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GMRSC’s IGNITE Hand-in-Hand and ExxonMobil confirms support for National Championships

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC’s IGNITE Hand-in-Hand and ExxonMobil confirms support for National Championships

Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMR&SC) ‘Ignite’ National championship is set for November 10th & 11th at the South Dakota Circuit and it will also serve as the final leg of the...

Guyana on course for three-hand titles

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana on course for three-hand titles

Guyana male and female three-hand teams are well in the hunt for gold at the World Council of Dominoes Federation Inc tournament which is currently underway at the Carifesta Sports Complex. The...

WDFA Senior Qualifying KO Tourney Four matches set for this weekend

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on WDFA Senior Qualifying KO Tourney Four matches set for this weekend

Four more teams will walk the plank this weekend when play in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) qualifying knock-out tournament for the GFF year-end championship, continues at the Den...

Former player donates uniforms to Queenstown United FC

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former player donates uniforms to Queenstown United FC

It has been one of the oldest clubs affiliated to the Essequibo/Pomeroon Football Association (EPFA) and is on a mission to ensure that it is not only dominant in its local association but beyond the...

First female Guyanese to be inducted into Martial Arts Hall-of-Fame

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on First female Guyanese to be inducted into Martial Arts Hall-of-Fame

Bonita Montague; a mother, businesswoman, women’s advocate, CEO of UBBM (United Bridge Builders Mission), and former Martial Arts Sensei of the Guyana Police Force, will be etched into the History...

Entries for KMTC Pre Diwali race meet close Sunday

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Entries for KMTC Pre Diwali race meet close Sunday

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) will be hosting its annual Pre-Diwali race meet on October 21 at Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice and entries for the event will close on Sunday. The races will...

Digicel takes legal action against Suriname regulator for blocking cross-border data link

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel takes legal action against Suriname regulator for blocking cross-border data link

Digicel, the mobile phone operator owned by Denis O’Brien, has launched legal action against the telco regulator in the former Dutch colony of Suriname for blocking its cross-border data link with...

Jordan’s sticky wicket

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jordan’s sticky wicket

The Stabroek News has received a broadside from the Minister of Finance. The minister, responding to a recent editorial by that newspaper, threw a tantrum, flaying left, right and center in a letter...

The Stabroek News versus the Finance Minister

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Stabroek News versus the Finance Minister

Have you ever read a newspaper editorial’s critique of a government’s performance and the Finance Minister’s reply and both arguments have right and wrong? If you haven’t had...

Passing the buck

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Passing the buck

Well, finally and gradually the veil of secrecy that has covered the corruption, nepotism, mismanagement and other wrongdoings at City Hall is being lifted. And it seems that persons are now running...

A review of the estates closure

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A review of the estates closure

Dear Editor Regarding the closure of the sugar estates which resulted in a variety of responses. Some were, to say the least, were very disturbing. For some reason it took a racial turn with some...

Minister Jordan sparked an ailing sugar industry

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Jordan sparked an ailing sugar industry

Dear Editor, The Honourable Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, in a letter appearing on the October 09, Stabroek News, took time from his duties to respond to Stabroek’s editorial of October 07...

The woes on the Lady Northcote

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The woes on the Lady Northcote

Dear Editor, As a concerned resident who travels on the Lady Northcote from Northwest to Georgetown, I would like to say that I am surprised at the unmannerly behavior of the staff. A clear case was...

The PPP controlled the NDC and did nothing (second lead)

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP controlled the NDC and did nothing (second lead)

Finally the philosophy which informed (and still do) the People’s Progressive Party’s wayward actions in relation to local government when in office has been revealed by one of its now frequent...

The Anna Regina APNU LGE launch

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Anna Regina APNU LGE launch

Dear Editor On Monday 8 October 2018, residents reported that it was announced over the loudspeakers at the Anna Regina Car Park that the APNU will be launching its Local Government Elections...

SOCU fails to defend court case, Magistrate dismisses charges

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on SOCU fails to defend court case, Magistrate dismisses charges

Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman was left with no choice but to dismiss the charges against former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRBD) executives after citing a number of failures by the Special...

BIT wants Administrator to repay embezzled funds

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on BIT wants Administrator to repay embezzled funds

The Board of Industrial Training (BIT) is looking to recover millions of dollars that has reportedly been embezzled by officials of the Upper Corentyne Industrial Training Centre (UCITC). This...

Sun and Sands has no mining permit in Guyana- GGMC boss

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sun and Sands has no mining permit in Guyana- GGMC boss

While there are reports that persons linked to Sun and Sands Hotel are currently involved in mining, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is claiming that it is yet to issue the company...

How did my C/ville property end up in Jagdeo nephew’s hands?

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on How did my C/ville property end up in Jagdeo nephew’s hands?

–overseas-based Guyanese asks He is 70 years old and still working at a major airport in New York. Like many Guyanese, he too owns or maintains family properties here. It was supposed to serve...

Natural Resource Fund at risk for political gain – Int’l Analysts

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Natural Resource Fund at risk for political gain – Int’l Analysts

By Kiana Wilburg In spite of the potential economic benefits that would flow from the introduction of a Natural Resource Fund (NRF) (also known as a Sovereign Wealth Fund), there remains the...

Bandits brutalise Black Bush Polder family, cart off $7M

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits brutalise Black Bush Polder family, cart off $7M

A woman and her son are reportedly nursing injuries about their bodies after six men, armed with guns and knives barged into their home at Lesbeholden, South, Black Bush Polder Monday night and...

Woman, 70, trailed, robbed and then shot

Oct 10, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Woman, 70, trailed, robbed and then shot

An elderly woman who was accompanying her husband to refill their water was shot, during a robbery which occurred in front of Nimbus Water Guyana at 79 Laluni and Albert Streets, Queenstown, about...

Collect taxes from Jagdeo and he colleagues

Oct 10, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Collect taxes from Jagdeo and he colleagues

Nothing has changed. Is same six of one and half a dozen of de odda. Everybody hustling a dollar. De amount of money dem politicians handle can double all dem teacher payment fuh life. Tek Pradoville...

Regional Super50… Another Barnwell fifty lifts Jaguars to 7-Wkt win over Canada

Oct 10, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Super50… Another Barnwell fifty lifts Jaguars to 7-Wkt win over Canada

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Regal, Vnet, Noble House Seafoods & Cascadia Hotel Led by another fifty from Chris Barnwell (99), Guyana Jaguars romped to a second win from three...

BCB launches 2019 Mike’s Pharmacy Under-15 Tourney as early preparation starts

Oct 10, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB launches 2019 Mike’s Pharmacy Under-15 Tourney as early preparation starts

2018 has over two months before the end of the year but this has not prevented the pro-active Berbice Cricket Board from launching its 2019 Inter-Club Under-15 Tournament. The Berbice Cricket Board...

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more