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All Youth Sports Club’s Tapeball Tourney

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on All Youth Sports Club’s Tapeball Tourney

The All Youths Sports Club will hold a seven-side fund raising Tapeball Cricket Competition on Saturday October 28 at the La-Grange Primary School Ground from 10:00hrs. Entrance fee for teams is...

Transport SC thump Ace Warriors by 288 runs

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Transport SC thump Ace Warriors by 288 runs

Transport SC defeated Ace Warriors by 28 runs when action in the Georgetown Cricket Association New Building Society Second Division 40-over tournament continued on Sunday. At DCC, Transport SC...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – Georgetown… Conquerors remain unbeaten; Eastveldt and GFC win

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – Georgetown… Conquerors remain unbeaten; Eastveldt and GFC win

Fruta Conquerors has continued their unblemished run of form with their 10th win in as many encounters when competition in the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 Intra Association...

Friendship man sells minibus entrusted to him

Oct 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Friendship man sells minibus entrusted to him

A Friendship, East Bank Demerara man found himself in court yesterday after it was alleged that he sold a minibus valued $3.1M for $300,000. The bus was given to him by a man whom he was supposed to...

Mason jailed for robbing Qualfon employees

Oct 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mason jailed for robbing Qualfon employees

Quincy Clarke, a 29-year-old mason of West La Penitence, was yesterday jailed for four years for robbing 11 employees of Qualfon who were being transported home in a minibus. On May 12, at North East...

Improving Infrastructure at Hope Coconut Industries Limited

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improving Infrastructure at Hope Coconut Industries Limited

Dear Editor, A contract was recently awarded to Ivor Allen for the construction of two wooden bridges at Hope Coconut Industries Limited (HCIL). The current existing bridges were neglected over the...

Is GuySuCo’s 2017 target a moving one?

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is GuySuCo’s 2017 target a moving one?

Dear Editor, There is much publicity on the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) being unable to pay its employees because of its financial position forcing it to seek financial support from the...

It was Janet Jagan’s decision that led to the oil find

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Having heard criticisms of the coverage being provided by the Kaieteur News from Opposition Leader, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, I undertook a research effort of my own. What I found was that...

A nation’s strength depends on the strength of the family

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A nation’s strength depends on the strength of the family

Dear Editor, My focus is on the importance of promoting and maintaining strong nuclear families, and inadequacies within social service agencies that impede family development. A nuclear family can...

The question of locus standi in the Chief Justice’s decision

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The question of locus standi in the Chief Justice’s decision

Dear Editor, The written decision of Chief Justice (ag) Roxanne George-Wiltshire on the interpretation of Article 161 (2) of the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana was recently handed...

The PNC at 60: Four leaders, four periods

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

In exactly one week from today, the PNC will have celebratory events of 60 years of existence. One solitary column on October 10, on the subject will not capture sixty years of such a huge...

BIGOTRY, HATRED AND FEAR

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on BIGOTRY, HATRED AND FEAR

One of the most important changes in the world today is the legalization of same sex marriage in the United States, Canada, Britain and several other countries. While many have accepted same sex...

Be careful about giving lands to hurricane victims

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Be careful about giving lands to hurricane victims

Dear Editor, Just when the Granger administration is angling to take away two billion (Yes. $2,000,000,000) in sugar cane lands from GUYSUCO, in exchange for covering their operational debts, the...

In Guyana, each party has its own narrative

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on In Guyana, each party has its own narrative

Dear Editor, An interesting letter appeared in the newspapers entitled ‘Attempts are being made to discredit the PPP and Dr. Jagan by an author Hydar Ally. Apparently, the letter was an exercise by...

Questions about the leadership of Mr. Hanoman

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Questions about the leadership of Mr. Hanoman

Dear Editor, I must admit that I found GuySuCo’s recent press statement decrying the workers strike actions in recent days as nothing more than the shedding of crocodile tears. The statement, in my...

Skip the curses; blame weak leadership and incompetence

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Skip the curses; blame weak leadership and incompetence

Dear Editor, Two recent articles, in another section of the media covering Christopher Ram’s analyses, strike at the core of the major issues we have to confront with the Coalition administration,...

The location of the new bridge makes no sense

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The location of the new bridge makes no sense

Dear Editor, I am not amused by the efforts of government to construct a new bridge over the Demerara River. The proposed bridge has no place in that location since the unruly traffic situation...

IS THE LEGAL SYSTEM BENEFITTING PERPETRATORS OF SEXUAL OFFENCES?

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on IS THE LEGAL SYSTEM BENEFITTING PERPETRATORS OF SEXUAL OFFENCES?

Dear Editor, Assuming the accuracy of the statistics provided by Kaieteur News (10/1/17), Demerara High Court trials are in a state of serious dysfunction. Of the 167 cases listed on the docket, only...

Welcoming the sex offenders’ registry

Oct 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Welcoming the sex offenders’ registry

Dear Editor The Caribbean Voice (TCV) is thrilled that Ms. Ann Greene, head of the Childcare and Protection Agency, has announced plans for a registry of sex offenders in Guyana especially since such...

Executed Brazilian miner was a multiple killer

Sep 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Executed Brazilian miner was a multiple killer

– lived in Guyana under false name after escaping from jail In Guyana, he was known as Antonio Da Silva, a respected and extremely wealthy gold miner with several dredges, a wife, and two...

Bringing an end to corruption… GRA closer to tamper-proof system in Customs Dept

Sep 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bringing an end to corruption… GRA closer to tamper-proof system in Customs Dept

Tax Chief says pilot project to commence shortly By Kiana Wilburg The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has a number of responsibilities. Some of these include ensuring that each taxpayer pays his...

$100M in radio purchases…. Auditor General ready to call in police if GECOM fails to act on report

Sep 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $100M in radio purchases…. Auditor General ready to call in police if GECOM fails to act on report

The Audit Office of Guyana is prepared to officially ask the police to investigate an alleged, major fraud at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in 2015, involving the purchase of communications...

Irma kills Guyana-born man on shrimp boat

Sep 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Irma kills Guyana-born man on shrimp boat

TARPON SPRINGS, Florida (www.tbo.com) — The boat was a 32 feet, white fiberglass, with sails stretching up, up, up – it was, Carl Shepherd who decided that that’s, the boat that he...

$350M in VAT refunds paid so far

Sep 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $350M in VAT refunds paid so far

– GRA Boss says authority must honour its obligations to taxpayers For too long, citizens have had to endure a one-way relationship with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). They are expected to...

Plaisance man remanded over cocaine bust at CJIA

Sep 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Plaisance man remanded over cocaine bust at CJIA

– but cocaine vanishes from storage room at CID Headquarters As police continue to probe the disappearance of a quantity of cocaine from the office of a Senior Superintendent of Police attached...

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No good deed goes unpunished

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(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

U.S. midterms – the Guyanese challenge – Pt. III

Nov 10, 2026

Kaieteur News – Donald Trump made himself into a winner. He also made himself a loser. No close midterm results to contest. No tight seat margins that call for bruising, delaying, upending battles. The American people spoke, their will prevailed. What’s the lesson for Guyanese? Is there...

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