January 2014

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Deborah Backer to make public announcement today

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Deborah Backer to make public announcement today

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Deborah Backer, after a prolonged silence of her health status and future in the House, is expected to come public with a statement today. This is according...

Top Cop accepts Rohee’s recommendations, transfers Corentyne ranks

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop accepts Rohee’s recommendations, transfers Corentyne ranks

…only shifting problem to another place —says AFC In response to the complaints and “standoffs” of residents of Number 48 Village, Corentyne over what they described as police...

Case adjourned after prisoner collapses in courtroom

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Case adjourned after prisoner collapses in courtroom

In the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate yesterday, a prisoner collapsed and was sent for medical attention, even before the threatening language charge could have been read to him. Simon Madramootoo...

Every day you see the mediocrity that has descended on Guyana

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Every day you see the mediocrity that has descended on Guyana

One of the dangerous things about a poor country that is wrecked by social and political decay is the loss of human resources. Good, intelligent, mature, educated, talented, skillful,...

ANOTHER MASTERCLASS FROM JUSTICE CHANG

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ANOTHER MASTERCLASS FROM JUSTICE CHANG

Yesterday was an historic day in the struggle to protect the Constitution of Guyana from being violated by the country’s opposition parties. And rightly so. It was the judiciary, the ultimate...

The ability to forget

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The ability to forget

The human brain is an amazing part of the anatomy. Some say that it is the repository of life and indeed, all of the phases of life are stored in the brain. The memories are stored there as...

Pomeroon man freed of manslaughter

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon man freed of manslaughter

A Pomeroon man who police had implicated in the murder of his dead friend, Alexis Smith, in 2010, at Warapana, Upper Pomeroon River, was freed on the lesser count of manslaughter by Justice Nareshwar...

Irresponsible spending of taxpayers’ money

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Irresponsible spending of taxpayers’ money

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me to respond to an article published in your 28th January edition ‘GPHC among five hospitals to get new ambulances’. The Health Minister reportedly said that Kwakwani...

We would like to see more tangible assistance from corporate citizens

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on We would like to see more tangible assistance from corporate citizens

DEAR EDITOR, We take this opportunity to make some suggestions to the way some of us treat our country. We believe there is need for corporate citizens; who have benefitted from the citizens of...

Everybody should have the same quality of life and protection under the law

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Everybody should have the same quality of life and protection under the law

DEAR EDITOR, The headline in Stabroek News on Wednesday, January 29 reads “Top Cop sweeps No 51 station clean”. Sincere congratulations to the people of No. 48 village and surrounding...

What can bridge our differences?

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What can bridge our differences?

DEAR EDITOR, Mr Elton McRae in a letter to SN of 1-26-14 titled “Burial sites linked to faith based organizations in BV-Triumph are managed by an established code”, seeks relief for alleged...

M&CC – Roads, Parks and Drainage

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on M&CC – Roads, Parks and Drainage

Dear Editor, When last I checked (a few years ago) the establishment of each of the Units of the M&CC mentioned, was as indicated below. It is in the context of all the overflowing debate about a...

Is it really Uncle Donald that put his foot down?

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is it really Uncle Donald that put his foot down?

DEAR EDITOR, The prevailing opinion in Guyana is that Donald Ramotar is the Jagdeoites’ Dmitry Medvedev. Messrs Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh summed it up in their letter titled “Present...

Young people feel insecure in Guyana

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Young people feel insecure in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, We as young people don’t feel safe in Guyana to express ourselves. We are aware of cases where young people have been abused and violated in this country and the public...

New US law opposes financing of large scale hydro projects…Guyana named

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New US law opposes financing of large scale hydro projects…Guyana named

Guyana’s hopes of using US-backed financing to build a 165-megawatt hydro electric project at Amaila Falls in Region Eight may have dwindled with reports that new laws have been passed that will...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Lawyers split over additional evidence justifying defendant’s claim

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Lawyers split over additional evidence justifying defendant’s claim

By Zena Henry Lawyers in the Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case are torn over the admissibility of additional evidence to be presented on behalf of the defence in its obligation to prove that former President...

Rohee shoots down legalising marijuana

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee shoots down legalising marijuana

Any thought that Guyana is considering the decriminalising of marijuana soon was put to rest yesterday as Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee announced a zero tolerance against the possession and...

Boy, 16, allegedly sodomised at Police Outpost

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 16, allegedly sodomised at Police Outpost

– ranks to be placed under close arrest Police were last night preparing to place three ranks under close arrest following allegations that they sodomised a 16-year-old boy. A senior police...

GPL to get US$53M upgrade for future hydro

Jan 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to get US$53M upgrade for future hydro

By Leonard Gildarie In one of its most ambitious project yet to improve performance, the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is working with funding agencies on a multi-million dollar...

Dem boys seh…Trouble mek Ganga cry

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Trouble mek Ganga cry

De people seh that trouble mek de monkey eat pepper. Well trouble mek nuff thing happen. It mek two teenage boys get ketch wid a gun more big than dem. Somebody pay dem to drop off de gun suh a man...

Scotia Bank Kiddy cricket makes welcome return

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank Kiddy cricket makes welcome return

– games to be played in three counties By Zaheer Mohamed The Scotia Bank Kiddy Cricket Festival 2014 was launched yesterday in the board room of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB). The event...

Crandon confident as national team departs for NAGICO Super50

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Crandon confident as national team departs for NAGICO Super50

Coach of the Guyana team Esaun Crandon expressed confidence that his team can go all the way in the Regional NAGICO Super50 tournament which commences on January 30 in Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking...

Brazilian Trainers arrive for Beach Volleyball Workshop

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brazilian Trainers arrive for Beach Volleyball Workshop

The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) and the South American Volleyball Federation (CSV) Beach Volleyball workshop is set to get underway today at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Georgetown at...

GBA President mulls developmental strategies as international amateur boxing returns to the CASH

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA President mulls developmental strategies as international amateur boxing returns to the CASH

By Michael Benjamin If President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle gets his way, local amateur referees and judges would soon receive a reasonable stipend for their services...

Smythfield Rockers defeat East Canje Knights in Anamayah Memorial Basketball

Jan 29, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smythfield Rockers defeat East Canje Knights in Anamayah Memorial Basketball

Play in the ongoing Anamaya Memorial Inter Club First Division Basketball competition for teams in East Berbice continued on Sunday last with one game played at the Smythfield Hard Court in New...

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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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