July 2014

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Caribbean junior Squash Championships 2014 Guyana teams on course for title defence as the advance to finals

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean junior Squash Championships 2014 Guyana teams on course for title defence as the advance to finals

On day three of the team event at the Junior Caribbean Squash Championships being held in Hamilton Bermuda, Team Guyana were seeking to rebound from the disappointment of losing to Trinidad &...

LCPL T/20 Amazon Warriors tackle St. Lucia Zouks today seeking to continue winning streak

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on LCPL T/20 Amazon Warriors tackle St. Lucia Zouks today seeking to continue winning streak

By Zaheer Mohamed After defeating Red Steel in their first game on home soil on Thursday last, an upbeat Guyana Amazon Warriors team with two wins in as many matches will take on St. Lucia Zouks from...

Chancellor commissions new Linden Magistrate’s Court

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chancellor commissions new Linden Magistrate’s Court

The spanking new Linden Magistrate’s Court, on Burnham Drive, Linden was officially declared open by Chancellor Justice Carl Singh, yesterday. The opening coincided with the shooting to death of...

CJIA Board wants AFC to produce evidence of alleged fraud

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA Board wants AFC to produce evidence of alleged fraud

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA)’s Board of Directors is calling on the Alliance For Change (AFC) to make available “to the appropriate authorities,” evidence with regards to the...

ECD Public Road four-lane expansion…Works on Better Hope and Montrose again at a standstill

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ECD Public Road four-lane expansion…Works on Better Hope and Montrose again at a standstill

Construction works between Better Hope and Montrose, on the East Coast Demerara Public Road four-lane expansion project, are seemingly at a standstill with a significant portion of works yet to be...

Whittaker in disbelief over Sooba’s $400,000 furniture purchase

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Whittaker in disbelief over Sooba’s $400,000 furniture purchase

Minister of Local Government, Norman Whittaker, has promised to let his officers look into an alleged unapproved spending of $400,000 by acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba, who used the money to buy an...

GINA editor charged with assault

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GINA editor charged with assault

An Editor attached to the Government Information Agency was on Thursday placed before the courts for assaulting a driver with whom he reportedly had a ‘fender-bender’ almost one month ago. An...

Murdered cosmetologist…Cops release suspect after ID parade

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered cosmetologist…Cops release suspect after ID parade

A taxi driver who was being questioned about the murder of cosmetologist Ashmini Hariram was released yesterday after an eyewitness to the killing failed to point him out during an identification...

Government ‘eyes pass’ Region 8 – Regional Chairman

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Government ‘eyes pass’ Region 8 – Regional Chairman

– laments deplorable roads Region Eight Chairman, Mark Crawford on Thursday, told the media that the Government has shown that it has no respect for the residents of Mahdia. He said this as he...

Expired goods seized again from New Amsterdam business premises

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Expired goods seized again from New Amsterdam business premises

The law enforcement authorities continue to appeal to supermarkets and shop owners to desist from selling expired goods. They have also been warned against the consequences of them being caught in...

Pirate attack…Boat captain’s wife claimed that she was threatened

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pirate attack…Boat captain’s wife claimed that she was threatened

While family members of the three missing fishermen are searching tirelessly for their bodies along the Mahaicony foreshore, the boat captain’s wife claimed that she was forced to file a...

Gov’t. plagued by epidemic of public protests

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t. plagued by epidemic of public protests

As he contended that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Administration has been plagued by an epidemic of public protests since the December 2011 general elections, Leader of the Opposition,...

Auditor General’s sole sourcing report delayed by “tardy” Tender Board responses

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General’s sole sourcing report delayed by “tardy” Tender Board responses

Auditor General (AG), Deodat Sharma, has said that his report on value for money as it relates to drug contracts and other controversial public contracts has been delayed by a number of hiccups. Some...

Education officials clarify varying top NGSA score

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Education officials clarify varying top NGSA score

While there may be some confusion among a vast faction of the population regarding the changing scores students secure at the final secondary school entrance assessment, officials attached to the...

Correction/Apology

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Correction/Apology

In an article with the headline, “Police officers get $12.3M in awards,” which was published on July 17, it was stated that “13,000 officers, Inspectors and other ranks who performed...

Schoolboy murder trial gets underway

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolboy murder trial gets underway

The weapon which was allegedly used in the stabbing of schoolboy, Anfernee Bowman was tendered as evidence before the court on Wednesday. The weapon which was identified by police investigators as an...

NO ONE IS COMPLAINING

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO ONE IS COMPLAINING

If there is expenditure that the combined opposition should regret giving its consent to, it is the $10,000 per student transportation grant. This will cost the treasury over one billion dollars and...

Fireman granted bail on wounding charge

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Fireman granted bail on wounding charge

A fireman employed at the Guyana Fire Service for 17 years, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with wounding a stranger he confronted in Charlestown. Stephen...

Teenager granted bail on theft charge

Jul 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teenager granted bail on theft charge

A 17-year-old labourer appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, charged with simple larceny. The labourer, Jason Brotherson, pleaded not...

If it ain’t broke…

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on If it ain’t broke…

It has been almost forever that the Guyana Government has been doing everything to fashion the education landscape. The historians and other knowledgeable people who had been exposed to the...

An agenda of a different nature – The Act or the Fact

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on An agenda of a different nature – The Act or the Fact

DEAR EDITOR, Why do I get the impression that the call by advocacy groups SASOD and the SRI for the removal of Juan Edghill, Member of Parliament and Junior Minister of Finance, has a different...

These are the days of strategic and visionary leadership

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on These are the days of strategic and visionary leadership

DEAR EDITOR, There has been within the recent past much theorizing on the question of leadership and leadership styles in Guyana. The days of “doctor politics” are not very much evident today as...

Long live the Linden Martyrs

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Long live the Linden Martyrs

DEAR EDITOR, July 18, 2012, is a day in our history that connotes different meanings in the minds of those who had a personal experience with that time, compared with those who saw it from...

People eventually get the true picture

Jul 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on People eventually get the true picture

DEAR EDITOR, Someone was lamenting the fact to me that the elderly in this place do not get a fair deal. She was particularly concerned at the time about an elderly gentleman who resides on the...

No turnaround for sugar industry…GuySuCo produces sugar at double world market price

Jul 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No turnaround for sugar industry…GuySuCo produces sugar at double world market price

– owes over US$170M in debts – employees’ contributions not paid, benefits in jeopardy As concerns continue to grow over the viability of the country’s sugar industry, Government...

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13 races set for President’s Cup on November 29

Nov 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A total purse of G$21,750,000 and 13 high-profile races is on the cards at Rising Sun Turf Club on Sunday November 29. The top horses will be out for glory, and all eyes will be...

Guyana’s foreign exchange crisis

Nov 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Businessmen are complaining bitterly about the difficulty of obtaining foreign exchange to pay their overseas suppliers. They are equally distressed that, despite billions of US dollars in oil revenues, they must now pay between G$235 and G$240 to acquire US$1. This represents...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Opposition Leader Mohamed – counsel, care, and correction

Nov 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Opposition Leader, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, has to change. Mandatory. Or, he is of little utility to the Guyanese people. Whoever heard of an Opposition Leader who is regularly arrested, regularly handcuffed, regularly jailed, regularly fighting to be bailed, and regularly...

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