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Banks DIH/GABA Leagues… Nets and Pacesetters win on Sunday night

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH/GABA Leagues… Nets and Pacesetters win on Sunday night

Republic Bank Nets Bsketball Club continued their excellent showing in the First Division of the Rainforest Water/Malta Supreme/Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) tournament after...

BCB/Magic Moments T20…. No. 48 Challengers crushes Skeldon Super Kings to lift Upper Corentyne Title

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Magic Moments T20…. No. 48 Challengers crushes Skeldon Super Kings to lift Upper Corentyne Title

The first of four Zone finals in the historic Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) organised Sueria Manufacturing Magic Moments T20 Tournament was hosted at the No. 72 Cut and Load Cricket Ground. Witnessed...

Passenger crushed after jumping from truck

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Passenger crushed after jumping from truck

A 35-year-old man was crushed and killed around 18:30 hrs on Sunday, after reportedly jumping from a truck that had developed mechanical problems and was going downhill. The incident occurred...

NSC Condemns mistreatment of the national flag

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Condemns mistreatment of the national flag

The National Sports Commission (NSC) has taken note of a video circulating on social media showing two females trampling on a flag of the Republic of Trinidad and Tabago. The incident seemed to have...

Records tumble at GAPLF RAW Nationals

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Records tumble at GAPLF RAW Nationals

Determination, dedication and consistency were shown by the athletes when the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) held its RAW National championships on Sunday last the Saint Stanislaus...

Shakoor supports West Meten-Meer-Zorg CC

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shakoor supports West Meten-Meer-Zorg CC

West Meten-Meer-Zorg Cricket Club has benefited from a kind gesture by one of its former members, Abdool Shakoor who presented a quantity of cricket gear to the club following two specially organised...

Silica Sands Golf Toruney to be played on Saturday

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Silica Sands Golf Toruney to be played on Saturday

Silica Sands, a local company and long time supporter of the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) will host its second annual golf tournament in celebration of the remarkable academic achievements of Kayshav...

Tapping into sports tourism: Looking further than just filling the rooms – Jones

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tapping into sports tourism: Looking further than just filling the rooms – Jones

Sports Tourism is something that has always been supported and promoted by the administration. However, Director of Sports Christopher Jones is calling for representatives of the tourism sector –...

Moraikobai Student Dormitory, Mahaicony Hostel go online

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Moraikobai Student Dormitory, Mahaicony Hostel go online

Students and residents being housed at Moraikobai Student Dormitory and the Indigenous Residence, Mahaicony Region Five are now benefitting from free internet access through the eGovernment...

Govt. to sign MOU with Trinidad in coming days – Greenidge confirms

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to sign MOU with Trinidad in coming days – Greenidge confirms

─ agreement with Trinidad no different from any other, will not cause a riot – Min. Greenidge The Government of Guyana, within the coming days, will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...

Support groups play key role in successful prosecution of child rape cases

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Support groups play key role in successful prosecution of child rape cases

Support groups like Childlink Guyana, have been helping children who survived sexual crimes get through the court process. Since the Sexual Offences Court was established earlier this year,...

Virginia Watts celebrates 100 years

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Virginia Watts celebrates 100 years

It was quite a grand occasion as relatives, friends, as well as well-wishers on September 5, last, gathered together with the children of Virginia Euphemia Watts to celebrate her 100th birth...

The horse has already bolted

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The horse has already bolted

It is of no use to try to close the stable doors after the horse has bolted. Guyana failed to ensure local content requirements in its oil contract with ExxonMobil. As a result, it is the foreign...

State pays $226M NDIA debt in full

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on State pays $226M NDIA debt in full

The State has paid the $226M National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) debt owed to Guyana Tractor and Equipment (Guytrac) in full. Under the previous administration, Guytrac which is owned...

Three Tenders submitted for Soesdyke-Linden Highway project

Sep 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Three Tenders submitted for Soesdyke-Linden Highway project

Yesterday, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure through the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board opened Bids for contracts to carry out various projects across the country. These...

Mr. Duncan should be fired and the job awarded to the best applicant

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Mr. Duncan should be fired and the job awarded to the best applicant

Dear Editor, It is with sadness, though not surprise, that I’ve been following and commenting upon the developments at the Guyana Chronicle. When I indicated months ago, when he was initially...

Don’t blame China. The debt traps are created by corrupt Governments

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t blame China. The debt traps are created by corrupt Governments

Dear Editor I once heard a preacher say,” Money is good, but the lure of money is the root of all evil”. The lure of money is the reason for 95% of corruption on a universal scale. If a local...

Some questions for Freddie Kissoon on those name changes

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some questions for Freddie Kissoon on those name changes

Dear Editor, I have some questions for Freddie Kissoon in relation to his column on the naming of our streets, wards etc. But before I begin, may I point out that the name of the estate owner after...

Our union never met with City Council on the relocation of this bus park

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our union never met with City Council on the relocation of this bus park

Dear Editor ， I noticed in your Friday Newspapers dated 31.08.2018，Page 12，captioned`Commuters at Mercy of Criminals at City Hall’s relocated bus park’ where it was stated that the Mayor...

Education towards heightened consciousness in a Green Economy

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Education towards heightened consciousness in a Green Economy

Dear Editor, It is a fact that natural science taught in tropical schools suffers through having evolved from that of temperate countries; and this may be said not only of its content, but of the...

12 yrs for man in brick-pelting killing in Mabaruma

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 12 yrs for man in brick-pelting killing in Mabaruma

High Court Judge Brassington Reynolds imposed a 12-year jail sentence on 34-year-old Rawle Khan, who appeared before him for killing a man by striking him with a piece of rock to the back. Rawle...

Ex-cop gets life sentence for raping boy, 13

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ex-cop gets life sentence for raping boy, 13

– Judge describes incident as “outrageous, abominable” There is a possibility that he may depart from this world never to see the light of day again. Fifty-year-old Milton Kewley might be...

Labourer injured in shooting incident in Berbice

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Labourer injured in shooting incident in Berbice

A 51-year-old labourer was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital on Monday night after gunshots were reportedly fired in his direction at the Port Mourant Drainage pump, resulting in him sustaining...

COUNTERFEIT DRUGS AND THE CONSEQUENCES

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on COUNTERFEIT DRUGS AND THE CONSEQUENCES

Counterfeit drugs have become a worldwide problem. The issue is prevalent here in Guyana and several other countries in the Caribbean as well as in the United States. Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are...

Why can’t the PPP and PNC have a multiracial physiology?

Sep 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why can’t the PPP and PNC have a multiracial physiology?

I looked at still photos and television clips of the delegates at the last PNC congress and the ambience was not inviting. Almost 99 percent of the images were African Guyanese. It is the same image...

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Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport endorses Mashramani Street Football Championships

Guyana’s silence represents a shocking neglect of its national interest

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-Guyana has long championed the sanctity of territorial integrity and the rejection of aggression... more