January 2014

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GCA looking to start season by month end – CC Chairman Massiah

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA looking to start season by month end – CC Chairman Massiah

Chairman of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Competitions Committee, Shaun Massiah told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that they are looking to resume their competitions by this month end weather...

Inspired Ivanovic stuns Serena in Melbourne

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inspired Ivanovic stuns Serena in Melbourne

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An inspired Ana Ivanovic blew the race for the Australian Open women’s title wide open with a stunning upset of overwhelming favorite Serena Williams in the fourth round...

GPHC – Bettering staff performance for improved services

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC – Bettering staff performance for improved services

Towards ensuring that quality service is delivered by the entire staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the institution’s administration is looking to strengthen and build the...

ASLFTS expanding programmes to meet needs of aviation industry

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ASLFTS expanding programmes to meet needs of aviation industry

Air Services Limited Flight Training School (ASLFTS) is gearing to introduce two new programmes that are aimed at having adequately trained personnel on the ground, monitoring flights. A company...

GBBS commences verification of devices

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GBBS commences verification of devices

– Consumers should have confidence in the accuracy of weights, measures Verification of measuring devices has commenced for the first half of 2014 and users of same are urged to submit theirs...

THE AFC’S CASE IS TOTTERING

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC’S CASE IS TOTTERING

It was the Alliance for Change that highlighted the allegations about the sexual assault of a young man while he was in police custody, after it was published in the media. The AFC broke this news...

Inconceivable that a crab-infested foreshore was selected for this project

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Inconceivable that a crab-infested foreshore was selected for this project

Dear Editor, In a KN Article of Jan 18, it was reported that GPL’s Vreed-en-Hoop Power Plant is about 20% completed with an initial projected cost overrun of about US$8M. These unrealistic...

The rights of those in custody must be respected at all times

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The rights of those in custody must be respected at all times

Dear Editor, The function of the police is the protection of life and property and the preservation of peace, therefore citizen expect that the police function with the given ambit. However, recent...

Prof. Aronowitz did not use the quote attributed to him by Mr. Bisram

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prof. Aronowitz did not use the quote attributed to him by Mr. Bisram

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Bisram’s letter in KN of Jan. 7th titled: “ Persaud’s charges against Bisram disproved”. Mr. Bisram wrote: “The charge of Mr. Mike Persaud’s ‘Bisram’s...

THOSE RADIOACTIVE VEHICLES

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on THOSE RADIOACTIVE VEHICLES

Kaieteur News has again alerted the nation to an issue that should have occupied the attention of some local regulatory watchdog in the interest of public safety. For too long, appropriate and...

Guyana’s jungle a treacherous place for aviators

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s jungle a treacherous place for aviators

The pilot who crashed a Trans Guyana Airway’s Cessna Caravan in the Mazaruni is just the latest in a long list of aviators who have fallen victim to Guyana’s hazardous jungle territory. And in...

City Hall 2014 budget proposal in limbo

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall 2014 budget proposal in limbo

– As Town Clerk refuses to attend Statutory Meetings City Hall’s 2014 budget proposal remains in limbo as the rift between Town Clerk Carol Ryan Sooba and Councilors of Mayor and City...

Female drug dealer nabbed at back track crossing

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Female drug dealer nabbed at back track crossing

As the law enforcement authorities step up their campaign against drug dealers in Guyana, a female drug dealer was nabbed with a quantity of drugs on Wednesday last at an illegal backtrack...

Sibling scuffle turns bloody

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sibling scuffle turns bloody

A scuffle between two brothers on Saturday night turned bloody leaving one hospitalised and the other in police custody. Twenty-four-year-old Jason Benjamin is nursing a stab wound to the...

Finance Minister says APNU was invited to budget talks

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister says APNU was invited to budget talks

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh has described as a blatant lie and publicity stunt, statements purportedly made by Opposition Leader David Granger, which claimed that his party was being...

Four-year-old’s death at GPHC… Investigation did not blame anyone

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Four-year-old’s death at GPHC… Investigation did not blame anyone

– Michael Khan The investigation into the death of four year old Jaden Mars, who died on December 07 last, days after he was admitted a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Timehri residents lament increase police harassment

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri residents lament increase police harassment

Residents of Timehri have described the atmosphere in their community as depressing, ever since the police increased their harassment of citizens there. Their comments come in the wake of allegations...

Local auto suppliers unable to detect radiation levels on Japanese vehicles

Jan 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local auto suppliers unable to detect radiation levels on Japanese vehicles

…depends on foreign suppliers for assurances Several automobile and spare part dealers have stated that they are in no position to ascertain radiation levels entering the country through...

NO CASE LIKE HOLMES

Jan 20, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on NO CASE LIKE HOLMES

One of the lessons one learns from cable television is that there are Desperate Housewives everywhere. However, there was none as desperate as I was on New Year’s Day 2014 and while we were not...

Plane vanishes with pilot, other in Mazaruni jungle missing

Jan 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Plane vanishes with pilot, other in Mazaruni jungle missing

The search is on for one of Trans Guyana Airway’s 700 Cessna Caravan 8R-GHS and its two souls that went down yesterday morning in the densely forested, hilly Mazaruni, Region Seven area. There have...

Chinese demanding US$3.5M more for US$42M GPL upgrade contract

Jan 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese demanding US$3.5M more for US$42M GPL upgrade contract

The US$42M upgrade to the Guyana Power and Light Company Inc. (GPL) transmission and distributions system could see the Government having to spend an additional US$3.5M. This was confirmed by Chief...

Finance Minister spends $1.5B in two months

Jan 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister spends $1.5B in two months

In the last two months of 2013, the Finance Minister tapped into the Contingencies Fund and caused just about $1.5B to be spent. He has now come to the National Assembly to seek approval for the...

Cop shot after being robbed

Jan 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cop shot after being robbed

A 38-year-old cop attached to Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, is currently nursing a gunshot wound to the lower abdomen in the Male Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)...

Teen critical after accidental shooting

Jan 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen critical after accidental shooting

… While standing outside night spot A 17-year-old boy who is believed to have been struck by a stray bullet early yesterday while standing outside a popular night spot on Main Street, Georgetown,...

Resolute educator, Raghunauth Udho, is a ‘Special Person’

Jan 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Resolute educator, Raghunauth Udho, is a ‘Special Person’

“I followed my friend to seek my fortunes. But to me, the gold work wasn’t for honest persons, so I couldn’t make it. I didn’t make it. Teaching was my passion and I returned to...

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The great rediscovery

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(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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