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Nine year old farm worker hangs self at Gangoo Creek

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nine year old farm worker hangs self at Gangoo Creek

The suicide rate in Berbice continues to climb dramatically with the deaths of two more persons including a nine-year-old who was a victim of child labour. A nine-year-old lad who was reportedly left...

Man dies after boats collide in the Pomeroon

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies after boats collide in the Pomeroon

An early morning collision in the Pomeroon River has left an elderly man of Grant Tri Best, Lower Pomeroon, dead and the police desperately trying to locate the other party, involved in the accident....

Guyana urges EU to be flexible on sugar-cut budget support

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana urges EU to be flexible on sugar-cut budget support

…loss of 14M Euros not a lost cause-Agri Minister Government yesterday called on Europe to be more flexible in its assistance to the sugar industry instead of commenting on possible future...

Schoolgirl disappears after grandmother’s threat

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl disappears after grandmother’s threat

A distressed grandmother visited Kaieteur News yesterday to tell her tale of her missing grand-daughter. Ruth Ollivirre of lot 89 Leopold Street, Georgetown stated that her 15-year-old...

Hundreds flocked GT&T Valentine’s Day promotion

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds flocked GT&T Valentine’s Day promotion

Seon Brown won the final Mazda RX8, and Valerie Fraser, the scooter, while Vidyanand Sugrim won a trip to a Caribbean destination. Ten others won between $10,000 and $200,000 as part of the...

Public-spirited citizen returns lost police weapon

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Public-spirited citizen returns lost police weapon

Not everyone is an enemy of the police—at least not a public-spirited citizen who returned a gun that was lost by a policeman last week. Kaieteur News understands that the citizen claimed that he...

Three witnesses take witness stand as murder trial continues

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Three witnesses take witness stand as murder trial continues

… Taxi driver murder trial As the murder trial for Shawn Richardson continued yesterday before Justice Dawn Gregory, three witnesses were called to give their evidence in chief. Richardson, 30,...

Restoration of teachers’ image must start at CPCE

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Restoration of teachers’ image must start at CPCE

– Education Minister Education Minister Shaik Baksh has underscored the need to restore the image of teachers and the prestige of the profession. However, he noted that these efforts have to...

US Embassy donates $2M in material to Corentyne schools

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy donates $2M in material to Corentyne schools

The U.S. Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) has donated over $2M worth of education materials, teaching aides and agriculture equipment to several Corentyne schools. The handing over...

Scotia Bank/ DDL/ GSDF Schools Football Academy launched

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank/ DDL/ GSDF Schools Football Academy launched

Ten schools from Georgetown have been selected to participate in the inaugural Scotia Bank/ Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL)/ Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) Schools Football Academy which...

Jockeys the crucial link in horseracing

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Jockeys the crucial link in horseracing

While all or most of the attention is usually focused on the horses at the various horserace meets, especially those that do well, not much attention is placed on the persons who, by and large, are...

T&HD workers not paid five per cent increase

Feb 15, 2011 knews News Comments Off on T&HD workers not paid five per cent increase

… ret’d Captain says wrongfully dismissed Workers attached to the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) have not been paid the five per cent retroactive increase for 2010. The...

Munroe slams unbeaten 112 for GNIC

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Munroe slams unbeaten 112 for GNIC

Twenty seven year-old Marvin Munroe slammed an unbeaten 112 for GNIC against MYO/Vikings on Saturday in their rain-ruined GCA second division two-day cricket match at the MYO ground last Saturday....

Regional officials, health personnel at odds over sex allegations

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Regional officials, health personnel at odds over sex allegations

Senior medical officials are refuting an article published in February 9 edition of the Kaieteur News, under the caption ‘Cuban doctor recalled for alleged sexual assault.’ Dr.Renueka Persaud...

Officers fear security threat at Georgetown Prison

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Officers fear security threat at Georgetown Prison

By Rabindra Rooplall Fear of a pending escape combined with other issues at the Georgetown Prison has prison officers concerned about the severe shortage of staff and their safety inside the prison....

DeSouza’s unbeaten 98 spearhead T&T club

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on DeSouza’s unbeaten 98 spearhead T&T club

Fellow Guyanese Latiff, Dick also shine Guyanese Sean De Souza hit a magnificent 98 not out as Sweet Revenge humbled Glenora by 138 runs in round four action of the North Zonal Cricket Council...

Suriname seizes smuggled Bristol cigarettes

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname seizes smuggled Bristol cigarettes

Suriname police on Saturday seized some 50 cartons of Bristol cigarettes that were smuggled from Guyana. Suriname’s Starnieuws has reported that the seizure was made at control point in Coronie....

Minibus operators take advantage of rise in gas prices

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus operators take advantage of rise in gas prices

Despite the admonition by Minister of Tourism, Manniram Prashad, that minibus operators do not raise fares, many are paying no heed to this and are unofficially, demanding more money. This is the...

Cecil Jacques retains Presidency of Pele FC

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Cecil Jacques retains Presidency of Pele FC

Gordon Braithwaite is TD; Travis Grant Club Captain Former National Goalkeeper Cecil Jacques was retuned as President of the Pele Football club when that entity held its Annual General Meeting (AGM)...

Bag of stolen squash costs man $20,000

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bag of stolen squash costs man $20,000

Officers at the City Constabulary outpost near Bourda Market, Georgetown, arrested Junior Mc Ferlin after he was seen with a bag containing a quantity of cucumbers and squash which were suspected to...

UDFA host successful facilitator’s seminar

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on UDFA host successful facilitator’s seminar

Association prepares for the “Man Up! Be a Champion for Change” U23 tourney The Upper Demerara Football Association’s (UDFA) last week hosted a successful three-day facilitator’s seminar for...

Man granted bail for fraudulent conversion

Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man granted bail for fraudulent conversion

“My worship, I took de money but please don’t send me to jail. I can’t go there right now,” were words of Michael Williams as he pleaded guilty to the offence of fraudulent conversion....

Rose was undermined

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Rose was undermined

By Edison Jefford Trevor Rose was not disappointed when he lost the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Presidency Sunday afternoon, and maybe he had good reason not to be, since as...

Players wanted to leave since first day

Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Players wanted to leave since first day

Says Leewards Manager Percy Daniels By Sean Devers Manager of the Leeward Islands team Percy Daniels said his players wanted to leave Guyana for Antigua since the first day of their second round...

Millions lost as fire razes Lethem store

Feb 15, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Millions lost as fire razes Lethem store

– first major fire in 40 years The absence of fire fighting facilities in the swiftly developing border location of Lethem was lamented yesterday when fire completely destroyed one of the...

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Sinclair’s Central Retainer Contract reinstated by GCB

Oct 18, 2026

– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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