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Hockey review 2019 (Part one)…. GHB maintains high level of organisation

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hockey review 2019 (Part one)…. GHB maintains high level of organisation

By Calvin Chapman The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) that is headed by Philip Fernandes continues to be one of the most disciplined sports organisations in Guyana after another productive 2019 and the...

Rising Sun horserace meet set for New Years Day

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Sun horserace meet set for New Years Day

The Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park, West Coast Berbice, is set to come alive on Wednesday January 1st 2020 (New Years Day) with the staging of the Presidential Cup horserace meet. The event, which...

Sooklall, Khan, Zaman slam half centuries as Good Success, Melville triumph

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sooklall, Khan, Zaman slam half centuries as Good Success, Melville triumph

Good Success and Melville registered victories when the Prem Dhaniram/Chandrika Ragnauth and Tamesh Persaud 15-over softball competition continued yesterday at Belle Plaine, Wakenaam. Good Success...

New Trend Auto & Foodtown Year-end golf tourney… Kalyan Tiwari, William Walker and Mohanlall Dinanauth emerge winners

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Trend Auto & Foodtown Year-end golf tourney… Kalyan Tiwari, William Walker and Mohanlall Dinanauth emerge winners

With all fairways prepared by the Club President himself, after the rains and year-end light work of grounds staff, the Lusignan Golf course was in refreshingly great condition, as returning veteran...

White Tiger Martial Arts Academy host successful Taekwondo grading

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on White Tiger Martial Arts Academy host successful Taekwondo grading

White Tiger Martial Arts Academy hosted yet another Taekwondo grading, which was held at its headquarters the New Amsterdam Town Hall. Twenty-two students participated in this grading, with scores...

Regional first-Class practice match… Bishoo, Sinclair, Smith & Perez impress on day two

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional first-Class practice match… Bishoo, Sinclair, Smith & Perez impress on day two

By Sean Devers West Indies leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, pacer Nial Smith, opener Raymond Perez and Kevin Sinclair yesterday had impressive performances at Providence on day two of the first three-day...

Public Infrastructure Min. proposes new Parika Stelling

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Infrastructure Min. proposes new Parika Stelling

Commuters of the Parika Ferry Stelling are to see a drastic development following the Ministry of Public Infrastructure submitting of an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for...

Mayor pushes to revamp Municipal and District Council Act in 2020

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mayor pushes to revamp Municipal and District Council Act in 2020

Mayor Ubraj Narine is pushing to have the Municipal and District Council Act Chapter 28:01 revamped in the New Year. The Mayor told reporters recently that “I will push for the Act to be...

Guilty pleas account for majority of criminal cases disposed this year

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guilty pleas account for majority of criminal cases disposed this year

Most of the criminal cases disposed of this year were as a result of accused persons opting to plead guilty to their respective indictments. This is according to information released by the chambers...

Guyanese Horror Fiction Kamarang….SOMETHING IN THIS SILENT ROOM

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Horror Fiction Kamarang….SOMETHING IN THIS SILENT ROOM

By Michael Jordan Michael’s unease returned as he climbed the stairs to Lucille’s room. He reached the second floor, and the light and sounds from the brothel were cut off abruptly. Sometimes, he...

Black Brick Road Art Show

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Black Brick Road Art Show

(Plasma Magazine’s recap of the recent exhibition in the US by Guyanese author and artist Harold Bascom and his daughter, Damali Bascom) by Stephen Wilkins On a mild, late Autumn evening in a small...

GWI pipe breakage disrupts water supply in central Georgetown

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GWI pipe breakage disrupts water supply in central Georgetown

Residents of several areas within Georgetown were forced to endure several hours without water on Saturday evening and Sunday morning after the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) experienced a major pipe...

Sheik Hassan, Charran, the Stabroek News as 2019 closes

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sheik Hassan, Charran, the Stabroek News as 2019 closes

It is either I am on the verge of Alzheimer’s or with age, my mind is reaching opaqueness. The gentleman had his shopping basket, I had mine and our paths crossed in one of the aisles in the...

Even a junkie would strike a better deal

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Even a junkie would strike a better deal

Kaieteur News has said that it will stand beside Stabroek News in the sister newspapers protest against the massive reduction in State-owned advertisements. Whether or not Stabroek News requests or...

Beach hotel double murder…Cops working around the clock to crack case

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Beach hotel double murder…Cops working around the clock to crack case

Investigators in Berbice seem to have hit a wall in connection with the brutal deaths of of hotel owner Vivekanand Brijbassi called “Veka” and his workman Harry Persaud Prashad called...

Deadly Nismes crash… Cops seek DPP’s advice on further charges for bus driver

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Deadly Nismes crash… Cops seek DPP’s advice on further charges for bus driver

Minibus driver Compton Barrat may know this week whether he will be charged with causing the deaths of four people in last month’s crash at Nismes, West Bank Demerara. Region Three Divisional...

Miner robbed of raw gold, cash by cutlass wielding thieves

Dec 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miner robbed of raw gold, cash by cutlass wielding thieves

– two held Fifty-year-old miner, Joao Dsosristinto is now over $1M poorer after a scary confrontation Friday evening with two cutlass-wielding robbers. The incident allegedly occurred at around...

Alternative Facts or the Big Lie: The tragedy that is politics in Guyana

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Alternative Facts or the Big Lie: The tragedy that is politics in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, My attention was recently drawn to the use of this age old strategy particularly by those in the political arena and seekers of high office. What is worst however, is the fact that these...

Region 10 RDC commends media coverage

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Region 10 RDC commends media coverage

DEAR EDITOR, Regional Executive Officer of Region 10, Mr. Orrin Gordon, has commended the coverage provided by the media in Region 10 to its statutory meetings over the past four years. Gordon...

A New Year’s Wish for my Guyana El Dorado

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A New Year’s Wish for my Guyana El Dorado

DEAR EDITOR, If there is one lesson life teaches us is that wishing does not make it so. Let us be truly honest to ourselves. How often do we abandon our New Year’s resolutions after January? We...

A twist in the plot may unfold in the new year

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A twist in the plot may unfold in the new year

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana’s Ambassador to the United Nations H.E Rudolph Michael Ten Pow submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday 27th December 2019. So begins the final...

People distrust government to manage oil

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on People distrust government to manage oil

DEAR EDITOR, The public does not trust government (politicians in general) to manage the new developing oil and gas industry in light of what they say is an ‘unfair contract’ negotiated by...

Longer prison terms are a kneejerk response

Dec 30, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Longer prison terms are a kneejerk response

The sentencing of criminals should serve several purposes, but primarily these might be retribution, deterrence, prevention and rehabilitation. Courts and prisons are not most voters top priority as...

Income tax exemptions for foreign workers a deviation from int’l norms – IMF report

Dec 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Income tax exemptions for foreign workers a deviation from int’l norms – IMF report

Pull quote: “Guyana must fully tax income derived by an expatriate from employment.” According to the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) Guyana signed onto with ExxonMobil, there is an exemption...

Lawsuit claims ExxonMobil liable for tortures, rapes and murders in Indonesia

Dec 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Lawsuit claims ExxonMobil liable for tortures, rapes and murders in Indonesia

“There wasn’t a single person in Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) who didn’t know that the massacres were taking place … everybody was afraid,” A former top Indonesian government official is...

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Guyana Beverages Inc. partners with GFF for Maid Marian Wheat Up Women’s Cup

Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more