January 2014

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After four years …Linden Enterprise Network gets board of directors

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on After four years …Linden Enterprise Network gets board of directors

Last Wednesday saw the inauguration of the board of Directors of the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN) at the Macaw Conference Room of the Region 10 Business Centre. Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh...

Town Clerk files answer in court case

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Town Clerk files answer in court case

By Zena Henry Apart from the Local Government Ministry filing its answer as to why it chose Carol Sooba to fill the executive post of the city’s Town Clerk, Sooba has also provided an answer...

Detained teen girls admit links to Paradise bandits

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Detained teen girls admit links to Paradise bandits

Police on the East Coast of Demerara have arrested two teenage girls who are linked to the two bandits that escaped from the Paradise house in which 15-year-old Leon McCurdy was shot dead on...

Gafsons receives ‘Top Distributor’ Award from TCL

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gafsons receives ‘Top Distributor’ Award from TCL

Executive Chairman of Gafsons Industries, Sattaur Gafoor, yesterday accepted Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Guyana Incorporated’s ‘Top Distributor Award’ for his company’s outstanding...

Comparing the two back-balling Guyanese presidents

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Comparing the two back-balling Guyanese presidents

I know I can use the above caption for this column without the risk of getting another libel suit from Bharrat Jagdeo and one from Ramotar. I can assure Ruel Johnson, that he can criticize...

Over the shoulder

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Over the shoulder

In 1997, Mrs. Janet Jagan created public consternation when she threw a Court Order over her shoulder at a ceremonial event at State House after the 1997 elections. The actual swearing-in had...

Leprosy Clinic hosts “information corner”

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Leprosy Clinic hosts “information corner”

Cognizant that public awareness is important in the fight against leprosy, the Ministry of Health’s Leprosy Clinic is hosting a series of activities under the theme “Joining Forces-Accelerating...

NGO gets grant to aid science education

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NGO gets grant to aid science education

– several schools set to benefit A grant amounting to approximately $2 million has been made available by ExxonMobil to aid the furtherance of science education among primary level pupils....

Caterer shot at during attempted robbery

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Caterer shot at during attempted robbery

A 24-year-old woman was shot at early yesterday by a man during an attempted robbery at ‘A’ Field, Sophia. Sarah Hughes of Section ‘A’ South Sophia was treated at the Georgetown Public...

Insisting on respect for our diversity

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Insisting on respect for our diversity

While we in this country have been literally fighting each other “to the death” over which group’s culture is or is not becoming ascendant in our society, there have been developments in the...

Health Ministry embraces technological expansion

Jan 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry embraces technological expansion

– hopes to improve care delivery Guyana is looking to increasingly adopt the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the public health sector, a move that has already been...

Newly elected Board Members of NGOs should undertake further training

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Newly elected Board Members of NGOs should undertake further training

Dear Editor, In his glowing tribute delivered on January, 15, 2014, which I consider a must read by those craving excellent prose laced with a sumptuous dose of West Indian flavor, ...

Kissoon should face the music and dance with it instead of escaping

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon should face the music and dance with it instead of escaping

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon’s KN letter “You get nothing of literary or intellectual value in exchanges with these people” (26-01-14) is an infantile excuse to escape from addressing issues by...

This government is in a mad scramble to appease those it regards as its constituents

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This government is in a mad scramble to appease those it regards as its constituents

Dear Editor, I thought that I had ceased being amazed at the nonsense coming from the mouth of the minister responsible for citizens’ security in this country. It was reported that Mr. Clement...

Radioactive Japanese vehicles

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Radioactive Japanese vehicles

Dear Editor, When the most recent devastating tsunami hit Japan, causing national havoc, and even serious turbulence in the Nuclear Power Plants there, causing nuclear power plant shutdowns, and...

