July 2013

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Opposition gives the nation hydrocele instead of Hydro power – AG

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition gives the nation hydrocele instead of Hydro power – AG

By Kiana Wilburg “When the history of post independence Guyana is recorded, July 18 will feature prominently. It will feature prominently unfortunately from a notorious perspective for it was on...

Five-year-old in need of money for brain tumor removal

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Five-year-old in need of money for brain tumor removal

The family members of five-year-old Bibi Zaheeda Mohamed are pleading with the public for financial support which would aid her daughter’s lifesaving surgery. In May 2011, the child...

AFC demands withdrawal of Ramotar’s “act of terrorism” comment

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC demands withdrawal of Ramotar’s “act of terrorism” comment

Seemingly, a tit for tat cold war has erupted between Government and the joint Opposition as two Bills presented by Government related to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project were shot down in...

Eleven more doctors join national brigade

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Eleven more doctors join national brigade

Eleven new medical practitioners graduated after completing their final year Internship at the Suddie Public Hospital Corporation, Saturday. Ten of them were Essequibians. The lone Berbician was...

Authorities lax with human traffickers

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities lax with human traffickers

The non-prosecution of persons allegedly involved in human trafficking is allowing the vicious sex trade to continue and undermining all efforts and resources used to rescue victims,...

Jealous lover stabs Port Kaituma woman

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous lover stabs Port Kaituma woman

A Port Kaituma stall holder is now nursing eight stab wounds about her body after she was attacked by her jealous ex-boyfriend on Friday. According to the victim, 42-year-old Yonette...

The fallout continues on the Amaila Falls hydro

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The fallout continues on the Amaila Falls hydro

As the fallout continues from Thursday’s non-passage of two Bills critical to the financing of the country’s flagship US$840M Amaila Falls hydro electricity project, attention has been centered...

From Death to Redemption

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From Death to Redemption

– former addict Sheikh Shamshudeen tells of his struggle By Rehanna Ramsay His story is one of death and redemption. After several years of struggling to break a cycle of addiction...

Amaila Falls Hydro-power… CCCC calling on Parliamentarians, Stakeholders to support project

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydro-power… CCCC calling on Parliamentarians, Stakeholders to support project

The President, Executive and Members of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) are calling on all Parliamentarians and Stakeholders to support the enactment of the Amaila...

Butterfly

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little...

Guyana oldest Living Engineer Grenville Felix, 96 not out

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana oldest Living Engineer Grenville Felix, 96 not out

Guyana oldest engineer, Grenville Felix, of Canefield, East Canje, Berbice is 96 years old. He reached that milestone on July 16, last. The occasion was observed with a simple Birthday Bash at his...

From the Diaspora…CAN BABU JOHN SAVE A DECLINING PPP?

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…CAN BABU JOHN SAVE A DECLINING PPP?

By Ralph Seeram We knew for sure we were in for a severe “cut ass”. My cousin Eric and I had broken a most important rule of my aunt; do not go and play without permission. More...

Police issue tractor licences to Black Bush rice farmers

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police issue tractor licences to Black Bush rice farmers

…initiative to be taken countrywide History was made when the Guyana Police Force (GPF) ‘B’ Division issued tractor licences to several rice farmers and tractor operators yesterday at the...

Ministry mulls implementing streaming in schools

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry mulls implementing streaming in schools

Some experts believe the time has come for Guyana as a nation to seriously consider streaming as a means of effectively addressing particular educational needs of the country’s children and...

Salim Bacchus on trial for gun possession

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Salim Bacchus on trial for gun possession

Murder accused and alleged narcotics dealer, Salim Bacchus, called ‘Black Salim’, is once again before the court. Bacchus, 52, of 39 Line Path ‘D’, Skeldon, Corriverton Corentyne,...

DTV-8 blood drive delivers 31 units

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on DTV-8 blood drive delivers 31 units

Dave’s Television Channel Eight in New Amsterdam in collaboration with the New Amsterdam Blood Bank teamed up for a massive Blood Drive on Thursday in the studios of DTV-8. It was the...

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community

Same-sex Marriages Eligible for Immigration Benefits Attorney Gail Seeram, Same-sex marriages that are valid under State law are eligible to apply and receive immigration benefits. ...

Guyanese on murder charge in Barbados

Jul 21, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese on murder charge in Barbados

Guyanese, Feroze Rafikh, was on Friday brought before a Barbados Magistrate’s court charged with murder of a person believed to be a peacekeeper in a dispute, and was remanded to prison...

Diversifying or grow more?

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Diversifying or grow more?

We wonder whether the Government will ever launch a “buy local” campaign for local produce? In the last few years, the Ministry of Agriculture has sheepishly made some stabs in that direction...

Disappointed in the party we supported

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disappointed in the party we supported

Dear Editor, Please allow me some space in your news paper to explain the total disappointment myself and colleges feel with the party of our choice at the 2011 election. We are young...

There’s enough for everybody in the world but not for everybody’s greed

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on There’s enough for everybody in the world but not for everybody’s greed

Dear Editor, It is no surprise that President Donald Ramotar would disingenuously address the public after the bold stance the joint opposition took in voting against the bill to...

The Thomas Carroll Book again

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Thomas Carroll Book again

Dear Editor, I refer to Davis Casavis’s response to my review of his book. Unlike Mark Benschop who knows Mr. Casavis and has announced in a letter that he is selling Mr. Casavis’ book, I...

Empty promises will not improve the lives of the poor

Jul 21, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Empty promises will not improve the lives of the poor

Dear Editor, One of the more discouraging features of life and politics in Guyana is how the regime has been blatantly doling out rewards in the form of jobs and contracts to loyalists and...

Amaila Falls Hydropower…Raising external debt ceiling to $150B not requirement of IDB – AFC

Jul 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydropower…Raising external debt ceiling to $150B not requirement of IDB – AFC

Raising the country’s external debt ceiling to $150B from $1B is not a requirement of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) before it provides financing to construct the Amaila Falls...

Amaila project in jeopardy – President Ramotar

Jul 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila project in jeopardy – President Ramotar

My fellow Guyanese, Following our 2011 elections, I was hopeful that this unprecedented configuration of our Parliament would have allowed us the opportunity to move forward. I had hoped that all...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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