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Mix Up claim Father’s Day dominoes title

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mix Up claim Father’s Day dominoes title

Mix Up were crowned champions of the Father’s day four-game dominoes competition which was held recently at Turning Point. Led by 10 games each from Gilbert Mendonca and Rawl Peters, Mix Up marked...

Friday GBTI Open Lewis/Daniel Lopes win Men’s doubles

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Friday GBTI Open Lewis/Daniel Lopes win Men’s doubles

As the tenth annual GBTI Open Tennis tournament heads for a conclusion with what is anticipated to be an entertaining Final of the Men’s Singles, action continued at the GBTI Courts on Friday night...

The Mantled howler (Alouatta palliata)

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on The Mantled howler (Alouatta palliata)

The mantled howler (Alouatta palliata), or golden-mantled howling monkey, is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central and South America. It is one of the monkey species...

Burning Mouth Syndrome: The distasteful and uncomfortable condition

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Burning Mouth Syndrome: The distasteful and uncomfortable condition

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a condition that causes pain and discomfort in your mouth, lips, or tongue. While it is not as common, it...

Dominoes Action set for Turning Point today

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dominoes Action set for Turning Point today

Senior Organising Secretary of the Georgetown Dominoes Association Mark Wiltshire will be hosting a competition starting at 14:00hrs today at Turning Point. Entrance fee is $10,000 and the winning...

A Stain On Our Collective Conscience

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Book Review… Comments Off on A Stain On Our Collective Conscience

Book: Milwaukee Noir Editor: Tim Hennessy Critic: Glenville Ashby, Ph.D Milwaukee Noir is a compilation of frightening and distasteful tales. In this cesspool of misery, murder is the new...

St Mary’s triumph in Windball final

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on St Mary’s triumph in Windball final

The Al Sport & Tour Promotions National Sports Commission 22nd annual end of school year “Edward Cobenna Memorial” Primary Schools Windball Cricket Champions Trophy Region 4 tournament played...

Maintaining our identity and relevance is important

Jun 23, 2019 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Maintaining our identity and relevance is important

From its formation in 2005 and more so in the national elections of May 2015, the AFC has asserted our relevance in this ethno-centric society. We are indeed the strongest ‘third...

Hats off to the CCJ; it is the real deal

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hats off to the CCJ; it is the real deal

DEAR EDITOR, “Sovereignty belongs to the people, who exercise it through their representatives” declares Article 9 of the constitution. Charrandass Persaud, who was selected to represent the...

Kaieteur News Cartoon June, 23

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon June, 23

Patterson is an imposter at GECOM and must demit office if he has any integrity

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Patterson is an imposter at GECOM and must demit office if he has any integrity

DEAR EDITOR, Justice James Patterson was illegally appointed as the Chair of GECOM, his appointment being unconstitutional. It was not an illegal appointment by mistake, it was a deliberate...

Guyana is traversing unchartered and possibly turbulent waters

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is traversing unchartered and possibly turbulent waters

DEAR EDITOR, Guyanese are anxiously awaiting the consequential orders, which the CCJ will be making on June 24 following its landmark decisions on the issue of the no-confidence motion and the...

Our best bet is to hold elections when we can deliver a clean list of electors

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our best bet is to hold elections when we can deliver a clean list of electors

DEAR EDITOR, I write today on a topic that is very much in the news; the urgings concerning early elections. We must understand that successive governments have made short shrift of the GECOM body....

Prideful politicians think they can get away with anything

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prideful politicians think they can get away with anything

DEAR EDITOR, “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall” – Proverbs 16:18 I sat as a Member of the National Assembly and I listened to the boastful statements...

Let’s not lose corn and husk

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s not lose corn and husk

DEAR EDITOR, It’s amazing to see what the layman would consider two government entities, who should be working in the interest of the people undertaking government functions engage in a public...

The CCJ’s decisions are above board

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The CCJ’s decisions are above board

Dear Editor, The decisions of the CCJ on the matters of the no confidence motion and the unilateral appointment of the GECOM chairman is on par with the perception of all Guyanese who can raise their...

SELLOUT TO THE DEATH OF GUYANA!

Jun 23, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on SELLOUT TO THE DEATH OF GUYANA!

DEAR EDITOR, On June 17th, I wrote in your newspaper that over the next twenty-two years, over one trillion U.S dollars will be lifted from our seabed, and that Guyanese – the many, not the few...

CJIA CEO refuses to cooperate with police in sexual assault probe

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA CEO refuses to cooperate with police in sexual assault probe

Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, (CJIA), Ramesh Ghir, has so far declined to supply police with a statement in relation to the sexual assault accusation...

First Lady in Singapore for ceremonial launch of oil production vessel

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on First Lady in Singapore for ceremonial launch of oil production vessel

First Lady Sandra Granger is in Singapore for the ceremonial launch of the Liza Destiny, the first Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel to be used in the first phase of oil...

EITI now demands disclosure of technical, financial criteria used to award contracts

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on EITI now demands disclosure of technical, financial criteria used to award contracts

By Kiana Wilburg Even though it is yet to be assessed since becoming a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), Guyana and more than 49 other members of the international...

Kaieteur Block to drill well in 2020

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur Block to drill well in 2020

With 35 percent of the working interest in its grasp, ExxonMobil holds the position of lead operator for the Kaieteur Block. It is expected to drill the first well next year. This is noted in a...

Mason now in jail after night out with stranger

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mason now in jail after night out with stranger

By Trishan Craig Akeem Bennett as he had first told the court two months ago, yesterday returned to court and related another ‘fairytale story’ in relation to his night out with a stranger, who...

Use of brother’s birth certificate lands man in jail

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Use of brother’s birth certificate lands man in jail

A father of one yesterday appeared in a City Court to answer to a charge of making a false declaration for the purpose of securing a new passport. Forty-eight-year-old Michael Sookraj, of Lot 6...

Land Cruisers seized in Lethem from repeat offender properly disposed – GRA

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Land Cruisers seized in Lethem from repeat offender properly disposed – GRA

Two Toyota Land Cruisers seized by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) last year in Lethem, a town in Region Nine, that borders Brazil, were properly disposed of. There were questions by the...

Media schooled on domestic, sexual abuse reporting

Jun 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Media schooled on domestic, sexual abuse reporting

By Feona Morrison Media representatives were yesterday schooled on how to provide proper reporting on sexual offences and domestic violence by members of the judiciary including Chief Justice Roxane...

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2026 Caribbean Elite Cycling Championships: John pedals way into...

Oct 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s national road race champion Briton John made history on Sunday by capturing a silver medal at the 2026 Caribbean Elite Cycling Championships in the Dominican Republic....

Some persons have determined guilt before the inquiry began

Oct 13, 2026

Kaieteur News – When it comes to the M. V. Barima tragedy, there are persons who wants the neck of a Minister, and, if possible two. They want them summoned, grilled, condemned, and, if possible, escorted directly from the witness box to prison. Anything less, they contend, would be an insult...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Kwayana: a great Guyanese son for the ages

Oct 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The day had to come. An exceptional one it is, for such is reaching the landmark figure of 101 in this life. By itself, it speaks of a passage in life that made the extraordinary look ordinary. But when Eusi Kwayana travelled those 101 years, they took on a gleam that was...

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