December 5, 2014

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Membership decline denting trade union effectiveness

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Membership decline denting trade union effectiveness

By Zena Henry With a public workforce of approximately 250,000 staffers and only 50,000 being unionized, the country’s trade union bodies seem to be fighting an uphill battle on a gravel laden...

Damaged EBD koker…Flood victims reject Govt. $$$ offer, threaten protest action

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Damaged EBD koker…Flood victims reject Govt. $$$ offer, threaten protest action

“More than 400 residents were affected by that flooding; we are still counting our losses. When we calculate the money the Government giving, each household will receive not more than $27,000 and...

Stemming the rate of road fatalities

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Stemming the rate of road fatalities

A few suggestions are necessary to assist in stemming the rate of road fatalities, especially during periods such as the just-concluded road safety month. As mentioned before in these columns, it...

Captain of grounded Guyanese vessel recalls ordeal

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Captain of grounded Guyanese vessel recalls ordeal

– no illegal items on board St. Kitts – Engine shutdown had caused a Guyana-registered vessel to run aground on a reef just off the coast of Dieppe Bay last week Thursday. This is according...

Gold fallout…Growing rift between miners, Govt. over remedial measures

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gold fallout…Growing rift between miners, Govt. over remedial measures

Miners are calling for urgent action that will address fallout from the world market drop in prices. The call comes amidst what appears to be a growing rift between the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners...

Guyana could be first to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana could be first to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Increased access to antiretroviral medicines during pregnancy has allowed for Guyana to be named among 13 Caribbean territories that are on track to be certified as having eliminated HIV transmission...

Rohee, Benn, Ramotar: The PPP Jagan left behind

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Rohee, Benn, Ramotar: The PPP Jagan left behind

Early in my academic career, I argued that my generation and subsequent ones never saw Cheddi Jagan as a policy-maker in action and once Jagan remained as President, we would see what he was made of....

Patentia shallow grave murder…Tenant accused of killing landlord ‘unfit to stand trial’

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Patentia shallow grave murder…Tenant accused of killing landlord ‘unfit to stand trial’

A 34-year-old man accused of beheading his landlord and burying the body in the backyard of his Patentia, West Bank Demerara home, six years ago, is mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled...

Arrest warrant issued for carnal knowledge accused

Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Arrest warrant issued for carnal knowledge accused

After being put off on two occasions because the accused hadn’t a lawyer, all was set for the commencement of the High Court trial of 54-year-old Muntaz Yassim called ‘Joe’ of New Street...

Examples where the abolition of corporal punishment has been successful

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Examples where the abolition of corporal punishment has been successful

Dear Editor, I have fought many battles on various fronts is my time, won many and lost a few. The conversation on the abolition of corporal punishment is just another one of those battles and I...

The Singhs’ robbery should not break a spirit of giving

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Singhs’ robbery should not break a spirit of giving

Dear Editor, The carjacking and robbery of Balram and Indira Singh (news report Dec 3) is heart rending and shocking even in a country where robbery seems to be the trend as indicated in the number...

The no Confidence Motion debate would have been the ultimate “cuss down”

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The no Confidence Motion debate would have been the ultimate “cuss down”

Dear Editor, I fully support the President’s decision to Prorogue the 10th Parliament. With this action by Government, all respectful adults and more importantly our children were spared from the...

The true test of character

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The true test of character

Dear Editor, There are some people who are so blinded by prejudice that they simply cannot come to terms with the reality of a new and changing Guyana, one in which there is greater prosperity and a...

Once the AG remains in office, no decent person should give the President’s statements a second thought

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Once the AG remains in office, no decent person should give the President’s statements a second thought

Dear Editor, It has been many weeks now since the Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall has exposed his immoral fibre with that most undignified, degrading and vulgar collection of comments in...

Preliminary Inquiry and Grand Jury hearing

Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Preliminary Inquiry and Grand Jury hearing

Dear Editor, While legal officers in Guyana and the Eastern Caribbean are debating whether or not it is right for magistrates to commit accused persons to trial by merely looking at statements...

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‘Need For Speed’ meet and greet set for West Central Mall this...

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Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

Jun 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

God’s gift to Guyanese

Jun 04, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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Membership decline denting trade union effectiveness

Damaged EBD koker…Flood victims reject Govt. $$$ offer, threaten protest action

Stemming the rate of road fatalities

Captain of grounded Guyanese vessel recalls ordeal

Gold fallout…Growing rift between miners, Govt. over remedial measures

Guyana could be first to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Rohee, Benn, Ramotar: The PPP Jagan left behind

Patentia shallow grave murder…Tenant accused of killing landlord ‘unfit to stand trial’

Arrest warrant issued for carnal knowledge accused

Examples where the abolition of corporal punishment has been successful

The Singhs’ robbery should not break a spirit of giving

The no Confidence Motion debate would have been the ultimate “cuss down”

The true test of character

Once the AG remains in office, no decent person should give the President’s statements a second thought

Preliminary Inquiry and Grand Jury hearing

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