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Police recovers body of missing labourer

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police recovers body of missing labourer

The body of a labourer, who accidentally fell from a wharf into the Pomeroon River on Wednesday, has been recovered. Police at Charity, Essequibo Coast have confirmed that the body of Andrew Miguel,...

Civilians to form new group to champion child rights

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Civilians to form new group to champion child rights

…says justice for abused one-year-old is still being overlooked The group of public spirited citizens calling for justice for the one-year-old toddler who suffered abuse at the hands of her...

Magistrate orders police probe as one-eye victim alleges corruption in criminal case

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate orders police probe as one-eye victim alleges corruption in criminal case

A senior Magistrate has ordered an investigation into allegations of corruption after a man who lost his right eye when he was stabbed by another with a broken bottle appeared at the city court...

Tribute to Mrs. Deborah Backer

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tribute to Mrs. Deborah Backer

Dear Editor, It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness that I pen this letter to pay tribute and respect to, arguably, one of Guyana’s most loved politicians. I have known Mrs. Deborah Backer for...

APNU Parliamentarian takes sports items to Coomacka

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU Parliamentarian takes sports items to Coomacka

APNU Parliamentarian, Renis Morian, recently presented the young residents of Coomacka with footballs, DVDs and packets of hair care products. The objective behind the initiative, Morian said, was to...

Closed Areas Committee a sore issue – GWMO

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Closed Areas Committee a sore issue – GWMO

The non-appointment of a new board for the Closed Areas Committee and the manner in which the committee operates are sore issues that have the Guyana Women Miners’ Organization (GWMO) questioning...

Judge to sum up in Albouystown murder trial

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Judge to sum up in Albouystown murder trial

Supreme Court Judge, William Ramlal is expected to sum up the trial of murder accused, Carl Bennett, on Tuesday. Bennett, of Lot 148 Cooper Street, Albouystown, is facing a retrial for the murder of...

Ramotar was given a lesson in his relative impotence when the state paper published this story

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramotar was given a lesson in his relative impotence when the state paper published this story

Dear Editor, Imagine that a new prefect is chosen to maintain order in a class in the schoolyard, one in which the former prefect lords it over a group of unruly boys. Now, imagine that former...

Prisoner gets seven years for killing aunt’s boyfriend

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner gets seven years for killing aunt’s boyfriend

The 18-year-old who had stabbed his aunt’s boyfriend to death in 2010 was on Thursday sentenced to seven years imprisonment after pleading guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter at the High...

The actions of the opposition to hold government accountable needs the support of all citizens

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The actions of the opposition to hold government accountable needs the support of all citizens

Dear Editor, Note is taken of the call made by Mr. Yesu Persaud in Stabroek News (15th March, 2014) to President Donald Ramotar, Messrs. David Granger and Khemraj Ramjattan to pass the...

Tain Murder trial…Second prosecution star witness testifies

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tain Murder trial…Second prosecution star witness testifies

There have been some interesting developments in the Tain murder trial now ongoing in the Berbice High Court before Justice Diana Insanally and a mixed jury. On trial are Joshua Persaud, called...

From the Diaspora…EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN

By Ralph Seeram I am writing this article from my hospital bed, and by the time you read it on Sunday, I hope to be home. At least that’s what my doctor told me a few minutes ago, that is, if my...

Thinking and Acting like The Creator

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Thinking and Acting like The Creator

‘Your attitude should be the same as that of The Creator Max Lucado writes: ‘What would your life be like, even for one day, if you were to think and act like The Creator? If His priorities...

The effects of a global economy

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The effects of a global economy

The global economic conditions hurt many countries and forced a change in economic policies in many countries. Government bailed out banks, bought out important companies that threatened to fold, and...

University of Michigan execute outreaches here

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on University of Michigan execute outreaches here

A group of students connected to the International Children’s Outreach (ICO), which is founded by Guyanese born Onica Charles, has been in Guyana and working hard over the past few weeks. ICO is an...

Five families receive new homes

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Five families receive new homes

Five families are now the recipients of new two- bedroom homes complete with sanitation facilities, thanks to a collaboration between Food For The Poor (Guyana) Inc. (FFTP) and Republic Bank (Guyana)...

Crass ingratitude to the country from whence they derived their roots

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crass ingratitude to the country from whence they derived their roots

Dear Editor, As a patriotic Guyanese, no matter where in the world am, I find it many times disconcerting when Guyanese who have settled in the U.S.A. keep on disparaging their country in some way. ...

The PPP’s violations far exceed Burnham Government’s sins

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP’s violations far exceed Burnham Government’s sins

Dear Editor, I refer to a new item on page 14 of the March 21, 2014 edition of the Stabroek News captioned; “PPP slams SN editorial for ‘tarnishing’ Jagdeo administration successes,” in which...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

It will be pressure fuh so!

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on It will be pressure fuh so!

Someone or some group(s) recently placed a full-page, paid advertisement seeking to explain the various sides to the controversy over the non-passage of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the...

Banks DIH customers, dealers given tour of $$M upgrades

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH customers, dealers given tour of $$M upgrades

Customers and dealers of Banks DIH Limited were given a first-hand look at the company’s modernization programme following a tour of the Thirst Park Complex, East Bank Demerara on Wednesday last....

Book Review…Jamaican brilliance comes alive and raises key questions

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…Jamaican brilliance comes alive and raises key questions

Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Tracy Ann Salmon’s Jamaican Wisdom is a successfully ambitious foray into oral tradition. It is a work that provokes two questions: 1. How do we explain the sheer...

I will boycott the Rodney Commission of Inquiry

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I will boycott the Rodney Commission of Inquiry

Everything about the evolution and shape of the Walter Rodney Commission is wrong. The human rights community, the anti-dictatorship society, the independent media, independent commentators, trade...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Explaining some of the things that are happening is proving difficult for the lawmakers. They cannot understand why some people cannot take better care with their money, knowing that there are people...

Housing and You…Local company serves up alternative to tiles

Mar 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Local company serves up alternative to tiles

By Leonard Gildarie We have always been seeking cheaper ways to build. I like promoting anything local, like the use of our varieties of wood and even clay bricks. Unfortunately, the latter has gone...

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GBF names boys’ and girls’ teams for Inter-Guiana Games...

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has named its boys’ and girls’ teams for the basketball competition at the 2026 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), scheduled for October 23–25...

The politics of a box of cook-up

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – During the PNC era, a gentleman who had been persuaded to participate in one of the many marches organised by the government received a box of food at the end of the proceedings. He opened it. Inside was cook-up rice and a generous piece of chicken. There was only one small...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Great Game: right around here

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana now has more than oil in its hands. Guyana has a strain of this century’s Great Game now hanging over its head. It’s not the Great Game played out by Britain and Imperial Russia almost 200 years ago for dominance in Central Asia. Wish it was that distant, and...

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