October 2018

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Thriving despite stage four breast cancer

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Thriving despite stage four breast cancer

A cancer warrior for nearly four years, Devika Tinsarran wants people to know that living with breast cancer is not the end of the world. Tinsarran, now 33, was only 29 when she received her...

Rising Sun Turf Club Rodeo set for Sunday

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising Sun Turf Club Rodeo set for Sunday

The Rising Sun Turf Club Rodeo Committee has organised a Grand Rodeo for Sunday at their West Coast Berbice facility starting form 11:00am. Several events are carded for the day to bring the usual...

Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers school league… CWSS hit 12 past Marian Academy

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers school league… CWSS hit 12 past Marian Academy

The Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers Under-18 School Football League continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on Carifesta Avenue with four round-robin clashes. The most devastating...

GMRSC Ignite Test and Tune event a success

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC Ignite Test and Tune event a success

Several racers turned out with their machines yesterday for the Test and Tune event of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC). Hosted at the South Dakota circuit, Timehri, racers of...

Friendship ‘squatting area’ seeks to reinvent its image

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Friendship ‘squatting area’ seeks to reinvent its image

-from muddy tracks to asphalt roads, electricity and potable water An East Bank Demerara community that was once without potable water, electricity, and roadways has now reinvented the image...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month… GFF conducts a series of activities to spread awareness

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Breast Cancer Awareness Month… GFF conducts a series of activities to spread awareness

To enable a healthy and cancer-free society, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has conducted a series of activities to foster the awareness, early detection and eradication of breast cancer. These...

Govt. bats for foreign companies in oil and gas at expense of Guyanese – Chris Ram

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. bats for foreign companies in oil and gas at expense of Guyanese – Chris Ram

The approach taken by senior Government Ministers and the Department of Energy does not augur well for the participation of Guyanese in the emerging sector, according to chartered Accountant...

Gas bottle explosion…Wife discharged, husband still hospitalised

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gas bottle explosion…Wife discharged, husband still hospitalised

One month after a gas cylinder exploded and badly damaged a Kitty home; one of the injured persons is still a patient at the Burns Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

Massive flood hits Matthew’s Ridge, surrounding communities

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Massive flood hits Matthew’s Ridge, surrounding communities

Residents of Matthew’s Ridge and its surrounding communities are now counting their losses in furniture and electrical items in the wake of a massive flood. It is understood, that due to...

Special Miracles Ministries Church observes 25th Anniversary

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Special Miracles Ministries Church observes 25th Anniversary

Several distinguished Christian artistes and speakers graced the pulpit of Special Miracles Ministries, (Royalty Centre) church as part observances to mark 25 years since the establishment was...

Guyanese receives top honours at Hugh Wooding Law School

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese receives top honours at Hugh Wooding Law School

By Feona Morrison Attorney-at-law Ashley Henry, a 23-year-old Guyanese student was bestowed with several awards, including best performance from a Guyanese student, when the Hugh Wooding Law...

HOW OWEN DESOUZA OUTWITTED THE ACOURI

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on HOW OWEN DESOUZA OUTWITTED THE ACOURI

– and became a successful coconut farmer By Enid Joaquin Prolific Linden farmer Owen DeSouza has certainly come a long way from the days when he waged a daily battle with agouti (acouri,...

Animadversions and ululations of a convoluted mind

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Animadversions and ululations of a convoluted mind

I have long argued that PPP leaders will never apologize for any depravity done while that party was in power from 1957 to 1964 and from 1992 to 2015. No organization could ever run a government...

“I thrive in isolation” – Musician Juke Ross

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “I thrive in isolation” – Musician Juke Ross

Juke Ross, as many Guyanese people know him, is a regular, fun-loving, socially awkward, sarcastic person, in his own words. The musician describes himself as a Thinking Introvert, according...

Oil and water

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Oil and water

Life is strange. But not politics. It is sometimes difficult to understand how someone can be praiseworthy of a person in one instance and then, in another, be scathing in their criticism of that...

One simple suggestion fuh Soulja Bai

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on One simple suggestion fuh Soulja Bai

All over de world people does name roads, facilities and structures after leaders. De US got JFK airport; Guyana got CJIA. Dem got schemes, name after Burnham pickney dem. And dem boys ain’t...

Guyanese docility is a disadvantage

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese docility is a disadvantage

Dear Editor, I was motivated to share some thoughts on the nature of our (Guyanese) people after reading of the unpleasant experience of one Guyanese on a flight to Toronto via Jamaica. In the...

Man joins friend in jail after smuggling ganja in food

Oct 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man joins friend in jail after smuggling ganja in food

A man will now join his friend in prison after he was yesterday charged and remanded to prison. He was caught attempting to smuggle marijuana to a prisoner at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts...

New 356% Berbice Bridge toll will bankrupt Berbicians

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on New 356% Berbice Bridge toll will bankrupt Berbicians

Dear Editor On October 16, 2018, the Board and Management of the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) announced an astronomical 365% increase in tolls to cross the bridge. The proposed increase ranges...

THAT COURT OF APPEAL DECISION – AN OMINOUS SIGN

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on THAT COURT OF APPEAL DECISION – AN OMINOUS SIGN

Editor, The Guyana Court of Appeal has, on Thursday, October 18, 2018, upheld the decision of the Chief Justice (ag) as to the legality of the President’s action in appointing Mr. James Patterson...

Cause for concern

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cause for concern

Dear Editor, Please permit me to express my sentiments regarding government medical institutions. It was very saddening to learn that public health institution was without basic supplies such as...

GUYANESE VOTERS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GUYANESE VOTERS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Dear Editor, Although this letter is for people who voted, the eligible voters who don’t vote, you too are as guilty for letting Guyana go under, by willful inaction. The governments present and...

The bridge toll is a political gimmick

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The bridge toll is a political gimmick

Dear Editor, I will wholeheartedly agree with the Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, that the bizarre unilateral declaration of the nightmarish increase in the Berbice Bridge toll is a...

THE DIMINISHING AFC

Oct 22, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on THE DIMINISHING AFC

The Local Government Elections (LGE) are less than a month away, but it is utterly confusing to many why the Alliance For Change (AFC) leadership as a group and as individuals continue to make...

Concession Agreement says… Govt. can take over Berbice Bridge for sake of “national interest” – BCCI likely breached maintenance schedule

Oct 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Concession Agreement says… Govt. can take over Berbice Bridge for sake of “national interest” – BCCI likely breached maintenance schedule

A June 2006 Concession Agreement between the Government and the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) says that the former has options to take control of the facility for the sake of “national...

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Oct 11, 2026

– Courts Pee Wee U11 Football tournament moves to quarterfinals phase (Kaieteur News) – Georgetown International Academy (GIA) and defending champions Leonora Primary continued their...

No more plundering, no more exploitation

Oct 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Rev. Jim Jones, who led more than 900 Americans to their deaths in a mass murder-suicide in Guyana in 1978, had a sign behind his throne that read: “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” That warning is particularly relevant to Guyana today. We...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

MV Barima COI in ICU

Oct 11, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – I want to give the MV Barima Commission of Inquiry (COI) the space of grace. How can I (any Guyanese)? Check its origins. Revisit some of its personnel. Chair Smith said that the COI will follow the evidence to hell and back. It’s hoped that he...

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