July 2015

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Digicel National Schools Football Competition… Jamladeen, Victor spearhead 8th of May Secondary to Zone Final

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel National Schools Football Competition… Jamladeen, Victor spearhead 8th of May Secondary to Zone Final

By Sean Devers in E’bo In one of the better games in the Region Two Zone, a brace each from Amir Jamladeen and Widely Victor spearheaded Eighth of May Secondary to a 4-1 win against Cotton Field...

Basketball is more than a sport

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball is more than a sport

– says Starr Computers President President of Starr Computers, Michael Mohan said that while his knowledge of basketball maybe limited, he knows for a fact that the sport is a discipline. Mohan...

Educational equity between coast and hinterland possible

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Educational equity between coast and hinterland possible

– Minister An educational exchange programme between the hinterland and the coast will strengthen the government’s objective of increase educational equity and bridging the regions. Minister...

STARR introduces Guyana to “world’s smallest computer”

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on STARR introduces Guyana to “world’s smallest computer”

Starr Computers yesterday introduced Guyana to the world’s smallest personal computer – a device that can fit in the palm of your hand. At the Company’s Head Office, Brickdam, Georgetown,...

Banks DIH and Industrial Safety Supplies shoot for Guyana members on WI Team

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH and Industrial Safety Supplies shoot for Guyana members on WI Team

Corporate giant Banks DIH Limited and Industrial Safety Supplies Ltd. of Camp Street are the latest business entities to throw support behind the Guyana team members on the West Indies team that will...

Board Games could help arrest decline in educational standards

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Board Games could help arrest decline in educational standards

By Rawle Welch As Guyana continues to grapple with the scourge of falling educational standards, many are calling for a new approach that will encourage the re-introduction of sports and games in...

“Cricket fanatic” inspired to volunteer by blind cricketers

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on “Cricket fanatic” inspired to volunteer by blind cricketers

Volunteers, to most if not all Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), are crucial assets. One NGO that benefits from much needed volunteerism and has acknowledged this in recent days is the Guyana...

On the street where Giftland Office Max lives

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on On the street where Giftland Office Max lives

I live very close to the Giftland Office Max complex in Turkeyen which is scheduled to be officially open today. If I walk up my street, scale the fence of one of the yards and pass over the lawns of...

Regional body backs Guyana against Venezuela claims

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Regional body backs Guyana against Venezuela claims

The Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) has come out in support of Guyana against territorial claims by neighbouring Venezuela. The region’s business advocacy body said it is...

Holding our leaders to higher standards

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Holding our leaders to higher standards

Shortly after he had sworn in his ministers, President Granger asked all members of the cabinet to sign a code of conduct which would hold them accountable if they act outside of the law. As elected...

WELL DONE, MR. MINISTER!

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WELL DONE, MR. MINISTER!

The proposed decision by the Minister of Public Security to ensure that bars, pubs and clubs shut off their music by 2 a.m. is not going to be popular. There is going to be a great deal of...

Puran Bros. claims exclusion from Haags Bosch operations

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Puran Bros. claims exclusion from Haags Bosch operations

The management of Puran Brothers Disposal Inc., has said that it has never been part of the construction and operations of the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill Facility located in Eccles, East Bank...

NY assemblywoman describes Ed Ahmad as shady broker

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NY assemblywoman describes Ed Ahmad as shady broker

New York (New York Daily News) – A Westchester assemblywoman testified Wednesday that she felt State Sen. John Sampson misled her about his ties to a shady broker seeking help from Albany to...

Cop taken to court for tinted vehicle

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cop taken to court for tinted vehicle

Some amount of controversy has developed surrounding the arraignment of a Corporal attached to police ‘B’ Division, for traffic violations. Orlanzo Webster, 32, attached to the Central Police...

Food vendor denies torching Coglan Dam house

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Food vendor denies torching Coglan Dam house

A Regent Street food vendor has vehemently denied that he was responsible for a fire that destroyed a house at Coglan Dam, West Coast Demerara, on Monday. The man, Youmanram Bissessar, and his...

GFF represented at 6th FIFA Women’s Football Symposium in Canada

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF represented at 6th FIFA Women’s Football Symposium in Canada

Chairman of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Normalisation Committee Clinton Urling and Vice President of the Women’s Football Association Sheron Abrams will represent Guyana at the 6th FIFA...

Govt. provides $20M to cash-strapped Iwokrama

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. provides $20M to cash-strapped Iwokrama

The worrying state of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development has caused government to intervene with $20M (US$100,000) to assist the centre in covering certain...

ICU rooms, theatre needed to help bolster GPHC’s Burn Care Unit

Jul 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ICU rooms, theatre needed to help bolster GPHC’s Burn Care Unit

The transformation of two of the six rooms of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Burn Care Unit to cater to critical patients is among the plans to help improve the delivery of...

Japan, U.S. have revenge on their minds in World Cup final

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Japan, U.S. have revenge on their minds in World Cup final

Defending champions Japan and the rival United States are gearing up for the Women’s World Cup final in Vancouver on Sunday where both teams will have the added motivation of trying to avenge a...

Gentle and Humphrey are Queens of GBTI Ladies Doubles

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gentle and Humphrey are Queens of GBTI Ladies Doubles

While youthful faces have been making it deeper in the main draws of the GBTI Open this year, in the Ladies Doubles Finals on Wednesday night saw Afruica Gentle teaming up with Carol Humphrey to...

Williams warns T&T against complacency

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Williams warns T&T against complacency

Couva, Trinidad – Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Under-17 cricket team, Kelvin Williams is confident of winning the West Indies Cricket Board Regional Under-17 being contested in Tobago. The...

Mahaicony Technical Institute beat Bush Lot Secondary on penalties to claim Region 5 title

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mahaicony Technical Institute beat Bush Lot Secondary on penalties to claim Region 5 title

Mahaicony Technical Institute overcame Bush Lot Secondary 4-3 on penalty kicks to win the Region 5 Zone of the Digicel National Schools Football Championships yesterday at Number 5 ground, West Coast...

Was Vindiya Persaud asleep when some of the most horrible crimes were happening?

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Was Vindiya Persaud asleep when some of the most horrible crimes were happening?

Dear Editor, On her Facebook page, Vindiya Persaud declared her concern about crime in Guyana… “I am disturbed by the escalating crime around the country. Daily, many are losing their lives...

Magnanimity and an apolitical approach will be needed

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Magnanimity and an apolitical approach will be needed

Dear Editor, There is no other country in the world that has a Ministry (or Minister) of Social Cohesion. And maybe that is so because there is no other country in the world, with so few people,...

Court has Jurisdiction on election matters

Jul 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Court has Jurisdiction on election matters

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the argument made by Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkaran that the court cannot order a recount of ballots. Others also inferred the court has no jurisdiction over...

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The great rediscovery

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(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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