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Paediatric heart surgeries to commence soon at GPHC

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Paediatric heart surgeries to commence soon at GPHC

Very soon children who are desperately in need of heart surgeries will no longer have to travel to another country to get medical attention. In fact, plans are currently being made to have this...

After two years … TV licence application for Region Ten gets acknowledgement

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on After two years … TV licence application for Region Ten gets acknowledgement

By Jacquey Bourne The television licence for Region Ten has been acknowledged by the Government Board after two years. In a correspondence addressed to the Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon dated...

Three-day strike action at UG starts Monday – Unions

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three-day strike action at UG starts Monday – Unions

Industrial action at the University of Guyana (UG) is set to commence on Monday. This is according to a joint statement issued by the UG workers’ unions – the University of Guyana Senior Staff...

BRING BACK TATA!

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BRING BACK TATA!

Prices do not go down in Guyana; they go up. This statement has held true in Guyana for a long time— a very long time. People do not expect prices to decline. In recent times, one of the fastest...

Guyanese national killed in Antigua

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese national killed in Antigua

Antigua- A 51-year-old Guyanese national has become this country’s first road fatality for 2015. Murtland Bagot lost his life in a traffic accident on the Sir Sydney Walwyn Highway on Thursday....

Almost 100 homes built by Food For the Poor in 2014

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Almost 100 homes built by Food For the Poor in 2014

Food For The Poor (FFTP) Guyana successfully carried out its 2014 mandate of assisting the poor “with high level professionalism and intensity”, with 556 individuals benefitting from the...

Genuine dialogue

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Genuine dialogue

Dialogue is both a kind of conversation and a way of relating. It is a communication process in which participants may say or hear something they never said or heard before, and from which they may...

E’bo records five suicides in January

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo records five suicides in January

Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) has already recorded five deaths by suicide for this month. There are reports of four other attempted suicides registered at the Suddie Public Hospital. Those patients...

Corentyne man charged with attempt to commit murder

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man charged with attempt to commit murder

A man who brutally chopped a woman and wounded her husband then injures a student is now facing the courts on a charge of attempted murder. The melee occurred in a minibus. The man Leon Thomas, 46, a...

Trio remanded for burgling Chinese store

Jan 24, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trio remanded for burgling Chinese store

Three men accused of breaking into a Regent Street Chinese store and making off with over $8.3M in jewellery, clothing, footwear and other items were remanded to prison when they appeared in court...

CCJ celebrating 10th anniversary despite achieving very little

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on CCJ celebrating 10th anniversary despite achieving very little

DEAR EDITOR, I was surprised when I received a Media Release from the Caribbean Court of Justice that it is arranging activities to celebrate its tenth anniversary. I do not think that the Regional...

Professionalism in the interest of progress

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Professionalism in the interest of progress

DEAR EDITOR, I am baffled, the Police list of promotions published, includes members who violated its citizens. It is clear there is a departure from professionalism and pursuit of justice. This...

Coalition politics will not fare any better this time around

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Coalition politics will not fare any better this time around

DEAR EDITOR, Now that a date for national and regional elections has been announced by President Donald Ramotar, an important opposition political plank has been demolished, namely that the PPP/C is...

We encourage members of the public to keep calling our hotline

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We encourage members of the public to keep calling our hotline

DEAR EDITOR, We write in response to a letter appearing in your newspaper on 21st January, 2015. The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) operates a 24hrs hotline that is manned by seasoned...

The proposed New East Bank transport corridor

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The proposed New East Bank transport corridor

DEAR EDITOR, I am today journeying back in time some 44 years ago to an emergent and hopeful Guyana. In 1971, the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) organized an engineering...

A definitive determination of the election date is yet to be made

Jan 24, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A definitive determination of the election date is yet to be made

DEAR EDITOR, The Honourable President and his learned Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs must be advised that, contrary to their delusionary understanding and the expressions of...

Election date is a sham and a huge farce – AFC

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Election date is a sham and a huge farce – AFC

– APNU questions wisdom of decision A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) are of the opinion that the scheduled election date, Monday, May 11, brings a fair...

Ramotar not shifting on May 11 election date

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar not shifting on May 11 election date

Government has refused to budge on the May 11 date for General and Regional Elections despite a clash with secondary school examinations and the issue of Parliament not yet being dissolved. On...

Bandits grab GNIC payroll

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits grab GNIC payroll

– shoot guard, take away gun Two persons had to be hospitalised after a daring afternoon robbery at the Guyana National Industrial Company (GNIC) shipyard on Lombard Street yesterday. Currently...

Prisoner hurls bench at Magistrate after getting four years

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner hurls bench at Magistrate after getting four years

The issue of security at the country’s Magistrate’s Courts once again came into focus when a prisoner hurled a wooden bench at a sitting Magistrate after she sentenced him to four years...

United front is best way to landside victory – AFC

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on United front is best way to landside victory – AFC

The Alliance For Change (AFC) remains optimistic that a pro-democracy grouping will result in the expulsion of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Administration which has, according to the...

Prisoner hangs self in police outpost cell

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner hangs self in police outpost cell

A 22-year-old larceny suspect hanged himself with his own shirt at around 19.30 hrs yesterday at the East Ruimveldt Police Station Outpost. A police release stated that Tiffon Peters, of East...

Donald vex wid Jagdeo and Granger vex wid Ramjattan

Jan 23, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Donald vex wid Jagdeo and Granger vex wid Ramjattan

When Jagdeo was de President he use to do all kind of things and when was time to vote, he use to wait till de last minute to dissolve parliament. He was a man who know how to milk every ounce of...

Building saved after parked motorcycle bursts into flames

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Building saved after parked motorcycle bursts into flames

A defective motorcycle parked under a dilapidated building burst into flames yesterday, but the prompt response of a fire tender within the vicinity saved the house which had caught fire as a result...

Court fight in Utah over ownership of rare snake shipped from Guyana

Jan 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Court fight in Utah over ownership of rare snake shipped from Guyana

Utah, US (Salt Lake Tribune) – The wife of a Utah snake breeder who pleaded guilty to illegal transportation of boa constrictors says she has an interest in the extremely rare offspring of one...

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Government backs FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Pre-Qualifier as Kashif and...

Jun 09, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – The Government of Guyana has thrown its full support behind the hosting of the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Pre-Qualifier tournament, with Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles...

Guyana’s costly misnomer

Jun 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What is a bank? At its core, a bank intermediates between savers and borrowers. It takes deposits from the public—households, businesses, pension funds—and lends those funds out, subject to market discipline and prudential regulation. A bank that does not take deposits is...

Language is Infrastructure – Why Antigua and Barbuda’s...

Jun 07, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, led by Prime Minister Gaston Browne, to make...

Fun, frolic, filth

Jun 09, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Plenty has been said about flag-raising. So as not to lower my own standards the less said the better. Never been a man to join the pile-on. Low people do that sort of thing. Regarding the U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, the now venerated Excellency...

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