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Bandits break in Kaneville home, drives off with car

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits break in Kaneville home, drives off with car

Early Friday morning, two bandits broke into a Third Street, Kaneville, East Bank Demerara home and drove away with a red old model Raum bearing registration number PLL 9901 after holding one of the...

The Osprey [Pandion haliaetus]

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Osprey [Pandion haliaetus]

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, or fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating, bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in)...

GCC beat GCA select XI in U17 fixture

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCC beat GCA select XI in U17 fixture

Host Georgetown Cricket Club U17 defeated a Georgetown Cricket Association select U17 team in a 50-over fixture played yesterday. The game was organised to facilitate the presentation ceremony of the...

Electrician charged for fraud

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Electrician charged for fraud

A 41-year-old electrical contractor was slapped with a fraud charge after he allegedly converted a sum of $120,000 that was supposed to be used to purchase materials for a job into his own use and...

67 entries registered for Triple Crown first leg Organisers hint major surprise for feature race

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on 67 entries registered for Triple Crown first leg Organisers hint major surprise for feature race

In exactly one week, the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee’s Triple Crown’s first leg will gallop off at the Rising Sun Turf Club in Port Mourant, Berbice, and according to chairman of the...

Brain scanning for criminal thinking?

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Brain scanning for criminal thinking?

By Dennis Nichols On any given day, there are maybe two or three violent crime reports in our newspapers. These are the sort of acts that a few decades ago would have been splashed across the front...

Bronchiolitis: A common condition that puts your baby at risk

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bronchiolitis: A common condition that puts your baby at risk

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Bronchiolitis is swelling and mucus (cold) buildup in the smallest air passages in the lungs (bronchioles). It is usually due to a...

The Portrait of an Icon

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Portrait of an Icon

Book: Earl Lovelace (The Caribbean Biography Series) Author: Funso Aiyejina Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Earl Lovelace needs no introduction. Masterfully original and versatile, his literary...

The corpse in the strange blue car

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The corpse in the strange blue car

By Michael Jordan No one saw when the blue car., PEE 587, entered Eighth Street, Diamond Housing Scheme, on the night of Friday, May 16, 2008. But there it was the next day, parked on the...

Unity is a vital prerequisite to a better life for all

Feb 17, 2019 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Unity is a vital prerequisite to a better life for all

In his maiden address to the 11th Parliament on June 10th 2015, President David Granger said; “your government acknowledges the democratically-expressed will of the people of this great country as...

THE FACTS ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION

Feb 17, 2019 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE FACTS ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION

There are many Guyanese in Guyana and in the Diaspora who are very concerned about what is currently happening in our country. They want to know what the government’s position is, and some persons...

The reason for the shooting of Dr. O’Toole and the bomb threats

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The reason for the shooting of Dr. O’Toole and the bomb threats

I didn’t use “reason” in the plural deliberately. There is one fundamental cultural, sociological and psychological reason why Dr. O’ Toole was shot and some schools endured bomb threats....

Cabinet has resigned

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Cabinet has resigned

President David Granger was truthful when, at a political event in Vreed-en-Hoop, he announced that he had not resigned. He did not need to; he and his Cabinet had been resigned by operation of law...

Outstanding entrepreneur, Dave Narine, is a ‘Special Person’

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Special Person Comments Off on Outstanding entrepreneur, Dave Narine, is a ‘Special Person’

“When I started Dave West Indian Imports, it was my intention to push Guyanese products into the U.S. and world arena because of the good stuff we have. Our products are sought after across...

Has anything changed?

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has anything changed?

Dear Editor, Statements made by President Granger at the opening of the PNC office at Vreed-en-Hoop two weeks ago, clearly indicates his contempt of the provisions of the Constitution and the ruling...

Mr. Persaud cannot deliberately disregard his serious ethical responsibility

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Persaud cannot deliberately disregard his serious ethical responsibility

Dear Editor, Permit me some space, please, if you may, to offer a brief clarificatory comment on some ONLINE responses to my letter published in the 12th February, 2019, ONLINE EDITION OF THE GUYANA...

Cleaning the trenches, dumping mud and grass on the roadways

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cleaning the trenches, dumping mud and grass on the roadways

Dear Editor, First somebody get “a vaps” and decided to clean the trench in Church Street. Maybe Mash is coming, or the new Council wants to show that they are working. The crews come under cover...

Ms. Sherronie James’ mentoring has played a big part in the success of many of us

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ms. Sherronie James’ mentoring has played a big part in the success of many of us

Dear Editor, It seems that Sam Sittlington has now fully embraced the ways of some Guyanese big people. Sittlington made a gallant attempt at besmirching the integrity of his former colleague, Ms....

Why is APNU+AFC so secretive about the EXXON $US18M?

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is APNU+AFC so secretive about the EXXON $US18M?

Dear Editor, Several weeks ago, I asked where is the $30B the government, through SPU/NICIL, took on behalf of GUYSUCO? To this day, no one in Government is providing answers to the people. Now I am...

Jagdeo is playing the media like an old fiddle

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo is playing the media like an old fiddle

Dear Sir, The former President of the Republic of Guyana, now opposition leader of the PPP political party, should be congratulated for taking a page out of the President of the United States...

Will the mushrooming of new political parties break the backbone of ethnic voting?

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Will the mushrooming of new political parties break the backbone of ethnic voting?

Dear Editor, What will be the impact on the national landscape with the mushrooming of several new political parties in recent weeks? Will this development break decades of ethnic voting and weaken...

Rusal is an insulting company

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Rusal is an insulting company

Workers have rights; fundamental rights; sacred rights, as enshrined in the constitution and labour laws of this country. And yet here it is that another company, a foreign company, first slaps them...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more