January 2012

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Chief of Staff Gary Bess continues to head Guyana National Rifle Association

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chief of Staff Gary Bess continues to head Guyana National Rifle Association

Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Commodore Gary Bess, was returned unopposed to head the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA), while President Donald Ramotar has...

Cricket IMC scheduled practice match for Stadium today

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket IMC scheduled practice match for Stadium today

Announces squad for opening Regional 4-day encounter The Inter Management Committee (IMC) headed by Clive Lloyd has named two teams to battle in a practice match today in preparation for...

Djokovic edges Murray, sets up final vs Nadal

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Djokovic edges Murray, sets up final vs Nadal

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Novak Djokovic overcame his breathing problems and a “physical crisis” to beat Andy Murray in an almost five-hour Australian Open semifinal Friday night and...

No place for disabled, destitute former national footballers

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on No place for disabled, destitute former national footballers

-Norville laments neglect, dishonourable treatment By Edison Jefford Guyana’s inventory of prominent sportsmen, who have been nationally neglected, has become a burgeoning document with Godfrey...

Local ‘ruggers’ depart for national duties in optimistic mood

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local ‘ruggers’ depart for national duties in optimistic mood

A team of this country’s leading rugby players will depart these shores for the United States of America to compete in the Las Vegas Invitational Sevens Rugby Championships scheduled to get...

GMR&SC South Dakota Circuit Meet…Intense rivalry anticipated on Feb 5

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC South Dakota Circuit Meet…Intense rivalry anticipated on Feb 5

Judging from the intense exchanges that emanated shortly after the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) Competitors Meeting ended on Thursday evening at the club’s...

Cricket IMC sends warning over threatening calls to players

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket IMC sends warning over threatening calls to players

The Cricket Interim Management Committee, in a press release, has issued a strong warning to the responsible persons for placing intimidating calls to several cricketers. The IMC, which...

Over 80 Horses entered for Norman Singh Memorial TC Meet

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 80 Horses entered for Norman Singh Memorial TC Meet

With just a few days to go before the first race meet of the 2012 season slated for this Sunday January 29 at the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club at No6 West Coast Berbice, all systems...

Top Stables set to compete in RCMTC Horserace Meet

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top Stables set to compete in RCMTC Horserace Meet

Entries close tomorrow With just over one week remaining for the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf club (RCMTC) one day Horserace Meet slated for Sunday February 5 at its Alness...

GSL Preparatory t10 softball cricket tournament continues tomorrow

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSL Preparatory t10 softball cricket tournament continues tomorrow

Action in the Preparatory t10 softball cricket tournament put on by the Guyana Softball League and sponsored by Moonlite Trading, Regal Stationery & Computer Centre, Elegance...

Hadi’s Softball Fixtures for January 29

Jan 28, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hadi’s Softball Fixtures for January 29

The Hadi’s World Inc., formerly the City Mall of Camp & Regent Sts., nationwide Male/Female softball tournament organised by the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association...

Kissoon “had a morbid obsession” to defame Jagdeo

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kissoon “had a morbid obsession” to defame Jagdeo

– ex-president’s lawyer tells court Newly appointed lead counsel in the Jagdeo libel suit, Bernard De Santos SC, described Kaieteur News Columnist Freddie Kissoon as someone who had a...

Teens missing, reportedly lured to interior for sex trade

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teens missing, reportedly lured to interior for sex trade

Several girls from a West Bank Demerara community have gone missing since last week Saturday, and their families fear that an unscrupulous woman has lured them to the interior to become...

Mining sector has expanding opportunities for women – GGMC

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mining sector has expanding opportunities for women – GGMC

The mining sector presents expanding opportunities for women miners. Though not well documented, women have made sterling contributions and continue to play a vital role in the development of...

Who killed Charles Caesar?…Friends pool cash to help solve cold case

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Who killed Charles Caesar?…Friends pool cash to help solve cold case

With his murder still unsolved after almost a year, friends of taxi driver Charles Caesar are taking some unorthodox steps to track down the men who lured him to a lonely street and shot him dead....

UK injects £4.9M for Caribbean Security, climate change

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UK injects £4.9M for Caribbean Security, climate change

The Caribbean’s capacity to respond to climate change will be strengthened with 4.9 million pounds from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), according to...

HIV/AIDS infections at lowest since 1997

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on HIV/AIDS infections at lowest since 1997

-UNAIDS HIV infection and AIDS-related deaths have fallen to the lowest levels since the peak of the epidemic. New HIV infections were reduced by 21 percent since 1997, and deaths from AIDS-related...

Since founder’s murder…Recovering addicts at halfway house face harder times

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Since founder’s murder…Recovering addicts at halfway house face harder times

Recovering addicts at the Infinity Ralph Turpin’s Transitional House on Agriculture Road, East Coast Demerara, are experiencing extremely hard times since the murder of the facility’s founder,...

ANSA McAl gives back!

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ANSA McAl gives back!

Fourteen lucky persons walked away with US $100 each from the ANSA McAL Trading Ltd as the “Hard Guava Season Cash Giveaway” promotion pulled its winners on Sunday. The 14 are the first...

Truck driver remanded over hit and run death

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver remanded over hit and run death

A 29-year-old father was yesterday remanded in connection with last Wednesday’s hit and run accident that caused the death of 58- year- old Barama Security Guard Ronville Roberts....

Ex-cop jailed for forging dead mom’s signature

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop jailed for forging dead mom’s signature

A former policeman, who was found guilty of forging his dead mother’s signature, was yesterday sentenced to an 18-month jail term by resident magistrate Ms. Leron Daly. Pooran Lall, 61,...

RDC chairmen, deputies sworn in

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on RDC chairmen, deputies sworn in

Twenty persons were sworn in yesterday to lead the country’s 10 regions. The elections for the Chairpersons and their deputies of the Regional Democratic Councils (RDC) took place Wednesday...

Magistrates’ Court assistant gets four years for swallowed cocaine

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrates’ Court assistant gets four years for swallowed cocaine

An office assistant at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday admitted to swallowing 86 pellets of cocaine with the intent to smuggle it out of the country and was sentenced to...

Essequibo killer gets 23 years for manslaughter

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo killer gets 23 years for manslaughter

Ronald Daniels was on Thursday sentenced to 23 years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Daniels was convicted by Justice Roxanne George at the Suddie High Court for the...

Public Works Ministry assessing conditions of Matthews Ridge airstrip

Jan 28, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Public Works Ministry assessing conditions of Matthews Ridge airstrip

The Public Works Ministry has dispatched a team to Mathews Ridge to inspect the area’s deteriorating airstrip. According to Alphonso Mangah, Assistant Aviation Inspector, owing to the...

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Ebo McNeil delivers 1500m bronze at South American Youth Games

Apr 23, 2026

…Ezekiel Millington to contest 100m finals today Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Ebo McNeil delivered a strong performance on the track in Panama, claiming bronze in the boys’ 1500m final at the...

Glenn Lall has raised some important concerns

Apr 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something fundamentally incongruent about a country standing atop one of the most promising oil frontiers of the 21st century while simultaneously deepening its reliance on external debt. Guyana today embodies that contradiction. It is hailed as the world’s...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Mohameds Extradition – the latest episode

Apr 23, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It is obvious that there are two sets of folks who want Messrs. Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Mohamed out of Guyana. Persons of interest in the first set take the form of the Government of Guyana, specifically the hostile PPP leadership...

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