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GMRSC’s Endurance Series… Team Wreckers looking to maintain four-year unbeaten run

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC’s Endurance Series… Team Wreckers looking to maintain four-year unbeaten run

The second round of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMRSC) Endurance series is set for tomorrow at the South Dakota Circuit at Timehri and Team Wreckers’ Anand Ramchand has admitted that...

Ministry of the Presidency, K.P Thomas, S. Jagmohan donate to RHTY&SC Patron’s Fund

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of the Presidency, K.P Thomas, S. Jagmohan donate to RHTY&SC Patron’s Fund

The Ministry of the Presidency, K.P. Thomas & Sons along with S. Jagmohan have become the latest sponsors to come in board to support the Patron’s Fund of Guyana’s leading youth and sports...

Guyana and Zimbabwe

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana and Zimbabwe

The 2020 elections in Guyana are crucial. If those elections are disputed, then the country will never recover. That will be the end of Guyana’s oil dream. Guyana therefore has to take note of...

Samatta Point/Kaneville FC gets equipment boost

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Samatta Point/Kaneville FC gets equipment boost

The Samatta Point/Kaneville Football Club has received a donation of six footballs and 32-cones from Overseas based Guyanese, Ronald Sarabo. According to club executive, Wayne Francois, the donation...

Stag Beer supports Dion Carter B/day Domino Tourney -Action set for Turning Point

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer supports Dion Carter B/day Domino Tourney -Action set for Turning Point

Turning Point Sports Bar will come alive tomorrow when Executive member of the Georgetown Domino Association (GDA) Dion Carter stages his Annual Birth Anniversary Competition for all teams interested...

Wismar Post Office closed for urgent repairs after burglary attempt

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Wismar Post Office closed for urgent repairs after burglary attempt

Early Thursday morning, several armed bandits broke into the Wismar Post Office around sometime after 4:00 am by cutting a protective grill and breaking a window on the northern side of the building....

Guyana in control against Leeward Islands

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana in control against Leeward Islands

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC- Guyana skittled out the Leeward Islands for just 116 runs to take command at the end of the first day of the opening round of matches in the Regional Under-19...

$100,000 fine for man who stole $10M mining equipment

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $100,000 fine for man who stole $10M mining equipment

A 32-year-old dredge owner was yesterday fined $100,000 after he was found guilty by a City Magistrate of stealing a gold wash plant, a piece of mining equipment, worth some $10M. The man, Vickram...

After Krauss, questions a nation must but won’t ask

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on After Krauss, questions a nation must but won’t ask

I have spent my entire life in struggle in this country. I know no other life but one of struggle. It started out when I was sixteen. I am in my mid-sixties and yet I am still involved. It has not...

Hunt on for murder suspect called “Short boss”

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hunt on for murder suspect called “Short boss”

The hunt is on for a murder suspect only identified as “Short boss” who allegedly gunned down 21-year-old Ronsley Clarke, a mason of Timehri, East Bank Demerara, in Sophia on Thursday night,...

Guyana’s Foreign Direct Investment quadrupled in 2017

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Foreign Direct Investment quadrupled in 2017

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in Guyana increased from US$58M in 2016 to US$212M in 2017 in part as a result of the oil and gas sector preparing for first oil. According to report by the Economic...

Kuru Kururu man died from compression injuries to the neck

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kururu man died from compression injuries to the neck

A post mortem done yesterday morning on 46-year-old Gregory ‘Wayne’ Frank, the man, who was discovered dead early Thursday morning at his Kuru Kururu, Linden Highway home, has shown that the man...

The WPA refuses to discuss its political shape

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The WPA refuses to discuss its political shape

I received in my personal mailbox, a letter from the secretary of the WPA overseas group, Keith Branch. I opened it. It was addressed to media houses too. Since it was posted to me, I thought I...

East Coast Demerara road closure tomorrow

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on East Coast Demerara road closure tomorrow

This advisory serves to inform road users that the East Coast Public Road, within the vicinity of Annandale Market Road, will be temporarily closed on Sunday August 5, 2018. The road closure is...

Georgetown gears for its 175th birthday

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Georgetown gears for its 175th birthday

Dear Editor, Legal historians will tell us that in the British Colony of then British Guiana, on 21st August, 1843 there was an etymological change from “Town” to “City”: Georgetown the Town...

False Information Circulating

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on False Information Circulating

Dear Editor, There is an article in Essequibo Express June 2018 Department of Public Information. It seems that someone by the name of Elroy Stephney is trying to create chaos in our community. The...

Arise Teachers and Strike

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Arise Teachers and Strike

Dear Editor, Maybe Guyanese teachers never saw the sinister move by David Granger and his men to have various ministries except The Ministry of Labour. How amazing and subtitle. These are the same...

Support for Dr. Mark Bynoe

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for Dr. Mark Bynoe

Dear Editor I see Dr. Mark Bynoe has returned to continue his contribution to nation building. Dr. Bynoe is a proven professional, unquestionable patriot, brilliant academic and a humble gentleman....

ExxonMobil’s cost recovery

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on ExxonMobil’s cost recovery

Dear Editor, I just read your report on the unlimited cost recovery that ExonMobil will capture. I would be happy to share with you my financial projection to support that report. Guyana stands to...

Angry at the death of a grandchild

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Angry at the death of a grandchild

Dear Sir/Madam, It is with profound grief and dissatisfaction that I write this letter; so that the relevant authorities can investigate the circumstances, which lead to the death of my unborn...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 73 years later

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 73 years later

Dear Editor, On 6th August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by United States air forces. This was the first time a nuclear weapon had ever been used. The fireball created by the bomb...

Junior Ranks within the GPF continues to be discriminated against

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Junior Ranks within the GPF continues to be discriminated against

Dear Sir, “The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Be nice to people on your way up because you...

Guyana Cultural Association gets New York award

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana Cultural Association gets New York award

Editor, Permit me to bring to the attention of readers the good news that the Guyana United Artists (GUA) has been selected as a recipient of the 2018 Guyana Cultural Association New York award. As...

Sister Admirabilis: Farewell to a Cheerful Nun

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sister Admirabilis: Farewell to a Cheerful Nun

Editor, Words are not enough to express gratitude to Sister Admirabilis Browne who has passed-on to her heavenly abode. Sister Admi has left an ineradicable mark in the hearts of so many Guyanese....

ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

Aug 04, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

No one is perfect, we all make mistakes, but it is when we fail to take responsibility for or blame others for them, that we fail as individuals and as leaders to be accountable. It is crucial for...

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In praise of the Almighty Executive Order

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Democracy, as we know it, is a kind of ménage à trois — the elected, the appointed,... more