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Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on

Guyana’s CBC Men’s Player Profiles Guyana’s Senior Men’s Team would be contesting the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships from June 23-30 at the Anthony Nesty Sporthal,...

Hard Work, commitment and discipline paid off for Keemo Paul

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hard Work, commitment and discipline paid off for Keemo Paul

By Zaheer Mohamed Keemo Mandela Angus Paul became Guyana’s latest West Indies test recruit; he was called up on Tuesday last for the final Test against Sri Lanka in Barbados. The game will commence...

Couple ID neighbours as rape/robbery suspects …cops puzzled by some elements of case

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Couple ID neighbours as rape/robbery suspects …cops puzzled by some elements of case

An East Bank Essequibo couple, yesterday, pointed out two neighbours whom they claim carried out last Tuesday’s rape/robbery in their home. The suspects were picked out during an identification...

Rawle Toney Thinks the Young Women Representing Guyana in Basketball were “Humiliated”

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rawle Toney Thinks the Young Women Representing Guyana in Basketball were “Humiliated”

One of the headlines in the Sports section of Guyana Chronicle, “The Nation’s Paper” dated June 21, 2018; claimed “Guyana humiliated 24-112 by Dominican Republic”. The Cambridge English...

Carlton Sinclair is BCB Father of the Year

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Carlton Sinclair is BCB Father of the Year

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday last, honoured 71 year-old Carlton Sinclair as its 2018 Father of the Year under its Tribute to Heroes Programme. The event was organised by the Special...

Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching Programme… BCB to host spinners and batsmen Clinics this weekend, dozens of youths to benefit

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh Coaching Programme… BCB to host spinners and batsmen Clinics this weekend, dozens of youths to benefit

The Albion Community Centre Cricket Ground, would be a hive of activity this weekend as the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) continues its effort to ensure players potential is fulfilled on the field. The...

GCB donate brush cutter to LBI Community Centre Cricket Club

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB donate brush cutter to LBI Community Centre Cricket Club

The Guyana Cricket Board, on Wednesday last donated a Honda brush cutter to the LBI Community Center Cricket Club (LBICCCC). The brief presentation took place at the GCB office on Regent Road,...

Several villages in Mahaicony under water

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Several villages in Mahaicony under water

…Farmers seek help from NDIA Five farmers in the Mahaicony area are calculating their losses in the millions, after dams in the Gordon Table and First Savanna, have been overrun with water,...

PAHO teams begin mercury investigation at GGMC complex

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO teams begin mercury investigation at GGMC complex

A team from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is currently assessing the mercury clean-up efforts at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Brickdam complex. The team, which...

Evidence of Political Interference in Village Councils Elections

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Evidence of Political Interference in Village Councils Elections

Ministers of Indigenous People’s Affairs, Sydney Allicock, and Valerie Garrido-Lowe are calling out the Parliamentary Opposition for blatantly disregarding the Amerindian Act 2006 and...

Evidence of Political Interference in Village Councils Elections

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Evidence of Political Interference in Village Councils Elections

Ministers of Indigenous People’s Affairs, Sydney Allicock, and Valerie Garrido-Lowe are calling out the Parliamentary Opposition for blatantly disregarding the Amerindian Act 2006 and interfering...

Sparse turnout for Lindo Creek church service

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sparse turnout for Lindo Creek church service

On Wednesday afternoon at 2PM, the families of the eight murdered Lindo Creek miners held a church service in memory of the victims ten years after their death. It was held at the Brickdam Cathedral....

It is not over until the court decides

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on It is not over until the court decides

A number of Guyanese are confused over the implications of the decision of Venezuela not to participate in the case brought by Guyana and which is concerned with the validity of the 1899 Arbitral...

Substance abuse intervention for Lusignan inmates

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Substance abuse intervention for Lusignan inmates

Inmates of the Lusignan Prison are currently benefitting from a three-day substance prevention programme. The programme is being executed by the Ministry of Social Protection, Probation and Social...

