APNU promises audit of every Govt. Agency, Ministry
…‘the only five more years PPP/C deserves is in Camp St’ “We intend to find the money and we intend to bring it back to Guyana and put it where it belongs in the National Treasury.” A Partnership for National Unity held its first rally for the election [...]
Jagdeo replaced democracy with one-man rule
‘Judas betrayed Jesus, Jagdeo betrayed Jagan, he has no wife, no family, yet voted himself free plane tickets for he and his family’! – Nagamootoo at AFC’s Canje rally The rancorous political exchanges continued on Saturday with Alliance for Change (AFC) member, Moses Nagamootoo, accusing President Jagdeo [...]
Dem boys seh…De Bees gun get five years
Old people always seh that when things going bad wid you dem don’t have no better solution than fuh bathe in blue. Couple people got to bathe in blue because dem blight. Odinga guh to Buxton wid a promise and he lef wid a frown because de people tek he money and still support dem [...]
UN seeks support for Africa’s famine victims
Kaieteur News’ Publisher Glen Lall has pledged financial support to assisting the millions of famine stricken people of Southern Africa. This is in response to an appeal by the United Nations as part of its anniversary. According to a release from the local UN office, the organization celebrated 66 years of its founding on October [...]
Man shot twice at family barbeque
- cops detain shop-owner A family barbeque on Saturday night turned violent after one man was shot twice, allegedly by an irate shop owner. Injured is Kenneth Bhagwandin, 40, of Lot 47 Church Street Stanleytown West Bank Demerara. According to a police press release, the incident happened at around 01:30hrs at a beer garden at [...]
Family dissatisfied with police version of events
Come Wednesday all speculation will be put to rest as a post mortem is expected to be done on the remains of Lloyd Mc Kend and his reputed wife Roshena Smith who died in an accident last Friday night. This publication was told that some family members are suggesting that the couple may have been [...]
Police still to receive Buxton assault reports
The Guyana Police Force is still to receive any official report of physical assault of persons at the People’s Progressive Party Civic political meeting at Buxton last Thursday. This is despite claims by the party that their supporters came under physical attack, and an appeal by the Guyana Police Force for anyone who may have [...]
Fire destroys Owen Street house
- occupant injured By Latoya Giles Fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed the upper flat of a wooden house at Lot 17 Owen Street Kitty, leaving one person with minor injuries. Kaieteur News was told by neighbours, that the house was occupied by a young man known only as “Stevie”. According to neighbours, the man’s [...]
Diamond residents furious at garbage buildup, deplorable roads
Residents of Diamond Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD) are calling on the Ministry of Public Works and other Government authorities to compel delinquent contractors to rectify shabby infrastructural work that was done in the scheme, and to find out why no one is picking up their garbage. Their grouse is about the condition of the [...]
Home Affairs Ministry hands over five more fire tenders
By Latoya Giles Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Friday handed over the keys to five fire tenders, one hose lane lorry and one trailer pump to the Guyana Fire Service. The ceremony was held on the National Park tarmac. Fire Chief Marlon Gentle told the media that the fire service continues to be [...]
‘Lady Jaguars’ get past Dominican Republic 2-1 to top Group D
Guyana’s ‘Lady Jaguars’ Justine Rodrigues, free kick on the 90th minute of the crucial game against Dominican Republic closed the curtains on this round with the Lady Jags clawing their opponents 2-1 to top the group in the Powerade sponsored Caribbean Football Union CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Qualifiers at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground, yesterday afternoon. [...]
Champions Guyana looking to maintain status quo
Defending Champions Guyana will be looking to continue the status quo when they host their regional counterparts in the final leg of the GT&T / Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) next Sunday, at the South Dakota Circuit. To this end the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club has named a strong contingent to [...]
Chanderpaul hundred defies India
Yahoo! Cricket – Nothing about Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s bizarre stance and dour run-gathering style suggests he should have succeeded at the Test level. But here he is, touching 9,000 Test runs and punishing old foes like there’s no tomorrow. The veteran left-hander completed his seventh Test hundred against India, bringing respectability to West Indies after their [...]
