August 2009

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Bring out the Polygraph

Aug 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Bring out the Polygraph

Dear Editor, It is evident someone is lying! Four people so far have testified under oath that Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy was involved in the procurement of the infamous Spy Equipment and the...

They have made Forbes Burnham look like a toy soldier

Aug 06, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on They have made Forbes Burnham look like a toy soldier

Today marks the death anniversary of Forbes Burnham. This is a name that haunts me all the time, not episodically, but all the time. In the supermarket, gas station, restaurant, shopping mall,...

Stamping out corruption with a little help from Uncle Sam

Aug 06, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Stamping out corruption with a little help from Uncle Sam

On the 10th anniversary of his party’s ascension to power, Forbes Burnham announced that Guyana would henceforth pursue the creation of a socialist State. He also interestingly announced that the...

The government is ignoring its foreign resources

Aug 06, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on The government is ignoring its foreign resources

It is amazing that Guyana, for all its years of diplomatic skills that won the hearts of various international leaders, keeps making mistakes that some secondary school children would not make. It is...

Simels calls more names

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Simels calls more names

Courtesy of Enrico Woolford in New York The contentious eavesdropping equipment surfaced again in the New York Eastern District courthouse when one of the defendants, Criminal Attorney Robert Simels,...

Two-vehicle collision leaves vendor dead

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Two-vehicle collision leaves vendor dead

Sixty-four year-old Latchmin Lalta was just putting out her greens on a stand to sell outside the Annandale market when a car spun across the road and slammed into her. The greens vendor of 198...

PNCR to boycott Parliament until objective is met

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR to boycott Parliament until objective is met

The People’s National Congress Reform leader, Robert Corbin, along with his Members of Parliament and scores of supporters, yesterday staged another picketing exercise in protest of what the party...

Entire finance staff fingerprinted

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Entire finance staff fingerprinted

The entire staff at the Police Finance Office has been fingerprinted as the police continue to probe the break-in at the facility. However, investigators appear to be nowhere near establishing who...

Grenade found tied under car

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Grenade found tied under car

A Republic Park, East Bank Demerara resident appears to have narrowly escaped death by finding a grenade strapped beneath his car. A police press statement said that Tarachandra Persaud of Republic...

Major fire averted at UG

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Major fire averted at UG

Quick reaction by students of the University of Guyana averted what could have been a major fire at the Caribbean Research Library, Turkèyn campus last evening. According to reports the library was...

Regional Powerlifting ‘King’ Morgan leaves for Miami today

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Powerlifting ‘King’ Morgan leaves for Miami today

IPF/NAPF/FESUPO Pan-American Powerlifting Championships on this weekend By Franklin Wilson Reigning Caribbean Powerlifting King in the 82.5kg class Randolph Morgan left Guyana early this morning...

Kumar invites b/ball sub-associations to meeting Monday

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kumar invites b/ball sub-associations to meeting Monday

– “future plans” of sport cited as main reason By Edison Jefford Director of Sport Neil Kumar has invited the Presidents or representatives of the two sub-associations of...

Meusa wins DDL Topco Juice Emancipation Chess tourney

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Meusa wins DDL Topco Juice Emancipation Chess tourney

Wendell Meusa’s sterling performances continue as he made it four in a row when captured the DDL Topco Juice Emancipation Chess tournament, which was held over the weekend at Keishar’s Sport...

Clinical Jamaica beat Guyana by 206 runs

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clinical Jamaica beat Guyana by 206 runs

– Move within a match of the ‘double’ crown By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, TCL, Western Union, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Michelle Playter’s...

Ali says Housing Fund for vulnerable groups

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ali says Housing Fund for vulnerable groups

Minister of Housing, Irfaan Ali, yesterday said that the Revolving Housing Fund the government is creating will benefit vulnerable groups. The Fund will start with an initial $400 million, which...

Anna Regina town council stalls family transport

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Anna Regina town council stalls family transport

…almost five years have passed Mr. Seusankar Ramlagan, of Reliance Village, Essequibo Coast, is one of seven siblings who were left with a joint family will almost five years ago after his mother,...

Police release post office staff as robbery probe continues

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police release post office staff as robbery probe continues

ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – As the police in Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force continue the probe into the $6 million robbery committed at the Rose Hall Town Post Office on Friday, the...

Peacemakers thump Coomacka 3-0, Flamingo, Netrockers lead points table

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Peacemakers thump Coomacka 3-0, Flamingo, Netrockers lead points table

Play in the Stag / Upper Demerara Football Association B-League continues this afternoon at the Bayrock Community Centre ground with Peacemakers taking on Flamingo. Yesterday afternoon, Amelia’s...

Jehovah’s Witnesses gear for convention

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Jehovah’s Witnesses gear for convention

Key Bible texts explaining the meaning of what many people refer to as the end of the world will be discussed in the Witnesses’ upcoming three-day “Keep on the Watch!” district convention....

GRA says no VAT on school uniforms

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GRA says no VAT on school uniforms

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is advising the general public that school uniforms made in Guyana is not subject to Valued Added Tax (VAT) and hence they are not required to pay the 16 percent...

Response to ‘Swimming Pool is a result of intense lobbying’

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Response to ‘Swimming Pool is a result of intense lobbying’

By Rawle Welch In response to Miranda La Rose’s letter ‘Swimming Pool is a result of intense lobbying’ she failed to admit that at no time did I put forward or even imply that Guyana, or more...

MHS hands out domino prizes

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on MHS hands out domino prizes

‘C’ Division tops MHS and ‘A’ Division The Ministry of Home Affairs handed out prizes won in the recently concluded domino competition which saw C Division emerging as victors with 70 games,...

Relatives feel justice has been served

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives feel justice has been served

On Monday it was considered a bittersweet moment at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court for an Enmore family who, after more than a year, is of the opinion that justice has been served. For the...

Tropical Passion, La Bayamosa, Peaceful outstanding

Aug 05, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tropical Passion, La Bayamosa, Peaceful outstanding

Thousands were on hand to witness a grand day of horse racing when the Port Mourant Turf club successfully staged it grand one day Emancipation horserace meet on Sunday last at the Clubs track at...

UG, Ohio University target better TV production

Aug 05, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on UG, Ohio University target better TV production

A recent research has shown that there are substantial needs in all sectors of the media but the most pressing ones are in television. As such two television production workshops in Georgetown and in...

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Prisoners snatch overall boxing Novice Championship title

Sep 29, 2026

– ends extended GDF run (Kaieteur News) – The Republican Gym’s return to competitive boxing ended in championship glory, as the prisoners captured the overall team title at the Guyana...

No security of tenure for ministers

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a new career opportunity developing in Guyana that could revolutionise the public service. You can become a former Minister. Traditionally, when somebody stopped being a Minister, the public assumed that was the end of the ministerial chapter. The person might return...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

From Salem and Wisconsin to Georgetown, Guyana

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Over three hundred years after Massachusetts, the plague that roiled it struck Georgetown. Over three quarters of a century after Wisconsin, that same bomb has been detonated across Guyana. It’s a bunker buster. Everyone keeping their heads low; who doesn’t have cover...

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