February 2015

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Competitive duels anticipated as Mayor’s Cup football continues

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Competitive duels anticipated as Mayor’s Cup football continues

When the action in the Mayor’s Cup Football tourney continues at the Georgetown Football Club ground this evening, fans could expect competitive duels when the Guyana Police Force opposes...

CPL 2015 Player Draft

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on CPL 2015 Player Draft

Excitement for CPL 2015 is building ahead of the 2015 CPL Draft which takes place tomorrow in Kingston, Jamaica at 4pm local time. Some of the world’s most exciting cricket stars, including...

Sase Gunraj is newest GECOM Commissioner

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sase Gunraj is newest GECOM Commissioner

Attorney-at-Law Sase Gunraj is the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s newest Commissioner. He was officially sworn in yesterday at the Office of the President by Head of State Donald Ramotar....

GPSU approved as observers for May 11 polls

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU approved as observers for May 11 polls

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has been approved as a Local Observer Group for the upcoming elections, the body announced yesterday. According to the union, as a stakeholder in the Guyanese...

PPP wants “clean” Official List of Electors

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP wants “clean” Official List of Electors

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is calling on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to ensure that a list completely void of discrepancies is prepared after the Claims and Objections...

Guyanese woman dies in Antigua road accident

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman dies in Antigua road accident

(Antigua Observer) Antigua – A relative of the country’s latest road fatality victim, Caroline Tobin-Jean-Baptiste, said her family was thrown into shock on Sunday night when they received...

Jaipaul Sharma back with APNU

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jaipaul Sharma back with APNU

Leader of the Justice For All Party (JFAP) Jaipaul Sharma has rejoined A Partnership for National Unity, ten months after his sudden resignation from the collation. Sharma confirmed his return during...

Strategic measures being put in place to further slash malaria cases – Malaria Director

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Strategic measures being put in place to further slash malaria cases – Malaria Director

Although the Ministry of Health is yet to release official data pertaining to the number of malaria cases that were recorded last year, Director of Vector Control Services within the Ministry of...

AFC pickets GGMC over $3B loan to Housing Authority

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AFC pickets GGMC over $3B loan to Housing Authority

…taxpayers to face burden of the repayment process – Party member Members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday protested outside the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)’s Brickdam,...

Do you recognise this man?

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Do you recognise this man?

This man is wanted by police for burglarising a city church in Georgetown. Despite the not so clear image, law enforcement officials are hoping that it would enable persons to provide information as...

GPL to review policies for hiring contractors

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to review policies for hiring contractors

For the procurement of a consultancy firm, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce received a single bid to conduct a review of Guyana Power and Light (GPL)’s policies for hiring contractors...

Over $200M owed to nine private cane-farming societies

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Over $200M owed to nine private cane-farming societies

– “Sugar used to be a sweet business. Now, it is just bitter. Government got you crying bitter, bitter tears for your money”- private farmer Private cane farmers who usually supply the...

Putinesque villains and Berlusconi-style clowns

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Putinesque villains and Berlusconi-style clowns

I took that description from the farewell editorial of the outgoing editor of The Economist, the British weekly newspaper. He was reflecting on his years as editor and the politicians he had to put...

SELF-INFLICTED OPPRESSION

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SELF-INFLICTED OPPRESSION

Politics in Guyana is extremely oppressive. This is why I prefer living, simply living. No matter the hour or the season, no matter the degree of deprivation or the deluge of abundance, life is full...

Mash activities in full swing with Children’s Competitions

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mash activities in full swing with Children’s Competitions

Spectacular performances were aplenty as the National Cultural Centre came alive on Monday with the Georgetown Regional Children’s School competition which had nursery, primary and secondary school...

Under aged children used for political gains

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Under aged children used for political gains

Dear Editor, Please allow me to share what I observed has been happening here in Region Five now that election is fixed and the race is about to begin. On January 31, I observed that the PPP\C is on...

The power of money and avoiding the law

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The power of money and avoiding the law

Dear Sir, “O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason” This quotation from Anthony’s speech to the Romans in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar immediately came to...

Jeweller remanded for E’bo road deaths

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jeweller remanded for E’bo road deaths

Magistrate Sunil Scarce yesterday remanded 29-year-old jeweller Satyanand Rampersaud until March 3. Rampersaud is the Hampton Court resident implicated in the deaths of 23-year-old Adrian Junior...

Conman slapped with 2-year sentence for fraud

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Conman slapped with 2-year sentence for fraud

A 44-year-old father of two, who tried to con two unsuspecting women last year, was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after appearing before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on two...

Smuggling through the VIP Lounge

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Smuggling through the VIP Lounge

Dear Editor, In light of the recent drug bust at CJIA, the Government of Guyana needs to revisit the issue of granting persons VIP treatment at our airports. All persons traveling abroad should at...

Linden IMC blocks clean-up exercise

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Linden IMC blocks clean-up exercise

A resolution was passed by councilors of the Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC), at their last statutory meeting held on January 28, that the current clean-up exercise which recently commenced...

Straddling the racial divide

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Straddling the racial divide

Dear Editor, First of all I am a Guyanese and I love this country. I have lived abroad for very many years, but cannot ever forget Guyana and its people whom I love dearly. I started to visit Guyana...

Guyana needs invasive surgery to survive

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs invasive surgery to survive

Dear Editor, In this election year, Guyana’s economy is like a very sick patient heading to the hospital. If not attended to immediately, the illness could be terminal. The country faces permanent...

Murdered fisherman’s wife seeking release of vessel

Feb 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered fisherman’s wife seeking release of vessel

The mother of eight who lost her husband after he was fatally shot last Thursday, by a security guard while fishing in proximity to Pritipaul Singh Investments Inc. (PSI), Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara...

There are sacred cows in Guyana

Feb 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are sacred cows in Guyana

Dear Editor, I refer to the pertinent points raised by Ralph Seeram in his “From the Diaspora” column (KN, Feb 1, 2015) examining the issues surrounding the promotion of the infamous Leonora...

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FIFA bans former GFF General Secretary Ian Alves over sexual...

May 05, 2026

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) General Secretary, Ian Alves, has been banned from all football-related activities for five years after the world...

The PPP was always likely to constrict freedom

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a habit, which we have developed with a certain skill in Guyana. That habit is the borrowing large words from abroad and using them to explain local developments. One such phrase “the resource curse.” It has the sound of intellectualism. But before we surrender to...

A Pin, a Principle, and the Integrity of the Caribbean

May 03, 2026

Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during official engagements in the...

Essequibo: we shall fight, we shall never surrender

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Essequibo is Guyana’s. Essequibo will never be conceded. Never compromised. Essequibo is ours, forever be ours. We shall fight everywhere. We shall never surrender. Never Essequibo, so help me God. Noble, stirring words. Indeed, soaring, lofty convictions,...

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