October 2016

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Bel Air Lions host Domino Competition

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bel Air Lions host Domino Competition

Lions Club of Bel Air will be staging a ‘Clash of the Champions’ Domino Tournament on Sunday, October 30, at the Lions Den in Bel Air. According to a release from the Club, a number of teams...

Enterprise BSC congratulates Yadram

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Enterprise BSC congratulates Yadram

Enterprise Busta Sports Club has extended congratulations opener Bhaskar Yadram on his back –to- back centuries made against Essequibo in the previous round of the Guyana Cricket Board Jaguars...

BCB/NY Business Group U19 tourney

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/NY Business Group U19 tourney

A fine unbeaten half century by Tyrone Pooranauth led Albion Cricket Club to first innings points over Crabwood Creek Bomb Squad in their quarterfinal clash last weekend. He got support from Matthew...

Improving self confidence

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Improving self confidence

Are you the type of person who easily get influenced by negative advices? Follow this short self confidence lesson… When Henry Ward Beecher was a young boy in school, he learned a lesson in self...

The Dhole (Cuon alpinus)

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Dhole (Cuon alpinus)

The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South and Southeast Asia. Other English names for the species include Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red...

When identity and pride are silenced

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on When identity and pride are silenced

Book: Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation Author: Paulette A. Ramsey Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Paulette A. Ramsey delivers a poignantly revealing statement on...

COUNTRYMAN: A post-oil dream for Guyana

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN: A post-oil dream for Guyana

By Dennis Nichols Diversions from mind-numbing reality are a fact of life. But how do you escape the inevitability of daily, random chaos and death; the tragedy of unfulfilled expectations stalking...

FITUG engages Finance Ministry on 2017 National Budget

Oct 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on FITUG engages Finance Ministry on 2017 National Budget

– Proposes Income Tax threshold of at least $70,000 monthly – Asks for promised VAT reduction to be reflected in budget Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Jaipaul Sharma, on...

Labour Ministry continues probe into worksite death

Oct 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry continues probe into worksite death

The Ministry of Social Protection (Labour Department) is continuing investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of Marrion Adams, who was electrocuted before falling from a metal...

Three weeks after one killed, two injured…No charges yet for pit bull owner, dogs reportedly still in her care

Oct 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Three weeks after one killed, two injured…No charges yet for pit bull owner, dogs reportedly still in her care

More than two weeks have passed since four pit-bulls viciously attacked two men and killed another at Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) and the owner is yet to be charged. In fact, the ‘killer...

Unfulfilled promises

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Unfulfilled promises

Recently, the President gave a positive assessment on the performance of his Cabinet. As usual, he spoke glowingly of the progress his government has made during the past year, but listed no plans to...

AG asks – What about the PPP scams?

Oct 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AG asks – What about the PPP scams?

It was under the watch of the People’s Progressive Party Civic that the word “scam” came to prominence, said Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams. He was...

Raise up Haiti from its knees

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Raise up Haiti from its knees

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the...

The Dossier

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Dossier

The opposition Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has to make the government look bad. The government has to make itself look good. The main opposition has produced a dossier of alleged scandals...

Guyana is so much of a backward place

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is so much of a backward place

Dear Editor, My name is Neil Alonzo. I reside in the US, but like most Guyanese (well at least some of them) I try as much as possible to keep abreast of what’s going on in the country of my birth....

A plea to the Guyana Forestry Commission

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A plea to the Guyana Forestry Commission

Dear Editor, I read with disbelieving eyes that Dr. Janet Bulkan said that the ban of greenheart by the UK is entirely correct on the basis of her interpretation. I have a few questions to ask her...

The disadvantages of condos in Providence

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The disadvantages of condos in Providence

Dear Editor, Firstly, thank you for permitting me the space to air my opinions. As a youth of and in Guyana, it is very hard these days for persons my age, to find a forum outside of social media to...

Sunday Cartoon

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Why attention to breast cancer only during October?

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why attention to breast cancer only during October?

Dear Editor, Many issues that harm the Guyanese population are usually “swept under the rug”. One of these issues happens to be breast cancer. According to recent statistics, breast cancer is...

A death spot that goes unattended on the Linden highway

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A death spot that goes unattended on the Linden highway

Dear Editor, I say that vision is a virtue, the more the better. When will administrators behave like real leaders? We read in the papers of one Abiola Gomes, 38 a “Crop Extension Officer” who...

Waiting in vain for house lots in Lethem

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Waiting in vain for house lots in Lethem

Dear Editor, Please allow me to add to the long list of complaints about the Mayor of Lethem, Mr. Carlton Beckles. Some things have not made it to your columns, but hopefully they will, if the...

I am the Vice Chairman of the Works Committee

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am the Vice Chairman of the Works Committee

Dear Editor, The entire RDC Boardroom was in a state of shock and disbelief when the Regional Chairman, of Region 6, Mr. David Armogan announced to the councilors that he has refused to approve the...

Mayor’s explanation why her children get employment

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor’s explanation why her children get employment

Dear Editor, Each passing day makes clearer, the intellectual limitations of the Mayor of Georgetown, and the endemic nature of corruption at City Hall. It is unimaginable that on the issue of...

The Prime Minister’s Region 6 Rep. was not present

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Prime Minister’s Region 6 Rep. was not present

Dear Editor, I refer to recent articles in all the daily newspapers written by well-known activist of the Alliance for Change in Berbice accusing the Regional Administration of Region 6 of not...

Call for the Mayor of Lethem to be factual

Oct 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Call for the Mayor of Lethem to be factual

Dear Editor, The response by the Mayor of Lethem, Mr. Carlton Beckles, in Stabroek News on the 6th October to a letter initially published in Kaieteur News by an anonymous concerned resident of...

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CPL – St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots produced a batting performance for the ages, chasing down 218 to defeat the Barbados Tridents by six wickets in a pulsating Republic Bank Caribbean Premier...

Bread, circuses and the price of silence

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Silence and sloth

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The death plunge of the MV Barima qualifies as a national catastrophe; an unprecedented local human tragedy. Obvious beyond argument, above denial. Yet, in its grim aftermath, there’s the reverse of what should be happening. With intensity and honesty. With frequency...

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