June 2012

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MCY&S launches 5km Road Race, Fitness Jog

Jun 29, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on MCY&S launches 5km Road Race, Fitness Jog

By Juanita Hooper In an effort of resuscitating long distance running in Guyana, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCY&S) in collaboration with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG)...

Meet the Washington DC Jammers

Jun 29, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Meet the Washington DC Jammers

Michael Creppy Coach, DC Jammers Clarence Wallerson Asst. Coach, DC Jammers Dennis Baird Team Manager, DC Jammers Glenn Stokes American Univeristy 5’7 Guard Professional Basketball: Holland...

Guyana National Basketball Team Player Profiles

Jun 29, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana National Basketball Team Player Profiles

– team takes on D.C Jammers, Brooklyn Bulldogs this weekend The Guyana national senior male basketball team will be in action this weekend against one of their long-term nemesis, the Washington...

Fans promised early night as Jones, Declou predict knockouts tonight

Jun 29, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on Fans promised early night as Jones, Declou predict knockouts tonight

By Michael Benjamin If boxing buffs are to take Edmond Declou and Kwesi ‘Lightening Struck Assasin’ Jones seriously, then they could be assured of an early night tonight when the Guyana Boxing...

Nagamootoo’s comments are unfortunate

Jun 29, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Nagamootoo’s comments are unfortunate

Dear Editor, It is most unfortunate to have read the comments in your newspaper attributed to AFC Member of Parliament Moses Nagamootoo who is inferring that it is the government that is seeking to...

Regard the work on gender issues

Jun 29, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Regard the work on gender issues

Dear Sir, Concerned Caribbean feminists are making public across the region our dismay at the dismissal of Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development, Verna St Rose Greaves, from the Trinidad...

Auditor General’s actions

Jun 29, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Auditor General’s actions

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent action by the Auditor General who supplied 11 names to the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament of persons in the Audit Office who were acting, to be...

Empower People, not Politicians

Jun 29, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Empower People, not Politicians

Dear Editor, Seven months into the new parliament, the opposition has not made much effort to empower the people. While the opposition has attempted to make the government more accountable in its...

Our Children are crying. Is anyone listening?

Jun 29, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Our Children are crying. Is anyone listening?

Dear Sir, Monique’s helping Hands Support Centre has had the opportunity to work with a large population of vulnerable children in Guyana. We see violence against children as a serious public...

High Flyers and the rest

Jun 29, 2012 knews Editorial Comments Off on High Flyers and the rest

And the horses are in!!! This might as well have been the headline in the dailies as the results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) were announced. The focus, as usual, was on the ‘high...

Greenidge’s parliamentary motions sterile, superfluous

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge’s parliamentary motions sterile, superfluous

– AG Nandlall By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Government has absolutely no intention of abiding with a motion approved on Wednesday evening by the Combined Opposition. Legal Advisor, Minister of...

China Harbour denies history of corruption … ‘Direct questions to your govt’

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on China Harbour denies history of corruption … ‘Direct questions to your govt’

– we don’t know of any review – CJIA contractor The Chinese contractor involved in the US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project yesterday refuted...

Husband in custody as … Wife found buried in house

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Husband in custody as … Wife found buried in house

Two days after she was brutally murdered, allegedly by her husband, police on the East Coast of Demerara recovered the decomposing body of 50-year-old Joan Durant from a shallow grave in her Melanie...

Teen stabbed to death

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teen stabbed to death

– 18-year-old suspect detained The life of a promising teenager ended brutally last night after he was stabbed to death in 17th Street, Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara, during a quarrel...

Ramotar seeks private sector input in corruption fight

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar seeks private sector input in corruption fight

Corruption has been identified as one of the major impediments to good business in the Guyanese economy and, both the Government and the private sector have agreed to stamp out the practices...

Dem Boys Seh … Airport deal was Jagdeo last haul

Jun 29, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh … Airport deal was Jagdeo last haul

Tie Tan was de big ship that sink pun de first trip and kill hundreds. Now dem got Tie Tang. He is not a big ship. He is a big contractor. But dem boys worried because when Tie Tang done wid de...

GT&T head resigns, four sacked

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T head resigns, four sacked

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, Yog Mahadeo, has resigned. News of his resignation came yesterday. Until a replacement is found, the telephone company would be...

Hotel Tower owner loses $$M as home goes up in flames

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hotel Tower owner loses $$M as home goes up in flames

The West Bank Demerara home of Salim Juman Azeez, owner of Hotel Tower, was yesterday gutted in an early morning fire. The blaze, believed to be electrical in origin, left millions of dollars in...

NY-based Guyanese in CJIA crash sues Caribbean Airlines

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on NY-based Guyanese in CJIA crash sues Caribbean Airlines

A passenger on the Caribbean Airlines flight that ran off the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, last July, has sued the airline. According to the Court House News...

Drowned boy would have been awarded school of his dreams

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Drowned boy would have been awarded school of his dreams

While many parents will be able to embrace and congratulate their children on their success at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment, Shemar Success’ family is left with nothing but...

National Grade Six Assessment… Results reflect equity in the delivery of education – Minister Manickchand

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on National Grade Six Assessment… Results reflect equity in the delivery of education – Minister Manickchand

By Jenelle Carter Education Minister Priya Manickchand says her Ministry is pleased with the results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) as the results reflect equity in the delivery of...

Taunts about spouse may have motivated prison escape

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Taunts about spouse may have motivated prison escape

Police were yesterday still trying to locate Sherwin Bobb, the inmate who escaped from the Camp Street Prison on Wednesday. An official confirmed that the fugitive had travelled to Pouderoyen, West...

Biodiversity conservation and climate change series launched

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Biodiversity conservation and climate change series launched

The Ministry of Education in collaboration with Conservation International – Guyana, yesterday launched its new television series on Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change, at Queen’s...

‘Demon-possessed’ chain thief jailed

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Demon-possessed’ chain thief jailed

A 25-year-old father from Amelia’s Ward, Linden, who claimed that a demon possessed him when he snatched a young lady’s gold chain, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail for larceny from...

Six-year-old brain tumour patient needs urgent assistance

Jun 29, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Six-year-old brain tumour patient needs urgent assistance

Six-year-old Shurlock Semple, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour by doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and has been in the institution’s Intensive Care Unit for the...

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Female prison inmates make history in Caribbean Boxing

Aug 22, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – History was made at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Thursday evening when Orina Silas and Shania Benjamin became the first female inmates from Guyana, and believed to be the...

Children are dying!

Aug 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The words of South African Anglican priest and anti-apartheid activist Michael Lapsley today rings with the moral clarity that the world desperately needs to hear. After returning from Havana, he did not mince words. He accused the United States of inflicting “a genocide...

Haiti – Stop the money flow to Organised Crime

Aug 16, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Haiti’s plight must not be forgotten because it is no longer a regular feature of international headlines. The suffering has not diminished. Between January and early June 2026, at least 2,310 people were killed, 1,106 were injured and 99 were kidnapped,...

Move MV Barima media

Aug 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Gov’t will give an arm and a leg to get the MV Barima off the front-pages. I go so far as to assert that some would part with their left nut to hustle the tragedy of the MV Barima out of the media altogether. C’mon folks, it is only 100 dead, […]

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