September 2017

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Two-day Commonwealth Games Federation meeting hosted by Guyana concludes

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Two-day Commonwealth Games Federation meeting hosted by Guyana concludes

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) concluded its two-day regional meeting of the Americas and the Caribbean yesterday at the Guyana Olympic Association’s head office at Lilliendaal, where the...

The silence of Guyana will bring more Leonard Archibald tragedies

Sep 25, 2017 KNews News 1

Opinion by Freddie Kissoon The story of the rape and murder of a 13 year old boy in Sisters’ Village in Berbice is not the kind of nihilistic horror you read about in a country with a...

Crushing loss for Windies after Ali’s assault, Plunkett’s ODI best — 3rd ODI

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Crushing loss for Windies after Ali’s assault, Plunkett’s ODI best — 3rd ODI

BRISTOL, England, CMC — A blistering 94 from Chris Gayle and a career-best spell from Miguel Cummins failed to top Moeen Ali’s third One-day International hundred and Liam Plunkett’s best ODI...

Leguan, Big Kiss and Wallerby’s Delight

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

I spent last Saturday at the funeral of one of my wife’s cousins (my wife has more relatives than hurricane-hit Dominica) in the island of Leguan. I haven’t been to Leguan in twenty years....

GCB/CGI 3-Day Franchise League…Ali-Mohamed’s 53 fail to save East Bank

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/CGI 3-Day Franchise League…Ali-Mohamed’s 53 fail to save East Bank

– Smith and Khan share 9 wickets for L/Corentyne A 45-ball 53 from National U-19 Captain Renaldo Ali-Mohammed failed to save East Bank from a crushing 116 runs defeat against Lower Corentyne on...

GABA/Banks DIH Leagues…Pacesetters, Colts and Guardians win first as semifinal action begins

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABA/Banks DIH Leagues…Pacesetters, Colts and Guardians win first as semifinal action begins

Three thrilling semifinal clashes bounced the resumption of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association/Powerade/Malta Supreme/Rainforest Water 1st, 2nd and Under-23 leagues on Saturday night at...

Sophia consultations continue on Road Network Upgrade and Expansion Programme

Sep 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia consultations continue on Road Network Upgrade and Expansion Programme

Residents of Block ‘F’ and Block ‘R’ Sophia were engaged in consultations as the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) moves closer to securing a loan which will...

Adams century hands Essequibo three-wkt win over Georgetown

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Adams century hands Essequibo three-wkt win over Georgetown

A well-crafted century by Ricardo Adams handed Essequibo a three-wicket victory over Georgetown when the fourth round of the Cricket Guyana Inc. Jaguars three-day franchise league concluded yesterday...

GRFU/Bounty Farm 15s; GDF brush aside Hornets in 41-10 victory

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GRFU/Bounty Farm 15s; GDF brush aside Hornets in 41-10 victory

Guyana Defence Force bragged their superiority over Pepsi Hornets with a 41-10 thrashing yesterday afternoon at the National Park Track and Field pitch in the second and final match of the weekend in...

Johnson to lead Guyana in Antigua T20 Tourney

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson to lead Guyana in Antigua T20 Tourney

Ricardo Adams included National Captain Leon Johnson will lead Guyana in the second annual ABCA Tri Nation Independence T20 in Antigua from October 6-14 and according the GCB/CGI the players selected...

Allegations of sexual assault against city officer Rank allegedly failed to enter report into diary

Sep 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Allegations of sexual assault against city officer Rank allegedly failed to enter report into diary

Preliminary findings into the allegations of sexual assault surrounding one member of the City Constabulary Unit, are likely to result in disciplinary action against a rank for neglect of...

Regional Chairman David Armogan calls on Hilbert Foster to contest for BGB presidency

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Chairman David Armogan calls on Hilbert Foster to contest for BGB presidency

The Guyana High Court has decided that Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) elections will be held on the 8th October. Since then a number of prominent Guyanese are calling on stake holders in Berbice to put...

Albouystown man shot two days after being released from prison

Sep 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown man shot two days after being released from prison

A man who was recently released from prison on a charge of attempting to commit a felony is now counting his lucky stars after he was shot twice by one of two armed men who he claimed to know from...

WE HAVE LOST OUR WAY

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on WE HAVE LOST OUR WAY

Despite the police statistics that show that serious crime has reduced in 2017 compared to 2016, the recent spate of armed robbery and violence throughout the country has brought into focus the...

PPP and APNU+AFC have breached their contract with the nation

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on PPP and APNU+AFC have breached their contract with the nation

Dear Editor, Grateful if you published the following letter in tomorrow’s edition of your paper to coincide with UG’s discussion forum to be held tomorrow afternoon. Many thanks. The use of...

Public Procurement Commission, can a member dissent?

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public Procurement Commission, can a member dissent?

Dear Editor, The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has been in the news recently. It has surfaced that the Commission has completed its debut significant investigation/review. Expectedly, internal...

Another manifestation of APNU+AFC conspiracy

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Another manifestation of APNU+AFC conspiracy

Dear Editor, This week we see another mind-boggling APNU+AFC conspiracy. It is not hyperbole, but each new day exposes yet another shameless act. What is even more reprehensible is that leaders of...

We have to stop voting for racial reasons

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have to stop voting for racial reasons

Dear Editor, There seems to be some Guyanese who want to continually blame Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham for Guyana’s present problems. Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan have done a lot for...

PPP Govt. did not alleviate the poverty of the poor in Region 6

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Permit me to reply to Mr Jaipaul Suenarine’s letter captioned ‘Prime Minister’s Representative in Region 6 under fire’. I do feel that I need to dissect his letter piece by piece...

Police Service Commission should not have promoted these ranks

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police Service Commission should not have promoted these ranks

Dear Editor, I accept as generally correct and sound, former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Satyanand’s point about article 212(1) of the Constitution, the Police (Discipline) Act Cap...

Small amount of marijuana must be decriminalised

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Small amount of marijuana must be decriminalised

Dear Editor, The current legal regime, as contained in the “Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (control) Act”, against the possession of small amounts of marijuana attempts to prevent a...

Freddie is afraid to lose his Black friends over Nicholas-Garrett

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie is afraid to lose his Black friends over Nicholas-Garrett

Dear Editor, Ok Freddie, your Sunday’s edition was digested as you condoned the behaviour of Ms. Garrett. Yes, there are words that we don’t use in our society when we are among people of...

What about the parents?

Sep 25, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Violence in schools is not a major problem in every school. Only a handful of schools in the country have reached the stage where violence is a serious problem. And while there must be attempts to...

Body of missing boy found on foreshore

Sep 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Body of missing boy found on foreshore

The six-day search for 13-year-old Leonard Archibald came to a grim end around 15.00 hrs yesterday, when villagers and relatives found his partly decomposed body on the Kortbraadt foreshore, about...

Suspected child killer attacked, sexually abused several boys

Sep 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected child killer attacked, sexually abused several boys

With the heinous rape/murder of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald, horror stories of similar attacks on other young boys by his depraved killer are now coming to light. Residents have revealed that the...

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Just what is going on in Guyana?

May 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when the average Guyanese scandal involved a man stealing two plantains from a neighbour’s kitchen garden and then attending the same neighbour’s wake three weeks later pretending to be grief-stricken. We were a manageable people. Dysfunction arrived in...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Anand Persaud calls out, castigates, the PPP Govt.

May 13, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Governments govern. Leaders lead. Media reports on governance, leadership. People pronounce on the quality of both. I do. Anand Persaud did. As the former editor-in-chief of the much-praised, much-missed, Stabroek News, he would know about...

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