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Cocaine mule jailed for 4 years

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cocaine mule jailed for 4 years

It was the compelling case put forward by Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) Prosecutor, Corporal Bharrat Mangru that led to a man being convicted for the offence of drug trafficking Thursday, at the...

Coconut Man is still alive

Jan 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Coconut Man is still alive

We are happy to report that Contrary to what was reported in yesterday’s edition, Paul Waterman, also known as Coconut Man, is very much alive. The man who lost his daughter in an accident two...

20 year-old jailed for causing death

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 20 year-old jailed for causing death

Magistrate Leron Daly, sitting in the Providence Magistrate’s Court, on Thursday imposed a one-year jail sentence on a 20-year-old driver, after he was found guilty of causing the death of a pedal...

Quoting James Baldwin in the debate on crime in Guyana

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Quoting James Baldwin in the debate on crime in Guyana

Dear Editor, In response to the seemingly high level of crime at present occurring in Guyana the government has, predictably, taken steps to improve the capacity of the criminal justice system. As I...

Team Benschop on the campaign trail

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Team Benschop on the campaign trail

Dear Editor, I am writing to register my concerns (over the apparent one-sided) approach to the provision of housing for any one category of workers, without fully consulting the public. I am...

The highest stage of humanity is the soul

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The highest stage of humanity is the soul

Dear Editor, With members of the IRO this week I was fortunate to visit with our President. I admire his optimism. In my own words this is what he said” I have gone beyond all that now…I...

Former AFC official is critical of Minister David Patterson

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former AFC official is critical of Minister David Patterson

Dear Editor, It is the responsibility of the government to make sure that the rates payers of GPL and the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth. GPL is known for its inefficiencies and...

The PPP deliberately neglected Georgetown

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP deliberately neglected Georgetown

Dear Editor, Permit me space in your daily to give my bit about the marvelous job the Mayor and City Council has been performing since the change of government. I’ve heard the Council’s excuse...

Picket Hamilton Green and Royston King

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Picket Hamilton Green and Royston King

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News edition of Saturday 16, 2016, some disgruntled persons co-signed a letter that was addressed to the President. Their beef is the City Council’s arbitrary move to...

Don’t make our hands fall, Mr. Commissioner

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t make our hands fall, Mr. Commissioner

Dear Editor, According to Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud, some of the reasons behind wanted murderers freely roaming the streets of Guyana are poor communication and limited ranks- Kaieteur...

Start exporting fruits to the Caribbean as I did

Jan 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Start exporting fruits to the Caribbean as I did

Dear Editor, Experience shows that no one on earth is perfect, only God is perfect. I make this statement because I cannot understand how so called intelligent politicians can continue to encourage...

Venezuela/Guyana boat mishap…Three dead, remaining passengers rescued

Jan 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela/Guyana boat mishap…Three dead, remaining passengers rescued

The bodies of two Guyanese were recovered yesterday, two days after the boat they were traveling in sank in the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Mabaruma from neighbouring Venezuela. Kaieteur News was...

GRA fires tax Chief Khurshid Sattaur

Jan 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA fires tax Chief Khurshid Sattaur

More than one month after sending the country’s tax chief on more than 200 days leave, a decision has been made to fire him. According to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the Governing Board of...

Abusive man flees after killing wife in trench

Jan 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Abusive man flees after killing wife in trench

Police were up to late last night hunting for a Zeelugt New Scheme, East Bank Essequibo man who fled into a bushy area after drowning his wife in a trench in the community. The woman, who was still...

Govt. hijacks opposition income tax motion

Jan 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. hijacks opposition income tax motion

– gives own voice, passes it as amended By Abena Rockcliffe History was created in the National Assembly last evening. Following six hours of debate, a walk out, and numerous back and forth...

Speaker rejects Opposition motion on Wales closure

Jan 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker rejects Opposition motion on Wales closure

The Opposition finally had its day to discuss important matters of its choice yesterday in the National Assembly. First on the agenda was its motion to debate the imminent closure of the Wales...

Plainclothes police ranks in unmarked vehicles barred from stopping motorists

Jan 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Plainclothes police ranks in unmarked vehicles barred from stopping motorists

The Guyana Police Force is once again forced to announce that its plainclothes ranks who are in unmarked vehicles are not authorized to stop any motorist, except when they are performing duties on...

Jagdeo trying to feel important

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo trying to feel important

When dem boys seh that Jagdeo is a devil, people use to seh that dem was wicked. Is now people seeing just how much of a devil he is. When he was president he nearly bruck up de sugar industry. He...

Benn (4-26), Braithwaite (80*) steers Pride past Hurricanes into tomorrow’s Final

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Benn (4-26), Braithwaite (80*) steers Pride past Hurricanes into tomorrow’s Final

Man-of-the-Match, left-arm spinner Suleiman Benn spun webs around the Windwards Hurricanes batsmen to finish with 4-26 before Kraigg Braithwaite scored an unbeaten 80 to give Barbados Pride a...

Colts courting Division I League title with blowout tomorrow

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Colts courting Division I League title with blowout tomorrow

By Edison Jefford Colts is aiming to run away with Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Division I League title tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when they face Plaisance...

Murray Survives Brushes of Elimination

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Murray Survives Brushes of Elimination

RTC Championships 2016 It proved true on Tuesday that the easiest points are the hardest ones to win in the game of tennis. Ronald Murray learnt that lesson when 8 match points were snatched from his...

Cladious Fraser slams 98 in Paradise CC’s opening round win

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cladious Fraser slams 98 in Paradise CC’s opening round win

ECCB 40-Overs cricket continues on Sunday … The ECCB Trophy 40 overs tournament commenced last Sunday with three matches and will continue this Sunday with five more games. Following are the...

Softball cricket, Dominoes set for Goed Fortuin

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball cricket, Dominoes set for Goed Fortuin

The newly elected executive members of the Goed Fortuin Centre Council, West Bank Demerara will be staging a softball cricket and dominoes competition on Sunday starting from 09:00hrs. The softball...

GCB sternly reprimands Claude Raphael

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB sternly reprimands Claude Raphael

The Guyana Cricket Board wishes to record its extreme disappointment and shock at the level that a former cricket official has descended to in his most recent letter to the media titled ‘How could...

LABA AGM set for next Saturday

Jan 22, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA AGM set for next Saturday

General Council meets tonight at MSC Lounge The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) will discuss the staging of its Annual General Meeting tonight from 19:00hrs when the entities General...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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