October 2017

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Procurement system has been made “Fip-proof”

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement system has been made “Fip-proof”

– Finance Minister “Let’s be blunt. The dynamics of the procurement environment have aligned so much with the principles of transparency and accountability that another Fip Motilall would...

Pork-knocker butchers policewoman, hangs self

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Pork-knocker butchers policewoman, hangs self

An intoxicated and out of work pork-knocker went berserk around 9.00 hrs yesterday, butchering police sergeant 19467 Kenisha Sheriff-Fraser, said to be his lover, in her Number 30 Village, West Coast...

Lack of human capacity is the biggest problem for almost all ministries – says Finance Minister

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News 2

By Kiana Wilburg Lack of human capacity seems to be one of the biggest problems affecting efficient spending on projects by almost all ministries. Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, during a...

Watch how Jagdeo mek wrang, right

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Watch how Jagdeo mek wrang, right

Dem boys seh dem now know how people does tun a saint, and why this does only happen when de people dead. Nobody was a saint while he or she alive. Now Jagdeo telling everybody how Janet should be a...

Institute helps to combat cancer scourge with free screening this month

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Institute helps to combat cancer scourge with free screening this month

Without valid statistics, it is unscientific to ascertain which type of cancer is currently accounting for the majority of cancer deaths. There have been some who are convinced that the...

UG inks new agreement to further academic programmes with GDF

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UG inks new agreement to further academic programmes with GDF

As part of enhancing the national security strategy, the Guyana Defence Force, (GDF) yesterday inked a new agreement with the University of Guyana, (UG) to further the academic programme offered to...

New Devonshire Castle Youth Group on the move

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Devonshire Castle Youth Group on the move

By Dennis Nichols Education isn’t all about classroom instruction or even school-based extracurricular activities. Often it’s also about social improvement aimed at our youths, with the...

Banks DIH/GABA Division One League… Colts waltz to championship by bolting past Guardians

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH/GABA Division One League… Colts waltz to championship by bolting past Guardians

When the final whistle blew on Wednesday night to signal the end of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA)/Powerade/Malta Supreme/Rainforest Water 2017 season, Bounty Colts had...

Guyana depart for ABCA Independence Tri-Nation T20 in Antigua

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana depart for ABCA Independence Tri-Nation T20 in Antigua

The Guyana team departed yesterday for Antigua where they will take part in the second annual Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association Independence Tri-nation T20 Tournament starting today. The...

Correction

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Correction

In our Thursday edition, we reported on the execution of a businessman at Log Pond, Oronoque, Port Kaituma. We reported that Gavin Bidder had been identified as a suspect. We have established...

WIFBSC Hall of Fame to take flight in Guyana

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on WIFBSC Hall of Fame to take flight in Guyana

Late Richard Fields, Neville Denny and Major General (rtd) Norman McLean nominated Next week’ s Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) 150th Anniversary championship which will also be run...

Giftland celebrates Teachers’ Appreciation Day

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Giftland celebrates Teachers’ Appreciation Day

Yesterday, teachers around the world were honoured on the occasion of Teachers’ Day. The Giftland entity was one of the proud businesses to give back to the country’s educators through gift...

Works begin at GFF National Training Centre – FIFA Forward Programme

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Works begin at GFF National Training Centre – FIFA Forward Programme

Construction works began on Wednesday at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Training Centre (FIFA Forward Programme) as the GFF gears up to create a stable home for football development in...

South American Youth Games – Badminton… Priyanna Ramdhani in today’s quarter finals

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on South American Youth Games – Badminton… Priyanna Ramdhani in today’s quarter finals

Now holding the joint #4 ranking in South America, the youngest player in Badminton and Guyana’s team at the 11 South American Youth Games being hosted at the Centro de Entrenamiento Olimpico,...

Demerara Bank partners RHTY&SC to host Art and Spelling ‘B’ Competitions

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara Bank partners RHTY&SC to host Art and Spelling ‘B’ Competitions

Demerara Bank in conjunction with the nine cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) recently hosted an Art competition for the Rose Hall Nursery School while students...

Mike’s Pharmacy/Nauth Motor Spares/Trophy Stall Softball… Ariel Masters, Trophy Stall Angles triumph

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike’s Pharmacy/Nauth Motor Spares/Trophy Stall Softball… Ariel Masters, Trophy Stall Angles triumph

Ariel Masters and Trophy Stall Angles recorded victories when the Mike’s Pharmacy, Nauth Motor Spares and Trophy Stall softball tournament continued on Sunday last at Carifesta Sports Complex....

65-year-old remanded for trafficking 1.5 grams cocaine

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News 1

Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore yesterday remanded a 65-year-old United States citizen to prison after he made an appearance before her in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and denied a charge of...

RHTY&SC says thanks to sponsors after successful Rose Hall 175th Anniversary activities

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC says thanks to sponsors after successful Rose Hall 175th Anniversary activities

The nine cricket teams, Over-35 group and the Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Ms, has announced that the 175th Anniversary celebrations of Rose Hall Village was a smashing...

Sawpit CC claim WDCA T20 Title

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sawpit CC claim WDCA T20 Title

Sawpit Cricket Club emerged champions of the West Demerara Cricket Association (WDCA) T20 tournament for the first time following four-wicket victory over Zeeburg in the final which was contested on...

Efforts moving apace to re-establish Guyana Youth Corps

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Efforts moving apace to re-establish Guyana Youth Corps

Yesterday, officials from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Social Cohesion met to discuss the way forward to re-establish the Guyana Youth Corps. Leading that discussion was Minister of...

Police slow to act on rape of nine-year-old

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News 1

– File with La Grange Police Station for more than two weeks The mother of a nine-year-old girl is upset that ranks in ‘D’ Division appear to be dragging their feet in investigating...

Regional Health Director Jevaughn Stephens heads Mental Hospital Cricket Club

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Health Director Jevaughn Stephens heads Mental Hospital Cricket Club

The Fort Canje Mental Hospital Cricket Club is once again functioning and at a recent meeting which took place at the Berbice Regional Health Authority elected the Regional Health Director Jevaughn...

Incredible revelations on Jagdeo at Lands Commission hearings

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

I was scheduled to give testimony at 11.30 am on Wednesday morning at the Commission of Inquiry into ancestral African lands. But the testimonies went over their allotted time, so the Commission’s...

Commemorating the 41st anniversary of the Cubana air disaster

Oct 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Commemorating the 41st anniversary of the Cubana air disaster

Forty-one years after a terrorist bomb exploded on Cubana Airline Flight 455, causing it to crash into the sea off the coast of St. James, Barbados, killing all 73 of the passengers and crew,...

WE ARE MURDERING GRANDMOTHERS

Oct 06, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on WE ARE MURDERING GRANDMOTHERS

When it comes to murder, we have arrived at a situation in Guyana that engenders sadness, disbelief, frustration, fear and a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. We would go further to suggest...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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