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Bravados defeat Strathavon in the Upper East Coast 2nd div. semi

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bravados defeat Strathavon in the Upper East Coast 2nd div. semi

Bravados Sports Club edged Strathavon Cricket Club by one wicket last Sunday after being bowled out for 137 in 28 overs at the Strathavon Cricket Club Ground. Chandrapaul Hemraj was the only one to...

BCB Golden Jubilee 1939 – 2014 Lower Corentyne defeat Rest of Berbice in U-19 T20 match

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB Golden Jubilee 1939 – 2014 Lower Corentyne defeat Rest of Berbice in U-19 T20 match

The Berbice Cricket Board Golden Jubilee celebrations continued on Sunday last with a specially arranged T20 match between the Rest of Berbice and Lower Corentyne Under-19 teams at the Albion...

Students benefit from ‘Back to School’ initiatives

Sep 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Students benefit from ‘Back to School’ initiatives

With school back in session, students from Nursery, Primary and Secondary schools around Georgetown have been benefitting from a number of outreach initiatives, hosted by overseas-based organisations...

Abandoned Perseverance boys… Mother pleads guilty to neglect charge

Sep 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Abandoned Perseverance boys… Mother pleads guilty to neglect charge

– to be sentenced in two weeks A grinning Angela Bodhaley appeared yesterday morning before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Suddie Magistrates’ Court where she pleaded guilty to neglecting her...

Guyana’s largest Region has only one working police vehicle

Sep 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s largest Region has only one working police vehicle

“In Georgetown where they have asphalted roads, your Ministers are driving Prado and Infiniti and when they are coming off-road they use a plane. Yet this Government only afforded Region Nine one...

Pirates take fishermen’s engine in Waini River attack

Sep 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pirates take fishermen’s engine in Waini River attack

Pirates have reportedly struck again, this time attacking two fishermen in the Waini River, Region One. According to the police, yesterday, at about 0645hrs, Samuel Benjamin, 24, of 4 Miles, Port...

Nothing is wrong with minority government, but…

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nothing is wrong with minority government, but…

Minority government is not as normal as a majority administration, because the latter has more room to pursue its policies unhindered. But at the essential level, minority government is workable....

At the other end of the line

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on At the other end of the line

Suicide is now a global problem. According to the World Health Organization close to 800,000 persons worldwide commit suicide each year. It therefore should come as no surprise that Guyana has a...

Time for Region Nine residents to unite

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for Region Nine residents to unite

Dear Editor, Residents of Region Nine, the time has come for us to re unite for the sake of the future of beautiful Rupununi, regardless of our political, religious, ethnic or economic status. The...

Review laws regarding police use of unmarked vehicles

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Review laws regarding police use of unmarked vehicles

Dear Editor, I have slowly and painfully come to accept the fact that my once beloved native land is hurtling at a breakneck speed towards the abyss of destruction and possible extinction. In fact it...

Can Hydar Ally now encourage the PPP elite to move out of their mansions ?

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can Hydar Ally now encourage the PPP elite to move out of their mansions ?

Dear Editor, It is quite the “IN” thing these days for persons to align themselves in some manner with Pope Francis. A letter writer in your paper,HydarAlly, reminds us to look back at history...

$The PPP\C has totally failed Berbice$

The PPP\C has totally failed Berbice

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP\C has totally failed Berbice

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your letter column to share with my views and I know lots of Berbicians will share same as to what has been taking place here in Berbice since 1992 when the...

A constitution is dead at its heart unless activated by the people

Sep 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A constitution is dead at its heart unless activated by the people

Dear Editor, From the time the 1980 constitution was promulgated the then opposition political parties and some commentators dubbed it repugnant. And this activity continues today. In 1998 after the...

Talks about National Unity with the PPP

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Talks about National Unity with the PPP

Dear Editor, The APNU and AFC have to go into any talks on a Government of National Unity with eyes wide open, because on this issue the PPP has a record which does not lend much credibility to this...

A statistical impossibility and electoral absurdity

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A statistical impossibility and electoral absurdity

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has registered 78,000 new electors in the present registration cycle and the majority of these new electors have been placed in three or four of...

The Pope is absolutely correct

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Pope is absolutely correct

DEAR EDITOR, An article caught my attention. It is about a billionaire in the United States who threatened to discontinue charity donations if the Pope continues his support for the poor. According...

Mr. Kissoon has underscored some of the PPP’s dirty tactics

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Kissoon has underscored some of the PPP’s dirty tactics

DEAR EDITOR, I just came across a column in the Kaieteur News’ online edition, written by Mr. Frederick Kissoon, under the caption “Avoid the Rodney King road over Royston King’. This was...

Moving on to higher levels demands that we get out of this rot

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Moving on to higher levels demands that we get out of this rot

DEAR EDITOR, People from time immemorial have been doing wrong, it appears to be part of life’s refrain- a relentless occurrence where some just blindly follow in the act, unconsciously going...

President Ramotar should take note of Minister Ramsammy’s misleading assurances to the Guyanese people

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Ramotar should take note of Minister Ramsammy’s misleading assurances to the Guyanese people

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana National Industrial Company (GNIC) announced on August 29 that it had completed, under contract to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), construction of eight...

Controversial Bai Shan Lin-built parking lot ready for use – GRA

Sep 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Controversial Bai Shan Lin-built parking lot ready for use – GRA

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday announced that a portion of the railway embankment line earmarked for a parking lot, at the corner of Lamaha and Camp Streets, has been completed and will...

Rastafari Council calls for Nat’l Marijuana Commission

Sep 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rastafari Council calls for Nat’l Marijuana Commission

By Zena Henry Among several issues of concern for the local Rastafari community, is the establishment of a National Marijuana Commission as decided upon by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The...

Eleven vessels to participating in Nereid’s Yachting Rally

Sep 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Eleven vessels to participating in Nereid’s Yachting Rally

The second Nereid’s Yachting Rally will be hosted by Guyana, Suriname and Saint Laurent, French Guiana, with yachts departing from Trinidad & Tobago and arriving in the Essequibo River...

Can the combined opposition win a sixty percent majority?

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can the combined opposition win a sixty percent majority?

In no other Caricom country except Guyana, (and Haiti which is understandable given its history) is there such a volcanic divide between the rich strata and the working classes. The drastic decline...

THE PROPOSED FENCING OF THE 1763 MONUMENT GARDENS

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PROPOSED FENCING OF THE 1763 MONUMENT GARDENS

A series of advertisements in one of yesterday’s dailies caught my attention. They raise more questions than they provide answers. First, there was the amusing advertisement placed by the Ministry...

The wheels of Justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine

Sep 04, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The wheels of Justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine

The Suriname government’s claim that the arrest of Dino Bouterse was politically motivated has been turned on its head with his confession to facilitating movements of a terrorist; conspiracy to...

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No good deed goes unpunished

Nov 10, 2026

(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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