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UG Council defends VC choice

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UG Council defends VC choice

…insists selection process was transparent Concerted efforts were made yesterday to defend the selection and approval of Nigerian-born, Dr Jacob Opadeyi for the position of Vice Chancellor (VC)...

$2.5M in fuel unaccounted for at Bartica Police Station

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $2.5M in fuel unaccounted for at Bartica Police Station

– Sergeant busted, Barrack Room labourer being investigated The Guyana Police Force has launched an internal investigation into a discrepancy, totaling $2.5M, in fuel purchases by...

Dem boys seh…Sonny Ass-tin in jail

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Sonny Ass-tin in jail

Sonny sleeping in a pumpkin jumpsuit pun a cot. He deh in a room more small than somebody toilet and he crying hard hard. He is a clear case of moon does run till day ketch am. When de Feds...

Angry passengers storm EZjet again

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Angry passengers storm EZjet again

While the Chief Executive Officer of EZjet is in custody in the United States, staffers at the airline’s Guyana office had a hard time calming a group of irate passengers demanding repayment for...

Boy, 9, struck by pickup truck

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 9, struck by pickup truck

Nine –year-old Farzad Khan, is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after being struck by a pickup truck shortly after lunch yesterday at Broad and Ketley Streets,...

GPHC reinstates nurses just as GPSU threatens “civil disobedience”

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC reinstates nurses just as GPSU threatens “civil disobedience”

By Zena Henry The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday afternoon threatened “civil disobedience” if public service workers cannot be protected by the rule of law. Union President...

Up to 50% of cigarette packets must display health warnings – CARICOM

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Up to 50% of cigarette packets must display health warnings – CARICOM

Cigarette manufacturers in the region will soon be forced to print health warnings covering almost half of its display area, CARICOM announced Wednesday. The CARICOM Council for Trade and...

Corentyne farmers call for new pumps after severe flooding

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne farmers call for new pumps after severe flooding

Angry Berbice farmers are calling on government for two new pumps after severe flooding recently. At a council meeting of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce, the issue was...

POLITICS IS FUN IN GUYANA… AND FUNNY TOO!

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on POLITICS IS FUN IN GUYANA… AND FUNNY TOO!

Guyana is the best country in the world. The level of political humour found here is unmatched anywhere else in the world. Two recent events illustrate how funny politics can be in Guyana and...

Concerned sugar-producing countries want more EU help

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Concerned sugar-producing countries want more EU help

– Warn about quota shortfall Sugar-producing nations, affected by Europe’s decision to fully open its markets after 2015, want more financial help in face of growing hardship....

Let’s learn Portuguese

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Let’s learn Portuguese

Earlier this week, in our editorial “The Southern Connection”, we elaborated on the opportunities for development available to us if we were to satisfy the Brazilian need for a...

Murder accused freed after five years behind bars

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused freed after five years behind bars

After more than five years in jail for a crime which he admitted he had committed, but had done so in self-defence to save his life, 44-year-old murder accused Mark Exteen Massiah called ‘Red...

Slain businessman cremated

Dec 14, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Slain businessman cremated

– cops still to test blood samples Murdered Annandale businessman Kamal Ramsahoye was cremated yesterday, with police still to apprehend his killers or ascertain whether his death is the...

Freddie Kissoon should conduct his own polls

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon should conduct his own polls

Dear Editor, I write in response to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s missive (KN Nov 24). After being provided the information umpteen times, Kissoon stated he would still like to know about...

Try civil disobedience

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Try civil disobedience

Dear Editor, Emile Mervin’s letter in Kaieteur News, December 11, 2012 titled, “Those denied radio licence should file a class action lawsuit for being discriminated against.” His...

Don’t belittle the healthcare providers

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t belittle the healthcare providers

Dear Editor, May 12 is Designated Nurses Day annually; I personally feel that on graduation, all nurses and nursing assistants should be applauded and congratulated because they...

A disclosure

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A disclosure

Dear Editor, Reference is hereby made to Freddie Kissoon’s column in a Sunday edition in which in referring to a certain former Permanent Secretary, he asked “ Whey he get duh money...

Excusing away corruption

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Excusing away corruption

Dear Editor, Corruption is evil. It becomes a greater evil when “explanations” are proffered by persons who should instead be ferreting out the perpetrators. It is a truism that...

The enumerators misrepresented the situation

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The enumerators misrepresented the situation

Dear Editor, We have read, with some concern, an article published in your edition of December 9 captioned “Census enumerators get shortchanged.” During the training for the 2012...

Savage Street in a savage land

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Savage Street in a savage land

Day by day, little by little, the ordinary John Public, the poor and the powerless are giving up on the preservation of their inherent rights in Guyana. Whatever they are entitled to by virtue of...

Jagan justifies his employment at OP

Dec 14, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagan justifies his employment at OP

Dear Editor, This serves as my official response to a letter published in Kaieteur News on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, under the name “Disgusted Guyanese,” attempting, albeit...

Victoria’s Fashions supports as Chico Junior U-13 set for kickoff

Dec 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Victoria’s Fashions supports as Chico Junior U-13 set for kickoff

Outstanding players to win BMX cycles The eight teams vying for top honours in the inaugural Chico Junior U-13 Round Robin Football Lien tournament, scheduled to get underway from December 22-January...

Holder aims to use Bangladesh experience as stepping stone

Dec 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Holder aims to use Bangladesh experience as stepping stone

Bridgetown, Barbados – Allrounder Jason Holder believes a good showing in the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board’s season could see him being catapulted into the forefront of the thinking...

$Rain stops play in national cricket team CT\20 practice game$

Rain stops play in national cricket team CT\20 practice game

Dec 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rain stops play in national cricket team CT\20 practice game

The national cricket team’s preparation for 2013 Caribbean Twenty\20 tournament was yesterday affected by the inclement weather when their practice match against a Rest XI was called off...

GFF Super League…Alpha, Pele, Western, Buxton in winner’s row; Den Amstel & Rosignol draw

Dec 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super League…Alpha, Pele, Western, Buxton in winner’s row; Den Amstel & Rosignol draw

Defending champion Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United racked up another three points as did Buxton United Sports Club, Pele and Western Tigers when play in the Guyana Football Federation Super...

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All-round Shadab (30 & 2-19), Alzarri (4-41), star as Falcons...

Sep 09, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. ABF – Guyana lose by 65-runs (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors had their fairy-tale, unbeaten run this season come to an abrupt end, after the Antigua...

The three leashes of empire

Sep 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Empire, in its modern form, seldom arrives wearing a military uniform. It comes dressed instead as an investment banker, carrying a development plan, or as the representative of a multinational corporation bearing gifts in the language of progress. The empire does not always...

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...

Deportees-inevitable was written all over them

Sep 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It was just a matter of when. From where they hail. Then, how many of them. Last, what kind of undesirables. They go by the name of ‘deportees’, third country nationals. From the moment the first word of a destination for deportees from the U.S. came up, I...

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