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Dragon Stout Community Cup opens tomorrow – fans in for another treat

Dragon Stout Community Cup opens tomorrow – fans in for another treat

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dragon Stout Community Cup opens tomorrow – fans in for another treat

With their appetites wet after witnessing one of the most enthralling final last Saturday, lovers of the indoor format will now turn their attention to the Dragon Stout Community Cup Knockout...

GCA closes cricket season for Christmas Holidays – GCC most consistent City team

GCA closes cricket season for Christmas Holidays – GCC most consistent City team

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA closes cricket season for Christmas Holidays – GCC most consistent City team

The Georgetown Cricket Associations (GCA) Competitions Committee has stated that the 2019 season is now closed for the Christmas holiday and the resumption, which is dependent on good weather, is...

Marlins Open Water Invitational – Las Cuevas Bay, T&T… Daniel Scott (gold), Raekwon Noel (gold), Stephen Ramkhelawan (silver), Stephon Ramkhelawan (silver) shine

Marlins Open Water Invitational – Las Cuevas Bay, T&T… Daniel Scott (gold), Raekwon Noel (gold), Stephen Ramkhelawan (silver), Stephon Ramkhelawan (silver) shine

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marlins Open Water Invitational – Las Cuevas Bay, T&T… Daniel Scott (gold), Raekwon Noel (gold), Stephen Ramkhelawan (silver), Stephon Ramkhelawan (silver) shine

Following their good showing at the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) Invitational Swimming Championship which concluded on Saturday last after four exciting days, members...

YBG Titan Bowl… Finalist decided following Saturdays intense action at CASH

YBG Titan Bowl… Finalist decided following Saturdays intense action at CASH

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on YBG Titan Bowl… Finalist decided following Saturdays intense action at CASH

The third day of play in the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) 10th Titan Bowl schools knockout basketball tournament bounced off at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) on Homestretch Avenue with the...

Mercury Fast Laners reward outstanding athletes

Mercury Fast Laners reward outstanding athletes

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mercury Fast Laners reward outstanding athletes

The Mercury Fast Laners Athletic Club has rewarded their athletes who have performed outstandingly at the recently concluded Guyana Teachers Union, Ministry of Education National Schools Athletics...

New $11M Orealla stelling critical development for riverine community

New $11M Orealla stelling critical development for riverine community

Dec 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New $11M Orealla stelling critical development for riverine community

For Indigenous communities in riverine areas Guyana, structurally sound stellings are critical. This need is emphasised for areas like Orealla in Berbice that have a high influx of visitors...

US-based Guyanese launch Diaspora group to tap Guyana’s oil wealth

US-based Guyanese launch Diaspora group to tap Guyana’s oil wealth

Dec 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on US-based Guyanese launch Diaspora group to tap Guyana’s oil wealth

As Guyana draws closer to first oil, more interest groups and business bodies have expressed interest in joining up in the nascent industry, the latest being formed in the Diaspora, aimed at...

UG rolls out integral human relations programme

UG rolls out integral human relations programme

Dec 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on UG rolls out integral human relations programme

The University of Guyana’s Academic Board and Council on Tuesday unanimously endorsed the roll out of an innovative and far reaching programme aimed at supporting exposure, dialogue and...

Republic Bank to reintroduce OneCard

Republic Bank to reintroduce OneCard

Dec 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank to reintroduce OneCard

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has proposed to reintroduce the Republic Bank OneCard. In his discussion and analysis of the Bank’s performance for 2019, contained in its annual report, Managing...

At least 27 teaching positions vacant in schools across Guyana

At least 27 teaching positions vacant in schools across Guyana

Dec 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on At least 27 teaching positions vacant in schools across Guyana

There are at least 27 junior teaching positions up for grabs in Secondary Schools across seven of the Administrative Regions of Guyana. Vacancies are available in Regions One, Three, Four, Six,...

What a Guyanese judge said about a murdered Mahaica woman

What a Guyanese judge said about a murdered Mahaica woman

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What a Guyanese judge said about a murdered Mahaica woman

Hafeeza Rohoman was murdered by her husband in Mahaica. Lakeram Harrinaraine pleaded guilty and Justice Jo-Ann Barlow did and said something that if the victim were related to me, I would have...

HOW DOES MY VOTE BENEFIT YOU?

HOW DOES MY VOTE BENEFIT YOU?

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW DOES MY VOTE BENEFIT YOU?

A great many worms are coming out of the woodwork as election nears. For many years, they have been in political obscurity, some in self-imposed exile, and now they are seeking redemption by doing...

