October 2016

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City Hall hosts consultations today on proposed vending areas

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall hosts consultations today on proposed vending areas

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown will today be holding consultations with various committees representing vendors in the Stabroek area, at City Hall. This comes on the heels of the...

UG needs Govt. support to help garner int’l funds – former lecturer

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on UG needs Govt. support to help garner int’l funds – former lecturer

An enormous sum is required to manage institutions such as the University of Guyana (UG). This assertion was recently amplified by Kaieteur News columnist, Frederick Kissoon, during an interview....

Guyana Foundation completes pilot phase of E’bo Sunrise Center

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Foundation completes pilot phase of E’bo Sunrise Center

The Guyana Foundation recently announced that the pilot phase of its Sunrise Centre on the Essequibo Coast was successfully completed. This announcement was made last week at the Westin Hotel, Grand...

PPP to boycott President Granger’s address in Parliament today

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on PPP to boycott President Granger’s address in Parliament today

The Opposition is expected to boycott President David Granger’s address which is set to take place today in the Parliament. The PPP made this decision known via a statement to the media last night....

Food houses bid to provide meals for CPCE residential students’

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Food houses bid to provide meals for CPCE residential students’

Bids were opened yesterday at the Ministry of Finance’s National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the supply and delivery of cooked meals for resident students at the Cyril...

Private sector launches Oil and Gas Association

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Private sector launches Oil and Gas Association

Members of the private sector have come together to form the Guyana Oil and Gas Association (GOGA). The Association was launched Tuesday evening at the Marriott Hotel, Georgetown and it aims to...

Commander clears the air on Leonora pit bulls case

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Commander clears the air on Leonora pit bulls case

With many speculating that the case against Marceline Small, the woman whose pit bulls killed a man and attacked two others at Leonora, West Coast Demerara almost a month ago has been dropped,...

21 percent decrease in serious crimes – Police

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 21 percent decrease in serious crimes – Police

…67 firearm seized The Guyana Police Force has recorded a 21 percent decrease in serious crimes at the end of September when compared to the same period last year, the police said in a release...

Social Protection staffers being trained in phone etiquette, customer satisfaction

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection staffers being trained in phone etiquette, customer satisfaction

Developing positive attitudes at work to ensure client satisfaction is the focus of a staff development training being hosted by the Ministry of Social Protection. The training began yesterday at the...

Govt., IDB recommit to Forest Carbon Partnership Facility project

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt., IDB recommit to Forest Carbon Partnership Facility project

In an effort to enhance Guyana’s response to climate change, the Ministry of Natural Resources, working jointly with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), recommitted to further advancing...

Local authorities order halt to Samsung Note 7 sales

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Local authorities order halt to Samsung Note 7 sales

The Competition and Consumers Affairs Commission (CCAC) of the Consumer Affairs Unit (CAU), has ordered a halt in sales of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The Commission has advised that all consumers...

GPHC contemplates expanding dialysis service

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC contemplates expanding dialysis service

– Move likely to reduce death rate of financially-challenged patients Approximately $250 million will be required annually if the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is to offer a...

A MANAGEMENT CONTRACT IS NEEDED

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A MANAGEMENT CONTRACT IS NEEDED

Electricity is too important for experimentation. The country should not be tinkering with the management of its electricity sector. If something is working why change it? For twenty years, the...

Why would the WPA want to save a govt. that doesn’t want to be saved?

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why would the WPA want to save a govt. that doesn’t want to be saved?

I found it funny the replies of Dr. David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye to my column as to the demise of the WPA. I asked where was the voice of the WPA which was in fact part of the Government. In their...

Four out of five people have visual impairment

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Four out of five people have visual impairment

– But prevention is possible with collaboration Eighty per cent of blindness is avoidable. In fact it has been established that four out of five people have visual impairment that is...

Construction worker remanded for illegal gun, ammunition

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Construction worker remanded for illegal gun, ammunition

Delson Wade appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman, in the Georgetown Magistrate Court, on Wednesday, to answer to the charges of illegal gun and ammunition possession. The court heard that on...

High Court trial for accused in Linden businesswoman murder

Oct 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on High Court trial for accused in Linden businesswoman murder

Stafarei Hopkinson who is currently on remand for the murder of Linden business woman, Shevon Gordon, was yesterday, committed to stand trial in the High Court for attempted murder by Magistrate...

Three Cuban nationals on bail for forging passport stamp

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Three Cuban nationals on bail for forging passport stamp

Three Cuban nationals appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday on a charge of forging passport stamps. They were granted $80,000 each. It is alleged that on October 9, at Moleson...

Troubled bridge at Grant’s Scheme at Craig

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Troubled bridge at Grant’s Scheme at Craig

Dear Editor; I would like to bring to the attention of the Craig-Caledonia NDC and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure the current deplorable state of the bridge connecting Grant’s Scheme,...

Minister Joe Harmon is a servant of the people

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Joe Harmon is a servant of the people

Dear Editor;, For 23 years the political culture of our dear beloved country was not one of complete maturity. The betterment of the lives of our people was not of primary importance. Instead...

Minister of Communities must investigate Region 6

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister of Communities must investigate Region 6

Dear Editor; Please allow me to refute the poor attempt by Regional Councillor and member of the Regional Works Committee, Sherry Ann Beharry to come to the rescue of her dear friend, the Regional...

EDUCATION IS GOLDEN BUT GOOD CHARACTER IS BEST OF ALL

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on EDUCATION IS GOLDEN BUT GOOD CHARACTER IS BEST OF ALL

Dear Editor; I was very happy to see Ms Yvonne Sam’s letter in the media of Tuesday 11th October, asking the question: “Should Character Education form part of the School Curriculum?” To me as...

Some Issues Deserving the President’s Attention.

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some Issues Deserving the President’s Attention.

Dear Editor, The days of invoking worship of leaders and brain-washing, although tried in Guyana, are slowly becoming a thing of the past. The world is paying rapt attention to Guyana’s political...

President Granger needs to investigate City Hall

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger needs to investigate City Hall

Dear Editor, Why is it that the Georgetown City Council has opted to contract out all of its services even though it claims to be cash strapped whilst at the same time maintaining a huge employee...

Pontifications on the role of the WPA

Oct 13, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pontifications on the role of the WPA

Dear Editor, Well well Peeping Tom seems to know where it’s at. What a fine job he has done in reminding and enlightening everyone that it was the WPA that suffered the heaviest causalities in the...

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Cadogan-Xavier duo help sink Hikers in opening-day thriller

Nov 06, 2026

…Saints, Antonio’s Hikers, GCC Outlaws among winners in Kellogg’s sponsored Senior Indoor Hockey C/ship (Kaieteur News) – The Kellogg’s National Senior Indoor Hockey Championships got...

From economic genocide to physical extinction

Nov 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – “To bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Those were the chilling words of Lester Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a memorandum dated 6th April, 1960, addressed to his superior in the U.S. State Department....

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...

Torture: Mohamed must clear the air

Nov 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The sister of Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, said he was tortured. The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) said he was not. Mr. Azruddin Mohamed should be out on bail. He is the best body of evidence (literally) as to whether he was or wasn’t tortured. He has...

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