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Over 150 GWI Workers to Get House Lots

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Over 150 GWI Workers to Get House Lots

Over 150 workers of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) were shortlisted to be interviewed for house lots. They were part of the first batch of persons shortlisted. The interview process was conducted...

EMANCIPATION DAY – A TIME OF CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on EMANCIPATION DAY – A TIME OF CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION

PAT DIAL On 1st August, we celebrated Emancipation Day which is among the three oldest public holidays in Guyana. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was celebrated for an entire week with much...

Man damages grandfather’s appliances over negative energy

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man damages grandfather’s appliances over negative energy

Nicholas Phillips, 25, is now awaiting sentencing after he admitting to damaging household articles amounting to $682,000, belonging to his grandfather, because of the alleged ‘negative energy’...

ACP/EU Post Cotonou Negotiations: Slowed Pace

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ACP/EU Post Cotonou Negotiations: Slowed Pace

By Elizabeth Morgan KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC Feature) – The European Union (EU) Parliament approved Ursula von der Leyen, former German Defence Minister, as the new Commission President. Attention is...

American Chambers of Commerce to discuss implication of CCJ consequential orders for business in Guyana

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on American Chambers of Commerce to discuss implication of CCJ consequential orders for business in Guyana

American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Guyana will be hosting a forum tomorrow to discuss the implication of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) consequential orders for business in Guyana. Fixed for...

The talk is about oil and the Haitians

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The talk is about oil and the Haitians

In recent times attention has been divided on the happenings in the oil industry and on the impending elections. An immigration issue is impacting the conversation about the elections. A report that...

Demanding racial respect and dignity is not racism

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Demanding racial respect and dignity is not racism

Race must be confronted, head on. It must no longer be seen as the elephant in the room that no one wants to have honest, open and frank discussion on. Each group has its story and experiences to...

Duo charged for attempting to break into store

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Duo charged for attempting to break into store

Two repeat offenders were yesterday hauled before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where they were charged for attempting to break into a store. Marvin Blackman,...

New Indian High Commissioner to assume duties on August 13

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New Indian High Commissioner to assume duties on August 13

India (Deccan Herakl)- Dr. K. J. Srinivasa, a 2002 batch Indian Foreign Service officer from Karnataka, has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of India to Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis,...

Thoughts on Oil and Gas Vision, Irfaan Ali and Power Sharing

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Thoughts on Oil and Gas Vision, Irfaan Ali and Power Sharing

Today, I want to address three related issues. First, I wish to argue that although ethnicity remains the overriding motivation for choosing who governs, there is likely to be a slight but...

“There’s no secret ingredient to a long life” –says Sister Agnes who turns 104 today

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “There’s no secret ingredient to a long life” –says Sister Agnes who turns 104 today

By Trishan Craig “There’s no secret ingredient to a long life; it is all in your mind,” says Sister Agnes Clarke of 149 Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown. She is celebrating 104 years of life...

Concussion: The unnoticed head injury that can cause long term disability

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Concussion: The unnoticed head injury that can cause long term disability

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine A concussion is an injury to the brain that results in temporary loss of normal brain function. It is usually caused by a blow to the...

Regal Masters, Mike’s Wellman to battle for Royston Ramsarran trophy

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal Masters, Mike’s Wellman to battle for Royston Ramsarran trophy

Arguably the two most accomplished softball masters teams in Guyana, Regal Masters and Wellman Masters will once again go at it this time for the Royston Ramsarran trophy at the GNIC Sports Club...

New Era Ent. /Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal continues today

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Era Ent. /Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal continues today

Play in the sixth annual New Era Entertainment (NEE)/Mohamed’s Enterprise futsal tournament continues tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) basketball hard court from 7:00pm. The opening...

“Govt has done a lot for Mahdia, roads better than ever” – taxi driver

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “Govt has done a lot for Mahdia, roads better than ever” – taxi driver

The roads in the mining town of Mahdia, in Potaro-Siparuni, are now way better than it was under the previous administration. This is according to taxi driver, Ashton Frasier, whose family’s...

Free education from nursery to university will be a game changer

Aug 04, 2019 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Free education from nursery to university will be a game changer

In a few months Guyana will be a petroleum-producing country. This will have a transformative effect on all of our lives. However, the question being asked by the average Guyanese is; what does all...

Celebrate freedom by strengthening our Entrepreneurial spirit

Aug 04, 2019 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Celebrate freedom by strengthening our Entrepreneurial spirit

The Alliance For Change takes this splendid opportunity to link with all Guyana, and celebrate as one, the Emancipation of our African foreparents 181 years ago. The passage of the Abolition Act in...

El Paso, Micobie, and Tumatumari residents to benefits from rehab of access roads

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on El Paso, Micobie, and Tumatumari residents to benefits from rehab of access roads

Minister of Public Infrastructure, Hon. David Patterson made this announcement during a community meeting at El Paso, Region 8. “The good news is that the regional engineer just informed me that...

Cummings Lodge, East Ruimveldt are ExxonMobil/Petra Organisation U14 football titles

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cummings Lodge, East Ruimveldt are ExxonMobil/Petra Organisation U14 football titles

By Zaheer Mohamed Cummings Lodge Secondary and East Ruimveldt Secondary were crowned male and female champions respectively of the ExxonMobil/ Petra Organisation schools’ U14 football tournament...

Blazing a life-saving trail, Dr. Azim Gangji is a ‘Special Person’

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Blazing a life-saving trail, Dr. Azim Gangji is a ‘Special Person’

“You cannot say you are successful if you lose your patient within 10 years… we haven’t been successful in that case. If a person dies within two years, we have failed. If the kidney is...

Pritipaul Singh and Builder’s Lumber Yard supports GCOS

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pritipaul Singh and Builder’s Lumber Yard supports GCOS

The Guyana Committee of Service’s (GCOS) whose mandate is to support sportsmen and sportswomen and the performing arts in Guyana, has recently benefitted from the support of Builders’ Lumber Yard...

Mahdia Hospital closer to establishing Cancer Treatment Centre ─ nurses trained, Cryo-therapy machine acquired

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia Hospital closer to establishing Cancer Treatment Centre ─ nurses trained, Cryo-therapy machine acquired

The Public Health Ministry On Friday handed over a cryotherapy machine to the staff of the Mahdia District Hospital The machine is used to treat early signs of cervical cancer and other...

Youth Enhancement 10/10 cricket second edition set for today

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Youth Enhancement 10/10 cricket second edition set for today

The second edition of the youth enhancement 10/10 Cricket tournament is set for today at the Number 56 Village [Corentyne] Community Ground. Eight teams are set to compete in the tournament which was...

Guyana went the full nine yards

Aug 04, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana went the full nine yards

The worry about the Haitians is not so much about them coming, as their unexplained disappearance. In other words, this is an immigration problem for which the relevant authorities have to be held...

Director of Youth sent on leave, police called in

Aug 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Director of Youth sent on leave, police called in

The Director of Youth at the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport, Melissa Carmichael, has been sent on administrative leave, following a request...

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