October 2014

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Guyana Fire Service celebrating 40th Fire Prevention Week

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Fire Service celebrating 40th Fire Prevention Week

From October 5- 11, the Guyana Fire Service will be observing Fire Prevention Week, the 40th observance since the initiation of the week. This year’s events are being observed under the theme...

Clean up apparently – no match for Albouystown flooding

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Clean up apparently – no match for Albouystown flooding

Canoes might have been a better mode of transportation for residents of Albouystown as sharp showers compounded by high tide was said to be responsible for widespread flooding in the low lying...

NCN cries harassment from APNU

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NCN cries harassment from APNU

– Coalition dubs claims “ludicrous, disingenuous and mendacious” Citations of biblical scriptures, human rights articles and claims of harassment, characterize the latest fallout...

Guyanese being sold as cheap labour to secure international investment

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese being sold as cheap labour to secure international investment

– FITUG A special appeal was made to the government last week by trade unionist Kenneth Joseph to ensure dignified employment for Guyanese citizens and to prevent them from being exploited by...

Indian company still interested in Canje Basin investment

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Indian company still interested in Canje Basin investment

Indian Conglomerate Ajeenkya DY Patil has indicated to the Government of Guyana that they are still interested in developing several hectares of land in the Canje Basin in Berbice. This disclosure...

Cubana Airline Bombing…Disaster victims remembered as 38th anniversary observed

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cubana Airline Bombing…Disaster victims remembered as 38th anniversary observed

By Rabindra Rooplall Thirty-eight years after a terrorist bomb exploded on Cubana Airline Flight 455, causing it to crash into the sea off the coast of St. James, Barbados killing all 73 of the...

October session of the Demerara Criminal assizes set for opening on Tuesday

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on October session of the Demerara Criminal assizes set for opening on Tuesday

The Demerara October Criminal Assizes will commence on Tuesday 7 October, 2014 with a total of 226 cases listed to be heard before Justices Navindra Singh, Brassington Reynolds and Dawn...

Almost two years after hit and run death…Driver jailed for two years

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Almost two years after hit and run death…Driver jailed for two years

Edson Ennis, 36, a cane harvester and part time taxi driver of Lot 88 Amsville Housing Scheme who was involved in the fatal hit and run accident on November 24th 2012, has been found guilty and...

The danger of living alone…Body of mini bus driver found in house

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The danger of living alone…Body of mini bus driver found in house

Living alone when you are battling a heart condition can be dangerous and sometimes deadly; at least this could be the case for a 58-year-old mini bus driver whose lifeless body was found in his home...

Police nab cocaine in 15-yr-old rum

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police nab cocaine in 15-yr-old rum

The ever vigilant Police Anti-Narcotics ranks stationed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri yesterday intercepted an outgoing passenger on his way to New York with almost six kilograms...

THE FACE OF TYRANNY

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE FACE OF TYRANNY

Guyana is not a dictatorship. We have a democratically elected government. However, what has emerged is a creeping tyranny within this democracy. This may seem paradoxical: the existence of an...

Impressions impresses at GuyExpo

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Impressions impresses at GuyExpo

As this year’s Guyana Exhibition (GuyExpo) kicked off at the Sophia Exhibition Center, patrons were left amazed with the colourful graphic designs throughout the location. And one of the...

INSEPARABLE: Love has kept Essequibo couple together for 63 years

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on INSEPARABLE: Love has kept Essequibo couple together for 63 years

Being married for 63 years is indeed a long time, in fact for some, it obviously can be regarded as a lifetime. It is therefore safe to say that being married for that long is an incredible...

Statement from the Guyana Press Association

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Statement from the Guyana Press Association

The Guyana Press Association has taken note of complaints of harassment of reporters of the state-owned National Communications Network during their coverage of political meetings being hosted by...

GPHC’s Paediatric Ward to be relocated

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC’s Paediatric Ward to be relocated

Come this December, children hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be in a “kiddies friendly” ward with bigger space to play while they are being treated. This is...

Teen steals $76,000 worth of ice cream

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen steals $76,000 worth of ice cream

– court hears An 18-year old from South Amelia’s Ward, Linden who apparently has an overwhelming appetite for ice cream was brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court last Friday,...

Linden man assaults girlfriend after she refuses to have sex

Oct 06, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Linden man assaults girlfriend after she refuses to have sex

A Linden construction worker who cuffed his girlfriend when she refused to have sex with him is cooling off in the Camp Street prison having been remanded there last Friday. According to the...

MOSQUITOES MUST DIE

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on MOSQUITOES MUST DIE

One of the earliest jokes I heard, way back in the days of “pitch-oil” or kerosene lamps and candles, going to school barefoot and burning “cockset” or mosquito coils and smelling the...

Minister Whittaker’s double standards on Plaisance overseer issue

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Whittaker’s double standards on Plaisance overseer issue

Dear Editor, I write on behalf of the citizens of Plaisance, who have become disheartened after reading the press release sent out by Minister Whittaker on Saturday 4th October, 2014 in relation the...

Government must invest in human capital with the same vigor and passion

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government must invest in human capital with the same vigor and passion

Dear Editor, In the remarks given by Minister Ali to open GuyExpo 2014, the honourable Minster used the word ‘transformation’ several times in the context of economic and market-based...

Remembering the Cubana tragedy

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remembering the Cubana tragedy

Dear Editor, On (October 6th) we mark the Anniversary of the horrible CU-455 Cubana Air disaster off Barbados in 1976, which took the lives of seventy-eight (78) persons including several Guyanese...

Initiate the creation of a readiness for constitutional change

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Initiate the creation of a readiness for constitutional change

Dear Editor, While next year will mark the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta, the most famous constitutional document in England’s history, it is of note that October 6th 2014 marks the 34th...

Please serve and protect the people

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please serve and protect the people

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper to express my disgust at the lackadaisical and unprofessional work of the police. Based on my knowledge and experience, the majority of police...

Disturbing trend at Schools’ Athletics events

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disturbing trend at Schools’ Athletics events

Dear Editor, For a few years now I have noticed the school sports have been changing to what some people have deemed to be extreme lawlessness. Most children used to attend in uniforms, but now the...

These suspicious fires

Oct 06, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on These suspicious fires

The Umana Yana benab which was built by members of the Wai Wai grouping at the behest of the Cooperative’s first Executive President Forbes Burnham, is no more. From all appearances, at this time...

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Bread, circuses and the price of silence

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

From gunboat and Ping-Pong diplomacy to gangster diplomacy

Sep 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was U.S. President James Munroe and his stellar vision: Manifest Destiny. Then came Presidents Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor, among others. Men of military acclaim; generals who laid claim to personal heraldry. Native American Indian tribes chased from their...

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