October 2015

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Releasing stats could help suicide prevention efforts – Local NGO

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Releasing stats could help suicide prevention efforts – Local NGO

As local bodies continue efforts to reduce Guyana’s staggering suicide rates, a local stakeholder believes that the release of statistics on suicide could actually significantly aid suicide...

THE BAG BAY INC SUPPORTS STYROFOAM BAN

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on THE BAG BAY INC SUPPORTS STYROFOAM BAN

The Executive Committee of the Bag Bay Inc. (BBI) was in glee following the announcement by the Ministry of the Presidency of a ban on ‘Styrofoam’ products. The ban takes effect from January...

Rice market worry… Guyana was never wholly dependent on Venezuela- Granger

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rice market worry… Guyana was never wholly dependent on Venezuela- Granger

Following the decision by Venezuela to take excess rice from Suriname, further curtailing any hopes of Guyana reviving its oil for rice deal, President David Granger has made it clear that as Guyana...

Elderly man battered to death at Linden

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly man battered to death at Linden

Police in Linden are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 82-year-old Andrew Reid, whose body was found in a pool of blood in his house at 543 Canvas City, Linden yesterday. The...

CAPE Student killed in hit and run accident

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CAPE Student killed in hit and run accident

Seventeen-year-old Denilson Rose, aka Nello, of 15 Fair’s Rust, Mackenzie, Linden, was killed in the wee hours of Saturday morning as he was returning home from a party. Rose was hit from the back...

GPHC Oncology Unit seeing increase in cancer survivors

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Oncology Unit seeing increase in cancer survivors

There has been a noticeable increase in the number of cancer survivors. This assertion was made by General Medical Officer (GMO) attached to the Oncology Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Health care, health education to be focus of week-long medical mission

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health care, health education to be focus of week-long medical mission

Addressing common adult health concerns will be high on the agenda during a medical outreach slated to commence this week. The outreach which will be facilitated by several experienced overseas based...

GPSU seeks better collective bargaining agreements

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU seeks better collective bargaining agreements

President of the Guyana Public Service Union, (GPSU), Patrick Yarde, has noted the need for adequate enforcement of legislation essential to facilitating collective bargaining between Union...

GuySuCo estates surpass weekly targets

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo estates surpass weekly targets

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) recently disclosed that it produced 10,254 tonnes of sugar last week, surpassing the 10,000 tonnes mark for the third time this crop. GuySuCo said that...

The twisted world of politics

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The twisted world of politics

The world of politics is full of twists and turns but most of all, it is full of politicians making one utterance then doing the exact opposite a short while later. Of course, we have seen this...

Six on bail amidst statutory rape allegations

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Six on bail amidst statutory rape allegations

Lethem Police have captured six men wanted in connection with allegations of statutory rape committed on two girls, aged 13 and 14 years The girls went missing from their homes on October 13 and...

Workers are exposed to terrible health hazards in cleaning Georgetown

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Workers are exposed to terrible health hazards in cleaning Georgetown

Dear Editor, I have observed within the central districts of Georgetown, a flurry of activity in terms of the cleaning of drains, weeding and leveling of parapets and the replanting of trees that...

PUSH YOURSELF!!!!

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on PUSH YOURSELF!!!!

Too often, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut, doing the same thing the same way over and over every day. But if we are going to live at our absolute best, we should constantly be growing and...

Red-circling the AG’s salary would have been a wiser solution

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Red-circling the AG’s salary would have been a wiser solution

Dear Editor, We all know that hindsight is 20/20 vision and that the dilemma of raising the bridge versus controlling the flood must be confronted from time to time. As reported in the media, the...

Guyana’s Don Quixote is in big, big trouble

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s Don Quixote is in big, big trouble

Dear Editor, Love him or hate him, Freddie KIssoon’s public intellectualism pervades Guyana. It may be open for debate but there isn’t anyone before him that has used ideas, critiques,...

Essequibo fair to boost entrepreneurship

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo fair to boost entrepreneurship

During the 16th anniversary observance of “Essequibo night/ Exhibition and fair’ Essequibians were encouraged to remain united. The executives of the Region Two Administration have a working plan...

NEW TALENT EMERGES from Kross Kolor Records

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NEW TALENT EMERGES from Kross Kolor Records

Jovinski, China and Shiivaine are Kross Kolor’s youngest but promising future artistes. Though different in many aspects they have one thing in common and that is music in their veins. Kross Kolor...

Prime Ministers Gonsalves asserts support for Guyana’s internationally accepted borders

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prime Ministers Gonsalves asserts support for Guyana’s internationally accepted borders

Dear Editor, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has said that the “ballgame”…… the nature of CARICOM’s relations with Venezuela would change...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN’S WELFARE

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN’S WELFARE

PAT DIAL Children are everyone’s concern. Though parents and others would like to protect and further their children’s welfare, they often do not know how to do so. One of the daily newspapers,...

FLOSSING

Oct 25, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on FLOSSING

Dental Corner “Have you been flossing regularly?” It’s the one question people dread when going to the dentist because it’s typically the one thing that most people don’t actually do on a...

Our Task is not Disputing but Growing and Developing People and Country

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our Task is not Disputing but Growing and Developing People and Country

Dear Editor, I beg your indulgence and that of the newspaper reading public to respond to the letter by Mr. Rawle Lucas in SN of Tuesday 2015-10-20 entitled, “Minimum selling price for two-thirds...

Sunday Cartoon

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

COUNTRYMAN – John Public’s Perception and Reality, in dollars and sense!

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN – John Public’s Perception and Reality, in dollars and sense!

By Dennis Nichols The heat is on, and I’m not talking only about the El Niño-generated kind that seems to be kicking in across the region. It’s also the flak our government is taking for those...

Why I refused to be on the National Commemoration Commission

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why I refused to be on the National Commemoration Commission

I thank the Government for the acknowledgement that I have some quality in me that could be put to use in service of my country. I was asked to be a member of the National Commemoration Commission....

The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The gun amnesty may be over but there are many guns out on the streets. The police would keep arresting some young men who are walking around with guns for reasons only they could explain. The...

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Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...

The politics of appointment

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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