October 2019

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Remove the No Entry barricade as the law prescribes

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remove the No Entry barricade as the law prescribes

DEAR EDITOR, Who is responsible for placing and removing the No Entry barricade (road block) across the road at high bridge La Pentience Market Georgetown in the vicinity of Guyana National Printers...

When an illegal entity vainly tries to become legal

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on When an illegal entity vainly tries to become legal

DEAR EDITOR, The PNC Led Coalition is vainly trying to regain a legal status in this country and they are doing this in the most despicable of ways, that is, trying to coerce The Opposition to attend...

Correct these issues for future activities

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correct these issues for future activities

DEAR EDITOR, I request your indulgence and publication as I share my thought with your newspaper in reference to the successes of Mr. Bobby Ramroop and the Amazon Warriors. The dry weather game...

Such behaviour can be a factor in our getting future games

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Such behaviour can be a factor in our getting future games

DEAR EDITOR Online news sites are abuzz of the less than gracious reception which greeted TKR Captain, Pollard, as he made his way out to the middle in the CPL Eliminator game against STKNP on Sunday...

GECOM’s Chairman and CEO should present themselves to be interviewed

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM’s Chairman and CEO should present themselves to be interviewed

DEAR EDITOR, On Sunday last, I saw an American network television interview with the Head of the Broward County Elections Commission in Florida responding to questions about the competence of the...

What is being done to protect the rights of citizens?

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is being done to protect the rights of citizens?

DEAR EDITOR, During the PPPC’s era, I’ve penned numerous letters about my disapproval of things happening in Guyana. With full support behind the coalition, I even encourage everyone I...

Ramkarran Deserves the Presidency

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramkarran Deserves the Presidency

DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to “Ralphie get he plaything at last” (KN Oct 6). Finally, Mr. Ramkarran has been anointed the Presidential nomination of a political party. It is long overdue and...

Teamwork and improved performance is a reflection of good management

Oct 08, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Teamwork and improved performance is a reflection of good management

DEAR EDITOR, After reading the recent article on GuySuco’s poor performance it is becoming very evident that the company needs to improve the management team. Four facilities is all they need...

Oil spill from Exxon’s Payara field would significantly affect Venezuela, Trinidad, other islands – EIA

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Oil spill from Exxon’s Payara field would significantly affect Venezuela, Trinidad, other islands – EIA

By Kiana Wilburg ExxonMobil and its partners, Hess Corporation and CNOOC/NEXEN, have stepped up the pace for securing a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start...

Crude Lifting Agreement to remove opportunities for abuse – Energy Dept. Head

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Crude Lifting Agreement to remove opportunities for abuse – Energy Dept. Head

Energy Department Head, Dr. Mark Bynoe, has indicated to this newspaper, that the Crude Lifting Agreement still has a few issues to be ironed out but it is close to completion. During an...

Jagdeo warns int’l agencies about disbursing funds to an “illegal” Govt.

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo warns int’l agencies about disbursing funds to an “illegal” Govt.

Leader of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C), Bharrat Jagdeo, has issued a call to international agencies to desist from further funding the projects of the “illegal”...

Local Content Policy…Guyana should consider ‘right to refusal’ of foreign suppliers in certain cases

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy…Guyana should consider ‘right to refusal’ of foreign suppliers in certain cases

– Former GCCI President Former President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar, has suggested that Government should consider implementing the ‘right to...

19 years later Prison Service continues fight for risk allowance and insurance

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 19 years later Prison Service continues fight for risk allowance and insurance

Director of the Guyana Prison Service (GPS), Gladwin Samuels, made a call for risk allowance and life insurance to be made available to his staff. According to Samuels, the working environment for...

$20M Creative Industries Fund distributed to 15 small business owners

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $20M Creative Industries Fund distributed to 15 small business owners

Small business entrepreneurs who own cultural and creative projects were on Monday, finally shortlisted and awarded grants in various amounts at the Main Street office of the Ministry of...

GRA expanding regional operations

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA expanding regional operations

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is taking steps to improve and harmonise the provision of its services throughout the country. In its Corporate Strategic Plan 2019-2021, the tax-collector...

King hit royal unbeaten 132 as Warriors qualify for 5th final

Oct 07, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on King hit royal unbeaten 132 as Warriors qualify for 5th final

By Sean Devers In a fantastic atmosphere with Warriors flags being waved joyously and a raucous capacity crowd dancing in the stands, Warriors romped to a 31-run win against Tridents at Providence to...

Eliminator 1 Hero CPL T20…. TKR advance to Qualifiers with six-wicket win over Patriots

Oct 07, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eliminator 1 Hero CPL T20…. TKR advance to Qualifiers with six-wicket win over Patriots

By Sean Devers Defending Champions Trinbago Knight Riders will have to do it the hard way if they hope for a successful title defence and began their journey to a fourth possible final with a...

Highest number of women killed by their partners in the last two yrs was stabbed to death

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Highest number of women killed by their partners in the last two yrs was stabbed to death

According to statistics obtained from the Ministry of Social Protection, the highest number of women in domestic violence related killings met their demise as a result of being stabbed to...

Limacol Football Tournament… Santos and Fruta Conquerors to contest final

Oct 07, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Football Tournament… Santos and Fruta Conquerors to contest final

The final of the fourth annual Limacol football tournament will be contested on Saturday at the Ministry of Education (MOE) Ground, Carifesta Avenue when it would be a clash of the Under-20s, Santos...

PPP radio, TV stations challenge legality of broadcast authority board

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PPP radio, TV stations challenge legality of broadcast authority board

Representatives of Multi Technology Vision, (MTV) and the People Progressive Party, (PPP)-aligned Freedom Radio have moved to the Court to challenge the legality of the Guyana National Broadcast...

Republic Bank Invitational – Suriname… Guyana’s golfers were looking good after opening day

Oct 07, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Republic Bank Invitational – Suriname… Guyana’s golfers were looking good after opening day

The opportunity was still there for the eight male and three female Guyanese golfers to chase glory as champions on day one of two of last weekend’s annual Republic Bank Invitational Golf...

Lennox Blackmore Nat Intermediate C/Ships… FYC’s Halley shines on night two as GDF dominate

Oct 07, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lennox Blackmore Nat Intermediate C/Ships… FYC’s Halley shines on night two as GDF dominate

Story and photos by Sean Devers Talented 18-year-old Shemar Halley, the best boxer at July’s National Novices Boxing Championships, continued to impress when he handed the GDF its only loss on...

Drunken driver kills Houston resident

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken driver kills Houston resident

Police are investigating the circumstance surrounding the death of 26-year-old Bonita Sugrim of Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The woman met her demise Saturday night around 21:30hrs after...

Courts Pee Wee Football Tourney… Final round of group matches completed

Oct 07, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Courts Pee Wee Football Tourney… Final round of group matches completed

Defending champions St. Pius Primary that had racked up 17 goals in their opening two round-robin matches did not get a chance to exercise that form on match day three last Saturday at the Ministry...

GPHC implements initiatives to better serve the public – CEO

Oct 07, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC implements initiatives to better serve the public – CEO

To ensure better service is rendered, and to downsize waiting time for patients, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently embarked on several exercise geared at bettering...

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(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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