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AK-47 rifle, ammo found near Unamco Road

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on AK-47 rifle, ammo found near Unamco Road

A Joint Services team has found an AK-47 assault rifle and some 400 matching rounds buried near the Unamco Road. Police officials said that the team, acting on information, located the weapon and...

Prompt action averts disaster at city school

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Prompt action averts disaster at city school

Prompt action by the Guyana Fire Service yesterday afternoon averted a crisis at a secondary school in Georgetown. According to Chief Fire Officer, Lawrence David, at about 17:21hrs yesterday, the...

JFK airport plot suspects plead innocent

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on JFK airport plot suspects plead innocent

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three men accused of plotting to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court yesterday after they were...

External forensic experts to help in miners’ death probe

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on External forensic experts to help in miners’ death probe

– Jagdeo calls for end to speculations President Bharrat Jagdeo has confirmed that his government has requested assistance from the United States of America to conduct a forensic examination of...

THE BIG EVENT OF AUGUST

Jun 26, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE BIG EVENT OF AUGUST

Now that the Golden Jaguars have been eliminated from the World Cup, all attention will be on the Big Event scheduled for this August. No, I am not referring to the Beijing Olympics. That is nothing...

State funeral for President Arthur Chung

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on State funeral for President Arthur Chung

Guyana will be affording a state funeral for its first President, Arthur Chung, who died Monday at his home. Expressing condolences yesterday at his office in New Garden Street, President Bharrat...

Credibility gap

Jun 26, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Credibility gap

The media houses here have not assigned the importance that it deserves to the unsuccessful discussion between the President and Mr. Rickford Burke, Chairman of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Guyana...

National Assembly to finally address food crisis

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on National Assembly to finally address food crisis

After several weeks on the order paper of the National Assembly, the forum will today finally be called upon to recognise that the spiraling food crisis affecting the country requires national and...

Zimbabwe’s agony

Jun 26, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Zimbabwe’s agony

We reported earlier this week that Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change—Tsvangirai (MDC-T) announced his withdrawal from Friday’s presidential...

Mining camp slaughter… Men might have been killed earlier than believed

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Mining camp slaughter… Men might have been killed earlier than believed

Courtney Edison Wong, popularly known as Andy Wong, was the man who led a team of policemen, soldiers and medical practitioners to the site where eight miners were slaughtered in Lindo Creek. He said...

Some substance abusers avoid assistance due to societal stigma – DRU Head

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Some substance abusers avoid assistance due to societal stigma – DRU Head

The response to the ongoing Ministry of Health orchestrated substance abusers’ counselling sessions at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has so far been favourable, although it...

The present security situation highlights our collective failure

Jun 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The present security situation highlights our collective failure

DEAR EDITOR, On a Walter Rodney Groundings programme which was aired on HBTV CH 9 on February 26, 2008 nearly four months ago, the undersigned on behalf of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) had...

The media’s mediocrity is on the rise

Jun 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The media’s mediocrity is on the rise

DEAR EDITOR, Our standards of journalism are dropping and so is the media’s ability to effectively inform the nation. I say this within the context of the pursuance of the criminal network of Mr....

DPP recommends inquest into suspicious death at Zeeburg

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on DPP recommends inquest into suspicious death at Zeeburg

The Director of Public Prosecutions has recommended a Coroner’s Inquest into the unnatural death of Kerry Isaacs, who died one year ago under suspicious circumstances. After Isaacs’s death, on...

Let’s wait for the results for those murdered miners

Jun 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Let’s wait for the results for those murdered miners

DEAR EDITOR, Let Mr. Arokium, the two callers and the team of investigators tell us what really took place at that camp and who is responsible for this gruesome murders of innocent eight men. So many...

Arrests likely from Buxton video footage

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Arrests likely from Buxton video footage

President Bharrat Jagdeo has said that it is very likely that persons whose images appeared on a tape recording meeting with gunmen in Buxton could be detained soon. The President was responding to...

Guyana must join in denouncing this dictatorship

Jun 26, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana must join in denouncing this dictatorship

DEAR EDITOR, Zimbabwe is supposed to have an election this week to choose a President – a run off after officially the opposition failed to get the required 50% in the first round of the contest in...

Western Union offers support to GBBC’s July card

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Western Union offers support to GBBC’s July card

The Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) received a donation of $100,000 from Western Union Remittance Services for their Saturday, July 5 ‘Judgement Day’ Card during a simple presentation...

ACIC reigns supreme at National Qaseeda competition

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ACIC reigns supreme at National Qaseeda competition

Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) reigned supreme as its contestants dominated at this year’s National Qaseeda Competition (Muslim Songs in praise of Prophet Muhammad (SAS) held last Sunday...

Lowe and John making Guyana proud: -Through to Doubles quarter-finals

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Lowe and John making Guyana proud: -Through to Doubles quarter-finals

Over the years, Guyana, a country geographically situated in South America, but has been associated with the West Indies both socially and culturally has been the birthplace of some of the world’s...

Bounced cheques: GRDB suspends licence of Mahaicony Rice Mills

Jun 26, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bounced cheques: GRDB suspends licence of Mahaicony Rice Mills

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday suspended the licence of Mahaicony Rice Mills after the group of mills allegedly continued to issue bounced cheques to farmers. A GRDB statement...

GT&T National Senior Squash Championships underway

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GT&T National Senior Squash Championships underway

The much anticipated GT&T sponsored National Senior Squash Championships served off on Tuesday evening at the Georgetown Club courts. For the first time the Guyana Squash Association has allowed...

GCC, Everest surge ahead

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GCC, Everest surge ahead

The GCC ‘A’ men’s team extended their unbeaten run to join club mates GCC ‘B’ on top of the men’s competition by handing Old Fort ‘A’ their first loss of the competition, while...

Junior English County Rugby player joins Guyana U-19 squad

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Junior English County Rugby player joins Guyana U-19 squad

Eighteen year old Rupert Giles arrived in Guyana from England this week to join Guyana’s National Under-19 Rugby squad preparing to contest the North American & West Indies Rugby Association...

RHTY&SC hosts Cellink Plus Inter School Volleyball today

Jun 26, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC hosts Cellink Plus Inter School Volleyball today

The Area ‘H’ ground, home of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club will toady be a hive of activity when the Cellink Plus sponsored Inter School Volleyball competition takes place. Eight (8)...

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WIN cannot break the PPP/C’s political stranglehold unless it first...

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(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

The man from WIN slipped

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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