January 2016

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GWI implements programme to improve service to Bartica, environs

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GWI implements programme to improve service to Bartica, environs

– Four and Five Miles, Carabese Hill and Byderabo receive higher levels of service Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has commenced the implementation of a programme to improve the quality of...

Remigrant wants compensation from Cable Company

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant wants compensation from Cable Company

Re-migrant, Sybil Mingo, of Henrietta Village, Essequibo Coast, is asking a cable company for a replacement of her 60-inch Mitsubishi flat screen television set. The cable company is “Premium...

Lindener on bail for assault

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lindener on bail for assault

A Lindener was yesterday released on bail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates Court for assault. Curt Mingo, 29, a labourer who resides on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway,...

Miner refused bail for attempted murder charge

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner refused bail for attempted murder charge

Kelroy McPherson, a miner was yesterday remanded by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on an attempted murder charge. The 33-year-old who resides at Lot 14...

Pork-knocker remanded for robbery with assault

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pork-knocker remanded for robbery with assault

Yesterday a pork-knocker was remanded on a charge of robbery with assault, after he made his appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Kevin Anthony, 28,...

Why can’t I enter with my firearm on me?

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why can’t I enter with my firearm on me?

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a self-imposed mandate that is arbitrarily being applied by various Government and other agencies, including the GPL, GRA, GT&T, NIS, etc. I refer to the...

Exchange on cooperatives in Guyana

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Exchange on cooperatives in Guyana

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to an article written by Mr. B. Balkarran which was published in the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News on Thursday, January 7, 2016, in relation to...

Urgent need for parenting classes

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent need for parenting classes

Dear Editor, I am convinced more and more every day that my desire to see an inaugural ex-offender rehabilitation center established in Guyana is rooted in logic and basic commonsense. My vision was...

Unfolding drama at Hope Estate

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unfolding drama at Hope Estate

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to Mr. Ed Singh’s letter published in K-News January 07 2016 edition. Firstly who is Ed Singh? Ed Singh is the Administrator of Dr Iamei Aowmathi’s...

Royston King is wearing the King’s new clothes

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Royston King is wearing the King’s new clothes

Dear Editor, Re: M&CC Should Cease Hoodwinking the Public Forthwith! In the words of my late mother, who was devoid of a secondary education, but nevertheless ensured all of her children,...

Christopher Ram says there was no such deposit

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Christopher Ram says there was no such deposit

Dear Editor, Some time ago, Messrs. Ronald and Rustum Bulkan, Joint Managing Directors of Precision Woodworking Limited (PWL) called to request a meeting with me. Although we had brought the...

Sam Hinds accused of insulting the Guyanese people

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sam Hinds accused of insulting the Guyanese people

Dear Editor, Former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (letter, Guyana Chronicle, 2 January 2016) claim that the “ PU/NICIL has been good for people and country”. Nothing in his letter proves this to be...

Breaking News! Decomposed body believed to be missing British teenager found

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News! Decomposed body believed to be missing British teenager found

A body suspected to be that of the missing 18-year-old Dominic Bernard of England, has been discovered in a shallow grave at Kildonan, East Berbice. Police are investigating. It has been over two...

C’tyne businessman shot, chopped to death in home

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on C’tyne businessman shot, chopped to death in home

–cops seek prison escapee, alleged accomplice On the run since breaking out of prison while on a murder charge, fugitive Neshan Jagmohan is now the prime suspect in the brutal killing of a...

Rice exports down US$29M, as price plunges almost 50%

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rice exports down US$29M, as price plunges almost 50%

Local rice production last year exceeded the level set in 2014 with paddy production as at December 31 at 1,058,129 tonnes – equivalent to 687,784 tonnes of rice, according to General Manager...

Man tells court his penis can work like a stove

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man tells court his penis can work like a stove

A man confessed, yesterday, to taking out his penis and making lewd gestures to a female. He also admitted to damaging a door at a City Constabulary outpost. As a result he was jailed for a total of...

Stemming smuggling…Govt. not reducing gold royalties anytime soon

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Stemming smuggling…Govt. not reducing gold royalties anytime soon

Government is not immediately contemplating lowering royalties and taxes on gold to stem the country’s huge smuggling problem. With Guyana boasting a high rate compared to neighbouring Suriname,...

Child Care Agency investigates controversial ‘baby-seller’ case

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Child Care Agency investigates controversial ‘baby-seller’ case

– mother claims infant was taken from her A 15-day-old baby is now in the custody of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) after his mother allegedly tried to sell him to a friend,...

President convenes emergency suicide prevention meeting

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President convenes emergency suicide prevention meeting

“We are above average and that is disturbing,” said President David Granger of the state of suicide in Guyana. The Head of State’s utterance was made yesterday even as he convened an emergency...

Missing British teen… Cops conduct searches at Berbice, Sophia and Timehri

Jan 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Missing British teen… Cops conduct searches at Berbice, Sophia and Timehri

– Man arrested, woman abandons young child Police, acting on a tip-off, launched a search that took them to Berbice, Sophia and Timehri, but thus far they have come up empty-handed in their...

Brassington buy hydro seed

Jan 08, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brassington buy hydro seed

Dem boys hear a story yesterday and for a moment dem couldn’t believe. One of Soulja Bai security tell dem boys that he was downstairs when he hear Soulja Bai ask Sandra, de Princess, “Since when...

Holder rejected Smith’s run chase offer

Jan 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Holder rejected Smith’s run chase offer

The West Indies captain Jason Holder declined an offer to make a game of the rain-ruined third Test against Australia in Sydney because he did not think his side was ready to try to go for the win....

West Indies U19s depart for Bangladesh

Jan 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies U19s depart for Bangladesh

Barbados – The West Indies Under-19 team departed the Caribbean yesterday afternoon for Bangladesh where they will participate in the ICC Under-19 World Cup from January 22 to February 14. The team...

NAGICO Super50 …Volcanoes beat Jaguars by one run on D/L system

Jan 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAGICO Super50 …Volcanoes beat Jaguars by one run on D/L system

The Windwards Volcanoes, on the back of 91 from 34-year-old left-hander Devon Smith beat Guyana Jaguars by a run on the Duckworth/Lewis system in their rain hit NAGICO Super50 cricket match at the St...

BVA outlines plans for 2016

Jan 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on BVA outlines plans for 2016

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) held its first general council meeting following the election of the executive committee in December. The meeting which was held at the Guysuco Training...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

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...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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