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Triple Crown Final LegDon’t Over Look and Valentina top earners at Port Mourant

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Triple Crown Final LegDon’t Over Look and Valentina top earners at Port Mourant

The Jumbo Jet Racing Stables (JJRS) stampeded away with over $2million in prize money following exciting action at the third and final meet of the Inaugural Triple Crown Horseracing event at the Port...

Judge overrules defence no case submission in ‘Frying Pan’ shooting death trial

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Judge overrules defence no case submission in ‘Frying Pan’ shooting death trial

When the murder trial of Suresh Sakawat, called ‘Vishal’, 31; a labourer of Clifton, Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, continued in The Berbice High Court, Justice Jo Ann Barlow overruled the...

Linden Mayor’s Cup FootballStage set for grand finale between Eagles United and Haynes Winners Connection tonight

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Mayor’s Cup FootballStage set for grand finale between Eagles United and Haynes Winners Connection tonight

The stage is set for tonight’s grand finale of the Linden Town Week Mayor’s Cup football championship where the top ranked Eagles United are to face Haynes & Lewis Winners Connection and the...

I regard Ralph Ramkarran as the third most intolerant leader the PPP birthed

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I regard Ralph Ramkarran as the third most intolerant leader the PPP birthed

The quote below is taken from Ralph Ramkarran’s Stabroek News column of Sunday April 21. I will ask readers to peruse it twice because that extract tells an old, tragic tale about this country long...

The airline scenario

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The airline scenario

The Americans are coming. Guyanese travelers soon will be able to add American Airlines to their choices in a very limited airline menu. The announcement from Civil Aviation authorities is...

Linden Town Week Schools Basketball semifinals on this afternoon at MHS courtChrtistianburg Wismar tackle LTI, Mackenzie High collide with New Silvercity

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Town Week Schools Basketball semifinals on this afternoon at MHS courtChrtistianburg Wismar tackle LTI, Mackenzie High collide with New Silvercity

Christianburg/ Wismar Secondary will play Linden Technical Institute in one semifinal and Mackenzie High school face New Silvercity Secondary in the other this afternoon when the Linden Town...

Correction for court picture

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Correction for court picture

In the Wednesday Edition April 17, 2019 on page 30, is the photograph published as “Gregory Bascom”. This person is Gregory Nickels and is in no way related to any of the information contained in...

Bounty Paper Towel and Solo Drink Development LeagueSaints and GCC dominate after first round

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bounty Paper Towel and Solo Drink Development LeagueSaints and GCC dominate after first round

Play in the Bounty Paper Towel Second Division and Solo Drink Under-20 Outdoor Development Leagues will resume this weekend after a break last weekend for Easter observances. As expected in the...

U-16 & Juniors Boxing C/ShipsFYF’s Patrick Harvey adjudged Best Boxer

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on U-16 & Juniors Boxing C/ShipsFYF’s Patrick Harvey adjudged Best Boxer

Watched by a handful of die-hard Boxing fans on a day Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead, last Sunday Evening’s U-16 and Juniors Boxing Championships at the National Gymnasium was...

Khan guides Farm to 7-a-side softball title

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Khan guides Farm to 7-a-side softball title

Led by a fine all-round performance from Ameer Khan, Farm defeated Mahabir Cambio by 25 runs in the final of the five-over 7-a-side softball knock out competition which was contested in the wee hours...

SHE SAID YES

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on SHE SAID YES

A soldier, Ackeem Hosannah, recently went down on his knees to ask his lady friend, Abbyolia Christopher, a police woman for her hands in marriage. She apparently said yes, from these Facebook photos...

A JOYOUS EASTER!PAT DIAL

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on A JOYOUS EASTER!PAT DIAL

The Easter Season is one of the most welcome times of the year. It is respected and celebrated by people of every culture and religion in Guyana’s multi-racial, multi-racial mosaic. This is not...

Diamond Thunders claim Farm CC, Mahabir Cambio Tapeball title

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Thunders claim Farm CC, Mahabir Cambio Tapeball title

Diamond Thunders emerged champions of the Farm CC and Mahabir Cambio five-over 7-a-side Tapeball competition which was contested Sunday at Farm, East Bank Demerara. Diamond Thunders defeated All...

Agard for AMBC Continental Championships

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Agard for AMBC Continental Championships

Guyana’s most experienced referee/judge Ramona Agard has been appointed to officiate at the Americas Boxing Confederation (AMBC) Elite Women Championship in Honduras in June. The Guyanese AIBA One...

3 of billionaire’s children die in Sri Lanka bombings

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 3 of billionaire’s children die in Sri Lanka bombings

The bomb attacks in Sri Lanka have claimed the lives of three of the four children of the biggest shareholder in fashion e-tailer Asos. A spokesman for Anders Holch Povlsen, a Danish billionaire and...

Easter 2019 in Georgetown reeked of frolic and fun-kites, picnic baskets and laughter abound

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Easter 2019 in Georgetown reeked of frolic and fun-kites, picnic baskets and laughter abound

The sound of pulsating music pierced the air from all corners of the city. The crowds thronged the streets of Georgetown, some heading for the National Park, Everest Cricket Ground, Kingston Seawall,...

Berbice man in custody for allegedly raping 8-year-old niece

Apr 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man in custody for allegedly raping 8-year-old niece

Cops in Berbice are investigating an alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl. They have since arrested the accused who has been identified as the child’s uncle. According to reports, the...

Contractors’ Bid Offers and Engineers’ Estimates – Some Remarks

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Contractors’ Bid Offers and Engineers’ Estimates – Some Remarks

DEAR EDITOR, Please refer to your article on page 12 of your Good Friday edition of your newspaper entitled “Questionable Engineers’ Estimates costing Guyana Billion$”. Your piece seems to...

It seems that we have to be wary of our countrymen in and out of Guyana

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on It seems that we have to be wary of our countrymen in and out of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Having read the article in SN –‘Agro processors want more robust lobby for access to regional markets, local outlets’ I looked at the accompanying picture of the displayed products...

Mueller disgraced the office of Independent Counsel

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mueller disgraced the office of Independent Counsel

DEAR EDITOR, I believe that Independent Counsel Robert Mueller, by those words against his name, has condemned himself. In so doing, he has dragged the always controversial, always vulnerable, office...

Is Exxon’s Hammerhead the next mega-discovery of oil?

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Exxon’s Hammerhead the next mega-discovery of oil?

DEAR EDITOR, ExxonMobil’s announcement last Thursday that it made a new and its 13th oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Yellowtail-1 well included another bit of information worthy of some...

Information should be researched to ensure accuracy

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Information should be researched to ensure accuracy

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to a letter by Vishnu Bisram (PhD) which appeared in your publication of Thursday 18th April, under the caption, “Hold Referendum on The CCJ and Privy Council”. In...

Community concerns

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Community concerns

DEAR EDITOR, “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education...

The practice of grouping students according to NGSA is a sophisticated apartheid

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The practice of grouping students according to NGSA is a sophisticated apartheid

DEAR EDITOR, During the early nineteenth century, the endowment from the Mico Trust–originally established in 1670 to redeem Christian slaves in the Barbary States of North Africa–opened...

The loss of Sir Alister McIntyre is an irreplaceable one for the entire region and the world at large

Apr 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The loss of Sir Alister McIntyre is an irreplaceable one for the entire region and the world at large

DEAR EDITOR, I am deeply saddened having received the news about the death of Sir Alister McIntyre. To me, Sir Alister was a special person. I learnt a lot from him. Sir Alister served in many...

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Desecration, Disrespectful, and Disgraceful

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The solemnity of Babu Jaan, a site meant to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Cheddi... more