October 2015

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Guyana for the first time to receive top Regional CAPE award

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana for the first time to receive top Regional CAPE award

– to again receive four top regional CSEC awards With Cecil Cox of Queen’s College (QC) being named the Most Outstanding Overall candidate at the 2015 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency...

Ranks should not hide to trap unsuspecting drivers – Traffic Chief

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ranks should not hide to trap unsuspecting drivers – Traffic Chief

Traffic ranks lurking amid trees and stationary vehicles to trap unsuspecting drivers with speed guns, is hazardous to both the lawmen and road users, according to the Traffic Chief, Dion Moore. The...

Modifying the system of voting

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Modifying the system of voting

The Canadians went to the polls on Monday and before most of them would have retired to bed that night they would have known the results of the elections. The polls closed at six that evening and by...

Mexico cooperates with Guyana on the preservation of the historical archive

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mexico cooperates with Guyana on the preservation of the historical archive

In the framework of celebration for the 50th anniversary of independence, the Governments of Guyana and Mexico are collaborating to promote bilateral cooperation that includes a project for the...

Guyana-born NYPD cop shot dead in Harlem

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born NYPD cop shot dead in Harlem

One day after a US-based Guyanese, NYPD officer was fatally shot, flags flew at half mast yesterday in New York. The NYPD housing officer was fatally shot to the head on Tuesday night, by a...

Canal man clings to life after road accident

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Canal man clings to life after road accident

A 49-year-old Canal #2 resident is currently battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), following an accident on the West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road last...

E’bo man found floating in canal

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo man found floating in canal

An Aberdeen family, whose relative Mahesh Narine a/k “Big” 30, a rice farmer whose decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench in the back dam early Wednesday morning, is making...

After two years on the run…Captured fugitive charged with attempted murders

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on After two years on the run…Captured fugitive charged with attempted murders

Bail was refused for captured fugitive, Shawn Maltus Fordyce, who was yesterday slapped with four counts of attempted murder. He is accused of trying to kill his wife, Dorothy Blackman-Fordyce, his...

Multi-million dollar bids opened for Mahdia road work

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-million dollar bids opened for Mahdia road work

During Tuesday’s session at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance, bids were opened for the contractors to undertake infrastructural works on several...

Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

Oct 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

A visibly emotional James Wong was on Tuesday acquitted of a carnal knowledge charge. He was found not guilty of the allegation by a mixed 12-member jury. Wong had been indicted for having Carnal...

Little evidence that Ministerial Salary Increase leads to Good Governance

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Little evidence that Ministerial Salary Increase leads to Good Governance

Dear Editor, One of the contentions of the coalition government regarding ministerial salary increase is the argument put forward by the President himself that higher salary increase for ministers...

Assets Recovery Unit needs to investigate these Region 2 land sales

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Assets Recovery Unit needs to investigate these Region 2 land sales

Dear Editor, Just before May elections prime properties in Region Two were given to rich PPP/C loyalists for under market value. Prime property in Anna Regina next to the Republic Bank which was...

Remembering Professor Raymond T. Smith

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remembering Professor Raymond T. Smith

Dear Editor, I read a recent letter about the anthropologist Professor Raymond T. Smith and noted the debate about the origin of his nationality. Allow me to add some spice to this intriguing...

Supremacist label is a figment of imagination

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Supremacist label is a figment of imagination

Dear Editor, I am writing in reference to Mr. Fredrick Kissoon’s letter “I have suffered too much to let APNU-AFC destroy Guyana,” in KN October 18, 2015, which I believe has some substance. It...

Increases in Salaries of Parliamentarians

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Increases in Salaries of Parliamentarians

Dear Editor, One could not help being attentive to Adam Harris’ Column in KN of Sunday October 18, 2015, about Ministers’ Salaries. No explanation about this topic could be simple, however. For...

Samuel Small’s death is a great loss

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Samuel Small’s death is a great loss

Dear Editor, I learnt with much grief about the death of an outstanding Guyanese educator Mr. Samuel Augustus Small A.A. News of this irreparable loss struck me like a bolt from the blue. I believe...

Why all the fuss about the salary increase?

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why all the fuss about the salary increase?

Dear Editor, I do hope this letter will find favour as a previous one supporting the wages increase to Government functionaries did not. Mr Editor, a writer once said that he had kept focusing on...

Deepavali should be on November 11

Oct 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deepavali should be on November 11

Dear Editor, Please permit me space to make my pronouncement on the discrepancy concerning the date for Deepavali (Diwali) 2015, which is gazetted for the 10th of November 2015. From an objective...

‘Baby killer’ confesses hours after surrendering

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Baby killer’ confesses hours after surrendering

– claims he mistook elder child for his ex-lover Marc Angoy, the prime suspect in the shooting death of a baby girl and the wounding of her 12-year-old aunt, has reportedly told police...

Jordan instructs GRA’s Boss to go after tax evaders, smugglers

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jordan instructs GRA’s Boss to go after tax evaders, smugglers

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is currently in the process of strengthening its Law Enforcement and Investigative Division (LEID), as the authority moves to tackle smuggling. Finance Minister,...

Jagdeo’s dangerous attempt to stifle media resurfaces – Press Association

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo’s dangerous attempt to stifle media resurfaces – Press Association

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo appears hell bent on stifling the growth and operations of the media locally and is again coming in for flak, this time over his latest attempt. The Guyana Press...

Attempted murder suspect caught living home with victim

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Attempted murder suspect caught living home with victim

, who allegedly carried out a brutal cutlass attack on his wife and her three daughters back in 2013, was yesterday arrested by the police in a house he was sharing with the said wife at B Field...

Airport security officer fired for stealing passenger’s money

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Airport security officer fired for stealing passenger’s money

A local Aviation Security agent attached to a private company contracted by an airline has been fired for stealing a quantity of US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan...

Bus driver distracted by fallen phone, kills pedestrian

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver distracted by fallen phone, kills pedestrian

A minibus driver now faces a charge of causing death by dangerous driving as the woman he knocked down 20 days ago on the East Bank Public Road succumbed to her injuries yesterday. Mahadeo Mangro,...

City cleaning taken to another level … Cevons imports street washer/sweeper trucks

Oct 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City cleaning taken to another level … Cevons imports street washer/sweeper trucks

A local waste management company is taking cleanliness to another level with the importation of more sophisticated equipment in its efforts to enhance the cleaning of the streets of Georgetown....

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GFF U17 Youth Ensemble Programme gets underway this weekend

Sep 11, 2026

– Elite U17 competition to run simultaneously as new feature (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Under-17 Youth Ensemble Programme will kick off nationally this weekend,...

What is happiness?

Sep 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This time, I went to Guru, I asked him what I thought was the most important question of all. “Guru,” I said, “what is happiness?” He smiled. “You have come a long way to ask a very difficult question.” “Isn’t happiness simply being happy?” “No,” he...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Amerindian Heritage Month – the best celebration

Sep 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The best manner in which Guyana’s indigenous can be honored in this their Heritage Month is through a credible Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the MV Barima catastrophe. An avoidable tragedy now written in blood on the books of Guyana. The callous, reckless, and...

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