December 2018

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Softball action set for Ogle today

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball action set for Ogle today

Ogle Community Centre ground, East Coast Demerara will be hosting a four-team softball competition today starting at 09:30hrs. Regal Masters, Mike’s Wellman, Ariel Masters and Albion Masters will...

BCB/Berbice Rivers 30-Overs Tournament Wiruni defeat Sandhills Friendship by four wickets to claim championship – 19th Tournament completed for 2018

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Berbice Rivers 30-Overs Tournament Wiruni defeat Sandhills Friendship by four wickets to claim championship – 19th Tournament completed for 2018

The Berbice Cricket Board on Thursday last hosted a historic final at the Albion Cricket Ground between Sandhills Friendship Cricket Club and Wiruni Cricket Club in the BCB/Berbice River 30-Overs...

SHOPPING TIPS FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on SHOPPING TIPS FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON

With less than a month to Christmas Day, the shopping hype has already begun for the holiday season in Georgetown and the other commercial districts across Guyana. Usually this is the time when...

Call made to address ‘unacceptable’ teenage pregnancy rate

Dec 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Call made to address ‘unacceptable’ teenage pregnancy rate

The Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation [PAHO/WHO] on Friday handed over the Situational Analysis [SITAN] of Adolescent Health in Guyana and simultaneously voiced a call...

40 Region Two youths graduate from BIT’s first boat building programme

Dec 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 40 Region Two youths graduate from BIT’s first boat building programme

By Kiana Wilburg Forty young men and women recently graduated from the Board of Industrial Training (BIT)’s inaugural boat programme. It was delivered in St. Monica and Kabakaburi in Region Two....

Smalta girls’ peewee football South, West, North and St. Pius make final four

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smalta girls’ peewee football South, West, North and St. Pius make final four

Defending champions South Ruimveldt Primary School continue their impressive showing in this year’s Smalta girls’ under-11 peewee football tournament after beating Enterprise 4-2...

100 Guyanese being targeted for pilot risk assessment study -in quest to determine vulnerability to renal failure

Dec 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 100 Guyanese being targeted for pilot risk assessment study -in quest to determine vulnerability to renal failure

A total of 100 individuals are being targeted to determine their vulnerability to renal failure. The venture is one that will see the Doobay Medical and Research Centre [DMRC] collaborating with...

In a dark Kwakwani room -Can you help the police to catch Paulette Wade’s killer?

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on In a dark Kwakwani room -Can you help the police to catch Paulette Wade’s killer?

By Michael Jordan On the night of October 25, 2018, Paulette Wade’s six-year-old daughter awoke to find the family’s Kwakwani Park, Region Ten home in darkness. Lying next to her three-year old...

The Story Within The Story… A pandit, a pastor and a rotten system

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… A pandit, a pastor and a rotten system

By Leonard Gildarie I should say that nothing can surprise me anymore. The media business is designed to do exactly that, but you learn after a while to deal with it. Yet it appears more and more...

Maintenance worker charged for robbery

Dec 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Maintenance worker charged for robbery

A 27-year-old maintenance worker was on Friday remanded to prison after he was charged for robbery. Adam Duncan denied the charge that was read to him by Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the...

Indomitable Journalist Adam Harris, A.A. is a ‘Special Person’

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Special Person Comments Off on Indomitable Journalist Adam Harris, A.A. is a ‘Special Person’

Pull Quote: “You have to read; I always tell people you have to read. Read everything you can put your hands on because when you read, you expand your vocabulary, you expand your knowledge...

Volda Lawrence merely made public what others do

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Volda Lawrence merely made public what others do

Volda Lawrence is the Chairperson of the People’s National Congress. She defeated the likes of Joseph Harmon and the incumbent, Basil Williams. That was how she became the news last week. She was...

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

A raid by the Guyana Revenue Authority on an East Coast Demerara location would discover a cache of smuggled goods. The strange thing is that every article would appear to bear the stamp of the GRA....

