April 2013

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Addressing cyber crime is a work in progress – Cabinet Secretary

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Addressing cyber crime is a work in progress – Cabinet Secretary

Realising legislation to combat cyber crime is currently a work in progress and much of it depends on the development of such measures elsewhere in the world. At least this is according...

Miner drowns in interior

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Miner drowns in interior

The body of Steven Hohenkirk, 23, of Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara was pulled from a river in the interior, at approximately 10:00h on Monday. The young man, who is said to be a...

Finance Minister questions logic behind cutting of Specialty Hospital

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister questions logic behind cutting of Specialty Hospital

In its quest to rationalise the parliamentary opposition’s decision to slash the allocation for the highly-touted Specialty Hospital, Government has sought to suggest that the move was in...

Amaila Falls road, East Bank Highway project saved from budget cuts

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls road, East Bank Highway project saved from budget cuts

The opposition Parliamentary majority withdrew its threat to cut funding for the road to Amaila Falls and the East Bank Highway project. The East Bank Highway project is projected to spend...

Stable politics, security will determine Guyana’s growth in 2013 – Yesu Persaud

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stable politics, security will determine Guyana’s growth in 2013 – Yesu Persaud

– Demerara Bank earns $577M for first half Demerara Bank Limited has continued its good showing earning $577M profit after tax for the first six months of its financial year. According to...

Fly Jamaica still to provide pertinent information – Civil Aviation

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fly Jamaica still to provide pertinent information – Civil Aviation

By Zena Henry Fly Jamaica is still to present pertinent information to local government officials and that has caused some slothfulness in the company receiving authorization to operate...

GT&T launches BlackBerry Z10

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T launches BlackBerry Z10

– one year free data service with every purchase The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) announced yesterday that customers who purchase the new device from...

Sexual exploitation in interior…APNU calls for proactive measures

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sexual exploitation in interior…APNU calls for proactive measures

– as Home Affairs Ministry touts ‘vibrant’ Task Force As A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) expressed its distress over a recent heinous case of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) involving...

Sparendaam plane crash…Insurance company’s silence unusual – GCAA

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sparendaam plane crash…Insurance company’s silence unusual – GCAA

By Keeran Danny The insurance company of the ill-fated American-registered aircraft, a twin-engine Piper Aztec with registration number N27-FT that crashed into a Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara,...

Hefty bids supply, delivery of water meter boxes

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hefty bids supply, delivery of water meter boxes

Bids for the supply and delivery of water meter boxes for the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB.)...

Rice worries

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Rice worries

The ongoing protests by rice farmers in Essequibo highlight the challenges that must be addressed by the authorities if the industry is to continue on its upward trajectory that has proven to be the...

Businessman remanded on two counts of attempted murder

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman remanded on two counts of attempted murder

A Land of Canaan businessman has been remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of attempted murder. Thirty-five year-old Rodney Raghubansee made his appearance before...

Automotive Co. shareholders lose right over building

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Automotive Co. shareholders lose right over building

Ingrid Campbell and Alfred Chung, proprietors of AIC Battery and Automotive Services Company Limited (AIC), have lost their rights over a building located at Vlissengen Road and Da Silva Street,...

Police community relations improvement campaign shifts gears

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police community relations improvement campaign shifts gears

Police on the East Coast of Demerara have taken their public relations campaign to another level, distributing hampers to two fortunate senior citizens. On Friday last, Commander Eric Bassant...

Teens rescued from Puruni shop…GWMO President makes formal assault complaint

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Teens rescued from Puruni shop…GWMO President makes formal assault complaint

President of the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes has made a formal complaint to the Guyana Police Force about the assault she suffered at the hands of a shop...

Mother of four brutally chopped by husband

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of four brutally chopped by husband

– Suspect at large A 37-year-old fisherman and labourer of Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice, brutally chopped his wife, a mother of four, during a row on Monday last, over suspected...

COMING SOON OUR WAY: SAME-SEX MARRIAGES?

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on COMING SOON OUR WAY: SAME-SEX MARRIAGES?

France has joined a long bandwagon of European countries that have now legalised same-sex marriages. Britain is likely to eventually follow suit, as is the United States, where already some...

Fire leaves Guyanese couple in St. Kitts homeless

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire leaves Guyanese couple in St. Kitts homeless

St. Kitts (SKNVibes) – A Guyanese couple residing in Upper Monkey Hill, St. Peter’s Parish was left homeless Monday after fire destroyed their two-bedroom cottage along with all of...

Digicel unveils new BlackBerry smartphone

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel unveils new BlackBerry smartphone

Digicel Guyana on Monday announced the launching of the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone and from today will be selling the cutting-edge mobile device. “The new BlackBerry Z10...

Suspect in elderly woman’s murder had scratch marks on body

Apr 24, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect in elderly woman’s murder had scratch marks on body

The delay to bury the remains of 89-year-old Millicent Cummings may have been a blessing in disguise, since it has given investigators a window of opportunity to crack the murder case....

‘Customs is King’

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘Customs is King’

Dear Editor It’s amazing what a hassle our business people and port operators have to go through in this country. While I am totally in support of regulation, transparency and controls, I am...

Feeding a cultural dilemma in Indian communities

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Feeding a cultural dilemma in Indian communities

Dear Editor The KN on Sunday 21 April had full page colour ad for a Carib Beer Chutney Mania event on Sunday 4 May at Better Hope Ground. The ad lets us know that we have to buy six...

Compensation is due

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Compensation is due

Dear Editor, In the middle of March 2013 the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) made a new introduction in the form of Mobile Money. From what I understand, during the...

The Beacon of Truth?

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Beacon of Truth?

Dear Editor, The Guyana Times continuously boasts that it is “the Beacon of Truth”, that it always upholds “Freedom of Expression” and that it studiously upholds the Laws of the Land...

Seeking to abuse political affiliation

Apr 24, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seeking to abuse political affiliation

Dear Editor, I am highlighting some problems we are encountering with an activist of the ruling party in Mahdia, who came to live here about one year ago and who most of the residents here...

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Guyana starts preparation to host 2027 CARIFTA Games

Aug 26, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has officially begun the process of preparing to host the 2027 CARIFTA Games, marking a historic milestone for the country as it prepares to stage the premier youth and...

Lack of time and misinterpretation?

Aug 26, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The belated explanation offered by Ralph Ramkarran, former Chairman of the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) that the present constitutional gridlock over the appointment of Guyana’s Chancellor and Chief Justice resulted from a misinterpretation by the Oversight Committee...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

MV Barima – a month later

Aug 26, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The night of Saturday, July 18, 2026 and the early hours of the agonising Sunday that followed are now dates etched into the memory and history of Guyanese. The first hours brought the first pieces of news of a tragedy about which none had a clue that it was really one. And...

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