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Minister’s comments offensive to Guyanese and the Constitution

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister’s comments offensive to Guyanese and the Constitution

Dear Editor, Recent statements by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony, in an article published in Kaieteur News dated 5/19/2008, are not likely to resonate well with Guyanese....

Family seeks assistance to find missing girl

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Family seeks assistance to find missing girl

Fourteen-year-old Renetta Blake of 882 Patensen, Turkeyen, has gone missing and members of her family are praying that she returns home safely. It is however, the belief of some members of the family...

Has Govt. sold its 49% share in GPC?

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has Govt. sold its 49% share in GPC?

Dear Editor, In 1999, the Government of Guyana sold 51% of the shares of the Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC) through a public bid. I am asking whether the government was paid or whether it...

Pressures and political instability

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pressures and political instability

Dear Editor, Rapid population growth, especially when it occurs in regions with sharp ethnic differences like Guyana, can put great stress on political institutions and complicate the problems of...

Pit-bull attacks nursery school pupils

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Pit-bull attacks nursery school pupils

– mother fights off animal with lunch-pack A group of schoolchildren narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday when a roaming dog, described as a pit bull, attacked them on the East Bank...

Parliamentary Opposition petition CARICOM…

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary Opposition petition CARICOM…

Free Hinckson, reinstate Sharma’s licence Withdraw sedition charges against Oliver Hinckson and immediately release him from custody and rescind the suspension of the licence of CNS TV Channel 6,...

Peeping Tom – Sanata Clause In April

May 24, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Sanata Clause In April

I heard that the government is producing a bestseller. It is entitled, “OPPROBRIUM- HOW TO DIVEST WITHOUT COMPETIVE BIDDING” with a preface jointly scripted by the Privatization Unit and...

A distortion of my views

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on A distortion of my views

Dear Editor, Ms. Samantha Ali’s reference in her letter of 20/5/2008 titled “Ms Burton’s works prove that she is a competent trade unionist” accused me of being “dishonest and unfair”,...

Does President Jagdeo have any ideals of his own?

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does President Jagdeo have any ideals of his own?

Dear Editor, In a GINA release entitled “Everything will not be alright if we don’t struggle for it”, President Jagdeo, while addressing a large audience at Babu John, Port Mourant, on March 2,...

Freddie Kissoon – Friday morning at the GRA and other stories

May 24, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Friday morning at the GRA and other stories

All over Georgetown on Thursday, from what I have heard, the talk was about the pit bulls that nearly killed a young man in Queenstown (Demerara). This had to be the topic of conversation among most...

CLICO promises Independence spectacle

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on CLICO promises Independence spectacle

Guyana’s Independence Day celebrations are perhaps most fondly remembered by the giant splashes of fiery colour that illuminate the night sky at approximately midnight on May 25 each year, ever...

Our Thoughts Are With the Chinese and Burmese People

May 24, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Our Thoughts Are With the Chinese and Burmese People

During the first two months of this year, all Guyana was numbed by the terrifying massacres that left twenty-three persons dead and about a dozen others injured. Guyana has never before experienced...

Opposition parties call for revival of death squad probe

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition parties call for revival of death squad probe

…“We have to get to the truth, whatever it takes” The opposition parliamentary parties, with the exception of the Rise Organise and Rebuild (ROAR) Party, yesterday issued a call for the...

Global Warming – a threat to Mother Earth

May 23, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Global Warming – a threat to Mother Earth

Dear Editor, I am of the opinion that people in our society still look upon Global Warming as a joke but really there would be nothing to laugh about when it starts to take effect. Global Warming is...

OP distances self from Rohee’s comment on the judiciary

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on OP distances self from Rohee’s comment on the judiciary

“It is the judiciary and not the executive which is the guardian of the Constitution” – Acting Chief Justice The Office of the President says that the executive arm of Government does not...

Pit bull attack survivor recounts near death experience

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Pit bull attack survivor recounts near death experience

“I though for sure that I would’a dead…I did done give up already,” were the words of pit bull attack survivor, 20-year-old Rawle Ramsaywack, who was mauled by three vicious dogs on Tuesday....

Police link Durey Lane, Merriman Mall killings to Eve Leary, Ministry of Culture attacks

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Police link Durey Lane, Merriman Mall killings to Eve Leary, Ministry of Culture attacks

Ballistics examinations have linked the gunning down of Arjune Narine, in Durey Lane, Campbellville, to the execution of internet café owner, Lennox Drakes, and to the attacks on Police...

Body in car trunk…

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Body in car trunk…

Reputed wife and relatives released After questioning her for five days, detectives have released the reputed wife of Ganga Persaud, whose body was found in his car trunk last week. Kaieteur News was...

State fails to proceed with sedition charge against Hinckson

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on State fails to proceed with sedition charge against Hinckson

Former army lieutenant, Oliver Hinckson, once again appeared in court yesterday when the trial into the arms and ammunition charge against him continued. Sergeant Eon Jackson, a ballistics expert who...

Long wait at Passport Office

May 23, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Long wait at Passport Office

Dear Editor, The process for an application for a passport at the Passport Office in Georgetown is a very long and tedious process. About two weeks ago I had to accompany a member of my church to...

Contract certified electrician for any power extension

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Contract certified electrician for any power extension

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated is cautioning electricity consumers to utilise the services of a certified electrician whenever the need arises to install extended electricity from their...

Repossess lands in Anna Regina Industrial Scheme too

May 23, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Repossess lands in Anna Regina Industrial Scheme too

Dear Editor, According to Mr. Winston Brassington, Government is moving to repossess all lands that were leased to investors and not developed in Ruimveldt, Eccles and Coldingen. What about those...

Handicapped girl raped by neighbour, sisters traumatized

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Handicapped girl raped by neighbour, sisters traumatized

A distraught father is questioning whether moral values and genuine care for humanity still exist within the society since, according to him, his handicapped daughter was forced to endure a dreadful...

We must speak out against such cruelty

May 23, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must speak out against such cruelty

Dear Editor, Every so often I rescue an animal that has been so cruelly abused I cannot sleep at night. I wonder: Was the dog so trustful it let its owner beat it so, or was it tied up and beaten by...

Bandits shoot carpenter in failed robbery

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot carpenter in failed robbery

A carpenter from Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice, sustained two gunshot wounds when he was accosted by a gunman while he was about to enter his yard at around midday on Wednesday. Chandra...

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Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) wrapped up four days of exciting action featuring a number of top players who competed in the Diamond Independence Cup Squash Tournament...

Building the Orange Future

May 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – About fifteen years ago, the idea was floated that Guyana should establish a National School of Music. It was not a fanciful suggestion then, and it is even less so now. In fact, in today’s Guyana—poised between oil wealth and a rapidly expanding cultural footprint, it is...

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...

Sacred trust, latest presidential fairytale

May 20, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – When President Ali talks about “sacred trust”, clearly, he is a leader floating in his own spaceship. Making matters worse, he now believes in his own fairytales. Incredibly, he expects others also to fall for his fables. REOs reshuffled; some sent...

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