February 2015

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Mayor’s Cup Football…Semi-final slots at stake tonight; Pele, GPF, Slingerz & Riddim Squad on show

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup Football…Semi-final slots at stake tonight; Pele, GPF, Slingerz & Riddim Squad on show

Following two days of well deserved rest, the Mayor’s Cup Football Championship resumes tonight with two sizzling matches that would net the winners semi-final places but more importantly, keep...

Plantain All-Stars upset Plantain & Cheese for NEE Futsal semi-final place

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Plantain All-Stars upset Plantain & Cheese for NEE Futsal semi-final place

Plantain All-Stars created a major stir Wednesday night in the Mining Town of Linden when the team booted one of the community’s Futsal cream de le crème, Plantain & Cheese from the New Era...

Mecca II bounces off with Linden vs. Georgetown showdown

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mecca II bounces off with Linden vs. Georgetown showdown

Georgetown and Linden will immediately renew their basketball rivalry with four such clashes bouncing off Guyana’s National Basketball Championships this Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall...

Boxers rounding off training for Jamaican Invasion Boxing Card

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxers rounding off training for Jamaican Invasion Boxing Card

Fly Jamaica Airlines to support By Michael Benjamin After several weeks of intense training the boxers that comprise the card organized by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) and scheduled for...

Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Investigators told accused was found in compromising position with teen – police witness

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Investigators told accused was found in compromising position with teen – police witness

Assistant Superintendent of Police, (ASP) Mitchell Caesar told the court yesterday that murder accused Bibi Shareema Gopaul had told police investigators that she once caught her teenage daughter in...

Health Ministry boasts GPHC equipped to achieve goals

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry boasts GPHC equipped to achieve goals

…as ‘Grassroots’ agreement with Japan concludes An agreement between the Governments of Guyana and Japan, which saw the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) benefiting from just over...

Sensibly examining historical concepts

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Sensibly examining historical concepts

Over the years, countless individuals have played significant roles in shaping history, by challenging old traditions and by contributing new ideas and concepts to pave the way for progress. On the...

AFC hopes elections don’t descend into “gutter kind of vendetta”

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AFC hopes elections don’t descend into “gutter kind of vendetta”

While the Alliance for Change (AFC) is hoping that in the period leading up to the May 11 General and Regional Elections, a respectful environment among the contesting parties exists, it is still...

IDB US$65M project to aid in reducing GPL’s overall losses – Brassington

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on IDB US$65M project to aid in reducing GPL’s overall losses – Brassington

– ‘Smart Meters’ could see drop in electricity theft A large sum of money from a US$65M Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Guyana Power and Light (GPL) modernisation project will go...

Burnham Foundation launches activities to commemorate birthday

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Burnham Foundation launches activities to commemorate birthday

The Forbes Burnham Foundation has organized a series of activities from February 15th to 22nd to commemorate the 92nd birth anniversary of former president Forbes Burnham. The activities commence...

GEA employee missing for more than two years…Relatives bemoan substandard investigation

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GEA employee missing for more than two years…Relatives bemoan substandard investigation

The family of 25-year-old Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) employee, LeVoy Taljit, says that more than two years of unbearable anxiety have been experienced since their loved one has disappeared, and they...

WHO IS THE BEST?

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHO IS THE BEST?

How do we know that Forbes Burnham surrounded himself with the best? Just how does one determine that those who Burnham chose to be ministers of his government were the best available? How can we be...

UN Electoral Mission meets APNU reps

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UN Electoral Mission meets APNU reps

– told about Govt. use of state resources to campaign As Guyana readies for general elections on May 11, the United Nations Electoral Mission yesterday met with representatives of A Partnership...

AFC surprised by former GS’s resignation

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AFC surprised by former GS’s resignation

The resignation of former General Secretary (GS) of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Sixtus Edwards, has come as a surprise to executive members of the party. This was disclosed yesterday at the...

Almost a year later…Medex building fire started in AC Unit – Fire Chief

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Almost a year later…Medex building fire started in AC Unit – Fire Chief

After almost a year of waiting, the cause of the fire which completely destroyed the Medex Building at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara on March 18, last, has finally been revealed. The fire,...

Can we in Guyana reclaim our humanity in 2015?

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can we in Guyana reclaim our humanity in 2015?

Whichever party wins the general elections in May this year, doesn’t mean that human rights violation will disappear. In my opinion, the human rights landscape will improve tremendously if APNU or...

Berbician charged with killing Paradise man

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Berbician charged with killing Paradise man

A West Berbice man who is said to be of unsound mind, and who had stabbed another man in his left eye resulting in his death, has been charged with murder. Conrad Wilson, 58, of Golden Fleece, West...

$10,000 bail for shoemaker on threatening language charge

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $10,000 bail for shoemaker on threatening language charge

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday released a man on $10,000 bail for using threatening language to a woman. Shawn Albert, 35, of Maria Elizabeth Mines, Upper Demerara River, who is...

Alleged serial burglar remanded

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged serial burglar remanded

A man who allegedly committed a series of burglaries in the mining town of Linden was yesterday remanded to prison when he made an appearance before Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the...

A captain does not win games by singular effort

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A captain does not win games by singular effort

Dear Editor, One of the leading questions in Guyana at this time is: who is the leader or captain? That, however, is not the pertinent question in multicultural Guyana, for that has led and will...

What was Walter Rodney doing?

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on What was Walter Rodney doing?

Dear Editor, I would like to ask a question. No one has seen fit or scared to ask ,’What was Mr. Rodney doing with a military radio? You cannot get the then GBS on it, so was he committing a crime...

The truth about who is really keeping Guyana back

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth about who is really keeping Guyana back

Dear Editor If one phrase can sum up the collection actions and philosophy of the PPP Administration, I propose I would be ”The PPP Government, robbing the poor to enrich the rich because we...

This final showdown will determine our future

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This final showdown will determine our future

Dear Editor, This letter comes to you because I think the Guyanese public needs to understand the situation at the University of Guyana for what it really is – the final showdown. Firstly, I should...

Luncheon reveals…One million NIS contributions in limbo

Feb 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Luncheon reveals…One million NIS contributions in limbo

Government is mulling the possibilities of allowing more input from a wide cross-section of society to chart the future of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). The disclosure came from Cabinet...

Female, three foreigners among newly commissioned GDF officers

Feb 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Female, three foreigners among newly commissioned GDF officers

One female and three foreign-born ensigns were among the 18 newly commissioned Officers who successfully completed the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) 47th Standard Officers Course to attain the rank...

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By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – The ultimate rivalry in cricket resumes tonight as the Guyana Amazon Warriors lock horns with arch-rivals Trinbago Knight Riders come tonight at the historic...

Give the Commission a chance to do its preparatory work

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(Kaieteur News) – There is a legitimate public concern about the pace at which the Commission of Inquiry into the MV Barima tragedy is getting underway. Survivors, relatives of those who died and the wider Guyanese public understandably want answers. After such a devastating national tragedy,...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

From Jagdeo to Ali; from bad to worse

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Never thought I would ever reach this place. Bring back Bharrat Jagdeo. Never say never! It was inconceivable that there could be a worse leader than former president Jagdeo. I warned him seven years ago. A monster created. Would come back to...

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