September 2020

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A capability problem and lack of consequences

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A capability problem and lack of consequences

DEAR EDITOR, I found the article, “Condemned to be emergency room cases” (KN Sept 10th) spot on. It’s correctly stated that our leaders keep getting bamboozled, in relation to why...

An Open Letter to Mr. Gladson Henry

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Open Letter to Mr. Gladson Henry

DEAR MR HENRY, I wish to express deepest appreciation for your sentiments as stated through the media in recent days. For all my conscious years, like so many of us, I have seen and described myself...

A Call for PEACE amidst the PIECES

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Call for PEACE amidst the PIECES

DEAR EDITOR, It is plain to see One Nation, One People, One Destiny may never be a reality. Based on the current mayhem and civil unrest in Guyana, following the senseless killings of Isaiah and Joel...

Some worrisome aspects of the President’s proposal

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some worrisome aspects of the President’s proposal

DEAR EDITOR, This letter, in no way seeks to question the good intentions of the President, when he announced that his Government will be seeking the help of UK experts to help solve the heinous...

Congratulations to Volda Lawrence

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to Volda Lawrence

DEAR EDITOR, I was reading Kaieteur News yesterday and when I got to page 10, I was captivated by Freddie Kissoon’s remarks about Volda Lawrence. Regardless of what you think of Lawrence’s...

Cotton Tree – sounds like the weeping willow

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cotton Tree – sounds like the weeping willow

DEAR EDITOR, I believe that the bullet dodged this past week will return in some form, at some time, to remind Guyanese of what went down and not to get too full of themselves or too complacent. The...

Focus on oil $ instead of ethnic rage

Sep 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Focus on oil $ instead of ethnic rage

DEAR EDITOR, Instead of focusing their attention on how to increase oil revenues to enrich the country, regrettably, people are engaging in ethnic rage, fighting each other over virtually nothing –...

T&T constantly improves gas deals while Guyana hides behind contract sanctity

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on T&T constantly improves gas deals while Guyana hides behind contract sanctity

Trinidad and Tobago Energy Minister, Franklin Khan on Wednesday announced a license extension agreement between the Government and several oil and gas companies for four production licenses that the...

ERC thrashed for inadequate response to racial tensions over recent Berbice killings

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ERC thrashed for inadequate response to racial tensions over recent Berbice killings

With $220M handed to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) just days ago, many have expressed the view that its response to violent expressions of anger over the killings of two teenagers and the...

Traffic flowing as Joint Services takes control of Region 5

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic flowing as Joint Services takes control of Region 5

There was a smooth flow of traffic yesterday on the West Coast Berbice as the Joint Services took control of things. Regional Commander, Edmond Cooper, confirmed that all areas that had blockades...

Two charged in death of East Berbice carpenter that sparked protests

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two charged in death of East Berbice carpenter that sparked protests

Appearing at the New Amsterdam Magistrate Court yesterday before Magistrate Renita Singh were two suspects who were arrested in connection with the murder of No.1 Village carpenter, Orlando...

Man stripped, car burnt in protest attack at Mahaicony

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man stripped, car burnt in protest attack at Mahaicony

A pensioner, on Wednesday last, was stripped of his clothes, robbed, beaten and forced to watch his car go up in flames during a violent attack by protesters at Mahaicony, Region Five. Jerome Basdeo,...

Four arrested for beating death of man at Bath Settlement

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four arrested for beating death of man at Bath Settlement

Four persons have been arrested in connection with the beating to death of Prettipaul Hargobin by protestors at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, on Wednesday. According to Crime Chief, Wendell...

Supenaam woman killed by ex-lover after late night phone call

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Supenaam woman killed by ex-lover after late night phone call

A twenty-four years old woman from Supenaam, Essequibo Coast, was brutally stabbed to dead Wednesday night by her ex-boyfriend. The woman, who was identified as Lunisa Peters, sustained multiple stab...

Second set of robbers help victims recover stolen passport from protesters

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Second set of robbers help victims recover stolen passport from protesters

A man, his brother and his wife, were on Tuesday last assisted in recovering a stolen passport and key documents from protesters. He was assisted by a second group of men who attempted to rob them....

Four persons released from police custody

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four persons released from police custody

Butchered West Berbice teens… Four persons who were arrested in connection with the slaying of two West Coast Berbice teenagers have been released on station bail. This is according to Crime...

Businessman arrested in relation to leaked Roger Khan’s sex video

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman arrested in relation to leaked Roger Khan’s sex video

A popular gold trader and businessman, Azruddin Mohamed, was arrested on Monday and later released on bail as investigators commenced their probe into a sex tape of Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan that was...

Housewife’s body found floating in creek

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Housewife’s body found floating in creek

A housewife’s body was on Wednesday last, discovered floating in Bun Sugar Creek, North West District, Region One. The body identified to be that of Melinda Henry, 29, was discovered by her...

Cricket done faster dan some men

Sep 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cricket done faster dan some men

Dem Boys Seh… Yesterday was the final of the CPL. Dem boys bin hoping dat de Guyana Amazon Warriors would ah mek de final. But dem fold up easy in de semi-finals. Dem boys know a man who been...

Race-hate has not yet been established as a motive in the killings of the Henry teens

Sep 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Race-hate has not yet been established as a motive in the killings of the Henry teens

Yesterday, in part, I addressed the contention that the murder of the Henry brothers was a case of race-hate. I argued that the evidence was not there, as yet, to establish a motive of racism. I...

‘Rambo’ crushed to death in mining pit

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Rambo’ crushed to death in mining pit

A pork-knocker was on Wednesday last crushed to death by rocks while working with colleagues in a mining pit at White Water, Konawaruk Backdam, Region Eight. Dead is Donston John called ‘Rambo’,...

Harmon to Pres. Ali – What rape?

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon to Pres. Ali – What rape?

Opposition Leader, Joseph Harmon, has called out President Irfaan Ali for alleging that persons were raped during the West Coast Berbice protests that raged on after the brutal slaying of Isaiah and...

Guyana, Brazil to meet today on Region 9 testing samples

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Brazil to meet today on Region 9 testing samples

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, is expected to engage with officials from Brazil about testing COVID-19 samples that are being taken in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo). This was...

Speeding pickup driver remanded for killing pedal cyclist

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding pickup driver remanded for killing pedal cyclist

Four days after a pedal cyclist was killed by a speeding Toyota Tacoma pick-up, the driver was on Monday remanded to prison for causing death by dangerous driving. The defendant, Kareem Akidu Isiah...

Special Berbice Supplement

Sep 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Special Berbice Supplement

Due to the unrest in Region 5 earlier in the week, our Kaieteur News daily print editions of Wednesday, September 9 and Thursday, September 10 could not reach Berbice residents. As such, the...

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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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