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40 nurses at GPHC now fluent in French and Spanish

40 nurses at GPHC now fluent in French and Spanish

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 40 nurses at GPHC now fluent in French and Spanish

Due to the collaboration between the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and the Guyana Language Institute, 40 nurses attached to the city hospital are now certified Spanish and French...

FIFA clears way for sanctions against players and officials Organisation of football tournaments outside the control of the GFF

FIFA clears way for sanctions against players and officials Organisation of football tournaments outside the control of the GFF

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIFA clears way for sanctions against players and officials Organisation of football tournaments outside the control of the GFF

Georgetown – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has officially written the Guyana Football Fe deration (GFF) reiterating that the GFF has the responsibility for...

Saudi oil giant is world’s most valuable company, while paying 10 times royalty Guyana charges ExxonMobil

Saudi oil giant is world’s most valuable company, while paying 10 times royalty Guyana charges ExxonMobil

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Saudi oil giant is world’s most valuable company, while paying 10 times royalty Guyana charges ExxonMobil

Saudi Aramco, the State owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the most valuable company in the world, according to a Reuters report published earlier this month. The company’s public...

Williams guides Lusignan B to four-wicket win with attacking century

Williams guides Lusignan B to four-wicket win with attacking century

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Williams guides Lusignan B to four-wicket win with attacking century

Opener Robin Williams struck an attacking century to guide Lusignan B to a four-wicket victory over Lusignan A when the teams collided in a T20 softball fixture on Boxing Day at the Lusignan...

Forestry Commission’s chief, James Singh, departing after 21 years

Forestry Commission’s chief, James Singh, departing after 21 years

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Forestry Commission’s chief, James Singh, departing after 21 years

For 21 years, he led the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC). Battling illness and a tough period for the body which regulates the forestry sector, James Singh will be proceeding on medical leave come...

Up Set are Trophy Stall Boxing Day dominoes champs in Wakenaam

Up Set are Trophy Stall Boxing Day dominoes champs in Wakenaam

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Up Set are Trophy Stall Boxing Day dominoes champs in Wakenaam

Up Set emerged champions of the Trophy Stall dominoes competition which was contested on Boxing Day at Carlosh Sports bar in Good Success, Wakenaam. Up Set chalked up 80 games to beat Set Up with 75...

GFF Super 16 Cup – Semi Final Dye Cast

GFF Super 16 Cup – Semi Final Dye Cast

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super 16 Cup – Semi Final Dye Cast

Santos downs def. champs Den Amstel; GDF edge Buxton; Police arrest Western Tigers Six of the eight days into the 2019/2020 edition of the GFF Super 16 Cup and we now know the teams who would be...

Paradise, Friendship secure semi-final berths in 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival

Paradise, Friendship secure semi-final berths in 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Paradise, Friendship secure semi-final berths in 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival

Paradise and Friendship secured semi-final berths in the 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival on Christmas Day, defeating Buxton and Mahaica via penalty kicks at the Buxton Community Center...

$360,000 disbursement for Santa Cruz fruit farmers

$360,000 disbursement for Santa Cruz fruit farmers

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $360,000 disbursement for Santa Cruz fruit farmers

Twelve farmers from Santa Cruz who will be supplying the soon to be established Fruit Factory there received $30,000 each to commence land clearing, preparation and planting. This is in preparation...

Berbice Nigel Hinds Financial Basketball tourney continues today and tomorrow

Berbice Nigel Hinds Financial Basketball tourney continues today and tomorrow

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Nigel Hinds Financial Basketball tourney continues today and tomorrow

First Division Basketball action continues today, December 28th under the auspices of the Berbice Basketball Association in the 2019 Berbice Mecca Classic Championships and sponsored by Nigel Hinds...

Fruit suppliers to get higher prices from TOPCO

Fruit suppliers to get higher prices from TOPCO

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fruit suppliers to get higher prices from TOPCO

Some 40 farmers who currently supply fruit to Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) TOPCO juice operations are eager to increase their cultivation. The increased cultivation is to meet the...

We intend to make money out of farming – Minister Garrido-Lowe to Kwebanna residents

We intend to make money out of farming – Minister Garrido-Lowe to Kwebanna residents

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on We intend to make money out of farming – Minister Garrido-Lowe to Kwebanna residents

Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe, has assured residents, particularly farmers in Kwebanna Village, Moruca sub-district, Barima/Waini, Region One, that...

