November 2015

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Proposed 8% pay hike for City Council employees

Nov 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Proposed 8% pay hike for City Council employees

City hall employees who are members of the Guyana Local Government Officers’ Union can anticipate an eight per cent increase in their salaries from January 2014. This agreement to grant the...

UG are GCA/NHSF second division champs

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on UG are GCA/NHSF second division champs

Despite conceding first innings points, University of Guyana (UG) defeated Transport Sports Club (TSC) by one wicket to win the final of the Georgetown Cricket Association/Noble House Sea Foods...

Simon Pures on show as Pocket Rocket launches Linden Boxing card

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Simon Pures on show as Pocket Rocket launches Linden Boxing card

Coach of the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym (PRBG), Orland Rogers remains committed to the development of his charges and the gym, once located in New Amsterdam, Berbice, has since been re-sited to Linden....

MURDER, SHE CROAKED

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on MURDER, SHE CROAKED

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone...

Countrywide Wolf Memorial Softball Cricket tournament to start mid month

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Countrywide Wolf Memorial Softball Cricket tournament to start mid month

Some $200,000 worth in prizes are up for grabs when the Guyana Softball League administrated Wolf Memorial Softball cricket tournament begins on the Sunday 29th November. The event which will see...

Why now?

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why now?

There must be concerns somewhere about whether the new government will rig the 2020 elections in Guyana as a means of holding on to political office. Why else would the Stabroek News headline a story...

City’s environmental inspections to return after more than two decades

Nov 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City’s environmental inspections to return after more than two decades

As the Georgetown City Council executes outreaches to various communities there has been a resounding call for the return of environmental health officers and inspectors to work in the capital city....

Two in custody for New Amsterdam Market Cambio dealer robbery

Nov 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Two in custody for New Amsterdam Market Cambio dealer robbery

Two persons who are well known to the authorities are in custody following the daring daylight robbery that occurred on Thursday last in the New Amsterdam Market. Acting on information, the police...

Proposals for stemming road carnage

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proposals for stemming road carnage

Dear Editor, It is quite understandable that everyone from the Head of State to the man-in-the-street should be concerned about the carnage on our country’s roadways. Anecdotally, chief among the...

PPP Parliament accuses APNU–AFC leaders of being abusive to women

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP Parliament accuses APNU–AFC leaders of being abusive to women

Dear Editor, It would seem that it has now become norm for male political operatives of the APNU+AFC government to unleash verbal attacks on the female political operatives of the PPP/C. There is no...

Corporal punishment is a reversion to primitive times

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corporal punishment is a reversion to primitive times

Dear Editor, In reference to Mr. Malcolm Alves’ letter in which he supports the continued use of corporal punishment in schools, I would first like to say that my argument against corporal...

Why is President Granger’s salary tax free?

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is President Granger’s salary tax free?

Dear Editor, In an incontrovertible period of economic slowdown in Guyana, the new Granger led APNU-AFC government’s decision to increase their salaries by over 50% while other public servants got...

Is Bharrat Jagdeo trying to revive the dead?

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Bharrat Jagdeo trying to revive the dead?

Dear Editor, One of the headlines of Kaieteur News edition of Monday, November 8, is “Gov’t must be open to talks on Amaila Falls project or else …” This is more of a threat than a warning...

There are sins and sinners in the aviation industry

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are sins and sinners in the aviation industry

Dear Editor, The struggle at the Ogle Aerodrome is not due to greed or preferential treatment or power over the helpless. It is all strategic positioning by one operator over the others for long term...

The Minister of Agriculture was given a salary increase because he is supposed to be smart

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Minister of Agriculture was given a salary increase because he is supposed to be smart

Dear Editor, The much anticipated report from the Commission of inquiry (COI) into the operations of GUYSUCO has been submitted to Ministry of Agriculture for delivery to Government of Guyana. This...

Many things not right at Board of Industrial Training

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Many things not right at Board of Industrial Training

Dear Editor, With disgusted I penned this letter and I would appreciate to know under whose purview the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) falls within the Ministry of Social Protection. It would...

GRDB in discussions with Mexican private, public rice purchasing agents

Nov 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB in discussions with Mexican private, public rice purchasing agents

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is in active discussion with Mexican rice purchasing agents, through a teleconference facilitated by the Mexican Ambassador Ivan Robero Sierra Medel. The...

Claims and Objections exercise begins for Local Govt. Elections

Nov 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Claims and Objections exercise begins for Local Govt. Elections

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) last Monday commenced its Claims and Objections exercise for the highly anticipated upcoming Local Government Elections next year. Within three days, the...

SEXUAL ASSAULT ON FEMALE OFFICERS

Nov 16, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on SEXUAL ASSAULT ON FEMALE OFFICERS

There is a long way to go before Guyana’s crime rate can be considered tolerable. News that the country is actually on course to record the highest number of murders and armed robberies for the...

Shut NICIL down

Nov 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Shut NICIL down

– forensic audit report recommends By: Kiana Wilburg The report on the forensic audit into the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) is complete. It has been...

Bandit chopped in clash with cutlass-wielding businessman

Nov 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit chopped in clash with cutlass-wielding businessman

…accomplices drop shotgun and flee The police are on the hunt for two bandits who fled and left their injured cohort behind after he was cornered and chopped by the owner of the business premises...

25 Guyanese detained in Trinidad’s illegal immigrant sweep

Nov 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 25 Guyanese detained in Trinidad’s illegal immigrant sweep

Trinidad (Trinidad Guardian) – A total of 53 illegal immigrants were detained yesterday as a joint task force swooped down on known hideouts along the East/West corridor. According to a release...

River dredge ordered to cease operations near Amerindian village

Nov 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on River dredge ordered to cease operations near Amerindian village

Government has ordered a river dredge to cease operations in Region Eight amidst concerns from the Amerindian village of Isseneru. According to the Department of Natural Resources and the...

US$4M drainage pumps contract…Sacked Indian contractor claims millions owed

Nov 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US$4M drainage pumps contract…Sacked Indian contractor claims millions owed

More than five years after the Government of Guyana and the Export-Import Bank of India signed a US$4M credit agreement for the acquisition, installation and commissioning of 14 large drainage pumps...

Chop fuh chop mek thief man holler

Nov 15, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Chop fuh chop mek thief man holler

When thief man go to rob people and he deh in company, he is de baddest thing that walk de earth. You should hear how dem does talk to de people dem robbing and some of dem does beat people like if...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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