April 2013

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Book Review: A Tale of Religious Delusion

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review: A Tale of Religious Delusion

by Dr Glenville Ashby Jamaican writer Anthony Winkler marches through time – from Cadiz, Spain, to the New World, in the mercurial God Carlos. Set in the early half of the 16th...

The West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus)

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus)

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) is a manatee, and the largest surviving member of the aquatic mammal order Sirenia which also includes the dugong and the...

‘Big, Bold and Beautiful’ pageant to make grand return on May 2

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Big, Bold and Beautiful’ pageant to make grand return on May 2

By Enid Joaquin Seven full-figured women are set to turn up the temperature at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground, come May 2nd, as they vie for the title of Miss ‘Big Bold and Beautiful’,...

GPL is a liability to the people

Apr 21, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GPL is a liability to the people

During the consideration of the Estimates, the allocation requested by the Government for the Guyana Power & Light Inc. (GPL) was reduced from $10.2 billion to $5 billion. It...

Contractor cleared of any wrong doing, work approved

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor cleared of any wrong doing, work approved

Contractor Fazal Younas has been cleared of any wrongdoing and given the all clear by the Regional Administration and the Regional Works Committee of Region Six. This was after some...

International media body says distribution of radio licences violates media rights

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on International media body says distribution of radio licences violates media rights

While local media fraternities continue to demand answers into the “unequal distribution” of radio licences by former President Bharrat Jagdeo, international media bodies have also expressed...

GPL cuts put government in a “precarious” situation – Prime Minister

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL cuts put government in a “precarious” situation – Prime Minister

By Latoya Giles Prime Minister Sam Hinds, on Friday, stated that the opposition’s budget cut for the Guyana Power and Light puts the government and company in a very precarious situation....

The National Development Strategy

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The National Development Strategy

Back in December 2005, the National Assembly unanimously approved the motion brought by the PNC/R on the National Development Strategy (NDS). It gave many ordinary citizens a ray of...

Sunday Cartoon

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Radio licences and dictatorship

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Radio licences and dictatorship

When Bharrat Jagdeo in 2011, still as President and months before a general election, invented a circus called ‘Day of Appreciation’ at the National Stadium, some surprising names...

ImmigrationTalk…Immigration Bill Introduced by Senate Attorney Gail Seeram (Part 2)

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTalk…Immigration Bill Introduced by Senate Attorney Gail Seeram (Part 2)

By Gail Seeram Amendments to Family Immigration & Elimination of Brother/Sister Sponsorship: Under the new system there will be two family preference categories and they will cover...

Woman fraudster on the run jailed for two years ‘in absentia’

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Woman fraudster on the run jailed for two years ‘in absentia’

A woman who decided to plan a scheme to fleece her one time nephew-in-law is now on the run and an arrested warrant issued for her arrest after she was jailed in her absence for...

Another person collapses and dies at CJIA

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Another person collapses and dies at CJIA

…family criticizes poor response “…security didn’t even help us…nothing—nothing…not even a walker, not a tissue, nobody responded! There was no ambulance, no Limacol!”...

Block 22 is picturesquely beautiful!

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Block 22 is picturesquely beautiful!

By Enid Joaquin This community that was in the past derogatorily referred to as “Vietnam’ because of all the negativity that pervaded it, has morphed into a close knit community of...

Local flight school to host vacation programme

Apr 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local flight school to host vacation programme

…focus on preparing hinterland-based operators For the first time, Air Services Limited Flight School (ASLFTS) will be offering the Private Pilot Programme over the August holidays....

Biggest Weakness Can Become Your Biggest Strength

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Biggest Weakness Can Become Your Biggest Strength

Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take, for example, the story of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm...

Sad if this funeral is recalled for the comments made by Jagdeo and endorsed by President Ramotaur

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sad if this funeral is recalled for the comments made by Jagdeo and endorsed by President Ramotaur

Dear Editor, The controversy surrounding former President Jagdeo’s comments at the funeral of Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud rages in a place in which ethnic division is always held over our heads as a...

Guyanese must stand firm against the 2013 budget

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese must stand firm against the 2013 budget

Dear Editor, Unfortunately, the Minister of Finance in his 2013 budget speech did absolutely nothing to stem the unending corrupt practices in Guyana which have permeated all walks of life in...

Let not the Sexual Offences Act be another piece of paper sitting on the shelf

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let not the Sexual Offences Act be another piece of paper sitting on the shelf

Dear Editor, I was totally appalled and disgusted when I opened the Kaieteur Newspaper dated Thursday 11th April 2013 and turned to page two, which states “ Mother of...

Afro-Guyanese should now speak of anti-African sentiments

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Afro-Guyanese should now speak of anti-African sentiments

Dear Editor, The PPP has now officially responded to Mr. Jagdeo’s remarks that there is a resurgence of anti-East Indian sentiments in Guyana. The PPP’s position is an unambiguous support...

I am undaunted by these attacks

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am undaunted by these attacks

Dear Editor, Two things happened to me over the past week. On Sunday morning I was awakened at 6:30am by a phone call. It was a close relative of mine. We arranged to meet immediately...

If the AG has a case to make on the CJ’s ruling, let him do so coherently

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on If the AG has a case to make on the CJ’s ruling, let him do so coherently

Dear Editor, Apart from the Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall’s penchant for verbal explosions and irrational adjectives, and in this instance his descriptions of the National...

Kissoon is misguided in his attacks on Indian activists and writers

Apr 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon is misguided in his attacks on Indian activists and writers

Dear Editor, This response is to correct the misrepresented view penned by Freddie Kissoon (KN April 2) attacking several Indians who have historically fought for and on behalf of...

John Fernandes Insurance Services Ltd 2nd Division Hockey League…Western Union Hikers lead after first round

Apr 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on John Fernandes Insurance Services Ltd 2nd Division Hockey League…Western Union Hikers lead after first round

Defending Champions, Western Union Hikers, have stormed to the lead at the end of the first round of the two round John Fernandes Insurance Services Ltd Second Division hockey league...

Warner and Blazer accused of fraud by CONCACAF

Apr 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warner and Blazer accused of fraud by CONCACAF

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – CONCACAF’s former leaders Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer were slammed as “fraudulent in their management” of the soccer confederation’s affairs by the head...

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Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...

The politics of appointment

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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