March 2017

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STAG Elite League resumes today with potentially mouth watering leaders clash

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG Elite League resumes today with potentially mouth watering leaders clash

Guyana’s premier football competition, the STAG Elite League, restarts today with a potentially tantalising League Leaders Tournament double-header at the Tucville ground, before the full...

WI scrap as England search for knockout today

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on WI scrap as England search for knockout today

If the first ODI was a boxing match, England would have scored a TKO in the final round. The result was pretty much as expected, with a few notable displays in England’s largely workaday...

Rebel Tennis Club Championship heats up …Campbell and McCalman book semi final spots; Downes, Suban, Osborne also win

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rebel Tennis Club Championship heats up …Campbell and McCalman book semi final spots; Downes, Suban, Osborne also win

Asif Suban, Cristy Campbell, Grace McCalman,Anthony Downes and Benjettan Osborne have all recorded victories as play in the Rebel Tennis Club Championships heats up at the Harry Panday’s Court...

Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond champs, 2016 to be crowned tomorrow

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond champs, 2016 to be crowned tomorrow

2017 edition to kick off on Wednesday Mackenzie High School and Wisburg Secondary will collide tomorrow with the winner being crowned the 2016 champions of the annual Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond...

Sophia mason to serve four years for manslaughter

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Sophia mason to serve four years for manslaughter

A 25-year-old mason from Sophia was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown. But...

Education COI extended to March month end

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Education COI extended to March month end

The Commission of Inquiry which is being conducted into the public education system, was supposed to have been completed by December last, and submitted to the Education Minister, Dr. Rupert...

THE PROTEST CONTINUES

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE PROTEST CONTINUES

The protest against City Hall over the parking meter contract continues for the fifth week. And it seems that the government is content to allow the duo at City Hall, the Mayor and Town Clerk to have...

Missing and murdered women…CADVA, dissatisfied with investigations, wants answers

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Missing and murdered women…CADVA, dissatisfied with investigations, wants answers

By Rehana Ahamad The insistence of the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness group, (CADVA) led to police ranks getting their hands dirty. This eventually resulted in the Guyana Police Force...

Moves afoot to make small miners independent – Min. Broomes

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Moves afoot to make small miners independent – Min. Broomes

As some small miners have complained about not having sufficient access to land for gold and diamond mining, the government is taking steps to address the situation to ensure all can have access to...

National Science Coordinator helping Region to advance Science Education

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on National Science Coordinator helping Region to advance Science Education

Guyana has not been taking Science for granted. In fact, Guyana through the expertise of its National Science Coordinator, Ms. Petal Punalall-Jetoo, has been playing a major role in enhancing...

Qualities required for GECOM chairmanship a tall order

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Qualities required for GECOM chairmanship a tall order

By Brushell Blackman As the government and opposition continue to differ over the appointment of a new chairman for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), the qualities that are being sought in...

Loggers “reject” VAT on lumber; appeals for restoration of concessions

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Loggers “reject” VAT on lumber; appeals for restoration of concessions

The Forest Products Association (FPA), an advocacy body whose members include some of the country’s biggest loggers, has expressed alarm over what they describe as an imposition of the Value Added...

Parfaite Harmonie residents fed up of burglaries

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parfaite Harmonie residents fed up of burglaries

-An average of five reported cases daily The beauty and potential that is La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara is being tainted by the daily trauma experienced by residents. Most...

Bulkan to brief National Assembly on housing plans

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bulkan to brief National Assembly on housing plans

As the country continues to grapple with a major demand for housing, the administration has announced plans to brief the National Assembly of some of actions that are to be taken to reduce the number...

OPR completes probe into strip-search report

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on OPR completes probe into strip-search report

The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has completed investigations into an allegation of strip- searching a French Citizen against a police rank. Confirming this was a source from OPR, who...

Lawyers continue arguments over jurisdiction in Red House matter

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyers continue arguments over jurisdiction in Red House matter

Responding to arguments presented by Attorney General, Basil Williams, over the issue of jurisdiction in the Red House court case, Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall has said that full and frank...

Address perennial drug shortage

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Address perennial drug shortage

– PS warns ahead of termination “We have had the perennial problem of dealing with the shortage of medicine in the system and I know that is a sore point and we have to get it right.” The...

Today marks 20 years since Dr. Cheddi Jagan died

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Today marks 20 years since Dr. Cheddi Jagan died

Today, Sunday March 5, 2017, marks two decades since the passing of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, former President and Founder of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C). Dr. Jagan, who was born on March...

Islamic Trust launches Awareness Week

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Islamic Trust launches Awareness Week

Under the theme “Islam a gift for humanity” the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) on Friday night launched the Islamic Awareness Week 2017 at the Muslim Youth Organisation, Woolford Avenue. Over 800...

Malware attack on GWI’s ICT system…Systems up and running, investigation still ongoing

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Malware attack on GWI’s ICT system…Systems up and running, investigation still ongoing

After its Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems suffered a malware attack in late January this year, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has announced that its systems are now up and...

18 Paramakatoi youths inducted into army

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 18 Paramakatoi youths inducted into army

Eighteen persons from Paramakatoi Village, Region Eight have been recruited into the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Basic Recruit Course for 2017. The six females and 12 males were up to late last month...

The extractive sector and corruption… Will EITI be enough?

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The extractive sector and corruption… Will EITI be enough?

By Kiana Wilburg From forestry to the gold and diamond industry, corruption has proven to be a plague in the extractive sectors. With the coming of a multibillion-dollar sector in oil, the...

GWI moving toward 100% meter coverage by 2020

Mar 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GWI moving toward 100% meter coverage by 2020

-16,000 to be installed this year The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is aiming at achieving 100 per cent water meter coverage by the end of 2020. This will ensure that all customers pay for the...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

I was never an employee of the former Bartica IMC

Mar 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I was never an employee of the former Bartica IMC

Dear Editor, In, Kaieteur News letter column dated 15th February, 2017, letter writer, Olg Fredericks captioned: “I am asserting there is no such company in Bartica.” Two reputable organizations...

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Jun 01, 2026

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

Jun 01, 2026

(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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