October 2019

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WDFA Senior League Western Pumas, Pouderoyen and Uitvlugt Warriors win

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on WDFA Senior League Western Pumas, Pouderoyen and Uitvlugt Warriors win

Play in the West Demerara Football Association’s (WDFA) Senior League continued last weekend with two matches each on Saturday and Sunday at the Goed Fortuin Community Center ground. On Saturday,...

St. Pius SC overcome Flying Stars by three runs to win Circle Tennis title Region Three Visionary Youth Club Cancer Awareness Tourney

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on St. Pius SC overcome Flying Stars by three runs to win Circle Tennis title Region Three Visionary Youth Club Cancer Awareness Tourney

Saint Pius Sports Complex defeated Flying Stars United Force to win the final of the Region Three Visionary Youth Club Cancer Awareness (Pinktober) competition. Playing at the Lookout Playfield, East...

Panthera Solutions donate $300,000 to RHTY&SC Charity Programme

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Panthera Solutions donate $300,000 to RHTY&SC Charity Programme

“We at Panthera Solutions are very impressed with the high standard of work of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS, especially your efforts to keep youths away from social ills. As a new...

Spring tide advisory ―CDC urges residents in low-lying areas to take precautions

Oct 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Spring tide advisory ―CDC urges residents in low-lying areas to take precautions

Residents in low-lying areas are urged to stay alert and take all necessary precaution as Guyana will experience unusual high tides over the weekend. An advisory issued by the Civil Defence...

Social Protection Ministry intervenes in Blairmont protest – dispute to be addressed at conciliation

Oct 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Ministry intervenes in Blairmont protest – dispute to be addressed at conciliation

The Department of Labour of the Ministry of Social Protection on Tuesday afternoon invited the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to a...

Racist attitudes in the milieu

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Racist attitudes in the milieu

Not many say so in public view. It is a different time, with mainly careful correctness raging. People and expressions are craftier; the underground is the safest ground from which to operate. But no...

Ansa McAl sponsors GTT Pintober walk this Saturday

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ansa McAl sponsors GTT Pintober walk this Saturday

The annual GTT Pinktober 5k/10k walk and run event gets underway this Saturday from 05:30hrs at Durban Park. To this end, Ansa McAl Trading through its ‘ICool Water’ along with ‘Always Feminine...

Allicock to headline Terrence Alli Nat. Open Boxing C/Ships

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Allicock to headline Terrence Alli Nat. Open Boxing C/Ships

By Sean Devers Caribbean Bantamweight champion ‘Lightning’ Keevin Allicock will the headliner at the Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) Terrence Alli National Open which will be held at...

Power holders love power, will never share it

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Power holders love power, will never share it

Guyanese have four months to decide how they are going to vote. Since 1957, only two parties have been in power with two occasions producing partnerships that didn’t diminish the overall control of...

Chung’s Global Enterprise support Mackeson/Rawle Toney 3X3 Basketball Classic

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chung’s Global Enterprise support Mackeson/Rawle Toney 3X3 Basketball Classic

Chung’s Global Enterprise, one of the country’s leading Construction companies yesterday threw their support behind the November 9-10 Mackeson/Rawle Toney 3X3 Basketball Classic, which will be...

Immigrants- a feared and despised group, a needed one

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Immigrants- a feared and despised group, a needed one

Illegal Guyanese immigrants are feeling the sharp pinch. ICE has increasingly assumed the menaces of a feared American Gestapo. The very acronym (ICE) is now enough to induce running. As the US...

Creditinfo Guyana offering Advanced Credit Reports for FREE during this week

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Creditinfo Guyana offering Advanced Credit Reports for FREE during this week

DEAR EDITOR, In order to assist individuals become more aware of their current credit profiles, Creditinfo Guyana is offering Advanced Credit Reports for FREE during the week of October 21 to October...

Masses of people are on the move in several countries around the world

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Masses of people are on the move in several countries around the world

DEAR EDITOR, People in those countries have become totally fed up, disgruntled, frustrated and angry with those who hold power or, with others who, like barnacles, want to cling to power. The people...

Two troubling customer service issues

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Two troubling customer service issues

DEAR EDITOR, There are two troubling customer service issues to which I wish to draw attention. One is about the Republic Bank Limited ATM machines and the other is what I believe to be an illegal...

A Robin’s song

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Robin’s song

DEAR EDITOR, I was taken aback by a letter,” The ultimate confidence- trick” written by Robin Singh in KN October 17th. This letter by Robin mirrors the ideology of the PPP –...

5 Lessons worthy of emulation

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on 5 Lessons worthy of emulation

DEAR EDITOR, There are a few lessons from the recently concluded elections in Canada that is worthy of emulation. The first is the speed with which the results were announced. Unlike Guyana where...

The people are fed-up, disgusted and impoverished

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The people are fed-up, disgusted and impoverished

DEAR EDITOR, The People’s Progressive Party Civic has been relentless in its condemnation of the ill-advised, improperly conceived and callously implemented policies in the Foresty Sector which...

Tropical forests are the major buffer against climate change

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tropical forests are the major buffer against climate change

DEAR EDITOR, Tropical forests are the major buffer against climate change, so burning them has a double impact on global heating. The only way to reduce climate warming will be to reverse the loss of...

Guyana’s oil revenue could end in as little as 10 years

Oct 24, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s oil revenue could end in as little as 10 years

DEAR EDITOR, At this time, it is my opinion that the oil industry in Guyana will come to an end within a relatively short time frame. I am an Environmental Scientist educated at the University of...

Gold miner and bandits shootout… Slain miner buried; suspect with bullet wound captured at E.C.D. roadblock

Oct 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner and bandits shootout… Slain miner buried; suspect with bullet wound captured at E.C.D. roadblock

Police captured Delon ‘Demon’ Morgan at an East Coast Demerara roadblock yesterday. Morgan was fingered as one of the bandits on the scene, attacking gold miner, Deon ‘Mow’ Stoll and his...

House-to-House data to be published from tomorrow – Commissioner

Oct 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on House-to-House data to be published from tomorrow – Commissioner

The encoding of the House-to-House data has been completed, and the process of its publication by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for public scrutiny will begin tomorrow. This was revealed to...

Missing son turns up in court on murder charge

Oct 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Missing son turns up in court on murder charge

In September a woman told Kaieteur News that her 20-year-old son, Ijhfar John, of Lot 109 ‘A’ Field Sophia, Georgetown, was missing since August 6, 2019, after he left home and never returned....

Accused in KN grenade attack… Slapped with gun, ammo and drug charges

Oct 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Accused in KN grenade attack… Slapped with gun, ammo and drug charges

Alfie Garraway, an accused in the Kaieteur News 2016 attempted grenade attack is now facing three new charges after his Lodge home was searched and an illegal firearm, ammunition and a quantity of...

Deadline for completion of ECD roads project extended to Old Year’s Day

Oct 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Deadline for completion of ECD roads project extended to Old Year’s Day

Citizens on the East Coast of Demerara will be driving in style on New Year’s Day 2020 with the completion of the East Coast Demerara Road Widening Project, according to officials of the Ministry...

Woman set alight dies… Attempted murder charge upgraded to murder

Oct 23, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Woman set alight dies… Attempted murder charge upgraded to murder

Twenty-five-year-old Wazim Perreira of North Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was left baffled yesterday, after his attempted murder charge was upgraded to a murder charge. The victim has succumbed to her...

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Mehidy magic (4-23), headline Warriors 6-wicket cakewalk win over...

Sep 12, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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