September 2017

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Guyanese Blyden dominates Massachusetts Cricket League

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Blyden dominates Massachusetts Cricket League

Still harbors hopes of playing for Guyana After playing five seasons in Canada Guyanese leg-spinning all-rounder, 28 year-old Travis Blyden was the leading run scorer in his second season for the USA...

‘F’ Division Commander is acting Crime Chief

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘F’ Division Commander is acting Crime Chief

…as Blanhum proceeds on leave Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, has proceeded on his annual leave. Senior Superintendent Rabindranauth Budhram is now heading the Criminal Investigation...

Two remanded on separate robbery under-arms charges

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Two remanded on separate robbery under-arms charges

Twenty-four-year-old Dexter Wray of Lot 95 Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, a construction worker who was recently freed on a robbery charge was once again standing before a city...

Fernandes elected President of Linden Chamber

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Fernandes elected President of Linden Chamber

The Linden Chamber of Industry, Commerce and Development (LCICD) on Saturday elected a new executive body which will focus on a number of issues that directly involve and serve their...

Driver freed after inquest

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Driver freed after inquest

…court unable to find him liable for death of pedestrian Christopher Bose walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts a free man yesterday after three Jurors returned with a majority...

Region Three residents benefit from health outreach

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three residents benefit from health outreach

Residents of Parika and the surrounding areas benefitted from a health fair staged during a community outreach on Saturday at the Parika Lay Park. Several agencies including the Ministry of...

Three GPF trainees injured in accident

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Three GPF trainees injured in accident

An 18-year-old on his way to Felix Austin Training School, found himself in a near fatal accident when the car he was travelling in on Sunday last, at approximately 07:00pm, collided with another....

Contractors bid to operate Haags Bosch landfill

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Contractors bid to operate Haags Bosch landfill

Last year July, Puran Brothers Disposal Inc. was awarded a $221M contract for the operation and management of the Haags Bosch landfill at Eccles, East Bank Demerara. However, that arrangement came to...

Why we expect the PPP to change if their rivals won’t change also?

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

If people in this country think that there is going to be new leadership in the PPP; that young men and women will emerge into its hierarchy and a realistic, innovative transformation in the PPP will...

The Caribbean Premier League

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Caribbean Premier League

The just concluded Caribbean Premier League T20 cricket tournament has revealed some good things and bad things about Caribbean cricket. The tournament has unearthed some useful talent in the...

Security guard gets bail on fraud charge

Sep 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard gets bail on fraud charge

A security guard was ordered yesterday to post $300,000 bail after she was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to two charges of...

GuySuCo is in its death throes

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo is in its death throes

Dear Editor, Three years ago, at a public forum at the New Hope Secondary School, I expressed the view that GuySuCo would not survive another four years. Three years have gone by and GuySuCo has all...

Procurement Commission must investigate the health insurance deal

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Procurement Commission must investigate the health insurance deal

Dear Editor, Minister Joe Harmon’s clumsy refutation of my story that the APNU+AFC administration signed a secret, sole-sourced health insurance deal with the Surinamese Insurance company, ASSURIA,...

Police Officers need to cease disgracing their uniform

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police Officers need to cease disgracing their uniform

Dear Editor, Earlier today, September, 12, 2017, I saw two policemen on motorcycles taking a bribe from a motorist. I literally saw them take the money and hide it under the logbook, or whatever book...

Nation blinded to the contents of the oil contract by both parties

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nation blinded to the contents of the oil contract by both parties

Dear Editor, By now there can be no doubt that both the Granger-led Coalition and the Jagdeo-led PPP are taking the Guyanese people for fools. It is obvious that something is definitely not healthy,...

Guyanese must stop elected officials from abusing them

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese must stop elected officials from abusing them

Dear Editor, This society must stop allowing elected officials to carry us for a ride. Those who sit in the Government and Opposition benches in the National Assembly are elected by the people to...

The day innocent Muslims were seen as monstrous

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The day innocent Muslims were seen as monstrous

Dear Editor, A day of infamy, tragedy and destruction, the comfortable and complacent world we inhabited changed, for everyone. Muslims in America went from being an odd little group, to being seen...

IRMA’S WRATH

Sep 13, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on IRMA’S WRATH

Hurricane Irma, a category 5 storm on the five-point Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale with winds at times exceeding 180 miles per hour has battered several Caribbean Islands where some Guyanese live,...

Skeldon’s massive losses…Workers dumped tonnes of cane-juice to make payday, forged accounts

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News 5

– South African engineer complains A South African-based engineer hired several times to help fix the problems with the Chinese-built Skeldon sugar factory, had raised alarming questions about...

Anarchy in the Caribbean: Escaped prisoners, hundreds of looters terrorise hurricane-hit islands

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News 1

… police from Britain and France are flown in to restore order (dailymailonline) Escaped prisoners and hundreds of looters armed with guns and knives are terrorising hurricane-hit islands amid...

Trinidad Govt. probing alleged multi- million dollar oil production scheme

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad Govt. probing alleged multi- million dollar oil production scheme

Trinidad (CMC) – The state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, Monday announced that it had launched an investigation into reports of inconsistencies in the volumes reported from its exploration and...

UN expert has plans to tackle corruption, drugs

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UN expert has plans to tackle corruption, drugs

The United Nations is helping Guyana to fight corruption with a draft plan already completed. Yesterday, David Robinson, Anti-Corruption Adviser for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

Alness mom appeals for help after fire destroys home

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Alness mom appeals for help after fire destroys home

An Alness woman and mother of seven is contemplating her next move after the place she once called her home went up in flames early Friday morning. Savitri Shivgobin, 49, of Lot 68, Reef Section...

Mixed signals from ministers over ‘ban’ on single moms working nights

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mixed signals from ministers over ‘ban’ on single moms working nights

It appears that a recent proposal by a minister to have female guards, who are single moms, not work nights, is making the administration nervous. Days after the administration said there is no...

Tain pensioner killed; driver flees

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tain pensioner killed; driver flees

A pensioner was struck down and killed on Sunday night by a yet-to-be identified driver along the Tain Public Road, Corentyne, East Berbice. The dead man, Andre Buchan, called Nalvan, 68, of Lot 51...

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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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