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CCJ President does not doubt absolute majority needed to pass no-confidence motion

CCJ President does not doubt absolute majority needed to pass no-confidence motion

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ President does not doubt absolute majority needed to pass no-confidence motion

As the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday entertained arguments to make a determination on the political stability of Guyana, the court’s President, Adrian Saunders, said that no one...

CCJ reserves decision, to decode constitutional complexity arising From no-confidence appeals

CCJ reserves decision, to decode constitutional complexity arising From no-confidence appeals

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ reserves decision, to decode constitutional complexity arising From no-confidence appeals

Guyana’s fate, in relation to the no- confidence motion against the government, now rests solely on the shoulders of judges of the Caribbean Court of Justice, (CCJ). Yesterday, the Court...

Four years later…Govt. admits hurdles in corruption fight- says it has brought Guyana on doorstep of unprecedented wealth

Four years later…Govt. admits hurdles in corruption fight- says it has brought Guyana on doorstep of unprecedented wealth

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Four years later…Govt. admits hurdles in corruption fight- says it has brought Guyana on doorstep of unprecedented wealth

The Coalition Government is celebrating what it says has been a successful four years since the last general and region elections. According to a Government of Guyana statement, the country’s...

Tobacco Control regulators meet for the first time

Tobacco Control regulators meet for the first time

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco Control regulators meet for the first time

The Tobacco Control Council convened and held a meeting for the first time, yesterday, in the boardroom of the Health Sector Development Unit of the Ministry of the Public Health. Minister of...

GRDB fraud trial begins… three testified

GRDB fraud trial begins… three testified

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB fraud trial begins… three testified

Three witnesses yesterday took the stand to testify into the trial of the former officials of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB). The GRDB officials were slapped with 38 charges of fraudulent...

Roll out de toilet paper

Roll out de toilet paper

May 11, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Roll out de toilet paper

Fuh months everybody had dem eye pun de CCJ. Charranrass start this whole thing when he vote wid de opposition. He actually bring down de government. But when a man fall overboard he don’t just die...

The middle class is no longer the same as it was yesteryear

The middle class is no longer the same as it was yesteryear

May 11, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The middle class is no longer the same as it was yesteryear

The middle class has never been a revolutionary class. However, most of the intellectual class who end up agitating for social change tend to originate within the middle classes, end up being...

Family, friends in shock over Bagotstown killing of mall owner grandson

Family, friends in shock over Bagotstown killing of mall owner grandson

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Family, friends in shock over Bagotstown killing of mall owner grandson

Family and close friends of Patrick “White Boy” Fraser, 20, remained in deep shock yesterday over his fatal shooting Thursday night. Police yesterday afternoon had no suspects in custody....

Mahdia miner killed after refusing to share drink

Mahdia miner killed after refusing to share drink

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia miner killed after refusing to share drink

Leavern Daniels, a 44-year-old miner of Princeville Village, Potaro-Siparuni Region Eight, was on Thursday found dead following an argument he had with an individual after he refused to offer the...

Land owners clash with residents over Kuru Kuru lands

Land owners clash with residents over Kuru Kuru lands

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Land owners clash with residents over Kuru Kuru lands

Almost two weeks now a raging feud has been taking place over the ownership of the Kuru Kuru lands, East Bank Demerara. Residents have clashed with the alleged owners who are relatives of an...

HAPPY NURSES DAY

HAPPY NURSES DAY

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on HAPPY NURSES DAY

International Nurses Day is observed around the world on May 12 each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society. Nurses of Pomeroon/Supenaam area, Region Two, celebrated Nurses Week...

Food for the Poor donated 3,815 homes through Housing Programme

Food for the Poor donated 3,815 homes through Housing Programme

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor donated 3,815 homes through Housing Programme

A total of 3,815 families have been made happier after receiving homes through the Food for the Poor Guyana Inc. in a programme which commenced in 2005. The family houses have each been valued at...

Youths remanded

Youths remanded

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Youths remanded

Two youths were yesterday brought before the Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where they were made to answer to a break and enter and an assault charge. John...

Hand-in-Hand 3-day U-19 Inter-County Cricket Umroa bowls B’ce to Title with less than convincing win over Demerara

Hand-in-Hand 3-day U-19 Inter-County Cricket Umroa bowls B’ce to Title with less than convincing win over Demerara

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand-in-Hand 3-day U-19 Inter-County Cricket Umroa bowls B’ce to Title with less than convincing win over Demerara

By Sean Devers There was just a handful of spectators present at Lusignan yesterday and they endured one of poorest displays of senseless batting by both teams as defending Champions Berbice,...

Rain forces draw between E’bo and Select U17 at Everest

Rain forces draw between E’bo and Select U17 at Everest

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rain forces draw between E’bo and Select U17 at Everest

Rain prevented any play on the final day of the Hand-in-Hand Inter County U19 three-day tournament between Essequibo and the Select U17 team at the Everest Cricket Club yesterday. Following a...

