April 2014

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City Mayor defends Royston King in Beacon Foundation saga

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Mayor defends Royston King in Beacon Foundation saga

Georgetown Mayor, Hamilton Green has come to the defence of Public Relations Officer, Royston King stating that the decision to exempt rates and taxes payment from the well known...

Jamaica dominate opening day of 43rd Carifta Games with 23 medals

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaica dominate opening day of 43rd Carifta Games with 23 medals

Guyana strike double gold Jamaica Observer – THE Jamaican junior sprinters reclaimed their supremacy at the regional level with a marvellous show of speed on Saturday’s first day of the 43rd...

Lewis Hamilton eases to victory in China GP for Mercedes

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lewis Hamilton eases to victory in China GP for Mercedes

BBC Sport – Lewis Hamilton took a dominant victory in the Chinese Grand Prix to win three consecutive races for the first time in his career. Hamilton’s Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg took...

Lack of sufficient material pushes back Rodney Commission of Inquiry opening

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lack of sufficient material pushes back Rodney Commission of Inquiry opening

Lawyers attached to the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry have now stated that instead of a Tuesday opening the CoI will now commence on April 28. According to Attorney at Law Glenn Hanoman,...

Influence and Destiny

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Influence and Destiny

By Rawle Welch Just recently I was reading a BBC news item of April 17 captioned, ‘Iran killer’s reprieve stokes campaign against executions’ which centred on a mother who pardoned her son’s...

GTUC alarmed over inactive constitutional Commissions

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC alarmed over inactive constitutional Commissions

The Guyana Trade Union Congress (GTUC) has found it alarming that important constitutional Commissions are still currently inactive. The Commissions that the GTUC noted as being inactive are...

BCB releases revised list of activities for Golden Jubilee month of Celebration

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB releases revised list of activities for Golden Jubilee month of Celebration

The Special Events and 75th Anniversary Committees of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) chaired by Mr. Hilbert Foster have released a revised schedule of activities for its Diamond Jubilee month of...

SURINAME EASTER INTERNATIONAL BADMINTON TOURNAMENT…Guyanese continue to do well

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on SURINAME EASTER INTERNATIONAL BADMINTON TOURNAMENT…Guyanese continue to do well

The Suriname Annual Easter International Badminton Tournament at the Walter Amo Sports Hall in Paramaribo continued on Saturday with matches in the Under-15, 19 and Open Events and several members of...

Labourer falls three floors through elevator chute

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer falls three floors through elevator chute

Police are investigating the circumstances under which a labourer fell though an elevator chute three storeys high Saturday last at a building under construction at Lot 51, Camp and Robb...

Bush Lot, Preysal play to thrilling tie

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bush Lot, Preysal play to thrilling tie

Bush Lot United and Preysal of Trinidad and Tobago played to an exciting tie in a feature Over-40 game on Friday last at the Bush Lot ground, West Berbice. At the completion of the allotted 30 overs...

Vendors paying $20,000 Easter Monday price tag

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vendors paying $20,000 Easter Monday price tag

Despite the controversy surrounding the sale of spots along the city’s seawall route for this year’s Easter celebrations, some citizens are paying as much as $20,000 to participate in the...

Amended Budget 2014 is a victory of sorts for the Opposition

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Amended Budget 2014 is a victory of sorts for the Opposition

– Chris Ram The mixture of surprise and relief when Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, announced in the National Assembly that he would be amending the 2014 Appropriation Bill to...

Price is Rite Second Division Cricket competition rained out, new date to be fixed

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Price is Rite Second Division Cricket competition rained out, new date to be fixed

Players and cricket fans of the Upper Corentyne area will have to wait a little bit longer to witness the final of the much anticipated Price is Rite Supermarket sponsored Upper Corentyne Cricket...

Eton Moses’ Misguided Conceptions!

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eton Moses’ Misguided Conceptions!

Dear Sir, Reference is hereby made to the above caption as it relates to the publication of a letter captioned “A reply to Lester Sealy’s letter” by Eton Moses (K.N. 12.04.14). Editor, apart...

Week of activities for World Safety Day planned

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Week of activities for World Safety Day planned

– Labour Ministry The Labour Ministry has planned a week of activities in observance of World Day for Safety and Health which will be celebrated on April 28 under the theme “Safety and...

Improving special education high on Education Ministry agenda

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Improving special education high on Education Ministry agenda

In keeping with the Persons Living with Disability Act, the Ministry of Education has been feverishly working to ensure that children with special education needs are fully catered for within the...

Trevor Osborne…A passionate kite-maker for over 34 years

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Trevor Osborne…A passionate kite-maker for over 34 years

Many consider this 51-year-old to be a ‘Jack of all trades.’ When Trevor Osborne is not taking on construction projects or catering bar-b-ques, he gets deeply engrossed in the art of...

Guyana unsafe for LGBT people – Huffington Post report

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana unsafe for LGBT people – Huffington Post report

The acceptance of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) in Guyana has always been an issue of contention, but advocates for the rights of those people are taking their fight...

Farmer hospitalized after Liliendaal accident

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer hospitalized after Liliendaal accident

A Region Three farmer was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday following an accident on the Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara Public Road. According to reports,...

THE AFC IS ATTEMPTING TO HOODWINK GUYANESE

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC IS ATTEMPTING TO HOODWINK GUYANESE

The Alliance for Change (AFC) is attempting to hoodwink the Guyanese people over its non-approval of the Amerindian Development Fund (ADF). Its latest foray in defence of its decision to not approve...

Problems with GT&T’s internet service

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Problems with GT&T’s internet service

Dear Editor, I have been a customer of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) for a number of years. Recently I started encountering problems with my monthly internet service on my...

Body of 23-year-old man with stab wound found at Rupununi

Apr 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Body of 23-year-old man with stab wound found at Rupununi

The body of 23-year-old Terrance Robin James was discovered early yesterday with a stab wound to his upper left chest on the Tabatinga Public Road, Lethem. James of Kwatamang Village, North...

This negativism can help to entrench the aberrations in our country

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This negativism can help to entrench the aberrations in our country

Dear Editor, I would like to thank M. Maxwell for his appreciation of my submission on the causes of the racist mentality that pervades our society, and for offering my suggestion for a lasting...

Projects executed shoddily at Linden

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Projects executed shoddily at Linden

Dear Editor, Recently, I wrote a letter to the editor of Kaieteur News on the subject “Bad engineering, drains and roads construction in Linden Town. First, I am not being provocative but it seems...

Ethical conduct should be included in police training

Apr 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ethical conduct should be included in police training

Dear Editor, More and more are we seeing in the media reports of police officers either neglecting their duty or involved in some shady practice. This is not to mention the innumerable incidents...

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Guyana begins installation of first FIFA Arena mini-pitches

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana has moved closer to delivering its first two FIFA Arena mini-pitches, with installation works now underway at Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara, marking a...

Jagdeo’s olive branch may have a snake in the grass

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – At the ‘wake’ of former Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, Bharrat Jagdeo began talking about political cooperation, and the need to move beyond political divisions. But faced with this olive branch, the sensible citizen should reach for a comfortable chair, a strong cup of...

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 Robert Corbin effect

Oct 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This man’s Robert Herman Orlando Corbin’s handiworks needs a longer, slower look. In dying, it seems that Mr. Corbin is more alive. Certainly, his spirit has taken on a motivating quality, a pervading strength. Who would have believed? I wouldn’t have gone so...

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