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Everyone knows transparency is essential to assuring foreign funding to save our forests

Dec 07, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Everyone knows transparency is essential to assuring foreign funding to save our forests

Dear Editor, Today (07-12-09), over 90 world leaders, including President Bharrat Jagdeo, along with scores of delegates from various countries will descend on Copenhagen in Denmark to start 11 days...

RUM RUNNERS AND JOHNNY WALKERS

Dec 07, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on RUM RUNNERS AND JOHNNY WALKERS

Talk is cheap unless you have a cellular phone. Talk also comes in different categories and varieties. People who want hard talk would normally find it on “Viagra News” or go to Tiger...

Harvesting second rice crop almost over

Dec 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Harvesting second rice crop almost over

BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – Harvesting of the 2009 autumn rice crop is to wrap up by this weekend. A low yield is one of the major issues and this is mainly as a result of the high ‘red rice’...

Kenyan’s outdo Forde as Morgan finishes third

Dec 07, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Kenyan’s outdo Forde as Morgan finishes third

By Edison Jefford Guyana’s foremost distance athletes, Cleveland Forde and Alika Morgan suffered mixed fortunes Saturday evening at the ‘Run Barbados’ International Nature Valley 10km Road Race...

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS!

Dec 07, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS!

Those who are anxious for some sort of political luck to fall their way, or rather to fall on top of the government so as to embarrass it, will be sorely disappointed if they feel that the US...

Elcock horses rested, not a part of Port Mourant meet

Dec 07, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Elcock horses rested, not a part of Port Mourant meet

Kaieteur Sport has been informed that racehorses from the Colin Elcock stables will not be part of the Port Mourant Turf Club meet on Sunday December 13. Kaieteur Sport had reported in our Sunday...

Both toddlers out of ICU

Dec 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Both toddlers out of ICU

Latoya Rodney, her four-year-old daughter, Latifa Rodney, and one-year-old son, Osondo Rodney, are all on the road of recovery. The three were struck down last Sunday while standing on Mandela Avenue...

Innovation for growth

Dec 07, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Innovation for growth

In the most fundamental sense, there are only two ways of increasing the output of an economy. One can increase the number of inputs that go into the productive process, or if you are clever, you can...

The 1964 elections, a betrayal of trust

Dec 07, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The 1964 elections, a betrayal of trust

Dear Editor, Guyana was a popular foreign policy agenda item for both the U.S. and British Governments in the 1950s and 1960s. The U.S. and British Governments had concerns over the People’s...

Porknocker goes over Kaieteur Falls

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porknocker goes over Kaieteur Falls

– body spotted on rock below Less than a month after Aliya Bulkan went over the edge of Kaieteur Falls, another body was spotted lying at the bottom of the Falls late Friday. The body, said to...

Valedictorian says graduates need hope

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Valedictorian says graduates need hope

By: Brushell Blackman The University of Guyana, under threatening skies held its 43rd Convocation Ceremony at its Turkeyen Campus yesterday. The exercise saw the attendance of President Bharrat...

A simple, but courageous grandfather

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on A simple, but courageous grandfather

Cecil Nathaniel Exeter is a ‘Special Person’ By Michael Jordan This is the story of a simple man. This is the story of a man who endured unimaginable heartbreak that would have destroyed lesser...

Dem boys seh… Ashni singing and Bheri talking

Dec 06, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Ashni singing and Bheri talking

Is sheer music. Dem boys hear people singing carols and other things but dem get a surprise de other day. Ashni was singing calypso and it wasn’t ‘in search of a star.’ It wasn’t even Finance...

Guyana-born woman arrested with false US Social Security number

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born woman arrested with false US Social Security number

LIVINGSTON – A woman who is a resident alien from Guyana and has been living in Queens, NY, has been charged with identity theft in the first degree in connection with a Columbia County woman....

Fogarty’s Santa parade brings children out

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Fogarty’s Santa parade brings children out

Fogarty’s annual Santa parade yesterday which started from Pegasus and move straight to Fogarty’s in Water Street, saw tremendous response from various organisations especially schools which...

Govt. to scale down role in GPL operations

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to scale down role in GPL operations

When Guyana Power and Light, on Friday, commissioned the US$30M Kingston power plant, Government signaled its intentions to scale down its involvement in the sector. According to President Bharrat...

New infrastructures, more professionals for improved health sector

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on New infrastructures, more professionals for improved health sector

– Dr Ramsaran In its quest to improve the delivery of health care service, a number of infrastructural works have been funded by Government. However, some of these works have not been spared the...

Two Brazilians exploit Linden/Lethem road link

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Two Brazilians exploit Linden/Lethem road link

To some it might not seem like much, but to the average Lindener, two tourists travelling overland from Brazil to Linden and back to their homeland, speaks volumes for the growth potential of the...

18-year-old finds largest cash pool in Merry Mansion

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 18-year-old finds largest cash pool in Merry Mansion

Ranole Bourne, 18, of D’Urban Street Wortmanville missed a few hours of his prom night last week but has more than 100,000 reasons to celebrate nonetheless as Digicel is making his Christmas even...

Shell goes to Linden

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Shell goes to Linden

General Manager of SOL Guyana INC, Ken Figaro, on Thursday officially commissioned the Shell Linden Service Station, at the old ESSO facility on Republic Avenue Linden. Figaro declared, “Today we...

Diamond traffic lights to be operational soon

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond traffic lights to be operational soon

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication has announced that ongoing works at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, to ease traffic congestion, will be completed by December 15. Already, the traffic...

Gunmen, Wireless Connections boss trade shots

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen, Wireless Connections boss trade shots

While Maxwell Thom is recovering from the effects of the most recent Regent Street fire that destroyed his business, he has been the subject of a gun attack. Shortly after midnight Friday night, at...

Guyana to share US$627,000 for Caribbean Tobacco Control Project

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to share US$627,000 for Caribbean Tobacco Control Project

Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago will be benefiting from approximately US$627,000 for the Caribbean Tobacco Control Project. The Project is aimed at controlling and raising warning...

17 years of PPP ineptitude, incompetence, corruption and destruction (Part 1)

Dec 06, 2009 knews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on 17 years of PPP ineptitude, incompetence, corruption and destruction (Part 1)

We have been forced to reintroduce the weekly column in Kaieteur News. Some of the events and behaviour patterns of the government have not been in the interest of the people. As 2009 comes to an end...

Rusal restarts Aroaima, Kwakwani operations

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Rusal restarts Aroaima, Kwakwani operations

– letter indicates union accepted retrenchment of 75 workers By Leonard Gildarie The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.(BCGI), owned by Russia’s RUSAL, has announced that more than 200 of the...

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Who owns the MSC?

Oct 08, 2026

…MSC General Secretary Joe Chapman questions ownership, calls for transparency By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – With the remodeled Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) preparing to reopen its doors for...

Leave, but please explain why

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Apparently, in Guyana, the moment a person is accused of a serious offence, a mysterious administrative switch is supposed to be flipped. CLICK. The accused goes on leave. No investigation into whether the person’s continued presence could interfere with the investigation. No...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Congrats to Drs. Ali, Jagdeo

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It must be done; avoiding out of the question. Congratulations to Excellencies Ali and Jagdeo, the former a sitting president, the latter still a president in all but title. Drs. Ali and Jagdeo must have pig iron stomachs. Whoever is halal or haram, holy or a heathen...

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