January 2012

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Driver in Kuru Kuru hit-and-run accident caught

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Driver in Kuru Kuru hit-and-run accident caught

The driver who is believed to have been involved in Wednesday’s fatal accident on the Kuru Kuru Public Road, Soesdyke has been arrested. Kaieteur News was told that the man was...

Govt. commends first women miners association in Guyana

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. commends first women miners association in Guyana

– Guyana is proud gender equality and development record- Webster As countries strive to achieve the United Nation’s Third Millennium Development Goal, which promotes gender...

Four homeless as electric fire guts Ogle home

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Four homeless as electric fire guts Ogle home

A mother and her three children are now homeless after a fire of suspected electrical origin gutted their home at Sideline Dam, Ogle, East Coast Demerara. Fortunately, another house, which is...

Significant improvement in Maths foreseen

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Significant improvement in Maths foreseen

The introduction of the ambitious programme aimed at improving the performance at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examination (CSEC), is well on its way to achieving the desired...

Society benefits from free eye care service

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Society benefits from free eye care service

In recognition of the importance of eye- care in Guyana, the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Laparkan Trading Limited held its first Eye Care Outreach programme yesterday at the W.M...

Traffic diverted as work on Hope Canal progresses

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic diverted as work on Hope Canal progresses

The main highway at the Hope/ Douchfour area, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was officially closed off on Monday, last, and traffic is now being detoured through a bypass constructed at Hope as...

Mother chopped at mining camp still to get justice

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mother chopped at mining camp still to get justice

Simone Pillew, a 40-year-old mother of five, who was brutally chopped and robbed at a mining camp at Konawaruk some two months ago, is still awaiting justice. So far, she has been unable to...

Non functioning School Health Units a disappointment-Ramsarran

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Non functioning School Health Units a disappointment-Ramsarran

Moves are apace to improve the operation of the School Health Unit, which comes as a collaborative effort between the Ministries of Health and Education, and which according to...

More efficient services needed to develop timber sector- GFC Stakeholders

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on More efficient services needed to develop timber sector- GFC Stakeholders

Stakeholders in the Forest Product Development and Marketing Council (FPDMC) say that there needs to be an improvement in the efficiency of services offered by the Guyana Forestry Commission...

Purchaser of Stolen Machine Jailed

Jan 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Purchaser of Stolen Machine Jailed

– Thief released on fine Mahasia, called “Shine”, a 48–year-old grand mother of Free and Easy Village, Wakenaam Island was yesterday jailed by Magistrate Leron Daly for six months. The...

US$840M Amaila Falls Hydro-electric plant… Contract to be made public if Govt. agrees-CEO Sithe Global

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on US$840M Amaila Falls Hydro-electric plant… Contract to be made public if Govt. agrees-CEO Sithe Global

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sithe Global, the United States-based company contracted to undertake the construction of the 165MW Amaila Falls hydro-electric facility in Guyana, says...

PPP/C takes control of six regions

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C takes control of six regions

– AFC scores Region 8; APNU nets three As anticipated, the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) took control of six of the country’s 10 Administrative...

Sheema Mangar murder….Fabric samples did not match victim’s clothes

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sheema Mangar murder….Fabric samples did not match victim’s clothes

– police urged to stop fooling around and come clean More and more controversy is emerging in the Sheema Mangar case as reports reaching this newspaper have indicated that the results...

REPSOL set to start oil drilling by next week

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on REPSOL set to start oil drilling by next week

Drilling for oil by REPSOL in its Jaguar well location offshore Guyana could start by next week, officials said yesterday. According to officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources and...

Driver flees after sand truck kills Barama security guard

Jan 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Driver flees after sand truck kills Barama security guard

A security guard living along the Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, has become the country’s latest road fatality after he became a victim of a hit-and-run accident. Ronville Roberts,...

RETAINING OUR SKILLED GUYANESE AND OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RETAINING OUR SKILLED GUYANESE AND OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

It was refreshing to learn that the government of Guyana is contemplating allowing scholarship students to be contracted outside of the public sector as part of the fulfillment of their scholarship...

The press is a whipping block

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The press is a whipping block

During the past few years, many organisations, particularly business entities, have been blaming their incompetence on the media. When they perform poorly they look for any reason. There was a time...

Prioritizing an agenda

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Prioritizing an agenda

The whole of Guyana knows that the opposition in Parliament has shaped an agenda for what they hope will be a freer Guyana. I say freer instead of better because no matter what laws the opposition...

Dem boys seh…Sithe Global mek Fip now get real rich

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Sithe Global mek Fip now get real rich

People now understand de hydro project. Dem also find out that Fip mek Guyana got to spend more than US$100 million because he ain’t done de road. Every day de road tek fuh done is...

Hold directors accountable for billions of uncollected taxes

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hold directors accountable for billions of uncollected taxes

DEAR EDITOR, I read with interest an article in the Kaieteur News (December 23, 2011) headed “Country loses billions in revenues…..GRA going after big contractors, businesses in...

GPL’s officials should be blaming themselves

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL’s officials should be blaming themselves

Dear Editor, It’s regrettable to see GPL officials going after consumers they deem guilty of electricity theft and planning to go the extra mile to scare people from continuing this...

Trying to bring some relief to this special country

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trying to bring some relief to this special country

DEAR EDITOR, I was touring South America for the past couple months and Guyana was my last destination before returning to Norway. Throughout South America there is one thing I observed...

The facts about Freddie Kissoon’s termination

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The facts about Freddie Kissoon’s termination

DEAR EDITOR, This letter is a response to the Kaieteur News reporting on the areas and “facts” surrounding my dismissal from UG by the UG Council. There must be, for journalistic...

How dare Nestor question this Ministry’s “positive mindset” towards Mashramani?

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on How dare Nestor question this Ministry’s “positive mindset” towards Mashramani?

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport feels constrained to comment on a letter on page 5 of your Tuesday 24th January 2012 edition, captioned “THE PPP/C’S...

High Court dismisses GCB move to quash IMC

Jan 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on High Court dismisses GCB move to quash IMC

It was revealed yesterday that the full sitting of the High Court, presided over Justice James Bovell Drakes and Justice William Ramlal, dismissed the ‘Order or Rule Nisi of...

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Ebo McNeil delivers 1500m bronze at South American Youth Games

Apr 23, 2026

…Ezekiel Millington to contest 100m finals today Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Ebo McNeil delivered a strong performance on the track in Panama, claiming bronze in the boys’ 1500m final at the...

Glenn Lall has raised some important concerns

Apr 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something fundamentally incongruent about a country standing atop one of the most promising oil frontiers of the 21st century while simultaneously deepening its reliance on external debt. Guyana today embodies that contradiction. It is hailed as the world’s...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Mohameds Extradition – the latest episode

Apr 23, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It is obvious that there are two sets of folks who want Messrs. Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Mohamed out of Guyana. Persons of interest in the first set take the form of the Government of Guyana, specifically the hostile PPP leadership...

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