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Prison Officer threatens to burn victim, remanded

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prison Officer threatens to burn victim, remanded

George Selman, a member of the Guyana Prison Service, yesterday threatened to burn the alleged victim in his case if granted bail, while he was downstairs at the prisoners lock-up at the Georgetown...

Concacaf Next Play Pilot Project concludes with Festival

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Concacaf Next Play Pilot Project concludes with Festival

Country Coordinator Brian Joseph hails project a success; seeking to expand By Franklin Wilson The ten Primary Schools which formed part of the Concacaf Next Play Pilot Project were yesterday part of...

Press Assoc. slams GECOM for slow response on critical elections matters

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Press Assoc. slams GECOM for slow response on critical elections matters

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) has blasted the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for its slow response on matters critical to the elections. In a statement disseminated to the press, the GPA...

W.D.C.A President’s T20 Independence B, A, CI, McGill, Belle Vue, Canal SC triumph

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on W.D.C.A President’s T20 Independence B, A, CI, McGill, Belle Vue, Canal SC triumph

Independence B, Independence A, Cornelia Ida, Mc Gill SC, Belle Vue and Canal Number Two SC registered victories when the latest round of matches in the West Demerara Cricket Association (WDCA)...

Another Windsor Estates…this time for Ogle

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another Windsor Estates…this time for Ogle

After setting the standards with his Florida-styled gated community, Windsor Estates, on the East Bank of Demerara, developer Danny Sawh, is set to construct another one on the East Coast. The...

STSC 7-a-side football set for tomorrow

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on STSC 7-a-side football set for tomorrow

South Turkeyen Sports Committee will be hosting a 7-a-side football, Tapeball and softball competitions for school teams tomorrow at the Carifesta Sports Complex, starting at 10:00hrs. Among the...

Pride and Volcanoes clash features in season reboot

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pride and Volcanoes clash features in season reboot

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – More intense rivalries are expected with the chasing teams eager to close the gap before it’s too late, when the second half of the 2019-20 West Indies Championship begins...

Turtle conservationist Peter Pritchard dies at 76

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Turtle conservationist Peter Pritchard dies at 76

Florida zoologist Peter Charles Howard Pritchard, whose turtle and tortoise conservation brought international acclaim, and whose persona was of a dashing and ceaselessly curious academic, died...

Mae’s Secondary record mixed fortunes in FBF NSC Al Sport Windball cricket

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mae’s Secondary record mixed fortunes in FBF NSC Al Sport Windball cricket

Mae’s Secondary recorded mixed fortunes in the Girls and Boys segments following latest results in the Forbes Burnham Foundation (FBF) National Sports Commission (NSC) AL Sport & Tour...

Three still hospitalised after vehicle collision with utility pole

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three still hospitalised after vehicle collision with utility pole

Three men are still hospitalised after the car they were in slammed into a utility pole at Number 52 Village last Sunday morning. Nursing injuries and hospitalised are Jimmy King, 19, of Lot 90...

GT bested by Suriname in over-40 football

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT bested by Suriname in over-40 football

The goodwill over-40 three match series between Georgetown over-40 masters and Ratio Masters out of Paramaribo, Suriname, is now tied after Ratio Masters got the better of the GT men at home with a...

44 years since GAWU recognised as bargaining agent for sugar workers

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 44 years since GAWU recognised as bargaining agent for sugar workers

Today, February 27, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) is observing 44 years since it became the recognised union on behalf of the thousands of workers who toil in the fields...

Grassroots development priority on GRFU’s agenda National coaches selected

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grassroots development priority on GRFU’s agenda National coaches selected

By Calvin Chapman The newly elected executive committee of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) that is headed by Ryan Dey has put grassroots development and decentralisation on the front burner...

Man found guilty of hacking fisherman to death

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man found guilty of hacking fisherman to death

A mixed twelve-member jury on Tuesday unanimously found 44-year-old Errol Khan guilty of killing fisherman Chetram Bharrat. Khan called ‘Vinod Maraj’ or ‘Bruk Up’ stood before Justice...

Charlestown Secondary win NSC Al Sport Volleyball

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Charlestown Secondary win NSC Al Sport Volleyball

Charlestown Government Secondary School captured the National Sports Commission (NSC) – AL Sport & Tour Promotions Inaugural “Hit It For 50” schoolboys Volleyball competition...

CARICOM hosts sensitization on non-conforming trade measures

Feb 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM hosts sensitization on non-conforming trade measures

The Office for Trade Negotiations of the CARICOM Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday conducted a one-day sensitization session to inform key officials on...

Anna Regina Multilateral pays courtesy call on Director of Sport

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Anna Regina Multilateral pays courtesy call on Director of Sport

The Anna Regina Multilateral School, during their annual visit to Sports facilities in Region 4, also paid a courtesy call on Director of Sport Christopher Jones at his Homestretch Avenue Office. The...

The decline of sugar production and the equalising of opportunity

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The decline of sugar production and the equalising of opportunity

DEAR EDITOR, The European Union (EU) had given the (African, Caribbean and Pacific) ACP states, as former colonies of the European powers, preferential market access under the EU-ACP Lomé (1975) and...

Incompetence still permeates City Hall

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Incompetence still permeates City Hall

DEAR EDITOR, Kindly allow me to respond to your story published in your 25-2-2020 issue titled: “Time is running out on City Hall – Trust Fund launched to help save historic building”....

Albion Community Center Cricket Club name subcommittees for 2000

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Albion Community Center Cricket Club name subcommittees for 2000

The newly elected executive committee of the Albion Community Centre Cricket Club, under the presidency of Vemen Walter met recently and named the Club’s various Sub-Committees, captains and...

National Awards for 2020

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on National Awards for 2020

It is a near flawless list of sixty-six Guyanese honoured on the Jubilee of the Republic. As the lists of National Awards have gone over the years, this one stands out in the sterling quality of most...

It is now more than who the West wants to rule Guyana

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is now more than who the West wants to rule Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, If you haven’t read it, read Henry Jeffrey’s “Who does the West want to rule?” (Feb.12/20 in another newspaper) Read it several times. Then read it again. This is...

Short-sighted party manifestos will not cut it

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Short-sighted party manifestos will not cut it

DEAR EDITOR, Over the years I have followed with keen interest the political manipulation of the major political parties and that of the fledgling minority parties. As a result of their manipulations...

Maybe NICIL can help the sugar workers too

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Maybe NICIL can help the sugar workers too

DEAR EDITOR, I noticed in a February 26, 2020 article published by another newspaper that the state-owned NICIL covered the salaries for the workers who were/are linked to the Bauxite Company of...

Guyana needs real change

Feb 27, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs real change

DEAR EDITOR, THE GUYANA UNITED DEMOCRATIC PARTY, the GUD Party for a Better Guyana (for together We are Better, and Together We are Stronger, and We put Guyana First), having been formed on August...

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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