September 2016

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Correction

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Correction

Kaieteur Sport mistakenly published the name of Minister of Indigenous People’s Affairs as Carolyn Rodrigues instead of Valarie Garrido-Lowe in the sports pages of its Tuesday edition. The...

Argentine rugby coach working with local squad

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Argentine rugby coach working with local squad

Argentine rugby coach Deiego Giannantonio (3rd right) seen organising a scrum during the national squad practice yesterday at the National Park.

NSBF continues on Sunday

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSBF continues on Sunday

Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) wishes to advise that the National School Basketball Festival (NSBF), which was rescheduled due to Guyana’s hosting of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC)...

Winners of Indigenous Heritage Games 2016 Archery competition receive prizes

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winners of Indigenous Heritage Games 2016 Archery competition receive prizes

The curtains came down on the Indigenous Heritage Games in the wee hours of Monday morning, September 19, 2014 when the Guyana Sport Shooting Federation/Archery Guyana’s Finals Outdoor Competition...

Lindeners access much needed Dental Services

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners access much needed Dental Services

Residents of Linden yesterday turned out in their numbers for a Dental outreach held at the Egbert Benjamin Recreation Hall and Conference Centre. The dental services were offered by the Humanitarian...

New Guyana Ambassador presents credentials to Obama

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Guyana Ambassador presents credentials to Obama

On Friday, Dr. Riyad Insanally, Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, presented his Letter of Credence to President Barack Obama at the White House. “Both President Obama and...

FIRST INDIGENOUS FASHION LINE TO BE FEATURED DURING SONIA NOEL’S 2016 FASHION WEEK

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on FIRST INDIGENOUS FASHION LINE TO BE FEATURED DURING SONIA NOEL’S 2016 FASHION WEEK

Indigenous designers will be making their debut during the Sonia Noel Fashion Weekend extravaganza from November 6. Noel is arguably Guyana’s most celebrated Fashion designer. Minister within the...

Teen dies, following freak accident at sawmill in Linden

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Teen dies, following freak accident at sawmill in Linden

A Linden family is in mourning after one of their own died, following a sawmill accident last week Friday. Dead is Ramish Rajbally, a 19-year-old of Blueberry Hill, Wismar, Linden. According to the...

Bahamas man charged with killing Guyanese schoolteacher

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bahamas man charged with killing Guyanese schoolteacher

Bahamas (tribune242.com) -Alister Williams, 30, on Tuesday, appeared before Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes for the murder of Marisha Bowen, a native of Guyana who had taught at Charles W. Saunders...

Woman critical after caught in crossfire

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Woman critical after caught in crossfire

Around 17:30 hrs yesterday, an exchange of gunfire at the Timehri bus park between two unknown men and police officers, left Jean Rodrigues in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Ganja, house breaking implements found during City Constabulary raid

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja, house breaking implements found during City Constabulary raid

Ganja and house breaking implements were among the items found, during a cordon and search conducted by ranks of the City Constabulary, Friday last. The operation was conducted in section seven of...

Guyanese man deported for caressing thigh of Bajan teen

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Guyanese man deported for caressing thigh of Bajan teen

Barbados (Barbados Today) -A Guyanese national was handed over to immigration officials on Monday after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on an assault charge. The 48-year-old...

Major investors interested in ICT sector

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Major investors interested in ICT sector

–Go-Invest CEO Continuous development in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), is signalled for Guyana as interests and applications for investments in the sector have been...

Who is bailing out the workers?

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Who is bailing out the workers?

The government this past week issued a debenture to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) for $5.6 billion. This is not a bailout. It is a series of advances over a long period so as to allow the NIS...

No more mud dam for ‘E’ Field, Sophia

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No more mud dam for ‘E’ Field, Sophia

Residents of ‘E’ Field, Sophia who were not included in the Ring Road project will now have better access to their homes due to the intervention of Minister Annette Ferguson of the Ministry of...

Multimillion-dollar road works to be done in Bartica, Mahdia

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Multimillion-dollar road works to be done in Bartica, Mahdia

During the opening of the Tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance, Main Street Georgetown yesterday, 22 contractors vied for the contract to...

Civil Aviation staff trained to handle increased traffic at modernised CJIA

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Civil Aviation staff trained to handle increased traffic at modernised CJIA

Guyana is preparing to address the influx of air traffic with the expansion of the main port-of-entry, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri. The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority...

POWER OF THE MEDIA

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on POWER OF THE MEDIA

In Guyana as in many other countries, the media, especially the print media more than any other institution, including the church, school and the family, exert tremendous power and influence in the...

This nation is suffering from forensic audit fatigue

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

The man who rivaled the President for the nation’s curiosity during the Jagdeo regime was Winston Brassington. There was a point in Jagdeo’s tenure when Brassington was more sought after than the...

Hardcore inmates to be transferred to newly built block soon

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Hardcore inmates to be transferred to newly built block soon

High profile prisoners housed at the Georgetown Prisons, Camp Street, Werk-en-Rust will soon be transferred to a high security, brick prison constructed at a cost in excess of $80M. The decision to...

Man remanded for allegedly stabbing friend

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man remanded for allegedly stabbing friend

A construction worker was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly stabbing his friend with a knife, when he appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It is...

Police seeking help to ID body of man found at Leonora

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police seeking help to ID body of man found at Leonora

The police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the remains of a man which was discovered last Thursday at Leonora, West Coast Demerara. According to the police, in a release...

A tribute to Dr. Harold Drayton

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A tribute to Dr. Harold Drayton

Dear Editor, The recent issue of the newsletter of the University of Guyana (UG), now titled “Renaissance”, has an article captioned “A Brief History of the University of Guyana” by eminent...

Frustrations with UG online programmes

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Frustrations with UG online programmes

Dear Editor, Please permit some space in your newspaper to highlight some issues currently faced with the University of Guyana Online programme. Everything happens online these days. A quick search...

East Coast roads in need of repair

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on East Coast roads in need of repair

Dear Editor, It is with much disgust and disdain that I write to your newspaper with the hope of you publishing the plight of my village and other villages along the East Coast in relation to the...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

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...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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