January 2020

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Book Review… A Rigorous Challenge to Social Norms

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Book Review… A Rigorous Challenge to Social Norms

Book: You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity Author: Don McPherson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD ‘You Throw like a Girl’ offers an insightful look into western patriarchy. It is bold...

Ministry of Education donates steel pans to two Corentyne Secondary schools

Jan 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Education donates steel pans to two Corentyne Secondary schools

The Port Mourant Secondary School and the Skeldon High School both in Corentyne, Berbice were the recipients of steel pans, compliments of the Ministry Of Education. The items were recently handed...

AAG’s first developmental meet at GDF ground today

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on AAG’s first developmental meet at GDF ground today

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will be hosting its second and consecutive event of the year when the first Developmental meet speeds off this morning from 10:30hrs at the Guyana Defence...

UWI T20 Tourney Carmichael, Jacobs bowl All-Stars into Quarterfinals

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on UWI T20 Tourney Carmichael, Jacobs bowl All-Stars into Quarterfinals

In a truncated match on Friday night at the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Ground at UWI SPEC, Malteenoes All Stars beat home team Preysal by 89 runs on DLS system in the UWI-Unicom T20 tournament in...

The President and the environment

Jan 12, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The President and the environment

(A review of four books by David Granger – Air, Earth and Water: Protecting Guyana’s environment; Iwokrama: A university of biodiversity; The Green State. Environmental security and...

Mabaruma $264M solar farm still to generate power after one year of installation

Jan 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mabaruma $264M solar farm still to generate power after one year of installation

The Mabaruma solar farm which was constructed by Meeco Group of Germany for $264M was completed in November 2018. However due to various issues it has not been able to provide the services for which...

Kaieteur News Cartoon Jan 12 2020

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon Jan 12 2020

Resignation of Bolivia president

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Resignation of Bolivia president

Dear Editor, The interim President of Bolivia resigned after she was caught on camera in an immoral act in her private life. Politicians from around the globe were also known to resign from their...

A Third Force coalition will not make an impact in upcoming elections

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Third Force coalition will not make an impact in upcoming elections

Dear Editor, I notice that the smaller parties are talking of coalescing to form a “third force” and ANUG and Fed-Up are already at it; overall, this is a good sign for political maturity...

Only more chastisement

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only more chastisement

Dear Editor, The man of the cloth, or of “prayerful considerations”, his apparent new guide to his recent announcement of withdrawing from his bid for his party’s prime ministerial nomination,...

A one term government is possible

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A one term government is possible

Dear Editor, I do not know if a cycle of one term government is here to stay as suggested by Kaieteur News columnist “Peeping Tom”. But I do believe that the upcoming election in March will...

Responding to Badal – Guyana’s Decade of Development

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to Badal – Guyana’s Decade of Development

Dear Editor, On January 4th, 2020 in Kaieteur News, a letter to the Editor authored by one Robert Badal made accusations that the Collation Government has achieved nothing since 2015, and that the...

Responding to Kissoon’s article on Professor Gibson

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to Kissoon’s article on Professor Gibson

Dear Editor, Please this letter is in response to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s article “The African-Guyanese woman many Indians wrongly dislike” (January 11, 2020) Mr. Kissoon wrote: “Yesterday,...

Is GuySuCo’s management attempting to embarrass the Govt. by refusing to bargain with the unions ?

Jan 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is GuySuCo’s management attempting to embarrass the Govt. by refusing to bargain with the unions ?

Dear Editor, There continues to be condemnation, in the strongest possible terms, of GuySuCo management’s stubbornness to not engage in collective bargaining with the sugar unions in as much as the...

Thirteen parties enter 2020 elections race

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Thirteen parties enter 2020 elections race

Nomination Day 2020 kicked off with a loud and energetic start at the Umana yesterday, where 13 parties went to declare their lists of candidates to contest the March 2020 General and Regional...

Nominations Day… APNU+AFC list excludes Holder; PPP includes Datadin, Vieira and Indar

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nominations Day… APNU+AFC list excludes Holder; PPP includes Datadin, Vieira and Indar

The APNU+AFC has presented a list of candidates for the upcoming general elections. Led by the incumbent President David Granger, the APNU –AFC list included a number of coalition members who are...

Region Six paid 16 times more for medication

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six paid 16 times more for medication

– tells auditors it is “economies of scales” The Region Six administration in 2018 appeared not to be bothered by the price it was paying for drugs. According to the recently leaked Auditor...

Over $1B recovered in post exemption exercises – GRA Boss

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Over $1B recovered in post exemption exercises – GRA Boss

About four years ago, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) engaged in several activities which led to the significant reduction in the award of exemptions. In fact, the authority held several...

Newspaper vendor killed during home invasion.

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Newspaper vendor killed during home invasion.

A newspaper vendor who lives on the Essequibo Coast, was fatally shot last night, after armed bandits invaded his Queenstown home. According to reports, the now dead man has been identified as...

Airport’s ramp attendant fired for stealing US$8,000 from passenger’s luggage

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Airport’s ramp attendant fired for stealing US$8,000 from passenger’s luggage

A ramp attendant at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) has been fired after reportedly stealing US$8,000 from the luggage of an incoming female passenger. The incident occurred on Tuesday,...

28 traffic lights still inoperable due to stolen batteries

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 28 traffic lights still inoperable due to stolen batteries

Last September, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure had issued a statement outlining the vandalism and theft of 28 solar powered batteries for traffic lights across the capital city. All the...

Everything expose at Umana Yana

Jan 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Everything expose at Umana Yana

The official start to de elections was yesterday. Was de day when all dem who wish to be president prepare a list wid de names of people who gun sit in parliament and who gun be de president if dem...

The police cannot be trusted with fairly enforcing traffic regulations

Jan 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The police cannot be trusted with fairly enforcing traffic regulations

The police may have had justifiable reasons for escorting an APNU+AFC convoy of vehicles into the city. Given the fact that large contingents of supporters are moving back and forth attending the...

ABE countries commend GECOM operations on Nomination Day

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ABE countries commend GECOM operations on Nomination Day

“I am very satisfied that we are at this point and I congratulate GECOM for getting the nation to this point,” said United States Ambassador to Guyana, H.E. Sarah-Ann Lynch on the coordination of...

IT NEVER ENDS:

Jan 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on IT NEVER ENDS:

APNU+AFC and the PPPC arrived at the Umana Yana Yesterday with their supporters and left this behind! Who will clean this up?

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Golden Jaguars rout Dominica 8-1, close in on Gold Cup and League A

Oct 05, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Golden Jaguars moved to within touching distance of the 2027 Concacaf Gold Cup and promotion to League A on Sunday, producing a commanding 8-1...

Pinktober is here!

Oct 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The month of October is known as Cancer Awareness Month. And it is time that our nation takes a sober look at this disease and its effects. The statistics themselves tell us why the conversation matters. According to recent reports in the media, at least 704 Guyanese were...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

A national government as a national criminal enterprise

Oct 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Want to see the PPP Govt’s true colours? Expose it as the premier national criminal enterprise in Guyana and watch it go crazy. Want to watch the national leadership degrade in the worst way? Give it the public label of the region’s leading national criminal...

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