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GPL trainee suffers electrical shocks on utility pole

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPL trainee suffers electrical shocks on utility pole

A young Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) trainee was rushed to a city hospital yesterday morning after receiving electrical shocks, while carrying out repairs on a utility pole in the...

Guyana’s cricket will get worse

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s cricket will get worse

Dear Editor, Two pages in your edition of Saturday January 1, 2011, paint a graphic picture of the state of hopelessness of Guyana’s cricket and maybe its terminal decline. On page 62 there is a...

Education Ministry striving to maintain child-friendly environment in schools

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry striving to maintain child-friendly environment in schools

Although concerted efforts have been made over the past three years to reform the education system, whereby there is decentralisation of education management, there is dire need to continually...

Attracting better jobs

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Attracting better jobs

If this year is to be any better than the last, the bottom line is that we will have to attract companies that will pay better wages than presently prevails. The present dominant employers will just...

GETTING TO THE FOUNDATION OF THIS LATEST DEAL

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GETTING TO THE FOUNDATION OF THIS LATEST DEAL

One can only hope that the Economic Services Commission of the National Assembly is following closely the development as regards the procurement by the Guyana Power and Light of additional...

Last four months of 2010 upset maternal health drive – Dr Ramsammy

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Last four months of 2010 upset maternal health drive – Dr Ramsammy

“A good job in the case of maternal and child health is not good enough. We have to do a perfect job,” said Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, as he commented on the spate of maternal deaths...

The cricketing public needs to know

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The cricketing public needs to know

Dear Editor, I noted with some concern, that in your letters column in your publication of January 3, 2011, there was an observation by a letter writer that the contents of Dr. Anthony’s...

Robert Persaud keeps repeating a falsehood

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Robert Persaud keeps repeating a falsehood

Dear Editor, I find it disingenuous that Minister Robert Persaud, among others, can keep repeating a falsehood so frequently in the press, hooping like Joseph Goebbels that “if you tell a lie big...

YCG records successful 2010

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on YCG records successful 2010

-plans innovative ventures for new year Innovative plans geared at improving the services offered by Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) are being streamlined for this year. This disclosure was made by...

Correct this road work before it is too late

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correct this road work before it is too late

Dear Editor, Please permit me a space in your newspaper to highlight our dissatisfaction with the current construction of an ‘All-Weather’ road on the Right Bank of the Mahaicony River, between...

The PNCR’s presidential candidate selection process brings great political value to Guyana

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR’s presidential candidate selection process brings great political value to Guyana

Dear Editor, Recent developments in the PNCR, with regard to the identification of its presidential candidate have signaled a new direction for political parties in Guyana. With the PNCR’s new...

Man kills wife, hangs self

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills wife, hangs self

– sends relatives ominous text message By Leonard Gildarie A Tuschen man who only returned from Trinidad last Thursday, hanged himself last night after murdering his estranged common-law wife...

Jealous ‘child-father’ attacks woman’s lover

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous ‘child-father’ attacks woman’s lover

…drags wounded victim out of ambulance, chops him again Ivelaw Archer, a 59-year-old man of 45 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, yesterday found out to his dismay that a hospitable nature can sometimes...

Businessman, wife identify gunman

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman, wife identify gunman

… Robbery Murder at Stanleytown The prime suspect who was arrested hours after a robbery murder at the Mars Gas station at 45 Stanleytown New Amsterdam, has been positively identified. An...

Thieves use cutting torch to rob Mahaica Post Office

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves use cutting torch to rob Mahaica Post Office

Pensioners were unable to collect their pensions at the Mahaica Post Office yesterday after the safe in the entity was burglarised by ‘blow torch carrying bandits’. According to reports, thieves...

Gunman shoots, robs Linden businessman

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots, robs Linden businessman

Prominent Linden Businessman, Albert Joseph, well known as Bolo, owner of Bolo’s Variety and Furniture Store on Sunflower Street in Wismar, was yesterday afternoon shot in the abdomen and left...

Dem boys seh… Nuff people dance done

Jan 04, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Nuff people dance done

Is madness. De year just start and nuff people dead already and some barely miss death. A man build a house fuh a woman who beg he fuh leh she child father live inside. De man agree but things get...

Greenidge joins PNCR Pres. race

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge joins PNCR Pres. race

says ‘lawlessness’ in Guyana allows ‘economic predators’ Former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge, who has lost his job as a lead negotiator with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) after a...

CJIA declares highest ever revenues in 2010

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA declares highest ever revenues in 2010

– self check-in terminals to be introduced shortly Guyana’s main port of entry, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), has announced its highest revenue year in 2010 with $635M earned...

$3.4 M disappears from Police finance

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $3.4 M disappears from Police finance

… Monies ready to be paid to pensioners- Henry Greene Pensioners who were made to wait almost one year to uplift their monies from the Police Finance Office can now do so because the money has been...

Cops leaving no stone unturned to locate Barbita Sarjou – Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops leaving no stone unturned to locate Barbita Sarjou – Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis

… Two months on and still missing It is now two months since 28-year-old Barbita Sarjou disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but Assistant Police Commissioner George Vyphuis says that...

Guyana-owned airlines cannot fly directly to US

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-owned airlines cannot fly directly to US

… more training, legislation, regulation overhaul required first At least two airlines are hoping to fly directly to the US but Guyana-owned craft does not yet meet the requirements. According to...

City Hall halts seasonal pavement vending

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall halts seasonal pavement vending

Seasonal vending has officially been halted by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown which has instructed the start of an intense campaign to ward-off all vending activities on the city pavements....

New meeting set for Thursday, but union worries

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New meeting set for Thursday, but union worries

… RUSAL’s no-show A new meeting that authorities hope will bring some resolution to the year-long stand-off between Russian owned, RUSAL’s Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI), is expected...

Investigators trying to establish motives

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Investigators trying to establish motives

… Arson attempts at East Coast Dem. schools Police on East Coast Demerara are working feverishly to determine the motive for the attempted arson on two schools in the district on the second day...

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Guyana boxers depart for intensive Trinidad camp ahead of CAC and...

Jun 11, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – With the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games and the Commonwealth Games fast approaching, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has intensified its preparations by sending...

Art is much more than a reflection of reality

Jun 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is no wonder the arts, in all its forms, in Guyana is mired in mediocrity. If there can be such scant understanding of what art is about, then it should surprise no one that this country has failed to develop its cultural industry. The purpose of art, be it sculpture,...

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...

Petitioning Excellencies Ali, Phillips, Jagdeo and Cabinet

Jun 11, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – This is a public appeal to every leader and minister in the Government of Guyana. Excellencies Ali, Phillips, and Jagdeo and the entire cabinet is included. In fact, this courtesy is extended to the ruling party’s Central Executive, all voting and...

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