled by Dr. Norton’s pronouncements on the Guyana Prize, because Dr. Norton himself seems puzzled. From what he says, it seems that he has very little understanding of the...

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