October 2019

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Morning Glory Cereal wins GNBS National Quality and Green Initiative Awards for Agro-Processing

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Morning Glory Cereal wins GNBS National Quality and Green Initiative Awards for Agro-Processing

– IAST Head encourages more use of local products by State entities By Kiana Wilburg After being in commercial operation for nearly two years, the locally produced Morning Glory cereal was...

GMR&SC 1320 Heat Rematch…‘Mad Dog’ win Unlimited bracket

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC 1320 Heat Rematch…‘Mad Dog’ win Unlimited bracket

Deryck ‘Mad Dog’ Jaisingh sped away with victory for team S&D Performance in his Jumbo Jet sponsored Toyota Supra when the curtains fell on the fourth and final Drag Race Meet of the Guyana...

CGI’s SBF Petroleum Jaguars 50-over League…Foo (86 & 2-20), Smith (4-54) break E’bo winning streak

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on CGI’s SBF Petroleum Jaguars 50-over League…Foo (86 & 2-20), Smith (4-54) break E’bo winning streak

Story and photos by Sean Devers in Berbice Watched by a fair size crowd which included President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Hilbert Foster, Johnathon Foo and Nial Smith conspired to propel...

Govt. appoints two more boards

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. appoints two more boards

A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Cabinet has appointed two more boards, according to the ordinary October 19, 2019 publication of the Official Gazette. These...

Citizen’s Bank/LGC Cancer Awareness Golf…Philanthropist Patanjilee Persaud excels

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Citizen’s Bank/LGC Cancer Awareness Golf…Philanthropist Patanjilee Persaud excels

It was a fabulous day of golfing on Saturday last as some international competitors, here for the premier Guyana Open International Invitational Golf Tournament teamed up with many top locals to...

Youths searched, gun butted at Stabroek Square

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Youths searched, gun butted at Stabroek Square

Yesterday, around 15:00 hours at the Timehri Bus Park, two ranks attached to the Stabroek Police Mobile Outpost during one of their exercises conducted a search on two young men at the said...

BCB/RHTY&SC 6th Annual Naeem Nasir Mem. T20…Six schools to participate

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/RHTY&SC 6th Annual Naeem Nasir Mem. T20…Six schools to participate

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) with support from the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) would be hosting the 6th Annual Naeem Nasir Memorial T20 tournament at the Area ‘H’ Ground...

Johnson century boosts Georgetown; wins for Upper Corentyne and West Demerara

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson century boosts Georgetown; wins for Upper Corentyne and West Demerara

Georgetown, Upper Corentyne and West Demerara registered victories when play in the Cricket Guyana Inc. / SBF Petroleum 50-over Franchise League continued yesterday. At Bourda, Georgetown led by a...

Truck driver found dead in overturned truck

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver found dead in overturned truck

A truck driver was found dead, yesterday, in an overturned oil tanker. According to reports, 34-year-old Etto DeFreitas, of Kuru Kuru Village, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, who was the driver of an...

Bandits assault, rob young Port Mourant couple – four in custody

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits assault, rob young Port Mourant couple – four in custody

Four persons including a woman are in police custody along with a car, at the Whim Police Station following information provided to the police that the quartet was involved in an armed robbery...

Driver in No. 76 Village fatal hit-and-run arrested; car found at spray shop

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Driver in No. 76 Village fatal hit-and-run arrested; car found at spray shop

Police in Springlands, Berbice have arrested a 33-year-old hire car driver for his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred at Number 76 Village, Upper Corentyne Saturday afternoon....

Group created to prevent African Swine Fever from reaching Guyana

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Group created to prevent African Swine Fever from reaching Guyana

A Standing Group of Experts on African Swine Fever (SGE-ASF) has been created to maintain the status of Guyana being free from the African Swine Fever (ASF). This comes as a result of the spread of...

Trinidad-born attorney at Law sworn in to precise in Guyana

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad-born attorney at Law sworn in to precise in Guyana

The people and the courts of Guyana are set to benefit from the service of newly sworn in Attorney-at-law, Grace Bhagwandeen-Rajnauth. Ms. Rajnauth a Trinidadian by birth, is of Guyanese and...

Secondary School for Yarrowkabra

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Secondary School for Yarrowkabra

After years of pleading by residents, the construction of a secondary school in the community of Yarrowkabra along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway is in the making as the Ministry of Education is seeking...

Law says six-month warranty on applicable goods – CCAC Director

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Law says six-month warranty on applicable goods – CCAC Director

Dawn Cush, Attorney-at-law and Director of Guyana Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC), has disclosed that if there is no expressed warranty on the product, then the law implies a...

Lennox Shuman, WPA, AFC and the constitution

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Lennox Shuman, WPA, AFC and the constitution

Under our constitution, you cannot have post-election coalition. I haven’t done the research but I suspect no other constitution denies this configuration. When the AFC and APNU became a united...

Man set fire to drinking buddy’s home

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man set fire to drinking buddy’s home

A family of five is now searching for alternative living arrangements after their home was allegedly set ablaze by someone known to them. The incident occurred on Friday around 11:30hrs at...

Berbice conman outsmarts friend in boat engine deal

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice conman outsmarts friend in boat engine deal

USA-based Guyanese businessman, Thakur Parsaram, is the latest victim to be allegedly outsmarted by a Berbician conman in a supposed speed boat engine sale deal that reportedly went sour....

19 persons arrested during police raid

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 19 persons arrested during police raid

A total of 19 persons were arrested on Saturday between 04:30hrs and 08:30hrs, when police officers swooped down on three East Bank Demerara villages and raided several homes. The homes were...

Mahaicony Secondary School receives US$8,000 science boost

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony Secondary School receives US$8,000 science boost

Just recently the Mahaicony Government Secondary School (MGSS) received a donation of a quantity of science related equipment to further enhance their Science IT Laboratory. This was yet...

Public Procurement Commission hosts open day for practitioners

Oct 21, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Procurement Commission hosts open day for practitioners

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) held an open day event on October, 10, 2019 at its office building at New Garden Street, Queenstown, Georgetown. The open day allowed the procurement...

Cash transfer will not happen

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cash transfer will not happen

DEAR EDITOR, When Professor Thomas made his cash transfer proposal public, he knew he would be throwing the cat among the pigeons. After all, Professor Thomas is a walking, talking economics...

Eradicate the cancer of racial prejudice

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Eradicate the cancer of racial prejudice

DEAR EDITOR, The fact that a deep racial divide exists in Guyana between citizens of Indian descent and those of African ancestry is well known. However, unfortunately, the fact that Indigenous...

Dissolving Parliament would render the Cabinet ineffective

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dissolving Parliament would render the Cabinet ineffective

DEAR EDITOR, According to the Guyana Constitution under the Section 50, the Supreme organs of democratic power in Guyana shall be: (1) the Parliament (2) the President and, (3) the Cabinet Further,...

For the young and restless voter

Oct 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on For the young and restless voter

DEAR EDITOR, Except for the elections of 1953 which marked the arrival of universal adult suffrage in Guyana, all subsequent elections were driven by ethnic-based hysteria. However, in 2015, a...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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