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Big 6 claim Alex Chung dominoes title in Wakenaam

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Big 6 claim Alex Chung dominoes title in Wakenaam

Big 6 romped to a comfortable victory in the final of the Alex Chung Dominoes competition which was contested on Sunday at Carlosh Sports bar in Good Success, Wakenaam. Big 6 marked 78 games to win...

My advice to the new GECOM chairman

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My advice to the new GECOM chairman

I would like to think that before this edition of this newspaper hits the vendors’ stands, the Opposition Leader would have adhered to the Carter formula and submitted a collection of names that...

Berbician riders gave good account at first segment of National Cycling Championship

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbician riders gave good account at first segment of National Cycling Championship

Cyclists from Berbice made sure that their sojourn to the Capitol City, Georgetown was worth the while. The riders gave a good account of thems elves when the first segment of National Cycling...

Requiem to agony

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Requiem to agony

So close. A matter of centimeters, one more ounce of spunk to a bat that flashed so gallantly. To have come so tantalizingly near… The agony of falling short by the slimmest of slim margins; the...

BCB 2nd Annual Brian Ramphal Awards Ceremony…Hetmyer and Giddings copped top Awards as BCB hosts impressive Ceremony

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB 2nd Annual Brian Ramphal Awards Ceremony…Hetmyer and Giddings copped top Awards as BCB hosts impressive Ceremony

The West Indies duo of the middle order batsman Shimron Hetmyer and left arm medium pacer Erva Giddings carried home the prestigious Male and Female Cricketers of the Year Awards on Sunday last as...

AP Invitational to honour past Olympians

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on AP Invitational to honour past Olympians

Aliann Pompey will be partnering with the World Olympians Association (WOA), the Guyana Olympic Association and the National Sport Commission to honour past and present Guyanese Olympians at the...

Simone Beckles heads D’Urban Park Lions

Jun 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Simone Beckles heads D’Urban Park Lions

On Sunday June 23, the Lions clubs of Georgetown D’Urban Park hosted a joint Installation and Induction ceremony at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary. The ceremony saw a new Board of Directors...

Stand up comedy has gone to a different level in Guyana

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stand up comedy has gone to a different level in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, A letter appearing in KN on Sunday 23rd June, titled “Hats off to the CCJ; it is the real deal”, by Oscar Dolphin, is a perfect example of content betrayal of caption or vice versa....

PPP/C’s scorched earth political strategy

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP/C’s scorched earth political strategy

DEAR EDITOR, The PPP/C’s recent record in, and attitude to, elections in Guyana is particularly instructive. During the last two general and regional elections (2011 & 2015), in which they were...

The CCJ has now found itself between a rock and a hard place

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The CCJ has now found itself between a rock and a hard place

DEAR EDITOR, The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has now found itself, as it were, between a rock and a hard place, on the issue of consequential orders pertaining to the no-confidence vote and the...

A Political Equivocation

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Political Equivocation

DEAR EDITOR, As reported by SN of Friday 21 June, 2019, the new political party ‘A New and United Guyana (ANUG)’ set out its vision for the future governance of the country at a press conference...

Dr. Jan Mangal seems to have much to offer his hometown

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Jan Mangal seems to have much to offer his hometown

DEAR EDITOR, In reading Dr. Jan Mangal’s reply to questions I posed to him in an earlier missive, I was pleasantly surprised about how many goals we have in common. We both view the award of the...

What will APNU+AFC or the PPP do differently if elected again?

Jun 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on What will APNU+AFC or the PPP do differently if elected again?

DEAR EDITOR, We have found ourselves in a predicament as a people. We have nurtured political leaders who are satisfied to live and lead from their lower-self. As I picked up the Guyana Chronicle...

CCJ decision on consequential orders by July 12 – Parties required to file submissions by July 1

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ decision on consequential orders by July 12 – Parties required to file submissions by July 1

By Feona Morrison Lawyers were ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to provide written submissions on what should be the consequential orders following last Tuesday’s landmark...

