November 2016

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Human Services Ministry to set up Wismar office

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services Ministry to set up Wismar office

Residents of Wismar, Linden, will soon have access to the services of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Protection without crossing the river to Mackenzie. This is thanks to an initiative by...

Digicel Guyana Open Golf Classic…Persaud claims seventh Guyana Open title

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Guyana Open Golf Classic…Persaud claims seventh Guyana Open title

– Deo dethrones Webster for Ladies crown Reigning champion of the Digicel Guyana Open Golf Classic Avinash Persaud playing with the regular consistency that fans and supporters have become...

Special Miracles Ministries Church marks 21 years

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Special Miracles Ministries Church marks 21 years

The leadership and members of Special Miracles Ministries Royalty Church,(SMMRC) rolled out the red carpet to welcome guests and visitors as the assembly hosted the grand 21st anniversary celebration...

GCF/NSC Three Stage Race…Agard is Overall Champ; Greaves pips Eastman in exciting 3rd stage finale

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF/NSC Three Stage Race…Agard is Overall Champ; Greaves pips Eastman in exciting 3rd stage finale

By Franklin Wilson Linden Bauxite Flyers Cycle Club’s Shaquille Agard pedaled his way to overall victory in the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF), National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored 3-stage...

Property owners will have to foot bill when MCC cleans un-attended lots

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Property owners will have to foot bill when MCC cleans un-attended lots

The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown have embarked on another cleaning campaign. This time, the focus will be on the many un-attended empty lots in the Central Business District of the...

Whatley is Mr. New Jersey State Open Bodybuilding 2016 Champion

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Whatley is Mr. New Jersey State Open Bodybuilding 2016 Champion

Earns Overall and Masters Pro Cards Fresh from winning gold in the Masters Over-40 class and silver in the Middleweight division at the 44th Central American and Caribbean Body Building and Fitness...

Letter to the Sports Editor…I did not read Mr Seeraj’s story

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…I did not read Mr Seeraj’s story

Dear Editor, In response to Mr Edwin Seeraj’s letter on my view of his comments on the naming of the Stands at Providence, I don’t read what Mr Seeraj writes on cricket unless it’s a historical...

Can Granger and Nagamootoo tell the nation if they accept this?

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can Granger and Nagamootoo tell the nation if they accept this?

In 2012, we were heading back to Georgetown from Region 6. It was nighttime and we stopped at a restaurant to eat. At the table with me were Christopher Ram, Gerhard Ramsaroop and Michael...

Agro-processors Street Fair highlights Guyana’s manufacturing potential

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Agro-processors Street Fair highlights Guyana’s manufacturing potential

The New Guyana Marketing Corporation (New GMC) hosted its third annual Agro-processors Street Fair on Main Street, Georgetown last Saturday. The aim of the annual event is to bring local...

The risks and rewards of conducting emergency medical evacuations in Guyana’s jungle

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The risks and rewards of conducting emergency medical evacuations in Guyana’s jungle

It’s 2:00 am. It‘s raining and it’s dark. A child was born earlier this evening in Mathew’s Ridge, North West District, (a sparsely populated black and Amerindian community located at Barima...

LOST TRIBE OF JAMAICA

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on LOST TRIBE OF JAMAICA

Once upon a time there lived in the Caribbean the Taino people. They gave us words like barbacoa (barbecue), hamaca (hammock), kanoa (canoe), tabaco (tobacco), yuca, batata (sweet potato) and...

More emphasis on reducing Malaria in hinterland

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on More emphasis on reducing Malaria in hinterland

– Bartica has highest rate of cases among Guyana’s ‘moving’ population The Public Health Ministry’s, Vector Control Services (VCS) unit will be taking a more proactive role to reduce...

GPHC A&E head promises faster response for emergency cases

Nov 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC A&E head promises faster response for emergency cases

Head of the Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Dr. Zulfikar Bux gave his assurance that persons referred to the A&E Department would...

Prices at Christmas!

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Prices at Christmas!

Heaven help us this Christmas! The price of eggs has already passed $900 per tray. It is likely to reach $1200 per tray by the time the cake-baking season peaks. It might be more economical for...

An adumbration on the origins of GuySuCo’s troubles

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on An adumbration on the origins of GuySuCo’s troubles

Dear Editor; These notes are taken from the National Development Strategy which we have mostly forgotten and disregarded as obsolete, but it is not, since whilst a few numbers and situations have...

Put the GuySuCo billions into other places

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Put the GuySuCo billions into other places

Dear Editor; How much longer will Guyana be forced to be the economic lifeline for the depleted Guyana Sugar Corporation? How much longer will the government be expected to pump billions of dollars...

The IAC has a constitutional right to free speech

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The IAC has a constitutional right to free speech

Dear Editor; I am a member of the Indian Action Committee (IAC) and I believe that the letter written by Mr. Abel Seetaram (KN- November 3, 2016) who claims to be a APNU+AFC Regional Councillor, is...

What could have been done to stop this tragedy?

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on What could have been done to stop this tragedy?

Dear Editor; Before I delve into the crux of my missive, amidst trying to digest a bevy of emotions, kindly permit me to offer condolences to the parents of Simon Elijah De Florimonte, who was shot...

The weakening of constitutional agencies by the Government

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The weakening of constitutional agencies by the Government

Dear Editor; Ours is a constitutional democracy constructed upon the foundation of the doctrine of separation of powers. As Justice Saunders posits in Benjamin v Minister of Information (1997: “…...

Honduran Airline committed to serving Guyana

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Honduran Airline committed to serving Guyana

Dear Editor; Easysky Airways of Honduras says it is committed to a reliable and sustained relationship with Guyana so as to offer a vital air link to Cuba and countries in Central America. The...

Why the Police Complaints Authority needs ten investigators

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why the Police Complaints Authority needs ten investigators

Dear Editor; Both Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, in their Sunday edition, October 30, 2016 carried advertisements from the Ministry of Public Security. One struck me like a bolt from the blue. It...

You don’t have to be a lawyer to know the laws of a counry

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on You don’t have to be a lawyer to know the laws of a counry

Dear Editor; Attention is being given to the statement by the government legal adviser, the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs that Ramon Gaskin is not a lawyer and therefore cannot...

A MILESTONE REACHED IN GUYANA

Nov 07, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A MILESTONE REACHED IN GUYANA

The saying that nothing lasts forever is true for many issues but more so for the bauxite industry in Guyana. Bauxite mining, which was a thriving industry in the country for decades, has now been...

2007 Cricket World Cup forensic audit…Guyana may never get financial closure

Nov 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 2007 Cricket World Cup forensic audit…Guyana may never get financial closure

… existing records, accounts pose health risks …PPP/C administration had no interest to make public the spending. More than nine years after hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to host the...

Robbed three times in four months…La Grange gas station offers reward for information on bandits

Nov 06, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Robbed three times in four months…La Grange gas station offers reward for information on bandits

The D and L Gas Station at La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road is offering a reward for any information that would lead to the arrest of two bandits who pounced on two staffers at the...

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The danger of renting another country’s power

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(Kaieteur News) – There is an old temptation among small countries, particularly those situated beside larger and more troublesome neighbours. They often mistake the friendship of a great power for an insurance policy. The illusion is comforting. It permits governments to spend less time...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

Praising President Ali, PPP for thinking of Guyanese

Aug 31, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I wish to thank publicly President Ali and the PPP Govt for keeping Guyanese in mind, caring for them. This should have been done before, but circumstances kept getting in the way. The president helped to get priorities in order, so here I am with gratitude in my heart,...

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