March 2017

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Cops getting hands-on Cybercrime training in Panama

Mar 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops getting hands-on Cybercrime training in Panama

Guyana is being represented at an international Cybercrime Capacity Building Project for Latin America and the Caribbean. This event is being held in Panama and will conclude one week from today....

Disgruntled company behind row over procurement of emergency pharmaceuticals –Harmon

Mar 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Disgruntled company behind row over procurement of emergency pharmaceuticals –Harmon

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, has provided some insight into the true reason behind the quarrel over the recent procurement of millions worth in emergency pharmaceuticals by the Georgetown Public...

New police recruits urged to be professional and maintain integrity

Mar 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New police recruits urged to be professional and maintain integrity

Eighty-five young men and women graduated from the Felix Austin Police College yesterday and were encouraged to be professional in the execution of their duties. They were also called on to uphold...

Two escape unhurt as minibus hits car

Mar 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Two escape unhurt as minibus hits car

A route 43 minibus which plies the Linden/Kwakwani route took a plunge into a trench which drains the Cockatara Creek into the Demerara River in the vicinity of BOSAI Bauxite Company. When this...

PANCAP meeting ends with call for more civil society involvement

Mar 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PANCAP meeting ends with call for more civil society involvement

-increased focus being given to behavioural change An urgent call has been made to include more civil society organisations in programme implementation and for an increased emphasis on behavioural...

Nine receive specialized training on searching vessels

Mar 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nine receive specialized training on searching vessels

A five-day search-of-vessels training course under the Seaport Cooperation programme (SEACOP) yesterday ended at the Guyana Coastguard base in Kingston, Georgetown. The course was provided to...

Male sex worker robs client of cash, wrist watch…court hears

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Male sex worker robs client of cash, wrist watch…court hears

A male sex worker is being accused of robbing a “regular fare picker” of $342,000 in items while conducting business on South Road, Georgetown. William Samuels, 23, of Lot 91 Enmore North, East...

Second man charged for Festival City murder

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Second man charged for Festival City murder

Brian Mohan, also known as Abdul, was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Festival City resident, Christopher Wharton, also known as ‘Tapps or Chrissy. Wharton was gunned down on...

Jagdeo and Burnham’ perception stronger than reality

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo and Burnham’ perception stronger than reality

Dear Editor, In Guyana, presidential immunity is governed by Article 182 (1) and (2) of the Constitution. Let us deal with the material parts of the respective paragraphs (1) and (2) in turn and...

You should not go to bed with the devil

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on You should not go to bed with the devil

Dear Editor, Dr. V. Ramayya claims that he might return to the fold of the PPP. The politics in Guyana is of such that you can become hypocritical and duplicitous, even to your own case. When I heard...

Consumers Association’s position on parking meters

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Consumers Association’s position on parking meters

Dear Editor, Though there has been a plethora of comment on the Parking Meter Scheme, many of our members have insisted that we make a public comment on the issue: (1) Iniquitous profit-sharing. The...

I wrote this poem when sugar was getting into trouble

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I wrote this poem when sugar was getting into trouble

Dear Editor, In the year 1987 I published a book of poems entitled “Revelation Pan Creation, one of the poems is entitled “Sugar Cane”(1984) Once the world’s Pride Now crumbling with the...

Why SARA has not investigated the D’Urban Park project?

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why SARA has not investigated the D’Urban Park project?

Dear Editor, When he took the job as Chairman of Guysuco, Dr. Clive Thomas knew fully well that his track record of him being a business leader who has successfully run any business, cannot stand up...

2017 at Babu Jaan was yet another cuss-down affair

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on 2017 at Babu Jaan was yet another cuss-down affair

Dear Editor, As I was listening on the television to the speech of Bharrat Jagdeo at Babu Jaan, it prompted me to write this letter. I think Bharrat Jagdeo and his entire crew must be blamed for the...

Jagan and Jagdeo; hypocrisy and betrayal

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagan and Jagdeo; hypocrisy and betrayal

Dear Editor, I rather liked Kissoon’s column titled “The evil that men do lives after them”. I wonder whether ex-Pres. Jagdeo and those others have any “good” to be interred with their...

Min. of Education should look into this complaint of teachers

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Min. of Education should look into this complaint of teachers

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to the public’s view some concerns teachers have been expressing with the hope that the Ministry of Education and Guyana Teachers Union will look into these matters...

The intricacies of cricket disputes in Guyana

Mar 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The intricacies of cricket disputes in Guyana

Dear Editor, I am an ardent cricket fan and a fanatic of Berbice cricket. I have been following the intricacies of the Guyana Cricket Board and the Berbice Cricket Board cricket saga not to mention...

Day 3 of Pradoville 2 probe…Robert Persaud does not rule out paying market price for house lot

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Day 3 of Pradoville 2 probe…Robert Persaud does not rule out paying market price for house lot

…Kwame McCoy, Andrew Bishop questioned As the probe into the Sparendaam Land distribution scheme continues, former Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud has not ruled out paying the market...

Tax Committee zeros in on high ‘revenue loss’ through exemptions to diplomats, remigrants, others

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tax Committee zeros in on high ‘revenue loss’ through exemptions to diplomats, remigrants, others

Within the last two decades, questions have been raised about the benefits derived from the grant of millions worth in tax incentives and holidays to certain groups of people. To gather a greater...

Protesters chant ‘Death to parking meter by-laws’

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Protesters chant ‘Death to parking meter by-laws’

…as protest hits sixth week In its sixth week of protesting against the implementation of parking meters in the City of Georgetown, the Movement against Parking Meters has made their plea much more...

Anti-corruption watchdog sheds light on ExxonMobil’s questionable deals with Nigeria

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-corruption watchdog sheds light on ExxonMobil’s questionable deals with Nigeria

With the coming of an oil sector that is expected to bring Guyana great wealth, the Government of the day has been paying close attention to the mistakes made by other nations such as Trinidad and...

Former Roger Khan associate held after AK-47, M-70 found in home

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Former Roger Khan associate held after AK-47, M-70 found in home

A former associate of convicted drug kingpin, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was detained yesterday after police unearthed two high-powered weapons and magazines at his home. The discovery was made around...

House approves Hammie’s “pension” bill

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on House approves Hammie’s “pension” bill

Former Prime Minister Hamilton Green will now be paid a pension commensurate with the office he once held between 1985 and 1992. The Bill was presented by Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday...

CJIA’s new arrival terminal for mid-year completion; runway is halfway finished

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA’s new arrival terminal for mid-year completion; runway is halfway finished

A multi-billion-dollar contract to modernize the country’s main airport is on track for a year-end completion with a new terminal building to be commissioned as early as mid-year. According to the...

Former Deputy REO enters plea deal with Texas prosecutor

Mar 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Former Deputy REO enters plea deal with Texas prosecutor

Former Deputy Region Three Executive Officer (REO) Ameena Hinds, has struck a plea deal with the US prosecutors, admitting earlier this month of conspiring to distribute cocaine. The official was...

PREV 41 424344 45 NEXT LAST

Need for Speed Series Championship Round One… All roads lead to...

Jun 19, 2026

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The two-day racing extravaganza that kicks off an action-packed month of motorsport starts today at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Thomaslands venue...

Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Listen to the The Glenn Lall Show

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Features/Columnists

Sir. Ronald Sanders

The GHK Lall Column

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

> Berbice Bridge […]