September 2017

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Poor water quality: Two more city schools for urgent cleaning

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Poor water quality: Two more city schools for urgent cleaning

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday said it has identified two other schools in need of urgent cleaning. This comes as the state company said it is continuing to test and monitor the water...

Senior cop provided security for illegal airstrip – source

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Senior cop provided security for illegal airstrip – source

A senior officer was allegedly providing security for the illegal airstrip that was discovered at Santa Fe, Region Nine in August, last. He is among other ranks whose names have been linked to the...

AFC wants Local Govt. Commission fast tracked

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on AFC wants Local Govt. Commission fast tracked

…General Secretary Marlon Williams is party’s nominee . The Alliance for Change (AFC) is calling for the establishment of the Local Government Commission (LGC) to be fast-tracked and be fully...

GCB/CGI 3-day Franchise League… Chanderpaul’s unbeaten 176, Motie’s 13-84 leading performances

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/CGI 3-day Franchise League… Chanderpaul’s unbeaten 176, Motie’s 13-84 leading performances

3rd round bowls off today By Sean Devers With the return of players who played in the overseas leagues and the CPL, the third round of the GCB/CGI three-day Franchise League bowls off today at four...

No tomb safe anymore in Guyana

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 1

A li’l boy did want US$100 so bad that he pray to de Man above. He pray fuh weeks and nutten happen, suh he decide to write a letter to de Gawd begging fuh de US$100. When the postal authorities in...

Peruvian remanded for overstaying in Guyana

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Peruvian remanded for overstaying in Guyana

A Peru national was remanded to prison yesterday for allegedly overstaying his time in Guyana. Fifty-two-year-old Manuel Fernandez, a Geologist, denied the charge when he appeared before Chief...

Local referees to benefit from FIBA licensing programme by year-end

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local referees to benefit from FIBA licensing programme by year-end

On Wednesday, Kaieteur Sport reported that lack of officials had been one of the pitfalls of the 2017 season of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA)/Banks DIH leagues thus far, as...

Inaugural Guinness Cage/Three Peat Promotions Indoor C/ship… Ballers and Stars to light up Nat. Gymnasium tomorrow night

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural Guinness Cage/Three Peat Promotions Indoor C/ship… Ballers and Stars to light up Nat. Gymnasium tomorrow night

-Clash of contrasting styles If ever there was a story of two teams with contrasting styles, tomorrow night’s anticipated epic showdown between Ol Skool Ballers and Future Stars is one such...

City constable who had sex with detained juvenile may know fate today

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on City constable who had sex with detained juvenile may know fate today

The Legal Affairs Committee of the Mayor and City Council may make a decision today on the fate of a City Constable who allegedly forced a detained juvenile to perform a sexual act....

Median Plus Pharmacy supports Stage of Champions

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Median Plus Pharmacy supports Stage of Champions

Median Plus Pharmacy has contributed towards the staging of the second edition of ‘Stage of Champions’ bodybuilding competition which is set for November 18 at Theatre Guild, Kingston. Aneica...

Massiah guides Floodlights to six-wicket win over Parika Defenders

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Massiah guides Floodlights to six-wicket win over Parika Defenders

Sensible batting by Shawn Massiah led Floodlights XI to a convincing six wicket win over Parika Defenders in a specially arranged T20 match which was contested at the DCC ground on Friday night last....

Wellman, Floodlights triumph

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wellman, Floodlights triumph

Wellman and Floodlights recorded victories when the Mike’s Pharmacy, Trophy Stall and Nauth Motor Spares 20-over softball tournament continued on Sunday last. At Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo,...

GT Beer Sunday Night Super Cup semifinals… Georgetown renew Linden rivalry, Essequibo/Pomeroon battle West Demerara

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT Beer Sunday Night Super Cup semifinals… Georgetown renew Linden rivalry, Essequibo/Pomeroon battle West Demerara

The semifinals of the inaugural GT Beer Inter Association football championship organised by the Upper Demerara Football Association will have two mouth watering semifinal matches come Sunday at the...