Africans are criminalized for doing what other ethnic groups are celebrated for

Jan 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Africans are criminalized for doing what other ethnic groups are celebrated for

Dear Editor, I hereby give full solidarity to the people of Number 48 for taking the simple, democratic and non-violent stance to block the road, your road, the people’s road to dramatize your...

High Court rules against budget cuts

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on High Court rules against budget cuts

… Speaker to appeal By Zena Henry Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday put to rest matters relating to the Parliamentary Opposition’s ability to cut the National budget when he ruled...

15-YEAR-OLD BANDIT SHOT DEAD AFTER INVADING PARADISE HOUSE

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 15-YEAR-OLD BANDIT SHOT DEAD AFTER INVADING PARADISE HOUSE

A 15-year-old bandit was shot dead yesterday by a shopkeeper when he and two accomplices staged a barefaced daylight robbery at Fourth Street, Paradise on the East Coast of Demerara. The teenager,...

$15M revetment project in Moruca turns to slush

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $15M revetment project in Moruca turns to slush

…Toshao laments poor quality of rehabilitated bridge The $43M rehabilitation of the main access bridge in the Moruca Sub Region, in the North West District was supposed to have been completed in...

Arsonists torch auto dealer’s vehicles

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Arsonists torch auto dealer’s vehicles

An East Coast Demerara auto dealer is claiming over $20M in losses following a fire early yesterday morning that destroyed several vehicles in his 176 Lusignan compound. Nizam Khan, who runs...

Mother of two jailed 18 years for killing Bajan boyfriend

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of two jailed 18 years for killing Bajan boyfriend

By Rehanna Ramsay Tramangra Williams, called “Queenie,” a mother of two from “D” Field Sophia received an eighteen years jail sentence at the hands of Georgetown Supreme Court, Judge Navindra...

Govt. now eyes Chinese funding for Amaila hydro

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. now eyes Chinese funding for Amaila hydro

– Sithe Global not fully out By Leonard Gildarie The 165-megawatt Amaila Falls hydro project remains very much alive with Government not ruling out asking China for additional backings. The...

Brigadier Mark Phillips is new GNRA President

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brigadier Mark Phillips is new GNRA President

AGM reports another successful year for local marksmen Brigadier Mark Phillips has been elected as the new President of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) when that entity held its...

Multiple boxing champion, Clive Atwell, secures lucrative world ranking

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Multiple boxing champion, Clive Atwell, secures lucrative world ranking

By Michael Benjamin Months of sacrifice, diligent training and scintillating victories have finally borne fruit for multiple champion, Clive Atwell and he has secured a lucrative number 12 spot in...

Sunburst Linden Sec. Sch. U-17 B’ball Final…Mackenzie High pip Christianburg Wismar to win title; Daniel Anthony is MVP

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sunburst Linden Sec. Sch. U-17 B’ball Final…Mackenzie High pip Christianburg Wismar to win title; Daniel Anthony is MVP

In what was a thrilling finish to the inaugural Sunburst Orange Juice sponsored Linden Secondary School Under-17 Basketball championship, Mackenzie High School led by Most Valuable Player of the...

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Apr 12, 2026

– Petra-Massy Distribution 12th Annual Schools U-18 Football continues Kaieteur Sports – The Massy Distribution Under-18 Secondary Schools Football Tournament delivered another electrifying...

The rebirth of David Granger’s vision

Apr 12, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something small-minded and, frankly, wasteful about a government that spends more time tearing down the ideas of its predecessors than building on what actually works. In Guyana, this habit has become all too familiar. Instead of treating development as a continuous...

The Cost of Netanyahu’s Wars

Apr 12, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7th April, 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was relief. By 8th April, that relief was reflected in a sharp fall in oil prices after weeks in which conflict...

Lindsayca-CH4: what the hell

Apr 12, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall… (Kaieteur News) – It is said that hindsight is perfect vision. Given what Guyanese know now, why is Lindsayca-CH4 in Guyana? This company should not be here to help a blind man walk across the road. He would still be blind on reaching the other side of the...

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