September 13, 2016 - Kaieteur News

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Where is BaiShanLin’s millions?…Chinese bank says no evidence BaiShanLin diverted monies

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News 2

The Government of China had gone out its way to assist BaiShanLin International Forest Developments Inc. in its expansion throughout Guyana. According to a report of the China Development Bank (CDB)...

Outdated radio sets dumped on GECOM nine years after purchase

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Outdated radio sets dumped on GECOM nine years after purchase

There are indications that a quantity of communication radio sets supplied to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for last year’s elections was bought since 2006. That meant that someone held...

One dead, another hospitalised after car slams into truck seized from BaiShanLin

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News 1

The Dundas family of Kuru-Kuru, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway is now mourning the loss of a loved one after the car he was travelling in slammed into a truck that was reportedly seized from the...

Police continue hunt for gunmen in taxi driver’s execution

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police continue hunt for gunmen in taxi driver’s execution

Several persons have been questioned, including an eyewitness, as police hunt the gunmen who killed Oswald Rambarran, a 007 taxi driver, Sunday night in King Edward Street, Albouystown. The taxi...

Survivors of No. 50 Village horrific accident says ….Occupants were drinking

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Survivors of No. 50 Village horrific accident says ….Occupants were drinking

Following the Corentyne accident on Sunday that claimed two lives, survivors disclosed that they were heavily intoxicated at the time of the incident. Those dead were identified as Richard Ramnarine,...

GECOM playing dumb over de kak radios

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on GECOM playing dumb over de kak radios

Everywhere dem boys tun is a scandal. Somebody gone wid $100 million and not even de GECOM boss can seh is who. In fact, nobody inside GECOM talking. De story break when de auditors find out that...

NSC U19 Futsal Trials to continue this weekend …Players vying for place on Inter Guiana Goodwill team

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC U19 Futsal Trials to continue this weekend …Players vying for place on Inter Guiana Goodwill team

By Franklin Wilson The ongoing trials being conducted by the National Sports Commission (NSC) in collaboration with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) aimed at selecting a squad for the imminent...

Graham’s presence could boost CMRC Superbike category

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Graham’s presence could boost CMRC Superbike category

The final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) could receive a real boost should Canadian Superbike racer Kevin Graham confirm his participation for the upcoming event scheduled to...

GBA National Intermediate Boxing Championships…Guyana Defence Force retains championship trophy

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA National Intermediate Boxing Championships…Guyana Defence Force retains championship trophy

Julius Kesney/ Keevin Allicock voted best boxers in their categories On a night of unbridled fistic fury, where no quarters were asked and none given, boxers of the Guyana Defence Force won 7 titles...

Mike’s Wellman, Albion, 4R Lioness, Wellwoman triumph

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike’s Wellman, Albion, 4R Lioness, Wellwoman triumph

Mike’s Wellman, Albion, 4R Lioness and Wellwoman registered victories when the Wolf’s Challenge softball cup continued on Sunday at Malteenoes Sports Club. Mike’s Wellman defeated Superior...

Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup…This is the last time Guyana will be in this position of under preparation – GFF President

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank CFU Men’s Caribbean Cup…This is the last time Guyana will be in this position of under preparation – GFF President

By Franklin Wilson With less than one month to go before Guyana’s flagship senior football team, the ‘Golden Jaguars’ Jaguars take on old nemesis Suriname and Jamaica in Round 3 of the...

Sue Hang receives BMX cycle compliments of Ricks 7 Sari Agro Ind. Ltd.

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sue Hang receives BMX cycle compliments of Ricks 7 Sari Agro Ind. Ltd.

40th NSC Teach Them Young Prog. conclude The 40th edition of the annual Hassan Mohamed Teach Them Young 8-weeks cycle programme, sponsored by the National Sports Commission (NSC) recently concluded...

GCA’s NBS 2nd division 40-over cricket …Leitch & Leacock leads Police massacre over Diplomats

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s NBS 2nd division 40-over cricket …Leitch & Leacock leads Police massacre over Diplomats

Kelvin Leitch blasted four fours and 15 sixes in a blazing unbeaten 128 and shared in an unfinished 205 fourth-wicket partnership with Kevin Leacock (48*) as Police gunned down Diplomats to register...

Canada’s Montreal YMCA only Canadian Semi- Pro B/ball team to visit here in 1978

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Canada’s Montreal YMCA only Canadian Semi- Pro B/ball team to visit here in 1978

Invited by their counterparts Linden YMCA, the touring Montreal YMCA Basketball team lived up to their international standards during their Guyana visit in March 1978. With players like the...

Candlelight vigil held to observe World Suicide Prevention Day

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Candlelight vigil held to observe World Suicide Prevention Day

In observance of World Suicide Day, the Caribbean Voice in collaboration with 30 organizations, on Saturday evening held a countrywide candle light vigil in remembrance of suicide victims. These...

Sheriff St. fatal accident…Friend of Tacoma driver says death car “jumped over Garnett Street”

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sheriff St. fatal accident…Friend of Tacoma driver says death car “jumped over Garnett Street”

A friend of Heeranand Boodhram, the alleged drunk driver who reportedly killed four-year-old, Ambeka Providence, and injured her mother, on Sheriff Street Saturday night says his friend is not to be...

Pensioner goes missing at Timehri Airport

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner goes missing at Timehri Airport

A 74-year-old pensioner, Hedley Williams, of 74 Third Street, Montrose, East Coast Demerara is missing. According to reports, the man and some relatives had journeyed to the Cheddi Jagan...

SHAMEFUL

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 2

Call it a time warp, a black hole, or a bad dream. Since taking office, those in authority have not been honest with the people. They have been tiptoeing around several issues related to honesty,...

PM, Canada’s High Commissioner welcome Caribbean Leadership participants

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on PM, Canada’s High Commissioner welcome Caribbean Leadership participants

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Pierre Giroux, welcomed the visiting delegation from the Caribbean Leadership Programme (CLP) and local and regional...

Guyanese ill-treatment in Barbados gaining attention

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese ill-treatment in Barbados gaining attention

The reported ill-treatment of Guyanese, Annecia Alfred, at Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport Tuesday has reached the attention of St Vincent Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves. The Prime...

Cops to re-open Delon Melville murder probe

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops to re-open Delon Melville murder probe

Only recently the Guyana Police Force (GPF) announced its intention of revisiting a number of cold cases which had been on the back burner for quite some time —One such case is the 2013 killing of...

Linden students bring Julius Caesar to the stage

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden students bring Julius Caesar to the stage

By Enid Joaquin The play Julius Caesar was staged at the Lichas Hall in Linden last Wednesday and on Thursday, at the National Cultural Centre. The aim was to target Secondary School students who are...

Meadow Bank residents laud construction service

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Meadow Bank residents laud construction service

It was a letter penned to Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Customer Service Department and S. Jagmohan Hardware Supplies and Construction Service, by a Meadow Bank, Georgetown resident that prompted a...

Drug pusher nabbed with ganja again, was jailed in absentia

Sep 13, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Drug pusher nabbed with ganja again, was jailed in absentia

Sheldon Simon, the man who was nabbed on Wednesday in a minibus on the Corentyne, was jailed earlier this year in his absence on a ganja charge. Sheldon Simon, 45, who had given his address as Sheet...

Guyana Hemp Association seeks to create employment opportunities, eradicate poverty

Sep 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Hemp Association seeks to create employment opportunities, eradicate poverty

The Guyana Hemp Association, (GHA) believes that sensitizing Guyanese to the importance of producing hemp in the country will create employment opportunities and help eradicate poverty. The GHA is...