January 2020

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Appeal court to hear arguments for Irfaan Ali fraud case

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal court to hear arguments for Irfaan Ali fraud case

Yet another adjournment was granted to People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali, in relation to the 19 fraud charges leveled against him. Yesterday when the...

U.S. student-athlete accepted by NCAA College; Texas Tech

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on U.S. student-athlete accepted by NCAA College; Texas Tech

By Calvin Chapman Former South American Youth Games Gold medalist; Joanna Archer, is the latest Guyanese athlete to make it to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) circuit after being...

1,273 workplace complaints lodged at Labour Dept in 2019.

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 1,273 workplace complaints lodged at Labour Dept in 2019.

– 886 investigated and closed The Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour has investigated and closed 886 of the 1,273 workplace complaints it received in 2019. This was...

Guyana’s 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup qualification commence in March against Barbados

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup qualification commence in March against Barbados

Having earned a crucial draw against League B Group C winner, Jamaica in Reggae land, Guyana’s ‘Golden Jaguars’ which made its debut at the 15th edition of the Concacaf Gold Cup in the USA last...

JetBlue to start on April 2

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on JetBlue to start on April 2

Guyanese are expected to enjoy cheaper travel to the United States of America (USA) as JetBlue is set to commence direct nonstop flights from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) to the John...

Man assaults woman with icicle

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man assaults woman with icicle

Vishaul Persaud was yesterday ordered to pay a fine and to apologise to a woman after he went to a supermarket and assaulted her following a threat to kill her. It was alleged that he assaulted and...

The bourgeois and petty-bourgeois class and the decline of the Georgetown Cricket Club

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The bourgeois and petty-bourgeois class and the decline of the Georgetown Cricket Club

No government, past or present, can be blamed for the dilapidated state of the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC). The GCC is a private club; it is owned by the membership and it is this membership which...

WI over 50s descend in TT for four practice matches

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on WI over 50s descend in TT for four practice matches

With less than 60 days remaining for the West Indies Over-50 team to wing out for South Africa to take part in the second Over-50 World Cup being played there from March 11th to 25th, the team...

Barber charged for assault, granted bail

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Barber charged for assault, granted bail

An 80-year-old barber of East La Penitence Squatting Area, Georgetown, was yesterday released on $40,000, bail after he was charged for assaulting a woman who woke him from his sleep, in an...

Politics and protests

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Politics and protests

Overreaction? Too much sensitivity? Arranging a storm in a teacup? Or, reduced to its simplest terms: gotcha! Yes, it is about religion and constitution and separation of state from the spiritual....

Brian Ramphal donates $500,000 to BCB

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brian Ramphal donates $500,000 to BCB

– Sponsorship target of $10M for 2020 The Berbice Cricket Board has hit the ground running for the year 2020 as the vibrant and progressive county board seeks to build on its outstanding work...

Which sane voter is going to choose the AFC?

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Which sane voter is going to choose the AFC?

I believe there are two parties in this country that have to stop the moral sickness that characterises their so-called existence and do the right thing – accept that reality must be faced, history...

BCB/Banks Beer Two Days first division tournament

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Banks Beer Two Days first division tournament

3rd round matches to be played this weekend Albion, Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour already qualify for semifinals The historic Berbice Cricket Board/Banks DIH Ltd Banks Beer Two Days first...

2018 Auditor General Report seriously concerning

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on 2018 Auditor General Report seriously concerning

DEAR EDITOR, The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), as a leading voice of the nation’s workers, cannot help but be concerned and, obviously, very apprehensive about the...

Administration continuing to punish sugar

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Administration continuing to punish sugar

DEAR EDITOR, The GuySuCo in a statement which appeared in the media regarding its production lamented the performance of its factories at Uitvlugt and Albion. The Corporation, according to a January...

Right down the middle

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Right down the middle

DEAR EDITOR, On occasion, I am prompted to believe that I am the wisest one around here; and since that is far from accurate, I will settle for the sanest. For in the past few days of this New Year,...

Management mantra #1: “People are more important than shops, ships & sugar estates”

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Management mantra #1: “People are more important than shops, ships & sugar estates”

DEAR EDITOR, I joined the management team of Bookers Sugar Estates Ltd when this management mantra was originated by Sir Jock Campbell (later Lord Campbell of Eskan) as head of the Booker Group of...

On becoming Sir Clive Lloyd

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on On becoming Sir Clive Lloyd

DEAR EDITOR, It is with great consternation that I read a letter in the Kaieteur News from Professor Kean Gibson. Now I have seen previous correspondence by the learned Professor exhibiting a...

December 20, 2019 – the end of a long road in the search for oil

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on December 20, 2019 – the end of a long road in the search for oil

DEAR EDITOR, In the wee hours of December 20, 2019, it was announced that ExxonMobil had started to produce oil. “First oil” was the shout all around. This date ended a 62-year search for the...

PRO says… GECOM has no legal obligation to verify candidates’ eligibility

Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PRO says… GECOM has no legal obligation to verify candidates’ eligibility

Pull quote: “The onus is on the politicians themselves to ensure that they are honest on the statutory declaration form…as it stands GECOM has no legal obligation to verify the information.”...

Every Guyanese should be given a share in a National Oil Company – Robert Badal

Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Every Guyanese should be given a share in a National Oil Company – Robert Badal

Recently formed political party, Change Guyana’s Presidential Candidate, Robert Badal, is of the view that every Guyanese citizen should be assigned shares in a state-owned National Oil Company...

Another MMA/ADA chairman benefits from thousands of acres of state lands

Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another MMA/ADA chairman benefits from thousands of acres of state lands

The first post-2015 elections chairman of the Mahaica-Mahaicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA), Dr. Kenneth Sealey, also benefitted from state lands. According to documents of the...

Pensioner, 81, dies after struck down on pedestrian crossing

Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner, 81, dies after struck down on pedestrian crossing

The life of an 81-year-old woman was yesterday morning snuffed out after a car struck her down while she was on a pedestrian crossing. The incident which took place opposite the Post Office in Nigg...

Major offshore oil find in Suriname

Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Major offshore oil find in Suriname

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – CMC – The US-based Apache Corporation (AC) and the France-based Total S.A yesterday announced they had made a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well...

Woman’s declines to testify against CJIA deputy CEO

Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s declines to testify against CJIA deputy CEO

– Sexual assault case dismissed Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Andre Kellman, yesterday walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’...

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Regional finals headline fourth weekend of ExxonMobil U18 Schools...

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Regional and district finals will take centre stage as the Vurlon Mills Football Academy’s (VMFA) ExxonMobil Under-18 Schools Football competition continues from October...

Kwayana and Burnham

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In a video excerpt on his Facebook page, David Hinds said that one of the lessons of Kwayana, during ‘that’ period, was that he refused to compete with Mr. Burnham. One can only presume that he was referring to the period between 1961 and 1973. That statement could convey...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

Mr. President, I am disturbed at the disrespect

Oct 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What follows is personal. It extends every courtesy due to the office of the presidency in Guyana. Add to that, every care for the welfare of the incumbent, Excellency M. I. Ali. Due to the call of relationships, of duty, Pres Ali, from time to time, attends funerals in...

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