January 2018

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Vehicles’ emission increasing respiratory threat – says GPHC DCEO

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vehicles’ emission increasing respiratory threat – says GPHC DCEO

– efforts being made to assess Guyana’s Respiratory Therapy needs An increase in vehicles will by extension lend to an increase in exhaust emissions which, according to Deputy Chief Executive...

Repsol, CGX major sponsors for Guyana’s petroleum summit next month

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Repsol, CGX major sponsors for Guyana’s petroleum summit next month

Spanish Company Repsol Exploración Guyana, S.A. and Canadian company, CGX Energy Inc., have signed on to the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit (GIPEX 2018) – as Gold Sponsors,...

Bar owner jailed three years for trafficking 14-yr-old

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bar owner jailed three years for trafficking 14-yr-old

An East Coast Demerara (ECD) bar owner has been jailed three years for trafficking a 14-year-old for labour exploitation. According to the Ministry of Social Protection, the conviction on Thursday...

Ministry grappling to address tutor shortage

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry grappling to address tutor shortage

…as preparations are made to train another batch of nurses The country’s nursing schools, which fall under the purview of the Public Health Ministry, are currently faced with an especially...

New fume cupboard for CPCE

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New fume cupboard for CPCE

Over the last few months, several meaningful improvements have been made at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE). These include the acquisition of a fume cupboard, the increased supply of...

Guyana lost out on opportunity to have stake in oil companies – Ram

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana lost out on opportunity to have stake in oil companies – Ram

Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram recently pointed out that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman missed a glorious opportunity to ensure that Guyana had a stake in...

Hampshire wedding house shooting suspects refused bail

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hampshire wedding house shooting suspects refused bail

The two suspects who surrendered to police on Thursday for the shooting of three persons at a wedding house at Hampshire Village, Corentyne, Berbice, were yesterday remanded to prison. Tameshwar...

Cultural icon Neil Chan, A.A., passes away

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cultural icon Neil Chan, A.A., passes away

Neil Vibert Ignatius Michael Chan died early yesterday morning after a period of illness. He was 88. He was born on November 4, 1929 to Solomon Chan and Ruby Beckles, in Georgetown, Guyana. He had...

Smith, Khawaja frustrate England in Sydney

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smith, Khawaja frustrate England in Sydney

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia captain Steve Smith continued to be England’s Ashes nemesis yesterday as he passed 6,000 test runs in an unbeaten knock of 44 to help his team to 193 for two at...

CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships round up: Fudadin hits unbeaten 61 for Scorpions, but Shiv’s fifty puts Jaguars in control

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships round up: Fudadin hits unbeaten 61 for Scorpions, but Shiv’s fifty puts Jaguars in control

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Half-centuries from left-handed openers John Campbell and Assad Fudadin led a Jamaica Scorpions fight-back but a clatter of wickets late in the day left leaders Guyana...

RFA looks to corporate support as Champions league near

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RFA looks to corporate support as Champions league near

By Zaheer Mohamed One of the challenges that local sporting bodies have to overcome in order to host successful tournaments is the lack of sponsorship. In certain areas the lack of corporate support...

Hustler Pool competition on at GMSRC tomorrow $100,000 & Trophy Stall Trophy up for grab by Champion

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hustler Pool competition on at GMSRC tomorrow $100,000 & Trophy Stall Trophy up for grab by Champion

Former National U-17 Cricketer Ricardo Devers will hold a best two of three knock-out 8-ball straight Pool competition at Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMRSC) on Albert Street, Thomas Lands...

Letter to the Sports Editor The UCCA Interim Committee was creation of the BCB 2012 administration

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor The UCCA Interim Committee was creation of the BCB 2012 administration

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter published in the Kaieteur News on Jan 3, 2018 and the Guyana Chronicle on 4th January 2018, supposedly highlighting the state of affairs of the Upper Corentyne...

STSC and New Level Bar F/Ball & Domino competitions

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on STSC and New Level Bar F/Ball & Domino competitions

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee and New Level Bar will hold a three-players Domino and Small Goal Football Competitions in honour of Colin Sukwah at Sadam Place, Lot 8 Dennis Street Sophia today....

Squash Review Guyana miss out on 13th consecutive title on home turf Buts lots of positives taken from 2017

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Squash Review Guyana miss out on 13th consecutive title on home turf Buts lots of positives taken from 2017

By Sean Devers After winning the Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships title for the last 12 years team Guyana suggested that 13 was indeed an unlucky number as only Taylor...

GRFU absorbed the challenges and SCRUMMED on

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GRFU absorbed the challenges and SCRUMMED on

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) absorbed the challenges that came their way in 2017 and continued its determined focus towards seeing the sport grow as well as maintained its dominance in the...

National Under-18 B’Ball coordinator Hercules confident of success in regional c/ships

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Under-18 B’Ball coordinator Hercules confident of success in regional c/ships

Supreme Dub Ballers will represent Guyana at the 2018 International Basketball Foundation (FIBA) Antilles 3X3 under-18 Championships in St Marteen which is slated for May. Ballers, a team which...

The world in 2017: Humans are inhuman

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The world in 2017: Humans are inhuman

There is hardly any logic in the way humans carry on their lives. Here is a hypothetical example of behaviour that is supposed to be logical, but there is no guarantee it will turn out to be so. A...

Crime is out of control

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Crime is out of control

A woman, last Thursday, escaped becoming the victim of an armed attack in the city when the car in which she was seated was stormed by two men. One day earlier, bandits relieved a miner of his...

ALTERNATIVES FOR DSPLACED SUGAR WORKERS

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on ALTERNATIVES FOR DSPLACED SUGAR WORKERS

DEAR EDITOR, Having been a member of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) which made some specific recommendations for the sugar industry over two years ago, I have naturally been reluctant to make any...

A caustic response to a criticism

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A caustic response to a criticism

Dear Editor, A great man once said that, ‘if someone is NOT attacking you, then it means you are NOT doing your job effectively’. This is exactly what came to my mind when I read a missive which...

Jagdeo plays a dangerous game with sugar workers

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo plays a dangerous game with sugar workers

Dear Editor, Bharrat Jagdeo is playing Russian roulette with the welfare of sugar workers. This is dangerous. The future of sugar workers is now, and they need a plan from the PPP/C to be placed...

A case of religious persecution

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A case of religious persecution

Dear Editor, On 2 January, 2018, the Specialized Criminal Court in Sana’a, Yemen, issued a ruling unprecedented in the persecution of the Baha’is in Yemen. Sentencing Mr. Hamed bin Haydara to...

Using domestic violence as showpiece

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Using domestic violence as showpiece

Dear Editor, Stacy Singh, another Guyanese sister was brutally murdered. Again, as in the past, the outrage is loud especially on Social media/Facebook. What could have been more gruesome than when...

BEYOND THE CANEFIELDS

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on BEYOND THE CANEFIELDS

Dear editors, The Guyana Times wrote about Cheddi Jagan, noting that his father “obviously saw a future beyond the sugar fields” for his first born. Strange that the very broadsheet should...

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Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

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(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

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(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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