June 2018

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Deadly high seas attack… Ring leader ‘Sanbad’ captured by Berbice police

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Deadly high seas attack… Ring leader ‘Sanbad’ captured by Berbice police

An intelligence led operation has aided in the capture of the wanted ring leader for the pirate gang that attacked four fishing vessels in Suriname waters. That attack left more than a dozen...

Reporters Without Borders urge Guyana to amend controversial Cybercrime Bill

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Reporters Without Borders urge Guyana to amend controversial Cybercrime Bill

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Guyanese Parliament to amend its draft Cybercrime Bill, which could have a damaging effect on press freedom. On June 7, RSF sent a letter to Prime Minister...

Exxon, Jagdeo and de Coal-lay-shun got a lot in common

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Exxon, Jagdeo and de Coal-lay-shun got a lot in common

De best way to get anything out of anybody is to seh something good about dem. People get promotion and some people get fancy gifts all because dem talk nice about somebody. One consultancy talk good...

GCB Senior Female Team off to Jamaica for 2018 CWI Women’s T20 Championship

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB Senior Female Team off to Jamaica for 2018 CWI Women’s T20 Championship

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Female Team left yesterday for Jamaica to compete in the 2018 Women’s Regional T20 and 50-Overs tournaments. The Guyanese will play their first match on Sunday...

Golden Jaguars new Head Coach formally introduced by GFF – Set 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification as priority

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars new Head Coach formally introduced by GFF – Set 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification as priority

Michael Johnson, the newly appointed Head Coach of Guyana’s Senior Men’s team, ‘Golden Jaguars’, arrived in the ‘Land of Many Waters’ yesterday and was formally introduced to the medai...

Public-Private Partnership Policy to ensure value for money in public sector projects- Jordan

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Public-Private Partnership Policy to ensure value for money in public sector projects- Jordan

By Kiana Wilburg In an effort to fulfill its development objectives for Guyana, the Government will have to form partnerships with private partners. This collaboration will see private sector members...

Gov’t says GABF, CBC participation difficult to fund

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gov’t says GABF, CBC participation difficult to fund

In light of the Minister of Social Cohesion with responsibility for Sport, Dr. George Norton, stating in the media that the Government of Guyana will be unable to fund the $10 million that Guyana’s...

Imam Bacchus SC, NOC SC and Walton Hall SC through to quarter finals

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Imam Bacchus SC, NOC SC and Walton Hall SC through to quarter finals

Imam Bacchus Sports Club, New Opportunity Corps Sports Club and Walton Hall Sports Club have made it through to the quarter finals of the South Essequibo Cricket Committee Invitational T20...

Local content is not ‘spending’ in the economy

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Local content is not ‘spending’ in the economy

Local content is a concept which is peculiar to foreign investment. A local company cannot be engaged in local content since conceptually local content is concerned with the portion of a foreign...

Arthur Chung Conference Centre undergoes US$7M repairs

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Arthur Chung Conference Centre undergoes US$7M repairs

After almost 18 months of major repairs, Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), at Liliendaal, has been handed back to the Government of Guyana by China, complete with some new whistles and...

Rusal workers plead for attention amid poor working conditions

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rusal workers plead for attention amid poor working conditions

Bauxite workers in the Upper Berbice area, are calling for urgent attention to their working conditions. While a task force has been announced and headed by the Minister within the Ministry of...

Ferguson inspects Bartica stelling, power plant projects

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ferguson inspects Bartica stelling, power plant projects

Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Annette Ferguson, yesterday visited Cuyuni-Mazaruni area, Region Seven. During the trip, the Minister was accompanied by the Regional Chairman,...

GPHC Psychiatric clinic to be relocated to Mental Health Unit -counselling and occupational therapy available

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Psychiatric clinic to be relocated to Mental Health Unit -counselling and occupational therapy available

The Georgetown Public Hospital’s Psychiatric Clinic will soon be relocated to the recently constructed Mental Health Institute, located at Lot 252 Quamina Street, South Cummingsburg. The...

Exxon selling out of Tanzanian gas field to focus on Mozambique, Guyana

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon selling out of Tanzanian gas field to focus on Mozambique, Guyana

LONDON (Reuters) – ExxonMobil is seeking buyers for its stake in a large undeveloped gas field off Tanzania, according to three banking and industry sources, as the company focuses on the...

President tours little Independence star through State House

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on President tours little Independence star through State House

President David Granger was yesterday paid a visit by two special little ladies; Miss Kaylin Klass, a Grade Two School of the Nations student; and Miss Eliana Ganpat, who became an internet sensation...

Doobay Medical is 13th lab certified by GNBS

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Doobay Medical is 13th lab certified by GNBS

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has certified the Doobay Medical Centre Inc. Laboratory for the first time. The ceremony occurred on June 5, 2018 with the lab being the 13th to...

Notable achievements at Indigenous Residence – Minister Allicock

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Notable achievements at Indigenous Residence – Minister Allicock

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs continues to heavily invest in improving living conditions at the Indigenous Residence located on Princes Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. On...

This is the most violent, immoral, ravished country in the entire world

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on This is the most violent, immoral, ravished country in the entire world

A young lady broke a bottle and stabbed her best friend to death in the presence of the victim’s three-year-old daughter; she pleads guilty and gets 10 years. A man brutalizes his girlfriend’s...

Police photographer testifies in causing death trial

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police photographer testifies in causing death trial

The trial of a minibus driver who was previously charged with causing the death of a 42-year-old pedal cyclist, continued yesterday before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown...

Attempted murder accused freed on armed robbery charges

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Attempted murder accused freed on armed robbery charges

An attempted murder accused who was recently committed to stand trial in the High Court for unlawfully and maliciously wounding an on-duty security guard, yesterday, got two robbery under-arms...

Suspect held for fatal stabbing of Kitty youth

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect held for fatal stabbing of Kitty youth

Police have apprehended the Kitty resident who allegedly ended the life of 20-year-old Richard Noel last Monday over a dispute they had a year ago. A police official said that the suspect, Timothy...

Addressing the issue of violence against women in Guyana

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Addressing the issue of violence against women in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Women in Guyana continue to be murdered at the hands of our men and something needs to be done urgently to address this issue. Our most recent case is that of the killing of Bindomattie...

Was Burnham’s slate cleaner than Queen Victoria’s?

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Was Burnham’s slate cleaner than Queen Victoria’s?

DEAR EDITOR, Since Independence in 1966, did Guyana ever stand on its own without returning to the British Government for assistance of any kind? Would it have been best that President David Granger...

Region 2 farmers continue to suffer from non-payment by millers

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 2 farmers continue to suffer from non-payment by millers

DEAR EDITOR, The stigma of Cinderella seems reluctant to leave Essequibo Coast. Ministers of Government rarely visit there, even from the era of the PPP. A group of concerned farmers agitating for...

The PPP has ulterior motives in calling for this ‘balance’

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP has ulterior motives in calling for this ‘balance’

DEAR EDITOR, Bereft of any credibility or sane policy to move Guyana forward, the PPP continuously spews nonsensical verbiage to attract attention and hoodwink the Guyanese populace. A case in point...

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West Ruimveldt Primary reign supreme in Demerara Zone of Future...

Jun 01, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

Absenteeism at School

Jun 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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