Exciting Food Town Restaurant end-of-year Golf Tournament set for today

Exciting Food Town Restaurant end-of-year Golf Tournament set for today

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exciting Food Town Restaurant end-of-year Golf Tournament set for today

Food Town Restaurant & Distribution Outlet of 266 Newton Street, Enmore, East Coast, Demerara is a partner with the Lusignan Golf Club and this weekend hosts the year-end tournament today...

DPP recommends charges against Opposition MP for sexual misconduct with boy

DPP recommends charges against Opposition MP for sexual misconduct with boy

Dec 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on DPP recommends charges against Opposition MP for sexual misconduct with boy

– cops implicated in cover-up to also face charges After an extensive, four-month police investigation, an Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) is likely to appear in court, shortly, on alleged...

Dragon Stout Community Cup Could Sparta Boss end the year on a high?

Dragon Stout Community Cup Could Sparta Boss end the year on a high?

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dragon Stout Community Cup Could Sparta Boss end the year on a high?

The question on everyone lips is whether Guyana’s most dominant team in the street and indoor formats could end the year with another title. The answer to this question will be known this evening...

Atkinson Brothers 5-aside Football

Atkinson Brothers 5-aside Football

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Atkinson Brothers 5-aside Football

Atkinson Brothers FC claim Female, U17 & Senior titles; Rising Sons take U15 Atkinson Brothers Football Club walked away with three of the four tournaments which were contested as part of the...

Ugly Christmas gift APNU+AFC gave Guyana

Ugly Christmas gift APNU+AFC gave Guyana

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ugly Christmas gift APNU+AFC gave Guyana

There will be more discoveries of oil in huge quantities as the months and years pass on and there will be more documents drawn up by foreign companies that are lopsided and our rulers will sign and...

Super50 cricket review (part 2) Guyana extends 50-over title drought to 15 years

Super50 cricket review (part 2) Guyana extends 50-over title drought to 15 years

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Super50 cricket review (part 2) Guyana extends 50-over title drought to 15 years

By Sean Devers When Guyana Jaguars contest next year’s tournament it will be 15 years without a Regional 50-over title since last winning at Bourda in the 2005 KFC Cup when Neil McGarrell hit...

What a Christmas it would have been

What a Christmas it would have been

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on What a Christmas it would have been

Santa is a little light this year, and he didn’t get it right either. What a Christmas present it would have been! Still, a cheer, a hearty round of applause is due for the fellas. Thanks for the...

4 x 4 Basketball Championship semifinals on tonight

4 x 4 Basketball Championship semifinals on tonight

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on 4 x 4 Basketball Championship semifinals on tonight

Royals top group play as Kings, Kwakwani A and B reach final four The inaugural 4 x 4 Under 18 basketball championship, which is organized by the Kings Basketball Club in association with the Linden...

Prospects for a brighter future continue to provide comfort to an otherwise impoverished people

Prospects for a brighter future continue to provide comfort to an otherwise impoverished people

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prospects for a brighter future continue to provide comfort to an otherwise impoverished people

DEAR EDITOR, As the year 2019 comes to an end, there are a number of events that will be etched in the collective memories of Guyanese, and for that matter, peoples all across the globe. Perhaps the...

Guyanese, meet your newest partner…

Guyanese, meet your newest partner…

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese, meet your newest partner…

DEAR EDITOR, They are alleged to have bribed officials and technicians on the rigs to steal billions of barrels of oil from Nigeria. They reportedly did it for many years undetected – all it...

That letter on Walter Rodney was riddled with too many blatant inaccuracies

That letter on Walter Rodney was riddled with too many blatant inaccuracies

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on That letter on Walter Rodney was riddled with too many blatant inaccuracies

DEAR EDITOR, Kindly permit response to Mr. Rick Dalgetty’s letter “The Archives is being appropriately named after Walter Rodney” (KN: Dec 4, 2019). That letter was riddled with too...

The truth about Houston and Versailles: I cannot allow a pack of lies to stand

The truth about Houston and Versailles: I cannot allow a pack of lies to stand

Dec 28, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth about Houston and Versailles: I cannot allow a pack of lies to stand

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to a letter from Charles Sohan in the Dec. 13th 2019 edition of another newspaper captioned “Aquaculture will not return GuySuCo to profitability”. Contained in the missive...

Details of Guyana’s Crude oil sales will be made public – Energy Dept.

Details of Guyana’s Crude oil sales will be made public – Energy Dept.

Dec 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Details of Guyana’s Crude oil sales will be made public – Energy Dept.

In an effort to ensure there is transparency and accountability in Guyana’s oil sector, the Energy Department has announced that it will be taking steps to ensure citizens are able to access...

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