November 2016

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FARFAN & MENDES JUNIOR TOURNAMENT 2016…Shomari Wiltshire storms to Category A title as tourney concludes

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on FARFAN & MENDES JUNIOR TOURNAMENT 2016…Shomari Wiltshire storms to Category A title as tourney concludes

The curtains came down on the Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel’s annual Farfan & Mendes Junior Squash Tournament which was held at the...

Max Persaud is champ in keenly contested Grand Coastal Golf Tourney

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Max Persaud is champ in keenly contested Grand Coastal Golf Tourney

Despite the rain earlier in the day the golfers turned up to compete excitedly at the Grand Coastal Hotel & Restaurant of Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara’s Annual Golf tournament on...

Healthy Living Club visits Lower Kara Kara

Nov 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Healthy Living Club visits Lower Kara Kara

Once again the Healthy Living Club of Linden has pulled off another successful community outreach. This time, it was the residents of Speightland, Lower Kara Kara, who benefitted. Over 200 residents...

GBA President, Ninvalle to walk to raise funds

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA President, Ninvalle to walk to raise funds

President of the Guyana Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle may have a date with destiny shortly when he attempts a one hundred mile walk in bid to raise funds to send a team of boxers and officials to...

Amin, Chaves, Black & Kissoon earn top spots at Shokoguy 2016 National Karate Tournament

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amin, Chaves, Black & Kissoon earn top spots at Shokoguy 2016 National Karate Tournament

Euphoria filled the National Gymnasium last Saturday November 12th, when Shotokan Karate-do of Guyana – National Park (ShokoGuy) hosted their annual National Karate Tournament. The tournament...

Narayan Ramdhani finishes 5th in Vancouver Island University U-23 Badminton tourney

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Narayan Ramdhani finishes 5th in Vancouver Island University U-23 Badminton tourney

Guyana’s Sunburst Badminton Champion Narayan Ramdhani, who is currently on Scholarship in Vancouver, Canada, training in Badminton at Shuttlesport Badminton Academy and pursuing a degree in...

Bharrat Jagdeo could put his anger where the monkey put the nuts

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo could put his anger where the monkey put the nuts

In my April 5 column for the year 2006, captioned, “Cuba’s medical assistance to Guyana; how genuine,” I questioned the sincerity of the Cuban medical scholarship programme to Guyana. That...

Maharaja Palace debuts Guyana Restaurant week culinary celebration

Nov 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Maharaja Palace debuts Guyana Restaurant week culinary celebration

Maharaja Palace Restaurant is making its official debut in the Guyana Restaurant Week (GRW) culinary celebration, but the fancy diner situated on the third floor of the Annjees building on Sheriff...

THE POPE AND YOU

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE POPE AND YOU

Guyanese love a scandal. They love, even more, concocting one. A Guyanese can speak ill of someone as if they had personal knowledge of that person. But on closer examination, they know very little....

Greater ecotourism initiatives for hinterland in 2017

Nov 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Greater ecotourism initiatives for hinterland in 2017

More emphasis will be placed on advancing ecotourism in the hinterland as part of an overall effort to exploit Guyana’s tourism potential, according to Director General of Tourism, Donald Sinclair....

EXTRAVAGANT PENSION

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on EXTRAVAGANT PENSION

It seems that the authority is reneging on its promises it made to the nation during the election campaign. It had promised to be lean and mean, yet it has a cabinet of 27 ministers and has been...

WOTY HECK IS THIS?

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on WOTY HECK IS THIS?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great American jurist, is quoted by Leslie Dunkling, the author of the Guinness Book of Curious Words, as saying, “When I feel to read poetry I take down my Dictionary. ...

The PPP regime was and the Coalition Govt. is politically tone deaf

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP regime was and the Coalition Govt. is politically tone deaf

Dear Editor; Tone deaf! Politically tone deaf! Nationalistically tone deaf! Patriotically tone deaf! That is how the United Republican Party (URP) wishes to describe both the PPP and the...

