DURBAN, South Africa, CMC- West Indies One Day International (ODI) cricket captain Dwayne Bravo has announced that a full-string team will tour South Africa next month despite their dramatic mid-series withdrawal from India last month.
President Donald Ramotar this evening said that he will prorogue or dissolve Parliament paving the way for general elections if the opposition proceeds with its planned motion of no confidence.
Embattled Attorney General Anil Nandlall has issued his most detailed statement yet on an explosive conversation two Saturdays ago with a Kaieteur News report which has led to numerous calls for his resignation.
The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0330h today at Clive Lloyd Drive, ECD, and which resulted in the death of Gavin Bachan, 26 years, of Enmore, ECD.
President Donald Ramotar will be addressing the nation on matters of national importance at 7 pm today, an advisory from the Government Information Agency said today.
A release from the office of attorney Sase Gunraj says that yesterday, Justice Rishi Persaud, sitting in the Commercial Division of the High Court, granted judgment in favour of the Plaintiff in High Court Action No.
The Guyana National Road Safety Council (GNRSC) in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday launched National Road Safety Month under the theme “The time is now!
The Guyana National Road Safety Council (GNRSC) in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday launched National Road Safety Month under the theme “The time is now!
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, ,CMC-St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says he has been rallying support to help the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) settle a US$42 million bill with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
(Trinidad Express) While West Indies Test captain Denesh Ramdin, who was in the West Indies squad that abandoned their tour of India last month, has said he has been axed as Trinidad and Tobago captain for the upcoming four-day tournament, T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) third vice president Patrick Rampersad has denied such a decision has been taken.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall ought to know that any knowledge of an imminent crime should be reported, according to former police commissioner Winston Felix, who says that if the recording of a conversation between the minister and a reporter had not been released anything could have happened.
Justice Navindra Singh yesterday sentenced Delon Gordon, the man who killed his partner by setting her afire in their Better Hope, East Coast Demerara home, to 83 years in jail, with a minimum of 50 years to be served before the possibility of parole.
A Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) technician was electrocuted at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara yesterday while he was working on a utility pole.
The Supreme Court of Judicature came under fire yesterday from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after over $14 million that was discovered outstanding more than a decade ago remained unaccounted for.
Commissioner of Information Charles Rishi Ramson yesterday stated that he had sent a statement to the French Guiana government requesting to have Gregory Smith, the man fingered in the killing of Dr Walter Rodney, extradited to stand a possible trial in Guyana.
Frustrated teachers and students at the Nismes Primary School, West Bank Demerara, have been forced to evacuate the upper flat of the building after a continual invasion of snakes.
Two men were shot early yesterday morning along the Sarah Johanna Public Road after they tried to intervene in an argument between one of their relatives and a licensed firearm holder.
An early morning collision claimed the life of Bennett Beveney, after a truck allegedly swerved into the path of his motorcycle, at Montrose Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara (ECD), yesterday.
Relatives of Lloyd Bourne who was gunned down on Saturday night, are hoping that a camera located in the area would be able to provide investigators with some useful clues.
The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has recorded seven convictions for fuel smuggling this year since it intensified enforcement operations to combat fuel smuggling.
With construction already underway on a Chinese-owned housing community in Providence, questions still abound on just how Sunset Lakes Incorporated managed to secure 100 acres of prime virgin land.
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is seeking the public’s help in identifying a male patient who lying in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) unconscious for several days now.
A young man will be spending the next nine months behind bars after police managed to trace a call to the phone he stole during a burglary and found him with the stolen property.
Led by Ricardo Adams’ unbeaten half-century, the Wolf’s Warriors Sunday night declared themselves as the best softball team in Guyana after scripting a nail-biting four-run win over Regal XI as the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) wrapped up its Guyana Cup 4 tournament.
Several Amerindian leaders including an executive of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) have accused the government of essentially hijacking the annual toshaos conference with many concerns left unraised because of the practice of shutting down vocal leaders.
After shopping at Courts for the first time last month, Bartica resident Vidwanti Persaud was thrilled to receive $400,000 yesterday after being named the final winner in Frigidaire promotion.