Hard Rock Café to open on May 11th

Hard Rock Café to open on May 11th

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Hard Rock Café to open on May 11th

The 4,600 square feet, state of the art, Hard Rock Café is scheduled to open its first location in Guyana to the public today. The Café located at Movie Towne on the Rupert Craig Highway, Turkeyen,...

One freed, co-accused guilty in Bartica’ ‘peeping’ murder of ‘Radika’

One freed, co-accused guilty in Bartica’ ‘peeping’ murder of ‘Radika’

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on One freed, co-accused guilty in Bartica’ ‘peeping’ murder of ‘Radika’

The High Court trial involving a Bartica man killed while watching a trio in a sex act ended this week with one man freed and another found guilty. The case was heard over the period of April 16,...

South Turkeyen SC dominoes on today

South Turkeyen SC dominoes on today

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Turkeyen SC dominoes on today

South Turkeyen Sports Committee will be hosting a pre-Independence King Dominoes competition starting at 21:00hrs at Beck Hill Spot 244 South Vryheid’s Lust Housing Scheme today. Teams from...

RDC #4 horse race meet at GT turf club rescheduled to July 7

RDC #4 horse race meet at GT turf club rescheduled to July 7

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on RDC #4 horse race meet at GT turf club rescheduled to July 7

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) number four has rescheduled the date for their grand one day horserace meeting which was originally set for tomorrow the Georgetown Turf Club located at Mocha...

GRDB bus catches fire

GRDB bus catches fire

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB bus catches fire

A minibus attached to the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) at Burma caught fire on Thursday after it apparently suffered leakage. According to reports, the bus which is usually used to transport...

One-Day Circle Tennis programme set for May 19

One-Day Circle Tennis programme set for May 19

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on One-Day Circle Tennis programme set for May 19

Our National Game of Circle Tennis will make a big return with the National Sports Commission sponsoring a one day tournament as part of Guyana’s 53rd Independence Celebration on Sunday May 19....

Georgetown Grand PrixJeffrey, Boodram and Daley battle headlines actionThomas and Kumar to debut

Georgetown Grand PrixJeffrey, Boodram and Daley battle headlines actionThomas and Kumar to debut

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown Grand PrixJeffrey, Boodram and Daley battle headlines actionThomas and Kumar to debut

Kristian Jeffrey, who yesterday saw his sponsorship with Torginol Paints being renewed, will have stern competition from the likes of Jamaican Colin Daley Jr. and Zachary Boodram from Trinidad &...

High Court judge quashes committal order…woman walks free of murder charge

High Court judge quashes committal order…woman walks free of murder charge

May 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on High Court judge quashes committal order…woman walks free of murder charge

Nazeema Permaul, her husband Oliver Permaul, a barber of Lot 100 Tain Settlement, Andre James and Rohan Johnson were committed to stand trial in the Berbice High Court on a charge of murder. The...

Guyana in group ‘D’ as final rosters confirmed for the 2019

Guyana in group ‘D’ as final rosters confirmed for the 2019

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana in group ‘D’ as final rosters confirmed for the 2019

Miami – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) yesterday confirmed the final 12-player rosters for the Concacaf Beach Soccer...

Dequan and Delmur Shipping Companies in Eastman’s corner To provide monthly stipend to the Caribbean Champion

Dequan and Delmur Shipping Companies in Eastman’s corner To provide monthly stipend to the Caribbean Champion

May 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dequan and Delmur Shipping Companies in Eastman’s corner To provide monthly stipend to the Caribbean Champion

Guyana and Caribbean Lightweight Boxing Champion, Jamal Eastman, has embarked on a historic partnership with Dequan Shipping and Trading and Delmur Shipping Companies, which are located in...

GHB selects strong Women’s team for PAHF Challenge in Bermuda

GHB selects strong Women’s team for PAHF Challenge in Bermuda

Sep 10, 2024

Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana women’s hockey team has selected its final squad for the 2024 Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Challenge, set to take place in Hamilton, Bermuda, from...

NSC, GOA issue unprecedented joint statement after reading riot act to Swimming Association

NSC, GOA issue unprecedented joint statement...

Sep 10, 2024

Golden Jaguars disappoint in 2-2 draw with 10-man Martinique

Golden Jaguars disappoint in 2-2 draw with 10-man...

Sep 10, 2024

Region Six REO pays courtesy visit to BCB Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Cricket Academy

Region Six REO pays courtesy visit to BCB Dr....

Sep 10, 2024

Guyanese MMA team shine at Pan American Games Monterrey, Mexico

Guyanese MMA team shine at Pan American Games...

Sep 10, 2024

P&P Insurance Cycling Classic set to return after brief pause

P&P Insurance Cycling Classic set to return...

Sep 10, 2024

Cyberspace is becoming a dark place

Kaieteur News – The notion that cyberspace should exist in some fictional realm, free from the meddling hands of governments... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Democracy and autocracy: the reality

Kaieteur News – I keep it simple in this chat about democracy versus autocracy in Guyana. I agree and disagree with... more