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Over 5,000 Venezuelan migrants now in Guyana

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Over 5,000 Venezuelan migrants now in Guyana

The National Multi-Sectoral Coordinating Committee, yesterday, disclosed that the Immigration Department has recorded an increase of 702 Venezuelan migrants in Guyana. This brings the total number of...

GMR&SC National Race of Champions Miracle Optical and R. Kissoon Contracting; latest sponsors

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC National Race of Champions Miracle Optical and R. Kissoon Contracting; latest sponsors

The first leg of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMR&SC) National Race of Champions (NROC) will boost off this Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit and as the time winds down before...

Health posts established at five entry points for Venezuelan migrants

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Health posts established at five entry points for Venezuelan migrants

The Region One Health Department, through the port health department, is preparing to deploy medical teams to migrant settlements once again. This initiative is being carried out to deliver follow-up...

Jumbo Jet’s Triple Crown 1st leg ‘Don’t Over Look’ scampers away with win in feature race

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet’s Triple Crown 1st leg ‘Don’t Over Look’ scampers away with win in feature race

Florida-bred, ‘Don’t Over Look’, in its first race in Guyana after being imported just three weeks ago, ran a magnificently race to claim top honours in the C Class and Lower feature sprint...

“If I have a child here I am legal”-Dominican justifies overstaying in Guyana.

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “If I have a child here I am legal”-Dominican justifies overstaying in Guyana.

“I was told that if I have a child here I am legal in Guyana.” These were the words of a citizen of the Dominican Republic who was yesterday arraigned before a city magistrate in giving a reason...

BCB/Shimron Hetmyer Intermediate Tournament Devon Clements and Keyron Fraser hit centuries as four teams advance

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Shimron Hetmyer Intermediate Tournament Devon Clements and Keyron Fraser hit centuries as four teams advance

The historic Berbice Cricket Board/Shimron Hetmyer Intermediate 40-Overs Cricket Tournament continued last week. The rainy season continues to cause problems for the organisers but No. 64 Fighting...

RDC Four benefiting from UNICEF’s technical support for strategic ventures

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on RDC Four benefiting from UNICEF’s technical support for strategic ventures

Support from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund [UNICEF] to aid in the execution of a number of projects and programmes has been lauded by the Regional Executive Officer of...

BCB/Spready’s 100 Balls Second Division Cricket Tournament Rose Hall Town Tigers, Ramnarine Memorial and Belvedere United advance

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Spready’s 100 Balls Second Division Cricket Tournament Rose Hall Town Tigers, Ramnarine Memorial and Belvedere United advance

The Berbice Cricket Board is pushing ahead with its plans to host over thirty tournaments in 2019. The BCB/Spready’s Snackette 100 Balls Tournament for Teams in the Lower Corentyne area continued...

$105M aid for displaced Venezuelan migrants in Guyana

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $105M aid for displaced Venezuelan migrants in Guyana

A humanitarian action for children, through the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its Guyana office, has received $105M (US$500,000) to fund the provision of water and...

BCB/RHTYSC/GBTI Inter Secondary School Cricket Tournament Port Mourant, Tagore Memorial, Corentyne Comprehensive, Berbice High, BEI advance

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/RHTYSC/GBTI Inter Secondary School Cricket Tournament Port Mourant, Tagore Memorial, Corentyne Comprehensive, Berbice High, BEI advance

The Berbice Cricket Board 2019 Cricket Season continues to roll along despite the rainy season which affected venues across the Ancient County. The Berbice Cricket Board recently started the Rose...

Police strategic plan handed over to special implementation body

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police strategic plan handed over to special implementation body

Members of the newly formed Police Reform Change Board yesterday received the New G uyana Police Force Strategic Plan. This was done at an executive briefing which discussed the Police Reform Change...

