January 2017

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Hutson re-elected AAG President

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hutson re-elected AAG President

– New Executive features youth, business magnate Ming By Edison Jefford Incumbent President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson will serve in that position for...

Brazilian reconnects with long-lost Guyanese cousins

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian reconnects with long-lost Guyanese cousins

Giselle Vale Costa, a Brazilian national has much to be thankful for. Last year, she sought help from this publication with finding her cousins, with whom she had lost contact in 2010, after her...

Inaugural Port Mourant day and Gymkhana set for Feb. 5th

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural Port Mourant day and Gymkhana set for Feb. 5th

The Sha’veh Business entity of Port Mourant Corentyne Berbice is association with the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) will be staging the first ever Port Mourant Family Fun day and Gymkhana. The...

Living with diabetes at four years old

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Living with diabetes at four years old

– over 60 percent of persons seen had high blood sugar during Linden outreach Little Sophia Charles looks like any other four year old. Bu what separates her from many children her age is the...

Limacol Round Robin / KO kicks off tonight at GFC

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Round Robin / KO kicks off tonight at GFC

The 2nd Annual Limacol Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition kicks off today with a double header, at the Georgetown Football Club ground, starting from 18:30hrs. In the opening encounter,...

Annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race and fun day set for January 29th

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race and fun day set for January 29th

The seventh annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial Road race classic and Family Fun day will be held on Sunday 29thJanuary. It is being organised by the Dorsett family of Leeds, Corentyne Berbice....

Big Bikes should be banned

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Big Bikes should be banned

A few weeks ago, there was a terrible accident on the East Coast Public Road. The accident involved a rider of what is called “big bikes”, a motor bike above 250cc. The biker crashed into a...

Never could there be another backward country like Guyana

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Never could there be another backward country like Guyana

I have been doing columns since 1988. I have been a major columnist with the Catholic Standard, Stabroek News, Kaieteur News and was contracted by then Chronicle editor, Anthony Calder to serialize...

Relatives turn in alleged Gas station robber

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives turn in alleged Gas station robber

Police have detained a man who allegedly robbed the No. 50 gas station at Leeds on the Corentyne, Berbice of a substantial sum of money last Tuesday. Reports are that he was taken into custody by a...

Disability Training Centre to be established soon

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Disability Training Centre to be established soon

The Government of Guyana will soon be establishing a Disability Training Centre at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) compound to educate and train teachers to deal with differently able...

THE GECOM STALEMATE

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on THE GECOM STALEMATE

Over the past few weeks, the spotlight has been on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), but not about the $100 million VHF communication sets it purchased. It is about the appointment of a new...

Victims of Cummings Lodge fire receive laptops, mattresses

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Victims of Cummings Lodge fire receive laptops, mattresses

Minster of Social Protection Amna Ally on Friday, last donated mattresses, laptops and stationary to the victims of the Cummings Lodge apartment fire. Ally said that she collaborated with the...

“Any other fit and proper person” is simple to interpret

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on “Any other fit and proper person” is simple to interpret

Dear Editor, Exactly one month has elapsed since the Leader of the Opposition submitted a list of six names to the President for the appointment of a Chairman of GECOM., which have erupted since. A...

Trump ascends his throne; the world braces for the impact

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trump ascends his throne; the world braces for the impact

Dear Editor, Not since Mussolini and Hitler have you heard a leader make such a speech at an inauguration. History will come to prove the legacy of Trump, but make no mistake that he is a populist...

ZEN AND THE ART OF STRING-PULLING

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on ZEN AND THE ART OF STRING-PULLING

“Zen” means “meditative state” and is the name given to a school of Buddhism which suggests that the soul grows through actively engaging with life as it is. One of the tools for achieving...

People of Region 5 demand better service from GPL

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on People of Region 5 demand better service from GPL

Dear Editor, At 3.23 am in the morning, Saturday, January 21st, and I could sleep. I arrived home in Cotton Tree, Berbice from a trip to Georgetown at 9.00 pm Friday night to a house in total...

Serious accusations against the National Insurance Scheme

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious accusations against the National Insurance Scheme

Dear Editor, Numerous residents of Region Two are frustrated and disappointed with the performance of NIS in the Region. After working for decades, during which they contributed to the scheme, they...

AFC controversy shows the opportunistic nature of our politicians

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on AFC controversy shows the opportunistic nature of our politicians

Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek and the Kaieteur News of yesterday January 22, 2017, put Messrs. Khemraj Ramjattan and Raphael Trotman at odds over the constitution of the AFC, the party they...

Storming, norming, performing, celebrating stages in Guyana

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Storming, norming, performing, celebrating stages in Guyana

Dear Editor, There are stages through which organizations, institutions and societies develop. Likewise, leaders go through several stages of development in each of these entities. Guyana has spent...

APNU+AFC regime is railroading justice

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC regime is railroading justice

Dear Editor, Another day, another scandal has been revealed. The appointments of Special Prosecutors to go after PPP leaders can be viewed from different perspectives. Whichever perspective one...

I am in support of chemical castration for sexual aberration

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am in support of chemical castration for sexual aberration

Dear Editor, As I slowly read the news regarding the 49 year old father, a Berbice hospital employee who repeatedly had carnal knowledge of his two daughters now aged 12 and 13 years respectively,...

Small miners say Government favours large miners and companies

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Small miners say Government favours large miners and companies

Dear Editor, I have been living and working in the gold industry in the Marudi Mountains since 1988 when Romanex Mining Company came to Marudi. Amerindians were working along with some coast-landers....

Mayor of Bartica waxes lyrical on relationships

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor of Bartica waxes lyrical on relationships

Dear Editor, As the journey of our township continues I’m reminded of a familiar statement “Relationships are only as good as the persons in them”. If there is a bad marital relationship,...

Has the Suddie Police Station gone out of existence?

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has the Suddie Police Station gone out of existence?

Dear Editor, The Suddie Police station is in a terrible state which was evident from its failure to take any action in my report as a larceny victim. It is faced with an acute shortage of ranks and...

Man who exposed corruption in a Co-op is now afraid for his life

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Man who exposed corruption in a Co-op is now afraid for his life

Dear Editor, On returning home to Kuru Kuru Linden Highway on Monday 19th December,2016 around 7:30pm, I discovered that the three 45gal tanks worth $26,000 each; one 1 inch water pump valued...

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Should Guyana build a small refinery?

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(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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