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Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Former First Lady Joyce Hoyte passes on
After a brief period of illness, former First Lady, Joyce Hoyte, died yesterday at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital in the city. The 77-year-old was the wife of former President and Leader of the...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel surprises four families with $$$ millions
– 13-year-old homeless reunited with family, now in school By Leonard Gildarie For a few years, a nine-year-old boy lived on the streets of Georgetown. He grew up in an impoverished area, from...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Former Top Cop, Henry Fraser, dies
Former Commissioner of Police, Henry Alphonso Fraser, died early yesterday morning at St Joseph Mercy Hospital, mere hours after being admitted to the institution. He was 88. According to his widow,...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Historic audio/visual case heard in High Court
By Latoya Giles History was marked in the High Court yesterday when audio/visual links were used in testimony in the land rights case six Amerindian village captains have brought against the Guyana...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Businesswoman loses US$25,000 to bandits
– forced to cancel US trip Bandits forced a businesswoman and her sister to hastily alter their planned trip to the United States of America when they snatched her bag containing more than...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP Presidential candidate race heats up
– Candidates make case; Nagamootoo stays away The Executive Committee of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday summoned candidates who are seeking to be the party’s...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Condolences at Joyce Hoyte’s passing
It was with deep sadness that President of the Cooperative Republic, Bharrat Jagdeo, learnt of the former First Lady’s demise, a statement detailed. “On behalf of the Government of Guyana and...Feb 15, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Kwame throat block up wid Valentine duff
Yesterday was St Valentine’s Day. Dem boys see de staff wid red and white. That is when de Waterfalls boss man announce how he buying lunch fuh only de ladies. Is then trouble start. Uncle Adam...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nine year old farm worker hangs self at Gangoo Creek
The suicide rate in Berbice continues to climb dramatically with the deaths of two more persons including a nine-year-old who was a victim of child labour. A nine-year-old lad who was reportedly left...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies after boats collide in the Pomeroon
An early morning collision in the Pomeroon River has left an elderly man of Grant Tri Best, Lower Pomeroon, dead and the police desperately trying to locate the other party, involved in the accident....Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana urges EU to be flexible on sugar-cut budget support
…loss of 14M Euros not a lost cause-Agri Minister Government yesterday called on Europe to be more flexible in its assistance to the sugar industry instead of commenting on possible future...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl disappears after grandmother’s threat
A distressed grandmother visited Kaieteur News yesterday to tell her tale of her missing grand-daughter. Ruth Ollivirre of lot 89 Leopold Street, Georgetown stated that her 15-year-old...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds flocked GT&T Valentine’s Day promotion
Seon Brown won the final Mazda RX8, and Valerie Fraser, the scooter, while Vidyanand Sugrim won a trip to a Caribbean destination. Ten others won between $10,000 and $200,000 as part of the...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Public-spirited citizen returns lost police weapon
Not everyone is an enemy of the police—at least not a public-spirited citizen who returned a gun that was lost by a policeman last week. Kaieteur News understands that the citizen claimed that he...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Three witnesses take witness stand as murder trial continues
… Taxi driver murder trial As the murder trial for Shawn Richardson continued yesterday before Justice Dawn Gregory, three witnesses were called to give their evidence in chief. Richardson, 30,...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Restoration of teachers’ image must start at CPCE
– Education Minister Education Minister Shaik Baksh has underscored the need to restore the image of teachers and the prestige of the profession. However, he noted that these efforts have to...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy donates $2M in material to Corentyne schools
The U.S. Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) has donated over $2M worth of education materials, teaching aides and agriculture equipment to several Corentyne schools. The handing over...Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Scotia Bank/ DDL/ GSDF Schools Football Academy launched
Ten schools from Georgetown have been selected to participate in the inaugural Scotia Bank/ Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL)/ Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) Schools Football Academy which...Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Jockeys the crucial link in horseracing
While all or most of the attention is usually focused on the horses at the various horserace meets, especially those that do well, not much attention is placed on the persons who, by and large, are...Feb 15, 2011 knews News Comments Off on T&HD workers not paid five per cent increase
… ret’d Captain says wrongfully dismissed Workers attached to the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) have not been paid the five per cent retroactive increase for 2010. The...Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Munroe slams unbeaten 112 for GNIC
Twenty seven year-old Marvin Munroe slammed an unbeaten 112 for GNIC against MYO/Vikings on Saturday in their rain-ruined GCA second division two-day cricket match at the MYO ground last Saturday....Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Regional officials, health personnel at odds over sex allegations
Senior medical officials are refuting an article published in February 9 edition of the Kaieteur News, under the caption ‘Cuban doctor recalled for alleged sexual assault.’ Dr.Renueka Persaud...Feb 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Officers fear security threat at Georgetown Prison
By Rabindra Rooplall Fear of a pending escape combined with other issues at the Georgetown Prison has prison officers concerned about the severe shortage of staff and their safety inside the prison....Feb 15, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on DeSouza’s unbeaten 98 spearhead T&T club
Fellow Guyanese Latiff, Dick also shine Guyanese Sean De Souza hit a magnificent 98 not out as Sweet Revenge humbled Glenora by 138 runs in round four action of the North Zonal Cricket Council...Mineral and oil rich country borrowing to feed, clothe and house its citizens.
Sep 01, 2024
2024 GCB U13 Inter-County finals… Kaieteur Sports – The Cinderella County boys of Essequibo stormed to their second straight Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U-13 Inter-county title, after handing...Kaieteur News – There exists a weapon more insidious than the outright banning of dissenting voices. That weapon involves... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more
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