March 2009

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I will follow the dictates of my conscience – Magistrate Cave

Mar 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on I will follow the dictates of my conscience – Magistrate Cave

… as controversy with DPP escalates Magistrate Yohhahnseh Cave has stated that the Director of Public Prosecutions has no supervisory role in what is an exclusive judicial function of the court...

Quest in NLE C/ship begins tonight

Mar 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Quest in NLE C/ship begins tonight

– Ravens, Pistons set to advance By Edison Jefford Whether the ‘small axes can cut down the big trees’ will certainly be known tonight when arguably two of the finest teams in the Next Level...

Grove well site declared a danger zone

Mar 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Grove well site declared a danger zone

– Geology and Mines to send ‘mystery gas’ samples overseas By Michael Jordan Engineers from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) fear that the still-unidentified gas that caused a...

Zeelugt couple in custody following cocaine find

Mar 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Zeelugt couple in custody following cocaine find

Police on the West Coast of Demerara have detained a couple from Zeelugt following a one-kilogramme cocaine find at the couple’s home at Fisher Dam, Zeelugt. While reports are still sketchy, this...

Leave no one out of the polygraph test

Mar 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Leave no one out of the polygraph test

Dear Editor, I read with great interest that the Government of Guyana intends to subject some members of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to the polygraph test as part of a process of purging the...

Mayor’s Cup: sizzling double-header ancticipated tonight

Mar 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup: sizzling double-header ancticipated tonight

The matches just get better as the tournament progresses and the double header that pits Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United against GFC, while Western Tigers come up against Camptown will be the...

De man cleaning out de Camp Street jail

Mar 06, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De man cleaning out de Camp Street jail

De head of the Camp Street jail was a busy man whole week. He get more busy when de Prime Minister from The Bahamas announce big and bold how he ain’t see no money from Guyana going to Clico...

GASA annual Mash meet on this weekend

Mar 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GASA annual Mash meet on this weekend

By Franklin Wilson Swimming action in earnest commences this weekend when the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) host their Annual Mashramani Meet tomorrow and Sunday at the Castellani...

Education Ministry targets drugs in schools

Mar 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Education Ministry targets drugs in schools

The Education Ministry’s Schools’ Welfare Department is working to discourage the use of illicit drugs by students. According to Chief Schools’ Welfare Officer, Ms Banmattie Ram, there have...

Lands around Berbice River Bridge access road slated for development

Mar 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Lands around Berbice River Bridge access road slated for development

Dear Editor, I would like to advise Mr. Dennis V. Debidin, who penned an article in the SN (27-02-09), that lands on both sides of the Berbice River are transported lands. Our caring government paid...

Harmony is envious

Mar 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Harmony is envious

The Parrot is an ardent cricket fan. This may be an understatement given the many years I have followed and played the game. Over that period I have seen the game evolving and teams reaching new...

IDB invests another $5M to Basic Nutrition Programme

Mar 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on IDB invests another $5M to Basic Nutrition Programme

… programme a main pillar in new Country Strategy The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is investing an additional $5M in the Basic Nutrition Programme to expand its coverage. This is according...

HELPING DEM BOYS

Mar 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HELPING DEM BOYS

Everyone in Kaieteur News feels sorry for Uncles Adam and Freddie. In the case of Adam his life savings are tied up in CLICO (Guyana), and with Freddie, UG’s pension fund is similarly constrained....

Regulators must provide adequate supervision of financial system

Mar 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Regulators must provide adequate supervision of financial system

Dear Editor, The CLICO crisis follows closely the story of the global financial meltdown. Essentially, the regional financial crisis represents the culmination of regulation failures, out of control...

Performance for rest of season crucial to future of Guyana’s cricket

Mar 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Performance for rest of season crucial to future of Guyana’s cricket

Struggling Guyana battle CCC from today at Bourda By Sean Devers Never before has Guyana lost five matches in a single regional First-Class season and the Guyanese languish at the bottom of the...

Alpha encamped at Camp Seweyo

Mar 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Alpha encamped at Camp Seweyo

By Franklin Wilson President of Alpha United Odinga Lumumba has disclosed that a squad of twenty-eight players is currently encamped at Camp Seweyo on the Linden Soesdyke Highway as preparations for...

Rice farmers must be reasonable

Mar 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Rice farmers must be reasonable

Dear Editor, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere arrogance and conscientious stupidity” – Martin Luther King Jr. When people with no knowledge of the international...

NBS, CLICO and the war on poor people

Mar 06, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on NBS, CLICO and the war on poor people

I ask you to read this quote from this newspaper from the Minister of Finance three times. Yes, three times. Let it soak in and you will see that a nasty conspiracy is involved in the impending...

CLICO Issue… Guyana provides evidence of investments in The Bahamas

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on CLICO Issue… Guyana provides evidence of investments in The Bahamas

“What we need to do now is to ensure that the court appointed process is allowed time to exhaust all avenues to protect the assets of CLICO Guyana and to recover them where there are issues...

Broker issues warning to CLICO customers

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Broker issues warning to CLICO customers

…Commissioner of Insurance can give no guarantees – Panday Senior insurance broker Bishwa Panday of P&P Insurance Brokers is advising clients that coming out of a meeting with...

Clive Lloyd sued for $9.5M

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Clive Lloyd sued for $9.5M

Clive Lloyd, former West Indies Test Captain, is being sued by contractor Kailie Ramjohn of Lot 43 Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, for breach of contract. The matter was filed at the Commercial...

Mahaicony Rice Mills owes farmers over $600M

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Mahaicony Rice Mills owes farmers over $600M

By Tusika Martin Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited owes over $600M to farmers even as the current rice crop is being harvested, General Secretary of the Rice Producers Association (RPA) Dharamkumar Seeraj...

Magistrate threatens to dismiss cases

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Magistrate threatens to dismiss cases

– disgusted with non attendance of police witnesses Police Commissioner Henry Greene said that the force is not going to tolerate policemen who are not going to give evidence in matters...

Businesswoman’s Barr Street home destroyed by fire

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Businesswoman’s Barr Street home destroyed by fire

– Loses in excess of $10M A mid afternoon fire yesterday gutted the upper flat of a two storied house at Bar Street, Kitty, belonging to a businesswoman. While members of the Guyana Fire...

No approval issued for drilling of well- Hyromet office

Mar 05, 2009 knews News Comments Off on No approval issued for drilling of well- Hyromet office

No approval was issued for the drilling of a well or the abstraction of water to the residents in Grove Housing Scheme. Yesterday, the Hydrometeorological Service stated that no approval was issued...

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Bread, circuses and the price of silence

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(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

From gunboat and Ping-Pong diplomacy to gangster diplomacy

Sep 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was U.S. President James Munroe and his stellar vision: Manifest Destiny. Then came Presidents Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor, among others. Men of military acclaim; generals who laid claim to personal heraldry. Native American Indian tribes chased from their...

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