July 2014

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Chikungunya virus outbreak…Health Minister must lead from the front – insists APNU MP

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chikungunya virus outbreak…Health Minister must lead from the front – insists APNU MP

The efficacy of fogging exercises being undertaken by the Ministry of Health to tackle the Chikungunya virus is being called into question by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of...

Mayor slams administration over micro management of council

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mayor slams administration over micro management of council

City Mayor Hamilton Green has lashed out at Minister of Local Government, Norman Whittaker, accusing him of micro managing and disrespecting the duly elected Georgetown Mayor and City Council...

Faulty Caesarean section…GPHC is a teaching institution for Doctors and Nurses – Dr. Norton

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Faulty Caesarean section…GPHC is a teaching institution for Doctors and Nurses – Dr. Norton

Shadow Minister of Health for A Partnership for National Unity, Dr. George Norton, is of the view that doctors and nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are not facing the...

De female warriyah with de feral weppaan

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on De female warriyah with de feral weppaan

Very few countries have a population whose sense of humour is as evocative as Guyanese. I like the way they put Creolese phonetics into English words. Fire becomes fyaah – “mo fyaah pun deh...

Corentyne freak -storm

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne freak -storm

…areas returning to normalcy as power resumes The Black Bush Polder and other areas along the Upper Corentyne are slowly returning to normalcy as residents begin the task of repairing...

Cigarette smoking most detrimental to women – Cardiologist

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cigarette smoking most detrimental to women – Cardiologist

Although research suggests that men are more prone to cigarette smoking, the effects of such activities could be more detrimental to women. This state of affairs was amplified by Resident...

Meten-Meer-Zorg grocer murder … Eight accused remain hopeful for PI commencement

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Meten-Meer-Zorg grocer murder … Eight accused remain hopeful for PI commencement

… Magistrate expected to be permanently appointed at Leonora Magistrate’s Court Almost ten months after being accused and incarcerated for the murder of a Meten-Meer-Zorg grocer, the eight...

Essequibo protesters for court today

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo protesters for court today

Statements are being processed by senior Police officers stationed at the Anna Regina police station before they are forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions in an attempt to institute...

THE PPP HAS BEEN CAUGHT NAPPING

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP HAS BEEN CAUGHT NAPPING

The political protests by rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast should cause deep introspection on the part of the ruling People’s Progressive Party. These protests reveal, yet again, the Achilles...

Mibicuri Hospital left in darkness after storm

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mibicuri Hospital left in darkness after storm

… Nurse’s residents crying out for help Despite the presence of a Regional Health Authority in Berbice, which incidentally is the only one in the country, the health situation in the Ancient...

GECOM unable to provide composition of registrants

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM unable to provide composition of registrants

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), the entity responsible for the administration and conduct of elections in Guyana, is unable to provide information on the make-up or composition of...

Linden commemorates 50th anniversary of Son Chapman

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Linden commemorates 50th anniversary of Son Chapman

Lindeners, on Sunday, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Son Chapman tragedy that claimed 54 lives after the launch was blown to bits by an explosion. The date was July 6, 1964; the explosion...

Dr. Frank Anthony to face steel pan music in Parliament

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Frank Anthony to face steel pan music in Parliament

The operation of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is once again under scrutiny, this time for hiring a foreign steel pan tuner and for not inviting prominent local tuners to a training...

Young people are largely forgotten

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Young people are largely forgotten

Half of Guyana’s population (about 50.9 per cent) is below the age of 24. And more than one-third (about 36.9 per cent) is between 25 and 54 years of age. The government, however, persists in the...

Pregnant cow injured in drive-by shooting

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pregnant cow injured in drive-by shooting

The reckless discharge of gunshots by unknown occupants of a dark blue 212 car, Saturday evening last, at Coffee Grove, Essequibo Coast has injured a pregnant cow. Owner of the cow, O’neil Cooke,...

Judge admits caution statement three more witnesses testify

Jul 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Judge admits caution statement three more witnesses testify

…as murder trial of seven-year-old continues The trial of murder accused Fazal ‘Mongoose’ Mohamed, called ‘Boy’, 23, of No 67 Village, Corentyne Berbice for the murder of seven-year-old...

A cancer that will remain in the body politic for two centuries

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A cancer that will remain in the body politic for two centuries

DEAR EDITOR, The people of Guyana continue to be victims of the Cold War which caused the United States and British governments to displace an elected government in 1964 by an electoral contrivance...

Ramkarran does an extraordinary job trying to balance on a high-wire

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramkarran does an extraordinary job trying to balance on a high-wire

DEAR EDITOR, In his latest piece, “The defence of Guyana’s sovereignty,” on his Conversation Tree blog site, former House Speaker, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, tried to be as delicately balanced...

The Minister’s remarks have tarnished Guyana’ diplomacy

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Minister’s remarks have tarnished Guyana’ diplomacy

DEAR EDITOR, No one can remember in recent memory when a Minister displayed such behaviour against a diplomat as occurred last Wednesday against the Ambassador from the world’s global icon—the...

The Mentality of the PPP Government – “is Guyana we deh”

Jul 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Mentality of the PPP Government – “is Guyana we deh”

DEAR EDITOR, The colloquial phrase “is Guyana we deh” is used to communicate that all manner of foolishness, ignorance, corruption and ill-treatment occurs in Guyana. It is usually the response...

Assault rifle magazines, thousands of spent shells found in Albouystown

Jul 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Assault rifle magazines, thousands of spent shells found in Albouystown

– army clothing also recovered Police last night unearthed what appeared to be the remnants of a massive arms cache during a surprise raid at a James and Victoria Street, Albouystown...

Finance Minister compares private newspaper to Berbice River Bridge

Jul 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister compares private newspaper to Berbice River Bridge

“It is time the people of Berbice stand up for themselves”- Granger By Abena Rockcliffe Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh has resorted to the use of false analogies in justifying...

Freak storm rips through Upper Corentyne leaving $$$ in damages

Jul 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Freak storm rips through Upper Corentyne leaving $$$ in damages

…topples several homes in Black Bush By Leon Suseran and Leonard Gildarie Mother Nature unleashed her fury yesterday, sweeping across the Upper Corentyne area, leaving millions...

Body of male nurse fished out of Sophia trench

Jul 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Body of male nurse fished out of Sophia trench

The badly decomposed body of a 25-year-old Male Nurse was fished out of a trench at the back of ‘D’ Field Sophia around 07:30 hrs yesterday. Dead is Terron Watts of Norton Street, Lodge....

Dem boys seh… Jagdeo pack stupidness in Ash Knee head

Jul 07, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Jagdeo pack stupidness in Ash Knee head

Dem boys know a lot of things. Because dem in de newspaper business people from all walks of life, rich and poor does call dem, send letters, send notes, e-mails, g-mail and even de word-o-mouth...

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– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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