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2019 Road World Championships Yorkshire to host first team time trial mixed relay

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2019 Road World Championships Yorkshire to host first team time trial mixed relay

Men and women will race together for their nations for the first time in the 2019 Road World Championships in Yorkshire. The team time-trial mixed relay is being introduced as part of a drive to...

Alimohamed’s ton; France & Singhs’ 4-wickett hauls guides EBD to comfortable win

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alimohamed’s ton; France & Singhs’ 4-wickett hauls guides EBD to comfortable win

By Zaheer Mohamed Ronaldo Alimohamed struck a belligerent century while spinners Trevon France and Gavin Singh shared eight wickets between them as East Bank Demerara (EBD) romped to a 132-run...

Signboard of Guyana’s Caribbean B’ball C/ship winning team vandalised

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Signboard of Guyana’s Caribbean B’ball C/ship winning team vandalised

In June, against the odds, Guyana’s Men’s team won the 2018 Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship which also served as the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Americup...

Karibee Rice Basketball – Berbice RHT Jammers to clash with East Canje Knights in Final

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Karibee Rice Basketball – Berbice RHT Jammers to clash with East Canje Knights in Final

Rose Hall Town Jammers of the Corentyne will bounce against East Canje Knights Of East Canje in the final of the Karibee Rice Basketball Competition this Sunday at the Rose Hall Town Basketball...

Disgusted with upsurge in criminal sexual activities

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disgusted with upsurge in criminal sexual activities

Dear Editor, The National Congress of Women (NCW), the Women’s arm of the People’s National Congress Reform, wishes to record its disgust at the upsurge of criminal sexual activities being...

Greeting Granger and Rowley with rubber slippers

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Greeting Granger and Rowley with rubber slippers

The Ministry of the Presidency has issued a complaint to the Guyana Press Association in the form of a letter about the type of wear of some journalists at the signing of the MoU between the...

Use of low-grade zinc sheets at Eccles Health CentreRegion stands ground as contractor pleads for payment

Sep 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Use of low-grade zinc sheets at Eccles Health CentreRegion stands ground as contractor pleads for payment

The Region 4 (Demerara – Mahaica) administration is not backing down from its position to withhold payment from a contractor on the Eccles Health Centre on the East Bank of Demerara. Regional...

Minibuses are under attack

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minibuses are under attack

Dear Editor, The recent news of a successful business man with a military background entering the transportation sector via the importation of large buses to compete with the minibus operators is one...

Continuous frustration with the traffic police at the Harbour Bridge

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Continuous frustration with the traffic police at the Harbour Bridge

Dear Editor, I have written several times before about a frustrating trend that occurs at the Demerara Harbour Bridge every single morning of the week day. The problem continues to this day with no...

The GWMO is unconstitutional

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The GWMO is unconstitutional

Mr. Editor, The GWMO of which I am a member has not held a General Meeting to elect a President since 2015. Neither has there been an audit of how they are spending their members’ money or the...

Extend the amnesty

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Extend the amnesty

The Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority should reconsider his decision not to extend the tax amnesty which was granted earlier this year and which has so far raked in more than five...

Those questionable NGOs

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those questionable NGOs

Mr. Editor, Several NGO’s are popping up across this country and no one is monitoring them. This is a festering problem in Guyana that should be addressed by this Government, primarily the...

Rose Hall single mom recieves interest-free loan from Humanitarian Mission

Sep 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall single mom recieves interest-free loan from Humanitarian Mission

A single mother of Rose Hall Town has received her interest-free loan from the Humanitarian Mission Guyana Inc to get her business, “Serenity’s Slice of Heaven” going. Trudy Sinclair, 33, was...

Corrective measures are being taken with the Sheriff-Mandela Project

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corrective measures are being taken with the Sheriff-Mandela Project

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter published in the Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 edition of the Kaieteur News, under the headline, “Poor management on major road project is an indictment”,...

Bringing the constitution into focus

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bringing the constitution into focus

Dear Editor, In June, article 9 of our Constitution came into very sharp focus at to Caribbean Court of Justice in the so called Jagdeo third term limit case. The present machinations, contrivance...

BECOMING YOUR BEST SELF

Sep 27, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on BECOMING YOUR BEST SELF

The statement that “education is everybody’s business”is more than a cliché; it is a fact that all responsible stakeholders in society should collaborate for the benefit of educating all...

Guyana fails to attract private investment in infrastructure for almost a decade – IDB

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana fails to attract private investment in infrastructure for almost a decade – IDB

According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Guyana has failed to attract a single private investment in almost a decade—eight years to be exact. This was recorded in IDB’s recently...

Guyana must avoid simply mimicking other country’s local content policies

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana must avoid simply mimicking other country’s local content policies

…Chatham House urges emerging oil producer to do gap analysis By Kiana Wilburg Too often, local content policies are designed without sufficient consideration of the resources available nationally...

Islamic Bank freezes loan to Somalia …audit reveals irregularities with disbursement

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Islamic Bank freezes loan to Somalia …audit reveals irregularities with disbursement

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has reportedly suspended a US$5M loan to the Government of Somalia following accusations of mismanagement and corruption. Voice of America, a US government-funded...

East Coast four-lane expansion…Chinese contractor sacks truckers who protest delay in payments

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on East Coast four-lane expansion…Chinese contractor sacks truckers who protest delay in payments

The Chinese contractor working to expand the East Coast Demerara four-lane highway, yesterday ordered that a number of truckers who were protesting non-payment be sacked. At least five truckers who...

Region 4 probes $234,000 guard hut contract at Grove Market tarmac

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region 4 probes $234,000 guard hut contract at Grove Market tarmac

Councillors of the Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) have clashed over a guard hut. The guard hut is located in the fenced compound of the Golden Grove Market tarmac, East Bank...

US-based Guyanese professor to chair teachers’ arbitration panel

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US-based Guyanese professor to chair teachers’ arbitration panel

The Ministry of Social Protection yesterday said it has appointed US-based Guyanese Dr. Leyland Lucas as Chairman for the Arbitration Panel for the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Guyana...

Six testify in PI of security guard charged with murdering girlfriend

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Six testify in PI of security guard charged with murdering girlfriend

Six witnesses testified yesterday in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Shanece Lawrence, who was fatally stabbed last month allegedly by her boyfriend, Jermaine Bristol. Bristol is...

Bill Cosby, in cuffs, imprisoned for up to 10 years for sexual assault

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bill Cosby, in cuffs, imprisoned for up to 10 years for sexual assault

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Bill Cosby was marched out of court in shackles yesterday after a judge branded him a “predator” and sentenced him to between three and 10 years in prison for...

Dem Chinee got nuff politicians in dem pocket

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Chinee got nuff politicians in dem pocket

Dem boys always happy. You know why? Because dem don’t expect anything from anybody. Expectations always hurt. Dat is why dem African people punishing and suffering. Dem had high expectations. De...

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(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

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(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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