September 2009

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Education Ministry on earnest quest to improve literacy – Baksh

Sep 13, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry on earnest quest to improve literacy – Baksh

By Sharmain Cornette In a spirited quest to sustain its drive to improve literacy in Guyana, the Education Ministry has put in place several interventions which will bear fruit in the years to...

MAURITIUS: A Green Drop in a Green Ocean

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on MAURITIUS: A Green Drop in a Green Ocean

By Bernadette Persaud The Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI)—on the tiny island state of Mauritius—recently hosted a major international art event. Artists from the USA, Australia, Malaysia, France,...

Writing Your Own Destiny: Obama’s Universal Message for Youth

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Writing Your Own Destiny: Obama’s Universal Message for Youth

By Ronald Sanders Everyone knows good sense when they hear it, and Barack Obama’s back-to-school address on September 8 to students from kindergarten to 12th grade in the United States was perfect...

Bishops’ High secure 100 % passes in 17 subject areas

Sep 13, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Bishops’ High secure 100 % passes in 17 subject areas

The teachers of the Bishops’ High School have been duly recognised by the institution’s Board for their contribution towards ensuring that the school recorded a 98.01 per cent overall pass rate...

For Just Social Institutions

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on For Just Social Institutions

The philosopher Immanuel Kant succinctly posed the dilemma of organising a just state, two centuries ago, in these terms: “The problem of organizing a state, however hard it may seem, can be...

GREEN POWER

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GREEN POWER

In a defence offered by the government for a high-cost project in the drainage and irrigation sector, one official explained that the benefits of the expenditure would flow in the future. This column...

GPL to increase generation capacity at Versailles

Sep 13, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to increase generation capacity at Versailles

…consumers to get relief from Wednesday By Fareeza Haniff Following weeks of continuous power outages on the West Coast of Demerara and on the East Bank of Essequibo, consumers are expected to get...

Guyana is Animal Farm

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Guyana is Animal Farm

When I was growing up my mother always reminded me to do well because the law was the law and “if the law put its hand on you is done you done for life”. I grew up fearing the law. I learnt that...

Death on a lonely backdam

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Death on a lonely backdam

– is Iesha Byron’s killer serving time in Cayenne? By Michael Jordan It was around 23:00 hrs on a Monday night, July 16, 2007, that residents of D’Urban Backlands saw a short, dreadlocked...

KAMARANG

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, The Creative Corner Comments Off on KAMARANG

Day Five He dreamed he was in di-di country. He couldn’t remember how he had gotten there, how he had strayed to this dead-silent place of forest and mountain. Lost. No sound. Bilious sunlight. One...

A man who cried in the newspaper

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A man who cried in the newspaper

I read all the panegyrics for Mr. Jagdeo’s Government that are printed in the newspapers from businessmen who had similar counterparts in the seventies and eighties. Back then, they too praised Mr....

The Tanager

Sep 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Tanager

The tanagers are a family, Thraupidae, of birds in the order Passeriformes. The family has an American distribution. However, Tanagers are restricted to the New World and mainly to the tropics. About...

Broad-based citizens’ initiative needed to tackle corruption

Sep 13, 2009 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Broad-based citizens’ initiative needed to tackle corruption

By Sheila Holder, MP and AFC Vice-Chair THE HARDSHIP AND DEPRIVATION OF OUR PEOPLE MUST BE STOPPED Guyanese people have a way of tactfully hiding the hardship and deprivation they experience as a...

Gun used in Mahaicony kidnapping belonged to murdered estate caretaker

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gun used in Mahaicony kidnapping belonged to murdered estate caretaker

At least one of the accused in the recent kidnap drama at Mahaicony is to be charged for the murder of caretaker, Muneshwar Paragass, who was gunned down at the Letter ‘T’ coconut estate last...

Five accused remanded

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Five accused remanded

The five men accused of kidnapping a prominent Mahaicony rice farmer and a pump attendant were charged with two counts of kidnapping and have been remanded to prison until September 14. Appearing...

Disgruntled man torches former lover’s house

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Disgruntled man torches former lover’s house

– calls to find out if it”bun down flat” A disgruntled man yesterday torched his former lover’s house at 296 Section ‘C’ Turkeyen. The two had recently ended their relationship. The...

Magistrate suspended

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Magistrate suspended

– left jurisdiction without permission Berbice-based Magistrate Geeta Chandan has been suspended for two weeks by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for leaving the jurisdiction without...

Accused trio refused bail

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Accused trio refused bail

The men whom police say are responsible for the abduction of 21-year-old Rorhema Dookie last month yesterday made their first court appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the...

Frustrated CANU ranks question senior officer’s credibility

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Frustrated CANU ranks question senior officer’s credibility

Ranks of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) are expressing frustration and are questioning the credibility of a senior officer. This comes following several alleged orders to stand down, when...

Copenhagen climate change summit: ACCA’s eight steps to success

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Copenhagen climate change summit: ACCA’s eight steps to success

Global economic instability could lead to a decline in direct environmental investments and reduce the rigour of future climate change legislation, asserted ACCA (the Association of Chartered...

Quality teachers for education sector imminent

Sep 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Quality teachers for education sector imminent

By Sharmain Cornette The Education Sector is poised to be adequately augmented with aptly qualified teachers in the areas of Mathematics and English before this year-end. According to Minister of...

Blairmont, GFC, Uitvlugt & MSC to host matches tomorrow

Sep 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Blairmont, GFC, Uitvlugt & MSC to host matches tomorrow

By Franklin Wilson All ten (10) Super League teams will be in action tomorrow when the Guyana Football Federation organised competition funded by FIFA under the Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF...

GRFU squads released

Sep 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GRFU squads released

Whipple to serve as Technical Director The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has called to trials players to contest for selection to the final Men’s and Women’s squads that will...

‘Grassroots’ Football training programme starts today at GFC

Sep 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Grassroots’ Football training programme starts today at GFC

Head Coach of the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Peter Lashley will conduct a ‘grassroots’ football training programme at the GFC ground from 08:30hrs today and according to the club any...

5 matches on today at Tucville ground

Sep 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on 5 matches on today at Tucville ground

Five matches in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby sponsored Under-13 round-robin knock-out football competition are scheduled for today. All 5 games will be of 70 minutes duration and...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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