August 2009

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The noise culture is quickly festering

Aug 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The noise culture is quickly festering

Dear Editor, If there is any time that citizens of Guyana deserve peace, quiet, tranquility and immunization from the horrors of noise it is at nighttime. Today, our world is not as quiet as it had...

Community outreach on agenda for Education Month

Aug 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Community outreach on agenda for Education Month

Community outreach activities will be among the important features which will be engaged next month as part of the observance of Education Month. According to Minister within the Education Ministry,...

More Distortions from Freddie

Aug 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on More Distortions from Freddie

Dear Editor, In his vitriolic column of August 23, Freddie Kissoon made references to me that are untruthful – deliberate and malicious attack to impugn my political independence and objective...

The Guyanese people must demand these soldiers take a polygraph

Aug 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Guyanese people must demand these soldiers take a polygraph

The worst is yet to come and come it will. I speak as someone who lived under Burnham and saw the angry reaction of this entire nation, but greater tempest came from the East Indian population, to...

Bandits invade Corentyne home

Aug 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandits invade Corentyne home

– use victim to fetch loot Bandits in Berbice resumed their nefarious operations in the Corentyne area, terrorising a family before making off with about $650,000 in cash, electrical equipment...

The Congress Place challenge that failed

Aug 25, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on The Congress Place challenge that failed

For the past few weeks all eyes were on Congress Place, the headquarters of the main opposition party, the People’s National Congress. That party was holding its biennial congress, its highest...

IS JAGDEO PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK?

Aug 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IS JAGDEO PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK?

Is our caring President playing hide-and-seek with the media? Ever since he returned from Emancipation celebrations in Jamaica, President Jagdeo has not yet called a press conference to brief the...

‘Snitch’ arrested

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Snitch’ arrested

$17M river heist… A man who investigators believe provided information to the three Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard ranks who robbed and killed 23-year old Dweive Kant Ramdass has been...

Booty was handed over to car at roadblock

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Booty was handed over to car at roadblock

– arrested driver Evidence has emerged that police ranks at a roadblock on the West Demerara had siphoned off cash recovered from the Essequibo River heist into a car that was summoned on the...

GDF refutes Coast Guard’s alleged link to Lindo Creek

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GDF refutes Coast Guard’s alleged link to Lindo Creek

– Kaieteur News stands by video interview The Coast Guard rank under arrest for the murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass, was never involved in JSOG operations in the Lindo creek area, according to a...

Corbin should have properly verified his own list

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin should have properly verified his own list

– Donald Ramotar General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, in an invited comment yesterday said that re-elected People’s national congress reform leader, Robert...

President’s decision to buy Computers is ludicrous

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on President’s decision to buy Computers is ludicrous

…why not use the dividends instead and keep revenue flow – AFC Govt. sale of shares at GT&T… Alliance for Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, lashed out at the recent comments by...

River heist victim died from drowning

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on River heist victim died from drowning

– postmortem A post mortem conducted yesterday on 23-year old, Dweive Kant Ramdass, revealed that he died from asphyxiation due to drowning. The post mortem was done yesterday morning at the...

Crossing the threshold to commit crime is reprehensible and shocking – Army Chief

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Crossing the threshold to commit crime is reprehensible and shocking – Army Chief

– The law will deal with them A heinous crime that should be punished to the full extent of the law is how Army Chief Commodore Gary Best described the act of the three ranks who brazenly...

Father of missing fisherman suspects fowl play

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Father of missing fisherman suspects fowl play

On January 23rd 2007 three fishermen sailed some 40 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean on what was to have been, at most, a routine three week fishing trip; they never returned. Mahadeo Ramdeo, 24;...

Corrupt Coast Guards took our money, goods

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Corrupt Coast Guards took our money, goods

Essequibo farmers, boat operators say… By Latoya Giles Boat operators and farmers who traverse the Essequibo River are calling the recent arrest for murder of three Coast Guards as a long-awaited...

‘Cammy’ Ramsaroop elected PNCR Chairman

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cammy’ Ramsaroop elected PNCR Chairman

Despite all the talk of unity at the opening of the 16th Biennial Congress of the Peoples National Congress Reform, the division within the party was on full display during the plenary session on...

Enterprise Road Safety Group prepares for new school term

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprise Road Safety Group prepares for new school term

In an effort to make the roads in their community safer, members of the Enterprise Road Safety Group on the East Coast of Demerara have erected several speed humps to curtail reckless driving. With...

US Citizen vanishes after cocaine find at CJIA

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US Citizen vanishes after cocaine find at CJIA

Ranks from the Police Narcotics Branch are seeking the public’s assistance to locate a citizen of the United States who fled the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri leaving her hand luggage...

Suriname re-opens ‘Backtrack’ crossing

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname re-opens ‘Backtrack’ crossing

– agri and other exports to resume The Surinamese authorities have agreed to re-open the ‘backtrack’ border crossing as of today, allowing once more the flow of people, goods and certified...

Authorities breached Prison Act

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities breached Prison Act

Death at Camp Street Prison… The Ministry of Home Affairs says it is disturbed over the death of prisoner, Nave Beharry, who was discovered in his cell, at around 07.00 hrs, on Friday last at the...

Wakenaam farmer hit hard by spontaneous combustion

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam farmer hit hard by spontaneous combustion

A Wakenaam resident who cultivates a farm at Hamburg Island (Tiger Island) has suffered almost one million dollars in losses due to a fire, believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, and...

Essequibo farmers receive payments from MRL

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo farmers receive payments from MRL

Some farmers in Essequibo have reported that they have begun receiving monies owed to them by the Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited (MRL). This is according to General Secretary of the Guyana Rice...

Republic Bank opens new Anna Regina branch

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank opens new Anna Regina branch

The newly constructed $348million building which now houses the Republic Bank, Essequibo branch, was officially opened with at its Anna Regina location with a simple ceremony. Prime minister, Samuel...

Troubles seem never ending for Parika vendors

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Troubles seem never ending for Parika vendors

The troubles faced by vendors operating alongside the Parika Mini-Bus Park seem to be never ending, since they were again ordered to move in three days or face ‘stall demolition’ by their...

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Sep 09, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. ABF – Guyana lose by 65-runs (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors had their fairy-tale, unbeaten run this season come to an abrupt end, after the Antigua...

The three leashes of empire

Sep 09, 2026

(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...

Sep 06, 2026

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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