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Sep 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Telemedicine’ targets remote hinterlands to reduce need for doctors’ presence
Guyana will roll out its telemedicine programme in five regions next year, Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, said yesterday during a courtesy call to her office by new Canadian High Commission...Sep 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Mayor and Town Council settle amicably
…after LUSCSL cuts power for unpaid bills Chairman of The Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL) Charles Sampson, has said that the power company and the Linden Mayor and Town...Sep 22, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Vendor remanded for allegedly trafficking ganja
A vendor was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday and was remanded to prison for having 37 grams of marijuana in his possession. The...Sep 22, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1
I hate to sound like V. S. Naipaul, but it is a problem enough when you are a small country. Imagine, therefore, the problems that arise when you are a small, disordered society. Guyana is a country...Sep 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTI launches automotive electrical/electronic service and repairs programme
Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry, believes that Guyana may well be on a path to the start of an electronic revolution. Addressing a dual event at the Government Technical Institute (GTI)...Sep 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cyclist swerved into my path’
…says soldier charged with causing death Zamani Archibald, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal who is accused of killing a cyclist in an accident, told Police (Detective) Corporal Winston...Sep 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police make arrests in GTT cable theft
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) commended public spirited citizens and members of the law enforcement agencies, yesterday, for apprehending a person reported for cable theft. The...Sep 22, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 1
An unemployed man was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly trafficking in 270 grams of marijuana. Terry Myles, 29, of Rosignol, Berbice, appeared before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela’s claims a threat to Caribbean’s zone of peace – Granger to UN assembly
President David Granger told the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela remains a threat to peace in the Caribbean. The President’s address to the UNGA, in New York where world leaders...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man who almost beheaded wife with kitchen knife jailed for 21 years
QUEENS — A man who attacked his wife last December on a Richmond Hill Street, almost decapitating her with a kitchen knife, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison, prosecutors said Wednesday....Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Two detained after lad, 13, goes missing
A 13-year-old Overwinning Primary School student of Brother’s Village, East Bank Berbice went missing on Sunday. The lad, Leonard Archibald, reportedly left home with his sisters for a birthday...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Body of fisherman discovered in shallow drain
– Driver nabbed after mirror with registration number found at scene A 61-year-old fisherman was killed in a hit and run accident somet ime around 04:00 hrs yesterday on the Meten-Meer-Zorg,...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Caretaker jailed for damaging Minister Harmon’s property
A man who claimed to be mentally unstable was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for damaging Minister of State, Joseph Harmon’s building. Samuel Green, 36, of Lot 99 Guyhoc, Georgetown...Sep 21, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 1
Old people see cheapness nah good. You does end up paying nuff more fuh cheapness. Li’l Joe coulda hire a security guard service because he use to mek nuff money when he use to practise law. He...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Talks with ExxonMobil on Natural gas for electricity, another example of ‘plantain chip vision’- Jagdeo
By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The idiom “don’t put the cart before the horse” is a stark reminder of the statements made by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, when he spoke of the current...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Six armed robbery charges for bandit who shot ex-cop’s daughter and colleague
The gunman, who allegedly shot the daughter of former Deputy Commissioner of Police, George Vyphuis, and her colleague during a two hour spree on Tuesday, is to face six charges of armed robbery. In...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approved $809M for NDIA… GNIC to supply $329M dredge; new pump stations for Buxton, Three Friends
Over $809M has been approved for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to execute critical drainage works. Among those projects, farmers and residents of Region Two will soon benefit...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 14 indigenous persons recognised for contributions to Guyana’s development
The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, on Monday, honoured 14 outstanding indigenous persons who have made significant contributions to Guyana’s development. The individuals who were drawn...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US report: Guyana does not have comprehensive policy to tackle child labour
Guyana’s fight to eradicate child labour is gaining ground but much more needs to be done, according to a new Child Labour Report by the US Department of Labor. Yesterday, Sandra Zuniga, Eco...Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Back to North West: Barima sails again
Until a new ferry, being funded by India is commissioned, Region One residents will have to depend on rehabilitated MV Barima to serve the route. The vessel set sail on Tuesday afternoon for the...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
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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...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...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,...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,...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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