October 2016

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NSC prepares to unveil national database of athletes

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC prepares to unveil national database of athletes

The National Sports Commission (NSC) yesterday exposed a database that is under construction with a Home Page and information already inputted to media in a historic move to bring into one location...

GCB/MOE National Secondary School’s Cricket…Marques, Gordon bowl Lodge to 6-wkt win

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/MOE National Secondary School’s Cricket…Marques, Gordon bowl Lodge to 6-wkt win

By Sean Devers In steaming heat at Bourda, Lodge Secondary School beat East Ruimveldt Secondary School by six wickets to advance to the next round in the South GT Zone of the GCB/MOE National...

WDFA / STAG Senior League …Pouderoyen, Beavers, Uitvlugt, Golden Warriors thump their opponents

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on WDFA / STAG Senior League …Pouderoyen, Beavers, Uitvlugt, Golden Warriors thump their opponents

As competition in the STAG sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Senior league continues, recording victories in the latest round of matches last weekend at the Den Amstel Community...

The division within the Hindu community

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The division within the Hindu community

For the second year running, there is division over the date for the annual Diwali celebrations. The main Hindu Organization in Guyana says Diwali should be celebrated on a particular day. The...

GITC hosts exhibition as part of its 50th anniversary celebration

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GITC hosts exhibition as part of its 50th anniversary celebration

Under the theme: “Development and Transformation for the 21st Century Workforce”, and in celebration of its 50th year of existence, the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) yesterday held an...

Top justice officials experience workings of Canadian courts

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Top justice officials experience workings of Canadian courts

A number of local judges and other court officials were earlier this month in Vancouver, Canada, studying how the justice system works there. According to the British High Commission, the team was...

Business Ministry to develop Public-Private dialogue to improve competitiveness

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Business Ministry to develop Public-Private dialogue to improve competitiveness

In order to facilitate competitive growth within the private sector and the country at large, the Ministry of Business will be developing a Public-Private dialogue body to address competitiveness...

TACKLING NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TACKLING NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

As Guyana observed World Occupational Therapy Day yesterday, under the theme “Making it together,” health officials once again advised citizens to eat healthy and exercise regularly in order to...

Swimming Pool company accuses City Council of bribery

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Swimming Pool company accuses City Council of bribery

– City Hall says claims “utterly false and malicious” Four large swimming pools lodged on the city’s parapets along Sheriff Street were removed by City Council yesterday, as the entity...

Female prison officer on ganja charge granted bail

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Female prison officer on ganja charge granted bail

A 35-year-old female prison officer of Fort Ordinance, East Canje, Berbice, appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court yesterday, accused of attempting to smuggle ganja into prison. Johanna...

Why do we remain so backward?

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why do we remain so backward?

I was shopping downtown yesterday for a scratching post for my cat. Christmas music was playing in some of the stores. It jolted me into the conscious awareness that the year which has just...

Bauxite sector instrumental in Guyana’s economy – Minister Raphael Trotman

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite sector instrumental in Guyana’s economy – Minister Raphael Trotman

The bauxite centenary committee on Wednesday held its symposium at the Linmine constabulary hall under the theme “Is bauxite going to be an economic pillar for Guyana for the next century?”...

Speaker again urges MPs to conduct House matters with decorum, dignity

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker again urges MPs to conduct House matters with decorum, dignity

By Kiana Wilburg The need for Members of Parliament (MPs) to conduct the business of the House with a sense of decorum and dignity was once again underscored by the Speaker of the National Assembly,...

IDB approves US$8M to help reduce maternal, infant mortality rates

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on IDB approves US$8M to help reduce maternal, infant mortality rates

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved an US$8 million loan for a programme to help reduce maternal, perinatal and neonatal deaths in Guyana. This programme, according to information...

Late diagnosis of breast cancer linked to painless early stages

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Late diagnosis of breast cancer linked to painless early stages

The most common presentation of breast cancer is a painless lump or dimpling of a section of the breast. It is perhaps for this reason that the majority of patients who are diagnosed with this...

GRA’s chief sounds warning to corrupt staffers

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA’s chief sounds warning to corrupt staffers

In wake of discoveries about malpractice committed recently by officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia, has warned staffers of zero tolerance. Statia, who...

Man dies after beaten with bat…Suspect surrenders

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies after beaten with bat…Suspect surrenders

Yesterday, two days after a 40-year-old man died after being beaten with a bat, the 18-year-old suspect surrendered to the cops, in the company of a pastor. Ramesh Manbodh of 655 Best Village, West...

No guarantee scrap metal trade will be resuscitated by November

Oct 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No guarantee scrap metal trade will be resuscitated by November

It had been announced in August, last, that the scrap metal trade would have been reopened in November 2016. However, yesterday Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin said that he cannot guarantee that...

Time to turn the tide on teen homicide

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time to turn the tide on teen homicide

Dear Editor, The daily news in Guyana has finally earned Number 1 position on my list of life-reducing agents. Nary has a day passed by that I am not horrified mystified and succinctly stupefied on...

Quantifying the level of greening in Bartica

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Quantifying the level of greening in Bartica

Dear Editor, I felt compelled to speak on the issue of blackouts in Bartica, not specifically because of the letter you received from one ‘Niranjan’ as published in your letter dated October...

Wedding destination tourism is a huge industry

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wedding destination tourism is a huge industry

Dear Editor, I read in one of the on-line newspapers that President Granger has announced that the Guyana Government will reduce the length of time it takes to get a marriage license in Guyana. This...

17, 000 sugar workers cannot be abandoned by the State

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on 17, 000 sugar workers cannot be abandoned by the State

Dear Editor, While it is good news for Guysuco that $5.4 billion dollars have been received from the EU’s Accompanying Measures Programme which will be utilized under the Action Programme, the...

The parking meter thing is not a contract but a deal

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The parking meter thing is not a contract but a deal

Dear Editor, The recent attempt via the letters column of the Kaieteur News newspaper by the Town Clerk of Georgetown, Mr. Royston King to respond to the concerns expressed by the Deputy Mayor of...

Parenting determines the nature of the next generation

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parenting determines the nature of the next generation

Dear Editor, The URP has penned a letter in your newspaper concerning suicide in Guyana. Again stakeholders on the matter of suicide are far from suggesting solution to this situation. I wish to...

The Auditor General’s Office is completely autonomous

Oct 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Auditor General’s Office is completely autonomous

Dear Editor, There seems to be a disturbing trend in which the findings of the Auditor General are coming under increasing attacks from Heads of Government Agencies. The most recent attack came from...

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The great rediscovery

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(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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