June 2016

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Prisoner attempts suicide in court lock-ups

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner attempts suicide in court lock-ups

A 43-year-old man was dragged out of the lockups at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts by police officers who rushed him to the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he ingested a poisonous substance....

90 Zeeburg vendors to relocate for WCD Road Project

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 90 Zeeburg vendors to relocate for WCD Road Project

The West Coast Demerara Road Improvement Project will move into Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) unencumbered following an agreement by vendors to relocate to facilitate the project. Minister...

Analyzing Donald Ramotar’s politics

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Analyzing Donald Ramotar’s politics

In a recent column captioned, “Donald Ramotar: A Freudian analysis,” (June 3, 2016) I attempted to explain why Ramotar did the unthinkable and openly defended someone like Kwame McCoy who is...

Canada warns nationals about travel to Guyana, Suriname

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Canada warns nationals about travel to Guyana, Suriname

Canada is warning its nationals to “exercise a high degree of caution” when travelling to the CARICOM South American nations of Guyana and Suriname, according to a newsamericasnow.com website....

A modern system needed to improve work of local parole board – Prison COI

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on A modern system needed to improve work of local parole board – Prison COI

A modern system should be adopted to improve the work of the local Parole Board. This recommendation was made by the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into the recent disturbance at the Camp Street...

Massive turnout at Guyana Golden Jubilee celebration in New York

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Massive turnout at Guyana Golden Jubilee celebration in New York

NEW YORK: A mammoth parade through the streets of Brooklyn and a massive Unity Concert at South Shore High School Park, Brooklyn, brought the curtain down on the one week New York celebration of...

DIRTY POLITICS AT CITY HALL

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on DIRTY POLITICS AT CITY HALL

Politics has long been labeled a “dirty” business because of what most who embark on a political career may become involved in during their term in office. Anything from lying, slander, forgery,...

Education Ministry, Brickdam Secondary staff reaches temporary agreement

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry, Brickdam Secondary staff reaches temporary agreement

– Staff and Students to remain in school until school term ends The major stakeholders in the impasse which prevailed over the last week have finally come to a compromise over the many issues...

Corruption, red tape raised at Guyana investment forum in NYC

Jun 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption, red tape raised at Guyana investment forum in NYC

By Ray Chickrie Caribbean News now contributor NEW YORK, USA — At the just concluded “Guyana Means Business” investment conference in New York City last Friday, many participants raised the...

Correcting injustice done to Indigenous folks

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correcting injustice done to Indigenous folks

Dear Editor, The re-vision of the Amerindian Act critical to addressing Amerindian Land Rights – Minister Allicock GINA, June 1, 2016 ) is a welcoming approach by the government that it is...

Police station without a vehicle

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police station without a vehicle

Dear Editor, Mr Editor, please allow me some space in your newspaper to highlight a problem affecting us on the East bank Of Berbice. I am a concerned citizen living at Sisters village East Bank...

I have been proven right

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have been proven right

Dear Editor, I have been vindicated. Yes, Editor, I have been vindicated! I have been following the revelations of the findings of the Prison Commission of Inquiry COI. After months of testimonies,...

Is there any nationalism at City Hall?

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, The recent announcement by the Georgetown Mayor and City Council of the implementation/installation of parking meters in certain sections of the city has been met with consternation,...

After 50 years, there is no political maturity

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on After 50 years, there is no political maturity

Dear Editor, Fifty years, depending on what is being measured can be a very long or short time. I think the word applied here for such an examination is relative. Whatever credit we as a people, a...

More criticism of the performance of Mae’s

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on More criticism of the performance of Mae’s

Dear Editor, Mae’s primary department has a policy which states that any child who attains less than 65% for two consecutive terms has to be withdrawn from the school. The flaw with this Mr. Editor...

An evil practice that must be eradicated

Jun 16, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Recently I was approached by a senior Indigenous pensioner, who worked with the then government from the year 1970 – 1987, and later on worked on “A Drainage & Irrigation...

Breaking News!!! Three remanded over Kaieteur News grenade attack

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News 1

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer a charge in relation to a grenade attack on Kaieteur News which occurred two Saturdays...

Three to face court today for KNews grenade attack

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News 1

Three men are scheduled to be charged today for the grenade attack on Kaieteur News, which occurred just over a week ago. Police said that those to be charged are Janiel Howard, 30, called ‘JP’,...

PAC far too timid in pursuing fraud, protecting state assets – Chris Ram

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News 1

By Kiana Wilburg The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) represents one of the most essential mechanisms of the Parliament which ensures the culpability of public money. It does this by scrutinizing the...

‘Crime Chief’ Dale Andrews laid to rest

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News 1

It was a fitting send-off for a man who lived as a larger than life character in the eyes of the many who interacted with him. A veteran in the local journalistic field, Assistant Editor Dale...

Bartica man remanded for murder of Madewini mechanic

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica man remanded for murder of Madewini mechanic

Days after he reportedly confessed to killing a 25-year-old mechanic, who was found dead with multiple stab wounds in his bedroom, 21-year-old Rayon Jones was yesterday charged with murder and...

Education Ministry shuts Brickdam Secondary doors

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News 1

….transfer letters issued to teachers, students As part of the Ministry of Education’s plan to address the situation at the beleaguered Brickdam Secondary School, the ministry has decided to...

UK encourages Guyana to swiftly remove death penalty from law books

Jun 15, 2016 KNews News 1

“No circumstances under which its use is legitimate” – High Commissioner While most democracies have long banished the death penalty, Guyana is yet to make the move to do so. But with a new...

Stag / WDFA Senior League ..Uitvlugt and Pouderoyen take full points

Jun 15, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag / WDFA Senior League ..Uitvlugt and Pouderoyen take full points

By Franklin Wilson Uitvlugt Warriors and Pouderoyen FC romped to contrasting wins when the Stag sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Senior League continued on Sunday last at the Den...

Maria Sharapova files appeal against 2-year ban from tennis

Jun 15, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Maria Sharapova files appeal against 2-year ban from tennis

(Reuters) Russian former number one Maria Sharapova has lodged an appeal of her two-year suspension from tennis with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to have the ban either lifted...

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(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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