March 2012

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Teaching Entrepreneurship

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Teaching Entrepreneurship

To say that we need to educate our ‘people’ to progress in this 21st century has now become quite clichéd. It is not that we have not explored the exhortation: we have referred...

It is hilarious that the Education Ministry has adopted a pseudonym to put forward its rebuttal

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is hilarious that the Education Ministry has adopted a pseudonym to put forward its rebuttal

DEAR EDITOR, I am very surprised that the Ministry of Education (MOE) took more than a week to respond to my letter which was captioned “The Ministry of Education seems to have the most unrealistic...

The Finance Minister should accommodate Mr. Greenidge

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Finance Minister should accommodate Mr. Greenidge

DEAR EDITOR The PPP/C government needs to be a bit more accommodating with PNC/APNU in getting the tripartite talks started, especially with Mr. Carl Greenidge, as reported in SN,...

Basic questions about the proposed Specialty Hospital

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Basic questions about the proposed Specialty Hospital

DEAR EDITOR, It is good that sections of the Parliamentary Opposition are demanding a credible explanation about the proposed Specialty Hospital. This engagement is resembling an old PPP...

Non-Accountability and the Insidious Culture

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Non-Accountability and the Insidious Culture

DEAR EDITOR, An enormous number of sinecures have been created by the administration over the past decade. Some of these have been within identifiable ministries, agencies, and departments....

Masters of Finance – Singh, Greenidge & Ram

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Masters of Finance – Singh, Greenidge & Ram

DEAR EDITOR, I am beginning to enjoy the emerging gravitas and leadership being displayed by Finance Minister Ashni Singh; unlike many of the dinosaurs representing the major political...

Creating fact out of fiction?

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Creating fact out of fiction?

Dear Editor, I find it odd that the Guyana Times which prides itself in being the “Beacon of Truth” would place me at some media consultation in Linden by a group calling itself the...

WI aim to draw first blood against Australia today

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WI aim to draw first blood against Australia today

Kingstown, St Vincent – West Indies Captain, Darren Sammy hopes a winning history at Arnos Vale Cricket Ground can help the team get off to a winning start against Australia when the...

Alder leads Guyana’s female b/ball team to opening win

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alder leads Guyana’s female b/ball team to opening win

Extremely talented local forward, Natasha Alder led the Guyana women’s basketball team to a four-point 52-48 points win in their opening game over CPTSA Wings in the 12th Annual Gillian Brazier...

Fruta Conquerors pays courtesy call on PM Hinds

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors pays courtesy call on PM Hinds

Despite not offering firm commitments to any of the requests made by the Fruta Conquerors Football Club, who paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Samuel Hinds on Wednesday afternoon at his...

GFA/President Beer Super League

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA/President Beer Super League

-Double-header on today at GFC Charlestown United will be hoping to become the latest team to inflict a defeat on Houston Stars when the two teams collide this evening in the GFA/President...

Cox/Levedev to clash for (WBA) cruiserweight title

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cox/Levedev to clash for (WBA) cruiserweight title

-‘Big Truck’ contracted for sparring duties By Michael Benjamin Following a sensational first round knockout victory over former World Boxing Council (WBC)...

RUSAL sponsors football Academy in Kwakwani – Six areas to be targeted

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on RUSAL sponsors football Academy in Kwakwani – Six areas to be targeted

RUSAL, a Russian-owned company, operating under the name Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BGGI) has agreed to sponsor a football Academy that will see six villages in the Region 10 area...

Hikers make good on promise

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers make good on promise

– support Saints Hockey Club In keeping with a promise to support the efforts of the newly formed Saints Hockey Club, the Hikers Hockey Club juniors’ programme handed...

Canadian Super biker Kevin Graham coming

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Canadian Super biker Kevin Graham coming

He has been coming here for quite a long time, and by now, must know the South Dakota Circuit like any other local competitor. So, when Canadian, Kevin Graham, arrives in Guyana to...

Edmonds says it’s scary to imagine what James can do

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Edmonds says it’s scary to imagine what James can do

Despite Guyana’s runner-up quarter-miler athlete Stephan James of Running Brave Athletic Club missing the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) CARITA Games qualifying 400m U-20...

Police $90M Elections fund…Cheque for $320,000 was made out to Commander Ramnarine

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police $90M Elections fund…Cheque for $320,000 was made out to Commander Ramnarine

By Dale Andrews The Ministry of Home Affairs says it remains committed to strict financial accountability and is assuring the public that at no time would it allow any breaches of...

DHB to close temporarily in late April

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on DHB to close temporarily in late April

– to change hydraulic ramp The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) is expected to be temporarily closed to large ocean-going vessels in late April. This is to facilitate the removal of the old...

Bartica businesswoman stabbed by customer

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica businesswoman stabbed by customer

Police are currently combing the Bartica area for two men who were involved in the stabbing of a 23-year-old businesswoman yesterday. The woman, Michelle Singh, is now at the Georgetown...

Chief Statistician, Bureau of Statistics Staff protest Pension plan

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Statistician, Bureau of Statistics Staff protest Pension plan

After many failed meetings with the Ministry of Finance, over two dozen staff members of the Bureau of Statistics carried out protest action in front of the Bureau’s High Street, Kingston branch....

Education Sector’s ‘Automatic Promotion’ programme justified

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Education Sector’s ‘Automatic Promotion’ programme justified

“We know in many cases children are doomed to fail because their teachers didn’t do what they were suppose to do,” said Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, as he engaged an intense...

Follow-up care after kidney transplant is not optional – Surgeon

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Follow-up care after kidney transplant is not optional – Surgeon

Scheduled and continuous follow-up after a kidney transplant operation is a must. In fact according to expert kidney transplant surgeon, Dr. Rahul Jindal of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in...

Thieves raid Mon Repos market again

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves raid Mon Repos market again

– Mon Repos market vendors suspicious of guards Vendors in the Mon Repos Market on the East Coast of Demerara were thrown into further frustration yesterday after robbers, for the fifth...

Body on Mabaruma playfield…Venezuela-based businessman was strangled

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Body on Mabaruma playfield…Venezuela-based businessman was strangled

– residents fear suspect hiding in community The Venezuela-based Guyanese who was found dead on a Mabaruma Settlement playfield last Sunday is E&F Division’s fifth murder victim for the...

Guyanese can now obtain machine-readable passports through Regional Consulates

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese can now obtain machine-readable passports through Regional Consulates

St. Kitts (SKNVibes) – The government of Guyana has recently implemented a system for Guyanese living outside of that country to apply for the CARICOM machine-readable passports through its...

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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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