July 2013

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CALCULATION MISTAKES CAN BE MADE WITH EVEN THE SIMPLEST OF FORMULAS

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CALCULATION MISTAKES CAN BE MADE WITH EVEN THE SIMPLEST OF FORMULAS

There are 65 seats in the National Assembly. Twenty-five of these seats are allotted to the ten geographic constituencies; and the remaining forty are in respect to the national top- up...

R.K. Security Services scenario… Government prepares to retender contracts

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on R.K. Security Services scenario… Government prepares to retender contracts

Government will not be making monetary adjustments to contracts awarded to R.K. Security Services to match the new minimum wage, even as the company issued termination of service...

Govt not inclined to lower travel tax – Works Minister

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt not inclined to lower travel tax – Works Minister

Minister of Works Robeson Benn has said that for any reductions in travel voucher taxes to be made, there has to be a response from suppliers providing travel services. The Minister at...

Anti-money laundering amendment Act…Report unlikely for July 18 parliamentary sitting – Dr. Luncheon

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-money laundering amendment Act…Report unlikely for July 18 parliamentary sitting – Dr. Luncheon

By Zena Henry Several considerations before Special Parliamentary Select Committees are likely to be reported on at the next July 18 sitting of the National Assembly, but this might not...

Cause of farm labourer’s death undetermined

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cause of farm labourer’s death undetermined

A post mortem has failed to clear up suspicions about the death of farm-hand Sasenarine Persaud, whose body was found in the Essequibo River last Saturday, some ten days after he...

Talking about talks

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Talking about talks

David Hinds (de facto leader of the Working People’s Alliance) said on Walter Rodney Groundings on Channel 9 last Sunday that the WPA is opposed to APNU accepting invitations from...

Ministry gears to take stronger role in private schools’ operations

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry gears to take stronger role in private schools’ operations

There are plans in the pipelines for the Ministry of Education to take a stronger role in the operation of private schools. This development is expected to become possible with the...

Licence fee set to put non-govt. broadcasters out of business – APNU

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Licence fee set to put non-govt. broadcasters out of business – APNU

By Abena Rockcliffe A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday dubbed the government’s move to drastically hike broadcasting licence fee as one intended to cripple broadcasters who appear...

Frontier healthcare to take centre stage at Bi-National meeting

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Frontier healthcare to take centre stage at Bi-National meeting

In the quest to forge cross-borders relation in order to strengthen the exchange of health collaborations, the Ministry of Health yesterday commenced a three-day meeting with a...

UG to offer Medical Imaging programme in Sept.

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG to offer Medical Imaging programme in Sept.

– as Rehabilitation Programme is reintroduced The University of Guyana’s Faculty of Health Sciences is set to offer its newest programmes at the start of the Semester in September....

PSC slams Govt., Opposition participation in investment seminar

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on PSC slams Govt., Opposition participation in investment seminar

Local businesses have ripped Government and the Opposition over the lack of continuous presence at a recent investment seminar which was spearheaded by the diplomatic community. According to the...

Cabinet approves $$M to modify prisons, lock-ups

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $$M to modify prisons, lock-ups

Cabinet has given its no-objection for the construction of an additional storey atop the Brickdam Police Station lock-ups. According to Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon, $40.9M will...

Guyana has highest travel voucher tax in the region – APNU’s Harmon

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has highest travel voucher tax in the region – APNU’s Harmon

APNU’s Joseph Harmon yesterday said that the statement by Minister Robeson Benn, about the 15 percent travel tax not being slashed because it is crucial to “upkeep” the Cheddi...

GPHC clears the air on infant’s hospitalization

Jul 12, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC clears the air on infant’s hospitalization

Although 16-month-old Nicholas Cox’s more than month-long hospitalization at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was marred with controversial reports from some sections...

Misogynist Violence

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Misogynist Violence

Violence against women by men in our society continues unabated: molestations, beatings, rapes, maimings and murders of women of all ages, social strata and races are now practically...

Kudos for the women miners’ organization

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos for the women miners’ organization

Dear Editor, I write to congratulate the members of the Guyana Women Miners’ Organization (GWMO) on their outstanding work of helping young helpless girls in the interior, although...

What’s with Eusi Kwayana?

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What’s with Eusi Kwayana?

Dear Editor, Can someone say what is happening with Mr. Eusi Kwayana these days? In Kaieteur News of 10th July he correctly quoted Mr. M. Maxwell and returned on 11th July and apologised for...

Practice makes perfect

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Practice makes perfect

Dear Editor It seems as if Mayor and City Council has not learnt from the recent experience when it decided to purchased Waste Compactors Trucks for the collection of trash. It is now noted...

Discrimination by Region 4 Education Committee

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Discrimination by Region 4 Education Committee

Dear Editor, I write to record my deep disappointment with the discrimination meted out to my son, Lukas Walcott, by the Head of the Education Committee of Region Four, Ms. Genevieve...

GECOM a hotbed of unholy alliances

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM a hotbed of unholy alliances

Dear Editor, At long last Vincent Alexander has mustered enough courage to speak out about the errors of commission condoned by GECOM Commissioners. Not only are these unethical occurrences but they...

Home Turnkey project a Guyanese dream

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Home Turnkey project a Guyanese dream

Dear Editor, It is the view that the new initiative of the Housing Ministry’s 1000 Homes Turn-Key project is what Guyanese have been waiting for. I must say that with everything that sounds...

Pension contributions in limbo

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pension contributions in limbo

Dear Editor I am writing on behalf of myself and some retired employees of the Guyana Revenue Authority. On January 1, 2001, we were asked to join the Clico Pension and Medical Scheme (we are...

Are cricket hijackers immune from the Laws of Guyana?

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are cricket hijackers immune from the Laws of Guyana?

Dear Editor, I note with keen interest that the editor of Kaieteur News, Mr. Adam Harris, was recently charged and fined for contempt of court. However, I recall that a few months ago the...

Thomas Carroll – a poorly written book

Jul 12, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thomas Carroll – a poorly written book

Dear Editor, if you may permit, our perspective: The Thomas Carroll Affair by David Casavis. The book: A poorly written “book”. With such material Ruel Johnson, among others, would have...

India v Sri Lanka, tri-series final, Port-of-Spain…Silverware within young captains’ grasp

Jul 11, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on India v Sri Lanka, tri-series final, Port-of-Spain…Silverware within young captains’ grasp

ESPNcricinfo – Much of the cricketing world’s attention might be drawn towards the blue-riband Test series which kicked off in England yesterday, but a soon-to-be-forgotten tri-series...

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Prisoners snatch overall boxing Novice Championship title

Sep 29, 2026

– ends extended GDF run (Kaieteur News) – The Republican Gym’s return to competitive boxing ended in championship glory, as the prisoners captured the overall team title at the Guyana...

No security of tenure for ministers

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a new career opportunity developing in Guyana that could revolutionise the public service. You can become a former Minister. Traditionally, when somebody stopped being a Minister, the public assumed that was the end of the ministerial chapter. The person might return...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

From Salem and Wisconsin to Georgetown, Guyana

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Over three hundred years after Massachusetts, the plague that roiled it struck Georgetown. Over three quarters of a century after Wisconsin, that same bomb has been detonated across Guyana. It’s a bunker buster. Everyone keeping their heads low; who doesn’t have cover...

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