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Jaguars quietly confident head of Regional 4-day tourney Face Volcanoes at Daren Sammy Stadium from tomorrow

Jaguars quietly confident head of Regional 4-day tourney Face Volcanoes at Daren Sammy Stadium from tomorrow

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaguars quietly confident head of Regional 4-day tourney Face Volcanoes at Daren Sammy Stadium from tomorrow

By Sean Devers Four times defending Regional Four-Day Champions Guyana Jaguars are on a 10 game unbeaten streak; having not lost a match since the final game of the 2016/17 season when Leewards...

BCB/Ivan Madray Memorial 100 Balls Tournament RHT Gizmos & Gadgets, Albion, Young Warriors and Tucber Park record victories

BCB/Ivan Madray Memorial 100 Balls Tournament RHT Gizmos & Gadgets, Albion, Young Warriors and Tucber Park record victories

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Ivan Madray Memorial 100 Balls Tournament RHT Gizmos & Gadgets, Albion, Young Warriors and Tucber Park record victories

Earlier this year, the Berbice Cricket Board created history when it became the first Cricket Board in the Caribbean to host a hundred balls tournament at the Second Division level. On...

GuyanaNRA Action Pistol Year End Championship Mohamed ‘Arrow’ Qualander and Brian Backer emerge as top individuals

GuyanaNRA Action Pistol Year End Championship Mohamed ‘Arrow’ Qualander and Brian Backer emerge as top individuals

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GuyanaNRA Action Pistol Year End Championship Mohamed ‘Arrow’ Qualander and Brian Backer emerge as top individuals

The Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) Smallbore Section on Sunday last held its annual year end Action Pistol Shooting championship at the Timehri Rifle Ranges. The well attended...

Footballers thank Bedessee Imports for generosity

Footballers thank Bedessee Imports for generosity

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Footballers thank Bedessee Imports for generosity

Young footballers of the East Ruimveldt community have expressed sincere gratitude to Mr. Verman Bedessee, Chief Executive Officer of Bedessee Imports of New York and Chairman of the Guyana...

BCB/Brian Ramphal Double Wicket Tournament Brilliant Pestano leads RHT Gizmos & Gadgets ‘A’ to Title

BCB/Brian Ramphal Double Wicket Tournament Brilliant Pestano leads RHT Gizmos & Gadgets ‘A’ to Title

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Brian Ramphal Double Wicket Tournament Brilliant Pestano leads RHT Gizmos & Gadgets ‘A’ to Title

“Promises fulfilled, Mission accomplished”. Those were the words of President of the Berbice Cricket Board Hilbert Foster at the presentation ceremony last Sunday night under lights at the...

RHTY&SC, MS and Young Warriors CC inducted as BCB Members after 25-0 vote

RHTY&SC, MS and Young Warriors CC inducted as BCB Members after 25-0 vote

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC, MS and Young Warriors CC inducted as BCB Members after 25-0 vote

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS and the Young Warriors Cricket Club on Sunday last were accepted as full members of the Berbice Cricket Board after a 25-0 vote at a Special...

Annandale Secondary claim DDL Tapeball title

Annandale Secondary claim DDL Tapeball title

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Annandale Secondary claim DDL Tapeball title

Annandale Secondary won the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) inter secondary school Tapeball competition which was played on Saturday last at Durban Park. Four teams took part in the...

COI recommends compensation for family whose home was destroyed by M&CC workers

COI recommends compensation for family whose home was destroyed by M&CC workers

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on COI recommends compensation for family whose home was destroyed by M&CC workers

The report prepared following the conclusion of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into City Hall’s operations, has recommended compensation for the Festival City family whose home was demolished by...

Theft of model planes… Four police band members to face departmental charges

Theft of model planes… Four police band members to face departmental charges

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Theft of model planes… Four police band members to face departmental charges

Four Guyana Police Force band members are to face departmental charges over the theft of model planes from the Arthur Chung Convention Centre. Crime Chief Lyndon Alves said that this decision was...

Orphaned teen robber sentenced to community service

Orphaned teen robber sentenced to community service

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Orphaned teen robber sentenced to community service

Yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, a 17-year-old boy made an appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and admitted to a charge of robbery with use of violence. The charge...

Porkknocker charged with attempted murder

Porkknocker charged with attempted murder

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker charged with attempted murder

A 39-year-old porkknocker was yesterday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on an attempted murder charge. Bronson Wiltshire, of 184 Charlotte...

Raphael, Volda and the never-ending opinions on the PPP and PNC

Raphael, Volda and the never-ending opinions on the PPP and PNC

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Raphael, Volda and the never-ending opinions on the PPP and PNC

There is a dimension to the Volda Lawrence outburst that needs theorizing on. It revolves around Raphael Trotman’s pronouncement that Lawrence does not operate with racial narratives in her life,...

Convicted child rapist to be sentenced

Convicted child rapist to be sentenced

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Convicted child rapist to be sentenced

Convicted child rapist, Esmond Slowe was yesterday found guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl, by a 12-member mixed jury. The verdict was in the proportion 11-1. Slowe engaged in sexual...

