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Jan 19, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Why CARICOM had no national for OAS top job
By Sir Ronald Sanders Readers of Barbados newspapers were exposed recently to the views of John Beale, one of the country’s former Ambassadors to the Organisation of American States (OAS), on the...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shomari Wilshire dominating C’bean Junior Squash
2019 Canadian Junior Open most memorable moment By Sean Devers Born in Georgetown, Guyana on September 20, 2003 to Roxanne George-Wiltshire and Garfield Wiltshire, 16 year-old Shomari Wilshire has...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NCN’s excuse is poppycock
There is an ongoing debate about the fairness of the elections coverage of the fully state-owned National Communications Network (NCN). The debate began with concerns being expressed about NCN’s...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s NBS 40-over 2nd Division Cricket
In sunny conditions yesterday Everest trashed Bel Air Rubis by 136 runs and University of Guyana (UG) defeated Diplomats by six runs as GCA’s NBS 40 overs Second Division Cricket Competition...Jan 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam municipality not happy with indiscriminate dumping of garbage
Acting New Amsterdam Mayor, Wainwright McIntosh, is not pleased with the way some residents have been disposing of their solid waste in the town. He said that the illegal dumping of garbage is...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Medas-King sister act qualifies for Colgate finals
Sisters Kcaysha and Kunusasha Medas-King of the Kingmedas-Pansy Adonis Foundation are 2019 Colgate Women’s Games finalist. The pair turned in excellent performances to ensure their...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ours is a society where respect for seniors is encouraged… except by Jagdeo
Come Thursday, Bharrat Jagdeo will attain the ripe age of 55 and become part of the group he considers “fossilised.” Had he continued employment in the Public Service, where he was hired during...Jan 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver remanded on narcotics charge
A taxi driver who was nabbed with a quantity of narcotics in the back fender of his car has been remanded. The man, Rajkumar Veerapen, called “Boyo”, 28, a hire car driver of 67 Fyrish Village,...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese international Keanu Marsh-Brown signs with Memphis 901 FC
Memphis, Tennessee – On Friday last Sporting Director Tim Howard and Head Coach Tim Mulqueen announced the signing of midfielder Keanu Marsh-Brown pending league and federation approval....Jan 19, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Vote against Jagdeo’s 20, 30, 40 years Domination Master Plan
It is generally accepted that many voters cast their votes against parties rather than for parties. Other voters vote for a party rather than for the policies of that party. In Guyana it is generally...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2020 Concacaf Under-20 Championship Qualifiers
Guyana drawn in Group A; Host venues and schedule announced Guyana has been drawn in Group A of the 2020 Concacaf Under-20 Championship Qualifiers, the Confederation of North, Central America and...Jan 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on I never giving up” says differently abled HEYS Entrepreneur
Rocliffe Rodrigues a 34-year-old entrepreneur in the Hinterland Employment Youth Service HEYS Programme, a husband, a father of three and an amputee says he’s proud of all his accomplishments since...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on The Brazilian guinea pig (Cavia aperea)
Interesting Creatures… The Brazilian guinea pig (Cavia aperea) (preá in Portuguese) is a guinea pig species found in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay and...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA to host first Carifta Boxing tourney in over a decade
The Guyana Boxing Association will this year host the first Carifta tournament in more than a decade. The tournament will be held in the second week of April and will have Youth and junior boxers...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Deep vein Thrombosis (DVT): The dangerous blood clot
By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Our veins are responsible for returning blood to our heart for re-circulation. Disruption in this blood flow can lead to life threatening...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc four-team tourney on today at Everest
The Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc will be hosting a T20 four-team tournament starting at 10:00hrs today at the Everest Cricket Club. The tournament is being used as preparation for...Jan 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry, GTT team up to battle cervical cancer in Guyana
The Chronic Diseases Unit of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) have teamed up with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to offer free Visual Inspection with Acetic acid (VIA) screening...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Book Review… A study in Groupthink and the sheepish nature of man
Book: The Sober Truth: Debunking The Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and The Rehab Industry Authors: Lance Dodes, MD and Zachary Dodes Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD ‘The Sober Truth’ is a...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chance ignites at Gamecock opener
Guyana’s 2020 Tokyo games hopeful, Arinze Chance, got his season off in fantastic fashion after winning the men’s 300m final at his University of South Carolina’s (USC) Gamecock opener in...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon Jan 19 2020
Jan 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The level of distrust over the Revised List of Electors has grown since Nomination Day
Dear Editor, The level of anxiety and distrust over the Revised List of Electors (RLE) has increased noticeably and dramatically since Nomination Day with the attendant criticisms of GECOM. A short...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Integrity Commission must be revamped
Dear Editor, The Integrity Commission made news recently when its Chairman disclosed that several MPs failed to declare their incomes and assets (SN 15/01/2020). This letter makes no excuse for these...Jan 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The party leaders themselves must be transformed if the country is to be transformed
Dear Editor, There is a lot of grand talk about economic and social transformation in this election season and which party or president can bring us the meaningful change we so badly need. Just what...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Jun 23, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...Jun 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...Jun 21, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...Jun 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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