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Daughter testifies in trial of accused wife killer

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Daughter testifies in trial of accused wife killer

As the trial of 62-year-old Randolph Tahal continues in the Berbice High Court, the daughter of the accused and deceased has testified. Tahal is on trial for murdering his wife, Janet Tahal, before...

More sponsors on board for Nand Persaud Sprint Classic One Day Horse Race Meet

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on More sponsors on board for Nand Persaud Sprint Classic One Day Horse Race Meet

Ahead of this Sunday’s race day, more sponsors have joined hands with the organisers for the Nand Persaud and Company, Mega One Day Sprint Classic Horse Race Meet. Apart from main sponsors,...

Kishore takes Longest Drive title; Pascal wins NTP at Bridgestone Guyana Open

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kishore takes Longest Drive title; Pascal wins NTP at Bridgestone Guyana Open

Guyanese Avinda Kishore won the Longest Drive while Neville Pascal of Barbados took the Nearest to the Pin title on the second and final day of the Bridgestone Guyana Open Golf tournament which...

‘Women on the Move’ hosts successful Cancer Awareness Walk

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Women on the Move’ hosts successful Cancer Awareness Walk

In what could best be described, as a phenomenal success, the “Women on the Move”, on Sunday, hosted its nineteenth Cancer Awareness Walk, run and jog. The event attracted a mammoth...

Guyana Jaguars to play first of two warm-up matches tomorrow

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Jaguars to play first of two warm-up matches tomorrow

The Guyana Jaguars will play their first of two practice matches tomorrow at GCC ground, Bourda. The Jaguars will depart Guyana next Monday to begin their quest to secure the 2019 Regional Super 50...

I feel deeply worried about the fate of small parties

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I feel deeply worried about the fate of small parties

If the new parties amalgamate, they will be stronger than their separate, individual existence. I am voting for one of the smaller entities but would definitely campaign for the unity slate if they...

WIFBSC Short Range Match 2019 Guyana is second as T&T shoots its way to top spot

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on WIFBSC Short Range Match 2019 Guyana is second as T&T shoots its way to top spot

Host Trinidad and Tobago surged to the West Indies Fullbore Shooting Council Short Range title and in the process dethroned Barbados which had won on home soil in 2018. All the action unfolded at the...

The borders are closing

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The borders are closing

Mexico pulled the trigger. Why play games with the devil? Thus, a planeload of 300 Indians was returned to New Delhi. It was in one supercharged swoop to avoid US sanctions. There would be no...

‘River Conqueror’ Ali, establish youth Centre undertakes garbage disposal in Canfield East Canje

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘River Conqueror’ Ali, establish youth Centre undertakes garbage disposal in Canfield East Canje

Overseas-based Guyanese Ashraf Ali, AKA ‘the River Conqueror, for his exploits of swimming all of the major Rivers in Guyana and also swimming over seven miles into the Atlantic Ocean is...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – West Demerara FA Eagles continue to soar; Uitvlugt Warriors and Hurry ATE draw

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – West Demerara FA Eagles continue to soar; Uitvlugt Warriors and Hurry ATE draw

Eagles Football Club of Stewartville has maintained their dominance of the Under-17 landscape on the West Demerara when they hammered Den Amstel 7-0 on Saturday at the Uitvlugt Community Centre...

Securities Council warns fraudsters fleecing unsuspecting Guyanese

Oct 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Securities Council warns fraudsters fleecing unsuspecting Guyanese

The Guyana Securities Council (GSC) has issued a warning to citizens to be on the lookout for ponzi schemes. These are, in essence, scams where citizens are asked to invest in businesses where the...

Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers Schools Football Defending champs Annandale edge Bishops High

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers Schools Football Defending champs Annandale edge Bishops High

Match day two of the second annual Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers Schools Football League saw three matches being played at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground, Carifesta Avenue. The defending...

