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Education for the next generation

Education for the next generation

Sep 08, 2019 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Education for the next generation

(Excerpts from an address by HE David Granger) Indigenous Heritage Month celebrates not only the history of Guyana’s indigenous peoples but, also, their destiny. History is important but no one...

Cognitive behavioral therapy: It stabilizes your mind

Cognitive behavioral therapy: It stabilizes your mind

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cognitive behavioral therapy: It stabilizes your mind

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave....

Govt. Consultant changes draft Local Content Policy to suit foreign companies -Energy Dept. hides document from general public, only sends it to select few to peruse

Govt. Consultant changes draft Local Content Policy to suit foreign companies -Energy Dept. hides document from general public, only sends it to select few to peruse

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. Consultant changes draft Local Content Policy to suit foreign companies -Energy Dept. hides document from general public, only sends it to select few to peruse

By Kiana Wilburg When Trinidadian Consultant, Anthony Paul had completed the second draft of Guyana’s Local Content Policy back in May 2018, several provisions were included to ensure preferential...

National budget activities on hold – Harmon

National budget activities on hold – Harmon

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National budget activities on hold – Harmon

The preparations of the 2020 National Budget have been placed on hold as of now. The disclosures were made Friday by Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon. He disclosed...

Draft Policy…Minister’s approval not necessary for foreign companies’ local content plans

Draft Policy…Minister’s approval not necessary for foreign companies’ local content plans

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Draft Policy…Minister’s approval not necessary for foreign companies’ local content plans

The third and current draft of the Department of Energy’s local content policy leaves much to be desired. So far, Kaieteur News has uncovered a series of issues in the policy which essentially...

Repairs started, supplies distributed after Mahdia’s freak storm

Repairs started, supplies distributed after Mahdia’s freak storm

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Repairs started, supplies distributed after Mahdia’s freak storm

Less than 24 hours after a freak storm accompanied by heavy rainfall ravaged through the town of Mahdia, Potaro-Siparuni (Region 8), residents and officials are receiving help. According to the Civil...

NRGI’s criticisms of natural resource fund act are ill-informed – Finance Minister

NRGI’s criticisms of natural resource fund act are ill-informed – Finance Minister

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on NRGI’s criticisms of natural resource fund act are ill-informed – Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, has come out against certain criticisms made by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in its report on Government’s Natural Resource Fund Act. That Bill...

Jagdeo: We will never accept March 2020 timelines -countrywide protests to resume

Jagdeo: We will never accept March 2020 timelines -countrywide protests to resume

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo: We will never accept March 2020 timelines -countrywide protests to resume

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) commissioners from both of the country’s leading parties on Friday announced that March 2020 would be the earliest possible time for General and Regional...

GRA acquires state lands to prepare monitoring facilities for oil sector

GRA acquires state lands to prepare monitoring facilities for oil sector

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA acquires state lands to prepare monitoring facilities for oil sector

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has acquired 2.75 acres of State land in Eccles for the construction of wharf facilities to monitor onshore and offshore oil and gas activities. Kaieteur News...

Increased need for dialysis prompts Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital to subsidize cost

Increased need for dialysis prompts Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital to subsidize cost

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Increased need for dialysis prompts Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital to subsidize cost

-working patients will soon be accommodated on Sundays Subsidized dialysis is now being offered at the Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital (DBSH). The privately operated East Street hospital in making the...

Holder goal holds up for Guyana against Aruba

Holder goal holds up for Guyana against Aruba

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Holder goal holds up for Guyana against Aruba

Willemstad, Curacao – Guyana picked up a 1-0 win over Aruba to kick off action in Group C of League B in the Concacaf Nations League group stage on Friday night at the Ergilio Hato Stadium in...

GISE, Star Party Rental & Trophy Stall cricket… Johnson’s ton highlights GCA’s div 1 resumption

GISE, Star Party Rental & Trophy Stall cricket… Johnson’s ton highlights GCA’s div 1 resumption

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GISE, Star Party Rental & Trophy Stall cricket… Johnson’s ton highlights GCA’s div 1 resumption

By Sean Devers On a day blessed with glorious sunshine, Guyana Jaguars Captain Leon Johnson lit up Bourda with a masterful unbeaten century to put GCC in a commanding position against UG on the...

Cabinet approves $205M in solar systems contracts

Cabinet approves $205M in solar systems contracts

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $205M in solar systems contracts

In keeping with the government’s Green State Development Strategy (GSDS) Vision 2040, the Cabinet has moved forward with its approval of several contracts for solar systems. Approval was...

Limacol football tournament… Buxton and Conquerors secure round 1 wins

Limacol football tournament… Buxton and Conquerors secure round 1 wins

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol football tournament… Buxton and Conquerors secure round 1 wins

The fourth annual Limacol Football tournament continued on Friday evening at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on Carifesta Avenue with two more matches in the group round-robin phase. Both...

CANU appeals Magistrate’s decision to dismiss ecstasy charge

CANU appeals Magistrate’s decision to dismiss ecstasy charge

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CANU appeals Magistrate’s decision to dismiss ecstasy charge

Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) prosecutor, Narrissa Leander, has filed an appeal against Senior Magistrate Leron Daly’s decision to free a 26-year-old man who was charged with possession of...