Guyanese among six charged with 800 pounds marijuana plot in Barbados

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese among six charged with 800 pounds marijuana plot in Barbados

Barbados (Barbados Today)- Despite being offered bail, six men, including a teenager, have been remanded to Dodds on a number of offences connected to $1.5 million in drugs. Raoul Hardat Singh, 54,...

Suddie hospital receives new generator

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Suddie hospital receives new generator

The Suddie Regional Hospital, Region Two, received a new 2,000-Amp Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) and a 750 KVA Caterpillar Generator unit to boost the delivery of its service. The items were...

Caribbean Premier League matches confirmed for Guyana

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Premier League matches confirmed for Guyana

By Zaheer Mohamed Dubbed the biggest party in sport, the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will be staging at least five matches in Guyana this year. Local cricket lovers can now breathe a sigh of...

Desmond Sears is new PSC Chairman

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Desmond Sears is new PSC Chairman

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Marriott Hotel elected Desmond Sears, Chairman. Sears served as Vice Chairman of the Commission for the last...

Is the Venezuela refugee crisis a Maduro ruse?

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the Venezuela refugee crisis a Maduro ruse?

DEAR EDITOR, A strange and troubling situation is developing in which people fleeing from Venezuela are coming here and claiming to be citizens of Guyana. The media recently reported that 70 such...

Abusive Babu Jaan man burns home down, attempts to kill wife

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Abusive Babu Jaan man burns home down, attempts to kill wife

A woman is now fearful for her life after her ex-husband of 28 years attempted to kill her at her home yesterday in Babu Jaan, Port Mourant. He later set her home on fire and escaped. Injured is...

Time for forensic audit and criminal charges in Region 6

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for forensic audit and criminal charges in Region 6

DEAR EDITOR, In 2016, when the Auditor’s General Report was presented in the National Assembly , it stated among other things that 79 contracts totaling $147.586 million were not awarded to the...

Case dismissed against businessman for 2012 killing of Mahaica trucker

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Case dismissed against businessman for 2012 killing of Mahaica trucker

Magistrate Wanda Fortune has dismissed murder charges against businessman Amarnauth Bhopaul for the killing of truck driver, Jadesh Dass, almost six years ago. He was discharged yesterday after...

Issue has to do with absence of fairness in process that led to hiring of GECOM DCEO

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Issue has to do with absence of fairness in process that led to hiring of GECOM DCEO

DEAR EDITOR, With respect to the controversial appointment of Roxanne Myers as Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), I’ve noticed that the defence has...

Bartica residents urged to own ‘greening’ of town …-as Climate Change C takes awareness session to Region Seven

Jun 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica residents urged to own ‘greening’ of town …-as Climate Change C takes awareness session to Region Seven

Head of the Office of Climate Change (OCC), Janelle Christian, on Wednesday charged the residents of Bartica, Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region Seven) to take ownership for the Transitioning to National Energy...

Freddie Kissoon on the subject of “gonads”

Jun 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon on the subject of “gonads”

DEAR EDITOR, I fear that Mr. Freddie Kissoon was not paying attention in his Biology classes at school. Note what he writes – “The plural noun, gonads, have (sic) been used been used...

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Regional finals headline fourth weekend of ExxonMobil U18 Schools...

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Regional and district finals will take centre stage as the Vurlon Mills Football Academy’s (VMFA) ExxonMobil Under-18 Schools Football competition continues from October...

Kwayana and Burnham

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In a video excerpt on his Facebook page, David Hinds said that one of the lessons of Kwayana, during ‘that’ period, was that he refused to compete with Mr. Burnham. One can only presume that he was referring to the period between 1961 and 1973. That statement could convey...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

Mr. President, I am disturbed at the disrespect

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What follows is personal. It extends every courtesy due to the office of the presidency in Guyana. Add to that, every care for the welfare of the incumbent, Excellency M. I. Ali. Due to the call of relationships, of duty, Pres Ali, from time to time, attends funerals in...

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