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AFC demands clarity on deal…Sun and Sand interest is in Guyana’s gold, not hotel

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC demands clarity on deal…Sun and Sand interest is in Guyana’s gold, not hotel

– Opposition An Indian company’s promised multi-billion-dollar hotel investment, that has so far failed to materialize, has sparked calls by the Opposition for answers regarding the details...

AG’s vulgar comments about reporter…Most female govt. MPs still silent on issue – AFC MP

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AG’s vulgar comments about reporter…Most female govt. MPs still silent on issue – AFC MP

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand and Member of Parliament (MP), Dr. Vindhya Persaud are the only female officials of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) administration to have commented on...

Body of CJIA employee found in airport reservoir

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Body of CJIA employee found in airport reservoir

Police and CJIAC officials are investigating the death of an off duty employee, whose body was found in a reservoir behind the airport at around 13.30 hrs yesterday. A police release stated that...

Carjacked driver had to wait until police bought Chinese food

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Carjacked driver had to wait until police bought Chinese food

Taxi driver, Fharis Mohamed, is peeved with the police who he claims failed to adequately intervene when he was attacked by a carjacker last Monday. Mohammed, who works with an Eleventh Avenue,...

Dem boys seh…Bai Shan and Sun and Sand come like prostitutes

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bai Shan and Sun and Sand come like prostitutes

When Jagdeo, Ashni and Brassington go about talking to China and India about investment all dem was doing was flying dem mouth. Dem was looking fuh crooks. Dem meet plenty crooks all over wheh dem...

WICB four-day Franchise cricket…Deonarine becomes 3rd Guyanese with a ton and 5wkts in same match

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB four-day Franchise cricket…Deonarine becomes 3rd Guyanese with a ton and 5wkts in same match

By Sean Devers Things just seem to be getting better for 31-year West Indies Test batsman Narsingh Deonarine, who yesterday joined three other Guyanese to score a century and capture five wickets in...

Young athletes’ frustration continue

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young athletes’ frustration continue

By Rawle Welch Eleven years after bad weather forced the cancellation of the National Schools Athletics Championships and four years after local athletes were promised a synthetic track would be...

GFA/Stag Beer 2014 Futsal Football final…Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United defeat Rhythm Squad in highly competitive duel

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA/Stag Beer 2014 Futsal Football final…Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United defeat Rhythm Squad in highly competitive duel

By Michael Benjamin Several weeks of intense rivalry climaxed to a delectable conclusion and Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United FC reigned supreme after edging Rhythm Squad 5-4 when the final chapter was...

GBA to educate boxers on benefits of AIBA Pro Boxing

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA to educate boxers on benefits of AIBA Pro Boxing

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is expected to meet with boxers to give full details of benefits related with participating in AIBA Pro Boxing (APB). President of the GBA, Steve Ninvalle,...

BIG RIDE 5…Industry pedals away with four of 10 prizes

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BIG RIDE 5…Industry pedals away with four of 10 prizes

While not attracting a huge turn out the fifth Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports/National Sports Commission/Guyana Cycling Federation BIG RIDE 5 was held yesterday afternoon. Director of Sport...

Hamilton takes second F1 title in style

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hamilton takes second F1 title in style

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – A tearful Lewis Hamilton joined the elite ranks of double Formula One world champions yesterday after a nerve-racking drive to victory in the floodlit season-ending Abu...

Diamond Mineral Water 50-Mile Road Race…Eastman is best of 32-starters

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Mineral Water 50-Mile Road Race…Eastman is best of 32-starters

The multi-talented Hamza Eastman rode to victory in the 15th annual Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) sponsored Diamond Mineral Water 50-mile cycle road race yesterday on West Demerara. From a field...

Cops caught on wrong side of the law

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cops caught on wrong side of the law

By Sunita Samaroo It’s not unusual to see policemen in court-but many lawmen have been going recently as the accused rather than to testify against prisoners. Kaieteur News has managed to compile...

THE OLIGARCHY IS IN A CLASS BY ITSELF

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE OLIGARCHY IS IN A CLASS BY ITSELF

The PPP has to accept responsibility for the state of oppression that is being practiced by the incumbent regime and in particular the acts of State oppression against the publisher of this...

A Nation besieged and held hostage by a dictatorial regime

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Nation besieged and held hostage by a dictatorial regime

Dear Editor, Not since colonialism ended in May 1966, has any action made by any of Guyana’s President had such a profound and destructive impact upon the psyche of the citizenry. We refer, of...

New York Caribbean Institute applauds President Obama’s immigration reform initiatives

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on New York Caribbean Institute applauds President Obama’s immigration reform initiatives

Dear Editor, I applaud President Barrack Obama for the bold reforms to the nation’s broken immigration system, albeit temporary. Immigration reform does not only impact our Latino brothers and...

Police high command should be evaluating the political situation daily

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police high command should be evaluating the political situation daily

Dear Editor, The role of the police is the protection of life and property and the preservation of the peace. With the current political situation now existing in Guyana, the role of the police is...

There will be nothing positive to report coming from the work of the SMD

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on There will be nothing positive to report coming from the work of the SMD

Dear Editor, To expect anything else from the police hierarchy when it comes to the work of the civilian-led Strategic Management Department would be an exercise in folly. From the very start of...

These trucks ought to be lighted up like a Christmas tree at nights

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on These trucks ought to be lighted up like a Christmas tree at nights

Dear Editor, There is quite much meat in the saying: “what we see depends mainly on what we look for”. This is exactly what is happening with me every time I see those massive giant logs piled...

Perhaps Ansa McAl Marketing Division can address this situation

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Perhaps Ansa McAl Marketing Division can address this situation

Dear Editor, Guyana needs to join the bandwagon with Trinidad & Tobago and categorise Soca Music for its 2015 Carib Soca Monarch Competition (Mashramani). It’s either ‘Power Soca...

Minister Whittaker – Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa?

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Whittaker – Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa?

Dear Editor, Which City Council was Minister Whittaker referring to when he cast blame for the flooding of the city and environs? The one he and Sooba runs or the legal City Council? The Government...

Sublime to ridiculous

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Sublime to ridiculous

It is nothing short of amazing the things that the Guyanese people are expected to swallow. Take the recent case where a causing death by dangerous driver is allowed to flee the justice system all...

Three years after hit and run tragedy…Grieving husband still seeks driver who killed his spouse

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three years after hit and run tragedy…Grieving husband still seeks driver who killed his spouse

“If they had come and said ‘it was an accident, I’m sorry, I would have understood. I had expected that as a human being they would have …” By Michael Jordan Whenever a dark-coloured...

Dave Kumar is at it again

Nov 24, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dave Kumar is at it again

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News November 18th November 2014, page 20, reported another drunken episode where Dave Kumar and another manager were locked up for urinating on the public road and abusing...

APNU warns Benn…Works Minister will suffer consequences for unapproved spending

Nov 24, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU warns Benn…Works Minister will suffer consequences for unapproved spending

– during suspension of Parliament A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Saturday warned Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn that should he sign on to major infrastructure projects...

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$1.5M up for grabs at K&S National Futsal Championship

A broad-based movement for the people’s voice on oil

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The call for a referendum on Guyana’s oil contract is a step in the right direction,... more