November 2016

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High-speed chase bandits linked to more robberies

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on High-speed chase bandits linked to more robberies

The bandits who were captured in Monday’s high-speed chase appear to have carried out quite a few recent robberies. Police have been putting the suspects on identification parade, and on Tuesday,...

Miners’ bodies object to proposal to lower gold prices by 3 percent

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Miners’ bodies object to proposal to lower gold prices by 3 percent

-Gov’t says matter still under consideration The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) and the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) yesterday urged Government to immediately stop...

Philanthropist George Subraj passes on

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Philanthropist George Subraj passes on

The name George Subraj has long been synonymous with the word philanthropy. Of course this is understandable given the immense charitable work this Guyanese, who migrated to the United States in...

Female who rented getaway car charged for robbing Clement Rohee’s home

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Female who rented getaway car charged for robbing Clement Rohee’s home

A 49-year-old woman was yesterday remanded to prison charged with two counts of robbery under-arms, in relation to a recent robbery at the home of Clement Rohee, Former Minister of Home Affairs. The...

Farfan & Mendes Junior Squash tournament 2016…Alex Cheeks opens with Taylor Fernandes upset in keenly contest opening salvo

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Farfan & Mendes Junior Squash tournament 2016…Alex Cheeks opens with Taylor Fernandes upset in keenly contest opening salvo

The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel is holding the annual Farfan & Mendes Junior Squash Tournament at the Georgetown Club Inc. squash...

More respect and support needed for national ruggers

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on More respect and support needed for national ruggers

By Rawle Welch President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Peter Green during a review briefing held with the media to report on Guyana’s men and women teams performances at the just...

Tang Soo Do International Guyana youths excel in latest grading

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tang Soo Do International Guyana youths excel in latest grading

Director and Chief Instructor, Mr. Roland Eudoxie, of the Tang Soo Do International Guyana Martial Arts Organization, in a release, informed that at a recently conducted Grading Exercise on three (3)...

New Amsterdam wants rise to continue at Nationals this year

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Amsterdam wants rise to continue at Nationals this year

New Amsterdam is hoping that its rise at the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships will continue this year, following consistent performances over the last three...

GABF names new-look senior national team for Jamaica Invitational

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF names new-look senior national team for Jamaica Invitational

-Debt to creditors forces Executives to fund team Despite monies being owed to The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) from the National Sports Commission (NSC), Guyana will be participating...

New Diamond Primary crowned EBD Champs

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Diamond Primary crowned EBD Champs

New Diamond Primary School were crowned champions of the East Bank Demerara leg of the Guyana Cricket Board Scotiabank Kiddy progression one tournament. Despite winning their last game against...

LABA meets to make key decisions tomorrow on Christmas basketball at MSC

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA meets to make key decisions tomorrow on Christmas basketball at MSC

Key decisions will be taken tomorrow afternoon when the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) will meet its executive committee and its affiliated club representatives at the Mackenzie Sports...

Grand Coastal 2016 Golf tourney fixed for tomorrow at Lusignan

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grand Coastal 2016 Golf tourney fixed for tomorrow at Lusignan

Grand Coastal Hotel & Restaurant of Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara,- rated as “your number one choice for business or pleasure accommodations in Guyana, South America,”–co-sponsors of...

Berbice Chamber Inter Agency cricket 2016 set for tomorrow

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Chamber Inter Agency cricket 2016 set for tomorrow

The Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA) on Monday successfully launched the seventh edition of the Corporate Business in Sports (CBIS) Inter-Agency Softball cricket...

BCB Tenelec Inc 50-over tourney…Chattergoon, Baldeo spearhead Albion to victory

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB Tenelec Inc 50-over tourney…Chattergoon, Baldeo spearhead Albion to victory

Half centuries from former West Indies opener Sewnarine Chattergoon and a five-wicket haul from all rounder Balchand Baldeo led Albion Cricket Club to wins over Rose Hall Town Gizmos and Gadgets and...

Centennial Arch to be unveiled next week

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Centennial Arch to be unveiled next week

As part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of bauxite mining in Guyana, two main activities will culminate the 2016 observation next Friday at the site of that Arch at the junction of...

CORRUPTION AT THE GRA

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 2

When in opposition, the government had promised to stamp out corruption which is rampant in all government departments and agencies including the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA); the principal tax...

US-bound passenger excretes cocaine pellets

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on US-bound passenger excretes cocaine pellets

Police are guarding a 46-year-old West Demerara resident who is excreting several cocaine pellets at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. He was nabbed at the check-in area of the CJIA, about...

Concessions have to be rolled back

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Concessions have to be rolled back

The Budget for 2017 has not yet been passed and people are bawling. The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association says it has learnt that concessions offered will be withdrawn. The Ministry of...

Miners’ bodies object to proposal to lower gold prices by 3 percent

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Miners’ bodies object to proposal to lower gold prices by 3 percent

Commander of E Division outlines security measures for Festive Season

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Commander of E Division outlines security measures for Festive Season

…Zero tolerance on explosives Commander of E Division, Fazil Karimbaksh, on Wednesday met with stakeholders and Regional officials at the Mackenzie Police Station, in Linden, where he outlined a...

Region’s exports nosedive 22 percent

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region’s exports nosedive 22 percent

…amidst low world commodities prices — IDB report A key report of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has signaled a major dip in trade exports last year by the region, with the effects...

National EMS programme set to kick-off on Monday

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on National EMS programme set to kick-off on Monday

-persons can now dial ‘912’ for fire and medical help Although a national Emergency Medical Service (EMS) programme was years in the making, it was officially launched in about one hour yesterday...

Cabinet Subcommittee established to examine future of forestry sector

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet Subcommittee established to examine future of forestry sector

By Kiana Wilburg Moves are currently afoot to address the “lull” that exists in the forestry sector. This is according to Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman. At the press conference...

Discovery of commercial oil will alter Guyana

Nov 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Discovery of commercial oil will alter Guyana

“The announcement by offshore oil explorer ExxonMobil on Wednesday, that it had struck oil in commercial quantities, is a watershed moment in Guyana’s history; one that impacts the very...

Guyanese messengers of death from Cuba have returned

Nov 18, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyanese messengers of death from Cuba have returned

Many of the Cuban-trained Guyanese doctors are hopelessly incompetent. They have killed countless of poor patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital, (the middle classes and wealthy folks do not even...

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Knight Riders keep qualification hopes alive with win over Tridents

Sep 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – An innings of 59 from Nicholas Pooran and four wickets from Sunil Narine was enough to keep the Trinbago Knight Riders slim qualification hopes alive with a 35 run victory over...

Recalling the disaster of Jagdeo’s personal summitry

Sep 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Ray Chickrie’s latest letter, published in the Kaieteur News of September 1, 2026, is an interesting exercise that should trigger a recollection of the failure of Bharrat Jagdeo’s ‘personal summitry’. His letter dealt with Guyana’s surging Middle Eastern relations. In...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

When the political shelters in the biblical

Sep 06, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – In recent times, Guyanese have been eyewitnesses to the extraordinary. The political reaches for a connection to the biblical. Many are likely to see that as offensive, corrosive, and more of the abusive. Desperation is preferred. Swinging in the wind...

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