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Hong Kong Sevens line-up released

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hong Kong Sevens line-up released

The line-up for the 2015 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens has been announced with the tournament retaining its status as the largest on the HSBC Sevens World Series. Twenty-eight men’s teams...

GCB issues press statement on AGM

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB issues press statement on AGM

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) issues a press statement on its scheduled AGM fixed for tomorrow at the GCC Pavilion, Bourda. Here is the full text of that statement: “GCB wishes to formally...

The PPP requested guns, grenades, ammunitions and electoral resources

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP requested guns, grenades, ammunitions and electoral resources

I have long asserted that the world will know the truths and the facts behind the confrontations in the sixties between the PPP Government and the PNC and United Force when the archives of Russia and...

Paediatric heart surgeries to commence soon at GPHC

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Paediatric heart surgeries to commence soon at GPHC

Very soon children who are desperately in need of heart surgeries will no longer have to travel to another country to get medical attention. In fact, plans are currently being made to have this...

After two years … TV licence application for Region Ten gets acknowledgement

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on After two years … TV licence application for Region Ten gets acknowledgement

By Jacquey Bourne The television licence for Region Ten has been acknowledged by the Government Board after two years. In a correspondence addressed to the Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon dated...

Three-day strike action at UG starts Monday – Unions

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three-day strike action at UG starts Monday – Unions

Industrial action at the University of Guyana (UG) is set to commence on Monday. This is according to a joint statement issued by the UG workers’ unions – the University of Guyana Senior Staff...

BRING BACK TATA!

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BRING BACK TATA!

Prices do not go down in Guyana; they go up. This statement has held true in Guyana for a long time— a very long time. People do not expect prices to decline. In recent times, one of the fastest...

Guyanese national killed in Antigua

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese national killed in Antigua

Antigua- A 51-year-old Guyanese national has become this country’s first road fatality for 2015. Murtland Bagot lost his life in a traffic accident on the Sir Sydney Walwyn Highway on Thursday....

Suspected bandit remanded for Linden robberies

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected bandit remanded for Linden robberies

A technician fingered in a spate of robberies in Linden, was remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday. Marlon De Freitas, called “Natty,” of Lot 261 One Mile,...

Parliament dead but budget preparation ongoing – Luncheon

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament dead but budget preparation ongoing – Luncheon

Office of the President has dismissed the possibility of Government recalling Parliament, but yesterday disclosed that it is continuing with its preparation of the 2015 national budget. Answering...

Almost 100 homes built by Food For the Poor in 2014

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Almost 100 homes built by Food For the Poor in 2014

Food For The Poor (FFTP) Guyana successfully carried out its 2014 mandate of assisting the poor “with high level professionalism and intensity”, with 556 individuals benefitting from the...

Genuine dialogue

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Genuine dialogue

Dialogue is both a kind of conversation and a way of relating. It is a communication process in which participants may say or hear something they never said or heard before, and from which they may...

E’bo records five suicides in January

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo records five suicides in January

Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) has already recorded five deaths by suicide for this month. There are reports of four other attempted suicides registered at the Suddie Public Hospital. Those patients...

Trio remanded for burgling Chinese store

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trio remanded for burgling Chinese store

Three men accused of breaking into a Regent Street Chinese store and making off with over $8.3M in jewellery, clothing, footwear and other items were remanded to prison when they appeared in court...

Corentyne man charged with attempt to commit murder

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man charged with attempt to commit murder

A man who brutally chopped a woman and wounded her husband then injures a student is now facing the courts on a charge of attempted murder. The melee occurred in a minibus. The man Leon Thomas, 46, a...

CCJ celebrating 10th anniversary despite achieving very little

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on CCJ celebrating 10th anniversary despite achieving very little

DEAR EDITOR, I was surprised when I received a Media Release from the Caribbean Court of Justice that it is arranging activities to celebrate its tenth anniversary. I do not think that the Regional...

Professionalism in the interest of progress

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Professionalism in the interest of progress

DEAR EDITOR, I am baffled, the Police list of promotions published, includes members who violated its citizens. It is clear there is a departure from professionalism and pursuit of justice. This...

Coalition politics will not fare any better this time around

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Coalition politics will not fare any better this time around

DEAR EDITOR, Now that a date for national and regional elections has been announced by President Donald Ramotar, an important opposition political plank has been demolished, namely that the PPP/C is...

We encourage members of the public to keep calling our hotline

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We encourage members of the public to keep calling our hotline

DEAR EDITOR, We write in response to a letter appearing in your newspaper on 21st January, 2015. The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) operates a 24hrs hotline that is manned by seasoned...

A definitive determination of the election date is yet to be made

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A definitive determination of the election date is yet to be made

DEAR EDITOR, The Honourable President and his learned Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs must be advised that, contrary to their delusionary understanding and the expressions of...

The proposed New East Bank transport corridor

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The proposed New East Bank transport corridor

DEAR EDITOR, I am today journeying back in time some 44 years ago to an emergent and hopeful Guyana. In 1971, the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) organized an engineering...

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Anti-govt. propagandists that have no training in international relations

Kaieteur News – The American government requested a meeting with the head of government of Guyana. It has never happened... more

Wismar 1964 was a blot on the nation

Kaieteur News – The events at Wismar, Christianburg and Mackenzie of 1964 are the only known case of ethnic cleansing... more