July 10, 2014

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Woman pleads for assistance to keep mother alive

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman pleads for assistance to keep mother alive

A 28-year-old woman determined to keep her mother alive, is pleading with members of the public for financial donations. Jacklyn Mootoo, 48, of Durban and Creen Streets, Newburg, Georgetown,...

No electricity crisis at Mibikuri Hospital, says Doctor-in-Charge

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No electricity crisis at Mibikuri Hospital, says Doctor-in-Charge

…generator is fully functional By Leon Suseran The Doctor-in-Charge of the Mibikuri Hospital at Black Bush Polder on the Corentyne, has refuted the allegations in yesterday’s edition of...

Spent shells were lying in Albouystown yard for two years

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Spent shells were lying in Albouystown yard for two years

– were to be melted down and sold as scrap metal Two men, including a member of the Guyana Defence Force, who were detained by police, are to face charges in connection with the discovery of...

Guyana Foundation empowers female entrepreneurs in Linden

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Foundation empowers female entrepreneurs in Linden

The Guyana Foundation recently took its work to Linden where it conducted an entrepreneurship training workshop for a group of female business owners. This highly interactive and engaging programme...

Major restructuring of Georgetown on the horizon

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Major restructuring of Georgetown on the horizon

– Transportation legislation, traffic congestion and parking to be addressed The Ministry of Public Works will be undertaking a Sustainable Urban Transportation Study of Georgetown to...

Govt., ruling party questions GECOM’s preparedness to hold any election

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt., ruling party questions GECOM’s preparedness to hold any election

The ruling Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) as well as the Guyana Government are both questioning the preparedness of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to pull off either the Local...

Trial for murdered Sophia woman nears end

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Trial for murdered Sophia woman nears end

Justice Diana Insanally is expected to sum up the murder trial of Paul Anthony Lo Hing, today. Yesterday, Defence Attorney Huckumchand Parag and State Prosecutor Natasha Backer made closing...

2014 round of Sagicor Visionaries Challenge launched

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 2014 round of Sagicor Visionaries Challenge launched

In light of the fact that Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) have their place in helping to build a better future for Guyana and by extension the rest of the world, the...

IAC says: 254 years needed for Guyana to equal Singapore’s 2013 economy

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IAC says: 254 years needed for Guyana to equal Singapore’s 2013 economy

Despite the bragged about economic growth the country has experienced over a prolonged period of time, the issue of brain drain continues to be on the front burner. The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC)...

Regime change: Uncle Sam may have called it George

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Regime change: Uncle Sam may have called it George

The Americans felt in 1991 that Guyana had a long spell with the PNC in office. President Hoyte’s approach would have satisfied any neo-liberal, conservative capitalist Prime Minister/President in...

Jehovah’s Witnesses host Convention

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jehovah’s Witnesses host Convention

Jehovah’s Witnesses are inviting all of their neighbors to attend their annual convention to be held at the National Park, Thomas Lands, Georgetown. The theme of this year’s program is “Keep...

Punching above your weight

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Punching above your weight

There are things that people do that defy logic, even when those people know better. For example, a man may not strike or abuse his spouse and there are good reasons for such an admonition. The...

Diamond resident freed from wounding charge

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond resident freed from wounding charge

A Diamond Public Road resident was yesterday freed from a wounding charge after the victim whose head was completely bandaged, came forth in the city court and stated that he wished not to proceed...

Teen accuses stepfather of sexual molestation

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen accuses stepfather of sexual molestation

A teenager, who has leveled allegations of sexual misconduct against her stepfather, is in the protection of a social and welfare officer. Efforts to have the 14-year-old-undergo a medical...

A MUCH BETTER OPTION

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A MUCH BETTER OPTION

A community in Alberttown, one of the wards in the city, has come together to help clean the drains so as to prevent flooding and generally improve the environment. One of the representatives of the...

‘Mongoose’ to face retrial for killing child

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Mongoose’ to face retrial for killing child

Murder accused Fazal ‘Mongoose’ Mohamed, called ‘Boy’, 23, of No 67 Village, Corentyne Berbice will have to face a Judge and Jury again. This was after the mixed jury in his murder trial...

Quarrel over ‘drug’ payments leads to charges

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Quarrel over ‘drug’ payments leads to charges

Wendell Codogan was sent from court on his own recognizance yesterday after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on a charge of threatening his cousin, Lawrence Williams. In the court...

Workshop on regional quality infrastructural policy held

Jul 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Workshop on regional quality infrastructural policy held

A national meeting on conformity assessment and draft regional policy for quality infrastructure was hosted recently by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) in collaboration with CARICOM...

When it comes to ‘interference’ the PPP are the Task Masters

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on When it comes to ‘interference’ the PPP are the Task Masters

DEAR EDITOR, After reading Peeping Tom’s article in the Kaieteur News earlier, which as we have noted before, seems to be a Freedom House PPP position – he concludes that the US envoy and for...

Managing Elections

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Managing Elections

DEAR EDITOR, I must be numbered amongst the citizenry who clamour vociferously for local government elections. At the same time however, I am puzzled by those more prominent stakeholders who harp...

Protecting their own interest

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Protecting their own interest

DEAR EDITOR, Not surprising, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of PNC/APNU, David Granger, has joined with his AFC counterpart in denouncing the speech made by the acting Minister of Foreign...

The Essequibo protest shows that the nation is in distress

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Essequibo protest shows that the nation is in distress

Dear Editor, As it relates to all Guyana, our proposition is that the minority PPP regime does not possess the national will, skills set, and intellectual capacity to get things done right in the...

I had a dream

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on I had a dream

DEAR EDITOR, I had a dream this week, in fact two dreams. In the first one an Asian mafia group had moved into my house and had stripped me of everything I owned. My household was subjected to the...

The door was closed on democracy after the 1992 elections results were announced

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The door was closed on democracy after the 1992 elections results were announced

DEAR EDITOR, I consider the reactions by the PPP and the statements by His Excellency President Donald Ramotar in your publication (KN July 4, 2014) in response to outgoing United States Ambassador...

Analysis of a speech — A bad marriage from the start

Jul 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Analysis of a speech — A bad marriage from the start

DEAR EDITOR, We are all in it – Don’t just point a finger at the feral out-of-control Priya. Whether Donald Ramotar is a de facto president who has usurped power, or Priya Manickchand is...

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Female prison inmates make history in Caribbean Boxing

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Kaieteur Sports – History was made at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Thursday evening when Orina Silas and Shania Benjamin became the first female inmates from Guyana, and believed to be the...

Children are dying!

Aug 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The words of South African Anglican priest and anti-apartheid activist Michael Lapsley today rings with the moral clarity that the world desperately needs to hear. After returning from Havana, he did not mince words. He accused the United States of inflicting “a genocide...

Haiti – Stop the money flow to Organised Crime

Aug 16, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Haiti’s plight must not be forgotten because it is no longer a regular feature of international headlines. The suffering has not diminished. Between January and early June 2026, at least 2,310 people were killed, 1,106 were injured and 99 were kidnapped,...

Move MV Barima media

Aug 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Gov’t will give an arm and a leg to get the MV Barima off the front-pages. I go so far as to assert that some would part with their left nut to hustle the tragedy of the MV Barima out of the media altogether. C’mon folks, it is only 100 dead, […]

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