September 2014

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Education Minister announces plans to increase focus on quality output

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister announces plans to increase focus on quality output

– as extension to St Agnes Primary is commissioned While the need for improved infrastructure is seen as important and is gaining the attention of the Ministry of Education, of equal importance...

Caribbean Governments owe Hugh Wooding Law School US$5M

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Governments owe Hugh Wooding Law School US$5M

– Guyana not in arrears by Oscar Ramjeet Reports from St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago state that a few Caribbean Governments owe the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) US$5 million....

Man stabs brother-in-law for fighting with his wife

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man stabs brother-in-law for fighting with his wife

A garbage collector man is currently nursing a punctured lung at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after he was reportedly stabbed in the back by his brother-in-law on Monday....

Shrimping industry closed for six weeks – Agri Ministry

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shrimping industry closed for six weeks – Agri Ministry

Government has implemented a six-week closed season for the multi-billion shrimp industry effective since September 8. According to the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the 2014...

Local Muslim community distances self from ISIS

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local Muslim community distances self from ISIS

Guyana Islamic Trust, which claims that it is acting on behalf of the Muslim Community of Guyana, has strongly denounced the actions of the group known as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and...

Family of US citizen demands homicide investigation into poison overdose

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Family of US citizen demands homicide investigation into poison overdose

The family of a U.S. Citizen who died on August 30, last, at the New Amsterdam Hospital after ingesting a large quantity of Gramoxone is calling on the police in Berbice to launch a full homicide...

Ebola outbreak just as dangerous as ISIS

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ebola outbreak just as dangerous as ISIS

After an in-person briefing from the staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a “major increase” in the U.S. response to the...

Teenaged deaf-mute attempts suicide

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teenaged deaf-mute attempts suicide

A 19-year-old deaf-mute was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Sunday after he ingested a poisonous substance at his home. Ryan Totoram is currently nursing internal...

Prisoner charged with wounding fellow inmate

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner charged with wounding fellow inmate

Adbussulum Azimulla, the man who is alleged to have started the fracas that caused the upheaval in the New Amsterdam Prison on Friday May 23, last, has been charged with felonious wounding. During...

Not likely Ebola will reach Caribbean says CARPHA Director

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Not likely Ebola will reach Caribbean says CARPHA Director

– but preparatory measures ongoing While battling the Chikungunya virus may be an enormous task in itself, the local health sector, like others in the Caribbean, has been called upon to prepare...

Government’s comment about LGE “bizarre”- Granger

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Government’s comment about LGE “bizarre”- Granger

With the Government’s main spokesperson, Dr. Roger Luncheon, stating that it isn’t “logical” for the holding of Local Government and General Elections at the same time, Opposition Leader...

Dicing with the health of the nation

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Dicing with the health of the nation

This is not the first time that an epidemic has been sweeping this country and it surely will not be the last. On one occasion a series of flu hit Guyana like the plague. Hospitals and health centres...

The thing you can do to make the PPP lose the next election

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The thing you can do to make the PPP lose the next election

We begin with a word on the Rachel Maddow Show. Ms. Maddow made a penetrating point last week. She said that the publication of the beheading of American citizens by the Islamic State was to goad the...

Albouystown murder accused freed

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown murder accused freed

Leonard Allicock, who was accused of chopping Albouytown resident, Wendell Tappin, to death, was yesterday acquitted of murder. Allicock, who was on trial before Justice Diana Insanally and a mixed...

Miner remanded for robbing two women

Sep 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miner remanded for robbing two women

A 25-year-old miner who snatched two Smartphones from two women in Kitty on Sunday, was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Akeem Goodluck, of Lot 9...

The prayers of Guyanese is with the Glenn Lalls of this country

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The prayers of Guyanese is with the Glenn Lalls of this country

DEAR EDITOR, Living abroad for years now, we know that Guyanese have been following with much interest the happenings in Guyana. There was a time when many Guyanese fought for an opportunity to leave...

What is the driver of policy here?

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is the driver of policy here?

DEAR EDITOR, The report in your issue of 11 September, 2014 headlined “Cuban doctors abscond to US” may have another angle, resulting from specific targeted polices of the US government. I...

Why not go after the others, Mr Sattaur?

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why not go after the others, Mr Sattaur?

Dear Editor, I was a bit surprised when the Guyana Revenue Authority initiated action against two re-migrants who have close relationships with the Publisher of the Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall. The...

Concessions controlled by Bai Shan Lin show GFC’s fragile understanding of forest legislation

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concessions controlled by Bai Shan Lin show GFC’s fragile understanding of forest legislation

DEAR EDITOR, In a news item ‘Roger Khan company, Harry Rambarran in court battle over Willems Timber’ (SN, 14 September 2014), SN repeated the assertion from the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC)...

Mr. Sattaur and those duty-free SUVs

Sep 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Sattaur and those duty-free SUVs

Dear Editor, It is well established that successful countries have been able to reach where they are because of their effective laws. Simple things like sorting garbage, running a red light and even...

Only one of 858 suspicious activity reports reached DPP – FIU

Sep 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Only one of 858 suspicious activity reports reached DPP – FIU

By Kiana Wilburg The details of Annual Report for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for the year ended December 31, 2011, leave many financial critics bewildered, particularly by the fact that...

E.B.D. highway…works stall as GT&T, BK clash

Sep 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on E.B.D. highway…works stall as GT&T, BK clash

A contractor on a key piece of the East Bank Demerara four-lane highway extension has clashed again with one of the country’s telephone companies over excavations works. According to the Guyana...

$Three charged, one on the run in Berbice prison fracas$

Three charged, one on the run in Berbice prison fracas

Sep 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three charged, one on the run in Berbice prison fracas

– Fourth man on the run Almost four months after a fracas which occurred in the New Amsterdam Prison in which four high profile prisons (members of a gang) were seriously injured. Three...

Woman’s body found in bushes at Matthews Ridge

Sep 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s body found in bushes at Matthews Ridge

Police at Matthews Ridge in the North West District are trying to piece together the puzzle that was left after the discovery of the partially nude body of a 32-year-old woman early yesterday...

Ex-TSU rank jailed for illegal ammo, shooting civilian

Sep 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-TSU rank jailed for illegal ammo, shooting civilian

An ex-policeman convicted for shooting a man in his leg twice and slipping his own ammunition into the service gun in place of some of the rounds he had discharged at the victim, will spend the next...

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(Kaieteur News) – The intensity was palpable at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue this past Sunday as the seventh annual Republic Bank Under 18 School’s Football League...

We have entered the dark zone once again

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The police account of the incident in which shots were fired in Kitty at a vehicle in which was the leader of the opposition, brings back haunting and uncomfortable memories of one of the darkest eras of Guyana. And it specifically brings back memories of the assassinations of...

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...

King Charles III – post visit reflections

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The mind can be a funny thing. Mine played a trick on me, did a somersault. Now that King Charles III came and went, it’s confession time. He should come again. Guess who would lead the parade, the welcoming party? Incidentally, there could be a temporary halt to...

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