January 2011

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‘Reds’ contributes to National Library

Jan 29, 2011 knews News Comments Off on ‘Reds’ contributes to National Library

Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira yesterday presented five (5) copies of his book ‘Living my dream’ to the Chief Librarian of the National Library, Gillian Thompson while CEO of the National Library...

Health Ministry monitors cholera outbreak in Venezuela

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry monitors cholera outbreak in Venezuela

The Ministry of Health has said that it is continuing to monitor the outbreak of cholera in Venezuela, where there has been confirmation of 111 imported cases from the Dominican Republic. No deaths...

High Court overthrows conviction

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on High Court overthrows conviction

Almost nine months after Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton sentenced former Guyana Revenue Authority employee, Michelle Fraser, to seven years’ imprisonment, the Full Court yesterday overturned the...

Eastern Wakenaam are GSCPG domino champs

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Eastern Wakenaam are GSCPG domino champs

Eastern Wakenaam emerged champions of the Good Success Community Policing Group domino competition played recently at Amit Ramnarine’s residence, Good Success, Wakenaam. Egbert Johnson marked 17...

Caribbean Airlines promises direct flight from Guyana to New York by July

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Airlines promises direct flight from Guyana to New York by July

Yesterday a delegation from Caribbean Airlines held discussion with President Bharrat Jagdeo to discuss issues affecting the airline industry and to examine solutions. Following the meeting, Chairman...

CSA race walk season starts tomorrow

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on CSA race walk season starts tomorrow

The Cavalier’s Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) will commence its season of activities for the year tomorrow with a 10K race around the inner circuit of the National Park and the organisers are urging...

VAT is necessary for development – Sam Hinds

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on VAT is necessary for development – Sam Hinds

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday told the National Assembly that the telephone companies in Guyana were doing well and as such, could shoulder not being the beneficiaries of the reduction in the...

Trophy Stall/MYO Inter- Jamaat tapeball cricket continues on Sunday

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall/MYO Inter- Jamaat tapeball cricket continues on Sunday

Back to back wins for Enmore; Queenstown, MYO & LBI ‘A’ also shine Rivalry in the Trophy Stall sponsored Muslim Youth Organisation Inter-Jamaat round-robin tapeball cricket competition is set...

GTU President criticises manner of Fort Wellington teacher’s arrested

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GTU President criticises manner of Fort Wellington teacher’s arrested

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has criticized the Berbice police for the manner in which teacher of Fort Wellington Secondary School, Ronald Forde, was arrested. The union is now calling on the...

Bissoon Singh’s DCB withdraws court case against Raj Singh’s DCB

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Bissoon Singh’s DCB withdraws court case against Raj Singh’s DCB

But legality of feuding DCBs back to ‘square one’ By Sean Devers The Bissoon Singh led-Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) yesterday withdrew their court case against the Raj Singh-led DCB which was...

Amelia’s Ward man gets four years for ganja

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Amelia’s Ward man gets four years for ganja

Phillip Glasgow, of 181 South Amelia Ward, Linden, Region Ten appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with the offence of...

Kaieteur National Park attracting more visitors

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur National Park attracting more visitors

Visitor arrivals at the Kaieteur National Park were the highest since 2007, reflecting its growing attraction as a popular tourist site given Guyana’s heightened international profile. This was...

I ask the Guyanese people if this is not evanescent ignorance

Jan 29, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I ask the Guyanese people if this is not evanescent ignorance

I wrote that when I was a sixteen year old lad, I worked at the Michael Forde Bookstore, owned by the PPP inside Freedom House building and I stole a philosophy book. Here is Henry Jeffrey’s (the...

Anti-Drugs and Pro-Education Television Commercials unveiled

Jan 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Anti-Drugs and Pro-Education Television Commercials unveiled

Funded by RHTY&SC Cricket teams/DTV-8 The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and Dave’s Television Station (DTV-8) of New Amsterdam on Wednesday last launched two Television Commercials...

Six remanded for unlawful possession of explosive and ammunition parts

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Six remanded for unlawful possession of explosive and ammunition parts

Six men appeared yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry charged with possession of explosives and ammunition without lawful authority. The six were Michael Sookhoo, 48; Paul Sookhoo,...

Tarzan slapped with murder charge

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Tarzan slapped with murder charge

After allegedly murdering Brazilian miner Armando De Silva 26, and burying his body in a shallow grave, Wycliff Smith, who goes by the alias of Tarzan, found himself yesterday before acting Chief...

A hunch does not amount to a statement of fact

Jan 29, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on A hunch does not amount to a statement of fact

Dear Editor, The letter captioned, “Mr. Ramjattan was not endeavouring to forward a sociological analysis of the Guyanese society”, (Kaieteur News, January 25, 2011), by one Ryan Panday, is very...

CANU makes six-pound marijuana find

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CANU makes six-pound marijuana find

Acting on information ranks from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit yesterday swooped down on a house at William Street, Kitty where six pounds of marijuana was found along with a quantity of cocaine....

Scotiabank “gives back” to the community

Jan 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank “gives back” to the community

In an effort to “give back” to the community in which they serve, staff members of Scotiabank, Robb Street branch, yesterday executed two community projects, a ‘can drive’ for Food for the...

THE PROTESTS IN EGYPT

Jan 29, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PROTESTS IN EGYPT

The protests that are taking place in Cairo and other Egyptian cities are not indications that there is going to be political change. They represent visible examples of discontent within the middle...

Fiscal austerity – a newly-found friend for the Opposition

Jan 29, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Fiscal austerity – a newly-found friend for the Opposition

Dear Editor, ‘Rule propaganda, rule propaganda’, is fast becoming a desperate mantra for some in the private mass media world. Their constant abuse of press freedom catalyzes the negativism that...

An awful reflection of police officers

Jan 29, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on An awful reflection of police officers

Dear Editor, Once again the police traffic department has managed to strongly aggravate me. I will be honest and say that I was shocked, but not surprised. In my last letter I stated that even though...

Education policies that focus on trees but neglect the forest of nation-building destroy Guyana

Jan 29, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Education policies that focus on trees but neglect the forest of nation-building destroy Guyana

Dear Editor, I write to express my concerns about the Ministry of Education’s (MOE’s) Schools Competency Certificate Programme (SCCP), currently being offered in 35 secondary schools. It is...

A scourge has descended on the land

Jan 29, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on A scourge has descended on the land

Child sex molestation is more widespread than thought. Perhaps this sickness is endemic but if one were to look at cases in the courts one would be tempted to believe that there is nothing out of the...

US did not ask Guyana to arrest Bouterse – Embassy

Jan 28, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US did not ask Guyana to arrest Bouterse – Embassy

The United States Government has categorically rejected reports in sections of the local media that it had asked Guyana to arrest Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse. According to the local embassy,...

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WIN cannot break the PPP/C’s political stranglehold unless it first...

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

The man from WIN slipped

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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