Natural gas – the resource we may have to forego

Natural gas – the resource we may have to forego

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Natural gas – the resource we may have to forego

DEAR EDITOR, An article in KN, captioned, “ Oil company ready to talk natural gas…Local leaders without an inclusive plan – PSC”, may not be entirely truthful from the perspective of...

Department of Energy on the process employed for direct sale of the first 3 lifts of Guyana’s portion of first crude

Department of Energy on the process employed for direct sale of the first 3 lifts of Guyana’s portion of first crude

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Department of Energy on the process employed for direct sale of the first 3 lifts of Guyana’s portion of first crude

Georgetown, Guyana – (December 15, 2019): The Department of Energy (DoE) wishes to provide clarity and to debunk any uninformed comments and conspiracy theories circulating about the upcoming...

“The lesser of two evils” conundrum

“The lesser of two evils” conundrum

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on “The lesser of two evils” conundrum

DEAR EDITOR, I am not too sure from whose pen this “lesser of two evils” trope made its appearance in our political discourse. These words were used in a political context, and the unambiguous...

The world has become a small place for the corrupt

The world has become a small place for the corrupt

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The world has become a small place for the corrupt

DEAR EDITOR, The unusual request for a “Face-to-Face Meeting” with those interested in selling Guyana’s oil and Granger’s minions could be a brazen attempt to foster corruption. Brokers do...

Criteria for Evaluating Politicians and Political Parties

Criteria for Evaluating Politicians and Political Parties

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Criteria for Evaluating Politicians and Political Parties

DEAR EDITOR, We every so often forget that we are very rich people blessed with an abundance of wealth in the form of both natural and human resources. We therefore have a great responsibility of...

THE APNU+AFC HAS BETRAYED US

THE APNU+AFC HAS BETRAYED US

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE APNU+AFC HAS BETRAYED US

DEAR EDITOR, Everywhere you go in Guyana, people openly talk of how royally APNU+AFC shafted Guyana, with the Oil and Gas story being just another example of the daily shafting Guyanese get from...

These are my observations

These are my observations

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on These are my observations

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me to respond to Dr. Hinds’ 15th December 2019 column in the Kaieteur News captioned, “Rejecting the PPP’s twisted narrative.” Firstly, Dr. Hinds thesis was the PPP...

A different kind of schooling

A different kind of schooling

Dec 16, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A different kind of schooling

Long ago stories, chuckled at patronizingly today by many of the succeeding parental set, capture and convey the dread of children who observed teachers conversing with parents. This was even when...

Energy Dept. taking Guyana on dangerous adventure while President Granger asleep at the wheel – Ram

Energy Dept. taking Guyana on dangerous adventure while President Granger asleep at the wheel – Ram

Dec 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept. taking Guyana on dangerous adventure while President Granger asleep at the wheel – Ram

Chartered Accountant, Christopher Ram, is convinced that the Department of Energy is taking reckless decisions as these relate to the sale of Guyana’s oil. His comments come on the heels of a...

Guyana must not become another Angola; where President’s children got richer and citizens left poorer – Datadin

Guyana must not become another Angola; where President’s children got richer and citizens left poorer – Datadin

Dec 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana must not become another Angola; where President’s children got richer and citizens left poorer – Datadin

By Kiana Wilburg Angola, a South African nation with plush, tropical Atlantic beaches, is awash with natural resources. It has diamonds, iron ore, bauxite, uranium, and feldspar. But its greatest...

Kenya penalizes oil companies for inflated costs, other fiscal breaches…

Kenya penalizes oil companies for inflated costs, other fiscal breaches…

Dec 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kenya penalizes oil companies for inflated costs, other fiscal breaches…

While Guyana would not The Republic of Kenya has prescribed a series of penalties to be faced by oil companies for breaches of its Petroleum fiscal regime. The country, since facilitating the...

Bridging the information gap

Bridging the information gap

Dec 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bridging the information gap

The oil industry is new to Guyana. As such, Guyanese, including our politicians, are not fully au fait with the relevant facts necessary to make informed choices which can rebound to the benefit of...

Cop drowns, colleagues saved after boat capsizes in river

Cop drowns, colleagues saved after boat capsizes in river

Dec 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cop drowns, colleagues saved after boat capsizes in river

…group was en-route to drug eradication exercise An unfortunate mishap in the Berbice River has led to the unexpected death of a Corporal of Police attached at the Central Police Station. Dead is...

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Is the time saved worth the risk?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- A man once had a flight to catch. He left his home in Georgetown later than planned,... more

The Caribbean: Destined to Grin and Bear the Consequences of Its Self-Created Vulnerabilities?

By Sir Ronald Sanders For decades, many Caribbean nations have grappled with dependence on a small number of powerful countries... more

Who are the thugs and hooligans now (Part I)

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