January 2017

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LABA AGM and Biennial Elections set for tomorrow at MSC Lounge

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA AGM and Biennial Elections set for tomorrow at MSC Lounge

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) has set its Annual General Meeting and Biennial Elections for tomorrow at 17:00hrs at the Mackenzie Sports Club Lounge. Clubs have been invited to...

EBC congratulates Paul on West Indies U19 selection

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBC congratulates Paul on West Indies U19 selection

The Essequibo Cricket Board has congratulated all-rounder Keemo Paul on his selection to the West Indies U19 team for the upcoming Regional Super 50 tournament set to start next week in Barbados and...

GTTA Doubles, Novices and Fundamental Table Tennis Challenge on this weekend

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA Doubles, Novices and Fundamental Table Tennis Challenge on this weekend

The Guyana Table Tennis Association will kick start its 2017 Calendar of activities with a Doubles, Novices and Fundamental Table Tennis Challenge competition scheduled for the today and tomorrow at...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Many of us beg to disagree

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Many of us beg to disagree

Dear Sports Editor, Mr. Roger Pilgrim’s statement in his letter to the Editor of Stabroek News stated that ‘it was only these two gentlemen who had a beef with Juman-Yassin’. No Sir, many other...

KPL continues tomorrow

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on KPL continues tomorrow

The KPL fundraising softball tournament is set to continue tomorrow with several matches. At Everest CC, Mike’s Wellman will play Ariel on pitch one, Success Masters will take on Parika-Amazon on...

Guyanese housewives deserve the Nobel Prize for economization

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyanese housewives deserve the Nobel Prize for economization

Things are getting tight in the economy. Prices are increasing. Part of that increase is seasonal, but the major part is being caused because of the imposition of VAT on electricity and water. It...

GUYANA’S SUCCESS DEPENDS ON ALL

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GUYANA’S SUCCESS DEPENDS ON ALL

It can be argued in some quarters that the government has been working hard to move the country forward and provide a better life for all. To an extent, it has been able to calm the fears of some...

Embattled GPHC Matron…GPSU calls probe into allegations “insensitive” and “reckless”

Jan 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Embattled GPHC Matron…GPSU calls probe into allegations “insensitive” and “reckless”

– expresses concerns in writing to new Public Health Minister “Insensitive” and “reckless” were the adjectives used by President of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), Mr. Patrick...

Judges, Magistrates commence training on new Civil Procedure Rules

Jan 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Judges, Magistrates commence training on new Civil Procedure Rules

With the objective of transforming the manner in which justice is administered in Guyana, through the understanding and implementation of the new Civil Procedures Rules, (CPR), a two-day training...

Tucville driveway fatal shooting… Prosecution to respond to submissions as PI nears conclusion

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Tucville driveway fatal shooting… Prosecution to respond to submissions as PI nears conclusion

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the death of 24-year-old Colin Perreira, who was fatally shot by a licenced firearm holder, after he turned a car on a bridge in front of a Perry Street, Tucville,...

Guyana’s access to credit considerably improved -World Bank report

Jan 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s access to credit considerably improved -World Bank report

By Kiana Wilburg The introduction of a credit bureau into Guyana’s financial landscape has proven to be a worthwhile move by the authorities of the day. In fact, the presence of CreditInfo Guyana...

Anti-money laundering specialist hired as adviser to AG

Jan 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-money laundering specialist hired as adviser to AG

A lawyer who has specialist training in anti-money laundering has been hired as Special Adviser to Attorney General, Basil Williams. According to the AG’s Chambers, Tessa Oudkerk, pursued studies...

Ramotar, Jagdeo, Nandlall: Triumvirate of Hades

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ramotar, Jagdeo, Nandlall: Triumvirate of Hades

Let’s start with Donald Ramotar. In an interview with this newspaper he lambasts the President of Guyana for not confronting corruption within his government. Obviously, he is accusing a leader...

New Peace Corps director arrives

Jan 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Peace Corps director arrives

New Peace Corps Country Director, Kury Cobham, arrived in Guyana recently to replace outgoing official Linda Arbogast. According to the US Embassy in Georgetown, Cobham has more than 15 years of...

Is GTT forcing customers to pay double?

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is GTT forcing customers to pay double?

Dear Editor, We wish to bring to the attention of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Guyana Telephone & Telegraph’s (GTT) inefficient and sometimes excessively frustrating DSL service, and...

The media has a role to play in the ending of rape culture

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The media has a role to play in the ending of rape culture

Dear Editor, There have been reports in the media of crimes committed in Berbice on the weekend of 14 and 15 January, 2017. One media outlet has provided details of an alleged sexual assault and of...

The home and family have a great impact on children

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The home and family have a great impact on children

Dear Editor, It is a widely recognized and accepted principle that if pupils are to maximise their potential from schooling they will need the complete support of their parents, whether biological,...

Guyana Football Federation under the spotlight

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana Football Federation under the spotlight

Dear Editor, The GFF administration appears clueless about implementing additional programmes and policies for meaningful development of the sport. Rather they resort to utilizing constitutional...

Planning for the anticipated oil windfall

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Planning for the anticipated oil windfall

Dear Editor, It has been reported in the news media that a partnership of oil companies, Exxon Mobil, Hess and CNOOC have discovered oil and gas estimated by experts at over four billion barrels off...

Earnest plea to repair this road in Chateau Margot

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Earnest plea to repair this road in Chateau Margot

Dear Editor, The main throughway leading into the small hamlet of Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara is in a deplorable state. This main road from the East Coast highway is daily becoming...

EU Ambassador to Guyana says the death penalty is wrong

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on EU Ambassador to Guyana says the death penalty is wrong

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Mr Anthony Pantlitz (Letters to the Editor, 19 January 2017) who claims that “donor governments say there will be no capital punishment or you will lose your...

I see a misuse of conscience in the AFC

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I see a misuse of conscience in the AFC

Dear Editor, I find it very disheartening that Mr Khemraj Ramjattan, Leader of the Alliance for Change, who has condemned the third term for Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo sees it fit to justify a...

The double standard of Anil Nandlall

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The double standard of Anil Nandlall

Dear Editor, Mr. Anil Nandlall is failing miserably at his intention of landing a major role in a comedy. His most recent attack on the battery of lawyers hired as Special Prosecutors for the cases...

Numerous questions to be answered about the coming oil boom

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Numerous questions to be answered about the coming oil boom

Dear Editor, If the estimates reported in the Washington Post of January 16 are correct, Guyana may gain somewhere between US$24 and 28 billion at current crude oil prices, representing its share of...

We now have a chance to settle the GECOM controversy

Jan 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We now have a chance to settle the GECOM controversy

Dear Editor, The input by the esteemed Professor Justice Duke Pollard into the disquiet regarding the interpretation of Article 161 (2) on who should be among the list of nominees to be appointed...

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Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Olympic Association has rewarded the nation’s medal-winning athletes from the recently concluded South American Youth Games with cash grants, reaffirming its...

Glenn Lall has opened the eyes of the nation to an injustice

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil effectively allows the company to de-risk its investment after discovery while shifting the financial burden onto the country—deserves serious and sober scrutiny. This is why poorly structured contracts can...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

PPP’s fetid breath: democracy’s death

Apr 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It has been a war. The PPP’s relentless efforts at dismantling and destroying democracy in Guyana. Institutions and organs, architecture and machinery, weakened brick by brick, until they are either shadows of themselves, or collapse under the weight of accumulated rot. ...

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