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Miner comes out of ‘bush’, remanded on robbery charge

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miner comes out of ‘bush’, remanded on robbery charge

A 31-year-old miner was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, after being arrested and charged for snatching a woman’s bag and her cell phone while...

Manslaughter convict files appeal

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Manslaughter convict files appeal

Rajen Dindial who was convicted and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the September 03, 2017, murder of Alston Henry, is asking the court to intervene. Dindial was convicted of the lesser...

Alleged counterfeit scamp lands in court again

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged counterfeit scamp lands in court again

Thirty-six-year old Dexter Thompson, of 101 Parfaite Harmonie West Bank Demerara, yesterday made his way back to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to have yet another fraud charge read to him in...

Teen who lost her arm, other victims coping with injuries after deadly Mahaicony crash

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Teen who lost her arm, other victims coping with injuries after deadly Mahaicony crash

“I already lost my left hand due to the accident; all I have to do now is adjust myself, so that I will still be able to work and continue schooling using the remaining one. I don’t think losing...

Sod turned at UG for $120M Early Childhood Centre of Excellence

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sod turned at UG for $120M Early Childhood Centre of Excellence

Yesterday morning, representatives of the University of Guyana (UG) in collaboration with the Basic Needs Trust Fund Implementing Agency (BNTF IA) Guyana and UNICEF, turned the sod at its Turkeyen...

KFC schools’ Goodwill football tourney Lodge end Hindu boys’ win streak

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on KFC schools’ Goodwill football tourney Lodge end Hindu boys’ win streak

By Calvin Chapman Lodge Secondary ran defending champions Shiva boys’ Hindu College of Trinidad & Tobago ragged last evening to eventually win their semifinal match via kicks from the penalty...

Sugar production falls to 80-year low -no funding for turnaround plan

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar production falls to 80-year low -no funding for turnaround plan

Sugar production this year will not reach 100,000 tonnes and will be the lowest production of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) in its now 43-year history. “In fact, when we checked our...

ITF expert Coach Bill Adams pays visit to the NRC

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on ITF expert Coach Bill Adams pays visit to the NRC

To conduct Coaching clinic today at Le Ressouvenir Courts By Sean Devers International Tennis Federation (ITF) expert, Coach Bill Adams, paid a short four-day visit to Guyana after spending four days...

Table Tennis action set for this weekend at MSC

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Table Tennis action set for this weekend at MSC

Junior and Senior National Table Tennis players would be involved in a two-day tournament this weekend at the Malteenoes Sports Club. The initiative will see one junior player paired with a senior....

Marics and Co. Ltd. sponsors Motorcycle for GFF Super 16 Cup MVP

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marics and Co. Ltd. sponsors Motorcycle for GFF Super 16 Cup MVP

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 2019/2020 GFF Super 16 Cup knockout Football championship would be riding away with a brand new Honda 125CC Motorcycle, compliments of Marics and Company...

Inaugural 4 x 4 Under-18 Basketball at MSC tonight

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural 4 x 4 Under-18 Basketball at MSC tonight

Invasion of Kwakwani, New Amsterdam and Georgetown teams to face Linden’s best The Kings Basketball Club in association with the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) will stage the...

Trophy Stall backs Guyana Dominoes League Christmas festival

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall backs Guyana Dominoes League Christmas festival

The Guyana Dominoes League (GDL) has gained the backing of Trophy Stall for the staging of its Christmas Dominoes festival which is set for Sunday at R and R Dominoes Club 76 Meadowbrook Gardens. The...

Four-team 10/10 fund raiser cricket tourney set for West MMZ

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Four-team 10/10 fund raiser cricket tourney set for West MMZ

Host Meten- Meer- Zorg Future Youths, Zeeburg Cricket Club, Mc Gill Sports Club and West Coast Warriors will vie for supremacy in a 10/10 cricket competition on Sunday starting at 09:15hrs. This...

President Granger pardons two female inmates for Christmas

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger pardons two female inmates for Christmas

President David Granger has made Christmas celebrations possible for two female inmates after he pardoned them as part of his custom of forgiveness around the holiday season. The Presidential Pardon...

Dragon Stout Street-ball ‘Community Cup’ semis decided

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dragon Stout Street-ball ‘Community Cup’ semis decided

Sparta Boss will oppose Leopold Street, while Bent Street tackle Rio All-Stars in the semifinal round of the inaugural Dragon Stout Street-ball ‘Community Cup’, following quarterfinal wins on...

Energy Dept.’s ‘unusual practices’ heighten suspicions over first oil sales —GAWU

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept.’s ‘unusual practices’ heighten suspicions over first oil sales —GAWU

By Gary Eleazar The unusual practices recently highlighted by a Bloomberg publication with regard to the process used for Guyana’s sale of its first three shipments of crude oil, “opens the door...

Cummings Lodge Secondary School students involved in volleyball sessions

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cummings Lodge Secondary School students involved in volleyball sessions

Members of the Cummings Lodge Secondary School male and female cricket teams were recently involved in a volleyball session at the National Gymnasium. The sessions were conducted by Sports Officer...

Cricketzone USA outfits ECCCC youth teams

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricketzone USA outfits ECCCC youth teams

Cricketzone USA has continued to aid in the development of the young cricketers as part of its corporate responsibility. At a presentation ceremony held at the Enmore Community Centre yesterday,...

Two Guyanese in historic Mount Roraima climb

Dec 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Two Guyanese in historic Mount Roraima climb

Two Guyanese, of Amerindian descent, have been lauded in a historic climb of Mount Roraima earlier this month. On Wednesday, the Guyana Tourism Authority, along with Minister of State, Dawn...

Guyana: The poverty of journalism; journalism’s poverty

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: The poverty of journalism; journalism’s poverty

Mr. Glenn Lall, the publisher of Kaieteur News, called me on Friday morning to request that I send him a list of journalism’s unattended curiosities that were mentioned in my column yesterday. I...

Coach ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers making a mark in the hinterland

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Coach ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers making a mark in the hinterland

By Sean Devers Coach of the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym, 44-year-old Orland Rogers, was appointed in January of this year as Hinterland Boxing Coach after a meeting with Sports Minister Dr. George...

Crime everywhere; we cannot go on like this

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Crime everywhere; we cannot go on like this

There have been reports of what prevails immediately outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). No sooner than the ink on those reports had dried, there came news of the need for...

GFF Super 16 Cup Bartica and Essequibo in the spotlight tonight

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super 16 Cup Bartica and Essequibo in the spotlight tonight

Fans in the Bartica and Essequibo areas would have an opportunity to witness first hand, action in the 2019/2020 edition of the GFF Super League when their respective top teams welcome Elite League...

An open letter to Bharrat Jagdeo

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to Bharrat Jagdeo

Bharrat, I have been politically conscious longer than your age in life. To be precise, I have been in active politics for more than 65 years, not as a member, supporter or well-wisher but as an...

We cannot become aliens in our own country

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on We cannot become aliens in our own country

DEAR EDITOR, It strikes as no surprise that some stores operated by non-nationals are now openly barring Guyanese from shopping there. One does not have to be paranoid to observe the attitude of some...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more