May 2016

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New Institutional Review Board appointed

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Institutional Review Board appointed

With Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, at its helm, a new Institutional Review Board has been put in place. This is according to the Official Gazette dated May 5, 2016 which notes...

Destruction of road to repair koker makes residents unhappy

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Destruction of road to repair koker makes residents unhappy

Residents of the Little Diamond Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, are unhappy with a contractor’s approach to carry out repairs to a koker in their village. The road that the contractor used to...

Emergency safety plan developed for D’Urban Park jubilee celebrations

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emergency safety plan developed for D’Urban Park jubilee celebrations

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC), in partnership with other stakeholders, has developed a Mass Causality plan to ensure citizens’ safety during the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations at...

I am taking my outside children to see the Georgetown clean-up hypocrisy

May 18, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I am taking my outside children to see the Georgetown clean-up hypocrisy

I have one daughter in my marriage and three outside daughters – Gypsy, Dusty and Princess. The first two are cats. The other is my dog. Believe me; you can come to love your pet with equal...

Hinterland Electrification Company to get millions worth of line equipment

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Hinterland Electrification Company to get millions worth of line equipment

During the opening of bids at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), yesterday, several companies vied for a contract to supply hardware for the Lethem Power Company’s...

Linden records zero maternal deaths

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden records zero maternal deaths

Minister within the ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings paid a visit to Linden for one of the scheduled activities for ‘Linden Town Week’, the Annual Health fair which was held at the...

Linden Town Week kicks off

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Town Week kicks off

The much anticipated Linden Town Week was officially launched at the Linden/ Georgetown bus park on Sunday evening. A sizeable crowd turned up to witness the event that was declared open by Linden...

Police get laminating machine to facilitate ID card production

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police get laminating machine to facilitate ID card production

Police ranks will now be able to flash a proper identification card whenever they have to, thanks to Canada-based businessman Dr. Roberto Jacgobin. Yesterday Dr. Jacgobin, who has a working...

GTU hopeful of favourable court ruling

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GTU hopeful of favourable court ruling

…but prepared for adverse outcome Although a ruling in the matter involving the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is still pending, the latter body is...

Cops nab suspect in fatal stabbing

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops nab suspect in fatal stabbing

Police have detained a suspect in last Saturday’s fatal stabbing of Gordon Ross, 26, in Hadfield Street. The suspect was taken into custody yesterday. Ross was found lying in what appeared to be an...

Guyana formally inducted into Islamic Development Bank

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana formally inducted into Islamic Development Bank

Guyana has been recently welcomed into the membership of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) with a grand, formal ceremony that was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, expressed Finance Minister, Winston...

Taxing sugary beverages could be on the horizon – Health Minister

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Taxing sugary beverages could be on the horizon – Health Minister

Government, through the Ministry of Public Health, could soon be looking to implement tax on sugary beverages. Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton noted that this move, if followed through,...

Brazilian company to boost agri diversification

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian company to boost agri diversification

-10,000 acres to be put under cultivation in Berbice Guyana’s efforts to diversify its agricultural sector are set to receive a major boost from a Brazilian company, New Frontier Agriculture Guyana...

“Three pound of weed” gets man four years jail

May 18, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “Three pound of weed” gets man four years jail

…and $30,000 fine City Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday sentenced a father of two to four years imprisonment after she found him guilty on a drug trafficking charge. Lloyd Sadloo, 34, of...

Accountant Nigel Hinds named new GWI Chairman

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Accountant Nigel Hinds named new GWI Chairman

Government has named accountant, Nigel Hinds, as the new Chairman of the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI). According to a notice in the Official Gazette of April 29, Hinds, of Nigel Hinds Financial Services,...

Cops link Stafrei Alexander to two more killings, robbery spree

May 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops link Stafrei Alexander to two more killings, robbery spree

Recently-captured murder suspect Stafrei Alexander is now being implicated in two more killings at Linden and a spate of robberies at Berbice. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum disclosed yesterday that...

Problems with the economy

May 18, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Problems with the economy

Disappointment and disgust are just some of the words that can be used to describe the analysis that the reason why disposable income is on the decline, is because of the reduction in the drug trade...

Arjoon and Gouveia have dishonoured their undertaking

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Arjoon and Gouveia have dishonoured their undertaking

Dear Editor, It is thoroughly disgraceful that both the President and Vice President of NATA, Annette Arjoon-Martins and Gerry Gouveia, have continuously and repeatedly dishonored and violated their...

The killing fields of Guyana

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The killing fields of Guyana

Dear Editor, Oh dear what can the matter be. On the verge of our 50th independence anniversary we are being consumed by a monster; the pervasive crime that stalk the land and rule the waves. In the...

Donald Ramotar is nothing but a hypocrite

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Donald Ramotar is nothing but a hypocrite

Dear Editor, ‘Comrade’ Ramotar continues to “open his mouth” in yet another feeble attempt to convince Guyanese that our suspicions about his capacity for cogent formulations were sound. The...

President Granger’s social cohesion plan needs more vision

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger’s social cohesion plan needs more vision

Dear Editor, The actions to foster Social Cohesion cannot be piecemealed! We are either in or out! I listened in horror last Wednesday night as I sat in the National Cultural Center and heard the...

The dog and pony show has failed

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The dog and pony show has failed

Dear Editor, The Public Security Minister mentioned that “Crime will not be reduced drastically overnight” and that a lot of things have to be done as per Guyana Chronicle, May 6th, 2016. The...

Parliament Mall reminds me of slavery

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parliament Mall reminds me of slavery

Dear Editor, When I pass along the area the Georgetown City Council has the nerve to call ‘the Parliament View Mall’ which should really be called ‘Parliament View Tent City’ as a mall is...

Is there tender nepotism at the Cheddi Jagan Airport?

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there tender nepotism at the Cheddi Jagan Airport?

Dear Editor, Please permit me a space in your paper to draw to the attention of the President, Mr. Granger, the National Procurement and Tender Board, the Minister of Infrastructure and the C.E.O of...

Millie, the Guyanese macaw in Canada in 1967

May 18, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Millie, the Guyanese macaw in Canada in 1967

Dear Editor, Canada celebrated its 100th independence anniversary in 1967 with a grand world fair, Expo 67 held in French-speaking Montreal, Quebec. Guyana’s contingent to Expo67 included Millie,...

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Hridoy ensures draw in Sylhet; WI beat Bangladesh 1-0 in series

Nov 09, 2026

Cricinfo – With an 82 in the fourth innings, Towhid Hridoy ensured Bangladesh completed a hard-fought draw against West Indies in the Sylhet Test. The visitors clinched the series 1-0 on...

What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are moments in the political life of every nation when the character of its people is tested by whether they have the courage to condemn wrongdoing when it is committed against those with whom they disagree. It is easy to champion justice when the victim belongs to your...

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...

Light and darkness, lips to life

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The light that shines over Guyana must be at its dazzling purest. Not a speck of darkness on the horizon. Not a stray dark spot in the cupboard or under the carpet. When light is at its brightest, what chance for darkness to show its face, to linger? On the occasion of...

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