October 2016

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Wolf’s Challenge Cup Male, Female Finals set for Sunday at DCC

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wolf’s Challenge Cup Male, Female Finals set for Sunday at DCC

The Wolf’s Challenge Cup softball tournament sponsored by Imran Hussain of Wolf’s Furniture Store in Leonora, and is being played in memory of his father Emam Hussain, who died on the...

UG INTER-FACULTY TRACK & FIELD ATHLETIC MEET POSTPONED

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on UG INTER-FACULTY TRACK & FIELD ATHLETIC MEET POSTPONED

The University of Guyana (UG) Inter-faculty Track & Field Championship billed for yesterday and today has been rescheduled to Semester II of the current academic year, to coincide with the...

CSME awareness being enhanced via workshop

Oct 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CSME awareness being enhanced via workshop

Local stakeholders are being provided with necessary knowledge and understanding of Caribbean Community Single Market and Economy (CSME) labour market by way of a three-day workshop offered by the...

First Division 50 overs cricket – Upper Corentyne play Skeldon CC on Saturday

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on First Division 50 overs cricket – Upper Corentyne play Skeldon CC on Saturday

Cricket fans in the Upper Corentyne area have an opportunity to see the best cricketers from that part of the country in action on Saturday. The Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) has...

Savage tackle Floodlights tomorrow night at DCC in Hardball T/20 fixture

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Savage tackle Floodlights tomorrow night at DCC in Hardball T/20 fixture

Trophies sponsored by Vicky Ramsaywack AkA Savage are at stake when Savage face Floodlights tomorrow Night at the DCC ground, Queenstown in Hardball T/20 fixture starting at 7:00pm. This match will...

General Services are Bosai Inter Department football champs

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on General Services are Bosai Inter Department football champs

A lone goal off the boot of General Services’ Damion Williams in the 76th minute of play was enough to end the reign of three-time champions, Plant Operations in last Saturday’s final of the...

Bel Air Lions Club Domino Tournament Closing date for entries now Oct. 28

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bel Air Lions Club Domino Tournament Closing date for entries now Oct. 28

Organisers of The Lions Club of Bel Air upcoming Domino Competition revealed to Kaieteur Sport via telephone yesterday that due to the increasing interest expressed by teams they’ve decided to push...

Clarifications on the impasse a sunken dredge caused

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clarifications on the impasse a sunken dredge caused

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter to express a more factual account as to the many inconveniences that was experienced by boat operators using the Mazaruni River, from early June, when the...

Why is GPL taking so long to accept this contract?

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is GPL taking so long to accept this contract?

Dear Editor; I’m writing to follow up on a recent letter I sent. In my letter I had written about the pressure to resign faced by the project manager of the CH&PA. It’s now been almost three...

Berbice holds the key to national development

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Berbice holds the key to national development

Dear Editor; It has been a long time since any type of sustainable economic development has been done in Region 6 and it has been on the agenda of every visiting President and Minister of Government...

Guyana is a secular state

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is a secular state

Dear Editor, I am writing regarding a recent development with the government of Guyana and the Islamic Development Bank. I must state that Guyana is a secular state. Secularism is a principle that...

A prejudiced person on the board is the problem

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor; I read Freddie’s “Craig is gone; class and colour go on” of Oct 17, 2016 and even though I had resolved to stay my pen and hold my tongue on matters concerning the GNBA (at least...

These investigators do not have official police ranking

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on These investigators do not have official police ranking

Dear Editor; Editor’s note; this is the conclusion of Mr. Conway’s letter in our Tuesday edition which appeared under the caption; “These investigators are wrongly assigned by the police...

His comments are disrespectful to the Auditor-General

Oct 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on His comments are disrespectful to the Auditor-General

Dear Editor; Let me first indicate that I shall not attempt any of those reckless generalisations about the purpose and intent of the Contingency Funds which have now been popularised by a very...

Tender Board practiced no due diligence to ensure evaluators were qualified – AG Report

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tender Board practiced no due diligence to ensure evaluators were qualified – AG Report

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) has been found to be in default of not practising due diligence as it relates to ensuring that persons appointed as evaluators had the...

Construction of Diamond overpass to start next year

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Construction of Diamond overpass to start next year

– four lane project nearing completion Government is fast-tracking plans to ease the traffic nightmare at the Diamond intersection, East Bank Demerara. According to the Ministry of Public...

Auditor General trashes Finance Minister’s “criticisms” of report

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General trashes Finance Minister’s “criticisms” of report

– stresses his office enjoys full independence By Abena Rockcliffe- Campbell Auditor General Deodat Sharma is unfazed by utterances made by Finance Minister Winston Jordan in an attempt...

Cane harvester suspected of killing wife captured in Backdam

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cane harvester suspected of killing wife captured in Backdam

Swift efforts by law enforcement officers in ‘B’ Division have led to the arrest of Winston Benjamin aka ‘Blood,’ who is alleged to have fatally stabbed his reputed wife on Monday. The...

Some people BT cutting spike nail

Oct 19, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people BT cutting spike nail

Scampish and thiefing politicians don’t like certain types of people. Dem don’t like media people who criticize and expose dem wrongdoing. Dem don’t like de auditors who got to check dem books,...

“The Town Clerk should be removed immediately” – Deputy Mayor

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on “The Town Clerk should be removed immediately” – Deputy Mayor

…as Audit Report raises questions of mismanagement “The Town Clerk’s incompetence is becoming most taxing on the Municipality and he should be removed immediately.” – Deputy Mayor Sherod...

KNews grenade attack PI…Publisher unaware of any resentment toward him or newspaper

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on KNews grenade attack PI…Publisher unaware of any resentment toward him or newspaper

Glenn Lall, the publisher of Kaieteur News, is unaware if two of the men charged with lobbing a grenade at his Lexus Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), or any other person(s), have hostility against him or...

GuyOil drops gas price by $2 but kero, gasoil go up

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GuyOil drops gas price by $2 but kero, gasoil go up

State-owned Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) has announced a drop in gas price by $2, but prices for gasoil and kerosene will rise. According to GuyOil yesterday in a statement, the adjustments are...

GPL suffers another shutdown

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPL suffers another shutdown

– company urges customers to check website, Facebook for updates The Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) yesterday experienced three shutdowns between midday and 16:00hrs....

Bartica massacre trial on hold following judge’s ruling

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica massacre trial on hold following judge’s ruling

A ruling handed down in the High Court has resulted in the trial, for which five men accused of killing 12 people in Bartica, being put on hold. Mark Royden, called Durant or Smallie; Clebert Reece,...

GRA accessing suspicious bank accounts

Oct 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA accessing suspicious bank accounts

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been taking full advantage of the Financial Institutions (Amendment) Bill which gives it the lawful go-ahead to access all suspicious bank accounts. This was...

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Republic Bank U18 Football League: Unbeaten trio flex muscles as...

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The intensity was palpable at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue this past Sunday as the seventh annual Republic Bank Under 18 School’s Football League...

We have entered the dark zone once again

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The police account of the incident in which shots were fired in Kitty at a vehicle in which was the leader of the opposition, brings back haunting and uncomfortable memories of one of the darkest eras of Guyana. And it specifically brings back memories of the assassinations of...

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...

King Charles III – post visit reflections

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The mind can be a funny thing. Mine played a trick on me, did a somersault. Now that King Charles III came and went, it’s confession time. He should come again. Guess who would lead the parade, the welcoming party? Incidentally, there could be a temporary halt to...

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