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CSEC and CAPE, $1.2B for ICT, street robbers and police rapists

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on CSEC and CAPE, $1.2B for ICT, street robbers and police rapists

By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – The encouraging came late in the week from CXC visitors who arrived on our shores to share the good news. It was that Guyanese students recorded “higher than...

Pitch Square at National Stadium being resurfaced

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pitch Square at National Stadium being resurfaced

– Should be ready for ICC inspection The Pitch Square at the Guyana National Stadium is currently being resurfaced following a prolonged break in cricket locally. Works are ongoing on the...

Guyanese assured Miami Int’l Airport safe, efficient for passengers, cargo

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese assured Miami Int’l Airport safe, efficient for passengers, cargo

Kaieteur News – Guyanese can be assured that using the Miami International Airport (MIA) is safe and efficient for both passengers and cargo. This assurance was conveyed to Prime Minister Mark...

RHTYSC/BCB Joint Home Project Vitality Inc. constructing new home for BCB Office Assistant

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC/BCB Joint Home Project Vitality Inc. constructing new home for BCB Office Assistant

The long serving Office Assistant of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) would soon be moving into a new home, compliments of a joint initiative between the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club MS, BCB...

Guyanese psychotherapist focuses on dealing with mental health during the pandemic in new book

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese psychotherapist focuses on dealing with mental health during the pandemic in new book

Kaieteur News – Mental Health has become a pandemic within the pandemic. This is the perspective being shared by Guyanese clinical psychotherapist and author, Shane Mark Tull. Tull, through his...

NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour continue to sponsor RHTY&SC U-21 & 1st Div. Teams

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour continue to sponsor RHTY&SC U-21 & 1st Div. Teams

Sukhai hails performances on and off the field The National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) on Friday last renewed their sponsorship of the Under-21 and First Division Teams of the Rose Hall Town...

Green Machine makes it to the second round following mixed results

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Green Machine makes it to the second round following mixed results

RAN Sevens… Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Senior Men’s National Rugby Team; the ‘Green Machine’, began their quest to reclaim the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens title yesterday in...

East Bank Essequibo communities receiving improved water supply

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on East Bank Essequibo communities receiving improved water supply

Kaieteur News – Technological innovation by Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has resulted in some 15,000 residents from Farm to Parika on the East Bank of Essequibo receiving a significantly...

Golf Academy supports Cancer Awareness for 5th Year

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golf Academy supports Cancer Awareness for 5th Year

Five years ago, President of the Guyana Golf Academy/Nexgen Golf Academy Aleem Hussain engaged the Cancer Institute of Guyana and proposed that the sport be used as a vehicle for awareness and...

Poverty index reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups – UNDP

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Poverty index reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups – UNDP

– in 2019 51,000 people in Guyana were classified as vulnerable to multidimensional poverty Kaieteur News – Disparities in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups are consistently...

GOA contribute US$8,000 for Wong’s Training Camp

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA contribute US$8,000 for Wong’s Training Camp

Table Tennis player Miguel Wong, who will be representing Guyana at both the Panam Junior and Senior Championships next month, has benefited from a timely investment from the Guyana Olympic...

For the Caribbean, relations with the US and China is not one or the other

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on For the Caribbean, relations with the US and China is not one or the other

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – On October 12, more than a dozen representatives in the US Congress sent a letter to the US Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, asking for immediate...

GCB donate Kits To BCB Coaching Programme

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB donate Kits To BCB Coaching Programme

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on October 15 last donated a number of Coaching Kits to the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) for use in Coaching programmes throughout the Ancient County. On hand to receive...

Bartica pensioner burnt to death in home

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica pensioner burnt to death in home

Kaieteur News – An 81-year-old woman was on Friday burnt to death in her one-storey wooden and concrete home in Bartica, Region Seven after an unattended candle fell and started a fire. The...

‘Top-Tier Elegance & Online Shopping’ …Catering to your fashion needs

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Top-Tier Elegance & Online Shopping’ …Catering to your fashion needs

“I believe that young entrepreneurs play a crucial role in society, in that we help to create jobs and this contributes to the country’s growing economy.” By Allyiah Allicock Kaieteur News...

Former Finance Minister incensed at insinuations and innuendoes

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former Finance Minister incensed at insinuations and innuendoes

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter, “Time for Justice”, penned by H. Yusuf and published in Kaieteur News, October 16, 2021. An excerpt from the letter reads, “It boggles the mind that after all...

Former Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk … 80 years on

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk … 80 years on

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Veteran former Guyana Chronicle’s Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk celebrated his 80 birthday last month with his family but for someone who had served...

Kaieteur News Cartoon 10/17/2021

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Cartoons, News Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon 10/17/2021

Oil companies must release timely production data to foster transparency

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oil companies must release timely production data to foster transparency

Dear Editor, Imagine if you drive your car to an Esso gas station and fill your tank with US$27.20 in gas. Then, you decide to pay the cashier only US$20 for your gas and you walk out. The police...

Central Bank regulation of commercial banks nonexistent

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Central Bank regulation of commercial banks nonexistent

Dear Editor, I recall, sometime last year, the former Minister of Finance had reason to complain that commercial banks had restricted banking hours, while raising their fees for using their ATM...

Let there be STEAM, not just STEM; and more strength in Literature and Social Studies

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let there be STEAM, not just STEM; and more strength in Literature and Social Studies

Dear Editor, After viewing the telecast and listening to the various presentations and the announcement of the CAPE, CSEC and other CXC examination results, I am motivated to make the following...

Govt. needs to setup more centres countrywide to offer free counselling

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. needs to setup more centres countrywide to offer free counselling

Dear Editor, Guyana has been severely affected by the COVID-19 virus. As a result, many lost close ones, or have been feeling the effects financially. Many issues also arise, coupled with the...

Stop politicising crimefighting

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop politicising crimefighting

Dear Editor, Guyana is in the midst of a criminal pandemic and the Government is at its wits end at the possible methods they can use to solve it. This criminal onslaught is both worrisome and mind...

Crime is crime and should be condemned and dealt with the full force of the law

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crime is crime and should be condemned and dealt with the full force of the law

Dear Editor, No less than five persons have been murdered at the hands of the Guyana Police Force since August 2020. Wanton extrajudicial killing has returned and this time more ominous than before....

Guyanese and COVID-19

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese and COVID-19

Dear Editor, I take note of a letter penned by one Brian E. Plummer titled “Has our COVID Strategy been Successful”. Sometimes Editor, I wonder about Guyanese and how they managed to survive this...

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EBDCA/D&R Construction 40-Over Cricket Competition continues

Land, taxes and penalties

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more