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Mohamed’s Enterprise/ExxonMobil futsal… Figgy Green Jags and Germans set up dream final

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed’s Enterprise/ExxonMobil futsal… Figgy Green Jags and Germans set up dream final

Following six nights of action at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) hard court in the ‘mining town’ of Linden, the finalists of the New Era Entertainment organised fifth annual Mohamed’s...

Rising Star claim Triple K ‘birthday bash’ cricket title

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Star claim Triple K ‘birthday bash’ cricket title

Rising Star won the Triple K birth anniversary T/10 cricket competition which was contested on Sunday last at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo. Rising Star defeated Golden Grove by four wickets in the...

Three Peat Promotions /Guinness Cage Competition… Sparta Boss, Hypers, Buxton Diamond aiming for first win

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Three Peat Promotions /Guinness Cage Competition… Sparta Boss, Hypers, Buxton Diamond aiming for first win

Melanie ‘B’, Blazers, Avacado Ballers, Sparta Boss, Paradise, Melanie ‘A’, North East La Penitence, Victoria Church Yard, Buxton Diamond, Plaisance ‘B’, Uprising and hosts Haslington...

TRULY DESERVED, DR. SHIV CHANDERPAUL! – Honorary Doctors of Law (UWI) to be awarded West Indian Test cricketer

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on TRULY DESERVED, DR. SHIV CHANDERPAUL! – Honorary Doctors of Law (UWI) to be awarded West Indian Test cricketer

By Albert Baldeo Guyanese cricket legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul, a former captain of the West Indies team, will be awarded the Honorary Doctors of Law later this year by the University of the West...

C’bean Schools Boys & Junior C/ships starts Friday – T&T’s Beckles conducts 3-day Boxing Referee course

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on C’bean Schools Boys & Junior C/ships starts Friday – T&T’s Beckles conducts 3-day Boxing Referee course

By Sean Devers Fifty-seven-year-old Trinidadian Boxing Referee James Beckles has officiated inside the Ring in over 300 International Boxing matches including the Beijing Olympics and five World...

CXC: 11,000 pupils got zero passes

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CXC: 11,000 pupils got zero passes

Trinidad (Newsday) –Some 11,000 pupils across the region who wrote the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Exam (formerly O’ levels) last May/June got no passes. So said Caribbean...

Local nurses in need of professional code of conduct – Veteran Nurse – Must be exposed to continued nursing education

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Local nurses in need of professional code of conduct – Veteran Nurse – Must be exposed to continued nursing education

Having practiced nursing overseas for a number of years, veteran nurse Leslyn Holder is advocating for a professional code of conduct for local nurses. Holder, who practised for several years in...

56 months for conning employer of $2.7M

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 56 months for conning employer of $2.7M

A man who was recently released from prison after spending three years behind bars on a fraudulent conversion charge was yesterday jailed for a similar offence. Forty-eight-year-old security guard...

Emergency training underway for nurses at GPHC

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Emergency training underway for nurses at GPHC

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is working to create a team of efficient and effective emergency specialists equipped to save the lives of patients rushed to the Emergency Room...

VS Naipaul: Writing novels is not philosophical enquiry

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on VS Naipaul: Writing novels is not philosophical enquiry

The Guardian (of the UK) titled its Naipaul obituary, “a complicated man and a complicated legacy.” The obituaries are pouring in and not one of them devotes more paragraphs to praise than...

Grieving parents await PM results for former CSEC top student who dies in Peru

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Grieving parents await PM results for former CSEC top student who dies in Peru

Essequibo Businessman Thakoor Persaud is still in shock and disbelief after he was informed on Sunday afternoon that his only child had died. Yogeeta Persaud, 22, met her demise Sunday while on a...

Miners’ body ups pressure on Govt. for mercury phase-out assistance

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miners’ body ups pressure on Govt. for mercury phase-out assistance

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is calling on Government to place more resources to help stakeholders in the phase-out of mercury. Guyana is targeting 2027 for ending the use...

Tain Farmer found dead along Corentyne Public road

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Tain Farmer found dead along Corentyne Public road

A 38-year-old Farmer of Tain Village, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday found dead, around 3:30 am, along the Kilmarnock Public Road with injuries about his body. Dead is Marlon Cox of Market Street,...

Man fined $50,000 for dangerous driving

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man fined $50,000 for dangerous driving

Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore yesterday fined a driver attached to Tower Suites, Main Street, Georgetown, $50,000 after finding him guilty of dangerous driving. Twenty- three-year-old Dwayne...

Mahdia is now a town

Aug 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia is now a town

The Ministry of Communities has declared that by way of Order No. 27 of 2018 published in the Official Gazette dated August 9, 2018, Mahdia in the Potaro-Siparuni region has been designated a...

Is Harbhajan targeted by his own people for being outspoken?

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Harbhajan targeted by his own people for being outspoken?

Dear Editor, The Alliance for Change (AFC) was never serious about tackling corruption and I have written exhaustively on this issue. I have concluded since 2011 that the AFC, on a pro rata basis is...

I support giving oil money directly to Guyanese

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on I support giving oil money directly to Guyanese

Dear Editor, I completely agree with Guyana’s distinguished economist Dr. Clive Thomas that a significant part of the nation’s oil revenue should be given directly to each household in Guyana at...

Coalition has a history of fooling Guyanese

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Coalition has a history of fooling Guyanese

Dear Editor, During the 2015 election campaign, I’ve seen just how easy it was for a person to be fooled. Even some die-hard PPP supporters fell victim to the APNU+AFC lies and deception strategy....

Stop the scare-mongering

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop the scare-mongering

Dear Editor, During the last sitting of the National Assembly, before the break for the recess until October, the opposition, Peoples Progressive Party again sought to raise the issue of what they...

The Coalition Government’s labor relations is a disaster

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition Government’s labor relations is a disaster

Dear Editor, Almost immediately upon assuming office in 2015, the Coalition Government of Guyana increased ministers and parliamentarians’ salary by 50 percent. They did so with full knowledge that...

Foreigners cannot come and take advantage of our people

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Foreigners cannot come and take advantage of our people

Dear Editor, The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has been taking note- via social and mainstream media- of the assault on Guyanese, in our own land, by foreigners who are said to be Russians or...

CONTROLLING CORRUPTION

Aug 14, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CONTROLLING CORRUPTION

Recently, there has been much discussion about corruption since the arrest of former Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, former South Africa President Jacob Zuma, the impeachment and imprisonment...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more