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Shiv Chanderpaul All-Weather practice facility

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shiv Chanderpaul All-Weather practice facility

GCB hands over facility to Everest, 3 more to be built By Sean Devers The rainy conditions yesterday at the Everest Cricket Club failed to put a damper on a simple but significant handing ceremony of...

Berbice River man on trial for 2015 murder of Jamaican national

Jan 15, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice River man on trial for 2015 murder of Jamaican national

A man who is accused of killing a Jamaican national during April 2015, up the Berbice River, is on trial for murder. Quacy Walker, of Kimbia, Berbice River, is on trial before Justice Simone Ramlall...

Samaroo is best batsman; Joseph takes best bowler prize at Ogle CC awards

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Samaroo is best batsman; Joseph takes best bowler prize at Ogle CC awards

Andrew Samaroo and Ayodha Joseph took the best batsman and bowler accolades when the Ogle Cricket Club held its annual awards ceremony on Sunday last. The ceremony, which was also held to commemorate...

Good Success and Sans Souci register victories

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Good Success and Sans Souci register victories

Good Success and Sans Souci recorded victories when play in the Wakenaam Cricket Committee/Bel Air Rubis and Trophy Stall T20 competition continued on Sunday last at the Wakenaam Community Centre...

GTT recognises longstanding employees

Jan 15, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTT recognises longstanding employees

Fifteen employees at the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) were recognised for their stellar contributions to the company over the past 25 years. The telephone company presented the...

Turbo Football Tournament GFC to face Rangers in replay of last year’s final

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turbo Football Tournament GFC to face Rangers in replay of last year’s final

By Calvin Chapman It was decades since Georgetown Football Club (GFC); the mecca of football in the city, had won a senior football title, but their coach, Delon Cadogan, was confident that the duck...

Deceit in the AFC election list: Region Five rebels

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Deceit in the AFC election list: Region Five rebels

My PNC source was 1000 percent reliable so I did not need to check other sources. On Sunday, I was informed that long standing AFC activist who is legal advisor in the Ministry of the Presidency,...

Congratulations are in order for the GFF, Lady Jags and Technical Team

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Congratulations are in order for the GFF, Lady Jags and Technical Team

By Franklin Wilson The New Year (2020) which also welcomed the advent of a new decade has kicked off with welcome news for the Guyana Football Federation and the nation by extension with the...

A calculated leak?

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A calculated leak?

The one about ‘economies of scale’ is a new one, a good one. Except that it is upside down, for it sounds more accurately like diseconomies of scale. But where do these justifiers and defenders...

Indigenous Company Brings January Cheers to Senior Citizens

Jan 15, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Indigenous Company Brings January Cheers to Senior Citizens

A number of senior citizens from the Belladrum community were brought good cheers Sunday last, compliments of SBF Petroleum. SBF Petroleum is a Guyanese-owned business, under the directorship of...

The body of Basil Butcher for viewing in Linden today

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on The body of Basil Butcher for viewing in Linden today

The body of the late Berbice, Guyana and West Indies batsman Basil Butcher, who died on December 16 at age 86, will be at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground for viewing from 2.00pm to 4.00pm...

Archer qualifies for NJCAA indoor championships

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archer qualifies for NJCAA indoor championships

Overseas based Guyanese student-athlete, Joanna Archer, has gotten her season off to a fantastic start by resetting Monroe College’s 500m indoor record during her scintillating run at the...

Massive transformation in Angoy’s Avenue in last four years

Jan 15, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Massive transformation in Angoy’s Avenue in last four years

Massive transformation has taken place in Angoy’s Avenue, (which was once known as Cow Dam) and was once considered the most depressed community in New Amsterdam, Berbice. This transformation has...

Abu Dhabi approves US$8M loan from Abu Dhabi for 5.2Mw hinterland solar project

Jan 15, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Abu Dhabi approves US$8M loan from Abu Dhabi for 5.2Mw hinterland solar project

Guyana is to build a 5.2 megawatt grid-connected solar system for the hinterlands, via a loan from Abu Dhabi. According to the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and the International Renewable...

Deferral of a suspension?

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deferral of a suspension?

DEAR EDITOR, I have read with some hilarity, but mostly considerable repugnance a recent report in the press of the formal suspension of the Georgetown Municipality’s Treasurer by the Local...

Why I stand with Ruel Johnson and The Citizenship Initiative

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why I stand with Ruel Johnson and The Citizenship Initiative

DEAR EDITOR, I’ve known Mr. Ruel Johnson, local author and public figure, for about 15 years now. Our initial interaction stemmed from Ruel providing some critical reviews about the graphics on my...

Ministry responds to concerned resident

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ministry responds to concerned resident

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) to respond to a letter published by Kaieteur News in the Tuesday, 14th January, 2020 edition which was inked by a concerned...

The current Administration’s attitude and level of openness towards the sugar industry is bleaky

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The current Administration’s attitude and level of openness towards the sugar industry is bleaky

Dear Editor, Trade Unionist, Mr. Lincoln Lewis in his letter which appeared in the January 12, Kaieteur News weighed in on the attitude of the Government to sugar workers. Of course, as Mr. Lewis...

First Oil Cocktails

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on First Oil Cocktails

DEAR EDITOR, On Friday, the 17th of January, the Department of Energy within the Ministry of the Presidency and the Stabroek Block Co-Venturers are having a Cocktail party at the Marriott Hotel to...

Some candidates repel rather than attract voters

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some candidates repel rather than attract voters

DEAR EDITOR, The electoral race is officially on as of last Friday. It is too early to say what the odds are for each of the two major parties and of the minor parties to win seats. But voters find...

“Yuh ain’t nuttin but ah teaser…”

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on “Yuh ain’t nuttin but ah teaser…”

DEAR EDITOR, The West Indian composer of that song said it best with those lyrics that can still electrify: “yuh ain’t nuttin but ah teaser, ah dirty, dirty teaser…” I am so energised...

Attacking the messenger rather than the message

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attacking the messenger rather than the message

DEAR EDITOR, In responding to both Tony Vieira and myself on the subject of broadcast coverage of the political parties contesting the elections, Mr. Enrico Woolford has indulged in ad hominem...

We are forfeiting most of our oil wealth; we should create an altogether different future

Jan 15, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are forfeiting most of our oil wealth; we should create an altogether different future

DEAR EDITOR, As Guyana continues to avoid solving longstanding and ingrained problems; as the political and business elites of all stripes continue to keep the majority suffering and poor, all this...

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The clock and the cloud

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Time, as the ancients knew, is a trickster. It slips through the fingers of kings and commoners... more