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The Guyana Revenue Authority officials are doing nonsense

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Guyana Revenue Authority officials are doing nonsense

The management of the Eugene Correia Aiport at Ogle has issued a statement in relation to the killing of pet dogs at the airport. Through its spokesperson, Mr. “Kit” Nascimento, the management...

FUNERALS ARE DIFFERENT THESE DAYS

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FUNERALS ARE DIFFERENT THESE DAYS

Funerals are sad occasions. People are sad because they would have lost someone near and dear to them, someone they know they will never see again. The grief can be overpowering. Sometimes, you are...

Travel consultant on bail for allegedly conning customer

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Travel consultant on bail for allegedly conning customer

Adriana Onoja, a travel consultant, accused of swindling a customer of over $500,000 was yesterday released on bail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, when she appeared in court to answer to a fraud...

Scotiabank, Bartica International Volunteers spread Christmas cheer with seniors

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank, Bartica International Volunteers spread Christmas cheer with seniors

Scotiabank in collaboration with Bartica International Volunteer for the 17th year brought cheer to the senior citizens of Bartica at the annual senior citizens party on Wednesday. The party was held...

Kamarang – a haven for tranquillity

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Kamarang – a haven for tranquillity

One of the most peaceful locales of the country today is probably Kamarang in Region Seven. At least this is the testimony of several individuals residing there. An official close to the police said...

CRIME SOARS

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CRIME SOARS

Every day someone is attacked and robbed in Guyana yet the police are telling the people that serious crime has reduced. Whatever the police data suggests, murders and robberies are as common as...

Gov’t IT training centre for January completion

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t IT training centre for January completion

The eGovernment Agency’s Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) is expected to be officially opened in February. Yesterday, representatives from the agency, the High Commission of...

Investigation into 007 taxi driver murder appears to be grounded

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Investigation into 007 taxi driver murder appears to be grounded

More than three months have passed since 42-year-old Oswald Rambarran was gunned down just after delivering a meal in King Edward Street, Albouystown and the investigations into his death appear...

Home owner disarmed , beaten with his own ‘rolling pin’

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Home owner disarmed , beaten with his own ‘rolling pin’

A 24-year-old man, Randolph Seocharran, of Rising Sun, West Coast Berbice, was yesterday, placed on $120,000 bail, when he appeared in the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court to answer a charge of...

Sugar workers also want $25,000 bonus

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers also want $25,000 bonus

– GAWU writes President Days after Government announced a $25,000 bonus for public servants earning below $500,000 per month, the main sugar union is asking for a similar gesture for its...

Fire leaves six homeless in Linden

Dec 16, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Fire leaves six homeless in Linden

By Jacquey Bourne Fire of unknown origin left a family of six homeless on Wednesday night at Wisroc, Linden. According to 32-year-old Renee Bridgelall, she was with her four children in the one-flat...

Suggestions for the creation of Black businesses in Guyana

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suggestions for the creation of Black businesses in Guyana

Dear Editor, In the USA, we have affirmative action programs aimed at giving advantages to Blacks and other minorities since it is recognized that historical wrongs have left them at a disadvantage....

Commander Hicken of ‘A’ Division wants 60 Christmas gifts

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Commander Hicken of ‘A’ Division wants 60 Christmas gifts

Dear Editor, The Christmas season is upon us once more. We will be celebrating traditions. While some of those traditions may be decades and centuries old, it appears that some new ones are being...

The record, past and present, of our political class is poor

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The record, past and present, of our political class is poor

Dear Editor, Throughout 2016 we have submitted letters which, cumulatively, sought to make the case that countries thrive under certain conditions: including establishment of a just and open society;...

Law students want to know why their Head of Dept. has resigned

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Law students want to know why their Head of Dept. has resigned

Dear Editor, I pen this letter in the hope that the appropriate body will acknowledge it and respond in a timely manner. As a law student of the University of Guyana (UG), my colleagues and I were...

How did these people know MPs were visiting the bond?

Dec 16, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, It was an interesting turn of events last Thursday (December 8) in the National Assembly when the bond issue surfaced again. I would like to share a few thoughts. I commend Mr. Anil...

Cost of D’Urban Park project almost $1Billion

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cost of D’Urban Park project almost $1Billion

…$500M to pay off contractors The government through the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly approved the transfer of $500M to Homestretch Development Inc. to facilitate the payment of...

Consumer body challenges GTT’s claim that landline applications declining

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Consumer body challenges GTT’s claim that landline applications declining

A consumer body battling US-owned Guyana Telephone and Telephone Company (GTT) over an application to raise rates, is refuting claims by the latter that citizens are no longer interested in owning a...

Gunmen captured after trailing, robbing Tower Hotel’s accountant

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen captured after trailing, robbing Tower Hotel’s accountant

Security guard shot, $2.5M recovered Quick action by the police led to the arrest of two armed bandits, yesterday, minutes after they snatched $2.5M from a Tower Hotel accountant after trailing him...

Damaged submarine cable finally repaired

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Damaged submarine cable finally repaired

Five months after the submarine power cable across the Demerara River went down, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) yesterday said that repairs have been completed. “The remedial works on the...

One suspect identified in B’ce cambio dealer robbery

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on One suspect identified in B’ce cambio dealer robbery

mask had fallen off during invasion As the investigation intensifies into the brazen early morning attack on Number 79 Village Cambio Dealer Devendra Churaman by a 15-man gang, an identification...

North East La Penitence fatal shooting… Newly-wed man was killed while running to sister’s aid

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on North East La Penitence fatal shooting… Newly-wed man was killed while running to sister’s aid

No one has been arrested as detectives continue to probe the fatal shooting of newly-wed Matthew Scott shortly after 23:00 hrs on Tuesday in front of his North East La Penitence home. Investigations...

Mahaicony River family suffers death, fire in one day

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony River family suffers death, fire in one day

A Mahaicony Creek family is attempting to come to grips with two major incidents that badly affected them Tuesday. One was the death of the patriarch of the family, prominent rice farmer, Angad...

GPHC Matron should be sent packing – COI recommends

Dec 15, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Matron should be sent packing – COI recommends

The continuance of the services of the Ms. Collene Hicks as Director of Nursing Services (Matron) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will likely come to an end in the very near...

Joseph, Miller fined, Primus reprimanded for breaching Code of Conduct

Dec 15, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Joseph, Miller fined, Primus reprimanded for breaching Code of Conduct

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board confirmed yesterday that Alzarri Joseph and Nikita Miller were fined, and Roshon Primus was reprimanded for breaches of the Code of Conduct...

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Gurbaz half-century powers Guyana to 8-wicket win

Sep 05, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. JKM at Providence – Hetmyer, Hope, Dindyal lead batting charge (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors announced their arrival home with a brutal 8-wicket...

How should I schedule my day?

Sep 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Deep in the Himalayas, I once visited a Hindu guru and asked him, “Guru, how should I schedule my day?” He looked at me for a moment, smiled, and asked, “What is it that you want to schedule?” “My day,” I replied. “I want to organise my time better. There is so...

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...

The Donny and Delcy show

Sep 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What to make of this America-Venezuela oil deal, this best in history? First, it’s best to put the 65 billion barrels of heavy crude in its proper place. It’s the Donny and Delcy Gong Show. A quarter of Venezuela’s premier national treasure, a concealed deal, a very...

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