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The WikiLeaks cables on the Caribbean are here

Dec 18, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The WikiLeaks cables on the Caribbean are here

Jamaica is the first Caricom country to have been mentioned in the US Embassy cables by WikiLeaks. Guyana’s corridors of power must be trembling. The situation is extremely nervous for the...

Wife beating regular jailed for five years

Dec 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Wife beating regular jailed for five years

A Nigg, Corentyne, man who was in the habit of beating his wife whenever he smoked illicit drugs will not be able to continue his bad habit for a long time. He was jailed on Friday for being in...

Mentally ill man heads to jail

Dec 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mentally ill man heads to jail

Leon Alphonso, a\k Bolo, was sentenced to 23 months’ imprisonment, by Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, on Thursday. Alphonso who was initially charged for wounding Shevonne Henry, was slapped with four...

Firearm licence transaction turns sour

Dec 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Firearm licence transaction turns sour

A father of four was yesterday sent to spend the next 12 months in the Camp Street penitentiary by (ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry after he pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretence....

A few suggestions for M&CC

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on A few suggestions for M&CC

Dear Editor, I gather from the news that the Georgetown City Council still faces challenges to realise substantial inflows under its amnesty. Although the expectation that taxpayers would have taken...

Success is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned ideas

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Success is the ability to achieve and accomplish planned ideas

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to teach you about creating success. I wish to share with you my personal definition of success and some specific success strategies that I have learned in my...

Couple busted with shotgun, ammo

Dec 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Couple busted with shotgun, ammo

Two men and a woman are now in police custody, after ranks of the Guyana Police Force conducted a sting operation, yesterday, at Esau and Jacob, Mahaicony River. According to a police release,...

GAWU has taken too many things for granted

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on GAWU has taken too many things for granted

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News carried a news item “Sugar workers’ union calls for government’s intervention” (16/12/2010). In this news item GAWU is calling on the government to intervene in the...

Lima man busted with cocaine

Dec 18, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Lima man busted with cocaine

Danrai, a\k Sugar Leg, is in police custody, pending charges. According to a police report, around 13.30 hours yesterday, the man was arrested at his Lima home, after police who were on patrol,...

President Jagdeo’s lecture to UWI team

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on President Jagdeo’s lecture to UWI team

Dear Editor, I am writing on behalf of the Canadian Guyanese Centre for Human Rights & Social Justice (CENTRE), a group of Guyanese Canadians with deep family ties and relationships in the land...

Important element in the diminution of respect for any given president is communal distrust

Dec 18, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Important element in the diminution of respect for any given president is communal distrust

Dear Editor, The verbal skirmish in Cancun (“Cancun Fireworks:” Kaieteur News, 13/12/10), has provided commentators and bloggers with a nice little pre-Christmas present and much has already been...

Sugar workers’ blues

Dec 18, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on Sugar workers’ blues

Plights, it is said, are desperate, difficult and precarious situations brought about by natural or divine causes as opposed to “problems” which are, in the end, traceable to human action – or...

Govt. seeking additional $6.9B from coffers

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Govt. seeking additional $6.9B from coffers

…$93M spent on UNASUR Summit Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday, for the second time this year, moved to the National Assembly seeking approval for close to $7B in Supplementary Provisions....

Watch vendor shot outside home by waiting bandits

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Watch vendor shot outside home by waiting bandits

Up to late last night doctors at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Kingston were operating on a city watch vendor who was shot by bandits just as he was entering his yard at Goedverwagting, on the East...

Four-lane highway to end at Diamond

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Four-lane highway to end at Diamond

By Leonard Gildarie The planned extension of the four-lane highway on the East Bank Demerara has been altered with the roadway now ending at Diamond, officials say. Government had originally intended...

New airline heads to Guyana

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on New airline heads to Guyana

A new airline will now be servicing the Guyana route as the Government has accepted the designation of Enerjet Airline by the Canadian Government to operate scheduled air service between Toronto and...

Ambassador Applewhaite to perform S.G. duties

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Ambassador Applewhaite to perform S.G. duties

Chairman of CARICOM, Bruce Golding, has announced that Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, will act as Secretary-General with effect from 1 January 2011, pending the selection...

Yet another maternal death

Dec 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Yet another maternal death

– raises serious questions about “State-of-the-art” operating theatre at Linden By Latoya Giles Even as the Ministry of Health is trying to address the problem of maternal deaths, which has...

Dem boys seh…Bharrat grooming Donald

Dec 17, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bharrat grooming Donald

Old people always seh that coming events cast their shadow. Well dem boys seh that is nuff shadow casting because people seeing nuff things. All de talk about who gun be presidential candidate and...

Eccles women beaten, robbed by gunmen

Dec 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Eccles women beaten, robbed by gunmen

Two young women on their way home are among the latest victims of armed robbery in the city and its environs. The women, Samantha Ramroop, 29, a cashier of Neal and Massy Group of Companies and...

BBC team to shoot ‘Serious Explorers’ here

Dec 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on BBC team to shoot ‘Serious Explorers’ here

Next month, a BBC team will begin shooting for a ten-part series called ‘Serious Explorers’ retracing the footsteps of Sir Walter Raleigh, who went in search of the fabled ‘City of Gold’ El...

Florida-based Guyanese honoured for contribution to medicine

Dec 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Florida-based Guyanese honoured for contribution to medicine

Guyanese-born physician, Dr. Victor Boodhoo, was recently honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution to the field of medicine and to the University of the West Indies...

Benschop granted self-bail on obstruction of traffic charge

Dec 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Benschop granted self-bail on obstruction of traffic charge

Social Activist Mark Benschop was released on his own recognisance, after he appeared before Magistrate Chandra Sohan, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Benschop, who was...

Courts spreads Christmas cheer

Dec 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Courts spreads Christmas cheer

In the spirit of Christmas, Courts yesterday distributed a number of gifts to patients of the pediatric ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). In addition, food hampers were also...

GITC hosts 44th Graduation ceremony

Dec 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GITC hosts 44th Graduation ceremony

One hundred and sixty-five (165) students of the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) graduated yesterday after completing various courses that were offered at the centre, which allowed them to...

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Investment Committee’s mandate is financial not political

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There’s nothing quite as uniquely absurd as when someone misinterprets their job description.... more