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Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hydropower in Guyana…Shrouded in secrecy
– Small dam, big argument (Reprinted from The Economist, May 4, 2013) Guyanese have long dreamed of harnessing their powerful rivers for hydroelectricity. Instead, they rely on imported...Aug 13, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT IS
Politics has many faces. During the past week, the Guyanese people saw what many of them believed to be the business side of politics, and they did not like the image they saw. Many believed...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Verification exercise for light bill subsidy ends today
Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has announced that the extended “registered pensioner’s verification exercise for eligibility of Electricity Bill subsidy” ends today (August, 13,...Aug 13, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Crazy things happened on the way to Edison Jefford’s wedding
The ruling PPP recently held its Congress in Port Mourant. From reading the transactions in the press and from what others told me, the leaders of the PPP did what the PPP has been doing for...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services Ministry actively addressing domestic violence
– emphasizes importance of reporting incidents The Human Services Ministry has introduced what it has described as a “multi-dimensional, multi-faceted” approach to holistically combat...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Commercial entities are chief contributors to solid waste – City Mayor
“Arguing that unhealthy practices of waste disposal around the city should be everybody’s concern,” Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green noted that commercial firms continue to be a major component...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian Development Fund project underway
By Tiffanne Ramphal With the initiation of community projects in the hinterland well underway, the beneficiary Amerindian communities are now anticipating rich returns from their proposed...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Remorseful’ woman gets 18 months for stealing friend’s BlackBerry
Desperate to own a Blackberry smartphone at all costs, a 21-year-old woman, after being left for a few minutes in her friend’s office, in which there was one of the expensive gadgets, gave...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown man sentenced to 12 months for “weed”
John Beaton, 50, of Lot 55 Albouys Street, Albouystown, was yesterday sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of 7 grams of cannabis. Beaton was placed before Magistrate...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Burglars cart off over $1M from city church
By Javone Vickerie With no fear for any possible repercussion from the Creator, burglars chose the wee hours of last Sunday morning to break and enter a city church and cart off over $1M in cash and...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrant jailed for stealing handbag
“Your Worship, I was hungry, I aint got no place fuh live, I does just deh on de road and I see de bag and decide fuh thief it. Oh gosh, see with me nuh! I am begging you. I didn’t mean to do it....Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on CHI looks to take lead role in addressing heart rhythm complications
Through the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI), Guyana is gearing to take the lead in the provision of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablations for arrhythmias. Arrhythmia is a problem with the...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Seaman fined for assaulting wife over text message
…as spouse forgives him After being beaten by her husband over a suspicious text message, a 35-year-old woman begged for her husband to be pardoned based on his promise to attend...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bel-Air Gardens residents reject commercial use of community green area
By Zena Henry An idea to develop a piece of green area in the gated community of Bel-Air Gardens is facing stiff rejection by the high profile personage and diplomats living there. The...Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Tina Insanally Foundation hosts music teachers’ workshop
The Tina Insanally Foundation Inc. which trains Guyanese musicians to teach music is one of the institutions chosen from 25 countries that will benefit from the Cultural Centre of the Inter-American...Aug 13, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why no night patrols on Soesdyke/Linden highway?
Dear Editor, On Saturday evening I attended the wedding of KN sports journalist, Edison Jefford. Leonard Craig and I planned to overnight in Linden through the generosity of Aubrey...Aug 13, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie did not always ‘love’ Nigel Hughes
Dear Editor, In his usual daily rants, Freddie Kissoon wrote, “Two fantastic Guyanese I met and have nothing but love for them are Nigel Hughes and Khemraj Ramjattan. They are extraordinary...

Aug 28, 2026
CPL – Saint Lucia Kings recorded back-to-back wins as they beat the Trinbago Knight Riders by 36-runs at the Queen’s Park Oval in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Tim Seifert...Aug 28, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There is something wonderfully modern about a health system in which the government pays a private hospital to provide a service to poor people, and the private hospital then tells those poor people to come back tomorrow for the results. It is almost as if the voucher comes...Aug 23, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...Aug 28, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali has said that he has nothing to hide about his farm tucked away inside Long Creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Comforts me to hear that statement. Having made his representation, the president is now obligated to go further. Beyond his words would be a good...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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