August 2013

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Verification exercise for light bill subsidy ends today

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,...

Crazy things happened on the way to Edison Jefford’s wedding

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...

Human Services Ministry actively addressing domestic violence

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...

A debacle of no mean proportions

Aug 13, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A debacle of no mean proportions

The Diaspora is still Guyana’s most interesting location. These are the people who seem to be paying more interest in the country than even many of the people who reside within its...

Commercial entities are chief contributors to solid waste – City Mayor

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...

Amerindian Development Fund project underway

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...

‘Remorseful’ woman gets 18 months for stealing friend’s BlackBerry

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...

Albouystown man sentenced to 12 months for “weed”

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...

Burglars cart off over $1M from city church

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...

Vagrant jailed for stealing handbag

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....

CHI looks to take lead role in addressing heart rhythm complications

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...

Seaman fined for assaulting wife over text message

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...

Bel-Air Gardens residents reject commercial use of community green area

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...

Sailor’s body arrives in Guyana

Aug 13, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sailor’s body arrives in Guyana

The body of 48-year-old Guyanese sailor Orlando Allen has arrived in Guyana. According to relatives, it arrived in Guyana on Saturday morning and was taken to the Merriman Funeral Home. ...

Tina Insanally Foundation hosts music teachers’ workshop

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...

Why no night patrols on Soesdyke/Linden highway?

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...

Freddie did not always ‘love’ Nigel Hughes

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...

THE HEIST OF GUYANA

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on THE HEIST OF GUYANA

Hey you! Yes, you, our valued readers! Please do not miss our forthcoming series about how Guyana has been parceled out and handed out to friends and cronies of former President Jagdeo....

President consulting with opposition leader to save Amaila

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on President consulting with opposition leader to save Amaila

– Granger won’t budge unless fully informed By Abena Rockcliffe President Donald Ramotar is still optimistic about the chances of saving the Amaila Falls Hydro Project. In a statement...

Guyana faces real risk of financial sanctions – Chris Ram

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana faces real risk of financial sanctions – Chris Ram

Eminent Chartered Accountant and Financial Analyst, Christopher Ram, believes that Guyana now faces a very real possibility of attracting sanctions from the Caribbean Financial Action...

Sacked Berbice doctor still begging for his job…gov’t suing him for $15M breaching contract

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sacked Berbice doctor still begging for his job…gov’t suing him for $15M breaching contract

“They told me not to contact Kaieteur News, neither AFC again– that I will have my job back….and I waited a month and I have not gotten any reply– they told me to...

Manickchand to announce CSEC results Tuesday

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Manickchand to announce CSEC results Tuesday

Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination results are out and Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, who is in the celebratory mode, says Guyana has done well this...

70 new Cuban trained, Guyanese medical personnel to start service by year end

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 70 new Cuban trained, Guyanese medical personnel to start service by year end

Seventy Guyanese born, Cuban trained doctors are likely to commence service in less than a year, Minister of Health Bheri Ramsarran told Kaieteur News last Saturday following the convocation ceremony...

Drive-by shooting leaves Taxi driver nursing bullet wound to head

Aug 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Drive-by shooting leaves Taxi driver nursing bullet wound to head

A father of four is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), nursing a gunshot wound to the left side of his head, the result of a drive by shooting. Claude...

Amazon Warriors send Barbados Tridents crashing down to earth with 27-run victory

Aug 12, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amazon Warriors send Barbados Tridents crashing down to earth with 27-run victory

CPL – The Barbados Tridents were brought crashing down to earth last evening, plummeting to a 27-run defeat at the hands of the Guyana Amazon Warriors in their Limacol Caribbean Premier League...

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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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