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Man axed to death over interest in friend’s wife

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man axed to death over interest in friend’s wife

A 29-year-old man who expressed a sexual interest in the wife of a friend who had earlier invited him to his home for a drink was chopped to death with an axe. Armanand Dhanraj was found lying in his...

Lindeners fully apprised of role for CARIFESTA X

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners fully apprised of role for CARIFESTA X

Several officials and residents of Linden were yesterday given a detailed explanation of how to prepare for the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) X and were also privileged to witness a sample...

Wismar mystery fire leaves eight homeless

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Wismar mystery fire leaves eight homeless

Eight people were left homeless yesterday after a fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey house at around 19:00 hrs at Lot 153 Half Mile, Wismar. The building is the property of Volda Bonus,...

Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

May 16, 2008 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

When a bug bite you, you does really scratch and of late, bug biting a lot of people. One bite Da Silva and he call a press conference. De whole issue was a li’l thing. Buddy sell he hotel and is...

Export licence row…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Export licence row…

Alesie likely to get mill, export licences shortly -Minister Persaud The Ministry of Agriculture has intervened in a row between the Ruimzeight Rice Processors Inc, a part of the Alesie Group, and...

Minibus Association wins challenge to route change

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus Association wins challenge to route change

The Guyana Public Transportation Association has succeeded in dissuading police officials from making key changes in its rerouting exercise. The Association had mounted a legal protest against a...

PNCR protests – a deliberate effort to intimidate police leadership

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR protests – a deliberate effort to intimidate police leadership

– Dr. Luncheon “The PNCR, recognising that security is a burning issue in Guyana, has obviously decided that street protests are a sure way of focusing Guyanese attention on security,”...

Timehri bus operators take to the streets

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri bus operators take to the streets

– angered over new route Angry minibus operators swarmed over Ramp Road just outside of Geddes Grant yesterday as they protested what they deemed an ‘illegal’ new bus route that is...

Guyana still awaits Venezuela’s river dredging offer

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana still awaits Venezuela’s river dredging offer

Guyana is still ‘waiting’ and ‘hoping’ that the Venezuelan Government would deliver on its offer to assist with the dredging of the Mahaicony, Mahaica and Abary Creeks, Minister of...

UK-based novelist Roy Heath dies at 82

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on UK-based novelist Roy Heath dies at 82

The Arts Forum, which offers an occasional page in our Sunday Edition, has expressed deep sadness at the news of the passing of Guyanese novelist, Roy A.K. Heath, in London on Wednesday last. Heath,...

Peeping Tom – ME NAH EAT BREAD

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – ME NAH EAT BREAD

I am not a bread man. The only time you will find me having bread is at Christmas time. Then I must have bread to soak in my pepperpot. Even then I do not buy my loaves from any bakery. I bake my own...

Man remanded for ‘smuggling’ ganja into prison

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for ‘smuggling’ ganja into prison

– fined $5,000 for violation with cigarettes A construction worker was yesterday remanded to prison after he was caught trying to smuggle 38 grams of marijuana and five packs of cigarettes into...

To be our brother’s keepers should be converted from rhetoric to action

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on To be our brother’s keepers should be converted from rhetoric to action

Dear Editor, For those who continue to dismiss the claim that there is, undoubtedly, rampant discrimination and victimization rippling through our Dear Land of Guyana, I only ask them to look at the...

Mason granted bail on abduction charge

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Mason granted bail on abduction charge

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday released Kirk Campbell, a mason, on $75,000 bail when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on an abduction charge. It...

Blame the government – Making decisions in the best interest

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the government – Making decisions in the best interest

The government recently announced that it is prepared to do everything in its power to fight crime and to ensure that Guyana is a country in which people can live as normal citizens. One of the...

Fix this situation before a much larger one arises

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fix this situation before a much larger one arises

Dear Editor, I would like to make a small comment. I visited Guyana last week, 6– 13 of May, 2008, to attend a relative’s funeral in Berbice. After the funeral I stayed at some relatives on the...

Finance Minister joins global debt cancellation fast

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister joins global debt cancellation fast

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh will today be joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Mkapa of Tanzania in a fast to focus on the need for debt cancellation for the world’s poorest...

Let those responsible be humiliated for this mess

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let those responsible be humiliated for this mess

I read with anger the Kaieteur News article about Globe Trust. Please allow me space in your newspaper to express my profound disappointment, dissatisfaction and disgust at the (previous) board of...

Order At Our Bus Parks

May 16, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Order At Our Bus Parks

The Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn, is obviously a no-nonsense character. He has made it clear that there must be changes in the way in which our roadways are used. More recently,...

The Parrot Speaks – Somebody give Uncle Bob a phone nah

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Somebody give Uncle Bob a phone nah

The Parrot continues to find amusement in the uncalled for, unjustified and unpatriotic protests organised by the folks at Palm Tree jungle. In the first place it is laughable that people are...

Square of the Revolution protest evaporates

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Square of the Revolution protest evaporates

— operators fail to show The protest action by minibus operators planned for yesterday at the Square of the Revolution failed to materialise, with no sign of such a gathering at the designated...

Ganja under a brick…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja under a brick…

Lindener gets 3 years for not ‘minding his own business’ Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday sentenced a Linden resident to three years imprisonment after he was charged with...

Freddie Kissoon – Oh, this country!

May 16, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Oh, this country!

A police van turned up with personnel dressed in bullet-proof vests and big guns. Alongside the lawmen was a pick-up with GPL officials. No, it wasn’t a case of an enraged family that violently...

We have a progressive government, let’s support it

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have a progressive government, let’s support it

Dear Editor, Thanks to the PPP/C for restoring democracy in Guyana, so that they can be attacked on television and by illegal protestors; by the very regime that banned freedom of expressions, lest...

Cartoon – May 11th, 2008

May 15, 2008 KNews Cartoons Comments Off on Cartoon – May 11th, 2008

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Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

Jun 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

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...

God’s gift to Guyanese

Jun 04, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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