Corporate Guyana roars with ‘Golden Jaguars’

Corporate Guyana roars with ‘Golden Jaguars’

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corporate Guyana roars with ‘Golden Jaguars’

With one day before Guyana plays its first of three home matches of the Concacaf Nations League (CNL) against Jamaica at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, corporate Guyana has noted the...

Wiltshire Dominoes tourney on today at MMZ

Wiltshire Dominoes tourney on today at MMZ

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire Dominoes tourney on today at MMZ

Senior Organising Secretary of the Georgetown Dominoes Association Mark Wiltshire will be hosting a tournament today at Ravo Shop, Masjid Street, Met-en-Meer Zorg, West Coast Demerara. The entrance...

Kriskal Persaud wins Inaugural A. Ally and Sons, Berbice Rapid Chess Open

Kriskal Persaud wins Inaugural A. Ally and Sons, Berbice Rapid Chess Open

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kriskal Persaud wins Inaugural A. Ally and Sons, Berbice Rapid Chess Open

Berbician Kriskal Persaud made full use of home advantage to win the first ever A. Ally and Sons Berbice Rapid Chess Open 2019 Competition, organised by the Berbice Chess Association (BCA). Persaud,...

Kings of Studies 2 expected to exceed expectations

Kings of Studies 2 expected to exceed expectations

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kings of Studies 2 expected to exceed expectations

It will be football fever when the second semester of the University of Guyana (UoG) commences as the second annual edition of the ‘Kings of Studies’ one-day football competition is schedule to...

One day four teams cricket Competition on today at Rose Hall Town

One day four teams cricket Competition on today at Rose Hall Town

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on One day four teams cricket Competition on today at Rose Hall Town

A four-team one day cricket competition organised by a number of concerned groups in the Lower Corentyne area is set for today at the Area H Ground Rose Hall Town. This competition will be a 10/10...

GSCL Inc launches 3rd Prime Minister’s T20 Cup

GSCL Inc launches 3rd Prime Minister’s T20 Cup

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc launches 3rd Prime Minister’s T20 Cup

By Zaheer Mohamed The Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc, on Friday last, launched the third edition of its Prime Minister’s T20 Cup at the GNIC SC, Woolford Avenue. The tournament which...

Charity vendors to remove structures from drainage trench by Thursday

Charity vendors to remove structures from drainage trench by Thursday

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Charity vendors to remove structures from drainage trench by Thursday

The Neighbourhood Democratic Council in Charity on the Essequibo Coast recently issued a notice dated September 5th, advising the removal of persons vending over a silted trench. The trench that has...

Hero CPL and Republic Bank to raise funds for hurricane Dorian relief efforts

Hero CPL and Republic Bank to raise funds for hurricane Dorian relief efforts

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hero CPL and Republic Bank to raise funds for hurricane Dorian relief efforts

The Hero Caribbean Premier League will be working with Republic Bank to raise funds to support those who have been affected by Hurricane Dorian. This will be known as the “6 for 6” campaign with...

UCCA annual Inter Secondary School U17 hardball cricket to commence Tuesday

UCCA annual Inter Secondary School U17 hardball cricket to commence Tuesday

Sep 08, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on UCCA annual Inter Secondary School U17 hardball cricket to commence Tuesday

After being postponed due to the prolong inclement weather the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) U17 cricket competition for schools in the Upper Corentyne and Black Bush areas is set to...

$65M La Parfaite Harmonie Police Station commissioned -Improved security expected

$65M La Parfaite Harmonie Police Station commissioned -Improved security expected

Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $65M La Parfaite Harmonie Police Station commissioned -Improved security expected

Residents of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara were in high praise Friday as a spanking new police station valued some $65M was commissioned with the intent to beef up security in that area...

Uncertainty clouds Golden Jaguars’ Head Coach position as Barbados showdown approaches

Uncertainty clouds Golden Jaguars’ Head Coach position as...

Nov 05, 2024

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports- With less than two weeks before the Golden Jaguars meet Barbados in back-to-back encounters that could shape their Gold Cup destiny, the Guyana Football...

Greaves makes history with magnificent 151* to lead Hurricanes to seven-wicket win over Red Force

Greaves makes history with magnificent 151* to...

Nov 05, 2024

Dominica’s Olympic champion Thea LaFond-Gadson awarded nation’s highest honour

Dominica’s Olympic champion Thea LaFond-Gadson...

Nov 05, 2024

Julien Alfred named finalist for World Track Athlete of the Year among elite group of Olympic champions

Julien Alfred named finalist for World Track...

Nov 05, 2024

Junior Sinclair replaces Kevin Sinclair in the CG United Super 50 Cup 2024

Junior Sinclair replaces Kevin Sinclair in the CG...

Nov 05, 2024

Hamilton Green KO Football Championship starts Friday

Hamilton Green KO Football Championship starts...

Nov 05, 2024

Fingerprinting and Finger-Pointing

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- No one, not even the staunchest supporters of Guyana’s electoral process, would claim... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Jagdeo the genius, genie- don’t ask what kinds

…Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- When Guyana’s former (and still) president, Bharat Jagdeo is acclaimed... more