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Flying Ace Cycle club selects team for National Cycling Championship beginning today

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle club selects team for National Cycling Championship beginning today

The New Amsterdam based Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) has selected its cyclist that will be tasked with carrying the club colours in the 2016 National Cycling Championship orgnised by the Guyana...

RHTYSC, MS Congratulates Eight female National Under-20 Cricketers

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC, MS Congratulates Eight female National Under-20 Cricketers

The Paton, Management and Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS would like to congratulate the eight Club members who were selected in the Guyana Under-20 Cricket Team to play in a...

Newly established Sports Association formed in Region 8

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Newly established Sports Association formed in Region 8

Youths in and around Region 8 are now breathing a sigh of relief with the recent establishment of a sports association within the region. This is with the recent establishment of the North Pakariams...

Battle for top prize intensifies in Annual Mayor’s Cup football competition

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Battle for top prize intensifies in Annual Mayor’s Cup football competition

After several weeks of intense and exciting action the teams that have distinguished themselves with winning performances are preparing to throw down the gauntlet when the Annual Mayor’s Cup...

CPL and Guardian Group announce 3-year contract extension

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on CPL and Guardian Group announce 3-year contract extension

Lucky fans can win cash prizes at all 34 CPL matches (CPL) The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) are delighted to announce a new three-year extension with the Guardian Group who will remain as an...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…. PROTECTING AND DEVELOPING CHILDREN

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…. PROTECTING AND DEVELOPING CHILDREN

PAT DIAL Over the last week the issue of the Rights of the Child was given some media notice. There was, for instance, the worldwide commemoration of World Day Against Child Labour on Sunday June12,...

COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC

Meeting with the Permanent Secretaries to draft plans for the various ministries suggests that the President is taking the bull by the horns. This is long overdue, but as the saying goes, nothing...

Ambulance with patient crashes into lumber truck

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ambulance with patient crashes into lumber truck

The occupants of an ambulance transporting a patient from New Amsterdam to Georgetown, were lucky to escape injuries when the ambulance crashed into a lumber lorry on the Hopetown Public Road, West...

Food and Drug Analyst granted extension to file response in Court action

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Food and Drug Analyst granted extension to file response in Court action

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department, (GAFDD) has been granted additional time to file an affidavit in response to the court action. The Department is currently embroiled in court action...

Firemen who sustained injuries during Gafoor’s fire presented with cheques

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Firemen who sustained injuries during Gafoor’s fire presented with cheques

A little over one month has elapsed since the massive fire at Gafoor’s Houston Complex on May 9, in which six fire fighters were injured as sections of the building collapsed on them during...

AC technicians with cocaine in rum bottles

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AC technicians with cocaine in rum bottles

From Air Conditioning technicians to drug mules, the recent jail sentences given to two former airport AC technicians for trafficking cocaine in El Dorado 5 year-old rum should be a wake-up call for...

Bandits cart off cash, jewelry after terrorizing Corentyne businessman

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits cart off cash, jewelry after terrorizing Corentyne businessman

Four armed and masked bandits escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash and gold jewelry after robbing and terrorizing a Corentyne man and his family in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The man,...

US University partners with NAREI, UG to bolster sweet potato production

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on US University partners with NAREI, UG to bolster sweet potato production

Sweet potato production in Guyana will be enhanced thanks to collaboration between the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), Partners of America (Local Chapter), the National Agricultural...

UG Vice-Chancellor wants Govt. to Review Tax Laws

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on UG Vice-Chancellor wants Govt. to Review Tax Laws

– Tax Act should offer deductions to individual donors Dr. Ivelaw Griffith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, wishes for the government of Guyana to review its tax laws. He believes...

Guyana experiences 50 % increase in Fatal Accidents

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana experiences 50 % increase in Fatal Accidents

-Traffic Task force reintroduced Citing driving under the influence as the major cause of some traffic accidents, Traffic Chief, Dion Moore, has revealed that the State is currently experiencing a 50...

Quest for the sunken slave ship which claimed 664 lives

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Quest for the sunken slave ship which claimed 664 lives

Experts believe they are close to locating the final resting place of a slave ship which sank in what has been described as the biggest single tragedy of the Atlantic slave trade. Even in the annals...

Minister Harmon hosts meeting to draft community development plan for Mocha

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Harmon hosts meeting to draft community development plan for Mocha

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, met with representatives from several ministries and Government agencies on Thursday, to discuss a multi-stakeholder approach towards the completion of a...

Prequalification to clean a drain?

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Prequalification to clean a drain?

The Georgetown City Council is deservedly under a great deal of fire. The people are speaking out against the parking meter deal. The matter is threatening to rip the Council apart, with some...

Nigel Hughes can do it, not Freddie Kissoon

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nigel Hughes can do it, not Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, I refer to a published letter in the Kaieteur News with the title, “will Glen Lall, Freddie Kissoon and Nigel Hughes do it?” in the edition of June 5, 2016. It was signed by a former...

A deteriorating road at Victoria

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Please provide me a space to speak of this uncivilized and uncaring action of the Victoria people for their own infrastructure. Editor it is enough that we have a main access road that...

Please help clean Bel Air Village

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please help clean Bel Air Village

Dear Editor, I had hoped that with the hive of activities associated with Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations, Bel Air Village would have been among the sometimes neglected areas...

Society must hold leaders accountable

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Society must hold leaders accountable

Dear Editor, Let me first wish outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy, Bryan Hunt all the best in his future endeavours. Attention is now turned to some areas in his farewell...

AN ELEGY FOR DALE ANDREWS

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AN ELEGY FOR DALE ANDREWS

Dale left us suddenly yesterday His smile did not his death betray He never got to say goodbye That’s why for him last night I cried Why did Dale leave us all so soon? Kaieteur News office is...

Sunday Cartoon

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Accreditation supporting public policy

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Accreditation supporting public policy

World Accreditation Day (WAD) was commemorated on Thursday, June 09, 2016 under the theme “Accreditation – A global tool to support public policy”. WAD is a global initiative jointly...

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Investment Committee’s mandate is financial not political

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There’s nothing quite as uniquely absurd as when someone misinterprets their job description.... more