January 2012

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Prudential Industrial Technologies on board NaMilCo Football Festival

Jan 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Prudential Industrial Technologies on board NaMilCo Football Festival

Prudential Industrial Technologies of Lot 8 Water and New Market Streets grasped the opportunity to become the first business entity to ink its name to the list of sponsors of this...

6th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting C/ships – USVI…Powerhouse Guyana to carry full strength team

Jan 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 6th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting C/ships – USVI…Powerhouse Guyana to carry full strength team

Having made their mark at the Caribbean, Regional, Commonwealth and International levels ever since their return to the Powerlifting scene a few years ago, The Guyana Amateur...

BCB convenes successful 2011 AGM

Jan 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB convenes successful 2011 AGM

Special Emphasis on Coaching in 2012 The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Sunday last hosted its Annual General Meeting for 2011 at its Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam Office. The meeting...

GWBA needs funding to send team to Antigua

Jan 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GWBA needs funding to send team to Antigua

The Guyana Women’s Basketball Association (GWBA) needs funding to send its national junior and senior team to Antigua to compete in the twelfth edition of the Annual Gillian Brazier...

2011 Memorex/Leslie Amsterdam Mem. U17 cricket… Suresh Dhanai’s 88 guides Young Warriors to quarter finals

Jan 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2011 Memorex/Leslie Amsterdam Mem. U17 cricket… Suresh Dhanai’s 88 guides Young Warriors to quarter finals

Young Warriors Cricket Club (YWCC) of Cumberland is the latest team to reach the quarterfinals of the 2011 Memorex/Leslie Amsterdam Memorial Under-17 cricket competition in Berbice....

Letter to the Sports Editor…GCB did not write government to rescind Lloyd’s appointment

Jan 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…GCB did not write government to rescind Lloyd’s appointment

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News of January 12, 2012 published a letter written by me as Hon. Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) under the...

New Speaker not bothered by PPP/C non-support

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New Speaker not bothered by PPP/C non-support

– AFC said was a “hard fight” to get APNU backing The new Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, yesterday said that he is not bothered about the negative rhetoric being...

Puzzling teacher’s death at GPHC…Cause of death uncertain, samples for overseas testing

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Puzzling teacher’s death at GPHC…Cause of death uncertain, samples for overseas testing

A post mortem on the remains of Rohini Balkaran of Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara, who passed away suddenly at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Monday, has failed to determine the...

Region Seven outbreak linked to decaying worms

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Region Seven outbreak linked to decaying worms

An investigation into a gastroenteritis outbreak in the Chinoweing area situated in the upper Mazaruni District, Region Seven, which was detected during the latter part of last year, has been...

Guyanese-UK teen who fell from bridge was ‘fed alcohol’ by peers

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-UK teen who fell from bridge was ‘fed alcohol’ by peers

-adopted parents livid teachers let her leave school The Guyanese teenager who fell to her death from a bridge in the United Kingdom was “fed alcohol” by her peers, her adopted parents have...

Truckers blamed for deterioration of Port Kaituma access road

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Truckers blamed for deterioration of Port Kaituma access road

…govt. mulls weight limit, road users’ agreement Inclement weather and abuse by truckers were cited as the two main reasons that have led to the deterioration of the access road which...

Best Annual report…Banks DIH cops Ram and McRae’s 2010 award

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Best Annual report…Banks DIH cops Ram and McRae’s 2010 award

Soft drinks giant and beer company, Banks DIH Limited, has copped the Ram and McRae Best Annual Report Award for 2010 in the second annual competition which attracted 20 local companies. Clifford...

CARICOM inaugurates Audit Committee

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM inaugurates Audit Committee

Terrence Bastian, Auditor General of The Bahamas has been elected as the first Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. The Committee was the...

City Hall restoration stalled

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall restoration stalled

A project to restore City Hall is stalled as the City Engineers’ Department has been unable to present Councillors with a comprehensive work plan outlining priority works and phases in which...

Blankenburg murder…Victim died of severed trachea – PM reveals

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Blankenburg murder…Victim died of severed trachea – PM reveals

Police are hoping that suspected killer, Shawn Rodney, who is believed to have brutally murdered his wife on Tuesday, will turn himself in as they have failed to locate him. It is believed that the...

Stewartville murder trial…Victim’s father says he recognized accused

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stewartville murder trial…Victim’s father says he recognized accused

Former policeman Naraine Lall was yesterday called to testify as the murder trial for two men continued before Justice Franklyn Holder. Peter Ray Kassim, called ‘Donkey’, and Satanand...

Bandit nabbed with stolen cash after Parika robbery

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit nabbed with stolen cash after Parika robbery

A man who along with his two accomplices robbed a Parika businesswoman of cash and cheque totaling more than $4M, did not get two far as he was nabbed in a parked car a few miles away. The man...

UG entrance examination slated for January 27

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UG entrance examination slated for January 27

The University of Guyana (UG) is offering individuals without the requisite Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate or General Certificate of Education (CSEC/GCE) qualifications a chance...

We did not shoot Sparendaam woman- Police

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on We did not shoot Sparendaam woman- Police

A senior police official on the East Coast of Demerara is refuting reports that Tuesday night’s shooting of a 38-year old Sparendaam woman was as a result of police indiscretion....

Essequibo gets garbage truck to help tackle dumping

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo gets garbage truck to help tackle dumping

The Essequibo Coast has long enjoyed the reputation of being one of the cleanest residential areas in Guyana, but increasing dumping has seen the need for more garbage disposal resources. As a...

Two detained in Zeelugt cemetery murder

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two detained in Zeelugt cemetery murder

-victim died of strangulation, head trauma Members of the Tuschen Community Policing Group early yesterday morning captured the man who is considered the main suspect in Sunday’s murder at Zeelugt,...

White Castle owner, staffers fined $50,000 each

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on White Castle owner, staffers fined $50,000 each

…after refusing to give evidence against two policemen The owner and staffers of the White Castle Fish Shop were yesterday made to pay $50,000 each in court costs, after they refused to offer...

Woman in court for assaulting 4-month-old baby

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman in court for assaulting 4-month-old baby

The woman fingered for allegedly assaulting a four-month-old baby was yesterday granted $100,000 bail after being read two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm. Dacia Francis, a...

Berbice canecutter on trial for 2008 murder of co-worker

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice canecutter on trial for 2008 murder of co-worker

Shawn Tyndall called ‘Arthur’ or ‘Asha’, 42, of Manchester, Corentyne, a canecutter of the Albion Estate, is on trial in the Berbice High Court for the murder of his one-time lover,...

Middle finger case dismissed against teenager

Jan 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Middle finger case dismissed against teenager

After a wait of five months, 18-year-old Kevin Simon, who was charged for waving his middle finger at the convoy of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, had his matter dismissed by Sparendaam...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

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...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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