August 2013

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President Ramotar will demit office without his dream fulfilled

Aug 08, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ramotar will demit office without his dream fulfilled

No leader wants to consciously say things that would make his nation laugh at him. A president has to be careful not to say outlandish things about his/her country’s achievements when the...

MUSLIMS END RAMADAN FASTING TODAY

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on MUSLIMS END RAMADAN FASTING TODAY

Today marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and many of them celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr, the end of fasting and great sacrifice. It is an occasion for rejoicing and an opportunity for...

Guyana, Venezuela cancel US$190M debts under rice-for-oil deals

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Venezuela cancel US$190M debts under rice-for-oil deals

Guyana and neighbouring Venezuela, in an ongoing rice-for-oil deal, has cancelled US$190M in debts between the two countries as part of a compensation agreement. Under what is known as...

The common blight among us

Aug 08, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The common blight among us

Guyana has been taking a close look at a number of factors over the past few years, some of them because of international pressure. These issues include suicide, domestic violence and human...

Role of Teachers’ Unions being downplayed by int’l funding agencies

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Role of Teachers’ Unions being downplayed by int’l funding agencies

The 36th Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) is gearing to slam a Report of the World Bank which essentially seeks to discredit the role of Teachers’ Union in the...

AFC meets with Chinese Ambassador on large projects

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC meets with Chinese Ambassador on large projects

Members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) met with Chinese Ambassador to Guyana H.E Zhang Limin yesterday. According to a press statement, “The AFC took the opportunity to express its...

US carriers challenge applications by regional airlines for additional Guyana flights

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on US carriers challenge applications by regional airlines for additional Guyana flights

By Ray Chickrie Caribbean News Now contributor WASHINGTON, USA (Caribbean News Now) – Airlines for America (A4A), an advocate group that claims to represent major US scheduled...

Murder accused in Mandela shooting remanded

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused in Mandela shooting remanded

Twenty year old Lloyd Britton of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara maintained that he is being framed after the indictable charge of murder was read to him yesterday by Magistrate...

Bust to honour BACIF’s founder unveiled

Aug 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bust to honour BACIF’s founder unveiled

It began as a four-man operation in 1959, but its founder Claude Leslie Geddes had a dream which was to make it bigger and successful and even though he is no longer around, having departed...

What the public should know about the Amaila Falls Project

Aug 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What the public should know about the Amaila Falls Project

Dear Editor, The handling of the access road to the controversial Amaila Hydro Project has already caused much concern and dismay amongst a wide cross section of Guyanese. Now the main...

Parliament exposing how Govt. does business

Aug 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parliament exposing how Govt. does business

Dear Editor, There are many positives to be taken from the current configuration of Guyana’s Parliament. In addition to the effort to improve transparency, inclusive planning and...

Public record vs. public knowledge

Aug 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public record vs. public knowledge

DEAR EDITOR, It is with much concern that I have read of the involvement of Mr. Nigel Hughes in the company that will be managing the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project. In recent...

The hypocrisy of the Alliance For Change

Aug 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The hypocrisy of the Alliance For Change

Dear Editor, There is an old saying: ‘Whatever is done in the dark shall come to light.’ It doesn’t take a legal brain to figure that one out. But I must congratulate Kaieteur...

Gold IRAs Gaining Popularity as Investors Seek Stability and Diversification

Aug 07, 2013 knews News Comments Off on Gold IRAs Gaining Popularity as Investors Seek Stability and Diversification

In recent years, retirement investors have been increasingly drawn to gold Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) as a means to protect and diversify their portfolios. The allure of physical precious...

Guyana to pay 8.5% interest rate, while world pays 3%

Aug 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to pay 8.5% interest rate, while world pays 3%

– Guyana to pay over US$4M per megawatt, as world pays under US$3M Guyana is not only building one of the most expensive hydro electric plants in the world, per megawatt ,...

Sithe Global “eyes pass” Guyana – Glenn Lall

Aug 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sithe Global “eyes pass” Guyana – Glenn Lall

Kaieteur News Publisher Glenn Lall has labelled as an “eye-pass”, recent statements issued by Sithe Global on the revelation of Alliance For Change Chairman Nigel Hughes’s association...

More controversy surrounds Amaila Hydro Project…Nigel Hughes resigns as AFC chairman

Aug 07, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on More controversy surrounds Amaila Hydro Project…Nigel Hughes resigns as AFC chairman

By Abena Rockcliffe Prominent Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes yesterday tendered his resignation as Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC). His resignation comes on the heels of an article published...

Dem boys seh…People getting buy out

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…People getting buy out

When people got nuff money dem does always feel that dem can buy everything and everybody. Everybody know that Jagdeo and he friends got nuff money and dem does use that same money to corrupt...

Rick Sakawat Mem. Volleyball Competition in Berbice…PMTC one are Champions

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rick Sakawat Mem. Volleyball Competition in Berbice…PMTC one are Champions

Port Mourant Training School one (PMTC 1) continued their dominant performance in the volleyball arena when they demolished all opposition to win the Rick Sakawat Memorial Volleyball...

Fitzgerald crowned overall Champion in GDA/MSC Tournament

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitzgerald crowned overall Champion in GDA/MSC Tournament

Sudesh Fitzgerald played undefeated when the Guyana Darts Association (GDA) in collaboration with the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) held a tournament last Friday night, at the latter...

Smalta for boosts

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smalta for boosts

“It is a great opportunity to be on board”- Ansa McAl Ansa McAl Limited, distributors of a wide range of products, including Smalta, has provided yet another year of sponsorship for the...

Dragsters showdown just four days away

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dragsters showdown just four days away

In a mere four days time, Guyanese dragsters will renew their rivalry with regional counterparts in what has now become an enduring battle for supremacy in the sport of motor...

Amateur boxers leave for Trinidad and Tobago Goodwill tournament

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amateur boxers leave for Trinidad and Tobago Goodwill tournament

Six of the country’s young amateur boxers will leave Guyana on Friday August 9 to participate in an Invitational youth tournament scheduled to get underway in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday 10 and...

Demerara U-15 to engage a T&T Club team today

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara U-15 to engage a T&T Club team today

The Demerara Under-15 team will be engaging a Club team from Trinidad and Tobago in a 50-over match today at the Everest Cricket Club ground, from 9:30hrs. The team reads: Bhaskar...

Berbice Cricket Board to resume cricket next week

Aug 07, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board to resume cricket next week

Anxious to resume cricket due to the current unpredictable and extended rainy season which has curtailed the game since April this year, the Berbice Cricket Board has decided that they will resume...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. JKM at Providence – Hetmyer, Hope, Dindyal lead batting charge (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors announced their arrival home with a brutal 8-wicket...

How should I schedule my day?

Sep 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Deep in the Himalayas, I once visited a Hindu guru and asked him, “Guru, how should I schedule my day?” He looked at me for a moment, smiled, and asked, “What is it that you want to schedule?” “My day,” I replied. “I want to organise my time better. There is so...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

The Donny and Delcy show

Sep 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What to make of this America-Venezuela oil deal, this best in history? First, it’s best to put the 65 billion barrels of heavy crude in its proper place. It’s the Donny and Delcy Gong Show. A quarter of Venezuela’s premier national treasure, a concealed deal, a very...

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