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GBBC’s Young Blood Boxing Card… Bajan King confident of taking home a crown

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

By Sean Devers The Guyana Boxing Board of Control’s (GBBC) Young Guns ‘The Proving Ground’ five-bout Professional Card is set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) tomorrow night as the...

Make use of Trinidad’s Oil and Gas experience, expertise … But also address trade barrier issues –Energy Chamber President

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

President of the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC), Manniram Prashad, has welcomed with open arms, the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Energy between Guyana and Trinidad...

National Heritage Football C/ships 2018… St Cuthbert’s Mission stun Swan in playoff final; to represent Region 4

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

It was sweet revenge for St Cuthbert’s Mission when they stunned Swan FC 2-1 to win the Region Four Heritage Football Playoffs thus earning themselves the right to represent the region at the...

The Hardware Depot donates Raincoats to BCB

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

It is not very often that Corporate Guyana walks in unannounced into a sports organisation office and pledge assistance. This was the case three weeks ago when Marketing Executive of The Hardware...

Kilcoy/Chesney murder/suicide…Albion police sergeant who left victim alone with killer husband ‘cleared’

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

Allegations that were made against a female police sergeant attached to the Albion Police Station by relatives of the murdered mother of three, Rohini Lakhan, called ‘Subrina’, were investigated...

GFF’s TD and Head Coach to attend Fifa Conference

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

Head Coach of the National Senior Men’s National Team, Michael Johnson, and Technical Director of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Ian Greenwood, will be among Head Coaches and Technical...

Education Month activities underway in Region One

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

Education Month activities in Region One, Barima Waini are currently underway at various venues. Schools softball cricket, football and other activities are being held in the various Sub-Regions...

GFF Elite League Season III…. Conquerors/Western Tigers clash to bring the curtains down tonight

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

Fruta Conquerors Football Club has already won the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League Season Three title and head into tonight’s final night of play eager to end on a high when they face...

16th Annual FACC/Victor Macedo Mem. Cycle Road Race on this Sunday

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Sports 0

A rolling start from 07:30hrs on Sunday from 224 Peter Rose Street, Queenstown will set the action in train when the 16th annual Victor Macedo Cycle Road Race comes off, sponsored by MAcedo...

Final witness to testify in Casino robbery trial

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News 0

Days after one of the three men charged with a multi-million-dollar robbery at the Princess Casino, told Magistrate Judy Latchman that he does not trust the court, the final witness is expected to...

Farmers to own and operate commercial coconut nurseries- Assistance from NAREI, CARDI & ITC

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

Through a multi-agency approach, local farmers are expected to have increased access to various varieties of coconut seedlings shortly. Several farmers attached to the Stakeholder Platform operating...

Scotiabank to celebrate 50th Anniversary with Major Golf event

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

The highly anticipated Scotiabank Annual Golf Tournament which forms part of the entity’s 50th anniversary celebrations will be contested on Saturday from 12:30hrs at the Lusignan Golf Club. This...

Kaieteur News is still number one

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 0

Kaieteur News is entering its 25th year as a newspaper. Next year, the newspaper will celebrate its silver jubilee. Kaieteur News has been a gem of a newspaper. Within the first fifteen years of its...

Some of these folks in the diaspora can get you angry

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0

Thirty years ago, as a columnist replying to Harry Hergash, who ran away from his country almost fifty years ago, I would have done a Ryan Crawford on Hergash and give myself that infamous middle...

Fraud at driver licence….Trial of accused cops to commence next month

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

The trial involving three members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in relation to a massive driver’s licence examination scam that was unearthed last April, at the Felix Austin Police College will...

Tomb Raiders strike at La Belle Alliance Cemetery

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

The recent vandalism of four tombs in the La Belle Alliance Cemetery has sent chills down the spines of residents on the Essequibo Coast. The four tombs vandalized were located within close proximity...

Palms get elevators, refurbished ward

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

Three elevators and a rehabilitated ward were commissioned at the Palms Geriatric Home, Brickdam, Georgetown yesterday by Minister of Social Protection Amna Ally. During her visit there, the Minister...

Health Ministry moves to construct Waiting Homes…drive intended to reduce maternal deaths

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

The Ministry of Public Health has embarked on a venture that will seek to decrease the rate of maternal deaths within Guyana as the quality of childcare and maternal care increases. In a ceremony on...

Handyman pleads guilty to attempted murder charge

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

Quincy Henry, a handyman who is also called “Fix It”, has pleaded guilty to an attempted murder charge during his second appearance before Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Georgetown High...

Duo on trial over near fatal attack on storeowner to continue

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

As the trial of Marisco George and John Caesar who are both charged with attempted murder because they allegedly battered a store owner some nine years ago, is winding down. The prosecution will...

Jaguars roam Mocha backlands

Sep 21, 2018 KNews News 0

Keep animals in enclosed areas —Wildlife Commission recommends to affected farmers The Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission, has recommended among other things, that Mocha cattle...

Guyanese are entrapped between a rock and a hard place: the PPP and the Coalition

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor The recent invocation of the immunity clause by former president B. Jagdeo in regards to being question by SOCU in relation to Pradoville 2 lands, seems to have awakened a group of local...

The new driver’s licence has gained international acceptance, but not in Guyana

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Following my previous letter regarding what seems to be a conflict between the Bank of Guyana (BOG) Supervision Guidelines and policies of some Commercial Banks on Anti-Money Laundering...

These are precisely the kinds of values that drive the crime problem

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to a frequent letter writer’s comments regarding Guyana’s crime problem. First, I must extend that I am sorry to learn that this individual’s family and...

Granger’s opportunity to show the PPP constituents that he will not abandon them

Sep 21, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, The suffocating racial divide that is endemic in our country can be addressed. Currently, many PPP voters who relied on the sugar industry are suffering due to the PPP’s mismanagement...

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2018 Indigenous Heritage Games…. Orealla/Siparuta and Kamarang win opening matches following official opening

Bharrat Jagdeo embarrassed Robeson Benn

In local lingo, when someone proves that your point is unworthy of discussion because it is stupid, they say that “de man... more

The plight of independents

People get the government they deserve. The complaints about the quality of local government should therefore not be placed... more