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Fmr. Minister’s assistant charged in CJIA VIP lounge drug bust

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fmr. Minister’s assistant charged in CJIA VIP lounge drug bust

Kenroy Jones, 29, of 69 D’Anrade Street, Newtown Kitty appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, to answer to a charge instituted...

City Hall’s Mayoral section offers free Mash spots on Merriman’s Mall

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall’s Mayoral section offers free Mash spots on Merriman’s Mall

…Town Clerk mounts challenge The Mayoral sector of City Hall has decided to offer free recreational spots on Merriman Mall for this year’s Mashramani celebration. The decision was announced...

Monitoring bodies ready for Elections Day

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Monitoring bodies ready for Elections Day

Preparations are in full steam by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) with mechanisms being activated for General and Regional Elections on May 11. According to the Electoral Assistance Bureau...

Over fishing …US$75,000 study to assess situation in Guianas-Brazil zone

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Over fishing …US$75,000 study to assess situation in Guianas-Brazil zone

As worry continues with the over exploitation of fishing and fishing grounds in the Guianas-Brazil shelf, a project is underway to assess the value and management potential of stocks in order to...

BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BEYOND ALL EXPECTATIONS

Yesterday, for the first time for the year, I saw a kite in the skies. It is unusual to see a kite so early in the year, but it is a reminder that Easter is just a few months away. In my life I have...

The silly season is here

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The silly season is here

Election time is appropriately called the silly season. It is the time when normal people lose all sense of reason; when partisan politics supersedes even friendship; when the entire country braces...

DEBUNCHING PAYOUT …Bynoe says MoE dishonest and disrespectful

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on DEBUNCHING PAYOUT …Bynoe says MoE dishonest and disrespectful

Past President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Colin Bynoe, is very concerned about the Ministry of Education (MoE)’s slothful approach to the debunching issue, especially since the process...

The pressures of election campaigns…Jaipaul Sharma ‘mentally prepared’ to face “Priya” this time

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The pressures of election campaigns…Jaipaul Sharma ‘mentally prepared’ to face “Priya” this time

Executive Member of the Justice For All Party (JFAP), Jaipaul Sharma, is now “mentally” prepared to face his nemesis, Education Minister, Priya Manickchand. Last year, Manickchand hurled some...

Rice mill offers compensation to dead teen’s family

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rice mill offers compensation to dead teen’s family

Senior employees attached to the privately-owned Caricom Rice Mills Ltd at Anna Regina visited the mother of the dead teenager, Threeion Gittens. Gittens lost his life while cleaning a tank that was...

Film review: Imitation Game/Kill the Messenger

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Film review: Imitation Game/Kill the Messenger

When I returned to Guyana after working in Grenada, the next day I went on the seawall to jog. As I passed the CID Head Office at Camp Road, I saw an expensive speedboat. It was seized in the then...

Man robs ‘girlfriend’ of blackberry cellphone

Feb 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man robs ‘girlfriend’ of blackberry cellphone

Gavin Major yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer a charge of robbery. It is alleged that Major, on February, 4, last,...

UG needs to do some serious introspection and careful re-strategizing

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG needs to do some serious introspection and careful re-strategizing

DEAR EDITOR, The University of Guyana is currently faced with industrial action over the issue of salary increases for staff members. One can only hope that reason and good sense will prevail and a...

Reparations claim only about the money

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reparations claim only about the money

DEAR EDITOR, Whenever we hear those clamoring for reparations, they will always tell you that they are demanding “justice for our ancestors”. It is being claimed that the Europeans must make...

My experiences at the University of Guyana

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on My experiences at the University of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, I worked at the University of Guyana until almost three years ago. This was my second full-time stint there. I had worked there in the early nineties and despite loving the job I was...

We have endured a trip to hell and back

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have endured a trip to hell and back

DEAR EDITOR, Guyanese are people that have endured a trip to hell and back with airline after airline that has come on the scene, many of which have duped travellers. A history of turmoil, rip-offs,...

An AFC/APNU coalition govt. will uphold the ideals of good governance

Feb 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on An AFC/APNU coalition govt. will uphold the ideals of good governance

DEAR EDITOR, When President Ramotar assumed office three years ago, he pledged that there would be no compromise on integrity in public office or performance by him or his ministers. He also promised...

E’bo teen buried under tons of paddy

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo teen buried under tons of paddy

… as storage tank falls apart A teenager died yesterday morning, around 7 o’clock, at his Caricom Rice Mills Limited worksite at Anna Regina, after a storage tank burst and tons of paddy...

Ramotar puts GDF on alert for possible elections violence

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar puts GDF on alert for possible elections violence

By Abena Rockcliffe The Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Donald Ramotar, yesterday laid out his expectations of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in 2015. In no uncertain terms, the...

Guyana’s Honorary Consul to TT faces probe for witness tampering

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Honorary Consul to TT faces probe for witness tampering

One day after Government said that it has no problems with Ernie Ross performing duties as Honorary Consul General to Trinidad and Tobago, there are indications that he could be in deep trouble in...

PPP hypocritical in condemning coalition talks – AFC’s Nagamootoo

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP hypocritical in condemning coalition talks – AFC’s Nagamootoo

Vice Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Moses Nagamootoo, pointed to interesting historical facts yesterday, to prove that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic is not only hypocritical, but...

Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Photos of teen’s remains tendered as evidence

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Photos of teen’s remains tendered as evidence

Twenty- five photographs which were taken at the scene where the remains of murdered Queen’s College student, Neesa Gopaul, were discovered, have been tendered as part of the evidence of the High...

Dem days coming to a night

Feb 06, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem days coming to a night

History got a way of repeating itself. Another way of saying de same thing is that when people stay too long dem does overstay dem welcome. People who lef and go to de States or Canada and stay at...

Mother of two dies months after suspected abortion

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of two dies months after suspected abortion

By Romila Boodram A 23-year-old mother of two is dead, allegedly after being subjected to what appears to have been a botched abortion, conducted at a doctor’s private clinic in Bartica. This is...

IPED is first company to use Credit Report for loan application

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on IPED is first company to use Credit Report for loan application

Financial history was created on January 21st, 2015 when the Institute of Private Enterprise Development Ltd (IPED) became the first lending institution in Guyana to use credit data on a prospective...

Elections Preparedness…AFC to officially launch campaign in mid-March

Feb 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Elections Preparedness…AFC to officially launch campaign in mid-March

The Alliance For Change (AFC) sought to eliminate all doubts yesterday that it may not be fully prepared for the May 11 General and Regional Elections. In fact, General Secretary David Patterson...

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Courtney Walsh bowls into Guyana’s restaurant scene

May 22, 2026

…cricket legend says Guyana was a ‘No-Brainer’ for 519 expansion By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – West Indies fast-bowling legend Courtney Walsh has taken another major step in life after...

It’s time for the government to legally set minibus and hire car...

May 22, 2026

Peeping Tom… (Kaieteur News) – Every day, thousands of people in Guyana stand by the roadside, waiting for public transportation. They have one question on their minds: “How much will it cost me?” And the sad truth is, nobody can give them a straight answer. We have a serious problem...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Nothing can come between

May 22, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall “Nothing can come, nothing can come Nothing can come between us…” (Kaieteur News) – Those words are from British singer Sade’s 1988 song of the same name. It wasn’t her doing the honours in Guyana. Greet, Mr. Jacob Helsberg, U.S. Undersecretary of Economic...

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