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Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Trouble with Marudi Mountains mining…Deal hammered out between Amerindian villages, company
Over the weekend, a team from the Ministry of Natural Resources facilitated a mediation process aimed at resolving conflicts that had escalated between large scale mining company, Romanex, miners,...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Murder accused surrenders
The man who allegedly bludgeoned another man on his head with a scantling and had been on the run for over a week has finally surrendered. He is expected to be charged with murder. The man...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Deaf Education requires collaborative approach – DAG
Deaf education is an emerging issue, a journey even, said Head of the Deaf Association of Guyana (DAG), Ms. Sabine McIntosh. She recalled that during the 1980s, instruction of the deaf was relocated...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Army lends support as MPI moves apace with D’Urban Park Project
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is moving apace to complete the D’Urban Park Development Project in time for the 50th anniversary celebrations. Army personnel are now on site to help turn the...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt spokesman dismisses GPA claims of interference in state media
-Expresses bafflement at GPA letter to Granger Director of Public Information (DPI), Imran Khan, is refuting several accusations made by the Guyana Press Association (GPA), which have pointed to an...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STARR Computer, NFMU collaborate to promote ‘Women in ICT’
Tech giant, STARR Computer, in collaboration with the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU), exposed 30 female students and six teachers to the role of women in the field of Information and...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Public Health Minister denies drug shortage
Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton, yesterday denied that there is a massive drug shortage in the public health sector and lambasted the media for what he says is “bogus” reporting....Apr 26, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BILLY AND PRINCE
Two musical superstars died this past week. The world is in mourning over the deaths of Billy Paul and Prince. They both belonged to different generations. Billy Paul was 81 years old. Prince was 57....Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on World Press Freedom index ranks Guyana at 57 out of 180; up 5 places
– PPP maintains press censorship is alive and well By Jarryl Bryan The 2016 World Press Freedom Index has been released by the entity “Reporters without Borders” (RSF). Of 180 countries...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Kaneville, Ruimveldt Children’s Aid Centre benefit from health fairs
Last weekend, the communities of Kaneville and Ruimveldt each benefited from health fairs which were collaborative efforts of the Ministry of Public Health, the Grove Seventh Day Adventist Church and...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet to get National Tourism Policy soon
– Stakeholders’ feedback being incorporated Following a number of public consultations on the National Tourism Policy (NTP), some of the suggestions from stakeholders are being incorporated...Apr 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Two hospitalized after car uproots power pole
Two men travelling in a motor car are now in a critical condition in the New Amsterdam hospital with injuries to various parts of their bodies. This happened after an accident which occurred around...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE CHURCH EDICT ON HUMAN SEXUALITY
Sometimes when it comes to one’s personal life, friends, family members and even strangers find it necessary to comment on specific aspects of how that person should or should not live. However,...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cutlass wielding man gets six months for unlawful escape
Ravindra Singh, 27, the Richmond Housing Scheme man who escaped from the police after his arrest for inflicting a number of chop wounds on 38-year-old, Kareshwar Nandian on April 21, last, was...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robbery/home invasion on Land Court judge…Another defendant claims to be home at time of robbery
The five men accused of robbing Land Court Judge, Nicola Pierre, and her husband at their home in the gated community of Felicity, East Coast Demerara, continued to lead their defence when the trial...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man remanded to prison for house break-in
Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday remanded a 21-year-old man after he appeared before her to answer a Break and Enter charge. Michael Jackson of Bartica/ Potaro Road Bartica, Cuyuni Mazaruni...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bartica Man Charged with Rape of a minor
A 50 -year-old man of Bartica has been charged with the rape of a minor. He appeared at the City Magistrates’ Court yesterday afternoon. The victim who cannot be named for legal reasons will appear...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner remanded for ganja possession
A miner of the Puruni area, who police said attempted to traffic more than 1000 grams of marijuana was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at a City Court. Police said that 29-year-old...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Clinton Urling against employment?
Dear Editor, Clinton Urling writes a letter appearing in your paper on 25 April captioned “Critical look at the Durban Park project” in which he objects to the construction of the D’Urban Park...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police recruits must study behavioural science
Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Guyana Police Force for recently graduating two hundred and ninety five recruits. It was quite an achievement to simultaneously graduate ranks from the Felix...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ruel Johnson joins the debate on the Chronicle
Dear Editor, This is what I hope to be my sole intervention on the recent controversy surrounding the management of the state media. In a fledgling democracy such as ours, (and I count from 2011,...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former GRA boss, Sattaur under fire
Dear Editor, Mr. Sattaur has again displayed his lack of professionalism and his penchant for ingratiation in his letter “GRA will not be sidetracked by opportunistic views.” He is right in...Apr 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on How have we sunken so low as a nation?
Dear Editor, It sickened me to read of the cold-blooded and carefully-planned murder of twenty-five year old Simone Hackett. A young lady was lured to the place of her death, brutally killed, then,...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Jun 23, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...Jun 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...Jun 21, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...Jun 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...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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