July 2017

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Additional intake, no threat to Mazaruni prison – Senior Supt. Hopkinson

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Additional intake, no threat to Mazaruni prison – Senior Supt. Hopkinson

Senior Superintendent and Officer in Charge of the Mazaruni Prison, Alexander Hopkinson, is thankful for the support received since the intake of 83 additional prisoners at the facility. The transfer...

After two decades… Survey underway to record unemployment

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on After two decades… Survey underway to record unemployment

The Bureau of Statistics (BOS), has commenced its quarterly Labour Force Survey, an official told Kaieteur News yesterday. This survey would come more than two decades after the last survey was done....

Sickle Cell – the facts

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sickle Cell – the facts

By Robert E. Fraser RN, BS World Sickle Cell Day was recently marked on June 19. Sickle Cell is an inherited condition. It is more common in people of Afro-Caribbean, African, Mediterranean or Asian...

Attempted murder accused slapped with fresh murder charge of mini-bus driver

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Attempted murder accused slapped with fresh murder charge of mini-bus driver

A 24-year-old man who is awaiting trial at the High Court for attempted murder was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Tedroy Neil James, the mini-bus driver who was shot and killed by...

Driver accused of stealing from Aurora Gold Mines

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Driver accused of stealing from Aurora Gold Mines

A father of three was granted $150,000 bail following an accusation that he stole an excavator computer box from Aurora Gold Mining Company Incorporation. Vibert Wishart, 30, a driver, of Lot 139...

Chief Magistrate recuses self from matter involving senior police rank

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Magistrate recuses self from matter involving senior police rank

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan has recused herself from hearing a matter in which Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Frank Thompson is accused of using abusive language to his subordinate. The...

Tuschen man’s killing suspected to be vendetta-driven

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tuschen man’s killing suspected to be vendetta-driven

Investigators believe that the death of 33-year-old Eon Currency whose body was found with a gunshot wound to the head Sunday night at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) is vendetta-driven. The body...

Region Three farmers receive payments after GRDB investigation

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three farmers receive payments after GRDB investigation

Rice farmers in Wakenaam, Region Three will be paid all of the outstanding monies owed to them by Friday, 21 July. This was revealed by the General Manager (ag.), of the Guyana Rice Development Board...

NSC ‘Teach them Young’ TT Vacation Camp …Nat Table Tennis Coach Johnson loves working with youths

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC ‘Teach them Young’ TT Vacation Camp …Nat Table Tennis Coach Johnson loves working with youths

By Sean Devers This year’s Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) and National Sports Commission (NSC) ‘Teach them Young’ School Vacation Camp commenced last week Monday at the National...

Regional U17 tourney…Guyana tackle Barbados in final round today

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional U17 tourney…Guyana tackle Barbados in final round today

By Zaheer Mohamed in Trinidad and Tobago In association with V Net Communications, Mike’s Pharmacy, 4R, Regal Stationery and Computer Centre and Ramchand’s Auto Spares. Following their 82-run...

Part of the learning curve as Calvin Ming endures tough weekend

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Part of the learning curve as Calvin Ming endures tough weekend

Young Guyanese motor racing ace, Calvin Ming, endured a tough weekend on the racetrack, being forced out of his two races as a result of accidents in USF2000 Series for the Pabst Racing Team in...

GBA & MOE Badminton School Vacation Camp …‘Six MOE Sports Camps across Guyana’ – Nicholas Fraser

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA & MOE Badminton School Vacation Camp …‘Six MOE Sports Camps across Guyana’ – Nicholas Fraser

By Sean Devers The Ministry of Education (MOM) through its Unit of Allied Arts programme has collaborated to organize School Vacation Camps around Guyana and the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) in...

Banks DIH onboard Four Horsemen promotion Emancipation One Day Meet

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH onboard Four Horsemen promotion Emancipation One Day Meet

Banks DIH Limited is on board in a major way as preparations continue for the Four Horsemen Promotion Emancipation one day horserace meet. With race day drawing nearer most of the top stables in...

