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Battle lines drawn between Digicel, GTT in court challenge over monopoly

Battle lines drawn between Digicel, GTT in court challenge over monopoly

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Battle lines drawn between Digicel, GTT in court challenge over monopoly

As Guyana gears towards a year-end conclusion of the telecoms monopoly held by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), there is a major battle brewing in the High Court. The two telephone...

Jagdeo and Trump is birds of a feather

Jagdeo and Trump is birds of a feather

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Jagdeo and Trump is birds of a feather

Donald Trump got to be de only serving president who running into trouble wid even de people around him. He always doing something contrary to normal and decent behaviour. Yesterday de American...

From specially prepared whole duck to curried eggs…. MPs themselves responsible for Parliament food bill – Former Speaker

From specially prepared whole duck to curried eggs…. MPs themselves responsible for Parliament food bill – Former Speaker

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on From specially prepared whole duck to curried eggs…. MPs themselves responsible for Parliament food bill – Former Speaker

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran has shed more light on the ongoing public debate over the food and drink bill racked up at Parliamentary sittings, recalling instances when at...

Education Minister urges parents to send their children to school next week

Education Minister urges parents to send their children to school next week

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister urges parents to send their children to school next week

CEO reveals backup plan Even as the Guyana Teachers’ Union [GTU] led its membership into strike action yesterday, the Ministry of Education was appealing to parents to send their children to school...

$1.1B for new headquarters, labs for Food & Drug Dept.

$1.1B for new headquarters, labs for Food & Drug Dept.

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $1.1B for new headquarters, labs for Food & Drug Dept.

land cleared at UG’s Turkeyen campus A portion of land on the University of Guyana (UG)’s Turkeyen Campus has been cleared as part of initial works to construct a new headquarters along with four...

2018 Pan-American Squash Championships… Guyanese off to tentative start

2018 Pan-American Squash Championships… Guyanese off to tentative start

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2018 Pan-American Squash Championships… Guyanese off to tentative start

Guyana got off to a tentative start yesterday in the 2018 Pan-American Squash Championships which concludes on September 1 in the Cayman Islands. This is the first time a Caribbean country has hosted...

Guinness Cage Street ball C/ship… Uprising survives; Sparta to face Leopold in semifinal

Guinness Cage Street ball C/ship… Uprising survives; Sparta to face Leopold in semifinal

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness Cage Street ball C/ship… Uprising survives; Sparta to face Leopold in semifinal

The semi-finalists of the Guinness Cage Street ball Championship were decided after an intense night of action at the Haslington Tarmac. Uprising remains the only home team in this event, ironically...

Food and Drug laboratories get JANAAC accreditation

Food and Drug laboratories get JANAAC accreditation

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Food and Drug laboratories get JANAAC accreditation

The Government Analyst – Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) was yesterday presented with the Certification (Award) of Accreditation in conformance with the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard from the...

Betsy Ground man found guilty in 2016 wedding house killing

Betsy Ground man found guilty in 2016 wedding house killing

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Betsy Ground man found guilty in 2016 wedding house killing

A mixed jury, on a unanimous decision, found a youth guilty of manslaughter at the Berbice High Court, committed on a labourer from Canje, Berbice. Devanand Dandhari, 20, of Lot 27 Betsy Ground, East...

Hearts of Oak Masters FC Annual Teach Them Young Camp 21st edition ends

Hearts of Oak Masters FC Annual Teach Them Young Camp 21st edition ends

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hearts of Oak Masters FC Annual Teach Them Young Camp 21st edition ends

The Annual Hearts of Oak Masters’ “Teach them Young” football camp ended recently with a presentation and prize giving ceremony at the Prison Officers Sports Club, Penitentiary Walk, New...

Karibee Rice Basketball Tournament… Murray 21 points lead Jammers past Knights 62-58

Karibee Rice Basketball Tournament… Murray 21 points lead Jammers past Knights 62-58

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Karibee Rice Basketball Tournament… Murray 21 points lead Jammers past Knights 62-58

Rayburn Murray helped Rose Hall Town Jammers get past Canje Knights, finishing with 21 points, five rebounds and nine assists to pace the Jammers to a 62-58 points victory over the Canje Knights on...

