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National Boxing Coach Terrence Pool receives Guyana’s 5th highest Award

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Boxing Coach Terrence Pool receives Guyana’s 5th highest Award

A Solider since March 1, 1982, Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and National Boxing Coach Terrence Pool last week received the Medal of Service, Guyana’s fifth highest National Award. The 55-year-old...

2018-19 West Indies Championship Reifer grabs 5-20 as Barbados Pride falls for lowest total in Guyana

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2018-19 West Indies Championship Reifer grabs 5-20 as Barbados Pride falls for lowest total in Guyana

Story and photos by Sean Devers A sixth five-wicket haul from left-arm pacer Raymon Reifer sent his Countymen crashing to 76 all out on the opening day of Guyana Jaguars’ penultimate round match on...

New Trend Auto 18-hole and Romel and Robin 9-hole to unfold at LGC this weekend

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Trend Auto 18-hole and Romel and Robin 9-hole to unfold at LGC this weekend

Following hard on the heels of the Valentine weekend tournament and the relaxing Mashramani celebrations tournament, the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) is set to host two exciting tournaments this weekend....

RFA Champions LeagueDefending male and female champs Tabatinga and Gladiators to face Snatchers in opening matches, tomorrow

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on RFA Champions LeagueDefending male and female champs Tabatinga and Gladiators to face Snatchers in opening matches, tomorrow

Following the official launch of the Rupununi Football Association (RFA) Champions League on February 20, last at St Ignatius Benab, on field action is set to kick off tomorrow with a male and...

Over 1,500 vehicles visit Lethem from Brazil on weekends

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Over 1,500 vehicles visit Lethem from Brazil on weekends

More than 450 kilometres from Linden, Region 10, lies a dusty, sleepy community that borders with neighbouring Brazil. It has all the makings of a wild west town in the movies. With a population of...

Opposition Leader will meet with Rusal workers

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition Leader will meet with Rusal workers

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo has said that his party intends to meet with workers of Rusal to have them air their concerns, and lend to a solution for the current issue of workers’...

Fire destroys C’tyne business place, adjacent property

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys C’tyne business place, adjacent property

At just around 14:30 hrs yesterday, a blaze ripped through a three-storey building that housed a hardware store and restaurant, along with a house on an adjacent lot. Eyewitnesses told Kaieteur News...

Life imprisonment for wife killer

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Life imprisonment for wife killer

A labourer was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday, after he was found guilty of the murder of his wife at Charity, Essequibo Coast, in 2015. The summary read that between the 16th and 17th...

Death sentence for Pomeroon miner who murdered pensioner

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Death sentence for Pomeroon miner who murdered pensioner

A 43-year-old miner of Good Intent, Lower Pomeroon, was yesterday sentenced to death by Justice Sandil Kissoon, after he was found guilty by a 12-member jury, of the murder of 72-year old Osmond...

The Bertram Collins College: Philosophical failure of Jagan, Burnham, PNC, PPP

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Bertram Collins College: Philosophical failure of Jagan, Burnham, PNC, PPP

The Bertram Collins College is in the news in a controversial way. The accusation is that the college’s intake is skewed in favour of African public servants. Is that so? The answer is yes. But is...

Guyana Goldfields announces mill expansion

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Goldfields announces mill expansion

Guyana Goldfields Inc. has announced that the second phase of its mill expansion is mechanically complete and was fully commissioned as of February 25, 2019. “Based on the highly encouraging...

Security services vehicles with sirens, flashing lights ordered to remove them

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Security services vehicles with sirens, flashing lights ordered to remove them

The Guyana Police Force’s Traffic Department is warning vehicles belonging to security services that they are not allowed to have emergency sirens and flashing lights. According to the police,...

Guyanese Sheran Harper commissioned as Mothers’ Union Worldwide President

Mar 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Sheran Harper commissioned as Mothers’ Union Worldwide President

In a colourful and packed Southwark Cathedral Tuesday night, Mrs. Sheran Harper, was commissioned to her office as Worldwide President of Mothers’ Union, a movement of four million members...

Isn’t this advertising discourtesy and laziness?

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Isn’t this advertising discourtesy and laziness?

DEAR EDITOR, The incidence of vacancy notices, which carry rather rude warnings that only shortlisted applications will be acknowledged, has been on the rise. I find this increasing (mal)-practice...

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

DEAR EDITOR, The no-confidence motion is certainly a blessing in disguise. At no point in our history have we found government ministers and even the opposition parliamentarians so busy...

THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE PROMISES OF THE PAST!

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE PROMISES OF THE PAST!

DEAR EDITOR, As I watch the television news and read the daily newspapers, I can’t help but smile and curse at the same time when I see the Coalition Government ministers going all over...

‘RAMJATTANUSES’ THE CONCEPT OF ‘NECESSITY’ FOR POLITICAL INTERESTS

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘RAMJATTANUSES’ THE CONCEPT OF ‘NECESSITY’ FOR POLITICAL INTERESTS

DEAR EDITOR, I have read with great interest, Mr. Ram’s letter (Stabroek News, 27/2/19), “Ramjattan cited doctrine of necessity to justify failure of Administration to comply with No Confidence...

GECOM HAS TO COMPLY WITH THE CONSTITUTION

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM HAS TO COMPLY WITH THE CONSTITUTION

DEAR EDITOR, The 1980 Guyana Constitution Article 106 was radically amended during the 1999 – 2001 Constitution Reform period by the addition of two new clauses 106 (6) and (7) based on the...

The International Community is looking

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The International Community is looking

DEAR EDITOR, The President lifted hopes for early elections in accordance with his Constitutional duties when he announced that he wrote to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission...

A dumb state of affairs

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A dumb state of affairs

DEAR EDITOR, The role of any Opposition that is worth its weight in salt, is to maintain a sense of No Confidence in the Government. The ANPU/AFC opposition did it to the Ramotar...

Trump’s vanity diplomacy falls flat

Mar 01, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Trump’s vanity diplomacy falls flat

(Republished from The Guardian) Only a year ago, many feared that Donald Trump’s dealings with Kim Jong-un might end with a bang. Then came the Singapore summit. Mr. Trump boasted that they...

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Ken Corsbie – a Guyana Basketball legend passes at 94

Due diligence on investments must become a priority

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In 1985, the Forbes Burnham government looking for economic salvation, entered into a memorandum... more