Bandits abduct driver and conductress, escape with vehicle

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits abduct driver and conductress, escape with vehicle

– victims unhappy with treatment at police outpost A minibus driver and his conductress were abducted at gunpoint around 21:00 hrs last Saturday by two passengers who escaped with their...

Provisional national senior men’s team prepare for international friendly

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Provisional national senior men’s team prepare for international friendly

– Young talent included; fitness is priority for initial training sessions The Senior Men’s National Team – the Golden Jaguars – have called up a provisional locally-based squad in...

Inter ward schoolboys’ Tapeball bowls off on September 16

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inter ward schoolboys’ Tapeball bowls off on September 16

The Royal Tapeball Cricket Academy in collaboration with Foreign Ministry Sports Promotion will be hosting an inter ward schoolboys six overs knockout Tapeball competition starting on September 16 at...

Felix to lead hurricane relief team to St. Maarten, BVI

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Felix to lead hurricane relief team to St. Maarten, BVI

The Government of Guyana yesterday said it is intensifying efforts to coordinate relief for Guyanese nationals affected by Hurricane Irma in a number of Caribbean islands, particularly St...

911 Emergency System to be finished soon

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 911 Emergency System to be finished soon

….ventilation problem to be fixed The 911 Emergency systems will be finished before the end of the year. This is according to Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan. The Minister gave...

GTT offers $500,000 for saboteurs

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTT offers $500,000 for saboteurs

Less than two months after publicly highlighting repeated sabotage of GTT’s infrastructure, the company yesterday said that the disturbing trend has resurfaced with two acts of back-to-back...

Initiative launched for Guyanese to connect with Irma-hit families

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Initiative launched for Guyanese to connect with Irma-hit families

Guyanese who are interested in being informed on their relatives who reside in countries affected by Hurricane Irma can now do so as a result of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) who...

Cabinet nominates Dr. Arif Bulkan to UN Human Rights Committee

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet nominates Dr. Arif Bulkan to UN Human Rights Committee

Dr. Christopher Arif Bulkan was recently nominated by Cabinet for candidature to represent Guyana on the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHC) with the next election for membership scheduled...

There is nothing suspicious about Blanhum going on leave – Public Security Minister

Sep 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on There is nothing suspicious about Blanhum going on leave – Public Security Minister

…Asst. Commissioner Paul Williams to act as Crime Chief Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, categorically stated yesterday that there is nothing suspicious about Crime Chief, Wendell...

RENDERING ASSISTANCE

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on RENDERING ASSISTANCE

Once there was an island in the Caribbean with pristine sandy beaches known as Barbuda, but after Hurricane Irma, much of it is gone. Irma decimated the island of Barbuda, ripping apart buildings,...

The President was right

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

The President was 100% correct when in response to questions about the Commission of Inquiry into the investigation of the allegations of plot against his person, he said that it was important that...

Blackouts in 2017 are worse than in the Forbes Burnham era

Sep 15, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

I was in Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, travelling west heading for the National Park. This was morning rush hour. The traffic wasn’t moving. At the junction with Alexander Street, a car turned east...

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– West Indies trail by 491 runs (Cricinfo) – Sri Lanka batted a touch over two sessions on day two before eventually declaring on 549 for 9, while West Indies in their response ended the...

The writing is on the wall for the PNCR

Jul 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PNCR is increasingly becoming less of a political party and more of a habit – a habit of disappointment. The party, now speaking loosely, through what was once APNU, has adopted the language of those who have exhausted the present and must therefore reimagine the past....

The Beacon of Freedom Seen Across Oceans: Reflections on 250 Years of...

Jul 05, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Two hundred and fifty years ago, in the sweltering heat of a Philadelphia summer, a small group of men did something without precedent in modern history. They gathered, argued, deliberated, and then signed their names to a declaration that was a...

Chris Ram – scourge of oilmen, leaders gutted by them

Jul 05, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall… (Kaieteur News) – No one could have done it as clinically and comprehensively as Chartered Accountant, Mr. Chris Ram. He took a scalpel to Exxon, the oil contract, and political leaders. Dissected all three with much blood drawn. The contract, the regulatory...

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