August 2013

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Home Affairs Ministry claims “racial hostilities” at recent forum

Aug 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Home Affairs Ministry claims “racial hostilities” at recent forum

– Organisers refute allegations The Ministry of Home Affairs via release, accused a number of Opposition officials and members of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA)...

GPHC’s Maternity Unit rallies despite shortage of midwives

Aug 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC’s Maternity Unit rallies despite shortage of midwives

Despite experiencing a shortage of midwives, the Maternity Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been operating in a “fairly reasonable manner,” says Sister June...

Lindener remanded on cocaine trafficking charge

Aug 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Lindener remanded on cocaine trafficking charge

Oneika Neils, a 20-year-old sales representative of 612 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, was remanded yesterday after the charge of possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking was read...

Muslims officially end period of fasting

Aug 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Muslims officially end period of fasting

Thousands of Muslims across Guyana yesterday participated in the festivity of Eid -Al- Fitr or Eid-Ul-Fitr, to mark the end of the prescribed 30 days of fast, or the holy month of Ramadan....

Chain snatcher gets 18 months

Aug 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chain snatcher gets 18 months

A 20-year-old man will spend the next 18 months in prison contemplating legal ways to provide for his children after he told the court that he stole a gold chain to be in a better position to take...

Pursuing questionable development programmes

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Pursuing questionable development programmes

Development is never a straight line process. There are always starts and stutters, and sometimes these stutters appear to stall the development process. There have been many perceived...

The government and people may need to regroup and part ways with Sithe/Blackstone

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The government and people may need to regroup and part ways with Sithe/Blackstone

Dear Editor, When the PPP/Civic came to power in October 1992, one of its priorities was to prepare a plan for national development, sometimes referred to as “The Strategy for National...

Rejecting the Amaila Project

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rejecting the Amaila Project

Dear Editor, Mr. Brassington is reported to have said that after one year of Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project coming on stream, the demand for electricity will be greater than the supply and...

I wish to let His Excellency know that teachers are still ‘without resources’

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on I wish to let His Excellency know that teachers are still ‘without resources’

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News of 3rd August, 2013 reported the following statement, “The President also made reference to the pre-1992 era when, he said, teachers were without resources, the...

The AFC has given away any leverage the Guyanese majority may have had

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC has given away any leverage the Guyanese majority may have had

Dear Editor, The AFC’s change of position to one of support for debating the Amaila Falls Hydro electric project is puzzling, as other available options would seem to be have been more advantageous...

Putting Guyana First

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Putting Guyana First

Dear Editor, There is a saying which ran thus: ‘Community before self: Nation before community.” What is implied in that saying is that we must always strive to eschew narrow thinking and always...

The AFC now reeks of the very same incestuousness as the PPP

Aug 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC now reeks of the very same incestuousness as the PPP

Dear Editor, The AFC has now ventured down a road of no return. The PPP has already gone so far down that road that a search party of some of history’s greatest explorers cannot find...

“Hydro Bill support was a patriotic move” – AFC Leader

Aug 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on “Hydro Bill support was a patriotic move” – AFC Leader

By Latoya Giles Leader of the Alliance for Change Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday at the party’s weekly press briefing sought to explain why his party gave its support to Government for the...

Teen murders girlfriend after claiming infidelity

Aug 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Teen murders girlfriend after claiming infidelity

By Javone Vickerie and Dwijendra Rooplall After accusing her of cheating on him, an 18-year-old mercilessly beat his teenage girlfriend with a spade, dragged her by the hair, out of his...

Learning Channel paid TVG $70M since 2011 for transmission

Aug 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Learning Channel paid TVG $70M since 2011 for transmission

Since December 2011, Government has paid almost $70M to Television Guyana (TVG) for the airing of educational programmes on the state-owned Guyana Learning Channel (GLC). Answering questions...

Guyana Watch medical outreach begins Sunday

Aug 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Watch medical outreach begins Sunday

The popular Guyana Watch Medical team will once again be conducting a number of medical and dental outreaches all across the country, from August 11 to August 18. Tomorrow is the official...

AFC further defends Nigel Hughes’ Amaila links

Aug 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC further defends Nigel Hughes’ Amaila links

By Abena Rockcliffe Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes has indicated to the Alliance For Change (AFC) that in view of the party’s declination of his offer for resignation, he is going to “take some...

Fly Jamaica, CAL applications in U.S. limbo

Aug 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fly Jamaica, CAL applications in U.S. limbo

…Delta reveals fuel subsidies, excess tax caused pullout Almost three months after pulling out from Guyana, one of the biggest airlines in the United States is reportedly claiming that...

Dem boys seh…De people seeing dem money going down de drain

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De people seeing dem money going down de drain

Everybody know that dem can cuss wid a man but don’t cuss he family. Wuss yet, don’t cuss he wife and he children. De whole country talk bout Amaila and de opposition talk wid one...

Amazon Warriors battle Red Steel tonight in T&T

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amazon Warriors battle Red Steel tonight in T&T

By Sean Devers Second placed Guyana Amazon Warriors battle Trinidad and Tobago’s Red Steel at the Queens Park Oval in Trinidad tonight from 20:00hrs and despite the home team’s...

Shewdass aiming to excel at World Sub Junior/Junior C/ships

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shewdass aiming to excel at World Sub Junior/Junior C/ships

-holds Commonwealth records in the Squat, Deadlift & Total Guyana’s latest Powerlifting Prodigy 18-year-old Gumendra Shewdas is set to create history by becoming this nation’s...

25 Graduate Nobel House Seafood sponsored Baseball Coaching Education Course

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on 25 Graduate Nobel House Seafood sponsored Baseball Coaching Education Course

Baseball in Guyana took a giant leap forward with the graduation of Twenty-Five certified coaches of the Nobel House Seafood sponsored Course. All of the graduating coaches were presented with a...

Slingertz/NAWF ‘Goal for Gold’ Extravaganza…Talk is Cheap & Money Gram/Star Party Rentals renders support

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Slingertz/NAWF ‘Goal for Gold’ Extravaganza…Talk is Cheap & Money Gram/Star Party Rentals renders support

Football fans are guaranteed action packed encounters when the curtains go up on the Slingertz Football Club/National Association of Women’s Football ‘Goal for Gold’ football...

LCPL – Hyatt, Philander blitz downs T&T

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on LCPL – Hyatt, Philander blitz downs T&T

Danza Hyatt and Vernon Philander smashed 41 runs in 14 balls to post just enough for Jamaica Tallawahs as Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel failed to muster similar momentum to overhaul...

Great start augurs well for success of Limacol CPL, says Sir Vivian Richards

Aug 09, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Great start augurs well for success of Limacol CPL, says Sir Vivian Richards

CPL – Legendary West Indies captain Sir Vivian Richards expects the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) to be a resounding success, judging from the fans’ response to the Barbados...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

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...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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