April 2014

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Home Affairs Ministry denies delaying work permits for Brazilians

Apr 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Home Affairs Ministry denies delaying work permits for Brazilians

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday denied that it is responsible for the delays in the processing of work permit applications by Brazilian nationals wanting to take up jobs in Guyana. In a paid...

INDISCIPLINE

Apr 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INDISCIPLINE

You can have the best laws and policies in this country, there are Guyanese who will turn these laws upside down. This is exactly what is happening in relation to traffic control in the city. Each...

Caribbean Development fund to invest in four roads

Apr 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Development fund to invest in four roads

…expected to alleviate farmers’ transportation woes The Caribbean Development Fund will be investing in the repairs/ construction of four roads. This was announced by Guyana’s Minister...

GEORGE AND THE DRAGON TWO

Apr 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on GEORGE AND THE DRAGON TWO

The newspapers often referred to my departed colleague and Head of the Public Relations Division of the Prime Minister’s office when I was employed there in the Eric Williams days, George...

Demand zero tolerance on illegal hunting and mistreatment of wildlife

Apr 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demand zero tolerance on illegal hunting and mistreatment of wildlife

Dear Editor, Several articles have been written recently about our increasingly endangered wildlife and the need for enforcement. In a recent KN article, Wayne De Freitas, an Ecotourism...

Kissoon’s Blasphemy of Hinduism

Apr 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon’s Blasphemy of Hinduism

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Freddie Kissoon’s letter (KN Apr 13) in which he denigrated a Hindu practice. Very often KN allows Kissoon to get away with attacks on Indians, Hindus and Muslims...

Justification to remove Linden’s electricity subsidy had prior approval by the APNU

Apr 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justification to remove Linden’s electricity subsidy had prior approval by the APNU

Dear Editor, It was not public information that Linden enjoyed a subsidy for more than 22 years during the PPP/C and also during the PNC’s 28 years in government. That secret was closely...

The newspapers that officials hate

Apr 14, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The newspapers that officials hate

There was a time when the media, more particularly the newspapers and the radio, reported on the happenings in the country. These reports were primarily about the daily happenings, the social events...

Ed Ahmad gears to make $600M on $80M GuySuCo land deal

Apr 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ed Ahmad gears to make $600M on $80M GuySuCo land deal

…changes from wood processing plant to housing scheme Almost five years after acquiring a huge piece of prime, seaside property to develop a value-added wood processing operation, a New York-based...

Efforts to remove truck from Essequibo River continue

Apr 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Efforts to remove truck from Essequibo River continue

Authorities of the Transport and Harbours Department, (TH&D) are continuing their efforts to recover the truck, which fell off Chinese, ‘roll on roll off,’ ferry, MV Kanawan, and into the...

$1.3B for Amaila Falls Access road to meet roll over payments – Benn

Apr 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $1.3B for Amaila Falls Access road to meet roll over payments – Benn

The majority of the $1.3B (US$6.5M) voted for in the 2014 National Budget for the construction of the Amaila Falls Access will be used to make payments that have rolled over. This was confirmed by...

Lindeners rush to jobs with Guyana Goldfields

Apr 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners rush to jobs with Guyana Goldfields

Scores of Lindeners, including several youths out of school, flocked the Egbert Benjamin Hall at Spieghtland, Linden, on Thursday to submit applications for jobs with Guyana Gold Fields. The mining...

Africanised bees attack Saxacalli woman

Apr 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Africanised bees attack Saxacalli woman

Alicia Kippins, a mother of two of Saxacalli, a farming community further down from Bartica on the Essequibo River, is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Kippins had to be air...

Dem boys seh…Donald ain’t no politician

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Donald ain’t no politician

Is not an easy thing when you got to find money and at de same time guard against all dem people who want money. And de government people got it bad. At de Chronicle de government try fuh get...

NAMILCO One Love Football Classic…Alpha, Western Tigers, Slingerz & GDF clash in quarters today

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO One Love Football Classic…Alpha, Western Tigers, Slingerz & GDF clash in quarters today

Riddim Squad & Conquerors into semis The final two semifinal spots are up for grabs this evening when the 7th edition of the NAMILCO One Love Football Classic knock-out tournament continues at...

Guyana finish third, beat Argentina again

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana finish third, beat Argentina again

– Canada defeat USA, qualify for 2015 WC in Germany Perhaps inspired by the outstanding performances of their female counterparts not so long ago, the Guyana men’s national hockey team made...

Clive Atwell goes after the WBC world featherweight title in his toughest battle to date

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clive Atwell goes after the WBC world featherweight title in his toughest battle to date

By Michael Benjamin When 25 years old Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell enters the ring on May 24 next against Johnny Gonzalez for the latter fighter’s World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title,...

Regional four-day cricket …Bishoo grabs best bowling figures by a Guyanese in Regional cricket

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional four-day cricket …Bishoo grabs best bowling figures by a Guyanese in Regional cricket

But T&T close in on first innings lead By Sean Devers Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo wrote his name in the records of Regional Cricket by capturing 9-78, the best figures ever by a Guyana at this...

Baseball League/E-Networks offering Easter holiday camps for interested youngsters

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Baseball League/E-Networks offering Easter holiday camps for interested youngsters

The Guyana Baseball League in association with E-Networks Inc. is offering nationwide baseball camps throughout the Easter school holidays the organisation stated in a press release yesterday....

Has Atwell’s management made a mistake with his budding career?

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Has Atwell’s management made a mistake with his budding career?

While being hailed in certain quarters as a Quantum Leap, Clive Atwell’s recent signing to challenge Johnny Gonzalez for the latter’s WBC featherweight title is being labeled as “not well...

Director of Sport challenges opposition to refute government’s sports contribution

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Director of Sport challenges opposition to refute government’s sports contribution

During his presentation during the Budget Debates during the current sitting of Parliament, Director of Sport Neil Kumar, challenged the opposition to refute the contribution and effort being made by...

Former junior national hands over gear to GTTA

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former junior national hands over gear to GTTA

Former junior national table tennis player, Michael Clarke, yesterday handed over a quantity of equipment to the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) at the Guyana Olympic Association Headquarters...

Greaves aiming for the top

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Greaves aiming for the top

Just 14 years old, young table tennis star Priscilla Greaves has already racked up an impressive resume in the sport and is deserving of Kaieteur Sport’s focus this week. From a very tender age,...

Letter to the Sports Editor…WHAT A SHAME, MR. HARPER

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…WHAT A SHAME, MR. HARPER

Dear Sports Editor, The Cricket Clubs of Georgetown should express their dissatisfaction about what transpired at a Special General Meeting of the Georgetown Cricket Association, Chaired by Mr. Roger...

“ICC World T-20 2014 was excellent but what now for West Indies?”

Apr 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on “ICC World T-20 2014 was excellent but what now for West Indies?”

Colin E. H. Croft Having been extremely fortunate to have been directly involved in the television coverage of ICC World T-20 2014, I had a close-up, ring-side seat of the competition and could say...

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No good deed goes unpunished

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(Kaieteur News) – Among those who joined the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus, a man Caesar had previously pardoned after the civil war. Caesar had spared his life, restored him to favour and trusted him. Brutus repaid this generosity by helping to put a...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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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...

U.S. midterms – the Guyanese challenge – Pt. III

Nov 10, 2026

Kaieteur News – Donald Trump made himself into a winner. He also made himself a loser. No close midterm results to contest. No tight seat margins that call for bruising, delaying, upending battles. The American people spoke, their will prevailed. What’s the lesson for Guyanese? Is there...

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