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Demerara Bank renews sponsorship for RHTYSC cricket teams Annual Spelling Bee

Demerara Bank renews sponsorship for RHTYSC cricket teams Annual Spelling Bee

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara Bank renews sponsorship for RHTYSC cricket teams Annual Spelling Bee

Long time sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Demerara Bank on Friday last renewed its sponsorship of the Club’s annual Spelling Bee Competition. The Annual Competition is...

CAREBACO Junior Under-19 International Championship 2019 Day 3 Guyana players in three out of five finals

CAREBACO Junior Under-19 International Championship 2019 Day 3 Guyana players in three out of five finals

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on CAREBACO Junior Under-19 International Championship 2019 Day 3 Guyana players in three out of five finals

On Day three Saturday August 17th at the CAREBACO Junior Under-19 International Championship which is being played at the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium in St. Michael, Barbados, the Guyanese players...

2019 International Crossfit 12-12-12 Throwdown – T&T Omisi Williams cops RX bronze on debut, Kellon Reid ends 8th; Randy Halley 4th in Scaled Class

2019 International Crossfit 12-12-12 Throwdown – T&T Omisi Williams cops RX bronze on debut, Kellon Reid ends 8th; Randy Halley 4th in Scaled Class

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2019 International Crossfit 12-12-12 Throwdown – T&T Omisi Williams cops RX bronze on debut, Kellon Reid ends 8th; Randy Halley 4th in Scaled Class

By Franklin Wilson The Guyana trio of Omisi Williams, Kellon Reid and Randy Halley, all hailing from the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden made themselves and nation proud on the weekend when the annual...

Guyanese Anderson, Hunts, Woodroffe, Gonsalves grab gold at Goodwill games

Guyanese Anderson, Hunts, Woodroffe, Gonsalves grab gold at Goodwill games

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Anderson, Hunts, Woodroffe, Gonsalves grab gold at Goodwill games

Guyana’s swimmers have done their country proud so far at the ongoing Goodwill games in Suriname. Jaleel Anderson grabbed gold in the 100 freestyle, while Athalcy Hunts won gold in the 100m...

RDC Region Ten congratulates athlete on securing scholarship

RDC Region Ten congratulates athlete on securing scholarship

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on RDC Region Ten congratulates athlete on securing scholarship

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Region Ten through its Regional Chairman, Renis Morian has congratulated well known Linden athlete, Daniel Williams in securing a scholarship. The young man, who...

NEE/Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal tourney Hard Knocks clinches Championship

NEE/Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal tourney Hard Knocks clinches Championship

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on NEE/Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal tourney Hard Knocks clinches Championship

The curtains fell on the sixth annual New Era Entertainment (NEE)/Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal tourney on Saturday last after Hard Knocks got past NK Ballers in the final that was played on the...

Motor Trend Service Centre joins 1320 sponsorship team

Motor Trend Service Centre joins 1320 sponsorship team

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Motor Trend Service Centre joins 1320 sponsorship team

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) has secured sponsorship from Motor Trend Service Centre for the upcoming International Drag race event dubbed 1320 heat slated for this Sunday at...

Dominion Enterprise distribute bursaries to West Ruimveldt youths

Dominion Enterprise distribute bursaries to West Ruimveldt youths

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dominion Enterprise distribute bursaries to West Ruimveldt youths

Former National Table Tennis player and Managing Director of Dominion Enterprise, Dwayne Munroe, distributed bursaries to the youths of West Ruimveldt in an effort to assist with the educational...

The right to vote

The right to vote

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The right to vote

Many persons have misinterpreted the primary intention of the recent court action brought by Christopher Ram concerning house-to-house registration. The case sought primarily to assert that...

The WPA: Dem boys call it “papel”

The WPA: Dem boys call it “papel”

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The WPA: Dem boys call it “papel”

The street lingo refers to an important document as “papel.” If a man says that he has qualifications to do technical infrastructural work and he is not getting governmental contracts, his...

Electrocuted on fishing trip…GPL confirms illegal connection caused dad’s death at Coverden

Electrocuted on fishing trip…GPL confirms illegal connection caused dad’s death at Coverden

Aug 19, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Electrocuted on fishing trip…GPL confirms illegal connection caused dad’s death at Coverden

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) has confirmed that an Illegal connection caused the death of 36-year-old Orlando Ramnarine, the dad who died during a fishing trip. A GPL official told...

Guyanese horror fiction…LEAD ME TO WATERS DARK

Guyanese horror fiction…LEAD ME TO WATERS DARK

Aug 19, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese horror fiction…LEAD ME TO WATERS DARK

By Michael Jordan (continued from last week) After what had happened to Maxie, we knew we had to talk to somebody who knew of these things. We went to Old Skeets, who’d worked at sea a long...

