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Families continue to abandon elderly relatives at G/town Hospital

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Families continue to abandon elderly relatives at G/town Hospital

Thoughts of abandonment and loneliness constantly haunt Peter Henry, a 58-year-old man, who has been a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for over a month. From all...

Dem unions don’t file tax returns

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem unions don’t file tax returns

De news come out dat nuff unions and organisations refuse to file dem tax returns. De list mek dem boys feel shame cause was from de biggest union like GAWU and GPSU to de smallest like dem wha got...

City Hall raises concerns about chemical warehouse at Houston

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall raises concerns about chemical warehouse at Houston

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown is appealing to the proprietor of the proposed Houston Chemical Warehouse, John Fernandes Ltd. to comply with regulations, after it received reports that it...

Pan Am Games 2019 Guyanese Deion Nurse and Joanne Lowe selected to officiate at Weightlifting and Swimming

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pan Am Games 2019 Guyanese Deion Nurse and Joanne Lowe selected to officiate at Weightlifting and Swimming

Whilst the Golden Arrowhead is being flown high in the competition arena be it boxing, squash, badminton or rugby, Guyanese would be happy to know that two of its officials have been selected to...

GMR&SC International drag championship Imran Auto Works sponsors fastest reaction time prize

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC International drag championship Imran Auto Works sponsors fastest reaction time prize

The driver with the best reaction time during the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC)’s International Drag Race will benefit from $100 USD. West Coast business Imran Auto Works has put...

Region Five PPP/C Councillors, Regional Official’s protest budget meeting convened by REO.

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five PPP/C Councillors, Regional Official’s protest budget meeting convened by REO.

Councillors of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in Region 5, NDC members, Regional Chairman Vickchand Ramphal and the Vice Chairman Rion Peters yesterday picketed outside the...

RHTYSC, MS and Panthera Solution launch Youth Information Booklet

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC, MS and Panthera Solution launch Youth Information Booklet

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS and one of its sponsors Panthera Solution on Friday last, officially launched the latest edition of the Club’s Youth Information Booklet. The Booklet...

Prosecutor’s request to transfer Maryann Daby’s case denied

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecutor’s request to transfer Maryann Daby’s case denied

Yesterday, Senior Magistrate Leron Daly indicated that the application made by Police Prosecutor Richard Harris, to have the remaining charges against Maryann Daby to be transferred, was denied. This...

Racehorses line up for PMTC Centenary meet tomorrow

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Racehorses line up for PMTC Centenary meet tomorrow

The organisers of the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) Centenary horserace meet have indicated that a large field of top local horses has entered for the event. The 4-Horse Man Promotion Group in...

House-to-house registration will not make the Govt. legal after Sept. 18

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on House-to-house registration will not make the Govt. legal after Sept. 18

It is being reported that some 50,000 persons have been registered by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) during house-to-house registration. This works out to just around 25,000 persons per week...

Ketley win Girls Windball Cricket title

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ketley win Girls Windball Cricket title

Ketley beat rivals Sophia to win their first major title as the curtains came down in the A. Munroe organised AL Sport & Tour Promotions National Sports Commission 22nd Annual End of School Year...

City Council ready to remove vendors from city wharf

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Council ready to remove vendors from city wharf

Mayor of Georgetown Ubraj Narine and his department are ready to remove vendors who are still operating on the Georgetown Wharf, even though they have been issued several warnings to relocate to the...

Karran Ramsammy re-elected as President of Whim National CC as new Executives sworn in

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Karran Ramsammy re-elected as President of Whim National CC as new Executives sworn in

Karran Ramsammy was easily re-elected as President of the Whim National Cricket Club when the members of the organisation held their elections in the upper flat of their pavilion. Ramsammy obtained...

Miners fail to comply with environmental regulations – GGMC mulls increase of land reclamation fee

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miners fail to comply with environmental regulations – GGMC mulls increase of land reclamation fee

Since 2005, the mining regulations were modified to include provisions which cater for the environmental impacts of mining. According to the amendment, every holder of a mining licence, prospecting...

K. Rampat Cricket Academy Guyana tour Opening game washed out at Enmore

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on K. Rampat Cricket Academy Guyana tour Opening game washed out at Enmore

The K. Rampat Cricket Academy (KRCA) began its tour to Guyana in an inauspicious fashion as their 40-over game at the Enmore Ground against the Enmore under-14 team was washed out without a ball...

Killing at Seeta’s Bar… CCTV footage allegedly shows ex-cop gun-butt, shoot peacemaker

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Killing at Seeta’s Bar… CCTV footage allegedly shows ex-cop gun-butt, shoot peacemaker

Police are questioning the female night club patron whose argument with a cleaner ended with Kurt Anthony Duncan, a father of six, being gunned down at Seeta’s Bar on Monday. Kaieteur News...

ICC names two new umpires IN Elite Panel for 2019-20

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on ICC names two new umpires IN Elite Panel for 2019-20

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has named Michael Gough of England and Joel Wilson of the West Indies in the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Umpires for the season 2019-20 following the annual...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National Championship moves to Jubilee Park Tarmac

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National Championship moves to Jubilee Park Tarmac

In effort to make the tournament more accessible to spectators, the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National Championship will now be staged at the Jubilee Park Tarmac. This was disclosed by...

Police arrest three suspects following Brazil Gold Heist

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest three suspects following Brazil Gold Heist

Rio Times – The Civil Police on Monday morning arrested a third man suspected of taking part in the robbery of 718.9 kilos of gold from the Guarulhos International Airport last Thursday. He was...

Inmate to spend additional months in prison for wounding colleague

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Inmate to spend additional months in prison for wounding colleague

Twenty-five-year-old Revelana Smith also called ‘Ducky’, of William Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was yesterday sentenced to serve nine months in prison after she was found guilty of assaulting...

GFF’s Draft Prevention Of Sexual Harassment Policy Public invited to provide feedback

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF’s Draft Prevention Of Sexual Harassment Policy Public invited to provide feedback

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is inviting all stakeholders and the public to provide feedback to the draft Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policy developed for the institution, which has been...

Body of missing boat captain found in Pomeroon River

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Body of missing boat captain found in Pomeroon River

The body of a boat captain who went missing last Sunday, after his vessel capsized in the Pomeroon River, was found yesterday morning. The lifeless body of Kendel Rodriques was discovered by another...

G. Bacchus and Sons supports Champion of Champions dominoes

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on G. Bacchus and Sons supports Champion of Champions dominoes

G. Bacchus and Sons of Hadfield Street, Werk-en-Rust has supported the Champion of Champions dominoes competition which is set for August 4 at Turning Point. The entity’s CEO Nick Rahaman presented...

GRA to clampdown on illegal sale of alcohol countrywide

Jul 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA to clampdown on illegal sale of alcohol countrywide

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will soon move in the direction of clamping down on the illegal sale of alcohol countrywide. This is according to GRA’s Senior Manager of the Communications and...

Everest Masters begin new season against West Dem Mavericks

Jul 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Everest Masters begin new season against West Dem Mavericks

The prolonged May/June rainy season seems to be behind us which means that the new cricket season in Georgetown will soon bowl off. The Everest Cricket Club (ECC) arguably has the best draining...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more