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Max Persaud, Suknanan, Bhagwandin triumph

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Max Persaud, Suknanan, Bhagwandin triumph

Max Persaud, Jaipaul Suknanan and Romel Bhagwandin won their respective categories when the Lusignan Golf Club hosted a fund raising tournament recently. Max Persaud won the 10-18 flight with...

Johnson (118), Chanderpaul (65) & Permaul (5-58) Highlight final day of Jaguars’ last practice match Team announced

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson (118), Chanderpaul (65) & Permaul (5-58) Highlight final day of Jaguars’ last practice match Team announced

By Sean Devers A magnificent 118 by Jaguars Skipper Leon Johnson, a carefully constructed 65 by Tagenarine Chanderpaul and a five-wicket haul from left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul highlighted the...

GSSF closes season, ushers in Christmas with Orinduik Development Inc. Steel Challenge competition

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSSF closes season, ushers in Christmas with Orinduik Development Inc. Steel Challenge competition

On the heels of Thanksgiving, the Guyana Sport Shooting Foundation chose last weekend to end their shooting calendar with a Steel Challenge Shooting Match which was sponsored by Orinduik...

General Services stop Plant Operations 70-57 to repeat as champions in Bosai Basketball

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on General Services stop Plant Operations 70-57 to repeat as champions in Bosai Basketball

Led by the eventual Most Valuable Player, guard, Terron Welch, the defending champions General Services stopped rivals Plant Operations 70-57 to make a successful defence of their Bosai Inter...

Eagles United ARE UDFA/ GTT Senior League Champions UDFA holds General Council Meeting ahead of drawing fixture for Year End tourney

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eagles United ARE UDFA/ GTT Senior League Champions UDFA holds General Council Meeting ahead of drawing fixture for Year End tourney

Christianburg’s Eagles United yesterday were officially named as official champions of the GTT Senior League in Linden and this afternoon the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) will...

Caribbean Boxing Championships 2018 St. Lucia and Dominica Islands headed to Guyana

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Boxing Championships 2018 St. Lucia and Dominica Islands headed to Guyana

World renowned Guyanese commentator Joseph ‘Reds’ Pereira will be the manager of a four-member boxing team that will be flying down to the ‘land of many waters’ for next week’s...

Banks DIH Limited Beverage sponsor for Race of Champions horserace Meet

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Limited Beverage sponsor for Race of Champions horserace Meet

Banks DIH Limited is the beverage sponsor for tomorrow’s Jumbo-Jet Thoroughbred Horse Racing Committee “Race of Champions” billed for the Port Mourant Turf Club in Berbice. Ten races are...

Despite Opposition’s criticisms… Harmon insists 2019 budget “addresses needs of the ordinary man”

Dec 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Despite Opposition’s criticisms… Harmon insists 2019 budget “addresses needs of the ordinary man”

While the political opposition holds the view that budget 2019 is “visionless” and “tone-deaf”, the Government says that nothing could be further from the truth. Specifically making this...

Wounding charges dismissed against woman who allegedly set fire to wharf

Dec 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Wounding charges dismissed against woman who allegedly set fire to wharf

A 23-year-old woman who is accused of setting fire to her lover’s stall located at the Stabroek Market Wharf, had wounding charges against her dismissed yesterday, after the man refused to give...

Team Guyana wins ‘Most Creative Award’ at Nat’l Costume Competition in China

Dec 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Team Guyana wins ‘Most Creative Award’ at Nat’l Costume Competition in China

On 25th November 2018, Guyana was among the 15 countries that participated in the 8th Liang MaQiao DRC Diplomat National Costume Competition, in Beijing. The event was hosted by the ‘Diplomats...

WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGES

Dec 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGES

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Thirty years after the first World AIDS Day, the response to HIV stands at a crossroads. Which way we turn may define the course of the epidemic—whether we will end AIDS by...

Can the PNC stop the volcanic lava created by volatile Volda?

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can the PNC stop the volcanic lava created by volatile Volda?

Where are the voices of the AFC, WPA, ACDA, and all those energetic voices that would have rushed to crucify any PPP minister for two egregious emanations that came from Volda Lawrence? Looking at...

The blind leading the deaf

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The blind leading the deaf

A man was having an argument with another man. He made it clear that the other person could not impose views on him without his concurrence. “I is (sic) a ‘big man’ and I can...

Duo charged for multiple burglaries

Dec 01, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Duo charged for multiple burglaries

Two men, Rocky Harvey and Ivor Hughes, were yesterday hauled before the court and slapped with three charges related to a burglary spree on the West Bank of Demerara. The duo pleaded not guilty to...

Government must move quickly to close CI Guyana operations

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government must move quickly to close CI Guyana operations

Dear Editor, The recent revelation widely reported in the local press, that CI Country Manager Dr. Singh has stepped down has sent shock waves through the length and breadth of Guyana in particular...

Irresponsible, caustic, and incendiary rhetoric must stop

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Irresponsible, caustic, and incendiary rhetoric must stop

Dear Editor, There is a dangerous phenomenon raising its ugly head once again… the reemergence of the kind of behaviour by some members of the PNC that gave that Party the reputation of being the...

Acknowledging survivors of gender-based violence

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Acknowledging survivors of gender-based violence

Dear Editor, This year, International Day against the Elimination of Violence Against Women and 16 Days of Activism are being observed under the theme “Orange the world: #HearMeToo”. This...

Is Mike Singh seeking to sow seeds of discord within the GPF?

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Mike Singh seeking to sow seeds of discord within the GPF?

Editor, The Holy Bible in the book of John 8:32 says, “Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free”. Often times, it takes the Fourth Estate to go in search of the truth and when...

Looks like unity is unachievable

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Looks like unity is unachievable

Dear Editor I am right on the brink of changing my mind about the PPP and PNC working together for a UNITED GUYANA to “We should divide up the country and go our separate ways”. With...

An open letter chiding Mr Jan Mangal

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter chiding Mr Jan Mangal

Dear Mr. Jan Mangal, You will never be half the man your father, Dr. Keshav “Bud” Mangal, was. Your father was a principled man of dignity and class who served as a PPPC Elections Commissioner...

Open letter to the Government of Guyana

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open letter to the Government of Guyana

Dear Sir, Scotiabank, the community bank, the indiginous bank, the family bank, the corporate and socially responsible bank, Scotiabank, the employer of choice, the bank where staff is the greatest...

Central Bank Staff will reject 2% imposed on them

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Central Bank Staff will reject 2% imposed on them

Dear Mr. Editor, In July 2015, the Central Bank issued a circular stating “the payment of increments based on performance appraisal of staff, will be made effective in 2016 and payment of across...

REGGAE – A GLOBAL CULTURAL TREASURE

Dec 01, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on REGGAE – A GLOBAL CULTURAL TREASURE

For decades, Jamaica requested of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to have reggae music admitted to the protected list of global cultural treasures. That...

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Guyanese boxers shine at T&T National Boxing Championships

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more