Intense tussle as Belony, McDonald throw down the gauntlet for National scrabble crown
The old idiom that advocates that ‘Rat and his tail must part’ will be exemplified when two staunch friends, Abigail McDonald and Leon Belony square off in a three best in five showdown for the former individual’s national scrabble crown when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) stages the finals for the National crown [...]
MCYS 7: 15 football Kicks off today with matches on the East Coast
Action in the 7:15 Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport football tournament will kick off today at several venues on the East Coast of Demerara. The tournament, which is the annual Inter Block competition and sponsored by the Government of Guyana, has been modified to see teams playing for 15 minutes per half and fielding [...]
Francois returned to helm of EBFA for 2 more years
Wayne Francois was returned as President of the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) following that association’s Annual General Meeting held at the Grove Community Centre yesterday. Also returned was Vice President Clive Matthews, while taking over the reigns as Treasurer was Ronald Lee-Bing; former Treasurer Noel Harry is now the Assistant Secretary/Treasurer. Withsun Andries will [...]
Guinness Greatest in Da Street Football tourney starts
Action in the Guinness Greatest in Da Street opened on Saturday at the Albouystown Tarmac with several exciting games. Senior officials of sponsors Banks DIH, including Carlton Joao, who did the official kick off, were on hand for the opening programme and to witness the action after. The community based tournament, which has had tremendous [...]
Burn victim dies after allegedly identifying man who set her alight
Thirty-two-year-old burn victim Ann Marie Inlall died last Friday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) days after she reportedly confessed to a nurse that someone had deliberately set her alight. But ranks at the Grove Police Station have reportedly not been informed of this development and the alleged perpetrator has [...]
ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE EID AL-ADHA MESSAGE
The Alliance For Change joins with our Muslim brothers and sisters to observe Eid al-Adha, the ultimate sacrifice. Abraham was called upon by God to offer his son Ismael as a supreme sacrifice; he, along with his son Ismael, willingly submitted themselves to God and experienced true love and righteousness. We the [...]
Multi-million dollar facility remains unused
Several months after construction… Many months have passed since Government constructed a multi-million dollar building that has been constructed at High and Princes Streets. Until now, officials have failed to find a suitable use for this structure. The building, which now stands at the location where the old Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) [...]
ACCESS TO THE STATE MEDIA IS NO EXCUSE
APNU is ensuring that there is room for excuses so that if or when it loses the general elections, it can deflect criticism from the way it has run its campaign. In so doing, it will cushion any fallout from the loss of the elections. The PNCR, the main partner in APNU, is [...]
WEIGHT A MINUTE!
It used to be said that inside of every fat female there’s a skinny woman screaming to get out. Then, as times changed, the perspective shifted and it became “inside every fat woman there’s a thin man dying to get in.” Especially, if the woman is better educated than her peers. Annie Karnie, [...]
Ms. Teixeira needs to check in with herself
Dear Editor, A few nights ago, at a PPP/C rally in Buxton, Ms. Gail Teixeira expressed regrets at what happened in that poor village in 2002. It was a sad admission of government’s failure to secure the wellbeing of the people of that village. Everyone can remember the killings and profiling of particularly young [...]
Born to fight, born to run and born to suffer
Dear Editor, In Guyana, we easily become naturalists since we constantly observe and learn about nature from our tropical surroundings. We know that when an animal is faced with a fearful situation in which its own survival (or that of its young) is threatened, it makes some serious choices: invoke the fight or flight responses, [...]
Was Buxton an attempt by the PPP to incite a violent response for political gain?
Dear Editor, I know that any party has a right to hold a political meeting anywhere in Guyana but the PPP’s Buxton meeting raises some serious questions. I believe that the PPP’s decision to hold a meeting in the hotbed that is Buxton in 2011 was a decision in which the PPP sought a desired [...]
