May 2014

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Exhibition between US Diplomat Albert Razick and Godfrey Lowden set for Sunday

May 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exhibition between US Diplomat Albert Razick and Godfrey Lowden set for Sunday

To reignite the passion for tennis in Guyana, the Guyana Tennis Association has scheduled the first of several exciting exhibition matches over the next few months as a lead up to the Inter Guyana...

GCB Inter-County U-19 Baldeo’s unbeaten 65 helps B’ce to first innings points

May 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB Inter-County U-19 Baldeo’s unbeaten 65 helps B’ce to first innings points

By Sean Devers A cultured unbeaten 65 from Balchand Baldeo and a four-wicket haul from off-spinner Sharaz Ramcharran spearheaded Berbice to first innings points against Essequibo on day one of their...

Rodney COI…PNC/R says PPP has no interest in the pursuit of truth

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney COI…PNC/R says PPP has no interest in the pursuit of truth

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) is of the view that the recently launched Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) is set to miss the chance to pursue the truth about Dr. Rodney’s...

LEAD Project’s implementation was violation of sovereign rights – PPP

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on LEAD Project’s implementation was violation of sovereign rights – PPP

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday openly welcomed the suspension of the US-sponsored Leadership and Democracy Project (LEAD) which was being implemented without the approval of the...

Kwame McCoy, Subhan helping to coordinate ERC nomination process

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kwame McCoy, Subhan helping to coordinate ERC nomination process

Nominations are in for members of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), the body that mediates on complaints for racial discriminations. The Parliament Office yesterday disclosed names of the...

La Grange cops took $40,000 to help murder/rape suspect escape – court hears

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on La Grange cops took $40,000 to help murder/rape suspect escape – court hears

Two policemen have been placed on bail after they appeared in court for allegedly facilitating the escape of a prisoner. Police Constable Garfield Brown and his alleged accomplice Constable Smith...

THE SHOOTING OF THE TEENAGER

May 10, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE SHOOTING OF THE TEENAGER

The media has to be more professional. They listened to the version of a young teenager who claimed that a police rank placed a gun into his mouth and played Russian roulette. They took that as the...

Banking institutions told Sooba is Town Clerk – Whittaker

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Banking institutions told Sooba is Town Clerk – Whittaker

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, has reassured the local banking institutions that Carol Ryan Sooba is the Town Clerk of City Hall, despite the Mayor and...

Ramesh Persaud appointed Private Sector Commission Chairman

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ramesh Persaud appointed Private Sector Commission Chairman

Following a Council meeting on Tuesday last, Ramesh Persaud was appointed the new Chairman of the Private Sector Commission. Persaud, who served as Vice Chairman, took over the reins of the sector...

Region’s trade in the spotlight as COTED meets in Guyana

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Region’s trade in the spotlight as COTED meets in Guyana

Trade Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday began discussions for cooperation with the region’s private sector during the two-day 38th Ministerial Meeting of the Council for...

Sophia culvert to be completed by month-end

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia culvert to be completed by month-end

The construction of a critical culvert in ‘B’ Field, Sophia, which is geared to improve linkage with Guyhoc Park, will be completed by this month end. According to Kelvin Clarke, Design Engineer...

Dr Misir tenders resignation from UG to pursue other interests

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dr Misir tenders resignation from UG to pursue other interests

“I was anxious to leave more than a year ago,” said Dr Prem Misir yesterday during a press conference venued in his office to officially announce his resignation as Pro-Chancellor of the...

Late income tax returns will attract penalties – GRA

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Late income tax returns will attract penalties – GRA

Self employed persons are not exempt For those persons who have missed the April 30 deadline to file their tax returns, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has set up tax sites so that individuals...

Parliament in major project to go “paperless”

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament in major project to go “paperless”

– new website to host records of proceedings, documents The National Assembly of Guyana, recognising the importance of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in ensuring that...

Electrocuted lad…GPL’s silence hurts family…says Power Company heartless

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Electrocuted lad…GPL’s silence hurts family…says Power Company heartless

“Heartless” was the word used yesterday by family members of the nine-year-old lad who was electrocuted by way of an exposed Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL), wire to describe the power...

STARR Computers introduces Samsung Smart School

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on STARR Computers introduces Samsung Smart School

Many governments around the globe are building their education investment roadmaps aligned to the digitized classroom initiative. In Guyana, STARR Computers in collaboration with technology giant,...

MACORP launches new excavators

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on MACORP launches new excavators

The Machinery Corporation (Guyana) Limited (MACORP), on Thursday officially launched the New D2 series of hydraulics excavator here in Guyana. At the company’s Providence, East Coast Demerara...

MOH/PAHO team vaccinates 150 in Baracara, Canje

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on MOH/PAHO team vaccinates 150 in Baracara, Canje

A high level medical team from the Ministry of Health visited the riverain community of Baracara, Canje River recently as part of Immunization Week activities in Region Six. Baracara is located...

Gold miner crashes on Essequibo Public Road

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner crashes on Essequibo Public Road

A 32-year-old Charity gold miner is a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital after the car he was driving, PSS 807, collided with a flock of sheep on the Devonshire-Castle Public Road, Thursday night....

All are equal, but some are more equal

May 10, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on All are equal, but some are more equal

Just under a fortnight ago, a policeman in pursuit of people who allegedly robbed a relative, pulled a young man from whatever he was doing and proceeded to shoot him in the mouth. Of course, the...

Mother of five attempts to smuggle cocaine in cosmetics- court hears

May 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of five attempts to smuggle cocaine in cosmetics- court hears

Sandra Daniels, a forty- eight year –old mother of five from Dennis Street, Sophia, was remanded to prison, after she attempted to smuggle cocaine to Spain via the Guyana Post Office Corporation....

This officer at the Providence Station is very disrespectful

May 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This officer at the Providence Station is very disrespectful

DEAR EDITOR, I am a self-employed businessman and reside at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara. I am the owner and driver of a minibus (number provided). During the month of March...

African Guyanese solutions: Getting to the underlying causes of the problem

May 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on African Guyanese solutions: Getting to the underlying causes of the problem

DEAR EDITOR, A journalist recently asked for my ideas on African Guyanese revitalization, a theme of Cuffy 250, an African Guyanese organization to which I belong. My first response was that to get...

A barbaric, terrorist act of which I utterly condemn

May 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A barbaric, terrorist act of which I utterly condemn

DEAR EDITOR, I stared with sadness and disgust at the horrible news of nearly 300 hundred school girls abducted on April 14, 2014 in Nigeria’s North-Eastern Borno State, West Coast Africa, as...

Finally someone from the masses will rule India

May 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Finally someone from the masses will rule India

DEAR EDITOR, There is something electrifying about the rise of Narendra Modi from the son of a tea seller to most likely the next Prime Minister of the world largest democracy. Indian politics has...

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Ireland secure narrow, 1-run victory over West Indies via DLS

Jun 02, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – A captain’s knock backed by some decent bowling pushed Ireland to a narrow 1-run win by virtue of the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern (DLS) method following yesterday’s...

What happen to the rights of men?

Jun 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A recent incident near Stabroek Market, where a woman was openly seen raining blows on a man in full public view, should force us to confront an uncomfortable question. The man appeared reluctant to defend himself. He seemed more concerned about avoiding trouble than protecting...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

A challenge: praise or pity the President

Jun 02, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – The widespread floods are a challenge of crisis proportions for many Guyanese. There’s another test: either to praise or pity Pres Ali. Waters rising, surging, in alarming crests. There’s that breathtaking, jarring, mind-bending photo: Excellency Ali with...

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