January 2018

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UCCA’s Baijnauth T20 #70 Spartans & # 72 All Stars in winner’s row

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on UCCA’s Baijnauth T20 #70 Spartans & # 72 All Stars in winner’s row

Joining the list of winners in the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association’s (UCCA) Baijnauth T20 competition were Number 70 Spartans and Number 72 All Star teams after registering wins over Guns &...

GMRSC set to open new season with month-end Endurance meet 2018 Calendar released

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC set to open new season with month-end Endurance meet 2018 Calendar released

Motor racing fans can rest easy as the anticipated 2018 season of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMRSC) will get underway early this year with an Endurance meet that is billed for the South...

Guyana’s 3×3 B’ball ranking improves to 91

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s 3×3 B’ball ranking improves to 91

Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation’s (GABF) International FIBA 3×3 Ranking has improved. Out of the total of one hundred and fifty-nine (159) countries that are ranked by International...

Yhip’s Bakery on board Wiltshire B/day Dominoes

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Yhip’s Bakery on board Wiltshire B/day Dominoes

This Sunday’s Birth Anniversary Dominoes Competition, which will be played in honour of Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire, received a timely boost when Yhip’s Bakery on Robb Street, Bourda added its...

QC Inter Class cricket concludes Domino tourney set for tomorrow at Sadam Place Sophia

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on QC Inter Class cricket concludes Domino tourney set for tomorrow at Sadam Place Sophia

One D defeated One A in the final of the Queens College Boy’s Inter-Class Tapeball 10-over cricket competition during the two days of the Christmas term on the school’s Basketball Court while One...

National Junior and Senior Chess Qualifiers start today

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Junior and Senior Chess Qualifiers start today

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is set to commence its 2018 programme this weekend with the National Junior and Senior Qualifiers. The seven-round Swiss System FIDE-rated qualifiers will start...

Guyana Football Review Pt. 3 The GFF Elite League and Super 16 yearend tournament

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Football Review Pt. 3 The GFF Elite League and Super 16 yearend tournament

The Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Elite league third season kicked off on Sunday November 19, 2017 at the Leonora Track and Field facility, football pitch with a double header. This late start...

Team Midas Touch qualifies for Millrose Games

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Team Midas Touch qualifies for Millrose Games

Team Midas Touch, Coached by Andy Medas-King, founder and Organizer of the King Medas-Pansy Adonis Classic Foundation, qualified for the 111th Millrose Games set for the Armory in Manhattan on...

Capacity building in petroleum sector high on Govt’s list of priorities- Trotman

Jan 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Capacity building in petroleum sector high on Govt’s list of priorities- Trotman

The government is keen on capacity building. This is particularly so in the petroleum sector. At least that is according to the Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman. This is what he...

RHT Pepsi defeat Ramnarine Memorial CC by 55 runs to open RHTY&SC 2018 Season – Club makes donation to Berbice Cricket Umpires Association

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Pepsi defeat Ramnarine Memorial CC by 55 runs to open RHTY&SC 2018 Season – Club makes donation to Berbice Cricket Umpires Association

The Rose Hall Town Pepsi Under-19 Team of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS started their 2018 Campaign with an easy 55 runs victory over the Ramnarine Memorial Cricket Club at the...

Please ask the Prime Minister this question, Mr. Kissoon

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Please ask the Prime Minister this question, Mr. Kissoon

Do you know in which milieu I get most of my questions concerning my columns? Well, a commentator meets people in all types of circumstances. Because of the nature of those environments, some people...

Guyanese man, 68, dies after violent Queens robbery

Jan 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man, 68, dies after violent Queens robbery

New York (New York Daily News): Dhanraj Mangra and his wife escaped the violence of Guyana to start over in New York City. Twelve years after they made the move to safer shores, the 68-year-old...

Two police officers with Guyana roots first for Schenectady city

Jan 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two police officers with Guyana roots first for Schenectady city

SCHENECTADY, NY (Daily Gazette) — The city on Friday added 14 new police officers — the largest group of recruits to be added in the 21st Century, and one that adds women and the first...

