June 2011

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Dangerous Guyanese criminal captured after shootout in Suriname

Jun 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dangerous Guyanese criminal captured after shootout in Suriname

Guyana-born Poeran Gopi, 32, who was one of Suriname’s most wanted criminals, was seriously wounded in a shootout with members of a Police Special Unit, that left one of his accomplices dead and...

Will Guyana ever rise again?

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Will Guyana ever rise again?

Dear Editor, I am a Guyanese national who has emigrated to ‘greener pastures’ in one of the Caribbean islands in search of a better life, not only for me but for my family. But, while I am...

David Granger visits Amerindian village

Jun 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on David Granger visits Amerindian village

On Saturday, A Partnership for National Unity Presidential Candidate Brigadier (ret’d) David Granger and a team from Region Four, including Regional Chairman, Clement Corlette, visited the...

Dying in dignity

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Dying in dignity

Death is inevitable. Every living thing on this earth will die but that is of no interest to people unless that living thing is a human being. Many of us could die from some terminal condition such...

RHTY&SC 14th cricket Academy on next month

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC 14th cricket Academy on next month

5th Republic Bank Summer Classes set The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) during the month of July would be hosting its 14th Annual Cricket Academy at the Area ‘H’ Ground as...

APNU is really ‘A Party Not United’

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU is really ‘A Party Not United’

Dear Editor, The question is not whether the PPP/C will win the upcoming national elections, but rather, “Will they get a majority?” An analysis of two news items published on June 25th in...

18,000 MVL to be purchased before today’s deadline–GRA

Jun 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 18,000 MVL to be purchased before today’s deadline–GRA

– No Extension to deadline, penalties to be enforced after deadline expires Despite the deadline for renewal of Motor Vehicle Licence (MVL) is today, a whopping 18,122 licences remain to be...

Why settle for the fake?

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why settle for the fake?

DEAR EDITOR, Congratulations to the Guyana Police Force and the Legal Court for finding and swiftly charging a fake kidnapper! Well done. I am among the many citizens who are looking forward to you...

Murders and leaders: The Rodney assassination

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Murders and leaders: The Rodney assassination

I believe that the CIA was involved in several assassinations that many reigning American Presidents at the time didn’t know about. Two reasons explain this. First, the operatives may fear that the...

SIZE MATTERS

Jun 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SIZE MATTERS

The value of parliament to the opposition parties is not simply in the opportunities it allows for these members to argue their case or to make criticisms of government policy. There is also an...

Three charges for student

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Three charges for student

The 18-year-old computer student who admitted to staging her own abduction and demanded a $300,000 ransom for her release, has been slapped with three charges, and appeared yesterday before Chief...

Laptop re-tender notice accidentally ended up on website

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Laptop re-tender notice accidentally ended up on website

– Minister Nadir The new draft for the re-tendering process for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project is scheduled to be finalised by the end of this week, according to Minister of Labour,...

Deported businessman arrives from BVI

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Deported businessman arrives from BVI

British Virgin Islands (BVI) businessman Desmond ‘DA’ Alphonso was yesterday deported to his homeland Guyana after he was stripped of residency status from the island. Alphonso had lived in...

Oversight almost negates contractor’s bid

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Oversight almost negates contractor’s bid

An oversight yesterday by officials at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) could have seen a contractor bidding for a contract denied the opportunity to have his tender...

Dem boys seh…Nuff women cussing de DNA

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nuff women cussing de DNA

De American embassy bruck up nuff family. Men mind children and play wid dem; some men walk out wid dem children just fuh mek de wife get some rest suh de child can sleep. In de end some men sit down...

Three escapees may still be in Guyana

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Three escapees may still be in Guyana

N/A Prison breakout… – Joint Services source Members of the Joint Services are continuing their sustained work with the aim of recapturing three inmates who escaped from the New Amsterdam...

Region Three Primary Schools compete in ECHO competition

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three Primary Schools compete in ECHO competition

Recently the Environmental Community Health Organization (ECHO) concluded its “Improved School Yard Competition” at primary schools within Region Three as part of its objective in promoting an...

Laxman’s 85 lead Indian revival, Windies 30-3 replying to India’s 201

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Laxman’s 85 lead Indian revival, Windies 30-3 replying to India’s 201

By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, Carib Beer & Queensway VVS Laxman, a 36-year-old veteran of 122 Tests and 16 centuries, yesterday spearheaded an Indian revival after West...

Christianburg/Wismar Secondary advance to quarter-finals

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Christianburg/Wismar Secondary advance to quarter-finals

By Rawle Welch Despite the soggy conditions that prevailed at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, the two combatants Christianburg / Wismar Secondary School and New Silver City treated a fair-sized...

MHS, LTI to battle for VV Royals title today

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on MHS, LTI to battle for VV Royals title today

– classic clash in the making with old rivals Mackenzie High School (MHS) and Linden’s Technical Institute (LTI) will renew an old rivalry today when the two schools clash in the Victory...

GYO to host trial matches to select 1st division team

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GYO to host trial matches to select 1st division team

The Gandhi Youth Organization, which has been making waves in the cricket circle with their recent encouraging accomplishments, will be hosting a series of two-day matches to select their First...

Tobacco Company not invited to consultation on draft legislation – Ramsammy

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco Company not invited to consultation on draft legislation – Ramsammy

Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has declared that neither the Tobacco Company nor anyone involved in the tobacco business is invited to the consultation on the draft Tobacco Legislation this...

Pan Am box off team trimmed due to lack of funding

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pan Am box off team trimmed due to lack of funding

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association team to the Pan Am qualifying box off scheduled for Panama has been trimmed to just three from the original eight persons due to lack of funding. GABA President...

BCB identifies and honours Father of the Year

Jun 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB identifies and honours Father of the Year

Avenamen Permaul, a 45-year-old Father of Belvedere, Corentyne and father of four, was on Sunday last honoured by the Special Events Committee (SEC) of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) under the...

Baby placed into foster care

Jun 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Baby placed into foster care

– mother reportedly in interior searching for child’s father A six-week-old baby girl who was left abandoned, along with her six-year-old brother and three-year-old sister, by their mother in...

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Raekwon Noel signs off CAC Games with three golds for Guyana

Aug 03, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s swimming sensation Raekwon Noel has done it again, capturing his third gold medal at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games after another thrilling and...

Stretching principles beyond recognition

Aug 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The present controversy over possible alleged conflicts of interest involving two members of the Commission of Inquiry into the M.V. Barima tragedy illustrates how easily an important principle can be stretched beyond recognition. Independence and impartiality are indispensable...

Nicaragua’s Abandoned Ballot: What the OAS Can and Cannot Do

Aug 02, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Daniel Ortega has now said openly what his regime has demonstrated for years: the people of Nicaragua are not to be permitted to remove their rulers through elections. During celebrations marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Ortega...

Who’s responsible, who will take responsibility?

Jul 30, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – A tragedy of catastrophic proportions is now Guyana’s to manage. An old passenger ferry boat went to the bottom. According to news reports of Saturday, 73 bodies have been recovered and 76 rescued. Taking the official count of 179 passengers on...

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