February 2014

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442 persons receive training in hospitality in 2013

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 442 persons receive training in hospitality in 2013

As the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) continues to boost the quality of hospitality offered in the industry, four hundred and forty- two persons received training during last year. According to the...

Vendors decry state of La Penitence Market

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vendors decry state of La Penitence Market

—but Deputy Mayor insists rehabilitative works in the pipeline While some vendors are convinced that the La Penitence Market has been receiving the least attention from the Mayor and City Council...

Rohee lauds Police inroads into Corentyne criminal gang

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee lauds Police inroads into Corentyne criminal gang

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has offered commendations to the ranks stationed at Number 51, Corentyne, over the apprehension of suspected criminals linked to the rise in crime there....

Making headlines for the wrong reasons

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Making headlines for the wrong reasons

Guyana has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Of course, some of the headlines have been about good things like the environmental preservation and for reaching some of the...

Kayman Sankar, rice magnate, dies

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kayman Sankar, rice magnate, dies

Acclaimed as Guyana’s most successful rice farmer/miller, Kayman Sankar, a/k “Polo” died after a prolonged illness on Tuesday evening, at his Hampton Court residence. Sankar was 87. He is...

Deed’s registry employee on bail for fraud

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Deed’s registry employee on bail for fraud

Bail was yesterday set at $200,000 for a 56-year-old employee of the Deeds Registry who is accused of fraudulently obtaining $4M for the sale of a plot of land some time last year. Appearing...

ACIC hosts special Zikr Program

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ACIC hosts special Zikr Program

– Internationally recognized Canadian Journalist to attend The Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) in association with the Markaz al Ihsaan Guyana Branch will host a Special Zikr...

GREED IS GROOVY

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GREED IS GROOVY

The Americans parade their rich and successful. We tear ours apart. The Americans worship material achievement. We idolize service without reward. To grasp this reality just study this newspaper’s...

Violent mugger gets two years’ jail sentence

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Violent mugger gets two years’ jail sentence

A young man, who mugged a man and stole his cellular phone and a pair of spectacles while the victim was in the heart of the city some time last year, has been sentenced to two years in...

Technician behaved disorderly in court

Feb 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Technician behaved disorderly in court

A man who identified himself as an auto body works technician was yesterday slapped with a disorderly behaviour charge after he reportedly rushed into a city courtroom and made a spectacle of...

President Ramotar is a weak beneficiary who is a yes man

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ramotar is a weak beneficiary who is a yes man

‘Both opposition parties are prepared to call President Ramotar’s bluff on the snap poll. The PPP dictators are hinting that if the budget is voted down, it will call a general election. AFC...

Poverty and crime are inextricably linked

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Poverty and crime are inextricably linked

DEAR EDITOR, There is incontrovertible evidence that poverty and crime are linked, hence, my disagreement with the subject of your editorial of the 28th January 2014, which stated among others that...

Congratulations are in order

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations are in order

Dear Editor, Allow me to take time out to congratulate Peoples National Congress Reform Chairman, veteran politician and Member of Parliament Mr. Basil Williams on his recent accession to the office...

We as a society have deserted our youths

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on We as a society have deserted our youths

DEAR EDITOR, This serves as a rejoinder to Ms Samaroo’s justifiable lamentation under her article: “Alarming number of youths being prosecuted for serious crimes”. Immediately after the chaos...

There is more monitoring of money laundering now than ever before

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is more monitoring of money laundering now than ever before

DEAR EDITOR, For those unfamiliar of how leaders steal from the people and try to hide and launder their ill-gotten gains, read the indictment of former Guatemalan President, Alphonso Portillo, that...

An unequivocal apology must be demanded forthwith

Feb 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on An unequivocal apology must be demanded forthwith

DEAR EDITOR, Let me from the outset make it pellucid that I have neither an interest in the internal decision-making mechanism of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) nor any intention of...

Guyana linked to major coke-smuggling Mafia ring

Feb 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana linked to major coke-smuggling Mafia ring

– Two dozen suspects arrested New York, USA – Two dozen suspected drug traffickers linked to the Gambino and Bonanno crime families and the Italian crime syndicate known as ‘Ndrangheta...

Workers attacked by gunmen in Agricola

Feb 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Workers attacked by gunmen in Agricola

…while dumping expired drugs in Health Centre’s compound Ministry of Health contract workers who were dumping boxes of expired drugs in the Agricola, East Bank Demerara health centre’s...

Regulators take CCI, Webster to court over questionable share transfer

Feb 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Regulators take CCI, Webster to court over questionable share transfer

Authorities have filed a legal action against Ronald Webster and Caribbean Containers Inc. (CCI) over the transfer of shares which reportedly give the businessman at least 85% control of that public...

Judiciary leaps into the future

Feb 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Judiciary leaps into the future

…House approves law to allow recording of proceedings With six short clauses being approved by the National Assembly on Monday last to be put into law, Guyana’s judicial system has leaped by...

Early morning blaze destroys Ann’s Grove house

Feb 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Early morning blaze destroys Ann’s Grove house

A fire in the wee hours of yesterday morning demolished an Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara house, resulting in millions in losses for an overseas-based Guyanese. The wooden building,...

Army apologises to Camp Groomes survivors for unpaid benefits

Feb 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Army apologises to Camp Groomes survivors for unpaid benefits

…promises to immediately address the issue By Zena Henry In a bold move to address what appears to be a tarnishing blot in the face of military brotherhood, recently-appointed Chief of Staff...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo think he is Put-In, while Donald in Sleep-In

Feb 12, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo think he is Put-In, while Donald in Sleep-In

De whole world sit down and watch Russia and Put-In. Now dem watchin’ Guyana and Sleep-In. Putin, de president, put in a man, Medvedev, when he term up. But he stay in de background and wield de...

T&T battle Jamaica today in first NAGICO Super 50 Semi

Feb 12, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on T&T battle Jamaica today in first NAGICO Super 50 Semi

Trinidad and Tobago will enjoy home advantage when they take on Jamaica in the first semi final of the NAGICO Super 50 tournament from 14:00hrs today at the Queen’s Park Oval. The Trinis are high...

NSC Mash PWD Dominoes competition set for Essequibo

Feb 12, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Mash PWD Dominoes competition set for Essequibo

The National Sports Commission will once again be sponsoring the Annual Mashramani Dominoes Competition for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in Region #2 on the Essequibo Coast. Interested persons who...

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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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