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Aug 18, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on “Who gets what, when and how”
Politics is said to be about “who gets what, when and how”. Every couple of years, for over two decades, we have been reminding our politicians that they ignore the consequences of this process...Aug 18, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Nigel Hughes apology and Guyana’s moral culture
Here are the words of Nigel Hughes as quoted in the Stabroek News (Monday, August 13); “I acknowledge there was a conflict of interest and I assume full responsibility for it.” Hughes went on to...Aug 18, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The great leap backwards at Port Mourant
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Donald Ramotar took a great leap backwards at the 30th Congress of the People’s Progressive Party on 2nd August at Port Mourant. Ramotar’s...Aug 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…The Soul of Jurisprudence
Book: Born to Defend by Howard Randolph Hamilton Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Lawyers are oftentimes the butt of derision, maligned in revolting and unforgiving terms. Deservedly so, some might argue....Aug 18, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A national discourse on education is needed
By Breeanka West and Cynthia Rutherford, AFC Youth Members The Alliance for Change (AFC) wishes to congratulate the top performers at the 2013 sittings of the Caribbean Secondary Education...Aug 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GDF Chief-of-Staff is now Rear Admiral
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Donald Ramotar has approved the promotion of Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Commodore Gary Best to the rank of Rear Admiral. The...Aug 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High Court trial for man accused of taxi driver’s murder
After more than two years on the run a man accused of murdering a taxi driver before dumping his body has been committed to stand trial in the High Court. Stephen Campbell, of 5 Number Seven Village,...Aug 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri residents unconvinced about proposed relocation plans
By Zena Henry Timehri North residents say that although they are the ones who will be directly affected as a result of the proposed airport expansion project, they are the last to know anything about...Aug 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Deadline for UG applications is midnight
Persons who wish to apply to the University of Guyana have until midnight tonight, Sunday August 18, 2013, to do so. Kashka St. Hillaire, the institute’s Assistant Registrar said that after an...Aug 18, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on How do you look at failure?
Failure, they say, is the best teacher. We learn and have more confidence in what we know through trial and error, which onetime or another has resulted in failure. You don’t have to accept your...Aug 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Shaw should know his party never gave me a hearing
Dear Editor, I refer to two letters in the Friday, August 16 edition of the Stabroek News; Anand Boodram’s “Politics has become a zero sum game in Guyana.” And Mohammed Shaw’s...Aug 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The performance gap between our students and their Caribbean counterparts is narrowing
Dear Editor, Guyana has once again done well in terms of education attainment at the CSEC and the CAPE. For the second time in a row, a student from the Cinderella county of Essequibo has topped the...Aug 18, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon
Aug 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A healthy debate should begin with a general agreement on the basic facts
Dear Editor, The Amaila falls project has been hotly debated in the press over the last few weeks. This debate however in some cases has been based on information that is factually inaccurate...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on President seeks common ground with APNU on Amaila… ‘Let us meet to once and for all settle these issues’
In a statement issued by President Donald Ramotar last evening concerning the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, the Head of State indicated that his government is willing to meet with officials from...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Watch medical tour…417 treated at Leonora Clinic
The Guyana Watch team took its medical mission to the Leonora Primary School on the West Coast Demerara (WCD) yesterday. A total of 417 patients took advantage of the service, with some 80...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fibre optic cable project to miss yet another deadline
By Keeran Danny Government’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) project is now expected to conclude by year-end, missing its September deadline. Currently, foreign companies are lending...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Blocked US applications will delay lower fares – CAL
Until Guyana finds other airlines to fly the Georgetown/New York route, passengers are likely to continue to pay high prices for tickets. This is because the Trinidad-owned Caribbean Airlines...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on US-based Guyanese committed to stand trial for wife’s murder
Guyana-born United States citizen Ramdhanie Persaud, called ‘Prakash’ or ‘Prak’, who is accused of killing his wife of more than 27 years, Bibi Shameena Deen was yesterday committed...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on TPL $17M heist…Security guard still in custody
Police have released three Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) staffers, but are still questioning a fourth in connection with Thursday’s $17M heist in Charlestown. Kaieteur News understands that...Aug 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila project ill-conceived from the beginning – Greenidge
– Argentine consultants did feasibility study The Guyana Government has for the first time made public the name of the company it says it contracted to conduct an “Economic and...Aug 17, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mo Farah wins 5,000m gold at World Athletics 2013
BBC Sport – Mo Farah’s career reached incredible new heights as the Briton became only the second man in history to complete an Olympic and world ‘double-double’ in the distance...Aug 17, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wins 200m world gold
AFP – MOSCOW: Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became the third athlete to achieve the women’s sprint double at the World Athletics Championships when she won the 200m yesterday in...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...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...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...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...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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