April 2016

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Boyce/Jefford launches Relay Festival and Family Fun Day

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boyce/Jefford launches Relay Festival and Family Fun Day

-Event promises fun, competition in one package The Boyce and Jefford Organisation yesterday launched the inaugural Boyce and Jefford Relay Festival and Family Fun Day at 704 Lounge. The event, which...

Turbo dominoes to commence April 13

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turbo dominoes to commence April 13

The Guyana Beverage Company, Turbo brand nationwide dominoes competition, which is being organised by the Georgetown Dominoes Association, is set to commence April 13. Teams will battle for over $2M...

The Golden Jaguars have a score to settle with Curacao

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on The Golden Jaguars have a score to settle with Curacao

A tribute to Camptown’s Colin Hinds By Statistician Charwayne Walker When Guyana’s Golden Jaguars tackle Curacao on June, the first at the Providence Stadium in the C.F.U Second Round Qualifiers,...

Windies U-19s, Girls honoured by GOG yesterday

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies U-19s, Girls honoured by GOG yesterday

Team sponsors Digicel provides ‘fantastic five’ with gifts Yesterday at the 704 Sports Bar and Lounge in the City the five Guyanese West Indies players who participated in the U-19 and Women’s...

Cheddi Jagan Memorial T20 concludes tomorrow

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cheddi Jagan Memorial T20 concludes tomorrow

Nandy Park and West Demerara Mavericks will clash in the final of the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Over-40 T20 tournament tomorrow at Farm, East Bank Demerara. Prior to the game, Good Hope Golden Star will...

Police presents sponsorship for another cycle race, this Sunday

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police presents sponsorship for another cycle race, this Sunday

The Guyana Police Force has many roles to play and despite many challenges has been trying to fulfill their mandate in their quest to make Guyana a better place. Of recent the GPF in the various...

Wolf’s Softball Challenge Cup starts Sunday

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wolf’s Softball Challenge Cup starts Sunday

Action in the Wolf Warriors Softball Challenge Cup cricket tournament continues tomorrow. The Male matches are 20/20, while the Females play 10/10 encounters. Fixtures for tomorrow Sunday April 10th...

A breach of the rights of a child—we suppose

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A breach of the rights of a child—we suppose

Guyana is far from being dubbed the murder capital of the Caribbean but this country has more than its fair share of murders these past few weeks. Indeed, the year began with some horrific murders by...

$400 million fertilizer contract was for farmers benefit – GRDB

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $400 million fertilizer contract was for farmers benefit – GRDB

– Rice farmers’ plight necessitated urgency Following the controversy that was raised about the Guyana Rice Development Board’s (GRDB) contract with overseas based HDM labs Inc. for the...

Guyana, Suriname Top Cops meet in Nickerie

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Suriname Top Cops meet in Nickerie

On Thursday, a delegation from the Guyana Police Force comprising Commissioner of Police, Mr. Seelall Persaud, DSM; Assistant Commissioner ‘Operations’ Mr. Christopher Griffith, Head Criminal...

America Street bandit sentenced, accomplice dismissed.

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on America Street bandit sentenced, accomplice dismissed.

Of the two men who were arrested for the brazen gunpoint attack on money changers at America Street, one was jailed yesterday. Troy Abrams and Anthony Primo, 29, of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, were...

APOLOGY TO MR. CLINTON ALPHONSO

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on APOLOGY TO MR. CLINTON ALPHONSO

On March 19, 2016, Kaieteur News published an article naming Mr. Clinton Alphonso, among others, as defaulting taxpayers. The article was published under the caption ‘City Council Wins...

Parliament to become more effective

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament to become more effective

Parliamentarians, Committee chairpersons and clerks at the Parliament office of Guyana are now equipped to make the operations of the Parliament more effective. They had just concluded a three-day...

Did this man sexually molest his daughters?

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Did this man sexually molest his daughters?

My view on domestic abuse is that women who kill oppressive lovers who constantly batter them should not be jailed. My understanding of the world we live in is that it rests on context. Everything in...

GPHC receives $3.2M in medical equipment

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC receives $3.2M in medical equipment

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday received $3.2M worth of medical equipment from the Subei People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China. The...

E’bo records another road fatality

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo records another road fatality

Major Cunjah, a Pomona Housing Scheme teenager who worked in the interior died hours after he lost control of the motorbike he was riding. He skidded off the Aurora Public Road, Thursday evening....

Diabetic foot care touted as important factor in tackling diabetes

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Diabetic foot care touted as important factor in tackling diabetes

While it may seem a rather insignificant measure, keeping your toenails at an ideal length could be very important, especially to a person diagnosed with diabetes. This notion was on Thursday...

A breach of the rights of a child—we suppose

Apr 09, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A breach of the rights of a child—we suppose

Suriname’s airline approved for local operations

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname’s airline approved for local operations

The government has approved the application of Surinamese Airline ‘Fly Always N. V.’ to operate scheduled services in Guyana. According to a Government statement yesterday, this will take effect...

Tobacco Control Bill for Parliament next month

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco Control Bill for Parliament next month

The long awaited Tobacco Control Bill is expected to be tabled at the next sitting of the National Assembly, Public Health Minister George Norton said yesterday. After many delays, the Bill is...

Do more for LGBT Guyanese—says Chris Ram

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Do more for LGBT Guyanese—says Chris Ram

Commemorating the International Transgender Day of Visibility 2016 held just a few days ago, the Guyana Trans United (GTU) and the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) in...

Needs assessment to be done in Masakenari, Parabara

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Needs assessment to be done in Masakenari, Parabara

A team of officials and stakeholders from several government agencies will soon visit Masakenari and Parabara Villages, in Region Nine to conduct a needs assessment. This is a follow-up to a meeting...

Trade Unions to ‘set aside difference’ for one May Day Rally

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Trade Unions to ‘set aside difference’ for one May Day Rally

In a show of solidarity, representatives of several Trade Unions have set their differences aside. They have formed a Steering Committee to organise Guyana’s upcoming May Day Rally. The Steering...

Marie Curie: A Role Model for Our Children

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Marie Curie: A Role Model for Our Children

Guyanese now seem to be rediscovering the importance of science. It is, however, one thing for the government to want to encourage science and it is another thing to get children interested in...

Three years for drug trafficking

Apr 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Three years for drug trafficking

Wade Mentore, 47, of 4 Rainbow City, Mackenzie, Linden was on Tuesday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined $30,000 for trafficking in narcotics by Magistrate Clive Nurse. The convict...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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