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A carefully orchestrated plan by Govt. to frustrate residents of Mahdia

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A carefully orchestrated plan by Govt. to frustrate residents of Mahdia

Dear Editor, At the opening of mining week in August of last year a top level delegation from the mining sector including the chairman of GGDMA, the Chairman of GGMC and the Permanent Secretary of...

Anger could have caused May 11 to be identified

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Anger could have caused May 11 to be identified

When President Donald Ramotar announced the date for elections, I was certain that he did so in anger and did not take anything into consideration. First, he prorogued Parliament with the hope of...

Guyana needs an honest, dedicated and committed coalition government

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs an honest, dedicated and committed coalition government

Dear Editor, With the election date set for May 11, the presidential candidates of each party will begin the ritual of crisscrossing the country to make their cases to the voters. Although the...

Unlimited power leads to unlimited imagination

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Unlimited power leads to unlimited imagination

At the time of writing, there is no proclamation dissolving Parliament, yet there is an election date announced by the President. Before we come to the right or wrong of that decision, one needs to...

My Sister Friend, Dr Faith Harding

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on My Sister Friend, Dr Faith Harding

Dear Editor, I met Dr. Harding well over thirty years ago and we connected almost immediately. During this period we shared our ideas and opinions on a number of social issues in Canada but...

Freddie Kissoon replies to Vindhya Vasini Persaud

Jan 25, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon replies to Vindhya Vasini Persaud

Dear Editor, What follows is my point by point reply to Ms. Vindhya Persaud, daughter of Reepu Daman Persaud. First, I stand by my assertions and do so unapologetically. Secondly, Ms. Persaud wrote...

Guyana’s last frontier…the Rupununi

Jan 25, 2015 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana’s last frontier…the Rupununi

The Rupununi – properly called the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region – is the largest Region in Guyana and has a size of about 58,000 km². It is bigger than Costa Rica and six times the size...

Revitalising urban agriculture

Jan 25, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Revitalising urban agriculture

By Neilson McKenzie Significant public policy shifts highlighting the need for a resurgence of urban and peri-urban agriculture, have, in Latin America and some countries of the Caribbean facilitated...

EU withholds EURO $28.9M support for sugar due to prorogued parliament

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on EU withholds EURO $28.9M support for sugar due to prorogued parliament

The government has been given its first clear sign of an international sanction for proroguing the Parliament. Yesterday, the European Union (EU) said that it has temporarily put on hold its two...

US$18M Specialty Hospital embarrassment… “Bankrupt” Indian firm disappears; court grants $900M judgment

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US$18M Specialty Hospital embarrassment… “Bankrupt” Indian firm disappears; court grants $900M judgment

Months after suing Indian firm, Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited (SECL), for failing to deliver on the US$18M Specialty Hospital, a local court has ordered the company to pay over $900M. But...

Female GPHC patient jumps to her death

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Female GPHC patient jumps to her death

A Meten-Meer-Zorg resident, who had been a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) since last year, ended her life last evening around 20:30hrs by jumping to her death. Dead is...

Dr. Faith Harding is dead

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Faith Harding is dead

Guyana has lost a former Government Minister, educator, women’s rights activist, community worker and psychotherapist, Dr. Faith Harding. Dr. Harding died yesterday afternoon in Guyana after a...

Con artist who went on a cell phone robbing spree remanded

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Con artist who went on a cell phone robbing spree remanded

Two days after pretending to be a detective in an attempt to seize smart phones from several students of Queen’s College, a 28-year-old ex-convict was taken before a city Magistrate on several...

‘Chatree’ threat to innocent reporters enough to unseat Govt. – Nagamootoo

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Chatree’ threat to innocent reporters enough to unseat Govt. – Nagamootoo

The atrocities the People Progressive Party (PPP) administration inflicted on the people of Guyana such as condoning a rogue Attorney General will result in a serious backlash for the Party at the...

‘Hit man’ walks free of hairdresser’s murder

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hit man’ walks free of hairdresser’s murder

The man accused of killing West Coast Demerara hairdresser Bibi Rafeena Saymar was yesterday freed of the indictment. Troy Green, a labourer from Holmes Street, Cummingsburg Georgetown was acquitted...

A big man mek a stamp fuh do Donald wuk

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on A big man mek a stamp fuh do Donald wuk

Most people don’t know but in this country you got to be a certain age before you can marry. If you under age you parents got to sign fuh you. Jagdeo come of age yesterday and de Waterfalls boss...

Log production jumps 21 percent in 2014

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Log production jumps 21 percent in 2014

– operators request similar benefits to other sectors Large-scale forest companies and operators were called upon to increase value added production and harvesting since most forest...

GPL powers up Angoy’s Avenue

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPL powers up Angoy’s Avenue

By Leon Suseran On Thursday evening the lights of one of Guyana’s largest squatter settlements were turned on by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, ably assisted by a youngster from the area,...

Contracting firm expressed surprise at newspaper article

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Contracting firm expressed surprise at newspaper article

– Says PPP MP has his own motive The principals of the H. Nauth and Sons Civil Engineering Contractors Firm has expressed shock and surprise with an article appearing in the media on Thursday...

AFC – APNU pro-democracy talks to conclude in four weeks – Granger

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AFC – APNU pro-democracy talks to conclude in four weeks – Granger

– Greenidge leads APNU seven-member team in negotiations As the concerns surrounding the May 11 election date continue to increase, so too do the burning questions and speculations regarding...

Sol drops fuel price at the pumps

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sol drops fuel price at the pumps

Sol Petroleum Guyana has now lowered its fuel prices after realizing the impracticality and uncompetitive stance in not initiating on the 30 percent reduction imposed by Government. According to Sol...

China gives $40M to equip police force

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on China gives $40M to equip police force

China has approved a $40M grant that is to be used to equip the police force. The money was announced yesterday by Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr. Roger Luncheon, who said that Home Affairs Minister,...

GPHC to facilitate fathers in delivery room

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC to facilitate fathers in delivery room

Up until recently, the likelihood of finding a father in a birthing room at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Maternity Ward, holding his wife’s hand through the final...

Alleged gang rape… Victim transferred to New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged gang rape… Victim transferred to New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital

The 18-year-old man who alleged that he was drugged and raped by 10 men in a house at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Old Year’s Night, has been referred to the New Amsterdam...

The PPP requested guns, grenades, ammunitions and electoral resources

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP requested guns, grenades, ammunitions and electoral resources

I have long asserted that the world will know the truths and the facts behind the confrontations in the sixties between the PPP Government and the PNC and United Force when the archives of Russia and...

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May 13, 2026

2026/27 West Indies 4-Day Championship…GHE vs. WIA Day 3 – Guyana 1st innings (655-8 ) lead WIA by 170 runs By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – Guyana Harpy Eagles opener Matthew Nandu...

Just what is going on in Guyana?

May 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when the average Guyanese scandal involved a man stealing two plantains from a neighbour’s kitchen garden and then attending the same neighbour’s wake three weeks later pretending to be grief-stricken. We were a manageable people. Dysfunction arrived in...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Anand Persaud calls out, castigates, the PPP Govt.

May 13, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Governments govern. Leaders lead. Media reports on governance, leadership. People pronounce on the quality of both. I do. Anand Persaud did. As the former editor-in-chief of the much-praised, much-missed, Stabroek News, he would know about...

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