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Exposing Guyana in 2010

Dec 09, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Exposing Guyana in 2010

Dear Editor, I encourage those with the marketing interest of Guyana to get hold of a copy of the 2009 Explore Guyana Magazine and mail a copy to one friend (non Guyanese) as a 2010 reading gift....

Guyana celebrates CARICOM/Cuba Day

Dec 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana celebrates CARICOM/Cuba Day

CARICOM/Cuba Day was observed in all CARICOM States and Cuba yesterday. On the occasion of the First CARICOM/Cuba Summit in Havana, Cuba on December 8, 2002, it was agreed by the Heads of...

Is this a sign of a new beginning?

Dec 09, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Is this a sign of a new beginning?

Dear Editor, Recent winnings in succession by the three ladies from our Linden community – Ms. Malaika Boyd, Cellink Jingle; Claris Joseph, Ms. Jamzone; and Jenelle Bobb, Ms. Talented Teen...

Municipal markets to be disconnected – GPL

Dec 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Municipal markets to be disconnected – GPL

Electricity supply to two municipal markets will be disconnected by tomorrow if the Georgetown Municipality does not attempt to honour its financial obligation of more than $1B to the Guyana Power...

Dabydeen, Stabroek News, and a tangled web

Dec 09, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Dabydeen, Stabroek News, and a tangled web

Last Wednesday, the Stabroek News carried a news item that listed Dr. David Dabydeen as nominating President Jagdeo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. The Stabroek News item clearly stated that it made...

Do we have to protest to get this done?

Dec 09, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Do we have to protest to get this done?

Dear Editor, I express my frustration and disgust at the deplorable state of GuySuCo’s Albion Estate main access road. This road has countless potholes and it’s a nightmare for drivers, motor...

THESE POLLS RESULTS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED

Dec 09, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THESE POLLS RESULTS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED

I was extremely disappointed that at least three of our daily newspapers carried a letter from Vishnu Bisram, announcing the results of another of his NACTA polls. I thought that the debate on the...

Greed is responsible for the problems we face in this world

Dec 09, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Greed is responsible for the problems we face in this world

Dear Editor, Sometimes you become gullible when you least know it and your gullibility leads to you becoming vulnerable. There are people in this world who are constantly on the prowl looking for...

Copenhagen: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’

Dec 09, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Copenhagen: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’

On Monday, to coincide with the opening of the world conclave to craft a protocol to deal with climate change, the Guardian newspaper of the UK attempted to issue an editorial that major newspapers...

Attack on GCCI president unfair

Dec 09, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Attack on GCCI president unfair

Dear Editor, I was there, as a guest, at the Annual Presentation of Awards Dinner of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry last Wednesday (02-12-09) at the Pegasus and am more than a little...

Top tennis players square-off for Tropical Mist Tournament

Dec 09, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Top tennis players square-off for Tropical Mist Tournament

By Rawle Welch The best players in the country are expected to square off from this Friday in the season ending Tropical Mist Banks Masters Tennis Tournament, at the Pegasus Hardcourts. This...

Bandits hit Bel Air Service Station again

Dec 09, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandits hit Bel Air Service Station again

– getaway car driver arrested For the seventh time bandits have robbed the Bel Air Service station, East Coast Demerara, forcing the closure of the fuel station and Food Mart until further...

More soldiers caught in criminal activities

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on More soldiers caught in criminal activities

– one confesses to being part of Madewini shootout – Lance Corporal held in Essequibo robbery Just when it was thought that criminal elements in the Guyana Defence Force had been weeded...

Remigrant perishes in late night blaze

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant perishes in late night blaze

– Two houses destroyed, three homeless By Mondale Smith A remigrant perished Sunday night when fire destroyed his 31 Second Street, Success Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara home. Dead is...

Porkknocker’s body retrieved

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker’s body retrieved

… Kaieteur Falls mishap A team comprising soldiers, colleagues and relatives of 46-year-old Michael Leslie, the porkknocker who was swept over the edge of Kaieteur Falls on November 29, last,...

Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Is Christmas and things ain’t looking bright. Dem boys seh that money dry up because people hardly buying. Imagine even de shoplifters getting problem because how dem can walk out a store wid...

GuySuCo seeking in excess of $30B from sale of land – CEO

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo seeking in excess of $30B from sale of land – CEO

…as company makes $300M payout By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) after failing to meet its stipulated pay date, did not renege on its subsequent commitment, and yesterday...

Three held after Corriverton robbery

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Three held after Corriverton robbery

Three men are in police custody assisting with investigations into a Sunday night robbery at Princetown, Corriverton, Berbice. The robbery occurred at around 19:45 hours, during which businessman...

‘Wan wan dutty build dam’

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Wan wan dutty build dam’

– Climate Change boss tells Summit opening By Neil Marks in Copenhagen The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Yvo de Boer, plucked out of...

US$25M request outside realms of the law – Corbin

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US$25M request outside realms of the law – Corbin

On Sunday, leader of the People’s National Congress Reform and Parliamentary Opposition leader Robert Corbin said that the majority of the requested US$25M by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh...

Guyana closes in on Colombian rice market

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana closes in on Colombian rice market

By Brushell Blackman The rice industry which has been experiencing less than favourable times may receive a shot in the arm with what appears to be Guyana’s securing of a Columbian rice market....

Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Dec 08, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Is Christmas and things ain’t looking bright. Dem boys seh that money dry up because people hardly buying. Imagine even de shoplifters getting problem because how dem can walk out a store wid...

Porkknocker switched from drug addict to decent worker

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker switched from drug addict to decent worker

Second Kaieteur Falls death… “He used to “smoke” (use drugs). He had a bad patch in life, but when we went up the mountains to look for gold, he changed his life around. He was at the end, an...

Govt launches US$22M Citizens’ Security Prog.

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt launches US$22M Citizens’ Security Prog.

By Brushell Blackman Months after the planned billion-dollar British Department For International Development (DFID) Security Sector Reform Action Plan (SSRAP) fell through, the government of Guyana...

Digicel’s Merry Mansion in NA

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel’s Merry Mansion in NA

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Berbicians were given the opportunity to search and find cash for Christmas last week when Digicel took the Merry Mansion Game Show to the Ancient County. The venue was the...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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