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Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jury finds man guilty of sodomising boy, 7
A mixed 12-member Jury has found buggery accused, Kevin Jordan, guilty of sodomising a seven year- old boy. Jordan was charged with two counts of buggery. The incidents are said to have occurred on...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WORKING BACKWARDS
There are two sets of contrasting philosophies at work in the controversy concerning the award of huge salary increases to members of the Cabinet. This column discusses these contrasting sets of...Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hit and run’ river death has police fuming
Police are treating the death of 58-year-old, Nicholas Jacobus, as a “hit and run” river accident which occurred sometime Friday night in the Pomeroon River. No one has however been detained or...Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t must push ahead with establishing local law school – PPP
By Jarryl Bryan The recent statements by Attorney General Basil Williams that establishing a law school locally was not a priority is not sitting well with the Opposition People’s Progressive Party...Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rockstone Fish Festival 2015 kicks off…Tourism Ministry to boost event for international participation
The annual Rockstone Fish Festival was officially launched on Friday last at Rockstone Village, Region Ten, to the delight of residents there. The Tourism Ministry felt it would be more fitting to...Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt delegation leaves Ministerial advisors in Canada
By Lindsay Davidson The government on Monday announced the appointment of four Ministerial Advisors on the Diaspora during an Alliance For Change (AFC) Leadership Dinner Gala at the Woodbine Banquet...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on MAKING ILLEGAL VENDING LEGAL
Illegal vending on the pavements on the busy streets and pavements in Georgetown has become a way of life in Guyana. Not only has illegal vending become one of the more upsetting problems for legal...Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese killing in Barbados dubbed ‘senseless’
Barbados (Barbados Nation) – A senseless killing. That’s how neighbours have described the murder of 59-year-old Brinsley Warde, who was fatally stabbed on Friday night in the City. It took...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The APNU+AFC must stock-take and recover quickly
Dear Editor, Last week was supposed to be a good week for the APNU+AFC government. The government should have been basking in its widely-praised diplomatic and public relations counterattack against...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those involved in Guyana’s assets recovery ought to be cheered along and rewarded in advance
Dear Editor, Please help me proffer another perspective on the issue of the increase in pay our Guyana legislators have granted themselves in these “worst of times”. Perhaps this POV could be...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The arrogance, insensitivity and inconsideration of the Ministers’ salary increase
Dear Editor, It is inevitable that government makes mistakes. And it is also a fact that oftentimes government attracts harsh criticisms when political prudence dictates that government engages an...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GUYSUCO – AN EMERGING DEBACLE
Dear Editor, In a Kaieteur News letter of Oct. 4, Mr. Oditt, a former Chairman of GuySuCo opined that recent letters and statements in the press had inferred a doomed fate for the Corporation and...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is petty cash when compared to what was paid to the former CEO’s of GPL and Guysuco
Dear Editor, I am appalled at the orchestrated outrage being vented against the Granger administration over the announced 50 % pay increase for Ministers. I am however consoled at the proven fact...Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I do not mind paying people fair wages, but they need to deliver
Dear Editor, With the furore surrounding pay increases for Government Ministers and Members of Parliament at full hilt, most of the urban based so-called interest groups are simply reacting to the...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon visits Guyana
Secretary General of the United Nations, His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon made a brief stop-over in Guyana yesterday en route to New York, USA after attending the Peoples World Conference on Climate Change...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits shoot RK guard, escape with bag of cash
Four armed bandits attacked two security guards attached to RK Security Service, shooting one of them and escaping with an undisclosed sum of cash in what is being described as a brazen daylight...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Chang’s departure will be opportunity to end sorry state of affairs – Ramkarran
With Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang likely to proceed on pre-retirement leave sometime before the end of the year, the post will not be vacant as many have surmised. Rather it is only the post of a...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 50 percent salary increase for MPs… Decision suggests political naivety, arrogance, insensitivity –Political Activist, Dr. David Hinds
“Gov’t may already be out of touch with the realities of life on the ground.” Political Activist and University Professor, Dr. David Hinds believes that government’s recent decision to...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New govt. to get UK help that PPP turned down
‘Better late than never’, is probably what the new government had in mind when it approached the United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to Guyana, James Gregory Quinn seeking to access the Security...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US$30M sale of Skeldon generators a major headache for new Govt.
Months after the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) sold its electricity generation facilities at the new Skeldon sugar factory, the company is yet to be paid in full. There are also indications that...Oct 12, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soulja Bai got to play dance music fuh de people
Old people got a saying-Dance a battam look ah top. Is a nice saying that is also a message. De pay rise that de Ministers and all dem MPs gun get is something to dance about. But dem got to look at...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mother, child found dead at Pomeroon landing, baby survives
By: Romila Boodram and Yannason Duncan The nude bodies of a young mother and her two-year-old daughter were found floating under a dilapidated landing in the Pomeroon River, where they had reportedly...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Barbados bound Granny busted with cocaine and weed at Ogle
Narcotics Police Officers at the Ogle International Airport arrested a 60-year-old Guyanese woman on Sunday afternoon after she was found with cocaine and marijuana in her suitcases. Reports from...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner chopped to head over non delivery of “weed”
A prisoner is nursing a chop wound to his head following an attack by at least two other inmates of the Georgetown prisons. The injured prisoner Patrick Chad Coates was rushed to the Georgetown...Oct 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cops grill wife, friend over murder plot claim
– woman claims spouse fabricated story Police have questioned a Berbice woman and one of her friends following claims by her estranged husband that she had twice hired individuals to have him...
Sep 29, 2026
– ends extended GDF run (Kaieteur News) – The Republican Gym’s return to competitive boxing ended in championship glory, as the prisoners captured the overall team title at the Guyana...Sep 29, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There is a new career opportunity developing in Guyana that could revolutionise the public service. You can become a former Minister. Traditionally, when somebody stopped being a Minister, the public assumed that was the end of the ministerial chapter. The person might return...Sep 20, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...Sep 29, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – Over three hundred years after Massachusetts, the plague that roiled it struck Georgetown. Over three quarters of a century after Wisconsin, that same bomb has been detonated across Guyana. It’s a bunker buster. Everyone keeping their heads low; who doesn’t have cover...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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