June 12, 2015

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Dem boys seh…Jagdeo and nuff of dem in hiding

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo and nuff of dem in hiding

Yesterday, China send its ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang to jail fuh de rest of he life. He didn’t kill nobody. De son of a bitch do exactly wha some of dem bitches right here do before dem get...

Shot ex-cop still battling for his life

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Shot ex-cop still battling for his life

Ex-policeman Ravi Outar who was shot four times in an apparent execution on Wednesday night remains in a critical but stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. The 29-year-old...

No need for debate over difference in public/private schools performances

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on No need for debate over difference in public/private schools performances

– Education Minister The performances yielded by public and private schools at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) whereby “the private schools appear to outstrip the public schools”...

Man gets nine months for simple larceny

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets nine months for simple larceny

A 35-year-old Werk-en-Rust resident was yesterday sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to two counts of simple larceny charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The...

CARICOM summit to address critical issues

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM summit to address critical issues

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) — Prime ministers from across the region will be taking several critical decisions on the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), as well as a...

Atavistic return: The cry of being cheated out of power

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Atavistic return: The cry of being cheated out of power

From earlier times, the PPP surrounded itself with myths that its leaders actually accepted as real facts. The early leaders of the PPP inculcated these fictions into the collective psyche of...

Functions of Tourism, Business Ministries discussed with senior staff

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Functions of Tourism, Business Ministries discussed with senior staff

Permanent Secretary Derrick Cummings yesterday met with senior officers of the Ministries of Tourism and Business, where he urged the staff to put aside their political sentiments and professionally...

IS STRIPTEASE ILLEGAL?

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IS STRIPTEASE ILLEGAL?

Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession. In Guyana, prostitution is illegal. Yet, I cannot recall in recent times anyone being hauled before the courts for prostitution. If you interview the...

Second maternal death in one month…Husband outraged by decision to operate on wife without consent

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Second maternal death in one month…Husband outraged by decision to operate on wife without consent

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has recorded yet another maternal death. Dead is 41-year-old, Carol Bollers, of Festival City, South Ruimveldt. The mother of two, who was less than...

NGSA 2015 results…Region Nine is most improved district

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NGSA 2015 results…Region Nine is most improved district

By Desilon Daniels As the results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) were disclosed yesterday, data has shown that Region Nine is the most improved district out of the 11 areas under...

We have to approach the natural world with respect and stewardship

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have to approach the natural world with respect and stewardship

Dear Editor, On June 10, 2015, the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, His Excellency Mr David Granger, addressed members and other dignitaries at, the opening session of the Guyana’s...

Clash over Technocrats…Clerk insists appointments are legal

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Clash over Technocrats…Clerk insists appointments are legal

– Opposition calls for judicial review Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs insists that the swearing-in of three APNU+AFC Members of Parliament (MPs) as technocrat ministers on...

One more sitting for Rodney CoI

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on One more sitting for Rodney CoI

– report must be submitted in a month Government will allow the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to have one last sitting with the body mandated to submit it findings within a month....

Let us hope the ‘children’ decide to act responsibly

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us hope the ‘children’ decide to act responsibly

Dear Editor, I would not describe the PPP/C’s not turning up in Parliament as “childish” – this would imply a certain element of innocence. I would prefer to describe such action as...

Armed bandits leave empty-handed after morning attack on Barama

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits leave empty-handed after morning attack on Barama

They came heavily armed, with gloves and masks, but left with virtually little to show for their efforts. During the early morning attack yesterday at the headquarters of Barama Company Limited, Land...

Digicel has rebated me with my Megabytes and additional credit

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Digicel has rebated me with my Megabytes and additional credit

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter written by yours truly entitled “Digicel needs to stop exploiting its customers,” which was printed in your newspaper’s letter column on June 10, 2015, I...

US helping new Govt. ready for oil production

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US helping new Govt. ready for oil production

Guyana is continuing to ready itself for oil production, with the US playing a major role in assistance. According to a Government statement yesterday, Minister of Governance and National Patrimony...

Agricola man remanded on intent to murder, armed robbery charges

Jun 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola man remanded on intent to murder, armed robbery charges

Curtis Vanconcellos was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, yesterday, in relation to a robbery that occurred last Saturday, at Grove, which left one of his accomplices dead....

Ms. Burton should acquaint herself with what took place between 1992 and 2015

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ms. Burton should acquaint herself with what took place between 1992 and 2015

Dear Editor, Guess who the stork dropped off in Guyana just a few days ago – Ms. Gillian Burton. Ms. Burton now realizes that all Guyanese are entitled to their human rights. It therefore means...

Many opportunities for expatriates to reintegrate into the Guyanese working culture

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Many opportunities for expatriates to reintegrate into the Guyanese working culture

Dear Editor, When expatriates leave their homeland to seek a future elsewhere, it is not very often that they return to resettle in the country of their birth. As they get older and become...

Ricky Singh’s comments on confirmation of Chancellor and Chief Justice

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ricky Singh’s comments on confirmation of Chancellor and Chief Justice

Dear Editor, I read with interest the comment made by veteran Caribbean journalist, Guyanese born Ricky Singh, in which he praised the David Granger/Moses Nagamootoo administration for appointing a...

The historiographical niceness of Dr. Jagan must stop

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The historiographical niceness of Dr. Jagan must stop

Dear Editor, I refer to a quotation from Dr. Henry Jeffrey in the June 8 issue of the Stabroek News. Jeffrey is quoted as saying, “More than most, Cheddi Jagan understood the need to unite the...

MOU with a foreign University has limited merits

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on MOU with a foreign University has limited merits

Dear Editor, I have heard that the Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a foreign University. He stated that lecturers and students can go to this...

DEFINING MOMENTS

Jun 12, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on DEFINING MOMENTS

Wednesday June 10, 2015 was a defining moment for Guyana, as Parliament convened for the first time since it was prorogued seven months ago by the former president on November 10, 2014. The...

PREV 12

India and West Indies head to Indore for potential run-fest with...

Oct 11, 2026

(Cricinfo) – Just when you think it can’t get worse for the West Indies and India bowlers, their next venue is Indore. After 501 runs were scored in Ranchi in 38.3 overs – 352 of...

How much do you love your country?

Oct 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – After the fourth beer my friend’s tongue loosened. “Boy, Guyana is a beautiful place. Folks back home just do not know how good they have it. Look at us here in this freezing place. I would give anything to be outside Petboy Shop sipping a cold one on a Friday afternoon.”...

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...

Routledge – differing from Adams, Ram, others

Oct 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I regret differing from respected brothers, Dr. Vincent Adams and Chris Ram, two peerless Guyanese. The source of the difference is Exxon Guyana President, Mr. Alistair Routledge’s statement that “it’s not our job to build the nation…they didn’t vote for us…we are...

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