September 20, 2019 - Page 2 of 2

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Limacol Football Tournament Buxton pull off miraculous comeback on Wednesday

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Football Tournament Buxton pull off miraculous comeback on Wednesday

By Calvin Chapman Play in the fourth annual Limacol Football Tournament, part sponsored by W.J. Enterprise continued on Wednesday night at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on Carifesta Avenue...

Army will not withdraw from Kaikan

Sep 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Army will not withdraw from Kaikan

The army says it is not prepared to withdraw from Kaikan, a Region Seven community. The army is responding to a recent commentary in another newspaper which claimed that the presence of the Guyana...

Argentine Ambassador talks antimicrobial resistance assistance with Foreign Minister

Sep 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Argentine Ambassador talks antimicrobial resistance assistance with Foreign Minister

Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, His Excellency Dr. Felipe Alejandro Gardella, yesterday called on Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karen Cummings, to discuss...

Innovation America overcome Knight Riders in tape ball fixture

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Innovation America overcome Knight Riders in tape ball fixture

Innovation America defeated Knight Riders by four wickets and five overs to spare when the teams collided in a T20 in tape ball fixture recently at Thirst Park. Knight Riders, an India based team,...

GFF Youth Tournament Reports Available Online

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Youth Tournament Reports Available Online

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has made public the reports of its youth tournaments as the Federation seeks to enable transparency and accountability. The key tournaments, National U15, 17 and...

GTUC says TOTALTEC preventing workers from being unionized; company says not against unions.

Sep 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC says TOTALTEC preventing workers from being unionized; company says not against unions.

With every passing day, more foreign and local companies are rushing to be a part of Guyana’s oil and gas industry. Even as Guyana moves to the advent of first oil during the first half of 2020,...

BCB 80th Anniversary Celebration Deonarine, Campbelle and Kanhai to be honoured as Berbice greatest cricketers

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB 80th Anniversary Celebration Deonarine, Campbelle and Kanhai to be honoured as Berbice greatest cricketers

“We strongly believe in honouring our heroes and we want to do so while they are alive. Berbice cricket has been successful over the last eighty years due to the outstanding contributions and...

Environmental Activist to represent Guyana at inaugural UN Youth Climate Summit

Sep 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Environmental Activist to represent Guyana at inaugural UN Youth Climate Summit

Environmental Activist Suphane Dash-Alleyne will represent Guyana at the inaugural United Nations (UN) Youth Climate Summit which will be held in New York City on Saturday, September 21, 2019. The...

$170M Golden Grove Secondary school commissioned –Region four closer to phasing out all ‘primary tops’

Sep 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $170M Golden Grove Secondary school commissioned –Region four closer to phasing out all ‘primary tops’

The Golden Grove secondary school located on the East Coast of Demerara, 15 miles from Georgetown, was commissioned Thursday by Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry. The construction of the...

Chesney Cricket Club hosts Charity Programme to mark BCB 80th Anniversary

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chesney Cricket Club hosts Charity Programme to mark BCB 80th Anniversary

Chesney Cricket Club (CCC), a member club of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has joined hands with the BCB to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Guyana’s most dynamic cricket organisation. The...

Bel Air Rubis supports WCC T20 tourney

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bel Air Rubis supports WCC T20 tourney

Bel Air Rubis Gas Station of Public Road Bel Air has joined Trophy Stall Bourda Market in supporting the Wakenaam Cricket Committee for the staging of a T20 competition in the Essequibo river island....

September 18: Realpolitik governed past and governs present politics

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on September 18: Realpolitik governed past and governs present politics

The simplest way to define realpolitik without resorting to an academic-styled definition is to put it this way; John has legal power to cause the prime minister or the president of a country to lose...

The unending cycles of cynicism

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The unending cycles of cynicism

There was this opinion piece in the New York Times on August 25th, which is where things and people are in Guyana, as seen by Guyanese citizens. It was titled, “The shallow cynicism of...

“Beat Dem Bad’ Futsal tourney to be launched today, kick off next weekend

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Beat Dem Bad’ Futsal tourney to be launched today, kick off next weekend

The National Gymnasium that is located on Mandela Avenue and Princes Street will be a battlefield next weekend for Futsal teams as the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) Georgetown District...

Mr Granger has lost all authority to govern and Guyana has descended into anarchy

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr Granger has lost all authority to govern and Guyana has descended into anarchy

DEAR EDITOR, The announcement made by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission Justice Claudette Singh that her Commission and Secretariat would be ready to hold elections by February...

Who’s representing the students of the University when these decisions are made?

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who’s representing the students of the University when these decisions are made?

DEAR EDITOR, Somebody needs to be held accountable for this “decision.” Yesterday, the bus that took us to the University of Guyana was told to halt at the bus stop in the rain. The bus...

We need concrete solutions which are unique to our particular situation

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need concrete solutions which are unique to our particular situation

DEAR EDITOR, As Guyanese wait around on the political merry-go-round to grind out a date for the next elections, we are seeing: tensions rising and racial politics playing a greater role(as usual);...

Advocacy for a bipartisan parliamentary economic development committee

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Advocacy for a bipartisan parliamentary economic development committee

DEAR EDITOR, It is surprising that the government is considering moving in the direction of having ExxonMobil advise them on economic development. This is the same company that has taken advantage of...

Foreign diplomats trample upon Guyana’s sovereignty with impunity

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Foreign diplomats trample upon Guyana’s sovereignty with impunity

DEAR EDITOR, How much longer will Guyana be at the mercy of the AB countries that continue to say and do as they will in our country without any attached penalties? The current practices of the US...

A matured democracy…and then there’s Guyana

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A matured democracy…and then there’s Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, An interesting legal battle is currently taking place in Britain which will determine whether British Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unconstitutionally in dissolving Parliament mere...

The concept of development based on defensible analysis is missing in so many instances

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The concept of development based on defensible analysis is missing in so many instances

DEAR EDITOR, The failure of the Kitty Roundabout is further confirmation of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) and by extension, Minister David Patterson’s, inability to effectively...

Let the protests be peaceful; let all of us be responsible in our actions

Sep 20, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let the protests be peaceful; let all of us be responsible in our actions

DEAR EDITOR, I attended the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GM &SA) lunch yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel. There was a protest by some 200 or so people outside which was quite noisy...

PREV 12

Corbin century, fast-bowlers give CCC lead as champs face stern Day 3 test

What Guyanese leaders can learn from Donald Trump

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-There is little dispute that Donald Trump knows how to make an entrance. He does so without... more