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While PPP moves to CCJ…GECOM will push ahead with house-to-house registration for elections – Commissioner

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on While PPP moves to CCJ…GECOM will push ahead with house-to-house registration for elections – Commissioner

By Kiana Wilburg As the People Progressive Party (PPP) moves swiftly to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) for a review of the Appellate Court’s ruling that its No-Confidence Motion was...

Upgrading archaic maritime laws, financial regime for oil sector to take centre stage at local conference

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Upgrading archaic maritime laws, financial regime for oil sector to take centre stage at local conference

The need to upgrade Guyana’s archaic maritime laws and policies for the booming oil sector is expected to take centre stage at a conference, which will be held on Wednesday at the Marriott...

Boat explosion captain reportedly ‘alive and well’ in Venezuela – body of elderly passenger identified

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Boat explosion captain reportedly ‘alive and well’ in Venezuela – body of elderly passenger identified

The captain who was manning the vessel on which a deadly explosion occurred three Sundays ago is said to be alive. Kaieteur News understands that the individual, known only as ‘Sakie,’...

UG named best academic institution at CCJ law moot

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on UG named best academic institution at CCJ law moot

The University of Guyana (UG) carted off the prize for best academic institution after emerging as the runner-up when the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) eleventh annual international law...

Former murder accused nabbed after breaking into woman’s car

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Former murder accused nabbed after breaking into woman’s car

– allegedly threatens victim while at station A former murder accused has given police a strange excuse for breaking into a woman’s car at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD)...

Ministry lacks capacity to ensure that all health care providers are licensed – Chief Medical Officer

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry lacks capacity to ensure that all health care providers are licensed – Chief Medical Officer

The Ministry of Public Health lacks the capacity to ensure that all healthcare providers countrywide are licensed, Chief Medical Officer at the Ministry of Public Health Dr. Shamdeo Persaud revealed...

Crackdown against touts restores order at bus parks – Traffic Chief promises sustained campaign

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Crackdown against touts restores order at bus parks – Traffic Chief promises sustained campaign

Right on the heels of a recent Kaieteur News article on harassment of passengers by touts, the police on Friday launched yet another campaign against what some commuters describe as a...

Dem got simple idiots and absolute idiots

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem got simple idiots and absolute idiots

De court rule dat toppling a government should not be as easy as passing a Bill or voting on a budget. Dat is why de Court of Appeal uphold de claim dat it got to tek an absolute majority to remove a...

Diamond Optical launches extended credit on vision care

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond Optical launches extended credit on vision care

– initiative geared at meeting the ‘small man’s’ pockets’ With the interest of the ‘small man’ at heart, Diamond Optical entity (located inside City Mall, Georgetown)...

Tiger Bay youths benefit from arts and robotics camp

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tiger Bay youths benefit from arts and robotics camp

Scores of children living within the Rosemary Lane, South Cummingsburg (Tiger Bay) community, on Saturday participated on an interactive session on art and robotics, as well as a health fair...

Relatives hope PM provides answers for pregnant woman’s sudden death

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives hope PM provides answers for pregnant woman’s sudden death

Relatives of 25 year old Theresa Henry of Good Fortuin, West Bank Demerara(WBD) are hoping that health officials provide a plausible explanation as it relates to the circumstances of her...

Fast track process for Guyana law school – T&T Attorney

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fast track process for Guyana law school – T&T Attorney

By Feona Morrison Visiting Trinidadian lawyer, Marlon Moore, who is also a tutor at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), believes that everything should be done to fast track the process for...

GMR&SC Drag Championship…Team Mohamed’s still unbeaten, Mad Max returns to winning ways

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC Drag Championship…Team Mohamed’s still unbeaten, Mad Max returns to winning ways

Calvin Chapman story and photos Droves of fans flocked to South Dakota Circuit’s Drag race strip yesterday to witness the first round of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMR&SC)...

Skerritt is new CWI President, surprised at wide margin of victory

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Skerritt is new CWI President, surprised at wide margin of victory

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former West Indies team manager Ricky Skerritt and Dr Kishore Shallow are the new president and vice-president of Cricket West Indies (CWI). Both were elected during the...

Bess returned to top post in GABBFF

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bess returned to top post in GABBFF

By Franklin Wilson Former President of the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) and Assistant Treasurer in the previous executive, Keavon Bess was yesterday returned to the...

121 Berbicians graduate from BIT’s Youth Empowerment Programme

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 121 Berbicians graduate from BIT’s Youth Empowerment Programme

By Kiana Wilburg One hundred and twenty one Berbicians recently graduated from the National Training Project for Youth Empowerment (NYPYE), which is administered by the Board of Industrial...

Maxim is champion, as Kevin and Hilbert are Flight winners in LGC Holi Tourney

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Maxim is champion, as Kevin and Hilbert are Flight winners in LGC Holi Tourney

Rookie Maxim Mangra turned in a superb performance to emerge the champion in the LGC’s Holi Tournament of Saturday last as he won in his Flight and recorded the Tournament’s overall best Net...

Rising Star overcome Independence B

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Star overcome Independence B

Rising Star defeated Independence B 15 runs when the teams collided in a T20 fixture played on Thursday at Zeelugt. Batting first, Rising Star managed 125 all out in 15 overs. E. Fernandes struck two...

Surprising results mark Saturday’s action in CNLQ

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Surprising results mark Saturday’s action in CNLQ

Miami, Florida – Saturday had its fair share of surprising results in a thrilling slate of seven matches in Week 4 of 2019-20 Concacaf Nations League Qualifying. The day’s action started with...

Ashraf Ali “The River Conqueror” to swim the Berbice River back and forth today

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ashraf Ali “The River Conqueror” to swim the Berbice River back and forth today

After swimming all the major rivers in Guyana and conquering the Demerara River back and forth without stopping, and without any boat or any other company, the indomitable Ashraf “The River...

Fuel your passion to achieve your dream – Artist/Designer Sameer Khan

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel your passion to achieve your dream – Artist/Designer Sameer Khan

On the road to achieving your dreams, there will bumps, pit stops and even potholes, or so it is said. For twenty-eight-year-old Sameer Khan, this has been the reality. The young...

D’ Andrade triumph in Meteorological Service 6k

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on D’ Andrade triumph in Meteorological Service 6k

Guyanese Lionel D’Andrade continued his fine form in Trinidad and Tobago when he won the Meteorological Service 6k which was contested on Saturday. D’Andrade clocked 21 minutes 46 seconds to win...

WDCA Beacon Cafe 50 over underway

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on WDCA Beacon Cafe 50 over underway

In just over a month, the West Demerara Cricket Association completed three finals and started the Beacon Cafe 50 overs round robin tournament. Four matches kicked off yesterday at Zeeburg, Belle...

Searching for Munch and Crunch and ending up in a ‘shithole’ country

Mar 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Searching for Munch and Crunch and ending up in a ‘shithole’ country

My Saturday column should have been on what I saw Friday morning in Georgetown that was terrible. But the Court of Appeal decision on the no-confidence vote (NCV) took priority and for my Sunday...

KAMARANG…SHIRLEEN’S DEATH

Mar 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on KAMARANG…SHIRLEEN’S DEATH

By Michael Jordan It was around midday that death came to Kamarang. They were at the Jaguar’s Den; Ovid Kingston and several others crowded near the bar; the drinks on the Sealey crew...

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Arch rivals Harpy Eagles, Red Force square off with eye on weather

Jagdeo’s illogical rejection of the World Bank’s Commodity Market Outlook

…Peeping Tom (Jagdeo’s illogical rejection) Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent comments on the... more