January 2015

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THE DEARTH OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN GUYANA

Jan 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE DEARTH OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN GUYANA

Earlier yesterday, I toured Fun City located at the Princess Hotel. It is an impressive game arcade that matches any that I have seen in the developed world. Those visitors to Guyana, who always...

Alleged gang-rape… Victim referred to psychiatry clinic

Jan 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged gang-rape… Victim referred to psychiatry clinic

The teenager who was allegedly drugged and raped by 10 men in a house at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Old Year’s Night, has been referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Surinamese trade delegation heading to Guyana

Jan 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Surinamese trade delegation heading to Guyana

The Government of Guyana, the Private Sector Commission and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Surinamese Trade Mission/Delegation from today to Saturday. It is expected that the...

Forget falling oil prices globally

Jan 15, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Forget falling oil prices globally

Every day the reports both in the foreign television stations and in the newspapers that the price of oil has fallen to near five-year lows catches the eye. Last year at this time oil was being sold...

Meeting the devil: The PPP at 65

Jan 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Meeting the devil: The PPP at 65

It will take a huge act of shameful writing for any historian to elevate the PPP as a great historical party after its unspeakable record of tyranny in government the past twenty-two years. There is...

Letter to the Sports Editor: Holder responds to newspaper article

Jan 15, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor: Holder responds to newspaper article

Dear Editor, I read with gross astonishment sections of another paper on 2015-01-13 edition under the caption ‘ECB ELECTIONS HELD WITHIN CONSTITUTION – BACCHUS’. This is the most opportune...

Regional Councillor lobbies for rice farmers’ payment

Jan 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Councillor lobbies for rice farmers’ payment

Farmers in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) continue to decry the prolonged problem of nonpayment to farmers by millers after they would have sold their paddy. The issue of nonpayment to farmers was...

Norway, IDB accused of Amaila conspiracy

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Norway, IDB accused of Amaila conspiracy

…WPA demands that money be withheld from Govt. The Working People Alliance (WPA) is adamant that there should be no financial negotiations for the Amaila Falls project unless Guyana has a...

Execution of Auto dealer’s wife…Daughter goes into hiding, fears for life

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Execution of Auto dealer’s wife…Daughter goes into hiding, fears for life

Having stood helplessly and watched a gunman pump four bullets into her mother, the daughter of slain businesswoman Patricia Sanasie has gone into hiding, fearful for her life. Ramona Sanasie, who...

Where is IDB $$M given for line losses?

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Where is IDB $$M given for line losses?

– APNU’s Greenidge asks Opposition member, Carl Greenidge, did not hesitate in a recent interview to roundly criticize Chairman of the Board of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Winston...

US$22M EBD four-lane extension…Govt. tags March completion, tells contractors work overtime

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US$22M EBD four-lane extension…Govt. tags March completion, tells contractors work overtime

More than four years after Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) signed a US$22M financing agreement to extend the four-lane thoroughfare from Providence to Diamond, East Bank...

Golden Grove cops track down stolen guns

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Golden Grove cops track down stolen guns

Ranks from the Golden Grove Police Station are being commended for literally tracking down three firearms that burglars had stolen from a Section ‘A’, Diamond, East Bank Demerara businessman,...

Health officials mum about works to ensure CHI’s future

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health officials mum about works to ensure CHI’s future

— CEO says facility could close in six months From all indications, health officials both at the level of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and the Ministry of Health have assumed a...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo is a bareface man

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo is a bareface man

Jagdeo is a shameless big man. Why anybody, even a mad man, pick he fuh guh and monitor election in any part of de world in any country is a mystery. Fuh 13 years he rule Guyana and de same thing he...

Grove Hi Tech’s Domini Garnett to try out with T&T Pro League side, Caledonia AIA

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grove Hi Tech’s Domini Garnett to try out with T&T Pro League side, Caledonia AIA

There is the saying that dedicated work always brings reward, this statement is apt in the case of 20 year-old Grove Hi Tech forward, Domini Garnett who leaves Guyana today for a tryout at T&T...

Jaguars depart for NAGICO Super50 tourney – GCB President cautions against complacency

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaguars depart for NAGICO Super50 tourney – GCB President cautions against complacency

President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Dru Bahadur, met the Guyana Jaguars at the Windjammer hotel before they left for the airport yesterday morning for Trinidad & Tobago in quest of the...

Injury, availability force few changes

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Injury, availability force few changes

Port of Spain, Trinidad – The West Indies Cricket Board has advised of a number of squad adjustments ahead of the NAGICO Super50 Tournament, starting tomorrow here. Team ...

Banks decline to manage $B mercury-free fund

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Banks decline to manage $B mercury-free fund

– GGMC Commissioner Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Rickford Vieira insisted yesterday that local banks have declined to manage its billion-dollar mercury-free...

French envoy echoes call to defend press freedom

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on French envoy echoes call to defend press freedom

– as Guyanese express condolences for Paris attack Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Independence stipulates that “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this...

Public Works spent $604M on road maintenance in 2014

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Public Works spent $604M on road maintenance in 2014

– Update on new roads to be announced Friday For the year 2014, the Ministry of Public Works recorded the spending of $604M for the maintenance of 359 kilometres of roads within Regions two,...

Young Warriors CC Mash Cup 2015 Ray Jahoor of Ashiek and Son Motor Supplies and Auto Sale on board

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Warriors CC Mash Cup 2015 Ray Jahoor of Ashiek and Son Motor Supplies and Auto Sale on board

For the third time, Ray Jahoor of Ashiek and Son Motor Supplies and Auto Sale is on board with the YWCC annual fundraiser, Mash Cup 2015 – Third Edition. His sponsorship will cover the second...

Halting expenditure on “roll over projects” would obstruct economy

Jan 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Halting expenditure on “roll over projects” would obstruct economy

– Minister Benn Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn during a recently televised programme on Channel 11, the National Communications Network (NCN) under the heading, “The Political Scope”...

Spartons capture August Beverage/Gittens dominoes title

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Spartons capture August Beverage/Gittens dominoes title

Spartons registered 51 games to capture the August Beverage Enterprise/Lyall Gittens four-game dominoes title on Monday night last at Norton and Green Streets, Newburg. Legends, who drew the bye to...

Persaud elected as WDCUA President

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persaud elected as WDCUA President

Chetnarine Persaud was elected unopposed as President of the West Demerara Cricket Umpires Association (WDCUA) when the body held its Annual General Meeting recently at Wales Community Centre....

GBBC President, Peter Abdool, heads Fecarbox Boxing Organization Recommits to development of local boxers

Jan 14, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBBC President, Peter Abdool, heads Fecarbox Boxing Organization Recommits to development of local boxers

By Michael Benjamin Almost five years ago, in February 2010, President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), Peter Abdool, endeavored to change the fortunes of local boxers when he...

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Hope 162* beats Rahul 129* as West Indies pull off record chase

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(Cricinfo) – Shai Hope spent the entirety of this seemingly never-ending match on the field, hobbling for the last third of his innings after having kept for 50 overs, and sealed West...

The price of prosperity

Oct 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, there is a peculiar arithmetic to prosperity. The country announces itself as one of the fastest-growing economies in the hemisphere, a petroleum state that has been transformed almost overnight into a place of billion-dollar projects, expanding infrastructure and...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

What if

Oct 04, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Brace for what’s coming, my fellow Guyanese. A bit off the beaten track. Here goes. What if the U.S. as a matter of immigration policy would experiment with visa-free travel for Guyanese? A kind of seasonal work permit, along the lines that used to be...

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