June 2016

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Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Food For The Poor

Jun 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Food For The Poor

Food For The Poor (Guy) Incorporated will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of quality service to Guyana today. The anniversary celebrations will officially be launched with a Day of Reflection at...

Rice Board to spend millions in upgrade of Burma facilities

Jun 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rice Board to spend millions in upgrade of Burma facilities

The rice industry is set to receive a boost when the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) commissions its new facilities at the Burma Rice Development Station, Mahaicony. The Board recently invited...

Two contractors clash over award of parking meters project

Jun 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Two contractors clash over award of parking meters project

There is gross uncertainty concerning the award of the contract to erect parking meters in and around Georgetown. Two contractors currently lay claim to being the sole awardee of the anticipated...

Cocaine Mule recruiters remanded to prison

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 1

Two suspected recruiters of cocaine mules were on Friday slapped with charges of procuring at least three persons for the purpose of trafficking in narcotics. Rolston Bacchus aka Randy, Muslim, Biggs...

Dutch Risk Reduction Team to produce drainage model

Jun 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dutch Risk Reduction Team to produce drainage model

The Netherlands’ Dutch Risk Reduction Team (DRR-Team) will return to Guyana in July to collaborate with the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to produce a hydraulic model that will...

British teachers coming to aid in teacher training

Jun 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on British teachers coming to aid in teacher training

Twenty teachers from the United Kingdom have chosen to give up their summer break to offer training and interaction with teachers in Guyana. The group, part of the organisation “Limited Resource...

Drifting vessel slams into Harbour Bridge

Jun 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Drifting vessel slams into Harbour Bridge

– no serious damage A drifting vessel on Thursday damaged two buoys and slammed into the Demerara Harbour Bridge some time. General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC),...

In need of certificate of competence

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Since January 2016, a young friend of mine has been engaging the police so she could be issued a replacement/duplicate of her lost certificate of competence for driving. A certificate of...

Don’t rush to judge Minister Harmon

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters 3

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express a few concerns in the Minister Harmon issue as a first time writer and a frequent reader of the Kaieteur News. I have been reading with interest many writers...

Cruel exploitation at No 2 village, East Canje

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cruel exploitation at No 2 village, East Canje

Dear Editor, With utter disgust and shame, I have never decided to pen my observation. In my experience, I have observed how Guyanese are treated by other Caribbean countries. We were treated as...

No action from the Labour Ministry

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on No action from the Labour Ministry

Dear Editor, This is a complaint against a security service. I am an employee by the said service which is located at Kingston. The ranks have to work under very hard and cruel conditions as...

Govt. must implement the Code of Ethics

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. must implement the Code of Ethics

Dear Editor, The United Republic Party (URP) notes with grave concern that the Coalition Government is continuing in the same vein as the old and vaunted PPP. The Coalition’s ethics, or lack...

Extreme corruptibility exists in the gold industry

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Extreme corruptibility exists in the gold industry

Dear Editor, The President is indeed correct when he states that “corruption in Guyana is more prevalent in the private sector, The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is one of...

Dem boys seh de other man gun tek over

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dem boys seh de other man gun tek over

Dear Editor, I wanted to respond to an article, ‘Another man want extension pun he wok’ which appeared in your publication dated June 01, 2016. The article from ‘dem boys seh,’ attacked the...

An appeal for better treatment for our older folks

Jun 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on An appeal for better treatment for our older folks

Dear Editor, Every single month at each post office in this country, from early dawn, one could witness long queues of old folks (senior persons /pensioners) queuing in an undignified manner...

65 acres allotted for commercial lands at Providence…Former Minister, Honorary Consul receive allocations

Jun 03, 2016 KNews News 1

Under the previous Government, more than 16 plots of lands in the last five years, totaling 65 acres, were allocated at Providence, East Bank Demerara, for commercial development. The developments,...

“Forestry ban was just and necessary”

Jun 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on “Forestry ban was just and necessary”

“…given the wanton and wild way logs were being shipped out” – Minister Trotman By Kiana Wilburg According to statistics provided by the Ministry of Finance, the forestry sector performed...

Bandits tie up guards, rob M&M Snackette of $$millions

Jun 03, 2016 KNews News 3

– Ordeal recorded on CCTV Five heavily-armed bandits stormed the M&M Snackette in Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, and escaped with millions...

Female security guard hacked to death by jealous husband at worksite

Jun 03, 2016 KNews News 1

A 31-year-old Mahaica woman was hacked to death by her “extremely jealous” husband, who later turned himself over to police, with the murder weapons. Cindy Pitt called Candacy, of 18 Chelsea...

Gunmen storm RDC H/Q, torch safes

Jun 03, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen storm RDC H/Q, torch safes

Police on the East Coast of Demerara have initiated a hunt for four gunmen who stormed the Regional Democratic Council Office at BV/Triumph, and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. The...

GNBA ignites plan to nullify existing broadcast licences – Chairman

Jun 03, 2016 KNews News 1

By Abena Rockcliffe- Campbell The Board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) has finally set in motion a plan that will see all broadcasters having to reapply for licences to operate....

BK is de mover and de shaker

Jun 03, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on BK is de mover and de shaker

Venezuelans is good people. De whole of Guyana should live good wid dem. Is outside players want mek trouble between dem two neighbours. De other day dem had a shooting in de Cuyuni River near de...

Tri Nation series …Windies oppose South Africa today at Providence for 1st time in an ODI in Guyana

Jun 03, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tri Nation series …Windies oppose South Africa today at Providence for 1st time in an ODI in Guyana

By Sean Devers When number three ranked South Africa face off with West Indies from 13:30hrs today at Providence in a day/night contest to start the Tri-Nation ODI series which also involves...

Golden Jaguars looking towards USVI clash with purpose and desire to advance

Jun 03, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars looking towards USVI clash with purpose and desire to advance

Head Coach of the Golden Jaguars Jamaal Shabazz is still backing his charges to deliver despite losing to Curacao in their second round Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup opening match on Wednesday...

GCF National Championships set for June 18, 19 & 26

Jun 03, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF National Championships set for June 18, 19 & 26

Riders at every level from Guyana’s 11 registered clubs are expected as well as the overseas based Pros to be firing up for this year’s National Cycling Championships under the auspices of the...

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St. Stanislaus, Essequibo Islands surge to huge wins

Jun 21, 2026

Beharry U19 School’s T20 Cricket tournament… Kaieteur Sports – T20 School’s Under-19 cricket action continued yesterday on the West Side at the Uitvlugt Community Center Ground, with a few...

The great rediscovery

Jun 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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