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Correction

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Correction

In yesterday’s edition we carried the photograph of murder suspect Davendra Hansraj, also called ‘Dog Man’ standing alongside a woman who was portrayed as his dead wife Mahanrani Udairaj. The...

Let’s not forget the school leavers

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Let’s not forget the school leavers

This editorial was first published three years ago. Since that publication nothing has changed. To show the extent of Guyana’s consistency, we republish that editorial comment. Schools reopen on...

New Year’s baby in Rupununi

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Year’s baby in Rupununi

The Lethem Hospital also delivered a New Year’s Day baby. The boy, Akeem, was born to 18-year-old Rhea Ng-a-Fook of the village of Parishara and her reputed husband, Lawrence France....

East Canje Humanitarian Society hosts differently-abled

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje Humanitarian Society hosts differently-abled

In the spirit of the holidays, the differently-abled in Berbice were recently visited, pampered and showered with gifts by the East Canje Humanitarian Society (ECHS). Twenty-five...

2015 begins with urgency to save the Caribbean from climate change

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on 2015 begins with urgency to save the Caribbean from climate change

By Sir Ronald Sanders If ever there was a time and an issue for the countries of the Caribbean to speak with one voice and at a high level, both the time and the issue have arrived. The issue is the...

food for thought…Let Go of What Didn’t Work Out in 2014

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on food for thought…Let Go of What Didn’t Work Out in 2014

Sometimes things happen in our lives that we don’t plan or understand, and we find ourselves trying to reason it all out. Sometimes we end up looking for a place to file it away in our minds. But...

The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

By Leonard Gildarie So the new year has begun. It brings fresh hope, a time perhaps to revisit the way we have been doing things and improve on them. Life is about mistakes, about not making that...

The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…GOLD TOO BIG TO FAIL: Missing a target but plotting a course

By Leonard Gildarie So the new year has begun. It brings fresh hope, a time perhaps to revisit the way we have been doing things and improve on them. Life is about mistakes, about not making that...

INTELLECTUAL OVERKILL

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INTELLECTUAL OVERKILL

We must be very careful in the way we juxtapose facts and the generalizations that can result from such juxtapositions. Guyana has a criminal underworld, every country does. Guyana has a large...

Caribbean growth will rebound to 2.2% in 2015 – ECLAC

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean growth will rebound to 2.2% in 2015 – ECLAC

Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will recover in 2015 and reach 2.2% on average, according to new estimates unveiled by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean...

Six global events have already influenced realities in 2015

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Six global events have already influenced realities in 2015

Dear Editor, At midnight December 31, 2014, celebrations of spectacular fireworks, lit up the skies all around the world. It was the end of a year and the dawning of another. Many remain grateful for...

Sharing a weight loss/maintenance strategy

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sharing a weight loss/maintenance strategy

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux It’s the beginning of a new year and we all have goals which we would like to achieve during the year. My personal goal is to shed a few pounds that I have accumulated over...

Be careful in your admiration of big names in society

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Be careful in your admiration of big names in society

Dear Editor, I hereby pen a few observations on Ruel Johnson’s letter on Ian Mc Donald (KN Dec 18, 14, “A whitewashed picture of the state of culture and the arts in Guyana.”) Johnson was...

The dead woman in the locked house

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The dead woman in the locked house

The teenage boy who did odd-jobs for Sirmattie Ramnaress didn’t see the body right away. He arrived at the spacious Diamond Housing Scheme residence at around eight o’clock on Saturday, August...

We must all embrace the politics of alternative thinking

Jan 04, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We must all embrace the politics of alternative thinking

By Nigel Hughes As 2014 concluded we inevitably reviewed our efforts over the past twelve months and asked ourselves, as we do every year, what have we achieved and what could we have done...

This country was a farce in 2014

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on This country was a farce in 2014

If and when I write my memoirs, I would definitely say that one of the most irritating moments in my life as a human rights activist was when Chief Justice Ian Chang last year ruled that Carol...

Guyanese urged to get on board with reusable bag initiative

Jan 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese urged to get on board with reusable bag initiative

By Zena Henry The issue of recycling and reusing has been brought to the fore, time and time again, in a bid to encourage the conservation of the environment. Locally, stakeholders have devised many...

Bai Shan Lin – true or false claim by Minister Robert Persaud?

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bai Shan Lin – true or false claim by Minister Robert Persaud?

DEAR EDITOR, I query the assertions made by the Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment in his annual report for 2014, as conveyed in the article ‘NRE sector saw “significant inputs and...

Am I the supreme optimist?

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Am I the supreme optimist?

The end of every year stirs hope in the breasts of the populace, unless an individual is the most avid of pessimists. In fact, this is the trend all over the world, so people make resolutions which...

The art of leadership

Jan 04, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The art of leadership

President Donald Ramotar seems to have lost, or never to have learnt, the art of leadership. His apprenticeship for the presidency was short and hasty. His selection as the People’s Progressive...

Sunday Cartoon

Jan 04, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

New Year breaks with two murders

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Year breaks with two murders

By: Romila Boodram A 50-year-old miner, who stopped four teenagers from throwing squibs into his yard and at people on Old Year’s Night, was later stabbed to death by one of the young men. The...

Ann’s Grove man is the country’s first murder victim for 2015

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ann’s Grove man is the country’s first murder victim for 2015

By Romila Boodram An Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD) mother is grieving the loss of her 21-year-old son even as she starts the New Year. About 15 minutes after the world rang in 2015, Errol...

Declarations short by 97,000 ounces… Gold miners demand same incentives as big operators to stay alive

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Declarations short by 97,000 ounces… Gold miners demand same incentives as big operators to stay alive

As gold closed out a dismal 97,000 ounces short of its original 2014 target, local miners have stepped up calls for radical changes that will see real incentives to keep the industry alive for small...

Day 5: Difficult terrain hampers search for missing plane

Jan 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Day 5: Difficult terrain hampers search for missing plane

Rescue workers sacrificed their New Year holiday to continue search efforts for missing Air Services Limited (ASL) Britten Norman Islander 8R-GHE and still organizers are no closer to finding the...

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Sep 06, 2026

By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – Riding high on their unbeaten streak this season, the Guyana Amazon Warriors will now look to preserve this mini-run at Providence following a comprehensive win...

Recalling the disaster of Jagdeo’s personal summitry

Sep 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Ray Chickrie’s latest letter, published in the Kaieteur News of September 1, 2026, is an interesting exercise that should trigger a recollection of the failure of Bharrat Jagdeo’s ‘personal summitry’. His letter dealt with Guyana’s surging Middle Eastern relations. In...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

When the political shelters in the biblical

Sep 06, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – In recent times, Guyanese have been eyewitnesses to the extraordinary. The political reaches for a connection to the biblical. Many are likely to see that as offensive, corrosive, and more of the abusive. Desperation is preferred. Swinging in the wind...

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