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Nightclub owner remanded for ganja in cupboard

Nightclub owner remanded for ganja in cupboard

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Nightclub owner remanded for ganja in cupboard

A popular nightclub owner was Friday remanded to prison after police found over 42 pounds of marijuana hidden in a cupboard in the kitchen of his nightclub. Clyde Barrett, 40, of 183 Calendar Street,...

Land titles, $25M in Presidential Grants handed over -as 12th Toshaos Council wraps up

Land titles, $25M in Presidential Grants handed over -as 12th Toshaos Council wraps up

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Land titles, $25M in Presidential Grants handed over -as 12th Toshaos Council wraps up

Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Sydney Allicock, brought the curtain down on the 12th National Toshaos Council Conference with the distribution of several Land Titles and Presidential...

AFC, APNU looking to use combination of approaches to Local Govt. polls …could see parties not field candidates in some areas

AFC, APNU looking to use combination of approaches to Local Govt. polls …could see parties not field candidates in some areas

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on AFC, APNU looking to use combination of approaches to Local Govt. polls …could see parties not field candidates in some areas

The Alliance For Change (AFC) and the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) are considering a political approach to adopt as the parties seek to find common ground to contest the November 12 Local...

CIOG Islamic Schools record 100% passes at NGSA exams

CIOG Islamic Schools record 100% passes at NGSA exams

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CIOG Islamic Schools record 100% passes at NGSA exams

Al Ghazali Islamic Academy (AIA) and Meten Meer Zorg Islamic Academy(MAI) have once again recorded passes in the top 200 of the country at the recent NGSA exams. Meten Meer Zorg Islamic Academy once...

GFF Elite League Season III… Tigers win to go top; Ann’s Grove and New Amsterdam play to stalemate

GFF Elite League Season III… Tigers win to go top; Ann’s Grove and New Amsterdam play to stalemate

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Elite League Season III… Tigers win to go top; Ann’s Grove and New Amsterdam play to stalemate

Three goals in the first half ensured Ruimveldt based Western Tigers Football Club (FC) an eventual and comfortable 3-1 victory over eighth place Cougars FC on Friday night at the National Track and...

Govt. scraps proposed site for NTC headquarters …New location under consideration

Govt. scraps proposed site for NTC headquarters …New location under consideration

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. scraps proposed site for NTC headquarters …New location under consideration

After a sod turning event attended by President David Granger and a promise to soon hand over the proposed site at Sophia for the secretariat of the National Toshaos Council (NTC), the...

Dr. Stephen Carryl – Providing free medical assistance to Linden for 27 years

Dr. Stephen Carryl – Providing free medical assistance to Linden for 27 years

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Stephen Carryl – Providing free medical assistance to Linden for 27 years

By Enid Joaquin Stephen Carryl’s story is a unique one. It brings out a whole gamut of emotions – it can make you smile and cry, then almost simultaneously, evoke joy and laughter in your...

Some Guyanese are opposed to kidney donation, says Transplant Surgeon

Some Guyanese are opposed to kidney donation, says Transplant Surgeon

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Some Guyanese are opposed to kidney donation, says Transplant Surgeon

There are some Guyanese who are opposed to donating an organ even to a family member. In fact, it has been found that Guyanese of African descent are among those who are especially opposed to being...

APA completes training sessions on the revision process of the Amerindian Act 2006

APA completes training sessions on the revision process of the Amerindian Act 2006

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on APA completes training sessions on the revision process of the Amerindian Act 2006

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) supported training sessions on the revision process of Amerindian Act 2006 this month, with three meetings already completed in the villages of Santa Rosa,...

Early Savers benefit from GBTI Summer programme

Early Savers benefit from GBTI Summer programme

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Early Savers benefit from GBTI Summer programme

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI Ltd) has concluded its Annual Summer Camp for members of its Early Savers Club at the Bank’s Recreational Centre, Kaieteur Road, Bel Air Park....

Natural Resources to complete agreement with Toshaos’ Council

Natural Resources to complete agreement with Toshaos’ Council

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Natural Resources to complete agreement with Toshaos’ Council

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman said his ministry will be continuing negotiations with the new National Toshaos Council (NTC) towards the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...

Utility-scale solar farms for 10 hinterland villages in 2019

Utility-scale solar farms for 10 hinterland villages in 2019

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Utility-scale solar farms for 10 hinterland villages in 2019

Ten hinterland villages will be equipped with utility-scale solar farms. The use of ‘rooftop’ solar panels in hinterland communities will be terminated and will be replaced by utility...

Transplant Surgeon eager for introduction of cadaveric surgery at GPHC

Transplant Surgeon eager for introduction of cadaveric surgery at GPHC

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Transplant Surgeon eager for introduction of cadaveric surgery at GPHC

Even as the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC] basks in the glory of successfully expanding its Kidney Transplant programme to offer paired exchanged kidney transplant surgeries, talks...

