June 2016

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Guyana experiences 50 % increase in Fatal Accidents

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana experiences 50 % increase in Fatal Accidents

-Traffic Task force reintroduced Citing driving under the influence as the major cause of some traffic accidents, Traffic Chief, Dion Moore, has revealed that the State is currently experiencing a 50...

Quest for the sunken slave ship which claimed 664 lives

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Quest for the sunken slave ship which claimed 664 lives

Experts believe they are close to locating the final resting place of a slave ship which sank in what has been described as the biggest single tragedy of the Atlantic slave trade. Even in the annals...

Minister Harmon hosts meeting to draft community development plan for Mocha

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Harmon hosts meeting to draft community development plan for Mocha

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, met with representatives from several ministries and Government agencies on Thursday, to discuss a multi-stakeholder approach towards the completion of a...

Prequalification to clean a drain?

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Prequalification to clean a drain?

The Georgetown City Council is deservedly under a great deal of fire. The people are speaking out against the parking meter deal. The matter is threatening to rip the Council apart, with some...

Nigel Hughes can do it, not Freddie Kissoon

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nigel Hughes can do it, not Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, I refer to a published letter in the Kaieteur News with the title, “will Glen Lall, Freddie Kissoon and Nigel Hughes do it?” in the edition of June 5, 2016. It was signed by a former...

A deteriorating road at Victoria

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Please provide me a space to speak of this uncivilized and uncaring action of the Victoria people for their own infrastructure. Editor it is enough that we have a main access road that...

Please help clean Bel Air Village

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please help clean Bel Air Village

Dear Editor, I had hoped that with the hive of activities associated with Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations, Bel Air Village would have been among the sometimes neglected areas...

Society must hold leaders accountable

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Society must hold leaders accountable

Dear Editor, Let me first wish outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy, Bryan Hunt all the best in his future endeavours. Attention is now turned to some areas in his farewell...

AN ELEGY FOR DALE ANDREWS

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AN ELEGY FOR DALE ANDREWS

Dale left us suddenly yesterday His smile did not his death betray He never got to say goodbye That’s why for him last night I cried Why did Dale leave us all so soon? Kaieteur News office is...

Sunday Cartoon

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Accreditation supporting public policy

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Accreditation supporting public policy

World Accreditation Day (WAD) was commemorated on Thursday, June 09, 2016 under the theme “Accreditation – A global tool to support public policy”. WAD is a global initiative jointly...

Incident at Canje Secondary School

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your newspaper to highlight some of my concerns relating to an incident at Canje secondary School. The incident involves the alleged pushing over a student on...

DENTALHEALTH….Dental HealthandDads

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DENTALHEALTH….Dental HealthandDads

By Dr. NerominiFagu Around the world today is a special day that is dedicated to fathers. Some fathers play a dual role of both parents. These single dads sometimes are so busy taking care of their...

What do children value most from parents?

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on What do children value most from parents?

Very Valuable Answer By A Little Girl: A teacher asked a little girl: What does your DAD do? Girl replied: He works in a chocolate factory and brings lots of chocolate for me.. In the evening he...

A delayed email and an overseas visitor’s ‘Golden Jubilee’ account

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on A delayed email and an overseas visitor’s ‘Golden Jubilee’ account

By Sharmain Grainger Have you ever been convinced that you got a message from someone who left suddenly for the “great beyond”? Well I haven’t, and I hope I never do. But for a split second...

The five challenges of Independence (Part 1)

Jun 19, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The five challenges of Independence (Part 1)

(Address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the Dinner in honour of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary, in New York) Guyana – a land...

THE ‘BLUE MOVIE’ MURDER

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on THE ‘BLUE MOVIE’ MURDER

– A fun-loving girl was strangled and dumped in an alleyway – Was she the victim of a pornography ring? By Michael Jordan At six feet two inches in height, Albert Forde could easily pass...

Book Review… Prisoners of our past!

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Prisoners of our past!

Book: Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968 Author: Colin Clarke Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Colin Clarke’s doctoral thesis, Aspects of the Urban...

Governments failed the OAS at its 46th Assembly

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Governments failed the OAS at its 46th Assembly

By Sir Ronald Sanders The 46th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) was not a successful event. This judgement is in no way related to the government of the Dominican...

Shaping a better future… Stakeholder group convenes, drafts modernized copyright legislation

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Shaping a better future… Stakeholder group convenes, drafts modernized copyright legislation

“Under the previous political administration, responsibility for initiating and sustaining the process fell under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, specifically the Department of Culture....

The Baccoo Speaks

Jun 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Murders are on the increase. People seem unable to contain their emotions when confronted with any opposition, even if they are wrong. In fact, a disagreement with the assailant being in the wrong...

Flattering Annual Reports vs. those Forensic Audit Reports…THE WORRYING DISPARITIES

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Flattering Annual Reports vs. those Forensic Audit Reports…THE WORRYING DISPARITIES

By Kiana Wilburg I am no financial expert. But I don’t believe that you or I need to be one in order to see the obvious and worrying disparities between those damning forensic audit reports and the...

The Venezuelan crisis: Offers of help from neighbours

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Venezuelan crisis: Offers of help from neighbours

By Odeen Ishmael Much has already been written about the political, economic, financial and social crisis engulfing Venezuela. Despite having one of the world’s largest oil reserves, the country...

“The Enmore Five did not die in vain”

Jun 19, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “The Enmore Five did not die in vain”

Thursday June 16, 2016 marked the 68th anniversary of the slaying of the Enmore Martyrs, the five sugar workers – Pooran, Surujballi, Rambarran, Harry and Lallabagee – who were killed in 1948...

Establishing the Parent-Child Relationship

Jun 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Establishing the Parent-Child Relationship

By Attorney Gail Seeram In current times, the dynamic of the family unit has changed. It is a norm to see children born to unwed parents and children raised by stepparents. In these situations, the...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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