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Pakistan take control of second test v West Indies

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pakistan take control of second test v West Indies

(Reuters) Pakistan piled up 452 runs and reduced West Indies to 106 for four to take control of the second test in Abu Dhabi on the second day on Saturday. Captain Misbah-ul-Haq made 96 and Sarfraz...

IGG Futsal…Doesburg’s helmet-trick sets up crushing 11-1 win for Suriname

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on IGG Futsal…Doesburg’s helmet-trick sets up crushing 11-1 win for Suriname

By Franklin Wilson Suriname inked their name in the Inter Guiana Games history books with a crushing 11-1 win over Guyana when Futsal was played at this level for the first time yesterday at the...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League…

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Nat. U-17 League…

Grove thump Diamond; Soesdyke edge Agricola in 7 goal thriller When competition in the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National Intra Association Under-17 League continued yesterday at the Grove...

IGG Badminton..Suriname demolish Guyana 5-0

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on IGG Badminton..Suriname demolish Guyana 5-0

By Sean Devers Without their best player Narayan Ramdhani who is unavailable due a scholarship in Canada, Guyana’s Badminton team were demolished 5-0 by Suriname as the action in the Inter Guiana...

AK takes aim at GDF in Terrence Alli National Open

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on AK takes aim at GDF in Terrence Alli National Open

The Republican Gym is riding on a wave of confidence going into this weekend’s Terrence Alli National Open boxing tournament. The boys representing the Guyana Prison Service are set to go...

Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition…Reigning champs crush Tucville 6-0

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition…Reigning champs crush Tucville 6-0

Defending champion St. Angela’s marched into the knockout phase of this year’s Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition after crushing Tucville 6-0 in their clash yesterday, at the Banks...

Rising Sun and Jumbo Jet race meet …Epic battle anticipated among Kazi Azari, Burbon Bullet and Spit Fire

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Sun and Jumbo Jet race meet …Epic battle anticipated among Kazi Azari, Burbon Bullet and Spit Fire

Fans will throng the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park, West Coast, Berbice today when the Rising Sun Turf Club and the Jumbo Jet Businesses stage their eight race horserace programme with over $4M in...

Letter to the Sports Editor…A compelling case for National Coach

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…A compelling case for National Coach

Dear Editor, The dust has settled and the Guyana Male National Football Team has been eliminated from the 2016 Scotiabank CFU 2016 Caribbean Cup qualifiers. Coach Jamaal Shabazz is set to resign....

Letter to the Sports Editor…I will not allow Mr Daniels to besmirch my character

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…I will not allow Mr Daniels to besmirch my character

Dear Editor, I respond to a letter published on October 22 in the Kaieteur News by Mr Forbes Daniels, Manager of Essequibo’s Franchise team in response to a story I wrote on October 16. I will not...

Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Cycle Road Race – next Sunday

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness Cycle Road Race – next Sunday

Over $1M in cash at stake as the nation’s best set to collide; Race dedicated to Sharon Khan By Franklin Wilson Two-time champion Raynauth ‘Obeah Man’ Jeffrey, who is also the reigning...

Guyana males on brink of gold, females go down as IGG Volleyball continues

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana males on brink of gold, females go down as IGG Volleyball continues

Guyana male team are on the brink of capturing gold as the Inter Guiana Games Volleyball tournament continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. After beating their Surinamese counterparts...

Minister Cummings leads team to strategic planning workshop

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Cummings leads team to strategic planning workshop

Caribbean policy makers recently gathered in Trinidad and Tobago with the common aim of drafting a relevant and coherent five-year One Health Strategic Plan for the Caribbean. Guyana was represented...

How persons with disabilities are helping to keep GPHC operational

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on How persons with disabilities are helping to keep GPHC operational

By Sharmain Grainger While a health facility is usually validated by the work done by its doctors, nurses and other health professionals, what many of us may not readily recognise is that there are...

The waste of an asset

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The waste of an asset

Around 14:00 hrs on Thursday two vehicles collided on the Canefield Public Road, East Canje. Reports are that the Toyota Vista HC 6292 piloted by Phillip Yearwood clipped the other vehicle PJJ 3428,...

Gafoors to spend US$80,000 on sprinkler system

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gafoors to spend US$80,000 on sprinkler system

Chief Executive Officer of Gafoor’s Houston complex, Abdool Sattaur Gafoor, said that some persons feel that if they talk to the company today, that company will deliver its product or service the...

DANGER LURKING

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on DANGER LURKING

In Guyana, danger is lurking for the economy that was already shrinking before the government came to office. Charting a new course will require a Herculean task but the government must develop...

Govt. to use ICT in creating a green economy – Minister Hughes

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to use ICT in creating a green economy – Minister Hughes

The development of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is going to parallel the government’s efforts to transition to a green economy. Minister of Public Telecommunications,...

Guyanese man found dead in Trinidad ditch with head bashed in

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man found dead in Trinidad ditch with head bashed in

Trinidad (Trinidad Guardian) – Police have requested video footage which may assist them in investigating the death of Guyanese national, Keith Miller, who had his head crushed in an accident...

Palmyra man tries to escape from police, found with unlicensed gun in car

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Palmyra man tries to escape from police, found with unlicensed gun in car

Kevin France, a 51-year-old self-employed resident of lot 55 Palmyra Village was yesterday caught with an unlicensed 9 mm pistol. It was approximately 01:00 hrs. According to police sources, ranks of...

Guyana working to empower young girls utilising 2016 CHDR recommendations

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana working to empower young girls utilising 2016 CHDR recommendations

Guyana is working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to ensure that polices are inclusive to provide a better future for young girls as .securing the future of the country’s...

Medical Officer introduces NGO to help battle scourge of cancer

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Medical Officer introduces NGO to help battle scourge of cancer

By Sharmain Grainger Although health sectors across the world have been constantly advising that early detection could help to save the lives of cancer patients, it has been failure to adhere to this...

97-year-old Hilton “Champ” Lewis is Uncle Eddie’s oldest

Oct 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 97-year-old Hilton “Champ” Lewis is Uncle Eddie’s oldest

By Isanella Patoir As the Month of the Elderly progresses with the theme, “Take a stand against ageism” Uncle Eddie’s oldest is one to for the books. He has been blessed with long life and good...

There is too much acrimony among our politicians

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is too much acrimony among our politicians

Dear Editor, It is most depressing to me, and I am sure all Guyanese who have the welfare of our country at heart, to see the continuing hostile attitude that seems to pervade the relationship...

Minister Raphael Trotman on the Barama decision

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Raphael Trotman on the Barama decision

Dear Editor, Following on Barama Company Ltd’s decision not to renew the forest concession the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Guyana Forestry Commission, will continue to engage Barama’s...

Blackouts in Bartica are overbearing

Oct 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Blackouts in Bartica are overbearing

Dear Editor, I must say that in this new dispensation of government, I guess a lot was promised with only little actually done or still yet to be achieved. When would they actually formalise a...

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Sinclair’s Central Retainer Contract reinstated by GCB

Oct 18, 2026

– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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