April 2016

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Jamaican remanded for cocaine, overstaying and forging driver’s licence

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jamaican remanded for cocaine, overstaying and forging driver’s licence

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan remanded a Jamaican National to prison yesterday, after he was slapped with charges of forgery, narcotics trafficking, and overstaying in Guyana. Alfred Wellington, 50,...

Soldiers among four remanded for ganja in bedroom

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soldiers among four remanded for ganja in bedroom

Two soldiers were among four men remanded to prison yesterday, after denying a drug trafficking charge read to them by Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Guyana Defence...

$10,000 fine for damaging windows

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on $10,000 fine for damaging windows

A Carpenter was fined $10,000 yesterday after he confessed to maliciously damaging his wife’s glass windows when he appeared before Magistrate Dylan Bess. Michael Paul of Middle Road, La Penitence,...

The Joe Harmon saga continues to attract attention

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Joe Harmon saga continues to attract attention

Dear Editor, It is astonishing how hard of hearing, or completely reckless, or plain arrogant or all three members of the political class can be. The unpalatable stories about Mr. Brian Tiwari, PPP...

A parent pleads for a son’s education

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A parent pleads for a son’s education

Dear Editor, It is my desire to inform the public and higher authorities to take action in resolving an issue I have been ached with for too long. My beef is with the time the training takes to...

Authentix technology in Guyana

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Authentix technology in Guyana

Dear Editor, The fuel marking program in Guyana using Authentix technology has been in operation since 2003. Authentix has over 20 years’ experience in deploying fuel marking programs similar to...

Law students versus Vincent Alexander

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Law students versus Vincent Alexander

Dear Editor, Kindly give this response to Mr Vincent Alexander’s response “…..these students are misleading readers” similar prominence and in your publication. The caption to his letter...

There can be a situation where a joke isn’t funny; this is one

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on There can be a situation where a joke isn’t funny; this is one

Dear Editor, The headline titled, “APNU+AFC took all seats on city finance committee – despite nomination of Team Legacy member” (SN April 05) sums up accurately another glaring...

Invoking the wrath of the APNU-AFC Gov’t and for what reason?

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Invoking the wrath of the APNU-AFC Gov’t and for what reason?

Dear Editor, The budget is now over. We are now faced with the harsh reality of several increases of licenses fee. The one that concerned me the most is the increase of fire arm license fee from...

Mayor Chase- Green should reopen this case

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor Chase- Green should reopen this case

Dear Editor, Last July, a lady by the name of Suzanna Nichols who is a Canadian national and who came to Guyana upon the invitation of the Ministry of Social Protection to develop a social...

A call to the Prime Minister to deliver justice

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A call to the Prime Minister to deliver justice

Dear Editor, I read this in Kaieteur News of April 1st. April 2016: “Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said that he is still looking for a way out for Arjoon. Nagamootoo said that he has been...

Transparency International, others so silent on Harmongate?

Apr 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Transparency International, others so silent on Harmongate?

Dear Editor, We live in a country that has been embroiled in one corruption scandal after another. Kaieteur News has been at the forefront of exposing many of these scandals, as is expected by an...

Order to stand down on BaiShanLin’s vehicles…Govt. silent on way forward

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Order to stand down on BaiShanLin’s vehicles…Govt. silent on way forward

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell It is not clear if the government has made a decision to just ignore the fact that Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, has been accused of undermining the strength of one...

GFC boss tries to break free from corruption allegations

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GFC boss tries to break free from corruption allegations

…admits to landlord relationship with Chinese By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Absolutely not! That was the response given to Kaieteur News yesterday when Commissioner of the Guyana Forestry Commission...

Auditors recommend sweeping changes at GuyOil

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Auditors recommend sweeping changes at GuyOil

An independent auditor has recommended sweeping changes at the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil), including how that state-owned company should handle its dealers and creditors. According to the recently...

What Raphael Trotman really said.

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on What Raphael Trotman really said.

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‘Lock the door and leh deh bun’

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News 1

-tearful prisoner blames Deputy Director for deadly fire By Rehanna Ramsay “Lock the door and leh deh bun,” are words etched in the memory of murder accused, Kenneth Griffith, who recounted the...

Body on roadway…Teen girls help murder Non Pareil pensioner

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Body on roadway…Teen girls help murder Non Pareil pensioner

-police Two teenage girls lured 64-year-old Roger Manikam to the kitchen of his Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara home last Saturday night, where a boyfriend of one of the girls chopped the pensioner...

Gov’t will press on with CJIA expansion project—Patterson

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t will press on with CJIA expansion project—Patterson

-despite damning IDB report In the wake of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report that concludes that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) $150M expansion project would not bring...

Only two convictions from 19 completed sexual offences matters

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Only two convictions from 19 completed sexual offences matters

-as victims continue to shy away from court Despite implementing measures to toughen the laws against sexual offenders, successful prosecution of sexual offences continues to be difficult and way...

STAG ELITE LEAGUE FINALE …Wade’s brace guides Slingerz past Buxton; Alpha hammer Pele

Apr 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG ELITE LEAGUE FINALE …Wade’s brace guides Slingerz past Buxton; Alpha hammer Pele

Leaders Slingerz FC further consolidated their position at the top of the standings with another flawless performance when they blanked Buxton United 2-0 on account of Dominican National player...

Sammy and Windies receive apology from Nicholas

Apr 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sammy and Windies receive apology from Nicholas

Omnisport (Yahoo) Journalist and former batsman Mark Nicholas has apologised to West Indies for his criticism following their World Twenty20 triumph. Nicholas irked the Windies by claiming they are...

Nigerian Man pardoned for illegal entry

Apr 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Nigerian Man pardoned for illegal entry

A Nigerian trader, who allegedly travelled to Guyana on Easter Sunday, was yesterday pardoned by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan after he pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal entry. At the...

Teams gearing for May 1 start of Mayor’s Cup Football tourney

Apr 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams gearing for May 1 start of Mayor’s Cup Football tourney

A list of 32 teams have been listed to compete in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament, which set to kick off on May 1st at Victoria Ground on the East Coast of Demerara, following the...

Semple is new Malteenoes President

Apr 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Semple is new Malteenoes President

By Sean Devers Winton Semple was elected President of the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) when the Thomas Lands club which was founded in 1902, held its AGM last Friday evening at the club’s pavilion....

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Bread, circuses and the price of silence

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(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

From gunboat and Ping-Pong diplomacy to gangster diplomacy

Sep 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was U.S. President James Munroe and his stellar vision: Manifest Destiny. Then came Presidents Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor, among others. Men of military acclaim; generals who laid claim to personal heraldry. Native American Indian tribes chased from their...

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