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B Division Traffic Department moves to curb traffic lawlessness

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on B Division Traffic Department moves to curb traffic lawlessness

Despite the best effort of the Police Traffic Department in Berbice during 2015, there was one more road death than the previous year. Officer in charge of traffic in Berbice (B) Division Deputy...

Promoting decent work could help safeguard future generations – UNICEF Rep.

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Promoting decent work could help safeguard future generations – UNICEF Rep.

By providing decent work and salaries, businesses can have immense impact on their workers’ lives and families. This notion was recently amplified by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)...

‘City Constable’ suspected of aiding bandits

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on ‘City Constable’ suspected of aiding bandits

Officials from the City Constabulary have launched an investigation to ascertain if one of their own is in league with bandits who prey on unsuspecting targets at nights. Kaieteur News was informed...

Ecuador’s Ambassador commits to stronger bilateral ties with Guyana

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ecuador’s Ambassador commits to stronger bilateral ties with Guyana

-at accreditation ceremony The newly accredited Ambassador of Ecuador to Guyana, Rafael Quintero, pledged to pursue stronger bilateral relations between the two countries, at a simple installation...

U.S. Embassy takes Humanitarian Assistance Programme to Corriverton, Linden

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. Embassy takes Humanitarian Assistance Programme to Corriverton, Linden

The U.S. Embassy Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP), in collaboration with the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) and Georgetown East Medical Team, conducted a two-day medical...

One month later…Bus driver’s killer(s) still to be apprehended

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on One month later…Bus driver’s killer(s) still to be apprehended

One month has passed since 38-year-old Jermaine Burrowes was shot dead during a robbery at the Liliendaal Railway Embankment on the East Coast Demerara (ECD), in the vicinity of the “Steel...

Under-reporting detected in malaria cases

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Under-reporting detected in malaria cases

– but declining trend remains consistent About 8,000 cases of malaria were recorded by the Ministry of Public Health’s Vector Control Services Unit for the past year. But according to Chief...

Man assaults friend with bottles over broken windows – court hears

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man assaults friend with bottles over broken windows – court hears

-freed after claiming self defence A West Ruimveldt man, who hurled several bottles at his friend, after the man attacked him with a cutlass over some broken louvre windows, was yesterday freed on a...

Canada-based Hall of Famer unveils plan for academy

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Canada-based Hall of Famer unveils plan for academy

Guyana-born, Canadian Football Hall of Famer, Alexander Bunbury, yesterday paid a courtesy call on Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, to discuss his plans to establish an academy for youth in Guyana....

WAILING AT WALES

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WAILING AT WALES

There were four possible profitable alternatives to the closure of the Wales Estate. It is disappointing that this estate is going to be closed under a GUYSUCO Chairman who has for decades now been...

Rohee valuable to PPP, no plot to get rid of him – says Jagdeo

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee valuable to PPP, no plot to get rid of him – says Jagdeo

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, has denied reports that there is a rift between himself and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Clement Rohee. Speaking during a press...

President’s ‘Three Bs’ initiative gets 50 more bicycles

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President’s ‘Three Bs’ initiative gets 50 more bicycles

Fifty students from East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six), received bicycles under President David Granger’s ‘Buses, Boats and Bicycles’ (‘Three Bs’) initiative, yesterday. The programme is...

Why gas prices remain high

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Why gas prices remain high

The price of oil on the world market is at its lowest in 13 years. Yesterday the world market price was under US$30 per barrel, down from the record high of US$110 per barrel a few months ago. Indeed...

MARAD reiterates zero tolerance for illegal boat operators

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on MARAD reiterates zero tolerance for illegal boat operators

The Management of the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has reiterated its stance to relentlessly pursue orderliness and exhibit zero-tolerance for all forms of illegal boat operators. The...

Wales closure…GUYSUCO meets with sugar unions but no agreement reached

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Wales closure…GUYSUCO meets with sugar unions but no agreement reached

Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) management held meetings yesterday with representatives of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and the Guyana...

European rice investors eye Guyana rice

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on European rice investors eye Guyana rice

Government says it remains steadfast in its quest to not only develop to rice strains that are blast and disease resistant and produce higher yields, but to also attract additional markets to offset...

Wife wounds police constable

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Wife wounds police constable

Days after he was stabbed repeatedly by his wife during an altercation and was admitted in a critical state to the Georgetown Public Hospital, Constable Randolph Gill is recuperating. His condition...

Baramita police positively engage youths

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Baramita police positively engage youths

The Divisional Administration of the Police ‘F’ Division, under the command of Senior Superintendent Rabindradat Budhram, is forging ahead with the Police Force’s Social Crime Prevention...

Donald Ramotar and Cleopatra’s nose

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Donald Ramotar and Cleopatra’s nose

The most popular story in the annals of accidents that changed the course of history is the aphorism of Cleopatra’s nose (see my column, “Cleopatra’s nose in Guyana, January 9, 2013). Marc...

Public Health Ministry appeals for cautious reporting on suicide

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Public Health Ministry appeals for cautious reporting on suicide

– says reckless coverage contributes to copycat cases Officials from the Mental Health Unit of the Ministry of Public Health are urging members of the media to desist from sensationalising...

Suicide Prevention Walk and Rally for tomorrow

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Suicide Prevention Walk and Rally for tomorrow

The Humanitarian Mission of Guyana and its collaborating partners will be hosting a suicide prevention walk and rally tomorrow at 9:30am. The rally starts at Dr. Tulsi Street, Williamsburg, Rose Hall...

Bicycle bandit sentenced to two years

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bicycle bandit sentenced to two years

A former Kingston Community High School student was yesterday sentenced to two and a half years in prison by City Magistrate Alex Moore in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for a robbery under...

Police officer crushed to death…Magistrate to make ruling as defence contends ‘freak accident’

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police officer crushed to death…Magistrate to make ruling as defence contends ‘freak accident’

Yesterday, Attorney Glenn Hanoman closed the case for the defence in relation to a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. His client, David Persaud, a 25-year-old truck driver is currently...

THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Jan 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Are we committed to restructuring Guysuco? By: Sase Singh Introduction After authoring a sugar series in the Guyana Chronicle in 2015, the plan was always to do such a series in the Kaieteur...

South Ruimveldt resident slaps seven-year-old, lands in court

Jan 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on South Ruimveldt resident slaps seven-year-old, lands in court

Colin Benn yesterday appeared before City Magistrate, Alex Moore, in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was ordered to compensate a seven-year-old for slapping him behind his head. Benn, also...

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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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