January 2020

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17000 ID cards still to be uplifted from GECOM

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 17000 ID cards still to be uplifted from GECOM

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) still has 17000 identification (ID) cards on file which are to be collected. This was revealed by Public Relations Officer (PRO) Yolanda Ward. Ward gave an...

“Jail time is waste time”- Thief tells court

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Jail time is waste time”- Thief tells court

By Trishan Craig Yet another rare response was given by Levi Williams, who yesterday told a full court that, “Jail time is waste time.” He made this statement as he was being sentenced for...

EPA mulls closure of N/A, Byderabo landfills – alternative sites being sought

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA mulls closure of N/A, Byderabo landfills – alternative sites being sought

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving serious consideration to the closure of two landfills—the Esplanade in New Amsterdam and Byderabo in Cuyuni-Mazaruni. This comes after the...

Guyana advances to strengthen laws on child protection

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana advances to strengthen laws on child protection

The Attorney General’s Chambers and Ministry of Legal Affairs, in partnership with the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund...

Haitians appear in court on immigration charge

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Haitians appear in court on immigration charge

On Monday, the police arrested a group of Haitians who were caught on their way back to Guyana after attempting to enter Brazil without presenting themselves to an immigration officer in Guyana....

WBCA/Anil Lalsa Construction Co. two-day final re-scheduled

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on WBCA/Anil Lalsa Construction Co. two-day final re-scheduled

The West Berbice Cricket Association (WBCA) has re-scheduled the final of the Anil Lalsa Construction Company two-day tournament for next weekend. The final was set to commence on Saturday at Bush...

UWI T20 tourney in Trinidad

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on UWI T20 tourney in Trinidad

MSC All-Stars shoot down T&T Soldiers to march into semis A five-wicket haul from 25-year-old left-arm spinner Raj Nanan powered Guyana’s Malteenoes All-Stars to an eight-wicket win against the...

Seven Cubans fined for overstaying

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Seven Cubans fined for overstaying

Seven Cuban nationals yesterday found themselves before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for illegally overstaying in Guyana. Charged are Olga...

Savage Legends overcome HS Masters in T20 fixture

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Savage Legends overcome HS Masters in T20 fixture

Savage Legends defeated HS Masters by 17 runs when the teams collided in a T20 fixture on Sunday last. Savage Legends were asked to bat at Queen’s College ground and they mustered 144 for 5. Nadir...

3,000 acres mistake corrected in Official Gazette

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 3,000 acres mistake corrected in Official Gazette

– GPL director sues media houses Director of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Kirk Hollingsworth, has sued a number of media houses including Kaieteur News in excess of $50M. The former...

Turbo football tournament “We are not scared of anyone” – Nigel Denny

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turbo football tournament “We are not scared of anyone” – Nigel Denny

The semifinals of the third annual Turbo Knockout Football tournament is set for Sunday at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on Carifesta Avenue from 19:00hrs where Fruta Conquerors will clash...

Social Protection Ministry mulls review of labour laws

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Ministry mulls review of labour laws

Guyana’s human resource is key to moving the country forward, therefore the Ministry of Social Protection is mulling the review and drafting of an effective Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)...

Lindeners get to pay final respects to cricket legend Basil Butcher

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lindeners get to pay final respects to cricket legend Basil Butcher

Lindeners got the chance to pay their final respects to the late Berbice, Guyana and West Indies batsman Basil Butcher, who died on December 16 at age 86, yesterday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC)...

GTTA changes dates for National C/ships

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA changes dates for National C/ships

There has been a shift in the dates for the 2020 National Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championship, slated for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall later this month. The organising body, the Guyana Table...

Civil Aviation tests country’s readiness for emergency

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Civil Aviation tests country’s readiness for emergency

Aimed at assessing the readiness of the emergency services unit, a Search and Rescue (SAR) simulation exercise was yesterday held at the Eugene F. Correia Airport, Ogle. In the event of an aircraft...

Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh commits $1.3M to BCB for Coaching and Cricket Academy

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh commits $1.3M to BCB for Coaching and Cricket Academy

– Board raises $2.5M out of targeted $10M in two weeks The Berbice Cricket Board has already raised $2.5M worth of sponsorship in two weeks for 2020 as it forges ahead with its unmatched...

Waiakabra receives electricity for the first time

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Waiakabra receives electricity for the first time

What was once an unlit and dark community for decades is now a bright and fully powered community, for residents of Waiakabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. For the first time, residents of...

CWI’s PCL four day First-Class cricket Jaguar’s face-off with Pride in B’dos from today

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI’s PCL four day First-Class cricket Jaguar’s face-off with Pride in B’dos from today

By Sean Devers Five times defending Champions Guyana Jaguars oppose Barbados at the ‘Mecca’ (Kensington Oval) today in the second round of the CWI 2020 Regional First-Class season. The teams come...

The Soesdyke youth who tested Guyana’s First Oil

Jan 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The Soesdyke youth who tested Guyana’s First Oil

For Shivnarine Outar, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. The offshore laboratory technician, employed by Nalco Champion, was the first person to test the first sample of Guyanese crude oil as it...

BCB/Ramnaresh Sarwan Under-17 tournament

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Ramnaresh Sarwan Under-17 tournament

Rampersaud, Ramdehol and Pottaya shine as RHT Bakewell advances to final -To clash with Albion tomorrow Two of Berbice most promising youth cricketers, Jonathan Rampersaud and Ricardo Ramdehol, both...

BCB/Banks Beer Two Days Tournament

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Banks Beer Two Days Tournament

Albion, RHT Namilco Thunderbolt Flour, Tucber Park, Young Warriors advance to semis Albion, Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt, Tucber Park and Young Warriors have advanced to the semifinals of the...

2019: Nasty or ugly, sick or depressing or all four?

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 2019: Nasty or ugly, sick or depressing or all four?

Some unpalatable things happened in 2019 and they force us to look back to the criticisms, this columnist, many editorials of this newspaper and the Stabroek News, the opposition parties and many...

Dual citizenship

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Dual citizenship

What is really happening with dual citizenship? More specifically, what are those seeking local political office, who hold such dual citizenship, doing about relinquishing the foreign one? Or...

BCB Launches Nand Persaud Co Ltd/RHTYSC Female Cricket tournament

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB Launches Nand Persaud Co Ltd/RHTYSC Female Cricket tournament

“I would be the first to admit that we have failed our female cricketers by not arranging enough tournaments. One of the main problems is that Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS is the only...

What is wrong, or racially offensive about a political party warning its supporters about the ploy of tokenism?

Jan 16, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is wrong, or racially offensive about a political party warning its supporters about the ploy of tokenism?

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to an online news outfit’s headline story of January 13, “Phillips blasts Harmon over “PPP Token” remark” which contained, ‘‘The ERC pointed to several statements...

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Cornwall blitz, Shadab (4-13)/Muqeem (4-16) leave Warriors in panic...

Sep 18, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. ABF – Falcons book spot in finals, Warriors/Kingsmen battle tonight for last spot By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors choked their...

Whatever happened to this matter?

Sep 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something deeply troubling about the driver’s-licence saga in Guyana. And it is not simply the question of whether a few police officers may have done something wrong. It is the possibility that people are driving on our roads who were never properly tested, never...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Boycott- duh fuh duh nah obyah

Sep 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Hon Speaker of the House started the ball rolling. The wrong way. Neither time nor space for opposition in parliament. For months after the September elections, the machinery of parliamentary democracy couldn’t get cranking. The white people had to intervene so...

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