Man accused of killing uncle freed on no-case submission

Man accused of killing uncle freed on no-case submission

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man accused of killing uncle freed on no-case submission

A no-case submission upheld by Justice Sandil Kissoon resulted in 21-year-old Nicholas Hercules being freed of a charge, which alleged he killed his uncle. Hercules, of Princes Street,...

Improved ease of access to govt. services promised …25 forms to be made available online in 2019

Improved ease of access to govt. services promised …25 forms to be made available online in 2019

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Improved ease of access to govt. services promised …25 forms to be made available online in 2019

As the 2019 Budget debates continue, Minister of Public Telecommunications, Catherine Hughes announced that twenty-five government forms will be made available online next year. This is one of...

Moves apace to clamp down on fake drugs on local market

Moves apace to clamp down on fake drugs on local market

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Moves apace to clamp down on fake drugs on local market

Through its Food and Drug Department, the Ministry of Public Health is looking clamp down on fake drugs in the health care system. In this regard, the Director [ag] of the Government Analyst...

Over 8,000 children benefit from early childhood care and education programme

Over 8,000 children benefit from early childhood care and education programme

Dec 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Over 8,000 children benefit from early childhood care and education programme

More than 8,000 children in remote areas of Guyana have benefitted from an early childhood care and education programme. This has translated to almost 90 percent of children now being able to master...

Some security guards are being fleeced

Some security guards are being fleeced

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some security guards are being fleeced

Dear Editor, From a survey recently done it was discovered that many of the private security firm’s/companies are not paying their security guards the minimum wage of $255 per hour. One...

Praying for thePresident

Praying for thePresident

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Praying for thePresident

Dear Editor， The Guyana Veterans Legion GVL), on Sunday at 18:00 hours (6.00pm) held a Candlelight Prayer and Songs Service in the forecourt of their Headquarters at Carifesta Avenue. The activity...

These traffic disruptions during parliamentary sittings

These traffic disruptions during parliamentary sittings

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on These traffic disruptions during parliamentary sittings

Dear Editor, Since the beginning of the eleventh biennial Parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, nationals and non-nationals alike have been experiencing complete chaos, without any...

The NIS payment remains illusive

The NIS payment remains illusive

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The NIS payment remains illusive

Dear Editor, My name is Rampaul Chetaru NIS # B-6078547. I attained the age of sixty on 24th February,2018. I filed for my old age benefit on 3rd January,2018. I appeal to your newspaper to highlight...

Slugger Williams takes a long look back

Slugger Williams takes a long look back

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Slugger Williams takes a long look back

The Editor, I am a product of the NIGGER yard. I grew up in “Pakoo Dam” Wortmanville in Green and Gold rum shop yard, at D D’Urban Street and Louisa Road. My upbringing was spent in...

Minimum wage still outstanding

Minimum wage still outstanding

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minimum wage still outstanding

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space in the letter column of your highly read newspaper to highlight our grave plight and suffering as a security guard employed in the private security service and...

Unbecoming behaviour, in a ‘just so’ society

Unbecoming behaviour, in a ‘just so’ society

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unbecoming behaviour, in a ‘just so’ society

Dear Editor, Whether we consider it a good thing or not in the Caribbean (including Guyana), we see our women as the custodians of our virtues, and our morality. This is why it offends us more when...

Declaring an Unlawful and Vulgar Partisan Political Discrimination in Employment

Declaring an Unlawful and Vulgar Partisan Political Discrimination in Employment

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Declaring an Unlawful and Vulgar Partisan Political Discrimination in Employment

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter motivated by the statement by the Chairman of the PNC, Volda Lawrence, and the Minister of Health on preference of PNC party comrades for employment and...

Team Soesdyke prevails over Spaniards of Diamond in pulsating final

Team Soesdyke prevails over Spaniards of Diamond in pulsating final

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…PPPC East Bank/Soesdyke/Timehri Cluster/Inter Village 7-A-Side Football Kaieteur Sports – The 2025 edition of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) annual East...

Yarrowkabra win the inaugural MCYS/NSC Janet Jagan Memorial Secondary Schools Windball Championship

Yarrowkabra win the inaugural MCYS/NSC Janet...

Jun 17, 2025

Rd. of 16 starts Today; Road Warriors wallop Footsteppers; Sparta edge North Ruimveldt

Rd. of 16 starts Today; Road Warriors wallop...

Jun 17, 2025

LTI and UG light up the court with dominant wins in YBG’s Tertiary Basketball League

LTI and UG light up the court with dominant wins...

Jun 17, 2025

Berbice Cricket Board awards ceremony set for June 28th

Berbice Cricket Board awards ceremony set for...

Jun 17, 2025

BCB Board congratulates Kevlon Anderson on selection to West Indies Senior team

BCB Board congratulates Kevlon Anderson on...

Jun 17, 2025

Time to treat our elderly with dignity

Kaieteur News – They raised us. They worked for us. They fed us. And in the end, too many of them are abandoned. The... more

Antigua and Barbuda hosts the OAS at a crucial juncture for the Americas

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The 55th Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organisation of American... more

A recommendation for editors: Let leaders share personal manifesto

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – Election season is upon Guyana. Not quite in full swing, but always... more