March 2017

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Moves afoot to provide oil and gas education

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Moves afoot to provide oil and gas education

– UG to get $100M from GGMC With the discovery of oil offshore Guyana, government is making several strides to ensure that locals are given the opportunity to be trained for employment in the...

Ministers laud senior judicial appointments

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ministers laud senior judicial appointments

Several female ministers of government have welcomed the appointment of women to the two highest positions in the judiciary. Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards was appointed Chancellor of the Judiciary...

Efforts underway to market Rupununi as a tourism destination

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Efforts underway to market Rupununi as a tourism destination

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) and Visit Rupununi on Friday launched the presentation of Rupununi folders in an effort to promote and market Rupununi as a tourism destination. In brief remarks at...

Limacol Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition…Nelson’s missile gives Tigers another title in 2017

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition…Nelson’s missile gives Tigers another title in 2017

– Winners return home with bragging rights and third place ‘Golden Jaguars’ mid-fielder Colin Nelson’s missile from just outside the box proved just enough to get Western Tigers over the...

Mahadeo, Duke take top honours at Fitness Challenge

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mahadeo, Duke take top honours at Fitness Challenge

Cross Fit 592 cop team title Dillon Mahadeo and Semonica Duke took the top spots in the Male and Female categories respectively when the third Annual Fitness Challenge organized by Guyana Fitness...

Can we revitalize Guyanese literature through film adaptation?

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Can we revitalize Guyanese literature through film adaptation?

I still recall, as a student attending a special viewing of the movie ‘To Sir With Love,’ the surge of pride I felt when Sidney Poitier’s character is quizzed about his origins and he replies:...

Root, Woakes send Windies to series defeat

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Root, Woakes send Windies to series defeat

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies produced an erratic performance all round as they slumped to yet another series loss, with a four-wicket defeat to England in the second One-Day...

U-17S WIN FAIR PLAY AWARD; GARRETT & RITCH MAKE BEST XI

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on U-17S WIN FAIR PLAY AWARD; GARRETT & RITCH MAKE BEST XI

– GFF Technical Department pleased with progress of squad in Martinique Georgetown: The “Flour Power” Guyana Under-17 Boys’ National Team won the Fair Play Award at the International...

Untrained first responders do more harm than good at accident scenes

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Untrained first responders do more harm than good at accident scenes

– Director of the Accident and Emergency Unit First responders to an accident scene may be doing more harm than good to the victims they attempt to rescue. This is the contention of many,...

2017 NJCAA Indoor Championships…Guyanese Andrea Foster cops silver in 800m on debut

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2017 NJCAA Indoor Championships…Guyanese Andrea Foster cops silver in 800m on debut

Competing in her first Indoor National Championship on the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) circuit, Guyanese Junior Middle distance Queen, Andrea Foster won the 800m silver medal...

V Net Communications supports Good Success SC

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on V Net Communications supports Good Success SC

V Net Communications of Delph Street, Campbellville continued its support for sports when they presented a quantity of cricket uniforms to the Good Success Sports (GSSC) Club of Wakenaam. At the...

‘Garden City’ slowly returning to ‘Garbage City’ state?

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Garden City’ slowly returning to ‘Garbage City’ state?

– businesses, Council blame each other for capital’s unsightly appearance With central Georgetown apparently reverting to its garbage-strewn state, some members of the commercial...

Speedboat racers wants year round Regatta

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Speedboat racers wants year round Regatta

…urges Govt. to get involved A number of racers who take part in the annual Bartica Regatta celebrations are appealing for a year round calendar of regatta. The racers noted that this can be...

Living in Guyana is a living hell

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Living in Guyana is a living hell

Let me be pellucid so there can be no ambiguous lines. For the past ten days, where I live at Turkeyen right next door to the Caricom Secretariat, we have been enduring sessions of blackout each day....

RHTY&SC, M.S hosts successful 13th Biannual General Meeting

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC, M.S hosts successful 13th Biannual General Meeting

– Executives elected for new two years term The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club on Thursday 3rd of March held its 13th bi-annual General Meeting at the J.C. Chandisingh Secondary School. ...

Lindeners celebrate Mashramani in March

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners celebrate Mashramani in March

Lindeners yesterday took to the streets in their numbers, some to gyrate and flounce behind the few floats and others to line the roadways to watch the colorful spectacle. Beginning a bit late due to...

Mandy Mangru! A little player with big dreams

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mandy Mangru! A little player with big dreams

By Sean Devers At just 17 years-old, National Women’s cricketer Mandy Mangru is a little player with big dreams and she has all the tools to make them come true once she works hard and remains...

Lucrative prizes on offer for Benjamin Sports store and Fitness Gym Cycle road race

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lucrative prizes on offer for Benjamin Sports store and Fitness Gym Cycle road race

The fourth annual ‘Benjamin Sports Store’ open cycle race which is organised by the Flying Ace Cycle club is all set and ready to ride off on Monday 13th March on the Corentyne Highway. The 50...

Agard for OECS Championship

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Agard for OECS Championship

Ramona Agard, Guyana’s leading boxing referee/judge affiliated to the Guyana Boxing Association has been invited to officiate in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) championship...

GT at night…Culinary delights bountiful around Stabroek Market

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GT at night…Culinary delights bountiful around Stabroek Market

The Stabroek Market area normally comes alive in the evening with the sounds of music blaring, people bustling up and down getting about their business and a host of food vendors who are ready to...

DCC elections set for today, but all is not well at club

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC elections set for today, but all is not well at club

The membership of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), one of the older and more established clubs in the country, are scheduled to meet at 6:00pm to hold elections for an executive to run the affairs of...

NSC Mash Badminton winners to receive prizes today

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Mash Badminton winners to receive prizes today

The National Sports Commission Mashramani junior badminton tournament was played off on Saturday last at the National Gymnasium in the Under-11, 13 & 15 Boys and Girls Singles. The Guyana...

Private education is not a cash cow

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Private education is not a cash cow

Politics and taxes do not mix. The politician makes the tax laws; the tax man implements these laws. Any other relationship is bound to become toxic. This is why Guyana must be worried when in the...

THE REMAINING THREE YEARS

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on THE REMAINING THREE YEARS

In Guyana, as in most other countries, it seems that democracy only exists at elections when the people exercise their democratic right to vote. After elections they are ignored and treated as if...

Policies that are not grounded in social consciousness

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Policies that are not grounded in social consciousness

Dear Editor, The more society listens to Finance Minister Winston Jordan on the issue of taxation, it is recognised his fiscal policies are not grounded in social consciousness. Education and health...

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Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

Absenteeism at School

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(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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