December 2016

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Boy, 11, dies after struck by speeding car

Dec 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 11, dies after struck by speeding car

– driver flees scene A first form student of Tagore Memorial Secondary School died yesterday afternoon on the No. 49 Public Road when he was struck by a speeding car. Dead is Simon Kendall, 11,...

Contractor shot, robbed of $16,000 and cell phone

Dec 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor shot, robbed of $16,000 and cell phone

Bandits shot a 22-year-old contractor in the thigh and escaped with $16,000 and two cell phones during a brazen robbery yesterday afternoon in Pattensen, Turkeyen. A police release stated that Gavin...

Farewell, Babita Sarjou

Dec 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Farewell, Babita Sarjou

A son who never got a chance to really know his mother was among relatives and friends who yesterday bid farewell to Babita Sarjou, six years after she was murdered and buried in a shallow grave....

Jamaica imports 2,000 tonnes of sugar from Guyana

Dec 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaica imports 2,000 tonnes of sugar from Guyana

(Jamaica Gleaner) – There will be enough sugar available to meet the usual spike in demand for Christmas, with the Jamaica Cane Products Sales Limited importing 2,000 tonnes of brown (raw)...

Juveniles set fire at Sophia Holding Centre

Dec 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Juveniles set fire at Sophia Holding Centre

– asthmatic teens collapse in cells Police ranks at the Juvenile Holding Centre were forced to put out a fire that was started around 07.30 hrs by some of the youths who are housed there. The...

Proponents of used tyres defend against planned import restriction

Dec 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Proponents of used tyres defend against planned import restriction

Following the recent announcement of the $250B Budget for 2017, it was established yet again that the Government will be moving to put a restriction of the importation of used tyres in Guyana. In the...

Duo jointly charged with murder

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Duo jointly charged with murder

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being jointly charged with murder, when they appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The men, Colwyn Johnson,...

Changed behaviour must apply to the leaders in government too

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Changed behaviour must apply to the leaders in government too

Dear Editor, There is much to be said about the 2017 National Budget which will be done over a period of time. What continues to be striking is the callousness with which the politicians are going...

The honeymoon with David Granger is over

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The honeymoon with David Granger is over

Dear Editor, Years from now, historians will put into perspective the transitional changes that began a mere year and half ago. They will have the luxury of hindsight, with knowledge of the outcome....

UNPLEASANT TREATMENT AT THE US EMBASSY

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on UNPLEASANT TREATMENT AT THE US EMBASSY

Dear Editor, I am forced to write to you about an unpleasant situation I faced at the US Embassy. On December 7th 2016, I went to the US embassy to uplift my passport. I had a phone call two (2) days...

Sherod Duncan throws his hat in the ring

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sherod Duncan throws his hat in the ring

Dear Editor, A good predictor of the next nine months at City Hall under its current leadership is the last nine months. Citizens and councillors in looking at the period must ask themselves one...

Sasenarine Singh repeats the PPP’s propaganda

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sasenarine Singh repeats the PPP’s propaganda

Dear Editor, I write to offer a brief response to Mr Sase Singh‘s letter published in Kaieteur News on Wednesday, November 30, under the caption, “The 2017 Budget exposes the inability of the...

Where are the higher incomes and improved social welfare?

Dec 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are the higher incomes and improved social welfare?

Dear Editor, Perhaps the greatest abuses perpetrated against our Guyanese masses have been their impoverishment and the subjection to the brutal system of injustice that has accompanied it. The...

Banks still claim “foreign currency not in abundance”

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Banks still claim “foreign currency not in abundance”

– Businesses remain deeply concerned While the government contends that there is no shortage in foreign currency, some banks are still telling their customers otherwise. Up to yesterday, it was...

Banks DIH forks out US$26M to buy back shares controlled by Bajan company

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH forks out US$26M to buy back shares controlled by Bajan company

As businesses and Government continue to monitor the local foreign supply situation, it appears that a huge chunk may have rocked the boat recently. Yesterday, beverage giant, Banks DIH Limited, in a...

Cops, suspected bandit trade bullets in churchyard

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops, suspected bandit trade bullets in churchyard

drops .38 revolver behind A suspected bandit and the police traded gunfire Tuesday night in front the compound of the St. Phillips Anglican Church located at D’Urban and Smyth Streets, Georgetown....

Blockmaker, family homeless after Canje blaze

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Blockmaker, family homeless after Canje blaze

A two-storey concrete and wooden house at Lot 29 Canefield, East Canje Berbice, yesterday went up in flames although fire-fighters desperately tried to prevent the fire from spreading to other...

Woman convinced mark around dead son’s neck not made by jersey

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Woman convinced mark around dead son’s neck not made by jersey

Distraught mother, Kamiel Smith, has said that she is now in receipt of her son, Maurice Sumner’s, autopsy report which states that he died from asphyxiation (strangulation). She is however...

Blairmont sugar worker charged with raping villager, 67

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Blairmont sugar worker charged with raping villager, 67

A 36-year-old man accused of raping a 67-year-old woman, was placed on $200,000 bail, when he appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever, on Tuesday, in the Blairmont Magistrate Court, West Bank...

Bartica Massacre trial … Accused recalls joining partner on gun toting trip to Bartica

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica Massacre trial … Accused recalls joining partner on gun toting trip to Bartica

The Caution Statement, (CS) taken from murder accused, Dennis Williams, was admitted into evidence, Tuesday, before Justice Roxanne George and a mixed 12-member jury, on Wednesday. Williams, called...

Linden police abuse power, sued for wrongful arrest and lock-up

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden police abuse power, sued for wrongful arrest and lock-up

Two Lethem, Region Nine residents are suing Linden police for wrongful arrest and detention last month. Taking on the police are Corwin Nicholson and Clavis Nicholson, of Lethem, a border area shared...

Carjackers caught driving stolen vehicle

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Carjackers caught driving stolen vehicle

Three men who were accused of carjacking a Sheet Anchor teenager last Tuesday in the vicinity of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, were nabbed by police on Saturday. The car PTT 6559, a white Fielder...

Schoolboy dies in Diamond road accident

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolboy dies in Diamond road accident

A 14-year-old boy was killed in an accident Tuesday night when he reportedly ended up in the path of a minibus that was heading south on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road, in the vicinity of...

Ansa McAl opens new Penta Colour Shop

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa McAl opens new Penta Colour Shop

Ansa McAl on Tuesday opened a spanking new Penta Colour shop at its Beterverwagting, East Coast, Demerara location. At the opening, Managing Director of the beverage company Beverly Harper said that...

GPHC fetes children at annual Christmas tree light up

Dec 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC fetes children at annual Christmas tree light up

The countdown to the Christmas tree light up at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was spectacular once again. Tuesday saw the third annual tree light up for the hospital in...

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Sep 02, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Round Three of the Pegasus Weekly Chess League, organized by Drayton’s Chess Club in partnership with the Pegasus Chess Club and Guyana Chess Federation, continued on Monday...

The Ministry diagnoses the wrong disease

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Health’s response to Peeping Tom’s column, “Second-Class Patients,” is a case whereby a medical response is so clinically misplaced that one is tempted to prescribe a second opinion. The Ministry has produced an impressive medical case for something...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Motions, distance, indifference

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There’s a human tragedy. Cotton Tree and two cousins. Across Mandarin Bridge and an 11-year-old-child. Police killings in Linden. And, more lately, a boat that went down and took down over 100 Guyanese lives. Poor ones. The rich ones and big ones don’t sail,...

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