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Motorsport 2019: Constant rise of drag racing in Guyana

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Motorsport 2019: Constant rise of drag racing in Guyana

By Calvin Chapman Barring horseracing that is perennially heavily subscribed and the regional phenomenon that is the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), local motorsport is quickly growing to be one of...

Day-two Practice match Hemraj & Johnson score tons on final day

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Day-two Practice match Hemraj & Johnson score tons on final day

By Sean Devers Centuries from 26-year-old Chanderpaul Hemraj and his 32-year-old Skipper Leon Johnson spearheaded Johnson’s X1 to a first innings lead over Anthony Adams’ X1 who made 244 in their...

I beg for an investigation into my son’s death

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I beg for an investigation into my son’s death

DEAR EDITOR, I’m writing this letter in connection with my son’s death. I recently lost my son, Ryan Taylor, a geologist who was employed by Troy Resources. He was working the night shift...

Albion through to Semi-Final of Ramnaresh Sarwan U-17 50 overs cricket tournament

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Albion through to Semi-Final of Ramnaresh Sarwan U-17 50 overs cricket tournament

Albion Community Center Cricket Club (ACCCC) defeated Blairmont Community Center by 18 runs to book their place in the semi-finals of the Ramnaresh Sarwan U-17 50 Overs Cricket Tournament in Berbice....

Drone strike – Looking into the abyss

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Drone strike – Looking into the abyss

Call it whatever suits outlook and fits calculations: response to multiple provocations, dangerous escalation, preemptive neutralising strike, or act of war. Whichever it is, the bottom line is this:...

My feet are firmly placed in the political dynamic to ‘Change Guyana’

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on My feet are firmly placed in the political dynamic to ‘Change Guyana’

DEAR EDITOR, The article written by Freddie Kissoon in Kaieteur News dated December 23, 2019 and captioned “Some Small Political Parties are Reckless”, where Mr. Kissoon throws up...

9 Political parties must speak out against racists, silence is not an option

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on 9 Political parties must speak out against racists, silence is not an option

DEAR EDITOR, Every political leader, every political party in Guyana has an absolute obligation to speak out and reject racists and racialism every time these persons or these incidents make their...

CRG and the 2020 elections

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on CRG and the 2020 elections

DEAR EDITOR, Today I was notified by GECOM that my name was not on the list of voters. I had reached out to GECOM concerning this issue prior and had not received a response and therefore rechecked...

Security for Guyanese

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Security for Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, We have been informed of the course of action that Exxon could unleash on a country that is not cooperating. Would it not be in Guyana’s interest that we impose a visa restriction...

A test of democracy

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A test of democracy

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU/AFC regime was clinching to straws with their legal challenges to stave off the December 2018 No-Confidence vote and set a date for General Elections as per Constitution for a...

I maintain that Ambassador Ten Pow submitted his resignation

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I maintain that Ambassador Ten Pow submitted his resignation

DEAR EDITOR, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has seemingly succumbed to what I can term “Granger’s disease” – an inability to understand language that needs no gloss. On the...

Encounters on the first working day of 2020

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Encounters on the first working day of 2020

As each year closes, it is customary for humans in all countries to say to themselves, and to others, that the new year should see greater efforts by all peoples around the world to make their...

GPHC, back to the drawing board on this one

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPHC, back to the drawing board on this one

DEAR EDITOR, We refer to the article in Kaieteur News, December 28, 2019, “40 Nurses at GPHC now fluent in French and Spanish”. We wish to question both the accuracy of the headline and the...

Badal roasts President Granger on his “Decade of Development” slogan

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Badal roasts President Granger on his “Decade of Development” slogan

DEAR EDITOR, In his New Year’s Day message, President Granger outlined that his Coalition’s plan for the next decade is based on four pillars, The Green State, The Digital State, The Petroleum...

Only an adequately qualified person should be selected to head GFC

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only an adequately qualified person should be selected to head GFC

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Kaieteur News article of Saturday Dec 28th 2019 on the subject that GFC Commissioner departs after 21 yrs. Indeed James Singh served the GFC and sector well. Moving on, there...

Guyana holds the cards for non-stop NY flights

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana holds the cards for non-stop NY flights

– Caribbean Airlines says it has met all the regulatory requirements Trinidad and Tobago-controlled Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is calling on Guyana and the US to clear the hurdles which will...

IDB tempers Guyana’s projected growth in 2020 from 86% to 39%

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on IDB tempers Guyana’s projected growth in 2020 from 86% to 39%

Echoes IMF that majority of wealth will leave the country By Kemol King The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has posited that Guyana will experience economic growth of 39 percent in 2020. That...

ExxonMobil’s project in Papua New Guinea is an economic parasite

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil’s project in Papua New Guinea is an economic parasite

“Exxon’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in the highlands of Papua New Guinea provides a distressing case study of large-scale economic parasitism.” That is the view of a former Australia...

Five New Year’s babies grace New Amsterdam Hospital

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Five New Year’s babies grace New Amsterdam Hospital

—Several more expected While many were welcoming the New Year, the doctors and nurses at the New Amsterdam Hospital were kept busy as five babies made their entrance into a new decade. First-time...

6,535 unverified registrants can have undue influence on elections outcome — Nandlall

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 6,535 unverified registrants can have undue influence on elections outcome — Nandlall

People‘s Progressive Party, (PPP) Executive Member and Attorney -at- law, Anil Nandlall, believes that the inclusion of 6,535 unverified new registrants on the Revised List of Electors,(RLE) can...

Foreign Ministry denies Ten-Pow resigned as UN ambassador

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Ministry denies Ten-Pow resigned as UN ambassador

…Guyana takes over as chair of Group of 77 Guyana has taken over as chair of the influential Group of 77 developing countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also disclosed that Ambassador Rudolph...

Fight over 14-year-old girl… One dead, one hospitalized, one remanded and one on the run

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fight over 14-year-old girl… One dead, one hospitalized, one remanded and one on the run

A fight between four males over a 14-year-old girl has left one remanded to the juvenile holding center, one in hiding, one hospitalized and one dead. Remanded was 17-year-old boy who was not...

Two dead, several injured in four accidents

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two dead, several injured in four accidents

By Shikema Dey It appears as if the road madness from 2019 has seeped into the New Year. 2020 was met with four accidents; two of which were fatal and the reminder leaving several injured. Those dead...

Corruption crippling rich Nigeria

Jan 03, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Corruption crippling rich Nigeria

The World Bank find that de money Nigeria collect from selling its energy is only fuh a select few. Dem boys seh that energy money is Nigeria’s wealth. Is de same World Bank helping Guyana develop...

Oil does end

Jan 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Oil does end

Carl Greenidge in his Christmas Day letter made a frantic attempt to debunk the link between oil and debt in Africa. In so doing, he missed some important metrics. For example, he argued that the...