September 2014

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Calls for new round of registration contradict claims of bloated PLE – GECOM

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Calls for new round of registration contradict claims of bloated PLE – GECOM

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is not interested in demands for a new round of continuous registration and shunned the idea of new house to house registration. In answering complaints...

Prime Minister launches Education Month in Region Six

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prime Minister launches Education Month in Region Six

By Leon Suseran Prime Minister Samuel Hinds declared Education Month 2014 in Berbice opened last Friday. The launching ceremony was held on the lawns of State House in New Amsterdam. Apart...

Woman on trial for allegedly robbing uncle over $10M

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman on trial for allegedly robbing uncle over $10M

Guitree Birjanand called ‘Falita’, 45, of Lot 1095 Glasgow Housing Scheme is facing four charges- two for forgery, one for embezzlement and another for uttering a forge document. The woman...

Guyana participates in twelfth international Qaseeda competition

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana participates in twelfth international Qaseeda competition

Guyana was well represented at this year’s 12th International Qaseeda Mehfil 2014, hosted by the Hidayatul Islam in Paramaribo, Suriname recently, according to Public Relations Executive,...

Patentia Squatting Area resident burnt in freak accident

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Patentia Squatting Area resident burnt in freak accident

An early morning freak accident has left a father of two nursing first degree burns to almost his entire body at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC). Medical officials say that...

Enterprise Youth Group pampers elderly villagers

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprise Youth Group pampers elderly villagers

The Enterprise Youth Development-Group embarked on yet another initiative dubbed “Care Nani and Nana”. The Project catered for over 25 elderly folks from Enterprise, East Coast Demarara...

Caribbean poverty level on decline – UNDP

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean poverty level on decline – UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says poverty is on the decline in the Caribbean and Latin American. In launching its latest report to complement global analysis on...

There is no talk about where will we be the morning after the election

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no talk about where will we be the morning after the election

Dear Editor, The imminent debate on the no-confidence motion against the government tabled in the Parliament by the Alliance for Change (AFC) has thrown Guyana into General Election mode. Barring any...

Courtney Benn was not retained to build Hope Canal sluice gates – Ramsammy

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Courtney Benn was not retained to build Hope Canal sluice gates – Ramsammy

Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has denied that his Ministry arbitrarily removed the construction of the sluice gates from the contract that was awarded to Courtney Benn Contracting...

Rohan Doodnauth stands out as a different breed

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rohan Doodnauth stands out as a different breed

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to KN article on August 31, 2014, “Strong-willed engineer, Rohan Doodnauth, is a ‘Special Person.’” In my opinion, he is an extraordinary and inspiring...

‘Winner takes all’ will keep Guyana on path of instability – Ramkarran

Sep 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Winner takes all’ will keep Guyana on path of instability – Ramkarran

“Unless winner take all is abandoned now, Guyana will continue on a path of political instability and ethnic dissatisfaction.” This is according to political stalwart Tacuma Ogunseye; a...

An F Grade for Rohee and the Police

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on An F Grade for Rohee and the Police

Dear Editor, Guyanese talk about crime now to the point where it is almost clichéd. They have a sense that the large group of uneducated, poorly socialized, unemployed and unemployable male youths...

This present charade is a travesty

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This present charade is a travesty

Dear Sir, Please allow me some space to address a current topic. Through the press and electronic news, we are being forewarned about the possibility of a merger between the political parties. Some...

TAKING IN FRONT

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on TAKING IN FRONT

I was always a pre-cocious and curious child. Now at my advanced age I am certainly post-cocious but still very curious about everything and that constant childlike wonder still persists. ...

Too many speed humps?

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Too many speed humps?

Dear Editor, Speed Humps are useful in situations where it is intended that road users must slow down in order to provide an atmosphere of caution at intersections or where there may be schools or...

Pressure groups

Sep 08, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Pressure groups

Visitors observing the Guyanese political scene would be hard pressed to understand why actions to modify political behaviour seems to be solely under the purview of the sometimes inept appearing...

CJIA US$150M expansion… Project unnecessary when compared to similar airports

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA US$150M expansion… Project unnecessary when compared to similar airports

Guyana is steaming ahead with a major expansion of the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, despite the many questions. The reason for the US$150M spending as argued by the previous...

Despite international warnings, criticisms…Guyana will not end relationship with China — GFC

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Despite international warnings, criticisms…Guyana will not end relationship with China — GFC

Even though international environmental critics have appealed to tropical countries to be wary of China’s “appetite for destruction” and have deemed the economic superpower as the “kingpin of...

Aussie gold mining company will not bribe anyone to seek favours

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Aussie gold mining company will not bribe anyone to seek favours

Aussie gold mining company, Troy Resources Guyana Inc., is currently upgrading the Linden to Omai Crossing and Omai to 72 Mile roads. It is now awaiting the signing of a Minerals...

Four months later…Haslington New Scheme hacker captured

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Four months later…Haslington New Scheme hacker captured

– claims he was overwhelmed by jealousy Four months after he hacked fisherman, Chatram Bharrat, to death in an attempt to possess the man’s wife, the rope finally ran out for Errol Khan,...

GDF Colonel to head Special Organised Crime Unit

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GDF Colonel to head Special Organised Crime Unit

Soon to retire Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lt. Colonel Sydney James, who served as a pivotal witness in the treason trial of an army Mayor and two others is set to head the Guyana Police...

An exceptional and innovative talent for management… Earl B. John is a ‘Special Person’

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on An exceptional and innovative talent for management… Earl B. John is a ‘Special Person’

“Out of that group of 67 men (The Penumbrians), over time, we produced a president, (Desmond Hoyte) two Ministers of Foreign Affairs, (Rashleigh Jackson and Rudy Insanally) several diplomats,...

Dem boys seh…De police ketching some and ignoring others

Sep 07, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De police ketching some and ignoring others

Old people always seh, ‘Give Jack he jacket.’ When Burnham try fuh ban suit, de talk was that people must give Jack he shirt jac. Well dem boys prepared to give de police shirt jac, and suit and...

Cops release images of waitress’s alleged killer

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cops release images of waitress’s alleged killer

Police are finally giving the public a view of the man that allegedly gunned down waitress Debra Blackman in Chinese Delicious Restaurant, D’Urban Street, last month. After apparently reaching a...

La Parfaite Harmonie access road will aid production, productivity – Ramotar

Sep 07, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on La Parfaite Harmonie access road will aid production, productivity – Ramotar

Speaking at yesterday’s commissioning of the $604M La Parfaite Harmonie access road, President Donald Ramotar said that he is confident the new highway will aid in increased production and...

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(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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