October 2011

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Region Nine flood victims…770 households set to benefit from $37M Govt. payout

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region Nine flood victims…770 households set to benefit from $37M Govt. payout

Some 1,500 households who were severely affected by the floods earlier this year have benefited from Government’s monetary assistance to Region Nine residents. Each received a cash...

Ministry team visits Kabakaburi, St. Monica to promote bamboo craft

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry team visits Kabakaburi, St. Monica to promote bamboo craft

Government is committed to development of Indigenous peoples- Minister Prashad A team from the Ministry of Tourism recently visited the community of Kabakaburi and St. Monica, in...

ImmigrationTalk: How to Extend your Visit in the United States?

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTalk: How to Extend your Visit in the United States?

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Gail@Go2Lawyer.com In certain situations, when you travel to the United States on a nonimmigrant visa, you may want to extend your stay. As a nonimmigrant, you...

Two drug dealers busted at Wakenaam

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two drug dealers busted at Wakenaam

Two young men of Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam, were stopped and searched by a party of police men, headed by Sergeant Dennis Clarke, shortly before 3 o’clock Friday afternoon after they disembarked...

GT&T offers an early start on Christmas

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T offers an early start on Christmas

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has made an early start with its Christmas promotions. It kicked off a grand road show yesterday. The telephone company is now...

Drug link allegations place 10-year-old at centre of custody battle

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drug link allegations place 10-year-old at centre of custody battle

– father appeals High Court denial of sole custody of daughter By Dale Andrews A few weeks ago, a United States of America-based Guyanese snatched his four-year old son...

Tractor kills Essequibo farmer

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News 1

A Richmond Housing Scheme rice farmer died yesterday afternoon after he lost control of his tractor on the Hoff Van-Aurich Public Road. Ganesh Judhan,a/k Cakes, 40, was discovered by...

Guyana poised to attain 100% voluntary blood donation by 2012

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana poised to attain 100% voluntary blood donation by 2012

… The success story of the Good Samaritan Programme Pull Quote: “It is a selfless opportunity to make a difference in another person’s life. This way you are helping to...

With democracy, one size doesn’t fit all

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on With democracy, one size doesn’t fit all

– EU Ambassador says on leaving Guyana Outgoing European Union Ambassador, Geert Heikens, has had the black water and the labba – the proverbial guarantee that he will return to...

PPP writes GECOM on volunteer ‘assaults’

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP writes GECOM on volunteer ‘assaults’

-Top Cop to write political parties The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has written to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) over what it said were ‘assaults’ of its...

Hydro-Power developers still without substantive licence

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hydro-Power developers still without substantive licence

Chartered Accountant, Civil Activist and Attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram, fears that the developers of the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project may be operating outside the confines of the...

Speculation and Food Prices

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Speculation and Food Prices

Today, ”World Food Day”, is being commemorated under the theme ‘Food Prices- from Crisis to Stability’. On Saturday we reported the remarks of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),...

Mangrove programme goes to Berbice schools

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mangrove programme goes to Berbice schools

The Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) has begun a massive education drive in the Berbice schools. According to Head of the MRP, Mrs Annette Arjoon- Martins, specially tailored presentations...

Soldier’s mother pleads for his discharge from GDF

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Soldier’s mother pleads for his discharge from GDF

The mother of a 19-year old soldier is regretting the moment she enlisted her son in the Guyana Defence Force. She is now desperate for him to be discharged. However, she may have to wait...

Essequibo Technical Institute gets $$29M dormitory

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo Technical Institute gets $$29M dormitory

Prospective applicants from Bartica, Moruka, Pomeroon, Leguan and Waknaam, in the Essequibo River, would be soon be facilitated in a dormitory currently being constructed next to a building at...

From the Diaspora…THIS ‘THIEFING’ MENTALITY HAS TO STOP

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…THIS ‘THIEFING’ MENTALITY HAS TO STOP

By Ralph Seeram “Ah jus put de mat fuh sun on the porch and deh gone with it, nat even ah hour”, lamented my relative as she was bringing in her rocking chair from her...

Failure Isn’t At Fault

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Food For Thought Comments Off on Failure Isn’t At Fault

“Failure separates those who think they want success from those who are determined to win. Failure narrows the playing field. The first people out are those that blame others, next out...

Two years on and crippled worker awaits help

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two years on and crippled worker awaits help

For most people, birthdays are awaited with joyous anticipation of all the things to do, places to go and friends to see. But for a few, birthdays are sometimes awaited with much trepidation...

THE AFC IS A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL PARTY

Oct 16, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE AFC IS A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL PARTY

By Sasenarine Singh The critical part of retaining teachers is increasing salaries – as it is for all other workers in Guyana. As the elections draw nearer and with the chances of the...

Interesting Creatures…The Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana 1

In some parts of the world, a Chickenhawk or Chicken Hawk is an unofficial designation for three species of hawks: the Cooper’s Hawk, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and the Red-tailed...

The Beatles, philosophy, my daughter and the sempiternal dream in one’s heart

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

My daughter was born in 1989, twenty years after the breakup of history’s most phenomenal music band, the Beatles. The Beatles was a nuanced group though it was confined to a particular genre in...

Housing and you: Those rising costs…

Oct 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and you: Those rising costs…

By Leonard Gildarie Whew! I am at it again. Just about a year after finishing my home, I am now doing some extensions, enclosing my garage and building a back shed to add a gym and a hangout spot. I...

Even criminals don’t accept certain crimes

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Even criminals don’t accept certain crimes

There are not many of us who would want to go to jail. Not even the most serious criminals in our midst ever contemplate going to jail. Of course some of them do the most stupid things,...

ACCESS TO THE MEDIA

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ACCESS TO THE MEDIA

The state media cannot be described as balanced or fair in so far as its coverage of the opposition parties is concerned. The coverage of the state-owned media is often slanted in favour of...

Still no ideology?

Oct 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Still no ideology?

The imminent collapse of the Eurozone, brought about by the profligacy of the PIIGS based on neo-liberal market fundamentalism and financialisation, reminds us that the 2008 US-induced crisis was not...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

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...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

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...

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