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LET US ACT CAUTIOUSLY ON THIS POWER-SHARING MODEL

May 28, 2011 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LET US ACT CAUTIOUSLY ON THIS POWER-SHARING MODEL

By Khemraj Ramjattan Presidential Candidate Sometime back in my Political Science class a South African lecturer was dealing with racism and violence, making a passionate plea for apartheid’s end...

The antiquated licensing system continues

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on The antiquated licensing system continues

Dear Editor, I have read the many letters in your newspaper complaining about the poor service at the revenue office when attempting to renew a motor vehicle road licence. I visited the Albert St....

Feminition should be an annual event

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Feminition should be an annual event

Dear Editor, As Guyana advances the focus on women inclusiveness was necessary. Currently, the detractors are left without a weapon, so they are stuck in the groove of ‘criticising for...

Disappointed with shipping company

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Disappointed with shipping company

Dear Editor, Oftentimes companies, in particular those operating in a very competitive business arena, offer an array of grandeur promises in their marketing pitch to customers so as to lure them....

Security is everybody’s business

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Security is everybody’s business

Dear Editor, It is gravely obvious that violent criminal elements are holding society to ransom. Not a day goes by that someone is not robbed, physically harmed or killed by bandits. And they seem to...

GRA gives reason for slowness at its offices

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on GRA gives reason for slowness at its offices

Dear Editor, Allow me the opportunity to respond to a well known letter writer whose letter titled “Crowds and confusion at NA office for motor vehicle”, which appeared in the May 26, 2011...

Feminition: a shameless political extravaganza

May 28, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Feminition: a shameless political extravaganza

Dear Editor, It is with great disgust and disdain that I read and hear about this shameless ‘sport and drink’ event dubbed Feminition, being promoted by the Ministry of Human Services under the...

The fight against crime is not going well

May 28, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The fight against crime is not going well

Crime is now staple fare on the front pages of local newspapers as a matter of course, interspersed ever so often with some particularly ghastly act of violence on ordinary citizens. The question on...

Boxers collide in ‘The Rampage’ tonight

May 28, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Boxers collide in ‘The Rampage’ tonight

Caustic barbs and open threats were the order of the day when the boxers scheduled to appear in ‘The Rampage,’ the 48 rounds boxing extravaganza at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH)...

Hair retrieved from victim’s hand

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Hair retrieved from victim’s hand

– Traces of possible bloodstains found in car, sinks By Michael Jordan Traces of possible bloodstains, and strands of hair clutched in the victim’s hand, appear to have brought police a step...

Four more Assistant Commissioners but no deputies

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Four more Assistant Commissioners but no deputies

The Police Service Commission has approved promotions for four more Assistant Commissioners, but quite significantly none for the post of Deputy Commissioner. The absence of a Deputy Commissioner...

AFC not comfortable with “unilateral reduction” of claims and objections period

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on AFC not comfortable with “unilateral reduction” of claims and objections period

Following a meeting with officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) the Alliance for Change (AFC) is uncertain of how the electoral authority will treat a number of concerns the political...

Private sector recognises legitimacy of ERC

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Private sector recognises legitimacy of ERC

…lending support until end of elections By Leonard Gildarie The private sector says that it recognises the legitimacy of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) and would be lending support to it...

Six contracts awarded for sea defence construction

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Six contracts awarded for sea defence construction

Six contracts totaling approximately $922.6M were on Wednesday presented to contractors for the execution of sea defence works in Regions Two, Three, Four, and Five. Minister of Transport and...

Murdered Essequibo businessman cremated

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Murdered Essequibo businessman cremated

Almost one week after popular Essequibo businessman Victor Warner was robbed and found murdered at his Lot 11 Richmond home, his remains were cremated after a moving service held yesterday at his...

Guyana’s decision to use ARVs as prevention strategy vindicated – Dr Ramsammy

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Guyana’s decision to use ARVs as prevention strategy vindicated – Dr Ramsammy

Guyana’s decision, a decade ago, to implement a programme whereby Antiretrovirals (ARVs) were introduced as a prevention strategy rather than just a treatment regimen, has been vindicated. This...

Yellow Cabs to be registered from tomorrow

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Yellow Cabs to be registered from tomorrow

The Revenue Agency will be facilitating the issuance of licences for Yellow Cabs registered in the ‘H’ Series between 09:00 hrs to 13:00 hrs beginning tomorrow. According to the GRA, owners of...

Still waiting for the excitement

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Still waiting for the excitement

– Reporter Neil Marks looks back at the 45th Independence anniversary celebrations For almost five decades, thousands of persons have flocked the National Park in Georgetown to witness the...

Regional fisheries ministers approve measures to save industry

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Regional fisheries ministers approve measures to save industry

Antigua – A draft Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy was unanimously approved at the Fourth Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) Ministerial Council that concluded here last...

Jagdeo challenges Guyanese to embrace next era of progress

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo challenges Guyanese to embrace next era of progress

In what was his last Independence Annversary address to Guyana, outgoing President Bharrat Jagdeo challenged Guyanese to boldly embrace the next era of progress. A reflective Jagdeo, ahead of the...

High Court orders Interim Committee to take charge of Kitty Masjid

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on High Court orders Interim Committee to take charge of Kitty Masjid

On Wednesday last, Justice Rishi Persaud ordered that an Interim Committee take over the total and full management and control of the Kitty Jamaat. The Committee comprises Norman Mc Lean, Raymond...

CXC head blasts regional ministries for failing education

May 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on CXC head blasts regional ministries for failing education

(Jamaica Gleaner) Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr Didacus Jules, has blamed the Ministries of Education in the region for the glaring failure in...

HOW WAS THIS MONEY USED?

May 27, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOW WAS THIS MONEY USED?

In March 2007, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved two loans totaling some US$25M for the improvement of Guyana’s Justice System. According to the public information available, the...

She did everything for him

May 27, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on She did everything for him

This week has been yet another bloody one for the women of Guyana – and it is not even over yet. The violence and murders continue and the brutality escalates. One woman was slashed with a knife...

PR Islanders & Tempete into final; Alpha & Defence Force play for 3rd

May 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on PR Islanders & Tempete into final; Alpha & Defence Force play for 3rd

By Franklin Wilson Defending champions Puerto Rico Islanders will face Haiti’s Tempete FC in the final of the 2011 Caribbean Football Union Club Champions Cup tomorrow evening at the Guyana...

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Legacy meets hunger in uncompromising Leopold St, Bent St final

May 01, 2026

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ decides Georgetown champions tonight Kaieteur Sports – Former champions Leopold Street stormed into the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown...

The stranger next door

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – As late as the early 1970s, when night fell, dinner consumed and the children completed their homework, members of the household would usually sit either in the sitting room or on the verandah and discuss various matters, but mainly the events of the day. In those days there...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

APOLOGY AND RETRACTION TO MR. DEVINDRA KISSOON

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On April 29, 2026, I published in Kaieteur News, as part of The GHK Lall Column, a piece entitled “A special kind of lawyering, and at its best” (the “Column”). Mr. Kissoon has never acted for the Government on the Gas-to-Energy Project. He has never received any...

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