October 21, 2009

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Guyana International team picked for Pre-World Cup tournament

Oct 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana International team picked for Pre-World Cup tournament

Suriname & Trinidad expected to compete Building off their success in the Turks and Caicos tournament this past June, the Guyana Women’s Football programme is about to take a giant leap forward...

Kwame’s hit and run victim still wants justice

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Kwame’s hit and run victim still wants justice

“I ain’t want to make no handicap child” Thirty-two-year old Yulanda Anthony yesterday expressed her outrage that nothing has so far been done to Kwame McCoy after he allegedly hit her with his...

Berbice High Court fails to get underway

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Berbice High Court fails to get underway

The Berbice Criminal Assizes opened yesterday with Justice Winston Patterson taking the salute. However the list of cases was not submitted thus forcing the closure of the court. This was the first...

Avon Community spreads Cancer Awareness

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Avon Community spreads Cancer Awareness

Juditha DaCosta, a member of the Avon Community Help Fund, has as her main objective, sharing the knowledge of Breast Cancer to everyone. She is keen to enlighten citizens of ways in which they can...

Bandits hit Essequibo family

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandits hit Essequibo family

Thakurdeen Khatun, jeweler by profession, and his wife Ramttie ,a/k, Lila, both of Land of Plenty, who were severely beaten and robbed of all their jewelry estimated at some $8 million, and a...

Taxi driver charged for Bartica businessman’s robbery

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver charged for Bartica businessman’s robbery

The two taxi drivers who were taken into police custody following a $9.5M robbery, which was carried out, on Bartica businessman, Neezam Kassim, have been remanded to prison. The duo, Fedel Collins,...

Insanitary Magistrates’ court obstructs work

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Insanitary Magistrates’ court obstructs work

For the past week, officers and other personnel attached to the Georgetown Magistrates’ court have been complaining of the sewage overflow in the main walkway of the compound. The insanitary...

Labour Ministry official admitted to Bar

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry official admitted to Bar

“Today I stand, for truth, righteousness and justice” were the words of Clive Nurse, Deputy Chief Labour Officer at the Ministry of Labour, after he was admitted to the Bar by Justice Rishi...

Five-year-old Linden accident victim succumbs

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Five-year-old Linden accident victim succumbs

Five-year-old Akeem Hinds succumbed yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital Intensive Care Unit. He never regained consciousness after the motor car accident last Friday on the...

Ministry of Agriculture, German firm ink multi-million-dollar contract

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ministry of Agriculture, German firm ink multi-million-dollar contract

The Ministry of Agriculture and a German firm, GFA Consulting Group, inked a $197 million contract on Monday for the European firm to provide consultancy services for Guyana’s Agriculture Export...

No relevance in bringing up Bisram’s name

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on No relevance in bringing up Bisram’s name

Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column (October 18) misrepresent facts relating to me. I am dismayed that Freddie brought up my name without any relevance in his defence against librarian...

Sewerage system projects to wrap up by March 2010 – Ali

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Sewerage system projects to wrap up by March 2010 – Ali

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is faced with the challenge of managing critical sewage chambers in the city even as it awaits the arrival of more than 20 submersible pumps for the urgent upgrade of...

To all those who think Freddie Kissoon is ‘worthy of emulation’

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on To all those who think Freddie Kissoon is ‘worthy of emulation’

Dear Editor, I have noted Stabroek News’ publication of the email correspondence between its Editor-in-Chief and Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon and have also taken note of the level of...

Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry

Dear Editor, Mr. Ronald Sanders opinion piece on October 18, 2009, in Kaieteur News, entitled: “Obama’s Nobel Prize: The stupidity of political bigotry”, is eloquent. However, as he looks for...

Most maternal deaths occur in health facilities – Dr. Israel

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Most maternal deaths occur in health facilities – Dr. Israel

As Guyana battles the issue of maternal deaths in the country, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Country Representative, Dr. Kathleen Israel, has said that the majority of maternal deaths occur...

Minister Manickchand talks a good talk

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Minister Manickchand talks a good talk

Dear Editor, I have read Minister Manickchand’s strident response to my comments as reported in the press, and despite the fact that she has totally misunderstood them, I will refrain from engaging...

ATM fraud PI yet to commence

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ATM fraud PI yet to commence

The four persons who are accused of conspiring to steal $6.5M from the Guyana Oil Company once again made a court appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown...

Burnham took care of those loyal to him

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Burnham took care of those loyal to him

Dear Editor, Forbes Burnham took care of his friends, so long as they maintained loyalty to him and the People’s National Congress (PNC), but woe betide them if they said anything out of turn at...

Time for all Guyanese to face this reality

Oct 21, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Time for all Guyanese to face this reality

It is not easy for thousands of persons who sacrificed in large and small ways for the return of free and fair elections and the return of democratic structures and democratic functions in Guyana to...

Life is as much a pie to enjoy as much it’s a mystery to unfold

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Life is as much a pie to enjoy as much it’s a mystery to unfold

Dear Editor, Allow me to engage the hearts of my goodly countrymen on the ongoing struggles of daily existence. Often we are reminded of the ailing patient, unfortunate accident victim, despondent...

Trinidadian investor still to upgrade local port of entry

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Trinidadian investor still to upgrade local port of entry

…signed MOU more than one month ago By Gary Eleazar More than a month after a Trinidadian investor signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture, work is yet to commence at...

Festival City man found with unlicensed gun

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Festival City man found with unlicensed gun

Just after midday yesterday police arrested a Festival City man as his accomplice fled leaving him behind with an unlicensed gun and ammunitions. Reports are that around 12:45 hours yesterday police...

An unfortunate incident

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on An unfortunate incident

Dear Editor, Being a private tourism advocate and performing the duty of a tour guide allowed me to meet some amazing nationals mainly from Norway, Canada, UK, Holland,US etc., in the past and that...

Fraudster to be charged

Oct 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Fraudster to be charged

Charges are expected to be laid against a 49-year-old Plaisance man accused of fleecing Alberttown businesswoman, Sabrina Mc Allister, while pretending that he was working with the Caricom...

To be silent and fearful will only embolden the enforcers

Oct 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on To be silent and fearful will only embolden the enforcers

Dear Editor, Moses Nagamootoo’s letter, published in Kaieteur News on Sunday October 3, 2009, has provided, yet, another occasion for Guyanese to truly examine the state of our nation. Twenty four...

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Mehidy magic (4-23), headline Warriors 6-wicket cakewalk win over...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

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...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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