July 2015

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GPHC facilitates successful corneal transplants

Jul 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC facilitates successful corneal transplants

Just over a dozen Guyanese are about to enjoy clearer vision thanks to a series of corneal transplant surgeries recently conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The surgeries...

Protect yourself against foreign scams

Jul 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Protect yourself against foreign scams

By Pat Dial Since Independence, knowledge of Guyana has grown world-wide but this also led to the country coming into the sights of international confidence tricksters who are bent on exploiting and...

The return of the dance curfew

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The return of the dance curfew

Someone once said that habits are easy to form and hard to break. I believe that, because I once smoked and smoked heavily. The first time I tried a cigarette a long time ago I was imitating the...

Lionel Richie surprised the world but not the philosophers

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Lionel Richie surprised the world but not the philosophers

This was such a phenomenal surprise that I don’t think any commentator should miss an analysis of it. Before last Sunday, if you had told anyone familiar with music, not necessarily a music...

LOUD MUSIC, GUNSHOTS AND ALCOHOL REDUCE OUR PRODUCTIVE LABOUR FORCE

Jul 05, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LOUD MUSIC, GUNSHOTS AND ALCOHOL REDUCE OUR PRODUCTIVE LABOUR FORCE

The Minister of National Security, Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan, has instituted certain ordinances to restrict the hours that alcohol beverages may be available for sale. His and the entire...

The Baccoo speaks

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The more one looks at a situation the more the solution tends to elude the looker. At present the focus is on noise nuisance, something that people had been appealing to the previous administration...

Bury me in a shallow grave

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Bury me in a shallow grave

By Michael Jordan Had the killers buried her a few feet deeper, it is quite likely that Basmattie Moonsammy would never have been found. She would have just vanished like so many others before her;...

Anxiety Disorder: The missed illness

Jul 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Anxiety Disorder: The missed illness

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Our mind can be our greatest friend and yet it can become our biggest enemy. Persons who suffer with anxiety disorders tend to be fighting...

The Case for a Knowledge Economy

Jul 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Case for a Knowledge Economy

By Lance Hinds I was at a regional Business Colloquium last year where private sector and governmental agencies were discussing the challenges of regional and extra-regional export. During one of the...

Social Cohesion is a priority of national importance

Jul 05, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Social Cohesion is a priority of national importance

(Excerpts from an address to the National Assembly of Guyana by the Minister if Social Cohesion Hon. Amna Ally MP on Friday June 26th 2015) Social Cohesion is not a new concept. In Europe, for...

Silver Jubilee Anniversary 1990 – 2015… More sponsors onboard for 2015 Cricket Academy and Summer Camp

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Silver Jubilee Anniversary 1990 – 2015… More sponsors onboard for 2015 Cricket Academy and Summer Camp

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club’s much anticipated 2015 TCL Cricket Academy and Republic Bank Grade 6 Summer Camp which bowls off at the Area ‘H’ Ground on Tuesday 7th July, 2015 from...

Alwyn Callender is only Guyanese International Squash Referee

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alwyn Callender is only Guyanese International Squash Referee

By Sean Devers Sixty-year-old Alwyn Callender has been involved in Guyana’s Squash as a player, Manager and Coach for 23 years and more importantly he is the only Guyanese International Squash...

Personal progress is vital for success

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Personal progress is vital for success

– Lloyd tell DCC national selectees Chairman of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) senior selection panel Clive Lloyd yesterday urged the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) players who will be...

Restructuring of $$M Sheriff St.-Mandela Ave road network imminent

Jul 05, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Restructuring of $$M Sheriff St.-Mandela Ave road network imminent

The roadway expansion and enhancement of the Sheriff Street – Mandela Ave network, which falls under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, has attracted five bids. The engineer’s estimate is...

