January 2011

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Disability Act yields success but more sensitisation needed – NCD Administrator

Jan 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Disability Act yields success but more sensitisation needed – NCD Administrator

The effectiveness of the Disability Act, which was assented to by President Bharrat Jagdeo on November 2, last year, is already being realised, according to Administrator of the National Commission...

Dr David Hinds is not a member of ACDA

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Dr David Hinds is not a member of ACDA

Dear Editor The story in Wednesday January 12, edition of Kaieteur News under the caption, “African Organisations should boycott Government Launch – Dr David Hinds, contains a very serious...

Overseas-based Guyanese move to restore New Amsterdam

Jan 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese move to restore New Amsterdam

Some former residents of New Amsterdam now living overseas have formed themselves into a group to help revive the town of New Amsterdam. The group is known as the Council of Friends of New Amsterdam...

The man who disappeared in 2010

Jan 13, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The man who disappeared in 2010

There isn’t any mention of him at all. Forgotten like a song that was never played on the airwaves or the poem that was never written. He touched down in Guyana with an emotional display of a new,...

Berbicians welcome street lights

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Berbicians welcome street lights

Dear Editor, I believe most Berbicians welcome the move by Government to bring street lights to the roads here. Not only are our roads here illuminated in the night, but persons feel much safer in...

There is no special retirement package for the Leader of the Opposition

Jan 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no special retirement package for the Leader of the Opposition

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Emile Mervin’s letter, “Speculating on the Corbin factor in a possible Jagdeo-Corbin partnership” (Kaieteur News, 10 January). In this letter Mervin claims...

Who were vendors paying for use of Stabroek Market Square?

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Who were vendors paying for use of Stabroek Market Square?

Dear Editor, The Stabroek Market vendors have been vending in that area for many years now and according to their way of thinking, they have rights just as do every other Guyanese. The demolition of...

Corentyne stab victim alleges delay of justice

Jan 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne stab victim alleges delay of justice

A 22-year-old cane harvester who resides at Ketten Dam, Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne is crying out for justice as he states that he is being put through rigmarole with the police at the Whim...

THE YEAR OF PUMPING

Jan 13, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE YEAR OF PUMPING

Guyanese love to complain. Bemoaning their problems, perceived, imagined or contrived, is a regular practice in Guyana. Take the case of last Christmas in Berbice. The stores in Rosignol were open...

Wismar residents offended by D&I workers

Jan 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Wismar residents offended by D&I workers

Lawlessness and uncouth behaviour bordering on the barbaric, is how a group of vocal Wismar residents have described the behaviour pattern of several Drainage and Irrigation workers, who work the...

Emancipation has not led to true independence for African Guyanese

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Emancipation has not led to true independence for African Guyanese

Dear Editor, The designation of 2011 as the year of the people of African descent is a significant reminder of both the tremendous contributions of Africans to world civilization and the challenges...

The Amerindian vote and young people can determine the next president of Guyana

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on The Amerindian vote and young people can determine the next president of Guyana

Dear Editor, As the day to another constitutionally due election in Guyana approaches it is getting very interesting by the hour the direction in which our political ‘ship’ is taking us. Will it...

Must we ever believe our Head-of-State?

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Must we ever believe our Head-of-State?

The Editor, I recall at a Chamber of Commerce dinner at the Pegasus Hotel a few short years ago, President Jagdeo addressing the gathering, and the Guyanese Public, regaled us all about how well the...

Judge for yourself

Jan 13, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Judge for yourself

Dear Editor, Recently I saw a letter in one of our dailies praising the work and professionalism of a senior police officer. Well some people don’t know what professionalism and integrity really...

The vendors issue has many twists

Jan 13, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The vendors issue has many twists

The administration has taken to removing the vendors, both fixed and itinerant from the vicinity of Stabroek Market in a move reminiscent of what was attempted in 2005 and again in 2007 when the...

NY-bound granny busted with cocaine in wheelchair

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on NY-bound granny busted with cocaine in wheelchair

In one of the most bizarre cases in recent times, local police have intercepted yet another consignment of cocaine destined for the United States. Reports are that sometime around 07:30 hours...

Police probe suspected arson of Lethem truck

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police probe suspected arson of Lethem truck

For years, Ghildarry Chanderpaul was parking his Leyland DAF truck on the Tabatinga Public Road in front of his yard at Lethem, and Monday, last, was no different. On that afternoon around 16:00...

Police Forensic Lab attracts $881M bid

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police Forensic Lab attracts $881M bid

….$403M above engineer’s estimate The construction of a building to serve as a Forensic Laboratory for the Government, through the Ministry of Home Affairs, has attracted several bids almost...

Late arrival of witnesses causes delay

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Late arrival of witnesses causes delay

Neesa Gopaul murder PI… The late arrival of prosecution witnesses yesterday caused a delay in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of 16 year-old Queen’s College student, Neesa...

‘American’ identified as Sophia man

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘American’ identified as Sophia man

Grenade explosion… By Latoya Giles After several previous attempts to determine the identity of the Stabroek Market grenade explosion victim known only as ‘American’, the...

Meter readers mistaken for thieves, threatened with guns

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Meter readers mistaken for thieves, threatened with guns

Two meter readers attached to the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated are reportedly experiencing great difficulties in executing their duties and say that the police are making it no easier for...

Missing woman’s body found

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Missing woman’s body found

The body of 22-year-old Michelle Benjamin, who went missing after a boat in which she was travelling capsized in the Essequibo River, has been recovered. This newspaper was told that the woman’s...

Dem boys seh…City constables want fry rice

Jan 12, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…City constables want fry rice

Whenever anyone open dem mouth and dem talk wid a twang people does call dem Yankee. Even if de man come from Canada dem does call he Yankee. De man who get blow up outside Stabroek Market use to...

Guyana earns US$65M more than previous year

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana earns US$65M more than previous year

Despite missing 2010 gold target… Despite falling short of a targeted amount last year, gold declaration, buoyed by high world prices, earned the country US$65M more in 2010 than the previous year....

Culture Ministry denies excluding African Organizations

Jan 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Culture Ministry denies excluding African Organizations

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday lashed out at several African Organisations in Guyana which claimed that they were not included in planning with the government to create a...

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Mars outlasts Callender as perfect scores set up round four showdown

Sep 02, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Round Three of the Pegasus Weekly Chess League, organized by Drayton’s Chess Club in partnership with the Pegasus Chess Club and Guyana Chess Federation, continued on Monday...

The Ministry diagnoses the wrong disease

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Health’s response to Peeping Tom’s column, “Second-Class Patients,” is a case whereby a medical response is so clinically misplaced that one is tempted to prescribe a second opinion. The Ministry has produced an impressive medical case for something...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Motions, distance, indifference

Sep 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There’s a human tragedy. Cotton Tree and two cousins. Across Mandarin Bridge and an 11-year-old-child. Police killings in Linden. And, more lately, a boat that went down and took down over 100 Guyanese lives. Poor ones. The rich ones and big ones don’t sail,...

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