July 2014

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Lindani Jamal Anderson is the E-Networks Baseball Star 2014

Jul 26, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lindani Jamal Anderson is the E-Networks Baseball Star 2014

The E-networks partnership with the Guyana Baseball League has unearthed some talent in Guyana and to this end, Guyanese pitcher, Lindani Jamal Anderson, emerged the best on show and will be...

Annual August Games set for Maruranau Village DeSinco Trading and Woodpecker Products support

Jul 26, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Annual August Games set for Maruranau Village DeSinco Trading and Woodpecker Products support

The village of Maruranau (Wapishana), Deep South Rupununi, will be the centre of attraction for this year’s Annual August Games from August 23-30 where some 300 athletes will be competing against...

Imran Khan loses as boxers bared fists at Commonwealth Games yesterday

Jul 26, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Imran Khan loses as boxers bared fists at Commonwealth Games yesterday

Guyanese boxers got into action yesterday afternoon; bantamweight, Imran Khan matched gloves with Gicharu Benson Njangiru of Kenya. Njangiru had triumphed over Dexter Jordon at last Commonwealth...

US visa system goes down

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US visa system goes down

The US system of visa is experiencing problems. The local embassy said, yesterday, that it is also unable to issue passports and other travel documents. The US Embassy Public Affairs in a...

Motorcyclist dies after ‘race’ on Carifesta Avenue

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist dies after ‘race’ on Carifesta Avenue

After crashing his motorcycle on Carifesta Avenue in an ‘alleged’ race with his friend, 22-year-old Stephen Nelson died at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday. The resident of 53 Friendship...

Despite eight years of consecutive growth….Guyana lags behind LatAm, Caribbean in Human Development

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Despite eight years of consecutive growth….Guyana lags behind LatAm, Caribbean in Human Development

Though the Guyana Government would have boasted of its eight years of consecutive economic growth, when the Human Development Report was launched on Thursday at the Guyana International Conference...

Health Minister’s former assistant dies at GPHC

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister’s former assistant dies at GPHC

Even as calls are being made for greater attention to be placed on the issue of mental health, a former health official yesterday reportedly took his own life. Dead is Kevin Mana who had held key...

Armed teenage bandits rob, beat, E.B.D family

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Armed teenage bandits rob, beat, E.B.D family

…Escape with cash, jewelry after raiding refrigerator Three teenage bandits, two armed with guns and one with a knife, yesterday robbed a Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) family of their...

Sooba faces legal action over gay slurs to Deputy Mayor

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba faces legal action over gay slurs to Deputy Mayor

A letter to Town Clerk (Ag) Carol Sooba, Wednesday, demanded that she publicly retract gay slurs made against Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green by today or face legal action. The letter sent from the...

Boat operators complete training at Annai – Rupununi area

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Boat operators complete training at Annai – Rupununi area

Twenty – one boat operators from the Annai- Rupununi area are now better equipped to ply their trade, given their recent participation in a training exercise hosted by Conservation...

‘Illegally’ spent $4.5B…Nandlall attempting to usurp powers of Parliament – Greenidge

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Illegally’ spent $4.5B…Nandlall attempting to usurp powers of Parliament – Greenidge

Following the comments of Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, over the decision by Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman, on the alleged illegal expenditure of in excess of $4.5B, Shadow Minister, Carl...

Plumber remanded on firearm, ammo charge

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Plumber remanded on firearm, ammo charge

A plumber, who was apprehended earlier this week by police ranks responding to a report of gunshots at a wake, has been remanded to prison on a firearms and ammunition charge. Calvin Kenneth Dover,...

Zero Tolerance: No new squatting lands to be regularized

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Zero Tolerance: No new squatting lands to be regularized

There has been a significant increase in squatting on Government and State Lands in a number of areas in Region Four, including the Soesdyke-Linden highway and Port Kaituma in the Turn Basin and the...

US$94,000 Agri- enhancement project launched in Mara

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US$94,000 Agri- enhancement project launched in Mara

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, on Monday commissioned the US$94,500 Mara Agricultural Enhancement Project (MAEP) at the Ma- Retraite Scheme, East Bank...

It’s a question of fairness

Jul 26, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on It’s a question of fairness

The Ministry of Education has sounded a stern warning to its Education Officers. It will not be tolerating transfers to schools higher than what any child has qualified for. It is well known that...

Parents to scrutinise infrastructural works at city nursery school

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parents to scrutinise infrastructural works at city nursery school

As part of its efforts to ensure that schools benefit only from quality infrastructural work, the Ministry of Education has commenced a keen mission to solicit voluntary inspection support from...

Canal clearing contracts signed in massive city cleanup programme

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Canal clearing contracts signed in massive city cleanup programme

… work to commence in two weeks Seven local contractors on Thursday signed contracts with the Local Government Ministry to commence de-silting of main city canals and cleaning Le Repentir...

Macorp gives corporate support to Port Kaituma

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Macorp gives corporate support to Port Kaituma

Port Kaituma, a hinterland community that sits along the Kaituma River, serves as the gateway to Guyana’s mineral rich, North West District. Its development occurred as a result of Manganese that...

Raphael Trotman launches book on Parliament

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Raphael Trotman launches book on Parliament

– “A house divided against itself cannot stand” By Abena Rockcliffe On Thursday Donald Trotman had the privilege of lauding the good work of his son, Raphael Trotman, as the...

AFC supports probe of excess spending by Finance Minister

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC supports probe of excess spending by Finance Minister

Says issue has triggered a “Constitutional Crisis” The Alliance for Change (AFC) has announced that they are in support of the recent decision by Speaker of the National Assembly to have the...

Accused in Emancipation day killing walks free

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Accused in Emancipation day killing walks free

The man accused of killing Plantain Chip vendor Sherwin Simon was acquitted of the murder charge, earlier this week. Tony Collymore of Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara was...

Suspected cow thief remanded to jail

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected cow thief remanded to jail

A man, described as a regular, was on Friday remanded to jail by Magistrate Rhondell Weaver when he appeared before her at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, on a charge of Larceny of...

Pomeroon miner remanded for murder

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon miner remanded for murder

A 39-year-old miner has been charged for the death of a man whose body, with a gunshot wound to the chest, was found floating in the Essequibo river early last week. Kenrick Lyte, 39, of Good Intent,...

Gambler remanded on attempted murder charge

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gambler remanded on attempted murder charge

Gambling has no friends and that adage was reinforced recently when two friends who were part of a gambling session got into an argument. It ended with one stabbing the other when they disagreed over...

Convicted murderer attempts suicide

Jul 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Convicted murderer attempts suicide

– says abusive treatment in the prison made him “very desperate to die” An inmate of the Camp Street Prison is currently receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he...

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Cash grant and old age pension tourism

May 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time, not too long ago, when some – not all – overseas Guyanese approached Guyana with caution, disgust and the occasional handkerchief pressed dramatically to the nose. They came down from New York and Toronto with accents that had ripened in exile, and with...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Pres. Ali is his own public address system

May 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese know that Pres. Ali is prone to verbal excess. A standard not likely to be reversed. Citizens who had contact with him, actually heard him, have had orchestra seats to his blasts of the artificial (solemn promises to the grieving hurt by...

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