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‘Screw’ Richmond Linden Schools U-18 Football at Wisburg Ground…LFS face NSS, LTI clash with MHS today

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Screw’ Richmond Linden Schools U-18 Football at Wisburg Ground…LFS face NSS, LTI clash with MHS today

This year’s Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Linden Secondary Schools Under-18 football championship will finally kick-off this afternoon with two matches following a brief ceremony at the...

Devers encourages former players to assist in Berbice cricket

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Devers encourages former players to assist in Berbice cricket

Former National U-19 and Berbice Inter-County off-spinner Sean Devers is encouraging other former Berbice players to contribute to cricket in his adopted County. Devers, who represented Demerara at...

Vurlon Mills Appointed Technical Development Officer

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vurlon Mills Appointed Technical Development Officer

Georgetown: The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has appointed senior national player, Vurlon Mills, as Technical Development Officer (TDO) assigned to the GFFScotiabank Academy Training Centre...

Extreme caution needed with companies bidding for future oil blocks-Goolsarran

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Extreme caution needed with companies bidding for future oil blocks-Goolsarran

The Coalition Government has signalled its intention to consider competitive bidding for the remaining oil blocks, but a dose of extreme caution, is what critics like Chartered Accountant, Anand...

Don’t forget sacrifice of slain Rose Hall martyrs – GAWU

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t forget sacrifice of slain Rose Hall martyrs – GAWU

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is paying homage to 15 sugar workers who met their death 105 years ago on March 13, 1913 at Rose Hall Estate. They are known as the Rose Hall...

DESTRUCTION OF THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY STRUCTURE

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on DESTRUCTION OF THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY STRUCTURE

We all have eyes yet we are not seeing that there is an abundance of evidence that we live in a society that is slowly seeing the collapse of the family structure; a society in which crime,...

‘Positive discipline’ being promoted in public schools

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Positive discipline’ being promoted in public schools

‘Positive Discipline’ was the main focus of a training workshop held yesterday at the Kingston, Georgetown National Centre for Educational Resource Development [NCERD]. Dubbed a ‘cluster...

Breaker short-circuit at Sophia shuts off power in Berbice, Demerara

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Breaker short-circuit at Sophia shuts off power in Berbice, Demerara

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) yesterday said that a problem at Sophia caused the early morning outage yesterday. “At approximately 03:58 hrs yesterday, the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected...

Kwakwani/Ituni commuters plead for better roads

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Kwakwani/Ituni commuters plead for better roads

Drivers as well as commuters of the Ituni/Kwakwani/Aroaima Road are pleading with the authorities to make better roads for them. According to Quacy Bethune, one driver who plies the Kwakwani route,...

Breaker short-circuit at Sophia shuts off power in Berbice, Demerara

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Breaker short-circuit at Sophia shuts off power in Berbice, Demerara

Region urged to scale-up response to HIV/AIDS

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region urged to scale-up response to HIV/AIDS

“As a Region, we are still challenged with late [HIV] diagnosis, particularly for men.” This state of affairs was on Monday amplified by Minister of Education, Ms. Nicolette Henry. Henry...

MoIPA walks away with top honours at Mash Prize giving exercises

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on MoIPA walks away with top honours at Mash Prize giving exercises

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs has made history. It walked away with four of five prizes up for grabs in the medium band category of the just concluded Mashramani Float and...

Company bids $160.2M for Ministry of Health Learning Kits

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Company bids $160.2M for Ministry of Health Learning Kits

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board open several bids yesterday, as is usually done on Tuesdays. The Ministry of Education, with the aim to strengthen the Nursery Programme in...

Backlands facelift

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Backlands facelift

The Buxton/Friendship Estates, East Coast Demerara, are undergoing significant transformation in the canals behind those villages to facilitate drainage and irrigation to and from the farmlands. It...

It’s frightening that these are the people who are in charge of our city

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s frightening that these are the people who are in charge of our city

DEAR EDITOR, The Mayor & City Council’s statutory meeting held on March 12, 2018, descended to an all-time low and left the Guyanese citizenry in nothing short of shock as they all watched the...

Get value for your dollar spent on higher education

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Get value for your dollar spent on higher education

DEAR EDITOR, In recent times, Guyana has experienced a proliferation of private educational institutions being set up to offer education at all levels. While the Ministry of Education delivers and...

It’s better to call a spade a spade than an agricultural implement

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s better to call a spade a spade than an agricultural implement

DEAR EDITOR, The media yesterday (13/3/18) carried two letters side by side; one was forthright in its description of the public servants whose incompetence, aptly described as “asleep at the...

Mother on trial for killing children told cops she had family problems

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Mother on trial for killing children told cops she had family problems

Hofosawa Awena Rutherford, who is on trial for two counts of manslaughter over killing her children by poisoning had, days after, told detectives that she was experiencing family problems and that...

There is mischief afoot

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is mischief afoot

DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to the letter captioned, “I need my correct NIS pension” which was published in the Kaieteur News dated Friday, March 9, 2018. Contrary to what was reported in the...

GAWU seeks good relations with the SPU

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU seeks good relations with the SPU

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has noted the contents of an article titled ‘Ex-Rose Hall workers refuse to take up jobs at the estate – SPU accuses union of...

Tear Drop freed on robbery charge

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Tear Drop freed on robbery charge

Social media sensation, Leon Clarke, popularly known as ‘Tear Drop’ was all smiles yesterday after City Magistrate, Faith McGusty dismissed a robbery charge against him. The charge was thrown out...

Education Ministry responds to a number of issues in the press

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Education Ministry responds to a number of issues in the press

DEAR EDITOR, These are responses to a number of issues that would have been in the press recently. 1. New Amsterdam Multilateral School Regarding the recent matter concerning two teachers at the New...

Our generations will not put up with this plundering

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our generations will not put up with this plundering

DEAR EDITOR Everyone is giving an opinion as to what total income is to be derived by way of Oil and Gas exports. We see an enigma of calculations coming from conjecture. Has anyone seen the...

Mr. Burke’s silence in this regard is puzzling

Mar 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Burke’s silence in this regard is puzzling

DEAR EDITOR, Firstly, the Guyana Bar Association must be commended for taking a position on indications of a possible appointment of a Chancellor and Chief Justice of Guyana by President David...

CARICOM on course to address challenges affecting women – says Minister Ally

Mar 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM on course to address challenges affecting women – says Minister Ally

Although Guyana and many Caribbean territories have led the way in enacting specific legislation against Trafficking In Persons [TIP], reports suggest that trafficking of women in the Caribbean is...

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The end is near for local trade unions

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Within the next twenty years, the trade union movement in Guyana is going to disappear.... more