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2015 must be the year of good governance – if only for the nation’s children

Jan 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on 2015 must be the year of good governance – if only for the nation’s children

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me to extend greetings for a peaceful and productive New Year to the entire Guyanese society, and more particularly, the leadership, members and supporters of the...

GWI seeking consultancy services

Jan 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GWI seeking consultancy services

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) was the lone entity that received bids yesterday for services in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consultancy. The bids were opened yesterday at...

An imperative civic initiative

Jan 07, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on An imperative civic initiative

Running elections in Guyana is an extremely costly exercise. In the past, the technical and financial assistance provided by the international community has in great measure helped to essentially...

Cane farmers are suffering

Jan 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cane farmers are suffering

DEAR EDITOR, So the government has bailed out the rice farmers again. It found 2.1 billion dollars to do this great move to help rice farmers. The Minister of Agriculture was all smiles in the...

Police to increase strength by 1500

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police to increase strength by 1500

Cabinet has given approval for an increase in the manpower strength of both the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service. The announcement was made by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee,...

Day Nine: Rescuers still to find missing ASL plane

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Day Nine: Rescuers still to find missing ASL plane

…resources permit continued search efforts Today makes the ninth day since the Air Services Limited (ASL) Britten Norman Islander went missing with 27-year-old Captain Nicky Persaud and...

Gloomy future for GuySuCo as low sugar prices forecast

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gloomy future for GuySuCo as low sugar prices forecast

The news is getting gloomier for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). It is unlikely that the entity, the country’s largest employer, is going to turn a profit anytime soon. According to...

Sophia tragedy… Suspect surrenders, admitted to GPHC

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia tragedy… Suspect surrenders, admitted to GPHC

The fear of dying from burns he sustained about his body after setting his estranged partner’s home on fire that killed the woman’s stepfather and injured several others, reportedly led...

Public education system not fully ready for inclusive, universal education – GTU President

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Public education system not fully ready for inclusive, universal education – GTU President

Infrastructural and other facilities will have to be given keen attention if the Ministry of Education, and Guyana by extension, is to truly boast of universal education at all levels. This...

Eyewitness tells a tale of murder

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Eyewitness tells a tale of murder

…Relatives accuse police of refusing to take action What was first through of as a motorcycle accident that led to the death of Vickram Sohan called ‘Robby’, 20; a cane cutter of Betsy Ground,...

Dem Minister getting more police security

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Minister getting more police security

Whole of last year de police was busy running behind thief man. Who wasn’t running was trying fuh chase de criminals pun motor bike. Sometimes one set of police barely ketch a crook when de message...

Dynamic Airways is best thing for Guyana since GAC and Delta – says Capt Gerry Gouveia

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dynamic Airways is best thing for Guyana since GAC and Delta – says Capt Gerry Gouveia

…10 delays, two cancellations later, company not out By: Zena Henry To say that Dynamic Airways’ delay woes will stop is not a statement one can unconsciously make in the aviation sector,...

Survivor wants stiffer penalties for hit and run drivers

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Survivor wants stiffer penalties for hit and run drivers

Lone accident survivor, Brian Aubrey Anthony Devine, remains in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC). Devine was involved in a roadside accident at the wee hours...

South Africa v West Indies, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 4th day… Harmer, Steyn blow West Indies away

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Africa v West Indies, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 4th day… Harmer, Steyn blow West Indies away

ESPNcricinfo – South Africa were left needing 124 to win the third Test at Newlands and take the series 2-0 after a monumental West Indies collapse on the fourth day. West Indies’ last seven...

Guyanese dominate Bigi Broki Waka 5k, 10k races in Suriname

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese dominate Bigi Broki Waka 5k, 10k races in Suriname

Guyanese distance athletes dominated the twelfth edition of the Bigi Broki Waka 10km and 5km races over the Jules Wijdenbosch Bridge Sunday morning, digging deep to turn in some credible performances...

NAGICO Super50 Cricket… Barnwell to lead Jaguars

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAGICO Super50 Cricket… Barnwell to lead Jaguars

Four players with ODI experience included By Sean Devers The Guyana Jaguars 14-man squad for the 2015 NAGICO Super50 in Trinidad and Tobago was named yesterday and as widely expected DCC seam bowling...

IDB disburses US$13B in loans in 2014 – Bank’s President

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on IDB disburses US$13B in loans in 2014 – Bank’s President

– Caribbean, Latin America growth expected to pick up slightly in 2015 The Caribbean’s economic growth might recover modestly to 2.2 percent in 2015, up from 1.3 percent in 2014, its lowest...

Guyana: Angst, sadness, pessimism in 2014

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: Angst, sadness, pessimism in 2014

I love my country but I would be the first to admit that it is an enduring tragedy. I read how pessimistic Francis Fukuyama is about democracy ever coming to Russia and when Fukuyama says so then...

GABBFF looking towards another pumped up year: 2014 was good

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABBFF looking towards another pumped up year: 2014 was good

While it is regarded as one of the small sports in Guyana, it is a sport that every other sportsman and woman enjoy a little of since training of the muscles is vital to when it comes to keeping in...

US Court rules sentencing to go ahead for Guyana-born politician

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US Court rules sentencing to go ahead for Guyana-born politician

Albert Baldeo, a Guyana-born, Democratic district leader and candidate for city and state office, who has been fighting jail time after being found guilty in August by a US Court for obstructing...

48 graduate from Guyana Human Development Centre in Corentyne

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 48 graduate from Guyana Human Development Centre in Corentyne

The Guyana Human Development Centre (GDHC) at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice was the location of a very big celebration last Friday. Forty-eight students graduated from the Jesuit-run facility in...

HAUL YOURS

Jan 06, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HAUL YOURS

In The Middle Passage, V. S Naipaul recounted an incident at a political meeting in the 1960s in New Amsterdam. It was a meeting at which the then opposition politician Forbes Burnham was speaking....

New Approach on Buying HIV Drugs Will Save US$100 Million – PANCAP

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Approach on Buying HIV Drugs Will Save US$100 Million – PANCAP

– Pooled Procurement Mechanism to lower price The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is putting into place a new agreement for purchasing HIV medication that will save...

Veteran film director optimistic about local industry

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Veteran film director optimistic about local industry

By Leon Suseran Veteran actor, director, playwright and broadcaster, Ron Robinson is hopeful that Guyana’s film industry can develop further in this New Year. Mr. Robinson, whose acting days began...

Corentyne man gets three years for armed robbery

Jan 06, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man gets three years for armed robbery

Dwayne Armstrong, 25, a labourer and father of three of Portuguese Quarters, Corentyne, Berbice was on Friday sentenced to three years in jail by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Albion...

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An insult to our intelligence

May 14, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – We are told that the reason regular government press conferences have disappeared is because the administration has moved from “campaign mode” into “implementation mode.” In other words, governing has apparently become too demanding an occupation to permit the...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Sanctity of contract

May 14, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Sanctity of contract has a resonant ring. In isolation. Sanctity of contract placed next to sanctity of sovereignty doesn’t have a leg on which to stand. It pales. It must fade. For what does sanctity of contract do to sanctity of...

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