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Twenty-five days later… CCPA still to make contact with mother who abandoned children

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Twenty-five days later… CCPA still to make contact with mother who abandoned children

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) is desperately trying to make contact with the woman, who reportedly left her four children to fend for themselves in a house at Guyhoc Park,...

APNU delays consideration of WPA’s proposal for increased consultations

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU delays consideration of WPA’s proposal for increased consultations

More than a month later, the executive council of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is yet to consider a proposal made by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) for increased consultations to be...

East Canje residents want NDC Chairman, Overseer to go

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje residents want NDC Chairman, Overseer to go

“NDC needs new member”; “No Street, No Vote”; “Kuldeep must go; somebody do something”; “Kuldeep must go; he is bias”, were some of the expressions on placards of residents of Betsy...

Farmland distribution disturb No. 40 Village residents

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Farmland distribution disturb No. 40 Village residents

Residents of No. 40 Village, West Coast Berbice, are concerned about what they feel is the unfair and unjust repossession of state farmlands by the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary/Agricultural Development...

Students encouraged to work towards realising change at UG

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Students encouraged to work towards realising change at UG

“Ask not what the political parties can do for you but what you can do for yourselves,” was the assertion of A Partnership for National Unity Member of Parliament, Christopher Jones. At the...

PPP/C sowed the seeds of disdain for young people’s concerns

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C sowed the seeds of disdain for young people’s concerns

“It will reap a bitter harvest at the next elections,” By Kiana Wilburg Leader of the Opposition, David Granger, placed in the spotlight yesterday, the importance of youth participation during...

Berbicians upset over substandard road work

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Berbicians upset over substandard road work

Notwithstanding the volume of road works being done in the county, residents in Berbice are upset because of the volume of substandard work being done. Work was done on the bridge that runs over the...

Colin Mack rape trial …Accused to know fate on Monday

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Colin Mack rape trial …Accused to know fate on Monday

Lawyers involved in the Colin Mack rape trial made their closing arguments yesterday. Mack, who is on trial before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member Jury at the High Court in Georgetown,...

WHY NOT A YOUNG PRESIDENT?

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHY NOT A YOUNG PRESIDENT?

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has indicated that a youth candidate for the position of Prime Minister is under consideration. This may seem as a politically correct and astute announcement...

Can Sri Lanka and Greece be repeated in Guyana?

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can Sri Lanka and Greece be repeated in Guyana?

The diplomats from the ABC countries in Guyana (for God’s sake, not as Argentina, Chile and Brazil that Neil Kumar named them but America, Britain and Canada) have urged Guyanese to vote on issues....

Escaping prisoners and hospitals

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Escaping prisoners and hospitals

The escape of prisoners from the Georgetown Public Hospital is becoming commonplace. In fact, it is nothing more than a joke when one hears that an injured prisoner who is confined to a hospital bed...

GSL vs. NICIL court case …Yassin tells court of other investments overseas

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GSL vs. NICIL court case …Yassin tells court of other investments overseas

Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) Tony Yassin, was on Thursday further questioned about the purchase of a property he acquired under a sale agreement between the National...

GFS receives 2000 fire calls in 2014

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GFS receives 2000 fire calls in 2014

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) recorded 2000 fire calls in 2014, a 13 per cent increase on 2013, and according to Chief Fire Officer, Marlon Gentle, this resulted in fewer buildings being destroyed...

No bail for welder accused of mugging

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for welder accused of mugging

A 34-year-old welder accused of violently mugging a man as he was on his way home and making off with his bicycle was remanded to jail by city Magistrate Fabayo Azore on Thursday. Joseph Barker, of...

Man remanded to jail for breaking up mother’s house

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded to jail for breaking up mother’s house

A man who is in the habit of harassing his mother and breaking up things in her house has been remanded to jail. Krisendat Ramlakhan, called “Devin”, 28, of Glasgow, East Bank Berbice, appeared...

“Robbery planners” remanded

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on “Robbery planners” remanded

Two men arrested last week by a party of police ranks for allegedly planning to invade the home of an Indian national have been remanded to prison. Junior Solomon, 24, a labourer of Second Street,...

Why does it have to be from an ethnic standpoint, Dr. Hinds?

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why does it have to be from an ethnic standpoint, Dr. Hinds?

DEAR EDITOR, Dr. David Hinds has been reported as saying that “after 23 years of an Indian Guyanese presidency, African Guyanese are being asked to vote for another”. I know Dr. Hinds is a...

A Granger/Nagamootoo-led coalition will prevail

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Granger/Nagamootoo-led coalition will prevail

DEAR EDITOR, In this election season, as patriotic Guyanese, we must not allow this opportunity to slip by in light of the direction in which the inept and corrupt PPP regime is taking the country....

Bring back experienced retirees to save the sugar industry

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bring back experienced retirees to save the sugar industry

DEAR EDITOR, As a former President of NAACIE who has 45 years’ experience in factory operation, I fully endorse the Union’s call for a Commission of Inquiry on the sugar industry’s performance...

I respectfully ask Mr Mervin to re-read my letter

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I respectfully ask Mr Mervin to re-read my letter

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Mr. Emile Mervin’s letter in Kaieteur News (see KN of 30/1/15 re “Government sapping the spirit of entrepreneurship by ‘headhunting’ private employees” which was in...

Please fix the tractor at Enmore, Guysuco

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please fix the tractor at Enmore, Guysuco

DEAR EDITOR, The rainy season is about over. The Enmore Community Centre ground is dry and, under normal circumstances, would have been slashed by the Enmore Estate’s equipment. However, things are...

Two institutions that have become pivotal to our development

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Two institutions that have become pivotal to our development

DEAR EDITOR, Bank of Guyana celebrated its 50th anniversary this month. This is quite an important milestone and should be celebrated by all Guyanese. Only last year the University of Guyana also...

Cash jet pilot deposited over US$6M in bank accounts

Jan 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cash jet pilot deposited over US$6M in bank accounts

– authorities seize US$440,000; target two planes, Lexus, three properties A Guyana-born pilot arrested in November with over US$600,000 in cash hidden in his jet is facing major troubles with...

Local fishermen remain firm against Chinese US$70M proposal

Jan 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local fishermen remain firm against Chinese US$70M proposal

With requests for tax exemptions, duty free concessions and a promise of a mega US$70M investment in the local fish sector, the attention of local operators’ remains fixed on the Agriculture...

Wharf guard shoots fisherman dead

Jan 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Wharf guard shoots fisherman dead

By Rabindra Rooplall A 45-year-old fisherman and father of eight was fatally shot in his boat yesterday morning, by a security guard attached to Pritipaul Singh Investments Inc. (PSI), Mc Doom, East...

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Need for Speed Series Championship Round One… All roads lead to...

Jun 19, 2026

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The two-day racing extravaganza that kicks off an action-packed month of motorsport starts today at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Thomaslands venue...

Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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