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Corporate Hospitality for ICC Women’s World T20

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corporate Hospitality for ICC Women’s World T20

The International Cricket Council and Cricket West Indies announced their partnership for the corporate hospitality for the upcoming ICC Women’s World T20 tournament in the West Indies. Goddard’s...

Credit Info urging businesses and citizens to utilise its services

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Credit Info urging businesses and citizens to utilise its services

Guyana’s first credit bureau, Credit Info is calling on loan agencies and citizens desirous of acquiring loans to utilise its services to ensure an easier and swifter financial experience. Chief...

Wakenaam finally gets street lighting

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam finally gets street lighting

Residents of Wakenaam Island are basking in newly installed led lights around the Island community. In keeping with an announcement previously made by Minister of Public Infrastructure, David...

Man held for allegedly torching father’s house

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man held for allegedly torching father’s house

A 25-year-old labourer is in police custody after allegedly setting fire to his father’s property, located at Lot 351 Hope, South Enmore, East Coast Demerara. The man, had previously attempted to...

New River ramps for La Harmonie and Endeavour

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New River ramps for La Harmonie and Endeavour

The communities of La Harmonie and Endeavour, located about 15 and 20 miles respectively up the Demerara River on the West Bank, are the beneficiaries of two newly constructed River Ramps valued at...

Albion tractor operators protest slash in payment rates

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Albion tractor operators protest slash in payment rates

Workers attached to the Albion Sugar Factory on Tuesday and Wednesday picketed the estate over a slash in rates. The men who operate tractors in the field are tasked with digging and clearing the...

Clarke settles for 3rd at Darcy Beckles Invitational Classic, Bikini & Figure C/ships

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clarke settles for 3rd at Darcy Beckles Invitational Classic, Bikini & Figure C/ships

Reigning Mr. Guyana Kerwyn Clarke, who was not able to compete at the CAC Championships in Mexico after retaking the crown here on Saturday last, placed third at the annual Darcy Beckles Invitational...

Mystery fire destroys pensioner’s home

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mystery fire destroys pensioner’s home

Fire of unknown origin destroyed an Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara house belonging to Elaine Pollard, an 80-year-old pensioner who is presently in the United States of America. Pollard left...

Ansa McAl joins GUYOIL football league

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ansa McAl joins GUYOIL football league

One of the Guyana’s leading distributors, Ansa McAl, yesterday joined forces with Petra Organisation for their GUYOIL School Football League which kicks off this weekend. During a brief...

Demerara Bank sponsors Educational Programme for RHTY&SC Cricket Teams – Clubs’ 625th activity for 2018

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara Bank sponsors Educational Programme for RHTY&SC Cricket Teams – Clubs’ 625th activity for 2018

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS and its ten cricket teams for the fifth successive year has received complete sponsorship from Demerara Bank for the hosting of a Spelling Bee...

Body on Puruni trail had 43 chop wounds

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Body on Puruni trail had 43 chop wounds

The body of 52-year-old Kelvin Royston Bayley, which was found last Sunday on Puruni trail bore 43 chop wounds, an autopsy revealed yesterday. Police are still to make arrests in the murder of the...

GMRSC’S Ignite KGM and R. Kissoon contracting confirm support for November 11 meet

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC’S Ignite KGM and R. Kissoon contracting confirm support for November 11 meet

Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMRSC) national championship which is being dubbed ‘Ignite’ is creating much buzz in the local motor racing community and the event, which...

Guyana to host World Dominoes C/Ships from October 5

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to host World Dominoes C/Ships from October 5

The World Council of Dominoes Federation Inc 18th championships will be on at the Carifesta Sports Complex Georgetown commencing with an opening ceremony tomorrow from 17:00hrs. Anguilla, Antigua and...

Alleged passport fraud… Is he Cliff Ryan Jacobs or Joseph Troy Gomes?

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged passport fraud… Is he Cliff Ryan Jacobs or Joseph Troy Gomes?

Is his name Joseph Troy Gomes or Cliff Ryan Jacobs? That’s what the court is trying to find out in a case in which a 27-year-old man who is accused of presenting a forged birth certificate to...

Linden Special Needs Centre tops 3rd Annual ‘Signing Bee’ Competition

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Special Needs Centre tops 3rd Annual ‘Signing Bee’ Competition

The Linden Special Needs Centre has won first place in both categories of this year’s Annual Signing Bee Competition, which was held yesterday at the National Centre for Educational Resource...

Wet beaks

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Wet beaks

“Wet my beak” is an idiom for saying let us have a drink together. Guyanese in the old days would ask persons for a “wet break”, which was an appeal for a “raise” to buy a drink. When you...

MOPH cancer awareness widens to include cervical and other cancers

Oct 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on MOPH cancer awareness widens to include cervical and other cancers

The three main cancers killing women in Guyana are breast, cervical and uterine cancer. Meanwhile, other cancers such as prostate cancer affect men while a series of other cancers affect both genders...

Disgraceful, sycophantic and incompetent journalism of the worst kind

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Disgraceful, sycophantic and incompetent journalism of the worst kind

I have a healthy respect for our sister newspaper, the Stabroek News. I was once a columnist with that newspaper. Like Kaieteur News, it has its faults; like Kaieteur News it has its virtues. The...

Don’t blame the present administration

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t blame the present administration

Dear Editor, The Times Newspaper of September 27, 2018 on page 10 carried a story under the caption, “Govt. Turning Blind Eye” on Rice Section’ – Region Two Farmers. I do not know what are...

A quest for self esteem

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A quest for self esteem

Dear Editor, In most cases, active public and political debate over the management of our growing oil and gas industry is healthy for Guyana. But we must also be mindful of individuals who seek to...

No stipends for Mabaruma councillors

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on No stipends for Mabaruma councillors

Dear Editor, I received information for transmission to Kaieteur News that the Mabaruma Town Councillors have not received their stipends for three years. These councillors are very worried that the...

AFC lists are fit and proppa

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on AFC lists are fit and proppa

Dear Editor, As someone who has been an Alliance for Change supporter since 2006, there are aspects of a letter written by Raj Lakram, NDC Councillor for Number 52/74, published in the Kaieteur News...

Urgent road repairs needed in North Rupununi

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent road repairs needed in North Rupununi

Dear Editor, Sections of the Annai-Lethem road are currently in a deplorable state as a result of the May-June rains. Despite a multimillion dollar contract being inked since June 2018 for repairs to...

LETTER TO PRESIDENT GRANGER, APNU/AFC & PPP/C

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on LETTER TO PRESIDENT GRANGER, APNU/AFC & PPP/C

Dear Editor, In his address to the United Nations on Tuesday September 25, 2018, President Trump thrust his commitment to an “American First” foreign policy back onto the United Nations...

Some have declared SOCU a failure

Oct 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some have declared SOCU a failure

Dear Editor, I was amused to hear British High Commissioner to Guyana. Mr. Greg Quinn speak of training to ‘improve’ the quality of DPP prosecutions. Mr. Quinn and the UK’s paid...

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