November 16, 2010

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BREAKING NEWS: Chateau Margot businessman killed by bandit

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS: Chateau Margot businessman killed by bandit

– One gunman killed, two others captured – Rural constable wounded A businessman is now dead, one of his attackers killed, another seriously wounded and another in police custody...

Senior GRA officers sent packing

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Senior GRA officers sent packing

… Cigarette smuggling scam At least four senior Customs officers have been given letters, ending their contracts with the Guyana Revenue Authority after they were implicated in a scam to evade...

Life support could be turned off on Murray

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Life support could be turned off on Murray

The word from the household of the People’s National Congress Reform frontbencher, Winston Murray, is that the life support system could be turned off as early as tomorrow. A source said that this...

Killing of brother… Father confused, debates lawyer fees or funeral expenses

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Killing of brother… Father confused, debates lawyer fees or funeral expenses

A father is trying to save his younger son from spending a lifetime in prison, after losing his elder boy to murder on Sunday night. Geoffrey Roberts is the father of Marlon Roberts, 21, who...

High Court action stalls C.N. Sharma witness tampering PI

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on High Court action stalls C.N. Sharma witness tampering PI

The witness tampering charge against Chandra Narine Sharma and his five associates Ravi Mangar, Tyrone Ali, Mark Reid, Raywattie Ramsaywack and Doodnauth continued yesterday before Magistrate Geeta...

One dead, four injured in mining pit accident

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on One dead, four injured in mining pit accident

A miner was killed and four others injured on Monday at Upper Barama, after a tree fell on the pit in which they were working. While details are sketchy, a police official said that workers were...

PNCR: Another despicable act to victimise outspoken media, citizens

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR: Another despicable act to victimise outspoken media, citizens

… Freddie’s trench clearing fiasco The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has condemned a recent drainage clearing exercise, in which a trench in front of the home of newspaper...

Neesa Gopal saga continues… Teachers challenge new letters

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopal saga continues… Teachers challenge new letters

The teachers who were sanctioned by the Ministry of Education in relation to the manner they dealt with the now dead Neesa Gopaul, said that they are not satisfied with the letter that followed their...

City men nabbed snatching in Berbice

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on City men nabbed snatching in Berbice

…used old Georgetown trick Two thieves who attempted to rob a female employee of the ‘Stretch D Dollar’ store in New Amsterdam are now in police custody, after they were nabbed by...

Guyanese Jet company president guilty on most serious charge

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Jet company president guilty on most serious charge

… New Jersey Airport crash case The co-founders of a luxury charter jet company whose plane barreled off the runway at Teterboro Airport in 2005, injuring 14 people, were found guilty,...

Dem boy seh… Town trick don’t wuk in country

Nov 16, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boy seh… Town trick don’t wuk in country

Robeson change he mouth again when dem boys ask he about de Freddie Kissoon incident. De other day he claim how de weeders in de canal did finish work and that dem didn’t get to complete de piece...

Linden municipal workers strike

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Linden municipal workers strike

Several workers of the Linden Mayor and Town Council, yesterday proceeded on a strike to protest what they perceive to be the unfair treatment of workers. They also protested the perpetual late...

Bauxite workers refuse to eat food from ‘Cockroach’ kitchen

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite workers refuse to eat food from ‘Cockroach’ kitchen

… Four fired over complaints Four workers have been fired by the Bauxite Company of Guyana, after they were blamed for instigating the staff not to work after it was uncovered that a cockroach...

Cush Construction Service denies involvement with Good Hope Bridge

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cush Construction Service denies involvement with Good Hope Bridge

Errol Cush has said that his construction company did not participate in the construction of the bridge at Good Hope; East Coast Demerara. This issue was highlighted on the front page of the Saturday...

TSC demotes Bagotville HM

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on TSC demotes Bagotville HM

The teacher who headed Bagotville Primary School has been sanctioned by the Teaching Service Commission for things that she said were beyond her control. According to the Head teacher, Ms. Corina...

GAWU: Sugar to fall far below 250,000 tonnes mark this year

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU: Sugar to fall far below 250,000 tonnes mark this year

The sugar company has agreed to review a proposed wage hike following a meeting yesterday in which the workers’ main union demanded a rethink. According to the Guyana Agricultural and General...

Agricultural specialists reviewing regional policy

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Agricultural specialists reviewing regional policy

The multi-faceted role of agriculture as a main driver of the regional economy was underscored over the past two days, as experts in the field of agriculture and trade gathered in Georgetown to...

No word on hospital investigation into death of seven-year-old

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on No word on hospital investigation into death of seven-year-old

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is yet to release any findings into investigations it said it had launched into the death of seven-year-old Quincy Softleigh Jr. The boy’s mother,...

Ex-policewoman, others charged for unlicensed gun and ammo

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-policewoman, others charged for unlicensed gun and ammo

Appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court were 37-year-old Simone Gibson of 1142 Section C Eccles, East Bank Demerara; 37-year-old...

Teacher arrested after lovers’ spat

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Teacher arrested after lovers’ spat

A Georgetown teacher was on Sunday evening arrested by Police after she reportedly pulled a gun at her lover’s wife while they were at a newly opened bar at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast...

Prison escapee returns to jail

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Prison escapee returns to jail

Marvin Williams, 24, who was wounded by police after he attempted to escape from the Camp Street Prison, last Thursday, has been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Sunday and is now back...

Alleged iron thief granted $75,000 bail

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged iron thief granted $75,000 bail

Dwayne Game of Princes Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, was yesterday granted bail by (ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry for pilfering three steel rods from the bridge of Stanley Troya. The man who...

Guyanese watchman dies in fire

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese watchman dies in fire

Trinidad and Tobago-A night watchman died in a fire on the compound of a Penal sawmill early Sunday morning. The charred remains of Dinesh Gudar, 33, a Guyanese, were found about 7 am by firemen from...

Illegal fuel lands man in court

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal fuel lands man in court

Fifty-year-old Harry Rajkumar of Lot 1 Timehri Dock, East Bank Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Providence Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of storing illegal...

Woman still unconscious a week after Canter truck hit her

Nov 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman still unconscious a week after Canter truck hit her

A week after being struck by a Canter truck, Gretha Lewis, 60, of 243 Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia remains unconscious in the Georgetown Public Hospital. According to a friend who visited Lewis on...

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2026 Concacaf Women’s U17 Qualifiers… Guyana picks up first...

Jan 31, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – The Junior Lady Jags put forth another exceptional performance to record their first win of the 2026 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Qualifiers on Thursday night in Aruba. Today,...

A test case for the GMSA

Feb 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In 2023, when the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) urged the removal of VAT on a range of locally produced goods, such as data services, chowmein, guava cheese, it was reminded, correctly, that international and regional trade rules do not permit the...

Education as Economic Policy: Remedying the Mismatch

Feb 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the door to migration narrows, the long-standing mismatch between education and economic absorption is no longer abstract; a country’s true immigration policy becomes domestic — how many jobs it can create, and how quickly it can match people to...

Hard questions requiring hard truths from Pres. Ali

Feb 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Pres. Irfaan Ali and his PPP Govt. are looking worse by the day, development. On many issues of national importance, the president and his group of governors have faltered heavily, limped along unsteadily, retreated from fearfully. I pick a few only,...

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