October 2015

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Increase in ministers’ salaries must be contextualized

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Increase in ministers’ salaries must be contextualized

By Charles L. Griffith, BS (Ag. Eng.) MS (Ag. Proc. Eng.) PE The increase in Ministers salaries could have been placed in the public domain with different support for such actions, to include...

COUNTRYMAN: Boys will be boys – hopefully!

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN: Boys will be boys – hopefully!

By Dennis Nichols This land, my Guyana El Dorado, has produced several outstanding citizens over the years – men and women of great substance. Men looked and acted like men; women like women. The...

The Story Within The Story… Holding our feet to those electrical fires

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… Holding our feet to those electrical fires

By Leonard Gildarie Growing up, I had difficulties saying no to friends and work colleagues. I was always more of a quiet follower. But family responsibilities and dedication forced me to take quick...

Hail to Jamaican accomplishment

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Hail to Jamaican accomplishment

By Sir Ronald Sanders On October 13, 2015 it was 44 years since a West Indian won the Man Booker Prize for the finest fiction written in English for the year. The first and only writer of West...

Stag Elite League continues today

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Elite League continues today

The Stag Elite League is set to continue today with two matches at the Guyana Defence Force ground, Camp Ayanganna. Pele and the GDF will square off in the feature match which would be preceded at...

GCB/Banks DIH/Digicel National Secondary School Cricket League commences

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/Banks DIH/Digicel National Secondary School Cricket League commences

…Marian Academy, Annandale Secondary and Friendship records wins The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) inaugural National Secondary School Cricket League sponsored by Banks DIH’s Coca Cola and...

Bhola enjoyed prolific stint in EACA

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bhola enjoyed prolific stint in EACA

Everest Cricket Club all-rounder Manjrekar Bhola enjoyed productive season in the recently concluded Eastern America Cricket Association 40-over tournament. The right-handed Bhola who represented...

WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE?

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE?

There have been reports in the media that Guyana has shifted to sourcing a greater amount of its fuel supplies from Trinidad and Tobago. There has been no public announcement of this arrangement and...

Steve’s Jewellery presents MVP Bracelets for “Guyana Softball Cup 5”

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Steve’s Jewellery presents MVP Bracelets for “Guyana Softball Cup 5”

Steve’s Jewellery of Church St, Georgetown has presented yet again for the fifth time, two 14 carat, 10 penny weight gold bracelets with diamond studs to be added for the MVP of “Guyana Softball...

NSC supports Police Youth Group Athletics Competition

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC supports Police Youth Group Athletics Competition

The National Sports Commission (NSC) has extended support for the Commander of ‘A’ Division Inter Youth Group Track and Field Classic, which commenced yesterday and will continue today with the...

12th edition of Busta Champion of Champions / RHTY&SC tourney, SEALED

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 12th edition of Busta Champion of Champions / RHTY&SC tourney, SEALED

By Franklin Wilson Cricket clubs in the Ancient County of Berbice will welcome the news that the Guyana Beverage Inc. (GBI), in association with the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC)...

Riveting football action anticipated for Mayor Hamilton Green 81st birth anniversary

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Riveting football action anticipated for Mayor Hamilton Green 81st birth anniversary

Mayor Hamilton Green will soon be celebrating his 81st birth anniversary and in commemoration of the event, former national coach, Lennox Arthur, will stage a 7-a-side Inter-Ward/Village Knockout...

Guyana NRA Fullbore Section focusing on Nationals

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana NRA Fullbore Section focusing on Nationals

Following the World, National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and Canadian National championships where a number of Guyana shooters competed, the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) is now...

‘A’ Division, Police Commander, Clifton Hicken is GFA President

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘A’ Division, Police Commander, Clifton Hicken is GFA President

Police Commander ‘A’ Division, Clifton Hicken, was unanimously elected to serve as the President of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) when that entity staged its Annual General Meeting...

GCA’s Carib Beer t20 cricket

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s Carib Beer t20 cricket

DCC take title with 30-run win over GCC By Sean Devers Twice Bridesmaids but never the Bride, GCC, like they did last year when they lost to Police in the final at Eve Leary, lost by 30 runs to host...

GBA receives equipment from USA Boxing, seeks assistance for November tourney

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA receives equipment from USA Boxing, seeks assistance for November tourney

President of the Guyana Boxing Association, Steve Ninvalle, who recently attended the International Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) Extra Ordinary Congress in Doha Qatar, has indicated that the...

Meet Guyana’s team to the CCC Elite Championships 2015

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meet Guyana’s team to the CCC Elite Championships 2015

The 15th edition of the Elite Caribbean Cycling Championships will climax today with the female and men’s road races. Guyana will be represented by a four member team led by Alanzo Greaves (Roraima...

“West Indies cricketers need more steel!”

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on “West Indies cricketers need more steel!”

By Colin E. H. Croft West Indies v Sri Lanka 1st Test, at wonderfully reconstructed Galle Stadium, one of many important Sri Lankan venues totally devastated by that terrible tsunami on Boxing Day,...

Preparations begin for Jumbo Jet Bush Lot Utd Turf Club horserace meet November 8

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations begin for Jumbo Jet Bush Lot Utd Turf Club horserace meet November 8

With the horseracing season experiencing an unexpected lull in activities due to a number of unforeseen circumstances, the move by the Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and Racing stables in collaboration with...

Pradoville – a case of power

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Pradoville – a case of power

The issue of the two Pradoville Housing Schemes has got people talking. They have given rise to the question of how far can a Head of State go in the execution of the powers bestowed on him. It also...

In time, Guyanese will see the merits of the salary increase – President Granger

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on In time, Guyanese will see the merits of the salary increase – President Granger

The Government’s decision to increase the salaries of the Prime Minister, Ministers, Members of Parliament and the Opposition’s yearly allocation, has been described by President David Granger as...

Bandits shoot Bath man in home invasion

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot Bath man in home invasion

A 26- year- old Bath, West Coast Berbice man has been admitted to hospital after he was shot in the foot by bandits who invaded his parents’ home early yesterday morning. According to a police...

URP Objects to Government’s salary increase

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on URP Objects to Government’s salary increase

Dear Editor, The URP has remained silent over the last five months as it gives the new AFC coalition government a chance to rule during its honeymoon period. But the coalition seems hell bent on...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…NOISE POLLUTION DANGEROUS TO HEALTH – THE POLICE NEEDS TO ACT

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…NOISE POLLUTION DANGEROUS TO HEALTH – THE POLICE NEEDS TO ACT

PAT DIAL Noise pollution is one of the dangers to the environment. It is little noticed in the media or officialdom as compared with garbage accumulations everywhere on coastal Guyana, and in...

I have suffered too much to let APNU-AFC destroy Guyana

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have suffered too much to let APNU-AFC destroy Guyana

Dear Editor, I begin my response to Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine’s letter in yesterday’s Kaieteur News in which he called upon me to apologize for my reference to some Indian Guyanese as Indian...

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A failure of planning

Sep 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The electricity crisis in Guyana has now reached the point where it can no longer be explained away as a series of unfortunate technical incidents, because GPL itself has acknowledged that surging demand is placing enormous pressure on the distribution network and causing...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

PPP Govt. – sponsored noise nuisance

Sep 20, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – There is a creature called government noise nuisance. A government monster. Not VP Jagdeo at full blast. Nor Excellency Ali furiously boiling over. Follow the vibrations. Saturday, 12th Sept, 2026: 10:00 a.m. –14:00hrs Monday,14th Sept, 2026:09:00 a.m....

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