February 7, 2011

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Govt. secrecy on contracts/projects facilitates corruption

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. secrecy on contracts/projects facilitates corruption

MPs say… The very secretive way in which the specifications of government contracts are made available has been described as a way to facilitate corruption, according some Members of Parliament and...

Drag racing champion and friend die in submerged car

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drag racing champion and friend die in submerged car

– eyewitness says victims were racing with other driver Popular drag-racing champion Raymond Ally and a friend, Jermaine Frank, died at around 01:30 hrs yesterday when the car they were in...

High winds blow off Cyril Potter’s roof

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on High winds blow off Cyril Potter’s roof

– official cites sub-standard work High winds accompanied by a sharp downpour yesterday destroyed the roof of a building that houses the library of the Cyril Potter College of Education...

Dem boys seh…Government is not de solution, but de problem

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Government is not de solution, but de problem

De more dem boys follow de Egyptian crisis de more dem understand government. Dem was listening to de news when dem hear that Hosni Mubarak and he family got assets worth US$70 billion. It mean that...

Man locked in store found hiding in ceiling

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man locked in store found hiding in ceiling

“Gimme a chance nah, ah de hungry.’ The pleas of a man who had stashed himself in a Regent Street store with the intention of ‘cleaning it out’ when the time was right. The man who claimed...

GWI addresses Pensioners’ queries on “subsidy for water”

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GWI addresses Pensioners’ queries on “subsidy for water”

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) recently met with the Pensioners’ Association of Guyana to increase its public awareness campaign on the Pensioners’ Subsidy for water. According to GWI’s Public...

Nightmare for Mahdia woman miner at GGMC

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nightmare for Mahdia woman miner at GGMC

- mystery how same land allocated twice By Leonard Gildarie Amidst calls for a review of the operations of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)- the country’s regulators of the gold...

AFC plans to transform UG into regional research University

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC plans to transform UG into regional research University

…intends to revamp Health Care sector if elected to Office Education is the key to economic and social transformation and as such the Alliance For Change (AFC) says that they have several...

Samuels’ comeback ‘double’ put Jamaica in charge

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Samuels’ comeback ‘double’ put Jamaica in charge

Guyana set massive 359 to win By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Western Union & Jamaica Pegasus On the 66th birth anniversary of the late Jamaican Reggae great Bob Marley, Marlon...

Ronson Williams, Alison Heydorn named footballers of the year

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ronson Williams, Alison Heydorn named footballers of the year

– Rodrigues is top coach By Franklin Wilson Guyana’s number one goalkeeper, a member of the Country’s top club side Alpha United, was named the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) male player...

GAAMI seeks to promote herbal life in Guyana

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GAAMI seeks to promote herbal life in Guyana

With vision to lead the development of primary health care through education and research in herbal, alternative, naturopathic and integrated medicine, the Guyana Association for Alternative Medicine...

Peter Green returned as GAPF President for another term

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Peter Green returned as GAPF President for another term

By Franklin Wilson The membership of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has maintained a high degree of confidence in their President Peter Green whom they returned un-opposed in that...

Berbice Basketball season bounces off today

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Basketball season bounces off today

By Samuel Whyte Basketball players in Berbice will have a chance to show off their skills when the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association bounces off its first tournament for the 2011 season today at...

The legacy lives on

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on The legacy lives on

Dame Olga Lopes-Seale DA, GCM, MBE, BBS By Michael Benjamin “If I can help somebody with a word or song; if I can show somebody that he is travelling wrong; if I can help somebody as I pass along;...

Rain washes out games in 1st and 2nd division 2-day competitions

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rain washes out games in 1st and 2nd division 2-day competitions

Rain poured down on the city yesterday morning and hampered second day’s play for fourth round matches in the Carib Beer 1st division competition. Umpires abandoned games and there wasn’t any...

First Cruise Liner for the year docks at GNSC wharf

Feb 07, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on First Cruise Liner for the year docks at GNSC wharf

Yesterday, Cruise Vessel the M.V. Saga Pearl 2 docked at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation Limited. The ship is the first cruise to dock in local waters for the year. Upon its arrival, the...

Education is the eternal foundation of a nation’s development

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Education is the eternal foundation of a nation’s development

Dear Editor, The decline of education in Guyana since the 1980s until today has been a major concern for every educated Guyanese citizen living and working in Guyana. As our political and economic...

Guyana cries out for upstanding leaders

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana cries out for upstanding leaders

Dear Editor, AFC presidential candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan, at a Bath Settlement political meeting, is reported telling the Indian dominated crowd, “to stop being fearful of African Guyanese.” To...

Shocking statement by Minister Rohee

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Shocking statement by Minister Rohee

Dear Editor, The victims of crimes like young Sheema Mangar, Mr. Ramoudit, who was returning to Guyana after more than a decade, was killed for his gold chain, he did not even have a chance to say...

A message to our youth

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A message to our youth

Dear Editor, My contribution is inspired by the faith and vision of Noha Tarek, an Egyptian graduate student studying political science. Noha proclaimed to a BBC News reporter that she is...

The economic policies of the AFC are designed to lift all citizens

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The economic policies of the AFC are designed to lift all citizens

Dear Editor, The first thing to note is the AFC’s Action Plan did not (and I insist did not!) say the party will perform ethnic audits before each policy is implemented as is claimed by Mr. Jason...

The M&CC faces enormous challenges

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The M&CC faces enormous challenges

Dear Editor, The enormity of the challenges facing the City Administration is really beyond belief. I refer to a letter (Wednesday, February 2, 2011, SN), written by L. Narin, titled, “Exercise in...

WHAT IS THERE TO HIDE?

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS THERE TO HIDE?

Trying to gain information from the government is like trying to obtain a state secret. Even the most basic inquiries is like trying to break into a secret vault. This newspaper had repeatedly tried...

Robert Corbin and a big lie perpetrated on the Guyanese people

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Robert Corbin and a big lie perpetrated on the Guyanese people

On Thursday, I called the head of the UNDP in Guyana, Mr. Tinguria (hope I got his name right) to suggest that he seek legal opinion on the constitutional status of the Ethnic Relations Commission...

AS TIME GOES BY

Feb 07, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on AS TIME GOES BY

I have often wondered what kind of reaction those people who study time get when asked what they do for a living and answer, “I am a horologist.” In Trinidad I might even be asked, “Where you...

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Guyana gets FIBA AmeriCup lifeline

Oct 15, 2026

…Guyana replaces Antigua and Barbuda for Nicaragua tournament (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s senior men’s national basketball team has been handed a major opportunity to advance its...

The square peg legacy

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Burnham’s dream of ‘Guyanization’—a euphemism for replacing the colonial administrative class with locals loyal to the new order was, at its core, a nationalist ideal. But ideals without discipline often lead to farce. The result was a bureaucracy filled with...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Seeram: Did the Commies takeover

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On the next occasion that Guyana’s Hon Attorney General, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP, OE, CCH, opens his book of wisdom and expounds on the rule of law and respect for the law (and of laws, not men), I have a humble addition for inclusion in his encyclopedia. There is...

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