September 2014

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Pollard named Mumbai Indians captain

Sep 12, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pollard named Mumbai Indians captain

Kieron Pollard has been named Mumbai Indians Captain for the Champions League Twenty20 after Rohit Sharma was ruled out with injuries. Pollard has been with Mumbai since 2010, but has not led the...

Ukraine ‘occupation’…US, UK, Canada lobby Guyana’s support against Russia

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ukraine ‘occupation’…US, UK, Canada lobby Guyana’s support against Russia

Despite Guyana’s affiliation to the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) bloc, as well as the current crop of leaders’ connection to Russia, the local American, British and...

Minister commits to improving surroundings at city markets

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Minister commits to improving surroundings at city markets

Following his visit to the three Municipal Markets on Wednesday, the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, has begun to answer the stallholders’ calls for better...

Automatic entry to UWI… All arrangements in place for top 25 UG Law students

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Automatic entry to UWI… All arrangements in place for top 25 UG Law students

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall and a delegation recently met officials of the Council of Legal Education, where discussions were held on the way forward for the top 25...

GPSU threatens nationwide industrial action

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU threatens nationwide industrial action

The Guyana Public Service Union yesterday threatened countrywide industrial action if workers’ needs continue to be thrown in a corner by Government. President of the union, Patrick Yarde, at a...

BK nabs staffers in stone-stealing racket

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on BK nabs staffers in stone-stealing racket

It seems that one construction company is not taking stealing lightly. BK Group of Companies has again published names of employees who are accused of stealing. Four staffers along with seven others...

Tattoo implications

Sep 12, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Tattoo implications

There was this young man bemoaning the fact that he could not donate blood for a much need transfusion for his fiancée. The reason given to the distraught man by the medical practitioners was that...

Teaching, Judicial Service Commission members sworn in

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teaching, Judicial Service Commission members sworn in

Members of the Teaching and Judicial Service Commissions were sworn in yesterday at the Office of the President. Justice Prem Persaud and Justice Lennox Perry were appointed to serve on the Judicial...

Parents have unique role in improving their children’s literacy level – ACEO Primary

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parents have unique role in improving their children’s literacy level – ACEO Primary

Mastery in literacy skills is a strategic tactic that will help children to advance in society. This assertion was recently made by Assistance Chief Education Officer (ACEO) with responsibility for...

PAHO Director lauds work of C/ville Health Centre

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO Director lauds work of C/ville Health Centre

Perhaps it was because of its laudable track record or simply because it was the first health facility that Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, thought of, that the Campbellville Health Centre was...

LIAT adds three more weekly services to Ogle

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on LIAT adds three more weekly services to Ogle

…launches new connection to Haiti The ‘Caribbean Airline’ Liat has upped its services to Guyana, with three additional flights from the Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados to Ogle...

Patentia schoolboy killing… Accused claimed victim was shot during scuffle – police witness

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Patentia schoolboy killing… Accused claimed victim was shot during scuffle – police witness

The man accused of killing Patentia Secondary School student, Kelvin Fraser, had claimed that the youth was shot during a struggle. This portion of evidence was presented to the court yesterday by...

Crane housewife murder…Victim’s relative claims fugitive hidden by sibling

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Crane housewife murder…Victim’s relative claims fugitive hidden by sibling

Almost two months have passed and the police have not been able to arrest the 44-year-old man who allegedly killed his wife, Candy Rawlins, on July 17, last, at their Lot 4 Crane Housing Scheme, West...

APNU’s position on elections “ambiguous and contradictory”- President tells Granger

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU’s position on elections “ambiguous and contradictory”- President tells Granger

…asks for clarity By Abena Rockcliffe President Donald Ramotar is baffled as to what exactly is A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s position as it relates to General and Local Government...

‘Cuban Five’ 16th anniversary…Injustice, embargo still affecting Cuba to date

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cuban Five’ 16th anniversary…Injustice, embargo still affecting Cuba to date

– Guyana Solidarity Movement Today (September 12th, 2014) marks the 16th anniversary of the arrest of the ‘Cuban Five’ – Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino,...

M&CC handyman killed in accident

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC handyman killed in accident

– Businessman avoids breathalyzer test Up to press time, a popular city businessman had not been administered a breathalyzer test even though he was suspected to be under the influence...

Departmental shake-up recommended as money goes missing at City Hall

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Departmental shake-up recommended as money goes missing at City Hall

By Zena Henry Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba has recommended a reconfiguration of staffers within the financial arm of the Georgetown City Council following the theft of “not more than $25,000 worth...

SAVING CHRISTMAS!

Sep 12, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SAVING CHRISTMAS!

The National Communications Network (NCN) has a morning show. It is a good programme, except that the hosts tend to talk too much to each other. If half of the time they spend discussing topics...

A&E Unit at Port Mourant Hospital receives upgrade

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on A&E Unit at Port Mourant Hospital receives upgrade

The Accident and Emergency Department of the Port Mourant Hospital has received an upgrade to the tune of $4.5 million as the Berbice Regional Health Authority [BRHA] ups the ante in health care...

Living conditions of Guyanese family upset T&T cops

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Living conditions of Guyanese family upset T&T cops

(Trinidad Guardian) -Three-year-old Jordon Campbell unknowingly escaped death Wednesday after he wandered some 800 metres from his Freeport home onto the busy Southern Main Road. Death would have...

Now that is what I call leadership

Sep 12, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Now that is what I call leadership

Don’t let’s go as far as India with Gandhi, South Africa with Mandela, Russia with Gorbachev and the US with Martin Luther King Jr. No need to go into the words of these great men. We can start...

Repeat offender remanded for stealing slippers

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Repeat offender remanded for stealing slippers

A 24-year-old man accused of trespassing in another man’s yard and stealing two pairs of slippers was remanded to prison when he appeared in court yesterday. Reynold Charles who is also known as...

Fire Service hosts regional counterparts

Sep 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Fire Service hosts regional counterparts

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) will be hosting the Caribbean Association of Fire Fighters Executive Meeting and Caribbean Fire Fighters Goodwill Games from October 20-25. At least seven Caribbean...

Something fishy going on in the high seas

Sep 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something fishy going on in the high seas

Dear Editor, Recently, there was there was the discovery of a Self Propelled Semi-submersible craft (SPSS) in the Waini area. This “submarine craft” was made to carry drugs, the specific type...

Remove the most corrupt and evil government in the western hemisphere

Sep 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remove the most corrupt and evil government in the western hemisphere

Dear Editor, The other day I was speaking to a well known senior journalist in the National Park. I told him about my solution to the political impasse in Guyana. His response was— a black man...

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Who owns the MSC?

Oct 08, 2026

…MSC General Secretary Joe Chapman questions ownership, calls for transparency By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – With the remodeled Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) preparing to reopen its doors for...

Leave, but please explain why

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Apparently, in Guyana, the moment a person is accused of a serious offence, a mysterious administrative switch is supposed to be flipped. CLICK. The accused goes on leave. No investigation into whether the person’s continued presence could interfere with the investigation. No...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Congrats to Drs. Ali, Jagdeo

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It must be done; avoiding out of the question. Congratulations to Excellencies Ali and Jagdeo, the former a sitting president, the latter still a president in all but title. Drs. Ali and Jagdeo must have pig iron stomachs. Whoever is halal or haram, holy or a heathen...

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