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Jan 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The stench lingered in my car. Guyana is a horrible place
Mark Benschop extended an invitation to me on Thursday morning to visit the Wales factory to talk to striking sugar workers. We arrived at the estate and walked through the gate; I didn’t see the...Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Part time staff at GTI to strike from Monday
More than 50 part-time workers of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) plan to go on strike from Monday to force management to make a determination on the payment of increase in salaries....Jan 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Discrimination and marginalisation do exist in Guyana
Dear Editor, I agree with Godfrey Skeete’s angst over the alarming number of our young men who are resorting to crime as a means of livelihood. However, his assertion that hard evidence cannot be...Jan 30, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Your memory did not serve you ‘right’, Mr. White!
Dear Editor, I note with some concern in the January 28 edition of the Kaieteur News, a letter from a Joseph White on page 5, purporting to correct an earlier letter from Mr. Brynmor Pollard, dealing...Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Shot burglary suspect’s leg amputated
Doctors have amputated the left leg of Rockliffe Rodrigues, the 25-year-old Annai resident who was shot by police on Wednesday. Relatives told Kaieteur News yesterday that Rodrigues had his badly...Jan 30, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on The courts are reviewing themselves
The courts are questioning themselves. Courts are never meant to be controversial but from time to time they are always caught up in the interpretations of the law. Indeed, the law is never...Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC modern disposal system to be completed by April
The new state-of-the art Hydroclave system which is being installed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to sterilise infectious waste generated at the facility is expected to be...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Auditor General probes financial irregularities of Region Four RDC
– REO sent on leave The Auditor General’s office has launched enquiries into the financial management of the Regional Democratic Council, Region Four. This follows a letter from Regional...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Hundreds remember victims of Lusignan and Bartica massacres
Hundreds of Guyanese converged at the Lusignan Tarmac, East Coast Demerara, on Wednesday to reflect on 23 innocent individuals who were mercilessly slain at Lusignan and Bartica in January and...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on DPP seeks to quash judge’s bail order
The Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday filed a motion in the High Court, seeking to set aside Justice Bovell Drakes’s order to grant bail to murder accused Treon Sumner. However, because of...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Govt. not closing industry down – Benn
– Barticians holding motorcade, rally to discuss issue By Leonard Gildarie As gold and diamond miners grapple with a six-month notice proposal being considered by a specially appointed...Jan 29, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Italy tun Haiti
De courts in confusion. A judge grant a man bail fuh murder and start some argument that even Bharrat nearly get involve. This man get charge fuh killing somebody and dem hold he a few months later....Jan 29, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA serves off schools’ TT tourney
Sponsor commits to annual event The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) served off its Schools’ Table Tennis (TT) Teams tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with the major sponsor,...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on 24 Engineers to receive training in water resources management
– Tripartite MOU signed Twenty-four local engineers from the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority, Mahaica-Mahaicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority and Guyana Sugar Corporation...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Provision of rehab services to be boosted with degree programme
By Sharmain Cornette With the availability of a Bachelor of Science Degree Programme in Rehabilitation Service, the Ministry of Health, and by extension, the various Rehabilitation Centres and...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Doctors failed to treat patient’s life-threatening ailment
Although she was twice admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, the doctors who saw 23-year-old Salima Ram apparently failed on both occasions to realise that she was a high-risk patient....Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Food and Drug department calls for compliance
The Government Analyst/Food and Drug Department, Ministry of Health, is reminding Importers and Distributors of Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics and Medical Devices to have their premises...Jan 29, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hitters maul Vipers in Carib Beer national Softball cricket tourney
Cricket fans were treated to several action packed encounters when the nation’s top teams battled for honours in the Carib Beer National Softball Cricket tournament currently being contested...Jan 29, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GASA planning to be more viable in 21st Century
Two-day Retreat set for this weekend By Franklin Wilson Stakeholders of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) will be locked in two days of intense planning and strategizing this weekend...Jan 29, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Pocket Rocket’ promises vengeance in tonight’s contest
National Flyweight boxer Orland ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers, fighting out of Berbice, says that he will make overseas based fighter Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry pay for what happened the last...Jan 29, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GT&T hands over US$13,000 in equipment to GTI
Yesterday, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company, in collaboration with the Guyana Technical Institute (GTI), officially launched its Tuition Refund Programme – complete with...Jan 29, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kennard’s Memorial to face No. 71 Club in final
No. 71 and Kennard’s Memorial Cricket Clubs have booked a date in the final of the Demerara Bank 2nd division tournament for teams in the Upper Corentyne area and organised by the Berbice Cricket...Jan 29, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grass track returns to its Mecca on Sunday
– Ogle anticipates showdown for series title By Edison Jefford Grass Track Racing will return to its Mecca, the Ogle Community Centre Ground Sunday when the best riders in Guyana shift gears...Nov 08, 2026
Cricinfo – Towhid Hridoy staged a turnaround for the ages as his record-breaking unbeaten 242 handed Bangladesh a 30-run first-innings lead on day three of the second Test against West Indies....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...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...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...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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