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GTT Unveils Prepaid Mobile Plan for Teachers

Sep 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GTT Unveils Prepaid Mobile Plan for Teachers

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) re-launched its Teacher’s Prepaid Mobile Plan on September 16th, 2019, which made it easier for teachers to register for the special plan. The...

NOC to host V Net Vipers on Saturday

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on NOC to host V Net Vipers on Saturday

The New Opportunity Corps (NOC) ground on the Essequibo Coast will come alive on Saturday when V Net Vipers of Georgetown engage their Essequibo counterparts in three 15-over matches. V Net Vipers...

Mound tickets for Play-offs sold out Tickets only available at CPL GT Office as TKR match sold out

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mound tickets for Play-offs sold out Tickets only available at CPL GT Office as TKR match sold out

By Sean Devers The final opportunity for Guyanese to watch the 2019 Hero T20 Cricket live at the Providence will be on October 3, 4 & 6 and from a security standpoint; all systems are in place to...

Feasibility study on seawall rehabilitation moving ahead

Sep 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Feasibility study on seawall rehabilitation moving ahead

─ 7.5km of the seawall from Kingston to Ogle slated for construction in 2020 The rehabilitation and reconstruction of the seawall from Kingston to Ogle is progressing; as the government moves a...

Almost 30 players face off in GAICO Chess tournament

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Almost 30 players face off in GAICO Chess tournament

Three Rounds of fighting Chess were completed at the weekend in the GAICO Construction Grand Prix Tournament at the National Racquet Centre . Former National Champion Taffin Khan along with Loris...

Bishop’s hat-trick hands Dwayne Sevens NOC heritage football title

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bishop’s hat-trick hands Dwayne Sevens NOC heritage football title

Travis Bishop banged in a hat-trick to lead Dwayne Sevens to a 4-1 victory over Tucker Sevens in the final of the New Opportunity Corps 7-a-side football competition which was contested on Sunday...

Six Guyanese policewomen in US for major conference

Sep 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Six Guyanese policewomen in US for major conference

– over 800 delegates from 43 countries participating Six female officers of the Guyana Police Force/Guyana Association of Women Police (GAWP)led by Deputy Commissioner Maxine Graham, DSM and...

Circle Tennis action set for Linden on Saturday

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Circle Tennis action set for Linden on Saturday

Minister Dr George Norton and Director of Sport Christopher Jones revival of Our National Game of Circle Tennis in Guyana effort will loop in Region 10, Linden, at the Wisburg Secondary School...

Guyanese student charged with hoax bomb threats on Minnesota University

Sep 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese student charged with hoax bomb threats on Minnesota University

Minnesota- (startribune)- A University of St. Thomas student was behind a series of hoax bomb threats since April, the most recent being phoned in last week, targeting buildings on the St. Paul...

SS Jaguars, Maria’s Pleasure triumph

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on SS Jaguars, Maria’s Pleasure triumph

Sans Souci Jaguars and Maria’s Pleasure registered victories when the Wakenaam Cricket Committee/Rubis Bel Air and Trophy stall T20 competition commenced on Sunday last at the Wakenaam Community...

Finance Minister calls on ‘shaky’ NIS to review sustainability plan

Sep 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister calls on ‘shaky’ NIS to review sustainability plan

In honour of its Jubilee anniversary, officials from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), on Tuesday unveiled a commemorative stamp to celebrate the milestone at a simple ceremony at the Umana Yana....

President Granger’s politics is becoming bizarre

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Granger’s politics is becoming bizarre

By the time this edition of KN is released, the date for the 2020 election may be announced. But the essential argument of this analysis here would not be irrelevant. It centres on words the...

BCB 80th Anniversary Celebration 1939-2019

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB 80th Anniversary Celebration 1939-2019

Percival, Darlington, Mangru, Moakan, Dhaniram and Persaud honoured as Outstanding Retired Cricketers The Berbice Cricket Board, as part of its 80th Anniversary Celebration on Friday last, continued...

Poem on plagiarism

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Poem on plagiarism

(By Zainab Ibbott) Plagiarism, such a cruel thing to do. Some people say it’s like losing a shoe. Long tired hours spent researching and looking. Writing and booking. Then there they go all sneaky...

Racial discrimination in the workplace

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Racial discrimination in the workplace

The first surprise was that there were not more of these workplace complaints, given how racially antagonistic is this society. The second is that so few racial discriminations reports were...

Let us ensure that light reigns over darkness.

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us ensure that light reigns over darkness.

DEAR EDITOR, Please allow my voice to be heard within the 83,000 square miles of Guyana, by publishing this article. I am angry with the APNU/AFC coalition government. This government must take some...

BCB celebrates 80th Anniversary with gala event

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB celebrates 80th Anniversary with gala event

Nagamootoo, Lamberts, Deonarine and Derick Kallicharran inducted into Berbice Hall of Fame The Berbice Cricket Board on Friday last celebrated its 80th Anniversary by hosting a Gala Ceremony at the...

Support for a Commission of Inquiry into Violence

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for a Commission of Inquiry into Violence

Dear Editor, Former President and current Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is reported to have said two days ago that he is not opposed to a commission of inquiry into (politically directed) violence...

Demand for greater transparency and accountability in governance is gaining ground worldwide

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demand for greater transparency and accountability in governance is gaining ground worldwide

DEAR EDITOR, Some exciting developments are taking place on the local and international stage that could impact our domestic and global politics. There is, for instance, the formal initiation of...

Guyana shouldn’t look to Ghana for local content guidance

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana shouldn’t look to Ghana for local content guidance

DEAR EDITOR, The most recent version of Guyana’s local content policy has sparked much commentary this week, some helpful and some less so. As Guyanese cast about for other examples from which to...

Continuing lies and mischief by a ‘’disheartened’’ PPP/C supporter

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Continuing lies and mischief by a ‘’disheartened’’ PPP/C supporter

DEAR EDITOR, There can be no moral expectation, of any degree, that can be expected from any PPP/C supporter. In fact, they all have been part of its scheme of national deception, lies, and...

Frequent, inconveniencing road blocks

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Frequent, inconveniencing road blocks

DEAR EDITOR, I am writing to express my deep concern over the inconvenience many people are facing due to unwarranted destructive protests and frequent, unannounced road blocks within the city of...

Congratulations to NIS for its 50th Year

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to NIS for its 50th Year

DEAR EDITOR, We are writing to congratulate NIS, its management and Staff on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Organization. 50 years ago we joined the staff of NIS in the capacities of...

Does the CCJ have anything to say to the Guyana Govt. and people of the Caribbean?

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does the CCJ have anything to say to the Guyana Govt. and people of the Caribbean?

DEAR EDITOR, I join the handful of Caribbean citizens who have called on CARICOM to issue an official statement on the breach of the Guyanese Constitution and of the ruling by the Caribbean Court of...

Protest is a right; a must. But let there be temperateness and better sense

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Protest is a right; a must. But let there be temperateness and better sense

DEAR EDITOR, What unfolded last Thursday in and around the Pegasus should not be repeated in any form or to any degree. By any group in this country. Nothing else should have to be said. Today, I am...

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