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Campbell (110), Schultz (77) help Vryman’s Erven get better of Berbice High School

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Campbell (110), Schultz (77) help Vryman’s Erven get better of Berbice High School

2016 Dalchand Rambharose Inter-Secondary School U-15 Two-innings Cricket in Berbice The 2016 Dalchand Rambharose Inter-Secondary School Under-15 Two-innings Cricket Competition organised by the...

International Women’s Day (IDW) Messages

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on International Women’s Day (IDW) Messages

Under the theme “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality” the world over is today (March 8, 2016) celebrating IWD. Kaieteur News today salutes our women from every stratum of...

14-year-old charged with attempted murder

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 14-year-old charged with attempted murder

The police have charged a 14year-old Dartmouth teenager who stabbed a 13year-old, Charity Secondary School student a month ago, with attempted murder. Both teenagers are from Dartmouth Village. The...

Murder accused pleads guilty to manslaughter

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Murder accused pleads guilty to manslaughter

Roy Lewis, 40, of Glasgow Housing Scheme who is on trial for the murder of Devon Da Silva, 18, called Devon Lewis, on Thursday December 27, 2012 at Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, has pleaded...

MFK murder conspiracy trial put off again

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on MFK murder conspiracy trial put off again

-Prosecutor blames prison unrest for absence of star witness The long awaited trial of Police Sergeant Leon Lindo who is accused of conspiring to murder businessman Mohamed F. Khan was put off again...

Correction

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Correction

Yesterday’s issue of Kaieteur News carried an article with the headline, “Engineers will soon face stiff penalties for slapdash work-Patterson.” In that article, Joel Trotman was identified as...

THE LEGAL FIX!

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE LEGAL FIX!

Most of the persons who died in the riots at the Georgetown Prisons were on murder charges. This means that effectively at least fourteen murder cases have to be been taken off the list for trials....

That local government debate: My choice

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on That local government debate: My choice

I was one of a dozen panelists that forwarded questions to Local Government candidates at the debate held at Theater Guild on Saturday night. Because of the format, a panelist had a candidate chosen...

Regional officials gather in Guyana for electoral workshop

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Regional officials gather in Guyana for electoral workshop

Senior electoral officials, experts from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and representatives of other regional organisations, have gathered in Guyana for a three-day discussion aimed at...

Canadian Gold mining companies host Guyana Night in Canada

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian Gold mining companies host Guyana Night in Canada

by Lindsay Davidson in Toronto There was a high level of optimism Sunday evening in a full room of investors as senior executives of three Canadian gold mining companies in Guyana talked about their...

Strategic Prison Reform plan must be fully implemented- Rohee

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Strategic Prison Reform plan must be fully implemented- Rohee

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has called for the Government to return to the Strategic Prison Reform plan it had initiated. The party is of the view that what the administration is...

LIFE MOVES ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION—FORWARD

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LIFE MOVES ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION—FORWARD

A large number of people in the country feel that they are being slapped around, body slammed to the ground and stomped on by the PPP. It is nauseating to the readers of this and other newspapers...

C’bean Voice invites nominations for El Dorado Awards

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on C’bean Voice invites nominations for El Dorado Awards

The Caribbean Voice, a non-Governmental Organisation involved in suicide prevention, is inviting nominations for its Second Annual El Dorado Awards, slated for July 2016. The day and venue will be...

Domestic violence unit commissioned–with Canadian support

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic violence unit commissioned–with Canadian support

In its pursuit to track and provide services to victims of sexual violence, the Ministry of Social Protection in collaboration with the Canadian Government, commissioned its Sexual Offences and...

Disciplined Forces to vote today

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Disciplined Forces to vote today

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced that the disciplined forces will be allowed to cast their votes today for the Local Government Elections (LGE). Plans and activities are in place...

Region Ten Chairman seeks $48M for young job seekers

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten Chairman seeks $48M for young job seekers

Chairman of Region Ten, Renis Morian, told the media recently that his office is looking to raise approximately $48million to fast track a programme which would involve 200 young people. The youths...

Glaucoma poster officially launched

Mar 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Glaucoma poster officially launched

A poster sensitizing the public on glaucoma was officially launched yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), compliments of Ansa McAl. The poster, which has all the vital...

Dr. David Hinds confronts the mythical context of state violence

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. David Hinds confronts the mythical context of state violence

Dear Editor, My critique of state violence against citizens since Independence, including those who oppose the government has understandably enraged opinion on both sides of our ethno-political...

Surinamese jailed for cocaine in her vagina

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Surinamese jailed for cocaine in her vagina

After being on remand for almost one year, a Surinamese mother of two decided to plead guilty to a narcotics charge and was jailed for three years. When her matter was called, yesterday, in the...

Ugly incident in Constituency 8 in south G/town

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ugly incident in Constituency 8 in south G/town

Dear Editor, Please allow me some column space in your letters section to speak about an issue of great importance during these historical local government elections in Guyana. All over this nation...

PPP Parliamentarian is a victim of group think

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP Parliamentarian is a victim of group think

Dear Editor, After reading a letter penned by Mr Charles Ramson Jr. regarding his reasons for the deaths of the 17 prisoners last week, I wish to state that the learned Member of Parliament is...

Eulogy for a great policeman

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Eulogy for a great policeman

Dear Editor, I learnt with much grief about the death of Police Sergeant 16934 Leonard La Rose. Both Kaieteur News and Stabroek News March 2, 2016 carried stories about his death. Yes, he was...

Hamilton Green gives his take on Rodney’s politics and death

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hamilton Green gives his take on Rodney’s politics and death

Dear Editor, I read the gravamen of this purported Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, as contained in this report, it is damming, but a sad and sorry paragraph as quoted: “Mr. Laurie Lewis, then...

An ancient institution that should be done way with

Mar 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on An ancient institution that should be done way with

Dear Editor, There could be no happier observer than this writer at the reported protest by the Guyana Teachers’ Union against the existence of the Teachers’ Service Commission, probably the most...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more