January 2018

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Despite setbacks Wilbert Benjamin still assist locals

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Despite setbacks Wilbert Benjamin still assist locals

Despite suffering sets backs where he had to expend millions to redo the Benjamin Sports Store and fitness Gym due to faulty work by contractors, former national cyclist Wilbert Benjamin still...

Mahendra Bhagwandin wins Trophy Stall Golf Tournament

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mahendra Bhagwandin wins Trophy Stall Golf Tournament

The Lusignan Golf Club on Saturday held its first tournament for year that was generously sponsored by Trophy Stall. The turnout for the competition was encouraging as over thirty (30) players...

Don’t look! That video is violently sickening!

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Don’t look! That video is violently sickening!

There is a video clip making the rounds of a city police rank violently kicking a mentally challenged man in his face in the area of his eyes. The man was subsequently shot dead. Don’t look at...

Life’s irony and Trump’s comment

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Life’s irony and Trump’s comment

DEAR Editor, Isn’t life ironic? The fuss now being created by the unsavoury description of certain countries, of which many of your readers may well suspect could include Guyana, is nothing new. I...

Why the delay in appointing a new University Council?

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why the delay in appointing a new University Council?

Dear Sir, The University of Guyana Unions are extremely concerned at the Government’s delay in appointing a new University Council. The University of Guyana Act, and the Statutes, gives the Council...

A sensitive issue

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A sensitive issue

Dear Mr. Editor, Please allow me to express my thoughts on the news caption in the Kaieteur News, “Indian envoy clashes with senior Govt. spokesman over MPs trip to India”. The invitation to the...

The Mayor and Town Clerk pursue a champagne lifestyle

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Mayor and Town Clerk pursue a champagne lifestyle

Dear Editor, The recent disclosure in the press of an attempt by officials of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown to illegally lease or sell reserved community lands in Bel Air Park...

A preponderance of cuss words

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A preponderance of cuss words

Dear Editor, We are living in a society that has been getting from bad to worse because we have fallen morally, intellectually and spiritually. Every day we can hear our citizens behaving in a very...

A call for help from Diamond

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A call for help from Diamond

Dear Editor, The Grove / Diamond housing schemes developed on East Bank Demerara, Guyana, is considered to be a large area for housing. The two schemes are separated by a canal, but the main access...

WPA sees sugar retrenchment as a recipe for disaster

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on WPA sees sugar retrenchment as a recipe for disaster

Dear Editor, We regret that our statement on sugar, published in the Stabroek News Diaspora Column on Monday January 8, communicated the idea that the government was closing the sugar industry. Now...

Are oil industry incomes already by-passing the domestic economy?

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are oil industry incomes already by-passing the domestic economy?

Dear Editor, One of the things that interested me in my review of the National Budget presented late last year, was to see what it had to say about current economic performance. On one hand, the...

The children benefit but the PPP protests

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The children benefit but the PPP protests

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express on behalf of the children, parents, teachers and members of the APNU+AFC side of the RDC, heartfelt thanks to President David Granger and Hon. Amna Ally MP,...

Protesting a dismissal

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Protesting a dismissal

Dear Editor I write to draw the public attention to an unfair termination of Service meted out to a Police corporal of ‘E’ Division. I am a man of the Cloth and wouldn’t hesitate to say that...

Questioning the need to pay rates in the city

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Questioning the need to pay rates in the city

Dear Editor, I would like someone in the Georgetown Municipality to tell me why I should be paying property rates, let alone proposed increases when very little if any services are being given,...

BREAKING UP IS INDEED HARD TO DO

Jan 16, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on BREAKING UP IS INDEED HARD TO DO

Breaking up whether in a marriage or relationship is difficult in the best of times, and even more so when the couple has been bound by law. Getting through the legal process of a divorce in some...

India considers abolishing Cost Recovery by oil companies

Jan 15, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on India considers abolishing Cost Recovery by oil companies

…Govt. audit reveals alarming instances of abuse By Kiana Wilburg When oil operators have to recover their expenses, controversy often arises between those entities and the Governments of host...

Govt. fails to publish ExxonMobil Bridging Deed

Jan 15, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Govt. fails to publish ExxonMobil Bridging Deed

While the Government has released the ExxonMobil petroleum contract, there are still some key documents which it has failed to make public. This was recently pointed out by Chartered Accountant,...

Pomeroon horror…Two farmers shot in their heads, killers flee in boat

Jan 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon horror…Two farmers shot in their heads, killers flee in boat

Murders in the new year climbed to four in dramatic fashion yesterday, following what appeared to be the execution-style killing of two farmers in the Pomeroon. Police said 28-year-old Ambrose...

Mentally ill escaped prisoner shot dead outside Constabulary Outpost

Jan 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mentally ill escaped prisoner shot dead outside Constabulary Outpost

– City Constable, Lance Corporal detained Just a day after he was taken into custody, mentally ill Tiger Bay resident Marlon Fredericks was shot dead in front of his mother and several...

COPS UNDER PRESSURE…Twelve gun robberies in thirteen days, bike bandits behind nine attacks

Jan 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on COPS UNDER PRESSURE…Twelve gun robberies in thirteen days, bike bandits behind nine attacks

– bike bandits account for nine attacks With at least 12 recorded gunpoint robberies in 13 days, police have had their hands filled in keeping a lid on crime in the first 13 days of the...

De city constab in de news again

Jan 15, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De city constab in de news again

De odda day, had to be Saturday, dem boys see how de city constab chase a man and ketch him. Then de man cuff de constable and run. He couldn’t run far because wid all de people pun de road and wid...

GDF rank, ex-cop held for robberies and carjackings

Jan 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GDF rank, ex-cop held for robberies and carjackings

Police have apprehended a Guyana Defence Force rank, who has reportedly admitted that he and an accomplice robbed a woman at gunpoint after trailing her on a motorcycle. Police said that the...

Oil companies not incorporated in Guyana…Nothing here that is not fit and proper

Jan 15, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Oil companies not incorporated in Guyana…Nothing here that is not fit and proper

– Hughes Attorney at Law, Nigel Hughes says that there is nothing “that is not fit and proper,” about his office being the registered address for all three of the oil...

Four charged with separate robberies around Georgetown

Jan 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Four charged with separate robberies around Georgetown

With a series of robberies happening around Georgetown, four youths on Friday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and were all remanded to prison on separate robbery charges...

Ramjattan again shuts down calls for his resignation

Jan 15, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan again shuts down calls for his resignation

Public security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan has maintained that his resignation over the July 2017 Camp Street Prison fire will not be forthcoming. During Wednesday’s debate in the National...

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Golden Jaguars target League A return and Gold Cup qualification

Nov 04, 2026

…Coach Bonofiglio names squad for matches at West Demerara By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Senior Men’s National Football Team, the Golden Jaguars, will look to put the finishing...

Selective outrage, unsupported conclusions and misplaced legal...

Nov 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The statement issued by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) on 3rd November, 2026, raises several important questions about the administration of justice, the independence of the courts and the protection of individual rights. However, beneath its language of concern for...

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...

Opposition Leader Mohamed – counsel, care, and correction

Nov 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Opposition Leader, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, has to change. Mandatory. Or, he is of little utility to the Guyanese people. Whoever heard of an Opposition Leader who is regularly arrested, regularly handcuffed, regularly jailed, regularly fighting to be bailed, and regularly...

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