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Arguments erupt over Mayor and Councilors being locked out of meetings

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Arguments erupt over Mayor and Councilors being locked out of meetings

By Zena Henry As City Hall and its Town Clerk continue to bump heads over administrative functions, arguments grew on Monday over Mayor Hamilton Green and Council members being locked out of Council...

GCCI advocates for local govt. elections, political stability at AGM

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI advocates for local govt. elections, political stability at AGM

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling, yesterday unveiled an agenda of items that the organisation hopes to see fulfilled for this year. Urling,...

Gold earnings shine for Guyana’s economy

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gold earnings shine for Guyana’s economy

– country records 4.8% growth in 2012, VAT rakes in $58.6B Guyana’s economy recorded a 4.8% growth rate last year with government projecting an ambitious 5.3% for 2013....

Increasing tuition fee should be last resort – UG Pro Chancellor

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Increasing tuition fee should be last resort – UG Pro Chancellor

-public/private partnership a recommended move “Meeting your expenses or raising the quality of education should not be done on the backs of your students.” This assertion was made by Pro...

Fighting malaria is a challenge, but measures are in place – Vector Control Dir.

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fighting malaria is a challenge, but measures are in place – Vector Control Dir.

Although the Ministry of Health through its Vector Control Services has been vibrantly tackling malaria, these efforts are often undermined. This has been the observation of Director of Vector...

HOLI MESSAGES

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on HOLI MESSAGES

GUYANA HINDU DHARMIC SABHA Holi or Phagwah is national in character. The festival has grown magnanimously and the celebration has truly captured the spirit of joy and happiness. Holi celebrates the...

Construction works at Farm, E.B.D., attract $B bids

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Construction works at Farm, E.B.D., attract $B bids

Under the Ministry of Housing and Water, billion dollar bids were received for the construction of roads, drains, structures and installation of a pure water distribution network at Farm, East Bank...

All roads lead to the National Stadium today

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on All roads lead to the National Stadium today

The National Stadium is all set for today’s Phagwah Festival 2013, a mega event which will feature popular local and international artistes. There will be free powder and T-shirts as well as...

No bail for nude intruder

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for nude intruder

Roscoe McIntyre, a 22-year-old resident of 19 Meadow Bank, was yesterday remanded when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The defendant...

17-year-old murder accused remanded

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 17-year-old murder accused remanded

A 17-year-old appeared yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of 25-year-old Kumar Mohabir, who resided at 7 Fernandes...

Boy, 6, critical after Mabaruma accident

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 6, critical after Mabaruma accident

A six-year-old boy is now a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), nursing head injuries he sustained from an accident early yesterday at...

Linden schoolboy’s body retrieved from lake

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden schoolboy’s body retrieved from lake

By Enid Joaquin What should have been a day of celebration, on Monday, turned to tragedy for a South Amelia’s Ward mother who had planned to take her two children to dinner at Church’s...

A tragedy waiting to happen

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A tragedy waiting to happen

Dear Editor, The death of the wheel chair-bound man at the Houston junction was almost predictable. Since the advent of the new traffic lights, motorists have been pestered by those...

Reversing a critical trend

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reversing a critical trend

Dear Editor, In the immortal words of former Leader of the Minority, Opposition Leader and late President of Guyana, Cheddi Jagan, “Things are happening but for whom?” in Guyana....

A view challenged and vanquished

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A view challenged and vanquished

Dear Editor, I would like to challenge the misconception being peddled by some history revisionists who say that the Guyana economy collapsed during the 1970s and 1980s because of high...

Reaction: Budget 2013 is vanilla coated

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reaction: Budget 2013 is vanilla coated

Dear Editor, To no great surprise, Dr Ashni Singh’s latest Budget was yet more of the same – biggest budget ever rhetoric. This is just a plain vanilla tax, borrow and spend...

Sexual politics then and now

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sexual politics then and now

After he lost power in 1964, Dr. Cheddi Jagan wrote his memoirs which he mischievously named, “The West on Trial.” I say mischievously because by looking at the title, one would...

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Sinclair’s Central Retainer Contract reinstated by GCB

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– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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Arguments erupt over Mayor and Councilors being locked out of meetings

GCCI advocates for local govt. elections, political stability at AGM

Gold earnings shine for Guyana’s economy

Increasing tuition fee should be last resort – UG Pro Chancellor

Fighting malaria is a challenge, but measures are in place – Vector Control Dir.

HOLI MESSAGES

Construction works at Farm, E.B.D., attract $B bids

All roads lead to the National Stadium today

No bail for nude intruder

17-year-old murder accused remanded

Boy, 6, critical after Mabaruma accident

Linden schoolboy’s body retrieved from lake

A tragedy waiting to happen

Reversing a critical trend

A view challenged and vanquished

Reaction: Budget 2013 is vanilla coated

Sexual politics then and now

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