The Speaker and freedom to speak in the House

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Speaker and freedom to speak in the House

Dear Editor; Editor’s note; this concludes Mr. Nandlall’s missive carried in our pages yesterday During the course of my presentation in Parliament, I made reference to a newspaper article, which...

PPP needs to discipline Dharamlall for his unbecoming conduct

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP needs to discipline Dharamlall for his unbecoming conduct

Dear Editor; There has been a call to Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo “to deal with Dharamlall” and to send a clear signal to party supporters that his behaviour is unacceptable. The editorial...

Look who is talking; Donald Ramotar

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Look who is talking; Donald Ramotar

Dear Editor; I wish to respond to Mr. Donald Ramotar who wrote that “government should not take away legally held weapons from the population”. Mr. Ramotar did not say who made this decision and...

The fantastic four off to the Far East this time

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The fantastic four off to the Far East this time

Dear Editor; So the ‘Fantastic Four’ of the Georgetown Municipality or at least most of them are off globe-trotting again, this time to the Far East. It would seem as though this Mayor is...

We are pleading for electricity at Plantation Farm

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are pleading for electricity at Plantation Farm

Dear Editor; I have decided to write because we, the residents of Plantation Farm, East Bank, Demerara have been suffering from the non-supply of electricity. Houses are being built and people are...

Trouble in Bath/Woodley Park NDC

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trouble in Bath/Woodley Park NDC

Dear Editor; We the residents of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice are concerned over the establishment of a Management Committee that was formed to manage the Bath Community Centre. We strongly...

Skeldon was the right investment decision at the time

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Skeldon was the right investment decision at the time

Dear Editor; GUYSUCO and APNU+AFC are preparing the grounds to break the bad news – 2016 dismal production, the worst since 1990. In APNU+AFC’s first full year in sugar, they have to quickly...

Unmitigated disdain for people who commit such acts

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unmitigated disdain for people who commit such acts

Dear Editor; As a highly qualified professional of the Nightingalean genre, and one who holds her profession in high esteem, I was nevertheless forced to read the latest scandal surrounding the...

Former GuySuCo security rank talks about the PPP’s sabotage

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former GuySuCo security rank talks about the PPP’s sabotage

Dear Editor; I have noticed that this recurring subject of blame for GuySuCo’s state of decay is on the front burner again. The glaring fact that the previous Guyana Government administrators are...

Murder of Berbice carpenter… Mastermind’s mom, suspect’s sister offer detectives $4M bribe

Nov 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Murder of Berbice carpenter… Mastermind’s mom, suspect’s sister offer detectives $4M bribe

By Michael Jordan A desperate attempt to thwart investigations into the brutal slaying of 26-year-old carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt has been thwarted, with ranks from the Major Crimes Unit (MCU)...

Nine months later, still no word on GPL $3.6B tender

Nov 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Nine months later, still no word on GPL $3.6B tender

-embattled Chinese firm starts repair on damaged submarine cable Four months after a critical power cable that was badly laid across the Demerara River was damaged, work has finally started to repair...

Five years later, $558M access road to CJIA still incomplete

Nov 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Five years later, $558M access road to CJIA still incomplete

A project to construct a three-kilometer access road to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, is still to be completed despite starting almost five years ago. Several sections of the new...

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How should I schedule my day?

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(Kaieteur News) – Deep in the Himalayas, I once visited a Hindu guru and asked him, “Guru, how should I schedule my day?” He looked at me for a moment, smiled, and asked, “What is it that you want to schedule?” “My day,” I replied. “I want to organise my time better. There is so...

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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...

The Donny and Delcy show

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(Kaieteur News) – What to make of this America-Venezuela oil deal, this best in history? First, it’s best to put the 65 billion barrels of heavy crude in its proper place. It’s the Donny and Delcy Gong Show. A quarter of Venezuela’s premier national treasure, a concealed deal, a very...

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