March 2018

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Teen mom poisons self and one-year-old son.

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teen mom poisons self and one-year-old son.

A 19-year-old mother of Lot 161 Number 59 Village, Corentyne, Berbice is currently a patient at the Skeldon Public Hospital along with her one-year-old infant after she conmsumed a poisonous...

‘In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty’

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ‘In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty’

By Dennis Nichols This week’s story title comes from Bob Marley’s hit single ‘Rat Race’ which is a roots commentary on human greed, intolerance, and what one local sociologist referred to as...

Finance ministers and Central Bank governors to meet expeditiously

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Finance ministers and Central Bank governors to meet expeditiously

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Finance Minister and Governors of the Central Banks in the Caribbean are to meet “expeditiously” to consider new proposals as regional government continue to react...

Judicial forum highlights corruption as major issue for Oil and Gas sector

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Judicial forum highlights corruption as major issue for Oil and Gas sector

According to Transparency International, “Grand Corruption is the use of high level power that benefits a few at the expense of many; it causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and...

GRPA Announces Winners of Gender-based Violence Competition

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRPA Announces Winners of Gender-based Violence Competition

Two students of the St. Joseph High School copped first and second place in the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) video competition titled, ‘Speak Out, Stand Up against...

East Berbice-Corentyne hosts Heritage Exhibition

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on East Berbice-Corentyne hosts Heritage Exhibition

“Embracing our history, showcasing our cultural diversity” was the theme for the Heritage Exhibition hosted on Wednesday at the East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six) Town Council Office. Minister...

Responding to Earl Hamilton

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to Earl Hamilton

Dear Editor, I am responding to a letter by one Earl Hamilton, that was published in the Kaieteur News of 28-02- 2018 under the title–“A gross and unfathomable ignorance of current...

Region Four STEAM Fair opens tomorrow

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four STEAM Fair opens tomorrow

The 2018 Region Four Biennial Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics [STEAM] Fair is slated to begin tomorrow [Monday March 5] at the Diamond Secondary School. The two-day fair...

US teacher trainers for Berbice literacy confab

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US teacher trainers for Berbice literacy confab

In promoting and supporting Literacy in Region Six, East Berbice Corentyne, the Department of Education in collaboration with the Medgar Evers College of New York will host a three-day...

Is the Better Hope LBI/NDC incompetent?

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the Better Hope LBI/NDC incompetent?

Dear Editor, Atlantic Gardens was created by the Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. as a lovely, peaceful ocean-side residential area, but this neighbourhood is constantly and openly...

Book Review… When Corruption and Ethics collide

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… When Corruption and Ethics collide

Book: That Blooming System Author: Sheldon Peart Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Sheldon Peart’s That Blooming System is an artful work that imitates life to the ninth degree. It is here that good...

No happy Phagwah at many West Coast Demerara villages

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on No happy Phagwah at many West Coast Demerara villages

Dear Editor, Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I travelled to (De Groote En Klyne) Uitvlugt, on the West Coast of Demerara, Guyana, to play Phagwah with family and friends. On our way, as we passed...

Interesting Creatures… Hyacinth macaw

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Hyacinth macaw

(Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) The hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), or hyacinthine macaw, is a parrot native to central and eastern South America. With a length (from the top of its...

GPL’s customer service is a disgrace

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL’s customer service is a disgrace

Dear Editor I am hereby calling on the government to immediately investigate the activities of the Guyana Power and Light, Inc. (GPL) and its staff who are allegedly removing meters, claiming the...

Prominent speakers for IWD forum

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Prominent speakers for IWD forum

On Thursday March 8, 2018, International Women’s Day will be celebrated. “Conversations With Selwyn” (CWS – Connecting With Stories) is hosting an event at the Marian Academy from...

Freddie Kissoon replies to Isabelle DeCaires

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon replies to Isabelle DeCaires

Dear editor, I refer to Ms. Isabelle DeCaires’ missive in SN lamenting that a letter critical of me that she sent twice to Kaieteur News that was not published. I have no control over the...

African Guyanese to meet on UN IDPAD summit

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on African Guyanese to meet on UN IDPAD summit

Through support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Guyanese organisations will be able to organise an international conference in response to the United Nations mandate addressing...

The Story within the Story… Frightening moments at Uitvlugt

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story… Frightening moments at Uitvlugt

By Leonard Gildarie Phagwah and Diwali are two traditional “Indian” holidays that have now blurred the lines when it comes to celebrations. It is clear that things are changing in Guyana when it...

Nut butter and bread for Guyana

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Nut butter and bread for Guyana

Long ago, if you were dirt poor, and you went to the shop to buy a 1 cent bread, you used to ask the shopkeeper to put a dash of salt butter on it. That came as a complimentary, depending on the...

Sustained measures being made to arrest hearing loss

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sustained measures being made to arrest hearing loss

Twenty years ago the Audiology Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) embarked on a campaign to save the nation from deafness and internal social isolation. Today the move is...

The outgoing Top Cop got his wires crossed

Mar 04, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The outgoing Top Cop got his wires crossed

As Guyana’s Commissioner of Police was preparing to ride off into retirement last week, word broke that the Cabinet had been forced to intervene and stop Mr. Seelall Persaud from granting himself a...

Burnham was ahead of his time, Peeping Tom

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Burnham was ahead of his time, Peeping Tom

Dear Editor, I noted your article in the Peeping Tom Column on Mr. Forbes Burnham being many years behind in his thinking. I wish to challenge this article by submitting the following facts. 1. The...

Unlocking of digital devices before you enter the U.S.

Mar 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Unlocking of digital devices before you enter the U.S.

By Attorney Gail Seeram Yes! Foreign travellers who are not U.S. citizens trying to enter the United States are not guaranteed entry into the United States. Instead, foreign travellers (including...

Ogle Airport Inc. Saga – My response to their statement

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ogle Airport Inc. Saga – My response to their statement

Dear Editor, First, I express my appreciation to Kaieteur New for its exposure of the blatant denial, of taxpayers support, by Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) via their Public Communications Consultant Kit...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The criminal elements in the eastern part of the country are going to find that they do not have the run of the land. Two have already paid the ultimate penalty. More are going to when they attack a...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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