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Guyana Venezuela begin talks on new Anti-Drugs Cooperation Agreement

Feb 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Venezuela begin talks on new Anti-Drugs Cooperation Agreement

-National Drug Strategy Master Plan successor on the cards-Rohee Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has admitted that the National Drug Strategy Master Plan has not been completed on schedule. The...

Mark Austin out to avenge Pyle’s loss to Antoine this month end

Feb 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Mark Austin out to avenge Pyle’s loss to Antoine this month end

When Miguel Antoine came to Guyana last December to face off with Shawn Pyle in the tenth edition of the ProAm boxing cards he had just surrendered his Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title by...

Mocha residents concerned at stymied NDIA project

Feb 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mocha residents concerned at stymied NDIA project

Residents of Mocha, East Bank Demerara are calling on the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to complete irrigation works which leads out to the entrance of Mocha and which started in...

Backboards to be erected on Burnham Court this week

Feb 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Backboards to be erected on Burnham Court this week

– Engineer inspects volume of work Incumbent president of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Trevor Rose has indicated that the new backboards he received for Burnham Court...

The Guyanese people must demand the truth from the ERC

Feb 10, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Guyanese people must demand the truth from the ERC

The Ethnic Relations Commission has responded to my article on its lapsed constitutional mandate. The response is laced with deception. It is hoped that after the publication of this column, major...

Nash recovers as J’cans depart for islands

Feb 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Nash recovers as J’cans depart for islands

SOLID West Indies middle-order batsman Brendan Nash has recovered sufficiently from injury to be a part of the Jamaican delegation which departed Tuesday en route to Grenada for the second-round WICB...

BETTER CAN BE DONE!

Feb 10, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BETTER CAN BE DONE!

Planning! Planning! Proper Planning! This is all that is takes to make things work the way they should work. Proper planning is however a scarce commodity in Guyana, a log pulled from the shelves in...

Sigatoka attacks Pomeroon farmers

Feb 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sigatoka attacks Pomeroon farmers

Farmers living in the Lower Pomeroon area, are complaining of being severely affected by the black and yellow Sigatoka. The deadly disease, farmers said, preys primarily on both the plantain and...

Airline tickets procured for Cross Country team

Feb 10, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Airline tickets procured for Cross Country team

– Josiah-Tanner out, Collins could be included President of the Athletics Association of Guyana, Colin Boyce informed yesterday that the team selected to represent Guyana at the upcoming...

Why crucify Kissoon because of a teenage prank?

Feb 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why crucify Kissoon because of a teenage prank?

Dear Editor, It irks me to see Mr. Henry Jeffrey and the Chronicle running down Mr. Freddie Kissoon because of a teenage prank of removing a book from a library or bookshop. Removing a book...

PNCR now the most democratic political party in Guyana

Feb 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on PNCR now the most democratic political party in Guyana

Editor, Multiple electoral defeats, internal convulsions and external criticisms have transformed the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) into the most democratic political party in Guyana...

Response to Grenada invasion inaccuracy

Feb 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Response to Grenada invasion inaccuracy

Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon made a faux pas when he stated that the Grenada invasion took place in 1985 (column February 8). I am very familiar with the Grenada invasion as I wrote extensively...

Region Two HIV rate alarming

Feb 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two HIV rate alarming

According to a report emanating from the Health Ministry in Region Two, it has been reported that the region has recorded the highest number of HIV cases nationwide, with 22 babies being born...

Guyana is not the craziest country

Feb 10, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is not the craziest country

Dear Editor, In the January 27th 2011 issue of the Kaieteur News at page 10, there appeared an article by columnist Freddie Kissoon, captioned, “Craziest Country in the World”. The opinion...

Will AFC’s ethnic policies help or harm race relations?

Feb 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Will AFC’s ethnic policies help or harm race relations?

Dear Editor, First of all, I must commend the AFC for their timely responses in the letter columns to queries and concerns about certain aspects of their Action Plan, as outlined at the launch of...

Choose brave and courageous people to lead

Feb 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Choose brave and courageous people to lead

Dear Editor, I am observing the current wave of change in North Africa, Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt where peoples’ power has been triumphing over political powers. The people must be confident that...

Freddie Kissoon must state his true intentions

Feb 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon must state his true intentions

Dear Editor, The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is once again forced to correct the lies, misrepresentations and blatant betrayal of public confidence that Mr. Frederick (Freddie) Kissoon...

A timely call by Ramjattan

Feb 10, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on A timely call by Ramjattan

Dear Editor, I totally support the recent call by AFC presidential candidate Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan at Bath Settlement for Guyanese of Indian descent not to fear Guyanese of African descent. It is...

Our woes can be traced to illiteracy

Feb 10, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on Our woes can be traced to illiteracy

January has been an extremely hostile month for road users, the business community and those who found themselves at the receiving end of violence. Not to be spared have been those children who could...

Sophia schoolboy among two shot in botched Mahaica burglary

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia schoolboy among two shot in botched Mahaica burglary

He was supposed to be at home preparing for school the following day but instead, 17-year-old Junior Corbin of Sophia, and two associates went up to Good Hope, Mahaica, on the East Coast of Demerara,...

OP laptop purchases defy logic

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OP laptop purchases defy logic

Government could have saved almost US$200 on each of the computers purchased by the Office of the President, as the series of the items is available at significantly lower prices. Any person making a...

DPP appeals murder acquittal

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on DPP appeals murder acquittal

By Latoya Giles For the second time since the passage of legislation the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali- Hack last evening moved to appeal the verdict of a jury, under the new...

Diamond roads attract $130M upgrade

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond roads attract $130M upgrade

A representative of GuyCo Construction and General Services, as well as Romel Jagroop, yesterday inked contracts for the upgrade and repairs of the roads between First and Sixth Avenues in the new...

Engineer’s estimate for Canal#1 Bridge exceeds contractor’s bid by $31M

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Engineer’s estimate for Canal#1 Bridge exceeds contractor’s bid by $31M

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board yesterday opened bids for the construction of roads, drains, structures and the installation of a Pure Water Distribution Network at Leonora....

Dem boys seh…A lawyer who gun wine like Kwame

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…A lawyer who gun wine like Kwame

This thing to be president and run a country getting to people head. Some of dem getting suh desperate that dem cussing everybody. One of dem who is a lawyer meet a reporter and tell she some things...

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Iyer’s 102 crushes West Indies

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Shreyas Iyer produced a breathtaking century on his T20I captaincy debut as India dismantled the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of their five-game series at...

The end of the Lula era

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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