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Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Is Guyana’s manufacturing sector dying? Pt. 7…More protection possible for manufacturers without hurting international agreements – Foreign Affairs Minister
By Kiana Wilburg One of the crucial questions coming out of the debate on Guyana’s ailing manufacturing sector is whether it is possible for some level of protectionism to be had for local...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on This has never been a ground like that says Simmons
Not getting what he wants to improve Windies cricket By Sean Devers in Trinidad Phill Simmons, the 53 year-old West Indies head Coach said he has played at the Queens Park Oval for many years and has...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brathwaite receives vote of confidence from Sammy
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – New West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite says he has received a vote of confidence from former skipper Darren Sammy as the regional side prepares to play...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Badminton team championships 2016 – Aruba…Guyana defeat Barbados 3-2 & Aruba 5-0 to top Group B
The Guyana Badminton Team consisting of SUNBURST’s Narayan Ramdhani, Jonathan Mangra, Priyanna Ramdhani and Ambika Ramraj are currently playing in the Caribbean Badminton Team Championships which...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Cricket Teams planning Massive Career and Business Fair
The eight cricket teams of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS as part of their Youth Development Campaign would be hosting a Massive Career...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sharpshooting Pools Competition set for Sunday at Jerries in Grove
The Grand Central Pools Bar or as popularly known, Jerries Shop, at Grove on the East bank of Demerara will be the venue for a Sharpshooting Pools Competition on Sunday starting at 3:00pm. All Pools...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on SUR includes Berbice affiliate for Boyce/Jefford Classic VII
-in bid to challenge for top placing The Super Upcoming Runners (SUR) Athletics Club is hoping to steal a bit of the spotlight at the 2016 Edition of the Boyce and Jefford Track and Field Classic,...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eagles thump High Stars, Shattas earn draw against Botofago; matches continue today
GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League… As rivalry in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) leg of the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour National Under-17 league motors on,...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC, M.S Town Week…Roraima Airways INC and JR Engineering Solution on board as Official Sponsors
Roraima Airways of Georgetown and JR Engineering Solutions of New Amsterdam have become the latest cooperate entities to support the efforts of the Cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Bishops’ High School to be extended
South R/veldt Secondary to see some rehabilitative works During the opening of the tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday, at the Ministry of Finance, a...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 2013 High Reef murder trial… Son saw father choking mother – court hears
The murder trial of 34-year-old Prabhudyal Tarchand continued yesterday in the Berbice High Court before Justice JoAnn Barlow and a mixed Jury. Tarchand called “Ramesh, “of High Reef, Albion,...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS…WHERE IS THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR?
By Sase Singh INTRODUCTION A decade plus into the 21st century, the role of our manufacturing sector continues to deteriorate. From a position of 11.2% of GDP under Hoyte, it expanded to 12.4%...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on West Demerara man caught with gun on Corentyne Coast remanded to jail
A 36-year-old West Demerara man was nabbed with a gun in a car on Saturday, last, on the Corentyne Coast. Leslie Blackwood of 215 Westminster, West Coast Demerara, was travelling in a White Toyota...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Poor power supply affects eight Region Three wells
Poor power supply is among major challenges facing the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) in the delivery of water supply in the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region (Region Three). According to...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Critical training to improve Customs Officers’ efficiency underway
A major training exercise for Customs Officers is underway, with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) announcing yesterday that performance remains a key focus. According to the authority, the training...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Despite challenges, Blind Society willing to offer CSEC Maths
Funding continues to be a major issue in sustaining the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination programme at the Guyana Blind Society. This is according to Coordinator of the...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Plans apace to improve image of GPHC’s Maternity Unit
Even with additional beds in a new facility, the space issue that has faced the Maternity Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is not likely to become a thing of the past. This...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A DIRE NEED FOR AMPLE INCENTIVES
The Ministry of Agriculture definitely needs to come up with more initiatives to develop that struggling sector which we have acknowledged, ad nauseum, is vital to our existence in so many ways....Aug 24, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on People do things to win votes; it’s commonsense
I have heard many persons who support the Coalition Government frown on the PPP’s chastisements and castigations of the Granger/Nagamootoo administration with the bellicose exclamation; “they are...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1
There are many persons within Diaspora and within Guyana who are asking why has more not been done by the government, considering the goodwill and lack of disruptive protests greeting the...Aug 24, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two RDC approves $4.7B budget for 2017
The Region Two Regional Democratic Council at a recent statutory meeting approved its $4.7 billion 2017 budget. On the council’s agenda is to resuscitate the region’s once thriving rice cereal...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE TRUE IDEOLOGICAL FACE OF 1823 MONUMENT IN 2016
Dear Editor, The hostile email and face Book narrative purportedly by Dr Melissa Ifill and the Kaieteur article on August 21, 2016 by Freddy Kisoon directed at whether the President was making an...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The real reason behind Jagdeo’s New York outburst
Dear Editor, Former President and now Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bharat Jagdeo found himself in a sea of controversy for remarks he made while addressing a public forum in New York, which was...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must keep trying despite the odds
Dear Editor, This letter addresses all the students who wrote this year’s CSEC examinations not only those who did exceptionally well but also those who may not have gotten their desired results;...Aug 24, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on EXTENDING THE EDUCATIONAL FOCUS BEYOND ‘STEM’ TO ‘STEAM’
Dear Editor, The letter by Mr Hamilton Green in the media recently which rightly lamented the importation of foreign fruits grown abundantly in Guyana appealed to my passion as kitchen gardener and...Nov 08, 2026
(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...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...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...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...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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