Perry Gossai Memorial 100 Balls West Berbice Cricket Tournament Bush Lot Rising Star defeat Bush Lot United to reach final Three

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Perry Gossai Memorial 100 Balls West Berbice Cricket Tournament Bush Lot Rising Star defeat Bush Lot United to reach final Three

Bush Lot Rising Star Cricket club has reached the final Three of the historic Berbice Cricket Board/Perry Gossai 100 Balls Tournament for teams in the West Berbice Sub-Association. They defeated...

50 educators in training to be Education Officers

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 50 educators in training to be Education Officers

After completing an 18-month training programme, teachers currently participating in the Ministry of Education’s Cadet Officers Training programme will each be dispatched to one of the 11...

Annandale overcome Mon Repos to take LSC Ram Slam T20 title

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Annandale overcome Mon Repos to take LSC Ram Slam T20 title

Led by a fine all-round performance from Tameshwar Motiram, Annandale defeated Mon Repos by 24 runs to win the final of the Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) Ram Slam T20 tournament which was contested on...

Sales rep gets 9 charges for assaulting police, resisting arrest

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sales rep gets 9 charges for assaulting police, resisting arrest

Jenlisa Fordyce was yesterday hauled before the court and made to answer to nine charges in which she was accused of being in possession of a dangerous weapon, assaulting four police officers and...

Police warned against misuse of Govt . vehicles

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police warned against misuse of Govt . vehicles

Members of the Guyana Police Force, G’ Division were recently warned to desist from the practice of misusing State-owned vehicles. This stern warning was recently issued twice in less than a week...

Anger over killing of adult jaguar

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Anger over killing of adult jaguar

A social media posting of a killed jaguar is angering animal lovers. The undated photograph reportedly made on Facebook was reportedly pulled down. It shows a large cat dead in the small boat with...

Life of the party – Mom tells of Guyanese son killed

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Life of the party – Mom tells of Guyanese son killed

St Lucia (St Lucia Times) – Debbie Lustal, the mother of the Guyanese national who was the victim of Sunday morning’s fatal stabbing at Bagatelle, Castries, has described her son as having...

Closing arguments presented in Montrose granny murder trial

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Closing arguments presented in Montrose granny murder trial

The trial of Colin Allen, who is accused of the August 1, 2015 murder of 77-year-old Danrasie Ganesh, is in its home stretch, with trial Judge Navindra Singh giving a summation of the evidence...

India names new High Commissioner to Guyana

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on India names new High Commissioner to Guyana

India has named a new High Commissioner to Guyana. He is Dr. K. J. Srinivasa, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday. He is currently serving in Johannesburg. “Dr. K. J....

Dr. Karen Cummings visits plane crash survivors

Feb 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Karen Cummings visits plane crash survivors

MINISTER within the Public Health Ministry, Dr. Karen Cummings, recently visited Captain Lincoln Gomez and policeman Michael Grimmond who survived last week’s plane crash in Canal Number Two, West...

These magistrates’ decisions must be condemned

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on These magistrates’ decisions must be condemned

Magistrate Leron Daly sentenced a twenty-year-old School of the Nations student to three years for possession of eight ecstasy pills weighing five grams. A week before this case, a judge sentenced a...

Soft skills should be integrated into TVET programs

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Soft skills should be integrated into TVET programs

DEAR EDITOR, I use this opportunity to share my views on the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) program in Guyana. Recently, I noticed the Education Ministry pursuing the development...

The Value of Poetry and Great Literature

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Value of Poetry and Great Literature

DEAR EDITOR, Poetry has always been a part of human life. It is an art that lies in the soul and spirit of man since the beginning of time. A poet writes always of his personal life and experience....

Trade Union Movement in solidarity with GB&GWU’s struggle for Human Rights

Feb 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trade Union Movement in solidarity with GB&GWU’s struggle for Human Rights

DEAR EDITOR, I feel obliged to extend a word of thanks to Mr. Lincoln Lewis. I have always regarded him as one of the more courageous and principled trade unionists in Guyana. Because, as I am aware,...

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