August 2013

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Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received...

Local agro-processors need help with packaging and labeling – IICA official

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local agro-processors need help with packaging and labeling – IICA official

By Keeran Danny Packaging and labeling, sometimes the major attractions for a product, remain a challenge for local agro-processors, who have to “compete” with similar products produced overseas...

Rohee tells Nat’l Economic Forum of 1960s mayhem

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee tells Nat’l Economic Forum of 1960s mayhem

….underscores security as prerequisite for growth in economy By Gary Eleazar The National Economic Forum yesterday heard from the Minister with responsibility for security within its borders and...

Staying focused is key to academic success, says CSEC standout

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Staying focused is key to academic success, says CSEC standout

By Abena Rockcliffe Even though he wrote so many Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects that essentially make him eligible to be accepted to do nearly any course at most...

Special session today to nominate Mayoral stand-in

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Special session today to nominate Mayoral stand-in

– ‘Chief Citizen’, deputy overseas Today, Friday August 16, 2013, is the scheduled date, in which the Councillors of the Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) will meet in a special...

The Police Commissioner and his officers were very nice to me. Thanks.

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Police Commissioner and his officers were very nice to me. Thanks.

I begin this column by offering an apology to my editor. I told him I would not be around from Thursday for three days because I was off in the interior. The truth was that I was off from...

Training of nurses high on agenda to improve maternal health care – CMO

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Training of nurses high on agenda to improve maternal health care – CMO

Even as diligent moves are being made by the Ministry of Health to train more Obstetricians, equal efforts are being directed to the training of nurses. And according to Chief Medical Officer...

Egypt’s Tragedy

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Egypt’s Tragedy

The other foot inevitably dropped in the unfolding tragedy in Egypt which began when the democratically-elected government of Mohammed Morsi was overthrown in a coup d’état by the army on July 3....

Health Ministry outlines resolute measures to combat HIV

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry outlines resolute measures to combat HIV

By Sharmain Grainger The elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV has been recognized as a key factor in the recently launched HIVision2020 National Strategic Plan, which is...

Guyana to host C’bean Week of Agriculture in October

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to host C’bean Week of Agriculture in October

After 10 years, Guyana is set to once again host the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA), an event geared at promoting the agriculture industry across the region, via learning sessions,...

Mining School hosts inaugural training

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mining School hosts inaugural training

After more than six months delay, the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre which was scheduled to become operational in January last, has finally launched a set of training courses. The sessions...

Stallholder remanded for possession of “weed”

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stallholder remanded for possession of “weed”

Twenty-six year-old Devon Dundas appeared yesterday before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of...

Golden Grove man remanded for causing death by dangerous driving

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Golden Grove man remanded for causing death by dangerous driving

Yesterday, a driver who works in the interior, was remanded to prison after the indictable charge of causing death by dangerous driving was read to him by Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown...

NYGM continues to support GPHC

Aug 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NYGM continues to support GPHC

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday received several television sets and DVD players from New York Guyana Medical and Humanitarian Mission (NYGM), a charitable organization...

Still no solution to noise Charity noise nuisance

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Still no solution to noise Charity noise nuisance

Dear Editor, The failure by the Charity police to institute prosecution against perpetrators of noise nuisance emerging from business places just under the nose of the station, is responsible for an...

An open letter to Captain Gerry Gouveia: Does the Captain have a mind of his own?

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to Captain Gerry Gouveia: Does the Captain have a mind of his own?

Dear Editor, I commend Gerry Gouveia for asking in an open letter to the press four prominent critics of the Amaila Falls hydro project, Christopher Ram, Ramon Gaskin, Anand Goolsaran and Dr. Clive...

Responding to Gerry Gouveia

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to Gerry Gouveia

Dear Editor, I just saw an open letter from Gerry Gouveia to Christopher Ram and Ramon Gaskin and while I am sure that these two gentlemen can and will reply, I just felt compelled to also reply to...

Why aren’t our men also encouraged to withdraw from unfavourable relationships

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why aren’t our men also encouraged to withdraw from unfavourable relationships

Dear Editor, Why aren’t our men also encouraged to withdraw from unfavourable relationships, instead of realizing too late their deadly choices? We so often speak of men being the chief...

This decision is a convenience to retain power among the major parties

Aug 16, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This decision is a convenience to retain power among the major parties

Dear Editor, With the Guyana Government and the Opposition’s recent agreement on Local Government Regulations reform, the way has now be cleared for the holding of local government elections in...

Woman flees after beating reputed husband to death

Aug 15, 2013 KNews News 22

A 23-year old Plaisance, East Coast Demerara woman is on the run after she allegedly battered her reputed husband to death early yesterday morning, leaving her 10-month-old baby behind....

World renowned scientist calls for full disclosure on Amaila

Aug 15, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on World renowned scientist calls for full disclosure on Amaila

…wants President to set up task force to create national energy policy World renowned scientist, Professor Suresh Narine, has called on Head of State Donald Ramotar to urgently convene a...

AFC to consider members’ public declaration on external affiliations

Aug 15, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC to consider members’ public declaration on external affiliations

As the buzz continues on Nigel Hughes’ seemingly compromising affiliation with the now jeopardized Amaila Falls project, executives of the Alliance for Change (AFC) say that they have no right to...

Student nurse doused with acid on way to work

Aug 15, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Student nurse doused with acid on way to work

Student nurse Ann-Marie Hutson, of Lot 616 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown was forced to rip off her clothes in public and run to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday morning, after...

National Economic forum convened to draft 10-year strategic plan

Aug 15, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on National Economic forum convened to draft 10-year strategic plan

…Ramotar, Ashni Singh, Ron Webster continue to gripe over Amaila fall out Head of State, President Donald Ramotar, yesterday convened a National Economic Forum meant to chart a 10-year strategic...

Dem boys seh…Some people selling dem house

Aug 15, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Some people selling dem house

If Amaila cancel fuh now then Guyana save money. Of course Guyana always want every cent it could get but people was prepared to forget de money that de country spend on Amaila so far. Is...

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

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(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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