CARIFESTA XIV SHOWCASE…Standing ovation for Guyana’s dancers

CARIFESTA XIV SHOWCASE…Standing ovation for Guyana’s dancers

Aug 19, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CARIFESTA XIV SHOWCASE…Standing ovation for Guyana’s dancers

The graceful yet compelling movements of the dancers from Guyana’s delegation, on Saturday evening, had members of the audience calling for an encore. Wrapped in soft flowing garments, and...

Teen’s Tertiary Education will be sponsored by Game Xpress

Teen’s Tertiary Education will be sponsored by Game Xpress

Aug 19, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Teen’s Tertiary Education will be sponsored by Game Xpress

– “Businessman describes kind gesture as “best investment I ever made” Businessman and owner of Game Xpress Audie Henriques says that helping Garfield Dover, a young man from an...

The nation anxiously awaits GECOM’s rational and lawful decision

The nation anxiously awaits GECOM’s rational and lawful decision

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Letters, News Comments Off on The nation anxiously awaits GECOM’s rational and lawful decision

DEAR EDITOR, On Wednesday last, Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire ruled, that names cannot be removed, from the National Register of Registrants, other than upon grounds stated in the...

The ball is in GECOM’s court to uphold the constitution

The ball is in GECOM’s court to uphold the constitution

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ball is in GECOM’s court to uphold the constitution

DEAR EDITOR, Now that the Chief Justice has given her ruling on August 14th, 2019, democratic and progressive-minded Guyanese have been vindicated on several counts once again by a judicial...

Do not be misled by the PPP/C and their trickery

Do not be misled by the PPP/C and their trickery

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not be misled by the PPP/C and their trickery

DEAR EDITOR, As the PPP/C continues trying to bully GECOM to hold elections without a credible voter’s list. Please permit me a space in your Newspaper to respond to a statement that was publicly...

Dr. Jagdeo should ensure that the constitution stands tall

Dr. Jagdeo should ensure that the constitution stands tall

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Jagdeo should ensure that the constitution stands tall

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU/AFC coalition Government may see the current political crisis as purely internal and must be solved by Guyanese political forces. While we agree that political issues should be...

Even the blind can see Jadgeo’s hidden agenda

Even the blind can see Jadgeo’s hidden agenda

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Even the blind can see Jadgeo’s hidden agenda

DEAR EDITOR, As I painfully observe the confusion and turmoil on a daily display in our beloved land I cannot help but recall the most profound quote of Lord Acton in his letter to Bishop Mandell...

Politicians must address concerns of Indigenous People

Politicians must address concerns of Indigenous People

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Politicians must address concerns of Indigenous People

DEAR EDITOR, The indigenous Amerindian people have a lot of issues that need to be urgently addressed by politicians. They complain that they have been marginalized, neglected, exploited, and abused...

Cash, Communication channels and crime

Cash, Communication channels and crime

Aug 19, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Cash, Communication channels and crime

“Guyanese like fuh walk with cash. They don’t like to walk with plastic or cheques. Some of them are very careless, so they get robbed.” That was the Hon. Minister Khemraj Ramjattan speaking...

Tullow Oil Deal worse than Exxon’s… 1% Royalty will be recovered by operator

Tullow Oil Deal worse than Exxon’s… 1% Royalty will be recovered by operator

Aug 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tullow Oil Deal worse than Exxon’s… 1% Royalty will be recovered by operator

By Kiana Wilburg When it comes to the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) governing the Orinduik Block, Guyana agreed to collect a one percent royalty. But that’s not the appalling part. In addition...

Security questions raised over Huawei possible access to citizens personal data

Security questions raised over Huawei possible access to citizens personal data

Aug 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Security questions raised over Huawei possible access to citizens personal data

Late last month, Government announced that it has placed over 100 smart cameras around the city as part of a long-term battle to arrest crime. The Chinese-built system all had the capabilities of...

Total public debt stands at US$1.65B – Midyear report

Total public debt stands at US$1.65B – Midyear report

Aug 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Total public debt stands at US$1.65B – Midyear report

At the end of June, Guyana’s total public debt was US$1,657.8M, a 1.5 percent increase over the US$1,634M at last year’s half year report. This was iterated by Minister of Finance, Winston...

Govt. renews Ogle lease seven years in advance

Govt. renews Ogle lease seven years in advance

Aug 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. renews Ogle lease seven years in advance

The Government of Guyana has renewed a lease to the Ogle Airport Inc. (OAC) for a period of 50 years. The renewal was published in the August 3, 2019 edition of The Official Gazette. In the 2001...

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Poverty does not come with a lifetime warranty

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OAS Secretary General Election and renewed OAS Consensus

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Lift corruption ban-nice try Ms. Amanza

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