THE AERODROME MURDERS

THE AERODROME MURDERS

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery, News Comments Off on THE AERODROME MURDERS

By Michael Jordan The tracker dog led the sweating policemen down the Ogle Aerodrome runway. To the journalists looking on, the dog was of no distinguishable breed, but the detectives appeared...

Indigestion: When we can’t stomach it anymore

Indigestion: When we can’t stomach it anymore

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Indigestion: When we can’t stomach it anymore

Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia, is a common condition in which your body has trouble digesting food. It occurs in your gastrointestinal...

Ethnic Imbalance in Guyana: A clear and present danger that will eventually consume all of us

Ethnic Imbalance in Guyana: A clear and present danger that will eventually consume all of us

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds, News Comments Off on Ethnic Imbalance in Guyana: A clear and present danger that will eventually consume all of us

Some people have condemned me for raising the issue of ethnic control of decision making in Guyana’s cricket. Not for the first time I seem to have touched a raw nerve. Many people have stopped me...

Envelope ugliness in a shithole country

Envelope ugliness in a shithole country

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon, News Comments Off on Envelope ugliness in a shithole country

The past year, one of the persistent complaints I have received from members of the public is the cruel mistreatment of low-income people who have to interface with financial houses over proof of...

An American insults Guyanese and fools the world

An American insults Guyanese and fools the world

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on An American insults Guyanese and fools the world

I have heard and read many things about Guyana. Many conflicted with what I know, having lived here all my life. I have read about Georgetown being a quaint town because of the wooden structures...

The Story Within The Story… ‘Eyepass’ of a New York Times article on Guyana

The Story Within The Story… ‘Eyepass’ of a New York Times article on Guyana

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… ‘Eyepass’ of a New York Times article on Guyana

By Leonard Gildarie We have so many things that should get us angry daily. Like the continued bureaucracy in some Government offices. Little has changed, they say. Many of the folks under the...

Kaieteur News Cartoon July 22 2018

Kaieteur News Cartoon July 22 2018

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon July 22 2018

The Baccoo speaks

The Baccoo speaks

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The police have been able to clampdown on the roaming motorcycle bandits but like everything else, a few succeed. One group will attack a businessman with dire consequences. One would be shot, while...

BOOK REVIEW SPECIAL – 180th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF EMANCIPATION… Madness, Violence and Survival: The Wrath of Slavery

BOOK REVIEW SPECIAL – 180th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF EMANCIPATION… Madness, Violence and Survival: The Wrath of Slavery

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on BOOK REVIEW SPECIAL – 180th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF EMANCIPATION… Madness, Violence and Survival: The Wrath of Slavery

Book: Daddy Sharpe: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave Written by Himself, 1832 Author: Fred W. Kennedy Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Fred...

Speedboat overloading at Parika/Supenaam comes under spotlight

Speedboat overloading at Parika/Supenaam comes under spotlight

Jul 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Speedboat overloading at Parika/Supenaam comes under spotlight

Passengers who usually commute between Supenaam and Parika root via speedboat, are questioning the competence of the Maritime Administration [MARAD], especially since the overloading of water taxis...

Interesting Creatures… Culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus)

Interesting Creatures… Culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus)

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus)

The culpeo, (Lycalopex culpaeus) sometimes known as the zorro culpeo or Andean fox (wolf), is a South American species of wild dog. It is the second largest native canid on the continent, after the...

An inexplicable reliance on others to determine for us what we have written for ourselves

An inexplicable reliance on others to determine for us what we have written for ourselves

Jul 22, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on An inexplicable reliance on others to determine for us what we have written for ourselves

The engagement between President David Granger and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday, 19th July signals an encouraging sign. Arising from this engagement, there seems to be an...

Williams and Wharton register hat-tricks as Round 2 of Republic Bank U18 League heats up

Williams and Wharton register hat-tricks as Round 2 of Republic Bank...

Nov 04, 2024

– Chase, Waramuri also with victories Kaieteur Sports – The Republic Bank Schools Under-18 Football League kicked off its second round with a thrilling display of skill and grit yesterday...

Richards’ unbeaten half-century helps Pride steal 1-wicket win over GHE

Richards’ unbeaten half-century helps Pride...

Nov 04, 2024

Sammy lauds Hope’s heroics but urges stronger bowling effort ahead of ODI decider

Sammy lauds Hope’s heroics but urges stronger...

Nov 04, 2024

Deonandan spearheads RHT Farfan and Mendes Ltd into semis

Deonandan spearheads RHT Farfan and Mendes Ltd...

Nov 04, 2024

RHTYSC hails its eight GCB and CWI-contracted players

RHTYSC hails its eight GCB and CWI-contracted...

Nov 04, 2024

Hamilton Green KO Football C/ship now shifted to November 8 start

Hamilton Green KO Football C/ship now shifted to...

Nov 04, 2024

Jagdeo should withdraw his comments

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo found himself at the center of a controversy regarding... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Weaponising state advertisements

… Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- There is always this faint hope that Bhar-rat Jagdeo will learn. No matter... more