August 2009

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PNCR pickets Freedom House

Aug 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on PNCR pickets Freedom House

– Ramotar says complaints not valid The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday continued picketing exercises, this time outside of Freedom House. The activity included in its...

Standing firm on macroeconomic fundamentals

Aug 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Standing firm on macroeconomic fundamentals

Dear Editor, Last year, during the month of September, the world’s economy began a downsizing trend. The fall of Lehman Brothers opened the eyes of millions globally to the reality of the severity...

Guyana, HQ lead respective competitions after Day 1

Aug 26, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana, HQ lead respective competitions after Day 1

As Police Track and Field Championships commence Guyana and Police Headquarters (HQ) have jumped ahead in their respective competition after the completion of Day 1 of the annual Guyana Police Force...

What a mess at Charity wharf

Aug 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What a mess at Charity wharf

Dear Editor, I recently visited the Pomeroon and was shocked to see the way how garbage is being dumped at the wharf at Charity. This seems to be going on for a long time now; anyone passing through...

Man drowns in Lake Mainstay

Aug 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man drowns in Lake Mainstay

What started out as a day filled with fun among friends at Lake Mainstay, on Sunday last, unfortunately ended in tragedy, with the drowning of 24-year-old, Vijay Lala, of Golden Fleece, Estate,...

Citizens have no one to place trust in for their security

Aug 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Citizens have no one to place trust in for their security

Dear Editor, With reference to the numerous unveiling of corrupt practices of the members of the Guyana Defence Force and the Guyana Police Force it leads me to conclude that the citizens of this...

Mr. Rampertab is not a new thinker in the Guyanese context as he would like us to believe

Aug 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Rampertab is not a new thinker in the Guyanese context as he would like us to believe

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Rakesh Rampertab’s letter (“Concern is about political discourse not political activism,” SN, Aug. 15) in which he makes a number of statements on my original letter...

Despite challenges, tutors committed to training more nurses

Aug 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Despite challenges, tutors committed to training more nurses

By Sharmain Cornette With a reported pass rate of 14 from a class of 54 students who had trained to become staff nurses, tutors at the Georgetown School of Nursing may be confronted with a major...

What administrative calumny and recklessness, sheer eye pass

Aug 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What administrative calumny and recklessness, sheer eye pass

Dear Editor, After reading in Kaieteur News (23-08-09), the reply by the Ministry of Finance, to queries related to the purchase and installation of the Stanley Town Pump and Engine, I am now totally...

City Hall unable to pay workers again

Aug 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on City Hall unable to pay workers again

Although there has been an increase in the payment of property taxes, the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown is again unable this month to meet its obligation to pay workers on the stipulated date....

Robert Corbin got conned

Aug 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Robert Corbin got conned

In many ways, you have to show some understanding for the plight of Robert Corbin. This is not to say that he is a better candidate than the two major contestants that fought for the position of...

Democracy and the Press

Aug 26, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Democracy and the Press

Of recent, this newspaper has evidently earned the ire of some in the administration – both for its editorial position and its reporting. We are not surprised. Anyone familiar with the history of...

Why are there so many sole bids?

Aug 26, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Why are there so many sole bids?

Dear Editor, I note with amazement that quite recently, there have been a lot of single bids. It is as though there is a game going on in the tendering circle. It is as if the various contractors...

Festival City residents, GPL clash over pre-paid meters

Aug 26, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Festival City residents, GPL clash over pre-paid meters

Controversy erupted over the implementation of the new Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) pre-paid meter system yesterday, with residents protesting what they deemed the arbitrary installation of the...

TAKE ANOTHER BOW, KAIETEUR NEWS!

Aug 26, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TAKE ANOTHER BOW, KAIETEUR NEWS!

Kaieteur News take another bow! This newspaper must once again be congratulated on yet another piece of outstanding investigative journalism – this time in tracking down that taxi driver who...

$17M river heist… Coast Guard trio charged with murder

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on $17M river heist… Coast Guard trio charged with murder

By Fareeza Haniff and Andrunie Harris Three ranks from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard were yesterday charged for the murder of 23-year-old, Dweive Kant Ramdass of Bartica. Sherwyn Harte, 26,...

Taxi driver spills beans on dirty cops

Aug 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver spills beans on dirty cops

Taxi driver Leroy Lloyd said yesterday that he came close to being executed by three crooked cops on Thursday night while he was unwittingly transporting a bagful of cash stolen during the Essequibo...

17% of Guyanese live on less than US$2 a day

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 17% of Guyanese live on less than US$2 a day

About half of the world’s population live in poverty. Nearly 50 percent live on less than the equivalent of US$2 per day. Hundreds of millions of people live barely above that level, the Population...

Chief Justice quashes decision of Amerindian Affairs Minister

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice quashes decision of Amerindian Affairs Minister

Orealla/Siparuta Elections… Chief Justice Ian Chang has issued an order against Amerindian Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai, quashing her decision to uphold the disqualification and...

KNews given ‘run around’

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on KNews given ‘run around’

The Ministry of Agriculture responded promptly to the front page photograph carried in our August 24 issue. Kaieteur News commends the prompt response, said its management. Noting this, though, the...

CGX files 2nd Qtr. financial results, provides exploration update

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on CGX files 2nd Qtr. financial results, provides exploration update

CGX Energy Inc. yesterday announced that it has filed its Interim Financial Statements and Management Discussion & Analysis for the period ended June 30, 2009 on the Company’s SEDAR profile and...

Tanzania Water Minister visits Guyana

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Tanzania Water Minister visits Guyana

Tanzania’s Minister of Water and Irrigation, Professor Mark Mwandosya and a team from his Ministry is on a visit to Guyana to “humbly learn” of this country’s water supply system. ...

Linden restaurant robbery accused refused bail

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Linden restaurant robbery accused refused bail

A man accused of robbing the owners of a Linden restaurant last week was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’...

Blood stocks improving – Mangal

Aug 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Blood stocks improving – Mangal

National Blood Donor Manager of the National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS), Shameeza Mangal has said that stocks at the facility are improving on a daily basis. In an invited comment, Mangal...

Army begs for forgiveness

Aug 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Army begs for forgiveness

… as Dwieve Kant Ramdass laid to rest A Guyana Defence Force contingent, led by Chief-of-Staff, Commodore Gary Best, yesterday attended the funeral of Dweive Kant Ramdass at Bartica. Ramdass was...

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The three leashes of empire

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(Kaieteur News) – Empire, in its modern form, seldom arrives wearing a military uniform. It comes dressed instead as an investment banker, carrying a development plan, or as the representative of a multinational corporation bearing gifts in the language of progress. The empire does not always...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Deportees-inevitable was written all over them

Sep 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It was just a matter of when. From where they hail. Then, how many of them. Last, what kind of undesirables. They go by the name of ‘deportees’, third country nationals. From the moment the first word of a destination for deportees from the U.S. came up, I...

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