January 5, 2020

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Mike McCormack vs. the Alphonso Empire: I’m on Mike’s side

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mike McCormack vs. the Alphonso Empire: I’m on Mike’s side

I was born in an era where the prevailing zeitgeist was to philosophically question everything handed down to my generation. It was a period referred to as the counterculture. That age became to be...

Maternal waiting home for Moruca this year

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Maternal waiting home for Moruca this year

Construction of a maternal waiting home in Moruca, Region One, is slated to commence this year. It is expected to aid the improved delivery of health care offered to expectant mothers. This is...

NRF to collect production bonuses and profits from Oil Company

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NRF to collect production bonuses and profits from Oil Company

The Natural Resource Fund (NRF) legislation, an Act which was established to manage the natural resource wealth of Guyana for the present and future benefit of the people will collect several forms...

Two burnt bodies, one missing husband

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on Two burnt bodies, one missing husband

By Michael Jordan At around nine o’clock on the evening of Tuesday, July 18, 2006, John Elquemedo Hernandez took his new girlfriend, Fayon Williams, to meet his parents at their Bagotstown, East...

Maturity and the ‘silly season’

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Story within the Story Comments Off on Maturity and the ‘silly season’

By Leonard Gildarie So the dreaded time is upon us yet again. Yes, general elections. Within a few days, political parties and a few hopefuls will have to gather to submit lists of their names who...

High Court throws out libel case against Minister Broomes, KN

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on High Court throws out libel case against Minister Broomes, KN

A High Court Judge threw out a case filed against former President of the Women Miners Organisation (GWMO), Simona Broomes, and Kaieteur News by miner Compton Mendonza. The plaintiff had filed the...

Versatile and long-serving Stage Manager, Ansford Patrick is a ‘Special Person’

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Versatile and long-serving Stage Manager, Ansford Patrick is a ‘Special Person’

“Today I live and dream designing sets for theatrical work…people can just come with an idea in their head; they don’t even have to know the measurement, they just have to tell me what they are...

Jagdeo withdraws libel suit against Freddie Kissoon, KNews

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo withdraws libel suit against Freddie Kissoon, KNews

Former President Bharrat Jadgeo has withdrawn the $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News and its columnist, Freddie Kissoon, in which he claimed a newspaper article, portrayed him and his government...

The Baccoo speaks

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

It always happens. The holiday season comes and people go about their merry business while the police look over them. This makes life difficult for the criminals. And so it is that they get desperate...

Colin Mc Ewan Jr. is King of Orrin Boston and Friends Pull-A-Rama competition

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Colin Mc Ewan Jr. is King of Orrin Boston and Friends Pull-A-Rama competition

Colin Mc Ewan Jr. emerged champion (King) of Orrin Boston and Friends last Sunday 2019 Pull-A -Rama Dominoes competition which was contested recently at Turning Point. There was a prompt start to the...

ExxonMobil’s US$18M signing bonus earned $103M in interest- Audit Office

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil’s US$18M signing bonus earned $103M in interest- Audit Office

The Auditor General report of 2018 has revealed that $103M in interest was earned over a 26-month period from the US$18M signing bonus. The signature bonus was a controversial sum that Guyana agreed...

Commitment shown by players and staff brought the results – GDF Head Coach Joseph Wilson

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Commitment shown by players and staff brought the results – GDF Head Coach Joseph Wilson

By Franklin Wilson Head Coach of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Joseph Wilson is high in praise for the collective efforts of his players and staff as well as the management of the football club and...

Contest for OAS Secretary-General: The Caribbean’s interest

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Contest for OAS Secretary-General: The Caribbean’s interest

By Sir Ronald Sanders The contest for the post of Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) is now well and truly joined. The election for the post will be held on March 20, and...

It’s the dawn of a new decade and the race is on

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on It’s the dawn of a new decade and the race is on

We have entered a new decade, full of expectations – the hope for good things to come. However, a clear-eyed view of what currently exists indicates that the full involvement of citizens (the...

Top Shattas win three brothers Sports bar Inaugural Futsal tourney in Region one

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top Shattas win three brothers Sports bar Inaugural Futsal tourney in Region one

Watched by a fair sized crowd on a dazzling New Year’s night, Top Shattas FC did not disappoint their Fitzburg fans as they defeated Young Gunnerz FC 3-0 to claim the inaugural Three Brothers...

Immigration Questions & Answers

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration Questions & Answers

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community By Attorney Gail Seeram Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. We appreciate your...

Teams collide today in Hammie Green Birthday Inter-Ward football final at Leonora

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams collide today in Hammie Green Birthday Inter-Ward football final at Leonora

Teams are set to line up as they hunt places in the money round of the 9-a-side Inter-Ward Football Competition to commemorate the 85th Birth Anniversary of former Prime Minister and City Mayor...

Body of 7-year-old pulled from trench

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Body of 7-year-old pulled from trench

The lifeless body of seven-year-old Kayden Lucas was reportedly pulled from a trench last Thursday. The child who resided at Lot 74 Rosignol village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) was at a relative’s...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Time and Place

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Time and Place

This is my first column of the year. I deliberately choose to do it on a subject not directly related to the current election campaign for reasons I would explain in a subsequent column. In a few...

Review of Squash in 2019 2019 Senior CASA win for Guyana was highlight of the year

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Review of Squash in 2019 2019 Senior CASA win for Guyana was highlight of the year

By Sean Devers Guyana won the Men’s & Women’s team titles in addition to the Women’s Singles and Men’s doubles titles as they captured their fourth overall Championship in the 26th Senior...

East Canje man who beat villager in head jailed for nine years

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje man who beat villager in head jailed for nine years

Mohan Darapally, called ‘Rakish’ and ‘Brian’,32, a labourer of Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice has been sentenced to nine years in jail. He appeared before Justice Brassington Reynolds on a...

Olympic hopefuls depart for 3-month training in Cuba

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Olympic hopefuls depart for 3-month training in Cuba

Guyanese Olympic hopefuls, GDF’s pair of Colin Lewis (Captain) and Desmond Amsterdam, Policeman Dennis Thomas, Forgotten Youths Foundation’s (FYF) Keevin Allicock and Manager/ Head Coach Terrence...

Interesting Creatures… Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)

The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semi-aquatic rodent native to North America and an introduced species in parts of Europe,...

Fresh impetus in fight against climate emergency in the Caribbean

Jan 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fresh impetus in fight against climate emergency in the Caribbean

By Nelson A. King UNITED NATIONS (CMC) –The United Nations has hailed what it describes as “fresh impetus” in the fight against the climate emergency that has had disproportionate, negative...

GTTA National Senior and Junior C/ships set for this month

Jan 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA National Senior and Junior C/ships set for this month

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) and some key sponsors will stage the 2020 edition of the National Senior, Junior and Cadet...

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ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League Launches “Super We”

May 31, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s landmark global sports event, the ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League (GSL), will be celebrating cricket’s central role in Guyanese culture with the “Super...

The art of the scapegoat

May 31, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Imagine poor John (not his real name). John gets a good job. Not a rich man’s job, mind you, but a decent one. The kind that allows him to finally move out of rented accommodation and build a little stability for his family. The bank sees his appointment letter and offers...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Sluggish Integrity Commission filers

May 31, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK LALL (Kaieteur News) – It is a big number, those 231 Guyanese public officials who failed to file the required declaration of their assets before the Integrity Commission. The men and women whose names have been published by the Commission cover many spaces, high places. ...

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