The Pan American Health Organisation/ World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) is mobilizing teams of experts in outbreak alert and response to help member states in Latin America and the Caribbean ensure they are prepared for any potential introduction of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
Reigning West Indies fullbore individual shooting champion Lennox Braithwaite showed ominous form in taking day one honours in the ‘X’ Class at the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) national senior and junior fullbore shooting championships at the Timehri Rifle and Pistol ranges.
The blood, hair and other samples taken from a decapitated corpse and human head and relatives of missing businessman Mohamed Khan are still in Guyana, Crime Chief Leslie James confirmed.
Caricom Secretary General Irwin La Rocque is slated to give the feature address at University of Guyana’s (UG) 48th Convocation scheduled for Saturday at the Turkeyen campus.
With only nine males among the 32 apprentices in the latest Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited Youth Link Apprenticeship Programme, Chief Education Officer Olato Sam yesterday said he hoped it did not point to a deeper issue that would warrant an investigation.
Kristian Jeffrey sent the rest of Caribbean racing fraternity a formal invitation to his coming-out party during the first two legs of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) in his debut season.
A young man has been sentenced to 56 months in jail after he battered his victim during a robbery in which he managed to get a $1,500 artificial chain.
Twenty-three-year-old Nadene Gilbert was recently admitted to the local bar after attorney Teni Housty presented her petition to Justice Roxane George.
It was a Guyanese clean sweep in the second leg of the IAAF South American 10k Classic in Suriname on Sunday as Cleveland Forde, Cleveland Thomas and Winston Missigher crowded the podium.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, who checked into a Buenos Aires hospital on Sunday, is in stable condition and is being treated for a bacterial infection of the colon, according to a government statement yesterday evening.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced yesterday a 15 per cent increase in the minimum wage starting in December to protect workers from inflation of more than 60 per cent.
(Reuters) – Even as government officials express confidence that researchers know the key facts about Ebola, many questions crucial to preventing an outbreak in the United States remain unanswered, scientists told a workshop at the National Academy’s Institute of Medicine in Washington yesterday.
Dear Editor,
On Wednesday October 22nd, Freddie Kissoon wrote an article in KN that seemed not to resonate as it should among those who are allowed to think independently.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Embattled West Indies remained struggling at number eight in the latest International Cricket Council Test team rankings released yesterday, as Pakistan surged into third on the backs of their recent 2-0 demolition of Australia.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “How the mighty have fallen” would be a massive understatement for frustrated Los Angeles Lakers fans after their team’s worst start to a National Basketball Association season in nearly 60 years.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Wilson Kipsang won a lucrative duel to the finish to join compatriot Mary Keitany in a Kenyan sweep of the men’s and women’s races at a cold, windy New York City Marathon on Sunday.
YOBE, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 29 people in a procession of Shi’ite Muslims marking the ritual of Ashoura in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state yesterday, witnesses said.
(Reuters) – A defiant Steve Smith tried to delay the inevitable before Pakistan crushed Australia by 356 runs in the second and final test to complete a 2-0 series victory in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and moderate Syrian rebels bombarded Islamic State positions in Kobani yesterday, but it was unclear if their arrival would turn the tide in the battle for the besieged Syrian border town.
DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Opener Kraigg Brathwaite continued to enhance his credentials as a one-day player with an attractive half-century, as the second one-dayer against Sri Lanka A was ruined by rain here yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s cricket authorities have assured that their national players involved in the abandoned tour of India will not face censure and will be considered for selection in the upcoming regional first class season.
PARIS (Reuters) – Sanofi said yesterday that a late-stage clinical study showed that its dengue vaccine candidate met its main goal and was highly effective against severe cases of the disease.
Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has admitted to being a very close friend of Dr Dinesh Ariyanayagam, the surgeon at the centre of a controversial procedure in which 17 cocaine pellets were allegedly removed from a patient’s stomach last year.
Truth be told the disruption of the Sunday morning mass at St Philips Parish Church by three gun-toting young men who proceeded to rob what must have been a bemused and terrified congregation, ought not to come as a surprise to anyone.
PARIS, (Reuters) – His mere presence causes hysteria and pandemonium in the Land of the Rising Sun and he has no tennis equal in a continent heaving with 4.427 billion inhabitants, yet self-effacing Kei Nishikori thinks he is simply “one” of the best players in Japan.