October 2015

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Forrester instrumental in OCA success

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forrester instrumental in OCA success

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) all-rounder Winston Forrester was influential in the Ontario Cricket Academy/Overseas Cricket Club (OCA/overseas) winning the Premier Division league which was contested...

GCA tournaments bowl on this weekend

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA tournaments bowl on this weekend

Matches in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) second division tournaments are set to continue this weekend. In the Noble House Sea Foods second division two-day which starts at 10:30 hrs on...

Heritage Games 2015 collaboration with GSSF Archery Guyana encouraging

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Heritage Games 2015 collaboration with GSSF Archery Guyana encouraging

Following the recent launch of Archery Guyana by the Guyana Sport Shooting Federation, the organisation is extremely happy to be involved in the Heritage Games 2015 held at the National Aquatic...

Ninvalle to lobby for funds overseas for Goodwill boxing tourney

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ninvalle to lobby for funds overseas for Goodwill boxing tourney

Still about $4M away from target President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle has informed that he will be lobbying for additional financial support overseas for the upcoming 3rd...

Dyna’s Ravens head GABA Open, Division I standings

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dyna’s Ravens head GABA Open, Division I standings

-Colts lead U-23, Knights Division II categories The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) has released the standing of affiliated teams following its King of the Hard Court, and League...

Novar overcome Mahaicony Primary

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Novar overcome Mahaicony Primary

Novar defeated Mahaicony Primary by 18 runs to win zone one of the Ministry of Education Department of Sports/National Sports Commission U12 cricket competition which was played yesterday at...

THIS IS A WASTE OF GOOD MONEY

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THIS IS A WASTE OF GOOD MONEY

The State is paying four hundred thousand local dollars every month in rent for building that formerly housed the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, but which is now being used to house two...

Govt. eyes more GuySuCo lands for housing

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. eyes more GuySuCo lands for housing

…as special unit monitors private developers With lands for housing development along the coast becoming extremely limited, government is eyeing a portion at Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) owned...

Boy, 6, brutalised

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 6, brutalised

…CPA launches investigation When teachers at a city primary school noticed marks on a male pupil’s neck, their attention was immediately aroused. At first, the marks appeared minor. However,...

Top Vector Control officials withdraw resignations

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Top Vector Control officials withdraw resignations

– to continue efforts to help reduce malaria prevalence The resignations of four senior vector control officials within the Ministry of the Public Health’s Vector Control Services Unit have...

GT&T offers double data volume to customers

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T offers double data volume to customers

Telecoms giant, GT&T, says it is pulling all the stops to ensure its customers benefit from a host of services. Starting yesterday, and until October 22nd, the company will be offering twice the...

SERIOUS INTROSPECTION NEEDED BY JAGDEO

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on SERIOUS INTROSPECTION NEEDED BY JAGDEO

Recently, the Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, has been traveling the country in a campaign style mode urging the supporters of the PPP to recommit themselves to the party because it is...

Venezuela incensed by US Ambassador’s “meddling” in border controversy

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela incensed by US Ambassador’s “meddling” in border controversy

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is upset at the new US Ambassador to Guyana’s reference to the border controversy. Maduro on Tuesday, during his weekly televised program, vowed to lodge a...

Sexual violence cases predominate June session of Demerara assizes

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sexual violence cases predominate June session of Demerara assizes

– Approximately 233 criminal cases listed for new session Four judges are presiding over the criminal trials at the Georgetown Supreme Court. A total of 233 are listed to be heard by Justice...

More than 13,600 passengers utilise Berbice River taxis in two weeks

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on More than 13,600 passengers utilise Berbice River taxis in two weeks

The water taxi service, which Government implemented, as a direct response to the ‘cry’ of residents of Regions 5 and 6, is progressing quite well, as thousands are making full use of the...

Jagdeo to collect Opposition Leader assets today – Isaacs

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo to collect Opposition Leader assets today – Isaacs

Following accusations by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday that Government was withholding assets of the Leader of the Opposition office, the handing over will be done today with...

‘Nasty Man’ remanded for ‘Warlock’ murder

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Nasty Man’ remanded for ‘Warlock’ murder

…also faces court on gun, ammo charges Having been charged before for buggery, murder and illegal gun and ammo possession, when he was just a teenager, Dellon Henry, a/k “Nasty Man” has found...

Public service bodies should be free from political influence – Freddie Kissoon

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Public service bodies should be free from political influence – Freddie Kissoon

Social activist and Kaieteur News Columnist, Freddie Kissoon, told the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into the Public Service, on Tuesday that in 1992, the ruling political party was responsible for...

Robb Street Fire…RNK Investments Ltd. secures over $70M from Insurance Company

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Robb Street Fire…RNK Investments Ltd. secures over $70M from Insurance Company

Just about two months after a disastrous fire on Robb Street gutted two buildings and scorched another, Diamond Fire and General Insurance Inc, on Tuesday settled a relatively large claim for...

APOLOGY

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APOLOGY

In an article headlined ‘Man granted bail after home breakage’ published in the Friday October 2, 2015 Edition of this publication, the photograph of Audwin Percival Isaacs was inadvertently...

Lawyer concludes argument to strike out Elections Petition

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer concludes argument to strike out Elections Petition

Attorney-at-law Roysdale Forde has submitted final arguments in the motion filed to strike out the Elections Petition. The elections petition was filed on behalf of PPP/C member, Ganga Persaud, on...

Ramjattan engages Camp St. prisoners- promises that Gov’t will push for early trials

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan engages Camp St. prisoners- promises that Gov’t will push for early trials

Inmates of the Camp Street, Georgetown Prison, waiting for years to have their cases heard, were recently promised by Vice President and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, during his...

Caribbean Airlines to drop London route

Oct 08, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Airlines to drop London route

Trinidad-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has announced plans to discontinue flights to its London destination within months. According to the airline yesterday, it has conducted a detailed review of...

Minibus conductor jailed for trafficking ganja

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Minibus conductor jailed for trafficking ganja

City Magistrate Dylon Bess jailed a father of seven on Tuesday for three years on a drug trafficking charge. The sentence was handed down in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Randy Norton, 36, of...

A Behavioural Science Unit needed for the Guyana Police Force

Oct 08, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Behavioural Science Unit needed for the Guyana Police Force

Dear Editor, The time is over ripe for the establishment of a Behavioural Science Unit in the Guyana Police Force or make such a facility available to the police. Changes in society itself; in...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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