February 2012

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Chisholm says fair performance at AAG Developmental meet

Feb 23, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chisholm says fair performance at AAG Developmental meet

– athletes to better performance at next developmental meet on March 1 Robert Chisholm, Coach of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Track Club, stated yesterday in a candid interview that...

Hadi’s Softball results for Feb. 19

Feb 23, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hadi’s Softball results for Feb. 19

Action in the Hadi’s Softball Cricket competition organised by the Guyana Floodlights Association continued with several matches last weekend. Here are the results of those matches....

GPS again among devices mulled in piracy fight

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GPS again among devices mulled in piracy fight

By Rabindra Rooplall Once again, Global Positioning System (GPS) for fishing boats along with improved coast guard monitoring, is being touted by Government and relevant authorities to prevent...

Strikes put sugar’s turnaround plan under stress – Dr. Luncheon

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Strikes put sugar’s turnaround plan under stress – Dr. Luncheon

The government has expressed concern that strikes in the sugar industry threaten the financial viability of the sugar corporation and have put the Corporation’s turnabout plan under stress....

Opposition to amend financial laws to penalise culpable Ministers

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition to amend financial laws to penalise culpable Ministers

The Fiscal Management and Accountability (FMA) of 2003 which was assented to then Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo stipulates a barrage of penalties for public officials that mismanage or are...

More advanced, inclusive form of governance needed – AFC

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on More advanced, inclusive form of governance needed – AFC

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says that the party is confident that the 10th Parliament will deliver on its mandate to serve in the best interest of all the people of Guyana. This was...

Blairmont factory resumes

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Blairmont factory resumes

…but “only 55 harvesters (out of 1108) turned out to work.” By Leon Suseran The General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union (GAWU) Seepaul Narine is...

Sweet Steelpan music rocks CASH in pre-mash jump up

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sweet Steelpan music rocks CASH in pre-mash jump up

Sweet, sweet steelpan music echoed through the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Sunday evening as the 2012 Republic Bank Mashramani Pan-o-rama Steel Band Competition delivered in full...

Many crimes in Mahdia unreported- Regional Chairman

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Many crimes in Mahdia unreported- Regional Chairman

– residents, miners distrust police Region Eight Chairman, Mark Crawford, has stated that security is a major issue in the mining district of Mahdia but many crimes are...

Seven affected as house crashes to ground

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Seven affected as house crashes to ground

A two-year-old child and his father yesterday escaped without injuries after their Canal #1 house came ‘crashing down’. The house fell sometime after 12:15 yesterday. According to Pansy...

Gunmen abandon vehicle in Sophia after robberies

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen abandon vehicle in Sophia after robberies

The police were yesterday looking for a white Toyota Raum, with licence plates HB 9586, and three men whom they believed were responsible for two separate robberies. According to reports, one...

Rotten anchor block caused pole to fall, no construction works – GPL

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rotten anchor block caused pole to fall, no construction works – GPL

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has refuted claims that construction activities in Sparendaam resulted in an electrical pole being compromised causing wires to fall across the Rupert Craig...

Man attempts suicide after being locked up for reportedly assaulting wife

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man attempts suicide after being locked up for reportedly assaulting wife

A taxi driver, who attempted to hang himself after being locked up for allegedly assaulting his wife was yesterday granted bail to the tune of $25,000 when he appeared before Magistrate...

Route #42 operators ‘exploiting hapless commuters’

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Route #42 operators ‘exploiting hapless commuters’

In any mixed economy as in the case of Guyana the market, whether for goods or services, is regulated in some way or another often times with policies emanating from some piece of legislation....

2012 REPUBLIC DAY MESSAGES

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 2012 REPUBLIC DAY MESSAGES

GOVT. HAS GREAT PLANS TO TAKE GUYANA TO NEW HEIGHTS Message from His Excellency Donald Ramotar on the Occasion of Republic Day I extend warm greetings to all Guyanese at home and abroad...

Stabroek Market sweep!

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek Market sweep!

Sophia mechanic’s murder…More persons questioned, cops process fingerprints

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia mechanic’s murder…More persons questioned, cops process fingerprints

Police are questioning more suspects in connection with the bizarre murder of Sophia mechanic Marlon Welcome. Kaieteur News understands that at least one person was detained on Monday after...

Police sergeant transferred after road fatality

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police sergeant transferred after road fatality

The Sergeant, who is allegedly implicated in running over the retired Headmaster Thakoordial Jaisiri, a/k Johnny, Monday night, with his car, has been posted to the Anna Regina Police Station. The...

Chopped miner identified

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Chopped miner identified

The miner who was hacked to death at the Konawaruk Backdam on Monday during an alleged row with another man has been identified by the police as Troy Anthony Birkett, a 41-year- old of...

Plantain thief fined $10,000

Feb 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Plantain thief fined $10,000

A labourer who stole two bunches of plantains at the Stabroek Market on February 15 was yesterday ordered to pay $10,000 fine or face six months imprisonment after he admitted to taking...

GuySuCo racks up US$40M debt to local banks, creditors

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo racks up US$40M debt to local banks, creditors

– overseas bank refuse to lend money The state-owned sugar company is finding major difficulty in obtaining short-term financing. Yesterday, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo),...

Fallen electric wires snarl traffic along Rupert Craig highway E.C.D.

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fallen electric wires snarl traffic along Rupert Craig highway E.C.D.

…pipeline to Jagdeo’s mansion blamed for pole collapse Several villages between Le Ressouvenir and Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, were without electricity for close to three...

Robert Persaud’s Ministry has no authority to spend money

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Robert Persaud’s Ministry has no authority to spend money

…still to be gazetted-Greenidge While there are those that laud the creation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, there are those that criticize the expansion of...

Two more murders rock Guyana’s goldfields

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two more murders rock Guyana’s goldfields

Police in the interior are investigating two more murders that have occurred on Monday. One of the murders involves a Guyanese called “Tall Man” while the other is that of a Brazilian....

New Chinese ferries to cost $50M per month

Feb 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New Chinese ferries to cost $50M per month

– Diesel-run Caterpillar engines unsuitable, more expensive Two new Chinese-built ferries that will ply the Parika/Supenaam route are likely to cost Guyanese taxpayers millions of...

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Sep 12, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. TKR (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors signed off their run at home with a huge bang after handing long-time rivals Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) a 6 wicket...

Should Guyana build a small refinery?

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The public discourse, thus far, on a refinery for Guyana asks some legitimate questions about cost, management, financing and commercial risk. But it makes a fundamental analytical mistake of evaluating the proposed Guyanese refinery as though its purpose were to become another...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Jagdeo on breaches, accountability Pt 1

Sep 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Great to see Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President, taking control. Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers, and assorted others summoned to a session with the new Minister for Virtue and against Vice. Dr. Jagdeo is the best man for that job. He knows the...

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