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Ministry Inter-Block Football continues

May 15, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Ministry Inter-Block Football continues

Play in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Inter-Block Football tournaments continue this weekend with the culmination of the Beterverwagting (BV) tourney and continued play in the Victoria and...

Minister Rohee missed the point and an opportunity

May 15, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Minister Rohee missed the point and an opportunity

Dear Editor, It has always been said that everyone should respect their elders and more so prominent persons in society, regardless if one should question their physiognomic condition. I will always...

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

May 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

The National Library should take a bow. It has been quietly providing a most important service to students and other booklovers over the years. Its main location is in Georgetown. That beautiful...

Has the Govt. turned its back on pensioners?

May 15, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Has the Govt. turned its back on pensioners?

Dear Editor, The government takes pride in emphasising the percentage increase for “Old Age Pensioners” over the past few years. The hypocrisy in this, however, is that the sum on which the...

Race walkers gear for hectic Independence Day activities

May 15, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Race walkers gear for hectic Independence Day activities

The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) has planned a series of competitions to commemorate Guyana’s 43rd Independence Anniversary, starting with a 15-lap race walk around Melanie Damishana on...

Attempted murder accused gets charge withdrawn

May 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Attempted murder accused gets charge withdrawn

A man who was initially charged with attempted murder, yesterday appeared in court, and had the charge withdrawn and two new charges instituted. The man, Navendra Anand Dinoo, had appeared before...

Guyana’s HIV/AIDS work to be presented in Namibia

May 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana’s HIV/AIDS work to be presented in Namibia

Oral presentations of Guyana’s work in HIV/AIDS have been selected to be showcased at the 2009 Implementers Meeting scheduled to take place from June 10 to June 14 in Windhoek, Namibia under the...

Securing debt relief is not an act of begging

May 15, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Securing debt relief is not an act of begging

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column May 13, 2009 in the Kaieteur News, with the caption “Things about Guyana, the Caribbean Police Commissioners should know.” Mr. Kissoon...

Fuzzy bigger than big, ask Bharrat

May 15, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Fuzzy bigger than big, ask Bharrat

Dem boys frighten to talk because dem hear how dem can get victimise so much that dem actually believe. Dem even frighten to go near NCN because dem hear how dem have a man wukking deh who can do no...

Foulis residents nab would-be rapist

May 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Foulis residents nab would-be rapist

Public-spirited residents of the Foulis/Paradise area on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday handed over a man to the police whom they said had attempted to rape an 11-year-old girl. The man was...

Better dead than REDD?

May 15, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Better dead than REDD?

It was not a matter of fortuity that President Jagdeo was the only Head of State that was invited to address the 17th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. He has...

Berbice police investigate terror tales of ‘Bogey Man’

May 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Berbice police investigate terror tales of ‘Bogey Man’

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – As residents of Angoy’s Avenue and its environs continue to fear a man now known as the ‘Bogey Man’, police in Berbice have intensified their actions with the hope of...

Trusting Ithaca teen disappears from home

May 15, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Trusting Ithaca teen disappears from home

Shavon McGarrell, an 18-year-old of Ithaca, West Bank Berbice, is missing. The family suspects that an older woman, who resides in Barbados, could be encouraging the teen to turn to prostitution....

Guyana does not belong to the PPP or the PNC

May 15, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana does not belong to the PPP or the PNC

Dear Editor, Dr. Van West Charles is making a comeback. Funnily, I feel like an 11 or 12-year-old all over again. I am 36 years old. Much is said about the goodly doctor; I am made to think...

Questions for Caribbean Police Commissioners

May 15, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Questions for Caribbean Police Commissioners

The Caribbean Police Commissioners wrap up their one week conference today so I thought I may ask them to respond to some questions I have about democracy in their respective countries. My interest...

Suriname’s intervention a blessing in disguise for CGX, says Kerry Sully

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suriname’s intervention a blessing in disguise for CGX, says Kerry Sully

By Mondale Smith An ‘interesting coincidence’ has allowed CGX to put a lot more science into its project which could now see Guyana earning as much as $200B per year once drilling commences and...

Woman, son brutalize young Berbician girl

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Woman, son brutalize young Berbician girl

Liloutie Seepersaud and her son, Arnold, are to appear in the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court tomorrow to answer charges stemming from a severe beating they allegedly inflicted on 23-year-old,...

Jagdeo overturns ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur’s suspension

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo overturns ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur’s suspension

President Bharrat Jagdeo, who holds the portfolio of Minister of Information, has intervened and consequently caused the Board of Directors of National Communications Network (NCN) to rescind its...

Thief caught red-handed at GPHC maternity ward

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Thief caught red-handed at GPHC maternity ward

… Soundly thrashed A Charlotte Street man, who is said to be a known thief, ran out of luck yesterday after he was caught red-handed stealing in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s...

Agriculture Ministry awards $141M in contracts

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Agriculture Ministry awards $141M in contracts

Five contracts totaling $141 million were awarded to four contracting companies yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture, under the Agricultural Sector Development Unit (ASDU). The agriculture...

Boy, 14, sustains shattered leg

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Boy, 14, sustains shattered leg

…Zeelugt water woes blamed Due to the shortage of water at Tuschen and Zeelugt, one family was forced into another predicament on Tuesday last. On the day in question, 14-year-old Faoud...

Golden opportunity beckons for new economic policy

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Golden opportunity beckons for new economic policy

Global Financial Crisis… President Bharrat Jagdeo speaking at the 17th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, yesterday, told the session that the current global...

CANU denies KN report

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on CANU denies KN report

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has refuted a claim in yesterday’s edition of Kaieteur News which stated that a rank had been charged for perverting a witness in the Colin Mack rape trial. A...

Businesses helping HIV/AIDS fight to be honoured

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Businesses helping HIV/AIDS fight to be honoured

The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS is now finalizing arrangements for the adjudication of its 2009 Awards for Business Excellence and for the presentation of those awards at a formal ceremony...

Farmer charged for Lethem murder

May 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Farmer charged for Lethem murder

A 56-year-old farmer was yesterday remanded to prison for the capital offence when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. As an expressionless Ronald Charlie stood in the docks...

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Courtney Walsh bowls into Guyana’s restaurant scene

May 22, 2026

…cricket legend says Guyana was a ‘No-Brainer’ for 519 expansion By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – West Indies fast-bowling legend Courtney Walsh has taken another major step in life after...

It’s time for the government to legally set minibus and hire car...

May 22, 2026

Peeping Tom… (Kaieteur News) – Every day, thousands of people in Guyana stand by the roadside, waiting for public transportation. They have one question on their minds: “How much will it cost me?” And the sad truth is, nobody can give them a straight answer. We have a serious problem...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Nothing can come between

May 22, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall “Nothing can come, nothing can come Nothing can come between us…” (Kaieteur News) – Those words are from British singer Sade’s 1988 song of the same name. It wasn’t her doing the honours in Guyana. Greet, Mr. Jacob Helsberg, U.S. Undersecretary of Economic...

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