‘Us’ versus ‘them’, constitutional reform & shared governance

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ‘Us’ versus ‘them’, constitutional reform & shared governance

Talks of constitutional reform and shared governance are doing the rounds again, in what have become sporadic and less than straightforward discourses anytime political power is believed to be...

Bernardo Bertolucci: Existentialist film, existentialist song

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bernardo Bertolucci: Existentialist film, existentialist song

In one of my columns, seven years ago (Sunday, July 17, 2011) captioned, “Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris,” I wrote the following; “In 1972, one of cinema’s phenomenal...

Ectopic Pregnancy: There is a high risk of death if its undetected

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux Comments Off on Ectopic Pregnancy: There is a high risk of death if its undetected

An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy which is not in the normal place (the womb). Ectopic means ‘misplaced’. It occurs in about 11 in 1,000 pregnancies and is one of the leading cause of...

Minister Lawrence’s rhetoric is a recipe for losing in 2020

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Minister Lawrence’s rhetoric is a recipe for losing in 2020

First, Minister Lawrence’s comments must be contextualized. They come in the wake of the massive defeat of the PNC at the Local Government elections, which I have dubbed a mini-general election....

Scotiabank scoots

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Scotiabank scoots

The Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Guyana are becoming uneasy; they have both expressed concerns over the proposed sale of Scotiabank’s local operations to Republic Bank. The...

$52.2B is a serious investment in our Youth

Dec 02, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on $52.2B is a serious investment in our Youth

Budget 2019 made big news throughout last week with every media house reporting on the multi-facets, multi-benefits, multi programmes designed to grow the Guyana economy, a country that hovers on the...

A Christian mission aborted on the tip of a poisoned arrow

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A Christian mission aborted on the tip of a poisoned arrow

By Dennis Nichols For the past two weeks the internet has been all abuzz with the story of a failed one-man effort by a young American ‘missionary’ named John Chau, to spread the Christian gospel...

We have kept, and continue to keep our promises

Dec 02, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We have kept, and continue to keep our promises

From the fall of the Peoples Progressive Party-PPP- in May 2015, Guyanese have been fed a daily dose of cynicism, criticism, doom and gloom, via its ‘one-man-band’ Bharrat Jagdeo. Daily, the...

Book Review…From Ruins to Wholeness

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…From Ruins to Wholeness

Book: This Is For You Author: Angel Castillo Critic: Dr. Glenville Ashby In her first published work, Angel Castillo proves her salt as a writer of enviable range. At the outset, Castillo paints a...

Interesting Creatures… Black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis)

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis)

The black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) is a mainly South American hummingbird species. It is 10.2 cm long and weighs 7.2g. The longish black bill is slightly de-curved. The tail in...

CARICOM MUST BE ACTIVE ON HAITI

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on CARICOM MUST BE ACTIVE ON HAITI

By Sir Ronald Sanders Haiti continues to be an unsettled country politically. Demonstrations against successive governments have become almost normal, and so too, tragically, are the deaths...

The Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council.

Dec 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council.

Dear Editor, The Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council’s new members were recently installed, with the Chairperson being a female educator. As a resident and tax payer I would like to...

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National Schools Athletics Championships returns to Linden in 2027

Aug 27, 2026

…Championship set for March 3 – 5 By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – The National Schools Athletics Championships will return to Linden for the first time in nearly two decades, with the 2027...

Burnham’s dream of self-sufficiency ended in insufficiency

Aug 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a particular species of political nostalgia that thrives in countries with short memories. It takes yesterday’s failures, dusts them with the language of national purpose, places them beneath a portrait of the departed leader and calls the result a vision. This is...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

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...

Change eating habits

Aug 27, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali means well. I wonder, though, whether he is serious. Or, if he takes himself seriously. I put it gently. He should listen to himself. The parts of his speeches that are not AI influenced. (Follow-up planned). Change eating...

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