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Chinese medical team facilitates outreach at Suddie Hospital

Nov 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese medical team facilitates outreach at Suddie Hospital

The Suddie Hospital was the venue for a recent medical outreach, in which patients were able to access a number of crucial services. The services were facilitated by a Chinese Medical team whose...

Wins for Suriname, T&T in Tradewind Tankers Volleyball tourney

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wins for Suriname, T&T in Tradewind Tankers Volleyball tourney

Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago recorded victories when the Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers international club volleyball tournament continued on Saturday at the National Gymnasium. In the female category,...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition…Pedro’s long range missile secures full points for West Front Road

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition…Pedro’s long range missile secures full points for West Front Road

Hubert Pedro’s long range missile after nine minutes of play proved decisive for West Front Road ‘Gold is Money’ in their clash against East Front Road as play in the Georgetown Zone of the...

‘Nationals’ nicely balanced ahead of today’s start

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Nationals’ nicely balanced ahead of today’s start

Guyana’s most anticipated and biggest junior sports event is set to start today with three different events at three different locations. Swimming will start at 10:00hrs at the National Aquatic...

WICB PCL Cricket…Carter leads B’dos fight back, but Guyana in sight of 1st win against Bajans in 31 years

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB PCL Cricket…Carter leads B’dos fight back, but Guyana in sight of 1st win against Bajans in 31 years

By Sean Devers Guyana were well positioned to register their first victory against Barbados on home in soil in 31 years when the penultimate day of their third round WICB PCL four-day Franchise ended...

Haniff is champion at Grand Coastal 2015 Golf tourney

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Haniff is champion at Grand Coastal 2015 Golf tourney

Veteran golfer and 2011 Guyana Open Champion, Fazil ‘That’s it’ Haniff, again emerged champion at Lusignan in the 11th annual sponsored Grand Coastal Hotel & Restaurant of Le Ressouvenir,...

‘King’ James Beckles arrives for boxing workshop

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘King’ James Beckles arrives for boxing workshop

Top Caribbean Boxing Referee/Judge, Trinidadian ‘King’ James Beckles arrived in Guyana Saturday night and will today commence a workshop for local and regional amateur boxing officials. The...

EBE advance to ECB/Busta Final

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBE advance to ECB/Busta Final

Fast bowler Trevon Garraway bagged seven wickets for 22 runs as East Bank Essequibo defeated Leguan by 110 runs on Saturday to book their place in the final of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB)/Busta...

Second Annual Guyana Cup Rematch set for Sunday December 20 at Port Mourant

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Second Annual Guyana Cup Rematch set for Sunday December 20 at Port Mourant

Over $10M up for grabs After being successfully staged last year the organizer of the Guyana Cup Rematch horserace meet will be hosting the activity again this year. The event which is set for Sunday...

Timber company workers resume work, stand by 12 percent demands

Nov 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Timber company workers resume work, stand by 12 percent demands

Workers of Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) who took strike action last Friday for a twelve percent increase in wages and salaries, were paid on Saturday instead of Friday. However, they could not...

UG students are begging the Education Minister for redress

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG students are begging the Education Minister for redress

Dear Editor, We applaud our colleagues for coming forward and exposing one of our problems at Berbice Campus. However, there is another issue which the administration has failed to address. Last...

Cricket-loving, piano-playing ‘Aunt Ivy’ scores 100 not out!

Nov 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cricket-loving, piano-playing ‘Aunt Ivy’ scores 100 not out!

Unity, supplication and good family time are keys to long life, and Ivy Beril Maxwell, a US based Guyanese, knows that all too well. An ardent cricket and boxing fan, ‘Aunt Ivy,’...

Ruel Johnson confronts the racism of the PPP’s leadership

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ruel Johnson confronts the racism of the PPP’s leadership

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter signed by a Stacy Cheong, “Public officer’s Facebook page has racist undertones” (Kaiteur News, 21-Nov-205). The name is a fictitious one and while I am not...

Republic Bank’s Kitty machine can be a dangerous place

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Republic Bank’s Kitty machine can be a dangerous place

I go jogging every morning and my route would be through Kitty. Last Sunday, I had to pass through Pike Street, Kitty. I am talking about 7 am. When I reached Barr Street heading south on Alexander...

Connecting cricket with the imperialist past

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Connecting cricket with the imperialist past

Dear Editor, I note, quite regrettably, that the sole ex-Test Match cricketer on the CARICOM CRICKET COMMITTEE is Deryck Murray. If the entire Anglo-Caribbean – generally – the post-imperialist...

Let foreigners serve their sentences in their home-country

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let foreigners serve their sentences in their home-country

Dear Editor, I reference your report “St. Lucian cocaine mules jailed” of November 20th 2015. Some matters have crossed my mind in situations where the offender is not a Guyanese, but is...

WHY GUYANA’S ANTI-CRIME STRATEGY WILL FAIL!

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHY GUYANA’S ANTI-CRIME STRATEGY WILL FAIL!

We can learn a thing or two from the experience of Trinidad and Tobago in fighting crime. It is not however as if we have anything to learn from what that country has done; rather the learning...

Do not sell tickets to single persons for Kaieteur Falls

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not sell tickets to single persons for Kaieteur Falls

Dear Editor, Yet another suicide at Kaieteur Falls. A very sad situation in Guyana with all these suicides being committed by young people. There needs to be a national discussion on why so much...

We have to save Guyanese from Americanization

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have to save Guyanese from Americanization

Dear Editor, Culture was again at the centre of the 2015 Guyana Cultural Association (GCA) New York annual Symposium held at Empire College in Brooklyn, New York. This community of Guyanese scholars,...

New angle on the Diwali date debate

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on New angle on the Diwali date debate

Dear Editor, It was reported in the Kaieteur Newspaper under the caption “Govt. willfully dividing Hindu community – PPP” (15/11) that the PPP is accusing Minister of Public Security, Khemraj...

MELDA AND THE OBEAH MAN

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on MELDA AND THE OBEAH MAN

When Calypso King of the World, the Mighty Sparrow, introduced Caribbean people to the female character, Melda, in his 1966 song, “Obeah Wedding”, she was no stranger at all. In fact, wherever...

PLACING OLD WINES IN NEW BOTTLES

Nov 23, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on PLACING OLD WINES IN NEW BOTTLES

The old saying that out of every bad can come some good, but the challenge, however, is to spot the good and embrace it. Human nature, being what it is, has caused people to dwell mostly on the...

Another young woman jumps off Kaieteur Falls

Nov 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Another young woman jumps off Kaieteur Falls

By Romila Boodram Horrified tourists yesterday watched as another woman plunged off the edge of the Kaieteur Falls just 82 days after Laleta Sivanand ended her life at the majestic falls. The dead...

Celina ignores Govt to halt works

Nov 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Celina ignores Govt to halt works

Government is involved in a tussle with a city businessman who refused to halt construction works at Celina’s Atlantic Resort. The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is now moving to court to...

Ministers must perform to make Guyana respected again- Yesu Persaud

Nov 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ministers must perform to make Guyana respected again- Yesu Persaud

Chairman of the Demerara Bank Ltd; Dr. Yesu Persaud, yesterday made no bones about the need for Ministers to perform to their best, in order for Guyana to raise its status and become respected once...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The folly of the cash grant distribution is a textbook case of what happens when a government,... more