July 2014

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Hosts braced for another continental challenge

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hosts braced for another continental challenge

Is it possible to predict how exciting a FIFA World Cup™ knockout match will be, simply based on where the two teams are from? On the basis of Brazil 2014, the answer would appear to be no, with...

Achievers waltz to top spot in 4th Trophy Stall Volleyball tourney

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Achievers waltz to top spot in 4th Trophy Stall Volleyball tourney

Achievers Volleyball Club (AVC) of West Demerara defeated Port Mourant Training Centre (PMTC) of Berbice on Sunday last to win the first place trophy when the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA)...

GSA/Digicel National Squash Championships …Callender wins over-50 title

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSA/Digicel National Squash Championships …Callender wins over-50 title

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with Digicel commenced the National Senior Squash Championships at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts on Wednesday evening last. A fit Alwyn...

Favourite Dominoes Tourney…Mix Up, TNT, All Season to battle for title tonight

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Favourite Dominoes Tourney…Mix Up, TNT, All Season to battle for title tonight

Mix Up, TNT and All Season Racing Service will clash in the final of the Orin Favourite 58th Birth Anniversary dominoes competition tonight at R and R Sports Club Meadow Brook Gardens. Mix Up marked...

Guyana to open Regional U-17 campaign against Leewards

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to open Regional U-17 campaign against Leewards

Guyana will begin their quest to win the Regional Under-17 50-over tournament against the Leeward Islands July 8 at Bon Accord, Tobago. The team which is currently undergoing intense training...

Friendship needles Covent Garden in keenly contested affair

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Friendship needles Covent Garden in keenly contested affair

Friendship Secondary (FSS) and Covent Garden Secondary Schools (CGSS) engaged in a fierce battle for honours and after a keen tussle, the former institution emerged victorious compliments of a 64th...

Limacol CPL tickets go on sale from today

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol CPL tickets go on sale from today

CPL OPCO Guyana Inc. has informed that the eagerly awaited sale of tickets for the 2014 Limacol Caribbean Premier League will commence today July 4, 2014 at the CPL OPCO Offices on Middle Street,...

4th Annual Digicel Schools Football Competition…QC exact revenge on Carmel to advance

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on 4th Annual Digicel Schools Football Competition…QC exact revenge on Carmel to advance

By Rawle Welch Queen’s College (QC) exacted revenge on Carmel by beating them 4-3 in penalty kicks shootout after regulation time ended in a 2-2 stalemate yesterday, at the Police Sports Club...

School uniform voucher distribution begins

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on School uniform voucher distribution begins

About 165,000 school uniform vouchers are to be distributed to parents at the Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and Georgetown Departments of Education during the phase of distribution that began...

Reception Fallout…PPP executive prepared Manickchand’s 4th of July statement — Source

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Reception Fallout…PPP executive prepared Manickchand’s 4th of July statement — Source

By Gary Eleazar Priya Manickchand, acting in the capacity of Foreign Affairs Minister, was on Wednesday evening vociferously booed and heckled while speaking at a function held at the residence of...

Priya Manickchand and Luis Suárez

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Priya Manickchand and Luis Suárez

Most, if not all the commentators who wrote on the Suárez biting incident believe he has a psychological problem and should seek help. The factor that they took into consideration was that the...

Charges for salesman who faked $9M heist

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Charges for salesman who faked $9M heist

– claims he stashed $1.3M for himself before attack The driver/salesman who police say stole $9M from his employer and then claimed he was robbed is to be charged today. He has been in custody...

Spread of Chikungunya virus… Situation likely to “get worse before it gets better,” says officials

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Spread of Chikungunya virus… Situation likely to “get worse before it gets better,” says officials

“It’s going to get much worse before it gets better,” a few senior health officials have said of the Chikungunya virus outbreak here. Initial reports out of the Ministry of Health were that the...

Food and Drug Dept. set to clamp down on illegal water companies

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Food and Drug Dept. set to clamp down on illegal water companies

The absence of a certified operator on any water processing site could see the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) taking legal action. At least this is according to the...

Truck driver killed in highway crash

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver killed in highway crash

– bus driver detained A 22-year-old truck driver died at around 14.00 hrs yesterday after being struck by a speeding bus near Aruni, on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway. Lenny Jaisingh of Lot 7-8...

US provides equipment to Police Force

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US provides equipment to Police Force

The United States Embassy, under the auspices of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), recently provided the Guyana Police Force with supplies and equipment to assist in their efforts to...

Rodney COI…Williams’ allegations are vexatious, outrageous and sinister – Nandlall

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney COI…Williams’ allegations are vexatious, outrageous and sinister – Nandlall

By Latoya Giles Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday categorically denied that government backdated the Official Gazette which purported to extend the life of the Walter Rodney Commission of...

Lethem businesses reject electricity rates increase

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem businesses reject electricity rates increase

– say 100% hike will cause prices of goods to go up The business community of Lethem, an area that borders with neighbouring Brazil in Region Nine, has rejected an electricity tariff...

IDB approves US$16.8M loan for GWI

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IDB approves US$16.8M loan for GWI

– aimed at drinking water access, better sanitation Guyana will strengthen and improve access to drinking water and sanitation services with a US$16,838,250 loan approved by the Inter-American...

GT&T facilitates online payment of bills

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T facilitates online payment of bills

As E-commerce gains momentum locally, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday launched its online billing service with the aim of saving money and making customers happier....

The Ambassador deserved what he got!

Jul 04, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Ambassador deserved what he got!

Sometimes you must say it as it is. The acting Foreign Minister of Guyana, Ms. Priya Manickchand, said it as it was. She did not engage in meaningless diplomatic platitudes. She did not feign...

Pre-trial liberty for attempted murder accused

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pre-trial liberty for attempted murder accused

Two Kopinang, North Pakaraimas farmers appeared briefly in the City magistrate’s court yesterday and were granted bail in connection with charges of attempted murder. Delroy Pio and Jarvis Joseph...

US Peace Corps volunteers to tackle health, education

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US Peace Corps volunteers to tackle health, education

The 32 United States Peace Corps volunteers, who recently completed their two-month training in Guyana and were sworn in officially as volunteer workers yesterday, are expected to tackle the areas of...

Labourers granted bail on burglary charge

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Labourers granted bail on burglary charge

Bail was yesterday set to the tune of $100,000 for two Baramita, Barima-Waini (Region One) labourers who were charged for burgling a business owner’s house and making off with over $600,000 in...

GT&T appoints Russell Davis as Chief Technical Officer

Jul 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T appoints Russell Davis as Chief Technical Officer

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has appointed its Director of Technical Operations and Planning, Russell Davis, as Chief Technical Officer effective July 1, 2014. According to...

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Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

Absenteeism at School

Jun 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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