Guyana-ExxonMobil PSA has the most unusual decommissioning provisions -Must be urgently corrected in all contracts – University of Houston Instructor

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-ExxonMobil PSA has the most unusual decommissioning provisions -Must be urgently corrected in all contracts – University of Houston Instructor

By Kiana Wilburg When an offshore oil production project is nearing its end, the operators prepare for an activity called decommissioning. This involves the safe draining and removal of pipelines,...

Guns missing from security firm linked to accused in Lethem businessman murder plot

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guns missing from security firm linked to accused in Lethem businessman murder plot

A number of guns that belonged to a security firm linked to a city hotel owner, who is implicated in a murder plot, are reportedly missing. According to officials, the police have launched an...

Who’s collecting the cheque for this?

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Who’s collecting the cheque for this?

Corentyne residents are wondering who will be picking up the cheque for clearing this drainage canal at Number 43 and the one at Adventure. They claim that contracts were given out, but the National...

Raid unearths almost two dozen passports at policeman’s home

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Raid unearths almost two dozen passports at policeman’s home

A Constable is now awaiting his fate after almost two dozen issued Guyanese passports were found at his home during a police raid. Members of the Guyana Police Force acting on a tip-off from credible...

Allegations of unlawful activity by police in Berbice… PPP calls for wider probe

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Allegations of unlawful activity by police in Berbice… PPP calls for wider probe

The Opposition is calling for a wider probe into a number of damning allegations of police corruption in Berbice. The call would come hours after another shocking story in which whistleblowing ranks...

City Mayor’s driver granted bail on causing death charge

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Mayor’s driver granted bail on causing death charge

Forty-two year-old Joel Bond was yesterday granted bail after he appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Alicia George on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving....

Politicians holding on to CCJ skirt tails

Jun 25, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Politicians holding on to CCJ skirt tails

From de time Charranrass vote against de Coalition de whole of Guyana been looking to de CCJ fuh mek a decision. De High Court find dat de vote fuh de no-confidence motion was passed. De Appeal Court...

One year later… No efforts made to correct defects in Lima Sands road

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on One year later… No efforts made to correct defects in Lima Sands road

After more than a year, the condition of the uncompleted Lima Sands road on the Essequibo Coast, has drastically worsened, leaving residents to question the interest of the authorities. During March...

Two Berbice students in final stages of US Youth Ambassador Programme 2018/ 2019

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Two Berbice students in final stages of US Youth Ambassador Programme 2018/ 2019

Two of three students from Berbice, who were selected to be a part of the United States Ambassador Programme 2018/2019, are in the final phases of the undertaking. The students, Daniel Narsaiah and...

51 public servants recognised for commitment to duty

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 51 public servants recognised for commitment to duty

Fifty-one public servants, representing various ministries, departments and agencies have been recognised for their years of service to the government and country. For their dedicated efforts, the...

Alleged chicken thief granted bail

Jun 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged chicken thief granted bail

A man yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus, where he was made to answer to a simple larceny charge. Twenty-six-year-old Omalo...

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Guyana begins installation of first FIFA Arena mini-pitches

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has moved closer to delivering its first two FIFA Arena mini-pitches, with installation works now underway at Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara, marking a...

Jagdeo’s olive branch may have a snake in the grass

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – At the ‘wake’ of former Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, Bharrat Jagdeo began talking about political cooperation, and the need to move beyond political divisions. But faced with this olive branch, the sensible citizen should reach for a comfortable chair, a strong cup of...

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...

The Robert Corbin effect

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This man’s Robert Herman Orlando Corbin’s handiworks needs a longer, slower look. In dying, it seems that Mr. Corbin is more alive. Certainly, his spirit has taken on a motivating quality, a pervading strength. Who would have believed? I wouldn’t have gone so...

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