Priyanna Ramdhani excited about making U-17 Pan Am debut

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Priyanna Ramdhani excited about making U-17 Pan Am debut

At 15 Guyana’s Priyanna Ramdhani is a four times medalist (U-11, U-13 & U-15) at the Pan American Junior Championships in Badminton including three gold. The talented teen has also done...

CARICOM win the Ministry of the Presidency Tapeball competition

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on CARICOM win the Ministry of the Presidency Tapeball competition

CARICOM won the Ministry of the Presidency Tapeball competition on Sunday last at the National Culture Centre Tarmac, when they defeated Guyoil in the final, which was organized by James Lewis of the...

Corona Invitational Football Tournament resumes on Friday

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corona Invitational Football Tournament resumes on Friday

Play in the Top Brandz Corona Beer Georgetown Invitational Football tournament is scheduled to resume on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground with a triple header. Last weekend’s...

Powerade/Rainforest Water/Malta Supreme/GABA Tournaments…

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Powerade/Rainforest Water/Malta Supreme/GABA Tournaments…

Bounty Colts, UG Trojans, and Pacesetters complete winners’ row in night 6 action Play continued on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association in...

2017 GCB/CWI/Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Camp starts today

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2017 GCB/CWI/Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Camp starts today

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), in collaboration with the Cricket West Indies and Scotiabank, commences its School Holiday Camp activities today in Upper Demerara from 09:00 hours to 15:00 hours at...

Boyce/Jefford Track and Field Classic VIII set for official Launch Friday

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boyce/Jefford Track and Field Classic VIII set for official Launch Friday

The Management Committee of the Boyce and Jefford Track and Field Classic will be launching the Eighth Edition of one of Guyana’s most prestigious athletics competition on Friday at 11:00am at...

An encounter with Justice Navindra Singh in the supermarket

Jul 18, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An encounter with Justice Navindra Singh in the supermarket

Each day in Guyana, memories and reflections tell the story of unpredictable life in Guyana and their Freudian impact on me. I was about to open the freezer door in the supermarket to take out a...

Porkknocker charged for trafficking over two pounds ganja

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker charged for trafficking over two pounds ganja

Twenty-five-year-old Seon Nickle, of Lot 65 Savannah Park, New Amsterdam, Berbice, yesterday made an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer...

SWF fund needed to build public confidence

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on SWF fund needed to build public confidence

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its 2017 report on Guyana’s economy said that the establishment of a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) is important for the building of confidence in the public...

PS Alfred King admits to breaches of FMAA within Ministry

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PS Alfred King admits to breaches of FMAA within Ministry

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs, Alfred King, yesterday admitted before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that breaches of the Fiscal Management and...

CANTO 33rd confab convenes… Regional ICT Heads to promote region as ICT business location

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CANTO 33rd confab convenes… Regional ICT Heads to promote region as ICT business location

The Caribbean Association of National Telecommunications Organizations (CANTO) 33rd Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition is taking place at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana,...

Problem management workshop gets underway -to help boost local mental health capacity

Jul 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Problem management workshop gets underway -to help boost local mental health capacity

Aimed at empowering those who have been rendering some level of support to persons vulnerable to mental health problems, a strategic training workshop got underway at the Georgetown Marriott Hotel...

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Save our stories before they disappear

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(Kaieteur News) – I asked a middle-aged woman if she knew Rabbi Washington. She vaguely recalled the name but nothing more. This is exactly how most of our collective memory works these days. When I mentioned other Guyanese public figures from the 1970s and 1980s, she drew a blank on most of...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

PPP most ruthless guerrilla fighters of all

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(Kaieteur News) – BBC and other Western media called them irregulars. Unorthodox also sold well. I fuse elements from irregulars and unorthodox to my preference for unpredictable. Guerrilla fighters and stealth operators have still endured. In any study of both, there’s none better...

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