Regional 50-over U-19 cricket… Guyana beaten by T&T in penultimate round despite Anderson’s responsible 42

Regional 50-over U-19 cricket… Guyana beaten by T&T in penultimate round despite Anderson’s responsible 42

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional 50-over U-19 cricket… Guyana beaten by T&T in penultimate round despite Anderson’s responsible 42

Guyana’s four-year winning streak in the three-day format was broken by Trinidad & Tobago as the Guyanese settled for third place in the Regional U-19 tournament in St Vincent. Guyana holds the...

Regal Masters, RR Masters secure final berths

Regal Masters, RR Masters secure final berths

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal Masters, RR Masters secure final berths

Regal Masters and RR Masters have secured their places in the final of the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc (GSCL)/Crown Mining Supply, Ink Plus and Elegant Jewellery and Pawn Shop 20-over...

Alleged serial robber remanded over Emancipation Day shootout with cops

Alleged serial robber remanded over Emancipation Day shootout with cops

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged serial robber remanded over Emancipation Day shootout with cops

Weeks after two men were charged and remanded to prison for opening fire at two police constables at Norton and Chapel Streets, Lodge, a third person was yesterday charged and remanded for the same...

GRA moves to introduce more services at regional offices

GRA moves to introduce more services at regional offices

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA moves to introduce more services at regional offices

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is in the process of relocating its current office in Bartica to a more full-fledged location in municipality as it seeks to improve the delivery of taxpayer...

Drunken driver fined for crashing into Presidential vehicle

Drunken driver fined for crashing into Presidential vehicle

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken driver fined for crashing into Presidential vehicle

A taxi driver who admitted to driving under the influence of alcohol was yesterday arraigned before a City Magistrate after his car crashed into a vehicle belonging to the Presidential convoy. Kumar...

The lady at the gas station philosophizes on the nation’s psyche

The lady at the gas station philosophizes on the nation’s psyche

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The lady at the gas station philosophizes on the nation’s psyche

I was driving out of the filling station and this lady was driving in. The windows of the driver’s side of both cars came close to each other, and with a smile broader than the newest white...

The ship may have long sailed on that road to Brazil

The ship may have long sailed on that road to Brazil

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The ship may have long sailed on that road to Brazil

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, issued a statement in response to an article of August 5, published in this newspaper, concerning China’s Belt and Road Initiative. That response by...

Is this interference by the UK High Commissioner?

Is this interference by the UK High Commissioner?

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this interference by the UK High Commissioner?

Dear Editor, There are two articles involving the UK’s High Commissioner, His Excellency Gregory Quinn that I wish to comment on. The first was published on Sunday, August 26, in the newspaper that...

ACDA should campaign for swift return of National Service

ACDA should campaign for swift return of National Service

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on ACDA should campaign for swift return of National Service

Dear Editor, In a letter published, ACDA is supporting Professor Clive Thomas’s proposal for cash handouts from the expected windfall from oil revenues. In an earlier letter, I complimented...

Unidentified body found on Corentyne foreshore – believed to be boat mishap victim in Suriname

Unidentified body found on Corentyne foreshore – believed to be boat mishap victim in Suriname

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Unidentified body found on Corentyne foreshore – believed to be boat mishap victim in Suriname

The body of a partly decomposed, unidentified male that was found along the Hampshire shore on Sunday at approximately 5:30 am is suspected to be that of a 49-year-old man from Suriname. According to...

Society must also stop failing criminals

Society must also stop failing criminals

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Society must also stop failing criminals

Dear Editor, I would like to dwell on a letter, which captions “Give ghetto youths a ladder to climb out of that despair “by Dr. Mark Devonish, so as to put the murderous crime situation that has...

Govt signing on to Belt and Road is a policy of greed and to mislead

Govt signing on to Belt and Road is a policy of greed and to mislead

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt signing on to Belt and Road is a policy of greed and to mislead

Dear Editor, The recent signing of the MoU between Guyana and China on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) should be seen as a continuity from the PPP regime relations with China. The PPP had Skeldon...

Region Three Private Sector Association distributes back packs

Region Three Private Sector Association distributes back packs

Aug 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three Private Sector Association distributes back packs

The importance of educating the nation’s children was emphasized as the Region Three Private Sector Association (R3PSA) distributed back packs to nine schools across Region Three—Essequibo...

Region 2 minibuses have illegally increased their fares

Region 2 minibuses have illegally increased their fares

Aug 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 2 minibuses have illegally increased their fares

Dear Editor, The headline read that from September 1st, there will be a $20 hike in bus fares. That may be good news for the operators. Some commuters may say it is reasonable and others would say is...

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