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STSC basketball and football on today

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Sports 0

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee (STSC) in collaboration with the Black Stallion Football team will be hosting a 3-a-side basketball competition and a 4-a-side small goal football match today at...

CH&PA completes $13.5M drainage works in Westminster/Lust-en-Rust

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

Residents of several communities on West Bank Demerara (WBD), including Lust-en-Rust, Onderneeming, Westminster and Parfaite Harmonie, have begun to benefit from extensive drainage and irrigation...

Serving Guyana has given me great satisfaction — Just. Cecil Kennard

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

Justice Cecil Kennard has served Guyana and its people for over 50 years in nearly all aspects of the law, with distinction. The former Chancellor of the Judiciary and now Chairman of the Police...

Protests averted…East Bank Berbice road to undergo construction in March

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

In what seems to be the most positive news, residents of the East Bank Berbice will see the much anticipated East Bank Berbice Road commence re-construction in March. This is according to a Ministry...

Bartica Massacre trial…Defence Attorneys to present closing arguments

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

Closing arguments will be presented on Monday, by the attorneys representing the three persons accused in the Bartica Massacre. The defence represented by Attorneys -at -law Peter Hugh, Saphier...

Crime, squatting to be addressed as Gov’t moves to set up City Planning Commission

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

The consultation process for the establishment of the National Capital Planning Commission began in Georgetown on Friday last. The aim of the Commission is to review the academic and technical...

The heart makes choices, yet it makes the same mistakes

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0

The place at home that I spend in serious conversation with my wife is the kitchen. Most of the times my wife and I chat about my politics, it is in the kitchen. She likes to cook and I like to eat,...

118 graduate to fill skills shortage

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

-emphasis placed on diversity in Guysuco to save industry The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) together with the Board of Industrial Training on Friday hosted its graduation ceremony for the fifth...

Company’s negligence caused electrocution of construction worker

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

Investigations into the death of Leroy Francis Harris, a construction worker, who died after he came into contact with live wires while working on top a three-storey building at Lot W ½ Evans...

Cheddi Jagan Research Centre disgusted by comments from APNU-AFC leaders

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre yesterday expressed its disgust at utterances made by leaders of the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change administration concerning the Red House...

Dancing on Black Ice: That Legal Threat Over a Nonjusticiable Constitutional Provision

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

It is hard to think of a more flawed interpretation of an expressed constitutional provision than what we are currently witnessing in the feud over the selection of a Chairman of the Guyana Elections...

U.S. Marine Security Guard activated at local embassy

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

Ambassador Perry Holloway on Friday joined Commanding Officer, Jennifer M. Farina, Gunnery Sergeant Angel M. Rodriguez, the Marine Security Guard (MSG) Detachment Commander, ranks from the Guyana...

THE ABILITY TO LEAD

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 0

In Guyana the onus is on the media, institutions and the general public to constrain the unfettered exercise of executive power by a ruling party. The other real prospect of limiting the exercise of...

AFC hosts 5th Biennial Conference on West Demerara

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

The colour of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Demerara, was yesterday green and yellow as the Alliance for Change (AFC) held its Fifth Biennial Conference at the community’s Primary School. The event was held...

Incompetence of City Hall highlighted once again

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Every Guyanese from the youngest child has been taught in school that Guyana has two rainy seasons, one during the Christmas period and early in the year and in the other in the May/June...

Improvements needed on roads in Sophia

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, In the past 20 months, there has been a flurry of infrastructural works in the suburban area comprising sub-sections Sophia, Pattensen, Liliendaal, South Turkeyen and Cummings Park,...

“Thou hypocrite, cast out the beam of thine own eyes”

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to the article in Stabroek News, January 26, 2017 by Clement Rohee “Where were the women on Saturday? Yes, where were they? I feel that an appropriate Guyanese...

Value

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought 0

A popular speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20 bill. A crowd of 200 had gathered to hear him speak. He asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Two hundred hands went up. He said, “I...

Central Government needs to stop City Hall’s ongoing failures

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Well the much touted launch of the infamous parking meter system got off to a rather bumpy start, indeed expectant motorists were quite confused this week when they failed to see any...

DENTAL HEALTH….EMBRYOLOGICAL STAGES OF TOOTH DEVELOPMENT

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

By Dr. Neromini Fagu The development of our teeth is a multistage process that begins very early in life during the embryo stage. It is important for all parts of a tooth to develop during the...

WPA oversees group wants explanation from the President

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, The Working People’s Alliance Overseas Associates (WPAOA) have been following the issue surrounding President Granger’s rejection of the list of candidates for Chairman of Gecom...

Sunday Cartoon

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists 0

CONSUMER CONCERNS…UG’s extension offering again impacts

Jan 29, 2017 KNews News 0

PAT DIAL Last Tuesday, the University of Guyana led by its visionary and creative Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, and his hard working team of academics like Dr Paloma Mohamed, launched...

What about Royston King’s East Street parking lot?

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I call on the Town Clerk of the Georgetown Municipality, Royston King, to explain his position on the privately operated parking lot, on East Street. After all, it’s the very Town...

Time for an investigation into Ronald Waddell’s death

Jan 29, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, January 30, 2017 will mark the eleventh year since the assassination of my brother and comrade, Ronald Waddell. There were several reports from eyewitnesses, who spoke about hearing...