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Mar 29, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gladiator Championship Wrestling coming to Guyana May 27
Guyana’s most popular “live” one-hour TV sports programme – MAXIMUM SPORTS COMBAT & STRENGTH (MSCS), aired Fridays at 21.05 hours simultaneously on NCN TV Channels 11 (Georgetown),...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bids in for construction of Sport complex at Carifesta Avenue, Mabaruma Solar farm
During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday, contractors vied for the contract to construct a sports complex at Carifesta Avenue,...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Once Guyana secures EITI membership…Companies in extractive sector must comply with rules or leave – National Coordinator
Once Guyana secures membership with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a no-nonsense approach will be taken with companies operating in the extractive sector. This is according...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Two NIS inspectors accused PPP lawyer of violent scatology
On March 8, two NIS inspectors – one male, one female – went to the office of a young lawyer who is a rising figure in the PPP to inquiry about his NIS payment for him and his staff. The...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lodge Alpha hosts inaugural blood drive
In keeping with its obligation of benevolence and charity, the Brethren of Lodge Alpha, No. 1594, hosted it inaugural blood drive at Masonic Hall, Carmichael Street, last Saturday. Personnel from the...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem Town Council launches $9M school bus
Communities in Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo will now benefit from a timely initiative of the Lethem Mayor and Town Council to provide transportation services to hundreds of students there. The...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 12 corneal transplant surgeries conducted at GPHC
…represent continued support of Subraj Foundation Between March 8 and March17 last, 12 corneal transplant surgeries were conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brazilian pastor gets High Court bail
After the continuous rejection of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to grant bail to Haleno Luiz, the Brazilian pastor who was charged over a month ago with a road fatality, Attorney Mark Waldron was...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US team evaluating juvenile justice in Guyana
As efforts continue to ensure that at-risk Guyanese youth receive maximum benefits from the United States Agency for International Development’s new Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Project,...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on East and West Front Road squatters to be relocated
Persons squatting along the embankment of the East and West Front Road are earmarked for relocation. Minister within the Ministry of Communities with responsibility for housing, Valerie...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The genesis of the Integrity Commission and the Public Procurement Commission
A number of misleading statements and generalization were once peddled about the origins of both the Integrity Commission and the Public Procurement Commission. Amongst the gamut of misleading...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica to get modern $205M stelling by year end
…to have two floating ramps and modern waiting area By Brushell Blackman Bartica will soon benefit from a new stelling that is currently under construction. This construction will serve a community...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GENDER EQUALITY
When Guyana joined the rest of the world to celebrate International Women’s Day a few days ago under the theme “Be bold for Change,” the nation was hopefully driven to redouble its efforts to...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Eye care outreach gives vision support to Mabaruma, Leguan residents
Some 170 residents from Regions One (Barima/Waini) and Three (Essequibo Islands/ West Demerara) were over the weekend able to benefit from a medical outreach. The outreach was organised by SOLO...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Charity’s NDC overseer says Regional Chairman insulting
Overseer of the Charity Neighborhood Democratic Council (NDC), Samuel Sooklall, has expressed his disappointment in the way he was addressed by the Region Two chairman, Davenand Ramdatt. Overseer,...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on IMF highlights need for ‘stronger’ AML measures
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), was in Guyana, recently, to assess the economic health of the nation. In doing so, it examined the strengths and weaknesses of the financial sector. A number of...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA worker dies in Land of Canaan accident
A 27-year-old Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) worker was killed in an accident early yesterday while on his way home from work on the Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road....Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Private university conducting feasibility study for specialty hospital
A vast majority of Guyanese seek advanced medical health care overseas. It was against this background that moves were streamlined to bring to fruition a specialty hospital. Taking up this challenge...Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney turns in teen who stabbed Sophia schoolboy
The 16-year-old who was on the run after stabbing 14-year-old l Andrew Clarke is in custody, after being turned in by an attorney. Police said that the attorney turned the teen in on Monday and he is...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Welder remanded for chopping stepson
A welder was remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on Monday after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Courts. The charge read that on March 19 at Aranka Landing, Suraj Singh...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bus conductor remanded on a robbery charge
A bus conductor was remanded to prison on a robbery under arms charge when he appeared before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, on Monday y. Shawn Kansinally, 27,...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time to curtail the importation of frivolous items
Dear Editor, There is much talk these days about the 1970’s levy on sugar. But there was also a levy on bauxite that no one seems to remember. These levies were in place after the nationalisation...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on VAT on school fees will be to the detriment of the APNU-AFC
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter “VAT on education, if used correctly, can improve its quality” in KN of March, 27, 2017. Here are my comments on this letter which by any standard is from...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Prime Minister is deceiving and misleading
Dear Editor, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo at the Oil & Gas Conference said his administration is “uncompromising about malfeasance and sleaze in public office” but if you investigate the...Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on My evolution and journey as a national poet
Dear Editor, In the year 1984 I was working in the interior as a diver on National Service’s gold mining dredge at the mouth of the Potaro River, residing on the camp ground at the time was a...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
May 04, 2026
– Book spot in National C/ship (Kaieteur News) – Leopold Street stamped their authority on the Georgetown leg of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ tournament on Friday, steam...May 04, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – It would not be unusual for it to be discovered that students sitting CSEC and CAPE examinations are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to complete their School Based Assessments (SBAs). Technology is now a normal part of students’ lives. Many students have access to...May 03, 2026
Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during official engagements in the...May 04, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – A living standard -what is that animal? What does a livable income in Guyana look like? What does it allow? How do Guyanese manage? I begin with this basic definition: a livable income is what affords sufficient food daily, with enough left for nonfood bills. To...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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