November 21, 2015

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Govt. mediating in Ogle airport dispute

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. mediating in Ogle airport dispute

Members of the National Air Transport Association (NATA) and the Correia Group have agreed to submit crucial documentations to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) pertaining to the operations...

Cummingsburg Accord working well…There is broad sharing of Govt. functions – PM Nagamootoo

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cummingsburg Accord working well…There is broad sharing of Govt. functions – PM Nagamootoo

The Cummingsburg Accord which brought A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) together to contest the 2015 General Elections, has become a true working partnership,...

UG students complete skills project with Sophia residents

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG students complete skills project with Sophia residents

Females, between the ages of 16 and 30, were the targets of University of Guyana (UG) students whose common mission was to reach out to the community of Sophia. The group of five students of the DSW...

Newborn fell from GPHC cot…Police likely to be called- Public Health Minister

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Newborn fell from GPHC cot…Police likely to be called- Public Health Minister

The Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton, has said that if an investigation finds that negligence was the cause for a newborn to fall from a cot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

Businessman, other remanded over gun and ammo

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman, other remanded over gun and ammo

An East Coast Demerara businessman and another man were remanded yesterday following the discovery of an unlicensed firearm and several rounds of ammunition at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara. A...

“VV” motor vehicle series to start shortly

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on “VV” motor vehicle series to start shortly

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is set to commence the new motor vehicle registration series “VV” shortly. Commissioner General of the GRA, Khurshid Sattaur, in his capacity as Chief Licensing...

Chopped NA ‘bandit’, two others refused bail

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Chopped NA ‘bandit’, two others refused bail

The three men who were implicated in the robbery of a New Amsterdam businessman on Saturday last, during which bandits wounded the businessman who in turn wounded one of the thieves, has been...

No Guyanese product adorns Caribbean shelves–Finance Minister

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on No Guyanese product adorns Caribbean shelves–Finance Minister

…save for El Dorado rum No product of Guyanese origin is a household name in Caricom, save and except El Dorado rum. This sobering truth was put before members of the manufacturing community on...

Gov’t pumps $38M into Small Business Expo

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t pumps $38M into Small Business Expo

The Government has invested a whopping $38M in the upcoming Small Business Exposition, where 300 local business proprietors are set to showcase their products and services. It will be held over three...

France-based Guyanese jailed, fined $1.8M for coke

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on France-based Guyanese jailed, fined $1.8M for coke

Ever since the dissolution of the Berbice Anti Smuggling Squad (BASS), the Police have been making steady steady drug busts at the illegal back track crossing on the Corentyne River in collaboration...

Fuelling the economy

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Fuelling the economy

The new government has been in office a mere six months but it is being asked to perform as though it has been there for an eternity. The society is demanding two things, jobs with good pay and an...

Delegation for Guyana to identify career potentials within the CSME

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Delegation for Guyana to identify career potentials within the CSME

Nineteen university students, a lecturer and the CSME focal point from Trinidad and Tobago, will be visiting Guyana next week to identify career possibilities within the CARICOM Single Market and...

Guyanese awarded C’dn$2.25 M grant to develop biomaterials

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese awarded C’dn$2.25 M grant to develop biomaterials

Dr. Suresh Narine, who is regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities in the groundbreaking field of biomaterials, was recently awarded a multi-million-dollar grant from the Natural...

Guyana must never accept the GAWU formula

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana must never accept the GAWU formula

Long, long ago, the trade union, GAWU, pulled out of the Trade Union Congress because it argued that it had thirty five thousand members, and yet in elections competition all the time, it failed to...

THE GOLDEN RULE

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE GOLDEN RULE

I have always argued that even in the days in Guyana when a party card could guarantee you a job in the state sector, if you did not have a party card but you were really bright and hardworking you...

Walter Rodney Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

The Awards Ceremony for the “2015 Walter Rodney Creative Writing Awards” was held on Wednesday at the Moray House, which is considered as “hallowed ground” for creative persons. The winners...

Assistant Superintendent, traffic ranks visit road accident victims at GPHC

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Assistant Superintendent, traffic ranks visit road accident victims at GPHC

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Dennis Stephens, traffic ranks and officials of the Guyana Road Safety Council (GRSC), on Thursday visited road accident victims at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

UG Tain campus set to graduate 168 students today

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG Tain campus set to graduate 168 students today

A total of 186 students are slated to graduate from the University of Guyana Tain campus today. The event will mark the 14th Convocation Exercise and will be convened on the lawns of the Tain campus...

UG integration of Maths and Environment education project yielding success

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG integration of Maths and Environment education project yielding success

Combined efforts to protect the environment with things mathematics and the outcome could be some innovative ways of helping to save our earth. In fact, this was the very outcome that was envisioned...

Robb Street Granny murder trial…Defence presents closing arguments, another lawyer fined for lateness

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robb Street Granny murder trial…Defence presents closing arguments, another lawyer fined for lateness

Attorneys representing the four accused on trial for the murder of 72-year- old Robb Street, resident Clementine Feidtkou-Parris have made their closing arguments. In their closing presentations...

18 Teachers graduate from Management Programme

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 18 Teachers graduate from Management Programme

… Those with 25 years of service, honoured in Linden “At its most basic level, in my opinion, a necessary requisite is the need to really love what you do. I can see a distinct difference in the...

Attorney wants an apology from Kaieteur News for offensive journalism

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attorney wants an apology from Kaieteur News for offensive journalism

Dear Editor, “Coke in Poke” was the headline in Kaieteur News (KN – November 20, 2015) referencing an article about two St Lucian women attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana. ...

No one in Guyana seems safe from criminals

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on No one in Guyana seems safe from criminals

Dear Editor, In January 2013, the PNCR General Secretary was shot during a home invasion and robbery. Last July, a judge and her husband were viciously beaten in a home invasion and robbery. In...

Public Officer’s Facebook page has racist undertones

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public Officer’s Facebook page has racist undertones

Dear Editor, I notice with interest the refusal of a notable newspaper to publish a letter I submitted a few days ago regarding the legitimacy of Ruel Johnson in his position as Cultural Policy...

Some people want rights that they deny to other humans

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some people want rights that they deny to other humans

Dear Editor, The likely Court case, Garaj versusTeixiera ( KN 19/11/2015, Chronicle 19/11/2015, Stabroek News 19/11/2015), will be a spectacle indeed if it proceeds. Two former PPP Ministers of Home...

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Dharry crowned IBO Super Bantamweight champion

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…Allicock, Amsterdam steamroll opponents Kaieteur Sports – Elton ‘The Bull’ Dharry, Keevin Allicock and Desmond Amsterdam represented the Golden Arrow Head with success, as they...

Glenn Lall has hit the nail on the head

Apr 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – For the average Guyanese, the promise of oil was simple entailed a better life. It involved more jobs, improved roads, better education and health care and a future where the country finally earns what it truly deserves. But five plus years into oil production, there is a...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Pres. Ali must ‘get serious’

Apr 27, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Pres Ali must “get serious.” National sage, Mr. Chris Ram said so in a widely watched public forum. Here are his exact words against the backdrop of the topsy-turvy US$2 billion (and marching upwards) Wales Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project. “They clearly didn’t have one...

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