No Judicial Service Commission since 2017: the crisis deepens

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on No Judicial Service Commission since 2017: the crisis deepens

DEAR EDITOR, Like in every other Constitution in the English-speaking Commonwealth, embedded in the Guyana Constitution, is a series of checks and balances, whose functions are to minimize abuse of...

Road carnage – Annihilation by any other name

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Road carnage – Annihilation by any other name

DEAR EDITOR, The bloodshed on the roads amounts to murder. Figures do not tell the whole story. The Oxford lexicon defines accident thus: “an event that is without apparent cause” or as “an...

Blueprint being rolled out as launch pad

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Blueprint being rolled out as launch pad

DEAR EDITOR, The blueprint/master plan was not rolled out while at the helm of the beleaguered company. Now it is being rolled out as a launch pad. Are we to wonder and conclude that interest in the...

A dangerous perversion

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A dangerous perversion

DEAR EDITOR, Kindly allow this poor man to express his thoughts, which has inundated his thinking for a season. Since the beginning of civilization some men have always been perverse one way or...

There is widespread poverty in the world and Guyana is no exception

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is widespread poverty in the world and Guyana is no exception

DEAR EDITOR, Recent developments in Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile have demonstrated that the working class is not prepared to sit idly by and allow government to impose policies and programmes that...

APNU+AFC’S TOTAL NEGLIGENCE – SUFFERING REGION 5 FARMERS THREATENED WITH POVERTY

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC’S TOTAL NEGLIGENCE – SUFFERING REGION 5 FARMERS THREATENED WITH POVERTY

DEAR EDITOR, Just as the residents and farmers of Region 5 in the Dantzig-Columbia feared, the high tides this past week brought another round of flooding and more destruction of crops and loss of...

A Feeling of guilt should never be the basis of an exercise of presidential power

Oct 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Feeling of guilt should never be the basis of an exercise of presidential power

DEAR EDITOR, Recently, a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) was ordered by the caretaker President Granger for the vehicular collision which occurred on the East Bank of Demerara two (2) weeks ago where...

Approval of Oil Field Development Plans gives Guyana room to reclaim lost value – T&T Expert, Anthony Paul

Oct 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Approval of Oil Field Development Plans gives Guyana room to reclaim lost value – T&T Expert, Anthony Paul

By Kiana Wilburg Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) with industry majors like ExxonMobil and Tullow Oil have been heavily criticized for their gaping loopholes that allow for...

Another US State follows New York; sues ExxonMobil for hiding climate crisis

Oct 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Another US State follows New York; sues ExxonMobil for hiding climate crisis

BLOOMBERG – Exxon Mobil Corp. was sued by Massachusetts for allegedly hiding its early knowledge of climate change from the public and misleading investors about the future financial impact...

Gold miner, bandits shootout…Shop owner who helped trail victim had previously set up armed robbery at his own rum shop

Oct 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner, bandits shootout…Shop owner who helped trail victim had previously set up armed robbery at his own rum shop

Roberto Sankar and Delon ‘Demon Morgan’, two of the implicated suspects into the death of gold miner, Deon ‘Mow’ Stoll, had previously faced charges related to a robbery they were accused of...

Fire displaces two families on Diwali night – 2 houses destroyed

Oct 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fire displaces two families on Diwali night – 2 houses destroyed

The festive celebrations of Diwali became a sad one for three families, after fire destroyed two homes, and badly damaged a third at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The fire occurred at...

KN journalist cops top awards for Oil and Gas coverage

Oct 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on KN journalist cops top awards for Oil and Gas coverage

– Others recognized for coverage of Human Rights, Sports, and Politics More than 20 journalists received awards on Saturday night at the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel from the...

Friend of vanished Forestry employee kills self

Oct 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Friend of vanished Forestry employee kills self

– missing man’s relatives, colleagues fear the worst Police have stepped up investigations into the strange disappearance of Guyana Forestry Commission employee Michael Banfus, who has...

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The Horse Racing Authority Bill will solve nothing!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Horse Racing Authority Bill of 2024, though ostensibly aimed at regulating horse racing... more