June 2018

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GABF selects final 12 for three-match series against Barbados – Stanton Rose becomes youngest ever National captain

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF selects final 12 for three-match series against Barbados – Stanton Rose becomes youngest ever National captain

After weeks of intense training, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has reduced their provisional 17-man squad to the final 12 who will fly out Barbados to play in a three-game friendly...

EBFA leg of GFF Academy Training Center setting a solid platform

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA leg of GFF Academy Training Center setting a solid platform

The initiative was birthed under former Technical Director of the GFF Claude Bolton in 2015 but was rolled out under current GFF Technical Director Ian Greenwood in January of 2017 with sponsorship...

GECOM Chairman accuses PPP of injecting race into preparations for LGE

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chairman accuses PPP of injecting race into preparations for LGE

….Opposition Commissioners stage walk out There is tension brewing over the hiring of persons to fill critical positions at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ahead of the Local...

Taxi driver freed of causing the death of a British citizen

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver freed of causing the death of a British citizen

Haroon Essack, the taxi driver who had been arraigned on charges of causing the death of a British citizen almost two years ago, has been freed on a no-case submission. The no-case submission was...

KMPA 2nd annual Junior Olympic Games launched – $4M in cash and prizes up for grab

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on KMPA 2nd annual Junior Olympic Games launched – $4M in cash and prizes up for grab

The 2018 King Medas-Pansy Adonis (KMPA) Classic which features athletes from the Under-8 to Masters’ category competing in Track and Field is set for four days of excitement from September 20th to...

More Berbice Cricket Clubs benefit from $1M Balls Project

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on More Berbice Cricket Clubs benefit from $1M Balls Project

More Cricket Clubs in Berbice on Saturday last received red balls as President of the Berbice Cricket Board Hilbert Foster and his Predecessor Anil Beharry continued both of their efforts to assist...

Customs, postal workers meet to discuss improved relations, e-Commerce

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Customs, postal workers meet to discuss improved relations, e-Commerce

Customs and postal officers from the Caribbean, met in Guyana for round table discussions aimed at helping the postal services improve working relations with Customs to meet the demand of customers,...

Red-faced: The Queen Victoria

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Red-faced: The Queen Victoria

Red-faced: The Queen Victoria statue at the Supreme Court compound, Avenue of the Republic, was drenched with red paint over the weekend. Yesterday, there were moves underway to clean it. There has...

Woman, spouse on trial for killing her uncle

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Woman, spouse on trial for killing her uncle

Vishwantie Ragnauth and her reputed husband, Nyron Thakurdyal, will go on trial this morning for the murder of her 39 year-old uncle who was stabbed to death almost four years ago, at Patentia, West...

Police SC, GNIC SC head GCA first division 2-day points table

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police SC, GNIC SC head GCA first division 2-day points table

By Zaheer Mohamed Following several rounds of matches Police SC and GNIC SC sit atop of Group A and B respectively in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Trophy Stall, Star Party Rentals and...

Osmond Cummings Memorial U-20 Football Tournament… Botofago FC and Winners Connection advance to next round

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Osmond Cummings Memorial U-20 Football Tournament… Botofago FC and Winners Connection advance to next round

Botofago Football Club (BFC) defeated their counterparts Netrockers in the Osmond Cummings Memorial first U-20 football tournament Sunday last at the Bayroc Ground by 4 goals to 1. In the first game...

Rosignol minibuses stage second day fuel price protests

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rosignol minibuses stage second day fuel price protests

Minibus operators (Route 50) plying the Rosignol to Georgetown route yesterday staged their second day of strike and protest to increase the fares for commuters to pay amidst the spike in fuel prices...

Bullying in schools

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Bullying in schools

The incident involving a child who was denied entry to his school because he turned up shirtless even though his costume was intended to display indigenous wear, has led to public consternation. The...

Mae’s to apologise to student over indigenous dress incident

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mae’s to apologise to student over indigenous dress incident

Following the recent issue of a student’s indigenous attire being deemed “inappropriate” by Mae’s Schools Administration for its Culture Day activities, representatives of the Amerindian...

One-year-old feud leads to stabbing death

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on One-year-old feud leads to stabbing death

A one-year-old feud between 20-year-old Richard Noel and Timothy McKenzie, over Noel’s sister ended on Monday with McKenzie in the company of another friend, stabbing Noel in the vicinity of the...

Two East Indian politicians and the PNC leadership

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Two East Indian politicians and the PNC leadership

This is the conclusion of the column published on Wednesday, captioned, “Ganja law: African Guyanese and their political leadership.” I indicated that part two of the argument was forthcoming....

24 persons to benefit from training by the GCAA

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 24 persons to benefit from training by the GCAA

Twenty-four young people from various parts of the country, including Region Nine, will commence training as Air Traffic Control Assistants (ATCAs) and as Aeronautical Information Management Officers...

Mother claims foul play after son beaten senseless in prison

Jun 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mother claims foul play after son beaten senseless in prison

Juliana Isles, the mother of Shawn Thom, a 22-year-old prisoner, who was found in an unconscious state in the Camp Street Prison on Independence Day and is now in the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Disregarding the authority of the court is unbecoming of persons who know better

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disregarding the authority of the court is unbecoming of persons who know better

DEAR EDITOR, I find it astonishing that several articles concerning matters pending before the court are freely published in the Guyana press without any apparent inhibition – with no thought given...

To thine own self, be true

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on To thine own self, be true

DEAR EDITOR, I have a big problem with your ‘Comments’ and ‘Start The Discussion…’ areas of your various news items. The problem? It seems that persons making posts thereto are wasting...

Great fanfare for opening a roundabout

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Great fanfare for opening a roundabout

DEAR EDITOR, I noticed the great fanfare that surrounded the opening of the Carifesta Avenue roundabout. The press reported that several Ministers attended and our ‘hard-working’ Prime Minister...

We can’t continue governing with our heads buried in the sand like this

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We can’t continue governing with our heads buried in the sand like this

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to a letter from Andrew McBean captioned “Cheaper, cleaner and Guyanese: What a gas-to-power plant would mean for electricity” The selling price of electricity in Trinidad is...

IAC seeks clarification on Indian Immigration Monument

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on IAC seeks clarification on Indian Immigration Monument

DEAR EDITOR, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) having made numerous enquiries through meetings and correspondence with the Government of Guyana (GOG) regarding the installation of the Indian...

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The Coalition Administration is tying our feet and asking us to run DEAR EDITOR, Economic policies establish the framework upon, which government intends to address a country’s growth and...

This behaviour by GTT could only create disrespect for my fellow Guyanese

Jun 06, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This behaviour by GTT could only create disrespect for my fellow Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, I had decided some time ago to remain silent on the issue of GTT sending messages to me, encouraging me to call my relatives and friends who reside in North America and ask them to top...

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Absenteeism at School

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(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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