February 2014

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GFF Premier League…Alpha looking to strengthen grip; GDF faces M/ca Determinators

Feb 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Premier League…Alpha looking to strengthen grip; GDF faces M/ca Determinators

League leaders Alpha United will be looking to strengthen their grip on the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Premier League when they face Linden’s Silver Shattas this afternoon in the feature game...

Top boxers selected for South American Boxing C/ships

Feb 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top boxers selected for South American Boxing C/ships

-Imran Khan omitted through injury Merely three days after leading Guyana to championship honours in the just concluded Four Nations Caribbean Boxing Championships, three of the top boxers,...

Vizion Sports and Ent. group stages Caribbean Inter Club Football Competition

Feb 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vizion Sports and Ent. group stages Caribbean Inter Club Football Competition

Football fans can gear up for exciting football when the Vizion Sports and Entertainment Group presents the Caribbean Inter Club Football Competition on March 5th, 7th and 9th next. Yesterday...

AML legislation…Opposition amendments will create “underground” money transfer – Rohee

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AML legislation…Opposition amendments will create “underground” money transfer – Rohee

By Dwijendra Rooplall General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Clement Rohee, speaking on the amendments that the political opposition are seeking to make with respect to the...

Colwyn Harding alleged baton assault…Witness claims he was offered $$$ to change his story

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Colwyn Harding alleged baton assault…Witness claims he was offered $$$ to change his story

As the nation holds its breath, anxiously awaiting the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the Colwyn Harding sexual assault matter, Kaieteur News has been reliably informed that...

CARICOM accredits South African envoy

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM accredits South African envoy

After accepting her credentials yesterday, CARICOM Secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, officially introduced Her Excellency, Maureen Isabella Modiselle, South Africa’s Ambassador to the...

Health Ministry raises ‘Chikungunya virus’ alert

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry raises ‘Chikungunya virus’ alert

Proactive moves have been engaged by the Ministry of Health through its Vector Control Services Unit to guard against the dreaded Chikungunya virus which has since last year hit a number of Caribbean...

Travel Span continues rapid expansion

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Travel Span continues rapid expansion

– to hire Guyanese flight attendants By Dwijendra Rooplall Travel Span has continued to its operations as a carrier service, once again providing non-stop flights for Guyanese travelling...

Two shot in separate incidents

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two shot in separate incidents

A man, who punched two police officers at the Stabroek Market outpost Monday night, and bit another, was shot to the right leg and is now a patient, under police guard, at the Georgetown Public...

Seven companies vie for major drug supply contract

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Seven companies vie for major drug supply contract

Prequalification tenders were submitted under the Health Ministry for the supply and delivery of pharmaceutical/other medical supplies/consumable for the period 2014-2016. The bids were opened...

World Bank VP pays tribute to Laurence Clarke

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on World Bank VP pays tribute to Laurence Clarke

Vice President of World Bank Group Human Resources, Sean McGrath, has said that Laurence Clarke’s legacy is felt across the Africa continent, in Juba, Angola, Mozambique, Sao Tome, Liberia,...

Boat overturns in Region Seven…Teen’s body recovered days after

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Boat overturns in Region Seven…Teen’s body recovered days after

The bloated remains of 18-year-old Hassani David of Lot 257 Section ‘C’ South Sophia was yesterday pulled from a river in Region Seven, days after the boat he was on capsized. During a brief...

GPL offers Mash vendors prepaid service

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL offers Mash vendors prepaid service

Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) is inviting all persons desirous of using temporary electricity supply for the purposes of Mash celebrations to contact the company’s Commercial Office to prepay...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Arguments today over amendments to defence’s case

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Arguments today over amendments to defence’s case

By Zena Henry Attorneys in the Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case are expected to go head-to-head today in arguments over whether the court should allow the defence to amend its case to include justifying...

DISBARMENT

Feb 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DISBARMENT

It is disappointing that a member of the Bar should suggest that the Executive President of Guyana should launch a Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of a Court of Appeal judge who was a...

Municipal PRO calls for execution of city development plan

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Municipal PRO calls for execution of city development plan

– in light of increasing traffic congestion The city of Georgetown is in dire need of radical changes in order to address the traffic congestion that obtains on a daily basis. However, this...

Disbarred Judge denies securing appointment through Govt. connection

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Disbarred Judge denies securing appointment through Govt. connection

“I was, and remain fully eligible for the post” With numerous questions circling over his appointment as an Appeal Court Judge, Rabi Sukul, has come out in defence of himself and further...

Election official to be resummoned by PAC

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Election official to be resummoned by PAC

– “to clarify a number of inconsistencies” A “disrespectful” letter to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will see Calvin Benn, Deputy Commissioner/Deputy Chief Election Officer, being...

Sexually abused 5-year-old unable to identify perpetrator

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sexually abused 5-year-old unable to identify perpetrator

“…it is understandable that she got confused”- Tuschen Policing Group member The sexually abused five-year-old, who was rescued from a schoolyard earlier this month, is unable to identify the...

PAHO/WHO new Country Rep accredited

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO/WHO new Country Rep accredited

Dr. William Adu-Krow, the designated representative of the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), on Monday presented his Letters of Credence to Minister of Foreign...

Two more witnesses testify in Mahaica farmer murder trial

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two more witnesses testify in Mahaica farmer murder trial

Seeta Bishundial concluded her portion of evidence in the trial, in which Shawn Thom and Orin David called ‘Plait Hair’ or ‘Malik’ are facing Justice Franklyn Holder and a mixed 12-member...

A Guyana Tragedy: Magistrates Nurse and Lovell and Commissioner Brumell

Feb 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A Guyana Tragedy: Magistrates Nurse and Lovell and Commissioner Brumell

In a column last week on Magistrate Clive Nurse, I did say that I would write the Chancellor on this magistrate’s ruling to jail two police ranks for two years for allowing a prisoner to escape. My...

Searching for an answer

Feb 19, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Searching for an answer

For the last six decades economists have been searching for an answer to a simple question: how to bring poor countries out of backwardness? The initial answer was as simple as the question itself....

‘Literacy Street Fair’ slated for Friday

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Literacy Street Fair’ slated for Friday

Popular poet and writer Petamber Persaud once said that, “A nation that celebrates its literature is a nation on its way to realizing its full potential.” Recognizing the significance of such a...

Old Year’s Night murder…Accused for High Court trial

Feb 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Old Year’s Night murder…Accused for High Court trial

Jermaine Maynard, who is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend less than two months ago outside the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet on Water and Croal Streets, Georgetown, has been...

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Elliot Vieira breaks 10-year hiatus with return to Guyanese

Oct 28, 2026

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 27, 2026 – Elliot Vieira, one of Guyana’s recognised motorcycle racing names, will return to local competition this weekend after a 10-year absence, adding further...

Time for a reset of economic strategy

Oct 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s economic gurus would do well to put aside, if only for a moment, their celebratory charts, their impressive growth statistics, the glossy Article IV IMF reports and their seemingly inexhaustible supply of reasons why everything is proceeding according to plan, and...

Are We All Ukrainians?

Oct 25, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 19 October, accepting the award of Ukraine’s Order of Merit, I said that my commitment to Ukraine rests on a principle essential to small nations everywhere: sovereignty is the freedom to govern ourselves, preserve our identity and decide our future....

India’s cockroaches, Guyana’s parasites

Oct 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Police out in force. Tens of thousands in India. Is there a war? Indeed, there is. The Modi government apparently has scant tolerance for students, young unemployed and, of course, Muslims. Hence, that ready army of cops with sticks, and demonstrators ready to go to...

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