April 2017

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GCB names Jaguars Squad for 10th Round game

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB names Jaguars Squad for 10th Round game

The Guyana Jaguars enters its final round of the Digicel WICB Regional Four Day PCL from tomorrow, Friday 21st April, 2017, against Leeward Islands at the National Stadium – Providence. The...

Cheong, Sooklall guide NSC to 33-run win over Dindyal XI

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cheong, Sooklall guide NSC to 33-run win over Dindyal XI

Half centuries from Matthew Cheong and Navindra Sooklall handed Noitgedacht SC a 33-run victory over Sachin Dindyal XI in a 30-over U19 match played on Tuesday at the Wakenaam Community Centre...

President Granger steps into intellectually challenging waters

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Granger steps into intellectually challenging waters

President Granger has come to the defence of Minister Bulkan over the latter’s communication to the Chronicle, in which he suggested to the editors that they need to know their national duties and...

Covent Garden murder…Mom says neighbours want to frame daughter

Apr 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Covent Garden murder…Mom says neighbours want to frame daughter

– as cops take statements As investigations continue into the death of 21-year-old Vishaul Hansraj, who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Tuesday, several hours after being...

Seeking conduits to empower the people

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Seeking conduits to empower the people

It is hardly a radical statement to point out that one would be hard put to point out a single example of a poor country that has clawed its way out of poverty after following the prescriptions of...

Gold production will peak in another three years

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Gold production will peak in another three years

Gold mining is hazardous to the environment. Gold mining is, however, not going to be outlawed because of its environmental effects. The reason is economic. The economy only grew in 2016 because of...

US$13.2M on fatal accidents annually a burden on Guyana – Senior Engineer

Apr 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US$13.2M on fatal accidents annually a burden on Guyana – Senior Engineer

The US$13.2M being spent annually on counter measures and to repair infrastructure -amongst other costs – after and prior to fatal accidents, is a burden on the state’s economy. This is according...

Babita Sarjou murder PI…Doctor to testify via Skype from Brazil

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Babita Sarjou murder PI…Doctor to testify via Skype from Brazil

A doctor is scheduled to testify on May 11, via Skype video call from Brazil, when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of Babita Sarjou continues before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the...

Guyana may face pressure with rising inflation in US – Finance Officials

Apr 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana may face pressure with rising inflation in US – Finance Officials

Historically, inflation in Guyana has tracked price increases in the United States. With this trend in mind, the Economic Policy Analysis Unit (EPAU) of the Ministry of Finance is predicting that...

Berbice chambers set conditions for GuySuCo’s privatization

Apr 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice chambers set conditions for GuySuCo’s privatization

A shutdown of the country’s sugar industry is unacceptable at this time. This was the assertion of Berbice business persons during a high-level meeting late last month with a team of Government...

Multi-agency discussion leads way for waterfront developments

Apr 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-agency discussion leads way for waterfront developments

A multi-agency discussion is leading the way for the major waterfront developments across the nation’s coastland under Government‘s impending infrastructural improvement project. The discussions...

MOU signed to better UG’s ICT platforms

Apr 20, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MOU signed to better UG’s ICT platforms

Minister of Public Telecommunications Catherine Hughes and University of Guyana’s (UG), Principal and Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Ivelaw Griffith yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Colwyn Harding slapped with another robbery charge

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Colwyn Harding slapped with another robbery charge

Colwyn Harding, who became known to the public in 2013 after he had accused two police ranks of raping him with a baton while he was in custody at the Timehri Station, was yesterday released on...

No bail for accused cocaine trafficker

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on No bail for accused cocaine trafficker

A 36-year-old woman was yesterday remanded to prison by City Magistrate Fabayo Azore after she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a charge of possession of cocaine for the...

Driver freed of causing workmate’s death in highway crash

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Driver freed of causing workmate’s death in highway crash

Nathan Heyliger was yesterday freed on a causing death by dangerous driving charge, whereby it was alleged that his actions resulted in the death of a father of eight in an accident on the...

What happened to the Guyana Hemp Society?

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on What happened to the Guyana Hemp Society?

Dear Editor, Sometime last year Dr. Turhane Dourga a former director of the now closed Alesie Rice Mill made a valiant attempt to create the Guyana Hemp Society. I met Dr Dourga on one of his visits...

Aubrey Retemyer is a man of integrity and modesty

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Aubrey Retemyer is a man of integrity and modesty

Dear Editor, Once again Mr. Bharat Jagdeo has by his utterances established that he is the worst thing short of a nuclear bomb that could ever happen to Guyana. Jagdeo accused the Director and...

The joy and wonder of Easter Monday

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The joy and wonder of Easter Monday

Dear Editor, The euphoria -the feeling of happiness, camaraderie and sheer good will that we experience on Easter Monday is like no other and transcends all barriers and borders. It was good to see...

APNU+AFC Govt. has a dysfunctional PR department

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC Govt. has a dysfunctional PR department

Dear Editor, I sat in the National Cultural Center (NCC) a few Fridays ago and heard the Prime Minister, the Honorable Mr. Moses Nagamootoo, say that the government will NOT review the VAT on private...

Noise nusiance on Sherrif Street continues

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Noise nusiance on Sherrif Street continues

Dear Editor, It is a fact that the noise abuse on Sheriff Street has never really stopped, but had eased tremendously. I continued to write the authorities whenever these acts were committed...

Disappointed at the President’s position on the sugar industry

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disappointed at the President’s position on the sugar industry

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has taken note of the remarks, which appeared in various sections of the media, made by President David Granger at the opening...

APNU+AFC Govt. has a dysfunctional PR department

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC Govt. has a dysfunctional PR department

NIS must investigate what this company did to a 73 year old pensioner

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS must investigate what this company did to a 73 year old pensioner

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter which is in support of my old school mate. Mr. Hubert (Monty) Cramer-Seon, now 73 years of age; who worked his prime years with this large logging company only...

Simona T. Broomes waxes lyrical about Minister Harmon

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Simona T. Broomes waxes lyrical about Minister Harmon

Dear Editor, Often times we forget that with newness, a metamorphosis follows. Metamorphosis: a cycle that transforms a caterpillar into a butterfly. My obsession with butterflies travels way beneath...

The SARA Bill should never be put in the hands of someone like Jagdeo

Apr 20, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The SARA Bill should never be put in the hands of someone like Jagdeo

Dear Editor, The current 1980 Constitution was forced upon the people of Guyana through a rigged referendum. Back in those days, everything the PNC did was authoritarian. The PPP begged the...

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Golden Jaguars maul Cayman Islands 6-0 to close in on Gold Cup return

Nov 13, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – The Golden Jaguars delivered a commanding statement of intent, dismantling the Cayman Islands 6-0 yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, West Demerara,...

A quick count is not an exit poll!

Nov 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A few days ago, I heard a former APNU+AFC official speaking about the 1992 general elections and repeating the familiar allegation that those elections were rigged. In attempting to discredit the findings of the Carter Center, he referred to its quick count as an exit poll,...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Chairman Smith-a man to regard

Nov 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I tip my hat to the Barima Commission of Inquiry Chair, Justice Godfrey Smith. This is how real men differentiate themselves. Under duress from the U.S. visa revocation action meted out against him, he offered his resignation. Some of the qualms I had of this Belizean...

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