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Will WPA’s “equality” demands result in half JOPP Cabinet?

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Will WPA’s “equality” demands result in half JOPP Cabinet?

Dear Editor, Now that the PNC is teamed up with the WPA and other smaller parties (JOPP) will it concede half of all parliamentary seats and Cabinet appointments if they win the 2011 elections? No...

Blood donation- a genuine gift of life – Ramsammy

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Blood donation- a genuine gift of life – Ramsammy

Thirteen media houses and two private sector companies, R. Bassoo & Sons, and Banks DIH, were yesterday awarded by the National Blood Bank for their efforts in promoting and aiding the Ministry...

All have fallen asleep while societal inequalities widen

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on All have fallen asleep while societal inequalities widen

Dear Editor, It is now six months since the declaration and the launching of the International Year of People of African Descent. The UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon stressed that “the...

ACTO technical workshop commences

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ACTO technical workshop commences

Gathering reminded Amazon is “the lungs of the world” Under the theme ‘Developing Sustainable Community Based Tourism in the Amazon Region’ the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO)...

Kudos for the Ethnic Relations Commission

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos for the Ethnic Relations Commission

Dear Editor The ERC has an enviable record of success. As the first of its kind organization anywhere, the ERC has moved from an unknown entity to a household name in Guyana and the foremost...

Linden’s disappearing history is painful

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Linden’s disappearing history is painful

Dear Editor, The once popular and well known 1897Wismar/ Rockstone railway symbolized Upper Demerara and served as a corner stone in its development before bauxite dominated. This railroad provided...

The Cassandra Crossing

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Cassandra Crossing

They say the type of person who exhibits more contempt for people than any other groups of humans is the politician. Policemen, prison officials and sailors are people, who because of the nature of...

The ban affected Hindus

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ban affected Hindus

Dear Editor, While I have never met Mr Robin Williams, over the years I have read so many of his very thoughtful interventions that I know he is a Guyanese who is very concerned about developments...

Larceny accused granted $200,000 bail

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Larceny accused granted $200,000 bail

John Williams of Four Miles, Port Kaituma, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, to answer to the charge of larceny. The allegation...

Are armed robberies in the city increasing?

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Are armed robberies in the city increasing?

Even as the police boast of increased patrols around the city to keep a lid on criminal activities, robberies continue at a pace unflattering to the law enforcement agency. Police records for Monday...

THE BLACKBERRY REPORTER

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE BLACKBERRY REPORTER

It must be the photograph of the year. It appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News. Where else? A Kaieteur News reporter is interviewing someone. Instead of using a tape recorder to...

A chance to develop volunteerism

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A chance to develop volunteerism

Dear Editor: To paraphrase Colin Powell’s rhetorical questions “Where else does a child learn how to behave; learn the experiences … totems and traditions of the past; look for proper examples...

Guyana’s Middle east sojourn dates back to the 1960s

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s Middle east sojourn dates back to the 1960s

Dear Editor, Guyana’s ties with Iran, Libya and Syria date back to the anti-colonial struggle of the 1940s, and before the split between the two former Presidents, Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham....

Invisible exports – timber logs to Jamaica unrecorded by the Guyana Forestry Commission

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Invisible exports – timber logs to Jamaica unrecorded by the Guyana Forestry Commission

Dear Editor, Jamaican Customs opened a shipping container in mid-March and discovered 122kg of cocaine in bags with a consignment of 130 logs. The Guyana Forestry Commission admitted knowledge of...

The GCB is above the fray

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The GCB is above the fray

Dear Editor, I refer to recent news articles authored by Messrs. Sean Devers and Rajiv Bisnauth in different sections of the print media reporting on a press conference held by a few officers of...

Govt. backs out of forensic audit challenge

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. backs out of forensic audit challenge

… says Auditor General refused approval The government has backed down from its own challenge for chartered accountant Christopher Ram and Kaieteur News to conduct a forensic audit into the...

Overseas-based Guyanese perishes in Bloomfield conflagration

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese perishes in Bloomfield conflagration

Morgan Jagai, 63, an overseas-based Guyanese on Monday became the second person to die by fire within a week in Berbice when his two-storey wood and concrete house went up in flames at his...

C.N. Sharma, wife meet with President

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on C.N. Sharma, wife meet with President

Television station owner Chandra Narine Sharma and his wife, Savitri Singh, met with President Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday, to offer a “suitable explanation” for his broadcast of a commentary by...

Officer-in-Charge placed under close arrest, relieved of duties

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Officer-in-Charge placed under close arrest, relieved of duties

… New Amsterdam prisons escape The prison administration is set to reshuffle its senior officers following the recent escape of four inmates from the New Amsterdam Prison, prison sources...

Batavia drug bust… Four of five suspects charged, other remains hospitalised

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Batavia drug bust… Four of five suspects charged, other remains hospitalised

By Latoya Giles Four of the five persons caught in last Thursday’s drug bust at Batavia in the Cuyuni River were yesterday arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The four men,...

Sophia murder suspect surrenders

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia murder suspect surrenders

A Sophia teenager wanted by police after reportedly stabbing his friend last week during a quarrel over cell phone credit, yesterday turned himself over to police, in the company of relatives and two...

Dem boys seh… Rob-Bert and Bim Bim bluffing

Jun 14, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Rob-Bert and Bim Bim bluffing

Long time people use to bluff bad. Some people use to let off squibs to mek people believe that dem got deadly weapon. That is bluff. When people playing poker and dem have a bad hand dem does bluff...

Plans on stream for new access road to Timehri Airport

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Plans on stream for new access road to Timehri Airport

– Ministry awaits Cabinet’s approval for multi-million- dollar project Almost a week ago the Ministry of Public Works accepted bids for the construction of a new access road to the Cheddi...

Diamond cane-cutters to receive severance today

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond cane-cutters to receive severance today

A total of 381 workers from the Diamond Estate are to be paid their severance today at the Diamond Secondary School, says Komal Chand, President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union...

Escape of prisoner to Suriname… Cops question senior rank of New Amsterdam constabulary

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Escape of prisoner to Suriname… Cops question senior rank of New Amsterdam constabulary

Police have detained a senior rank of the New Amsterdam Constabulary as investigations continue into the recent escape of prisoner Krishna Paul Doerga. Kaieteur News understands that the rank, an...

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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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