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Bankers ‘bombard’ Guyana with financing plans as oil boom begins: finance minister

Jan 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bankers ‘bombard’ Guyana with financing plans as oil boom begins: finance minister

By Luc Cohen; Additional Reporting By Neil Marks GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – Bankers are “bombarding” Guyana with offers of financing backed by future oil production, the finance minister told...

2020 Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2020 Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship

Final preparations begin, 47 players training in Guyana and Canada Final preparations have begun in earnest in Guyana and Canada as Coach Ivan Joseph and his staff prepare for the 2020 Concacaf...

Angola pleads for help to claw back assets lost to corruption

Jan 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Angola pleads for help to claw back assets lost to corruption

LONDON (Reuters) – Angola is seeking other countries’ help to recover state funds lost because of corruption, Minister of State for Economic Coordination Manuel Jose Nunes Junior said on...

Sixth KARES Caribbean Fitness Challenge Event #1 revealed as registration closes

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sixth KARES Caribbean Fitness Challenge Event #1 revealed as registration closes

A potentially exciting and riveting 6th annual Kares Caribbean Fitness Challenge, under the theme: ‘Bring Out The Beast In You’ is set to unfold at the National Park Tarmac in just over two weeks...

Inspections of oil and gas vessels on the rise

Jan 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Inspections of oil and gas vessels on the rise

With the advent of the oil and gas sector, the Maritime Administration is exercising its regulatory duties over vessels operating within a new industry; since there has been an increase in the number...

Diamond United FC retains Orein Angoy as President

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond United FC retains Orein Angoy as President

History was created on Monday evening last when the Diamond United Football Club elected nine (9) women in an 11-member executive committee that will govern the affairs of the club for the next two...

BCB/Ivan Madray Memorial 20/20 Tournament final

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Ivan Madray Memorial 20/20 Tournament final

Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour hold nerves to defeat Albion by five runs The No69 Ground was almost filled to capacity and those present at the venue were very fortunate to witness one of...

Outside looking in and inside looking out

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Outside looking in and inside looking out

The politicians will tell you that the country’s oil belongs to all Guyanese. But the scenes inside and outside of the Marriott Hotel last Friday were contrasting. The bigwigs of government and the...

PPP could have provided a scientific fulcrum for Charran’s decision

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on PPP could have provided a scientific fulcrum for Charran’s decision

The two electoral systems of Proportional Representation (PR) and First Past the Post (FPTP) or constituency representation, each have strong validities. Space would not allow for a discussion of the...

BCB/Stag Beers 50 Overs Cricket Tournament

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Stag Beers 50 Overs Cricket Tournament

RHT Namilco Thunderbolt Flour defeat Tucber Park by 58 runs to lift Championship Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour First Division team continued their dominance of Cricket at that level with...

All workers must be treated justly, equitably and fairly

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on All workers must be treated justly, equitably and fairly

DEAR EDITOR, The GAWU cannot fail to offer a response to Mr Lincoln Lewis’ letter which appeared in the January 19 edition of the Kaieteur News. We agree fully when Lincoln says that “[s]ugar is...

Violating protected space

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Violating protected space

This is happening too frequently for comfort. No civilized, 21st century society should have any patience or the slightest tolerance for incidents of violent conduct by parents inside school...

Lesser Antilles under-18 3×3 prep begins next weekend

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lesser Antilles under-18 3×3 prep begins next weekend

Technical Director (TD) of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), Junior Hercules, in an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport has shared that training will begin next weekend for the...

Breaking with the past and creating an altogether different future for Guyanese

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Breaking with the past and creating an altogether different future for Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, Mr. Jan Mangal’s letter in Kaieteur News of 15 January 2019, has prompted me to pen these thoughts which I have mused about for some time. Coming from a mixed racial background and...

The Diamond/Grove Magistrates’ Court will bring a lot of relief

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Diamond/Grove Magistrates’ Court will bring a lot of relief

DEAR EDITOR, The new year start resolutely right, where the justice administration is working towards betterment. A spanking $132 million new Magistrates’ Court house in the Diamond/Grove, East...

I insist on free and fair election, please!

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I insist on free and fair election, please!

DEAR EDITOR, Now that electioneering is in full swing, I am surprised that the same old narrative is being heard, including the word “comrade”. I have a single issue for the new political...

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO TRUST

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on IT ALL COMES DOWN TO TRUST

DEAR EDITOR, I observe the behaviours of one new contestant or another in the run-up to elections, and there is much that is incomprehensible, so much that is of the undesirable and the distasteful,...

No answer from NIS on retroactive payment to pensions

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on No answer from NIS on retroactive payment to pensions

DEAR EDITOR, The two announcements by the National Insurance Scheme that NIS Pension Benefit would be increased from 1st January 2020 made no mention of retroactive payments due to Pensioners for the...

Give your wells time to adjust

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Give your wells time to adjust

DEAR EDITOR, As an oilfield engineer of many years working in oil and gas circles in 11 different countries, I was a little surprised by the article on how much oil and gas you can expect to see from...

If only we can get a President that can be selfless

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on If only we can get a President that can be selfless

DEAR EDITOR, Please allow me space in your very informative letter column to pen a few lines about a documentary and a movie I watched based on the life of a former President of a country right here...

It would be beneficial for all the small/new parties to grasp this opportunity

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It would be beneficial for all the small/new parties to grasp this opportunity

DEAR EDITOR, I write to appeal to the leaders of all of our New/Small parties to recognize that they have a glorious opportunity to make history in our country. With the realization that our current...

The silent victims of Domestic Violence

Jan 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The silent victims of Domestic Violence

Dear Editor, Over the past week we have read of the most recent incident of domestic violence which concerned a 34-year old mother of three who was stabbed to death by her reputed husband. Sadly,...