February 2016

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Essequibo jaguars now attack larger prey

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo jaguars now attack larger prey

The hungry jaguars that have been devouring residents’ dogs and other domesticated animals including ducks, parrots and goats at Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast, have now turned their attention to...

11 to clash for Junior Kaiso Monarchy tonight

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 11 to clash for Junior Kaiso Monarchy tonight

Tonight from 19:00hrs all roads lead to the National Cultural Centre as the Culture Department of the Ministry of Education kick starts the song competition for Mashramani 2016. Eleven young singers...

Hotels, hospitals warned to store water as conservancy level drops further

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Hotels, hospitals warned to store water as conservancy level drops further

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Thursday warned city hotels and hospitals to conserve water as the country continues to buckle down for a long drought. On Thursday, senior officials of the...

HIV fight attracts more Gov’t spending

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on HIV fight attracts more Gov’t spending

– but donor support still forthcoming By Sharmain Grainger “We are not out of the woods yet,” said Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)...

Movietown construction site shooting…Guards believe that they were shot to make way for site robbery

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Movietown construction site shooting…Guards believe that they were shot to make way for site robbery

Even as police are continuing investigations into what really happened, the two security guards shot to their instep on Thursday morning at the Movietown construction site, Turkeyen believe that the...

Linden children march against suicide

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden children march against suicide

School children across Linden took to the streets, on Wednesday, in the first ever walk against suicide and abuse. The event was organized by the Youth for Change, Lester and Friends and the...

US$4.2m prepaid meter contract to be retendered – Min. Patterson

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on US$4.2m prepaid meter contract to be retendered – Min. Patterson

Government has completed the preparation of a new tender package for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) US$4.2M prepaid meter supply contract, with the expectation that it will be tendered once more by...

Natural Resources Ministry tackles El Niño impact on hinterland, mining areas

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Natural Resources Ministry tackles El Niño impact on hinterland, mining areas

The Ministry of Natural Resources is collaborating with other government agencies to bring relief where possible to areas hardest hit by drought conditions as a result of El Niño. This weather...

Social Protection Ministry supports suicide prevention initiatives

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Ministry supports suicide prevention initiatives

The Ministry of Social Protection has intensified its efforts to help prevent suicide by taking the message to schools, communities and workplaces. This week, a suicide prevention conference for...

Berbice man found dead in house with bulb and socket in hand

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man found dead in house with bulb and socket in hand

– Suspected electrocuted Investigations are ongoing into the death of a 22-year-old man whose body was found in the house where he lives alone along the Palmyra Public Road, East Coast Berbice....

Berbice criminal assizes open with ceremonial march past

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice criminal assizes open with ceremonial march past

…36 cases set to be heard; a whopping 31 for murder The police contingent led by Deputy Superintendent Lyndon Isles and Inspector Charles, and comprising Sergeant Stephen Gobin and 24 other ranks...

GOVT. ALONE CANNOT SOLVE THE DRUG PROBLEM!

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GOVT. ALONE CANNOT SOLVE THE DRUG PROBLEM!

Anyone who regularly reads the local newspapers or listen to the news would have noticed that hardly a day goes by in Guyana without someone appearing in court on a drug-related charge. The offences...

Leguan vendor goes missing

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Leguan vendor goes missing

Monalisa Atala, called Monalisa Moore, a vendor from Phoenix, Leguan has been declared missing by her family. Her sister, Jennifer Jonas, told Kaieteur News that the last time she spoke to her sister...

Cool Square murder accused claims he left hotel before shooting

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cool Square murder accused claims he left hotel before shooting

Murder accused, Leon Duncan, told the court yesterday that he has no knowledge of the robbery/shooting of businessman Intaz Roopnarine at Cool Square Hotel in January 2013 because he checked out of...

Murder of Plaisance minibus driver…Lawyers submit closing addresses

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Murder of Plaisance minibus driver…Lawyers submit closing addresses

Justice Navindra Singh is expected to sum up the trial for which Orin Jerrick is facing a murder charge for Plaisance minibus driver, Gavin Fiffee. Following the summing up, the case will be handed...

Rama Krishna Primary tours CJIA

Feb 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rama Krishna Primary tours CJIA

Forty students from Rama Krishna Primary, accompanied by teachers and parents, toured Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) terminal building yesterday, February 4, 2016 ...

Are there police depravities at Anna Regina station?

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are there police depravities at Anna Regina station?

Dear Editor, I made a report to the Anna Regina Police Station concerning an eyewitness, seeing someone jumping my fence not for the first time, it turned out I lost a number of layers (small...

Cuss down people in the PPP

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cuss down people in the PPP

Dear Editor, During the turbulent sixties the late Peter Stanislaus D’ Aguiar is quoted as saying “the masses are the asses” after failing to penetrate the strongholds of the P.N.C (People’s...

This a very cruel, uncaring country

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on This a very cruel, uncaring country

Dear Editor, There are so many things that manifest themselves daily, highlighting and reminding us that democracy is much more than just having people casting a vote. That “of the people by the...

A police constable’s desperate plea for help

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A police constable’s desperate plea for help

Dear Editor, Thank you for space in your column since according to the wife of another police constable in your column recently it is the only way someone would listen to our concerns. I am also...

UG continues with its incompetent ways

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG continues with its incompetent ways

Dear Editor, I am pending you this letter with great concern over the starting of the online programs offer at the University of Guyana. The University of Guyana is offering online programs in...

I don’t own property in NY, can Tony Vieira say if he does?

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I don’t own property in NY, can Tony Vieira say if he does?

Dear Editor, In a KN letter of Feb. 2, Tony Vieira, a former Manager of Versailles and Schoonord Sugar Estates stated that his family had sold the Versailles sugar factory to Bookers in 1956. It was...

Where is the decision in the Jagdeo libel case?

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the decision in the Jagdeo libel case?

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has again spoken out against the delay by the Barbados judicial system in delivering decisions in a timely manner. But it is not only the Barbados...

Clinton William’s chairmanship of BIT is a competent one

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clinton William’s chairmanship of BIT is a competent one

Dear Editor, Last Monday’s Kaieteur News carried a letter by T. Sandiford which was critical of Mr. Clinton Williams’ leadership roles in two businesses and the Board of Industrial Training...

Isn’t Pauline Sukhai ashamed?

Feb 06, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Isn’t Pauline Sukhai ashamed?

Dear Editor, I was skirting the newspapers for an article when I bumped into a headline in the Guyana Times of February 05 – Sukhai to Govt: Prove you are better! – says provisions not enough for...

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Building the Orange Future

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(Kaieteur News) – About fifteen years ago, the idea was floated that Guyana should establish a National School of Music. It was not a fanciful suggestion then, and it is even less so now. In fact, in today’s Guyana—poised between oil wealth and a rapidly expanding cultural footprint, it is...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Sacred trust, latest presidential fairytale

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – When President Ali talks about “sacred trust”, clearly, he is a leader floating in his own spaceship. Making matters worse, he now believes in his own fairytales. Incredibly, he expects others also to fall for his fables. REOs reshuffled; some sent...

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