GUYANA: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on GUYANA: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Guyanese are hoping and praying that 2018 would turn out to a great year for the country. Indeed, 2017 was anything but quiet. It was the year of serious crimes, traffic accidents and fatalities as...

The Exxon Signing Bonus Saga – A Storm in a Teacup

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Exxon Signing Bonus Saga – A Storm in a Teacup

DEAR EDITOR, Over the course of the past several weeks, I have been following the “brouhaha” over the Exxon Signing Bonus as carried in the local print media. Upon careful consideration of the...

Utter shamelessness, absolute disgrace and more betrayal – pay the full severance

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Utter shamelessness, absolute disgrace and more betrayal – pay the full severance

DEAR EDITOR, Having been exposed again that they had no intention of paying the more than 4,000 sugar workers who were terminated their legally-guaranteed severance this month as promised, President...

Fly Jamaica’s lousy handling of a crisis

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fly Jamaica’s lousy handling of a crisis

DEAR EDITOR, I have never felt compelled to write to your column, but in this instance cannot refrain from doing so to express total dissatisfaction with the manner in which Fly Jamaica has treated...

The abandonment of 4000 sugar workers

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The abandonment of 4000 sugar workers

DEAR EDITOR, The GuySuCo Board of Directors ordered the closure of sugar estates, then leaves the Government of Guyana to explain or spin a tale of hopelessness. We the owners of the sugar...

Time for an intelligent response to crime

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for an intelligent response to crime

DEAR EDITOR, While one can identify with the sense of frustration oozing from the pen of Peeping Tom on 6th January 2018, we need to remind ourselves that frustration and the anger it tends to give...

Blatant disregard by an increasing number of drivers

Jan 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Blatant disregard by an increasing number of drivers

DEAR EDITOR, There seems to be a blatant disregard by an increasing number of drivers, for traffic signals in Guyana. Drivers can be seen casually driving through Red Lights at many of the traffic...

‘Fit and Proper’ criteria…Former Trini banker linked to insider trading “declines” top GBTI post

Jan 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Fit and Proper’ criteria…Former Trini banker linked to insider trading “declines” top GBTI post

Almost two months after being introduced as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), Trinidadian Larry Nath has “declined” the position....

President Granger convenes urgent meeting on crime, security

Jan 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger convenes urgent meeting on crime, security

President David Granger yesterday convened a meeting of the National Security Committee to address issues relating to crime and security. A Ministry of the Presidency release stated that the meeting...

South Road senior citizens murder PI…. Accused killers weep, one faints in court

Jan 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on South Road senior citizens murder PI…. Accused killers weep, one faints in court

Confusion reigned yesterday morning at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, as one of the accused fainted during the commencement of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the matter involving three men...

Hope Beach wind farm project…Patterson: Land was leased for 50 years by Jagdeo Govt.

Jan 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hope Beach wind farm project…Patterson: Land was leased for 50 years by Jagdeo Govt.

Government is still to make a final decision on the future of a wind farm at Hope Beach, East Coast Demerara. Yesterday, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson who holds the...

Calls made for legislation to command local content contribution from oil companies

Jan 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Calls made for legislation to command local content contribution from oil companies

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar recently pointed out that Guyana is in serious need of legislation which would not merely encourage but...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. JKM at Providence – Hetmyer, Hope, Dindyal lead batting charge (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors announced their arrival home with a brutal 8-wicket...

How should I schedule my day?

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(Kaieteur News) – Deep in the Himalayas, I once visited a Hindu guru and asked him, “Guru, how should I schedule my day?” He looked at me for a moment, smiled, and asked, “What is it that you want to schedule?” “My day,” I replied. “I want to organise my time better. There is so...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

The Donny and Delcy show

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(Kaieteur News) – What to make of this America-Venezuela oil deal, this best in history? First, it’s best to put the 65 billion barrels of heavy crude in its proper place. It’s the Donny and Delcy Gong Show. A quarter of Venezuela’s premier national treasure, a concealed deal, a very...

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