April 2013

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Gang hits local business community with bogus Manager’s Cheques

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gang hits local business community with bogus Manager’s Cheques

Police are tracking a sophisticated criminal gang that has been fleecing local businesses out of millions of dollars using bogus Manager’s Cheques from the various banking institutions....

American globetrotter crashes in Guyana while heading to Suriname

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on American globetrotter crashes in Guyana while heading to Suriname

By Rehana Ashley Ahamad An American citizen who has been traveling the world on a motorcycle since last July was making his way from Guyana to Suriname when he met with an accident in Berbice....

Harmon vows all-out fight to recall Jagdeo-issued radio licences

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon vows all-out fight to recall Jagdeo-issued radio licences

Parliamentarian Joseph Harmon has vowed an all-out fight to have the radio licences issued by former President Bharrat Jagdeo just before he left office recalled. Harmon, a leading executive with the...

Four decades of selfless service…Sister Noshella Lalckecharran is a ‘Special Person’

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Four decades of selfless service…Sister Noshella Lalckecharran is a ‘Special Person’

“It was true dedication and love for this country that made me remain here. I could have left the country for a big paying job, but what would happen if everyone left… What would happen if all of...

Dem boys seh…Dem could get a radio boycott

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem could get a radio boycott

Old people always seh that nobody don’t hear first bell but that dem does always hear last bell. What dem old people mean is that when de warning bell ring fuh school or church people...

Sunday Cartoon

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

The Baccoo Speaks

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

It was a rainy morning and some late nighters were heading home. Three of them were under the overhang of a shop when a group of prowlers with only one thing on their minds would attempt to make the...

Passing of the old guard

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Passing of the old guard

Last week, my wife’s Ajee, Etwaroo, passed away. She had been born in 1911 and was 102. Now that is quite a feat – to make it through all that transpired over the last century in Guyana. She...

Supine and silent: The Caribbean in a vortex

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Supine and silent: The Caribbean in a vortex

By Sir Ronald Sanders How beneficial or not to the Caribbean is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the 27-nation European Union (EU) as a bloc and the 15 small Caribbean members of...

SPRINTING INTO THE FUTURE

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SPRINTING INTO THE FUTURE

A few weeks ago one of the most important developments in local aviation history took place. A LIAT aircraft landed at the Ogle Airport. This was an event of historic proportions, one that has...

Dr Luncheon and the politics of confrontation

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Dr Luncheon and the politics of confrontation

Confrontation is something that I have always tried to avoid but try as I might there is always someone who would insist on some confrontation with me. There was a time when I felt that it had...

A battle for the promise

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on A battle for the promise

…a mother shares an inspiring story of fortitude By Sharmain Grainger Every young girl in her mind envisages a fairy-tale life where her prince charming finds and marries her and they live happily...

Blood and bones

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Blood and bones

-who was behind this deadly spate of carjackings? It was a sunny Friday in February 1998, that 22-year-old taxi driver Davo Narine left home to pay an electricity bill at the Guyana Power...

The Tupinambis

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Tupinambis

Tupinambis is a lizard genus which belongs to the family Teiidae, and contains seven described species. These large, South American lizards are commonly referred to as...

Fire-damaged school to reopen on April 15

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire-damaged school to reopen on April 15

Over 400 students of La Parfaite Harmonie Primary School will have to wait one more week before returning to their fire-damaged building. According to a government statement, renovations are being...

Hinterland too rich for its people to be so poor

Apr 07, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Hinterland too rich for its people to be so poor

(Extract from the presentation made by Eula Marcello MP during the 2013 Budget debate) Mr. Speaker, I rise to lend my support to the Alliance for Change members who have spoken before me on the 2013...

Book Review…Guyanese dance through time hits mark

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…Guyanese dance through time hits mark

By Dr. Glenville Ashby Guyanese native, Albert Cumberbatch, hoists readers on his literary wagon, traversing time in this nostalgic novel. The road is a not always smooth, but through the...

Moving the Capital

Apr 07, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Moving the Capital

It was reported that the lead negotiator to the UN Climate Change Convention. Mr. Andrew Bishop declared that “it would be difficult to move Georgetown” inland even though he conceded that there...

Toddler severely burnt

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Toddler severely burnt

-brother playing with matches to be blamed “If you play with fire, you gon get burn, or somebody gon get hurt” is a phrase that a Sophia mother repeatedly tried to explain to her...

Harmon calls for across-the-board scrutiny of radio licensees

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon calls for across-the-board scrutiny of radio licensees

…even as he calls for a rework of the national budget All recipients of radio frequencies must be subjected to scrutiny on par with those who are required to reapply and as well as those who...

Construction of transmission tower at Plaisance…Residents will not allow Govt. imposition

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Construction of transmission tower at Plaisance…Residents will not allow Govt. imposition

Residents of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, would not allow Government’s imposition of a transmission tower on the community playground when there are alternative locations in the...

Cancer patients in limbo as treatment facility awaits licensing

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cancer patients in limbo as treatment facility awaits licensing

By Romila Boodram Guyana’s only cancer treatment facility has been out of operation since last June, leaving almost 80 patients worrying about their fate. Officials of the Cancer Institute of...

Guyana signs US$5M financing agreement under GRIF

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana signs US$5M financing agreement under GRIF

– for Small and Medium Enterprises development Guyana on Friday signed another agreement under the Guyana Redd+ Investment Fund (GRIF). This time it was for a US$5M fund for the development...

Tuschen resident convicted for fraud

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Tuschen resident convicted for fraud

Daniel Persaud, 44, of Lot 2191 Tushen, East Bank Essequibo, has been convicted for fraudulently converting property entrusted to him by Woodruff Phillips in June 2010. On Friday, at...

36 graduate from Obama’s skills programme

Apr 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 36 graduate from Obama’s skills programme

Samuel Whyte Some 36 youths who were part of the second batch of the President Barack Obama’s Caribbean Basin Security Initiative partnership training in Berbice, graduated on Friday...

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Seifert hundred puts Kings on top

Aug 28, 2026

CPL – Saint Lucia Kings recorded back-to-back wins as they beat the Trinbago Knight Riders by 36-runs at the Queen’s Park Oval in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Tim Seifert...

Second-class patients

Aug 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something wonderfully modern about a health system in which the government pays a private hospital to provide a service to poor people, and the private hospital then tells those poor people to come back tomorrow for the results. It is almost as if the voucher comes...

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...

Nothing to hide

Aug 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali has said that he has nothing to hide about his farm tucked away inside Long Creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Comforts me to hear that statement. Having made his representation, the president is now obligated to go further. Beyond his words would be a good...

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