Regional Under-17 Tournament opens in Tobago Tuesday

Jul 05, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Under-17 Tournament opens in Tobago Tuesday

Holders Barbados are expected to face a stiff challenge against Windward Islands at Canaan when the Regional Under-17 Tournament opens on Tuesday in the island of Tobago. The Barbadians captured the...

Brazil to Guyana Fibre Optic Cable too expensive to fix –Alexei Ramotar

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil to Guyana Fibre Optic Cable too expensive to fix –Alexei Ramotar

– Govt. advised to cut losses – Official In providing the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon with an update on the controversial Brazil to Guyana Fibre Optic Cable project, Head of the...

Body in septic tank at C/ville … Nephew and accomplice found guilty of murder

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Body in septic tank at C/ville … Nephew and accomplice found guilty of murder

After a lengthy trial and a bit of back and forth, a mixed jury yesterday found Anthony De Paul Hope and his co accused Ralph Tyndall guilty for the murder of 56-year-old Colleen Forrester. The jury...

Feds play video, accuse Ed Ahmad of living large, lying on tax returns

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Feds play video, accuse Ed Ahmad of living large, lying on tax returns

New York (New York Daily News) -The government’s star witness against State Senator John Sampson came under heavy fire Thursday for driving a Lamborghini and living large while claiming on tax...

Nandy Park Shooting… Baby discharged from hospital, police silent on investigations

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nandy Park Shooting… Baby discharged from hospital, police silent on investigations

Mawanza Gills and her 18-month-old son, Travis Rudder Jr. now called the ‘miracle baby’, have both been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and are...

Sooba sacked as Town Clerk

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba sacked as Town Clerk

In light of a no-confidence motion tabled against her, by the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC), Acting Town Clerk Carol Ryan Sooba has been officially fired from the post of Town Clerk...

UN sending mission to help resolve Guyana/Venezuela tensions

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UN sending mission to help resolve Guyana/Venezuela tensions

– Maduro cancels Barbados visit The United Nations (UN) is to appoint a mission to Guyana to help diffuse growing tensions over land and sea claims that Venezuela has made. The disclosures were...

2:00 a.m. bar curfew to go into full effect from tonight- Ramjattan

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 2:00 a.m. bar curfew to go into full effect from tonight- Ramjattan

Amid the voices of party goers raised in opposition to A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government’s proposed imposition of a 2:00hrs curfew against bars and...

Dem boys seh … Jagdeo shy way money like when tourist feeding pigeon

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Jagdeo shy way money like when tourist feeding pigeon

When de coalition win de elections nuff people didn’t know that de Creatah was giving this country a chance to breathe, that it was going to shed de burden from de backs of the de people. Imagine...

Guyanese Hugh Wooding Law students complain of discrimination

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Hugh Wooding Law students complain of discrimination

Twenty-five of the 27 Guyanese students currently attending the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) in Trinidad and Tobago, have raised several issues and concerns in relation to tuition, discrimination...

United States invites Guyana to legalize gay marriages

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on United States invites Guyana to legalize gay marriages

By Abena Rockcliffe At the reception recently held at the Marriott Hotel Georgetown in observance of United States Independence Anniversary, on Thursday, the country invited Guyana to join it in the...

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Need for Speed Karting Championships: Persaud, Mendonca, Tenpow, and...

Jun 22, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – The weather was not the only scorching thing this weekend as Jumbo Jet Events staged the first round of its Need for Speed Karting Championship at the 555 Speedway in...

Watch the PPPC like a hawk!

Jun 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A curious silence has greeted what ought to be one of the most debated economic announcements of the year. President Irfaan Ali has indicated that bonds will be issued to members of the Guyanese diaspora, allowing them to invest in major infrastructure projects in Guyana. One...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

More money for Guyanese workers

Jun 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I like it. More money for Guyanese workers. Not private sector minimum wage workers, regrettably. If any local workers are due more money, private sector (and public service) minimum wage workers standout. More money is for Guyanese in the oil industry. Well, that’s...

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