January 2016

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50th Independence anniversary celebrations to get input from PAHO

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 50th Independence anniversary celebrations to get input from PAHO

Guyana’s health sector over the past 50 years has seen major achievements and laudable developments. It is only fitting that this is extensively highlighted when Guyana commences celebration of...

Schoolgirl raped, other fondled…A family’s quest to find the elusive one – “Justice”

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl raped, other fondled…A family’s quest to find the elusive one – “Justice”

By Suraj Narine Relatives of two East Bank Demerara schoolgirls have reported that they have been given the “royal run-around” to get justice for the girls who were sexually assaulted by a...

Georgetown Solid Waste Director issues health/environmental warnings

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Georgetown Solid Waste Director issues health/environmental warnings

…Management to get more attention in 2016 Solid waste management in the capital city was a major bugbear in the past few years that may have directly and indirectly led to many environmental and...

More money for GRA enforcement arm to chase tax-dodgers

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on More money for GRA enforcement arm to chase tax-dodgers

– US donates equipment The capacity of the enforcement and investigative division of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be enhanced with the donation of several pieces of equipment by the...

Reference Lab could be tasked with helping to solve rape cases

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Reference Lab could be tasked with helping to solve rape cases

Although intended to function as a clinical laboratory, the possibility exists that the National Public Health Reference Laboratory could be allowed to function as a support facility to the Ministry...

Guyana improves slightly on corruption index

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana improves slightly on corruption index

By Kiana Wilburg The 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index which was released yesterday by Transparency International show that despite much talk by nations to fight corruption, countries including...

Burglars target home alone women again

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Burglars target home alone women again

Home invasion of women who live alone on the Essequibo Coast is continuing. And those women are afraid and now say that they have to give up the comfort of their homes, especially at nights. The most...

Tax Reform Committee finds…Excessive Tax exemptions were granted without justification

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tax Reform Committee finds…Excessive Tax exemptions were granted without justification

By Kiana Wilburg Four months ago, Government established a Tax Reform Committee to investigate the nation’s tax system. Among the primary aims of the Committee was to determine whether Government...

Builders’ waste storage on Reserves banned

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Builders’ waste storage on Reserves banned

… removal exercise executed on Regent Street The Georgetown City Council has taken an approach to ban the storing of building materials on Council reserves and parapets as a result of the...

Banks DIH to rebuild Independence Arch at Agricola – Clifford Reis

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH to rebuild Independence Arch at Agricola – Clifford Reis

While some corporate citizens are still to decide or announce what they propose to sponsor or be part of as the nation celebrates its Golden Jubilee, Banks DIH has many plans in store. Banks DIH...

Guyana and its corruption rating

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana and its corruption rating

Corruption is something that can be found in every society. However, the societies that adopt measures to deal with this scourge are often those that emerge as societies to be emulated. During the...

Shot UG student shows signs of improvement

Jan 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Shot UG student shows signs of improvement

University of Guyana student Glenfield Dennison is said to be showing signs of improvement at the Georgetown Public Hospital after undergoing surgery to remove bullets from his body. The 30-year-old...

18 months jail for maid who staged break-in at employer’s home

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 18 months jail for maid who staged break-in at employer’s home

Yesterday Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan sitting in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court sentenced a housekeeper to 18 months imprisonment, after she stole over $400,000 from the home of her employer...

Guyana has deteriorated badly over the last 15 years

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has deteriorated badly over the last 15 years

Dear Editor, As a resident of Schoonord, ParFaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, I have the unenviable task of leaving home between 6:00am and 6:15am to avoid the chaos that ensues between the Goed...

Quoting the Tradewinds in support of beating students

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Quoting the Tradewinds in support of beating students

Dear Editor, Like the proverbial lemmings rushing at 50 knots towards the edge of the cliff to their destruction, some Guyanese seem hell bent on following the lead of the United States and adapting...

Maybe Harbour Bridge security could have saved the lady

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Maybe Harbour Bridge security could have saved the lady

Dear Editor, Your article in Kaieteur News of Jan. 27, 2015 on Page 8 “Demerara Harbour Bridge gets better traffic management” has prompted me to send this mail to you while waiting to cross this...

Horrible violations at this new shopping complex

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Horrible violations at this new shopping complex

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter on behalf of myself and my colleagues who are currently employed at new shopping complex that is people say is admirable but there is also another side to this...

Did Guyoil throw oil on this lady?

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Did Guyoil throw oil on this lady?

Dear Editor, My friend and colleague, Lesley Benjamin, Esq.: Company Secretary/Legal Officer of the Guyana Oil Company Ltd (thereafter “Guyoil”) resigned her position after her position as...

Beat the child doctrine relevant today, tomorrow and forever

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Beat the child doctrine relevant today, tomorrow and forever

Dear Editor, I read with astonishment and abhorrence the article in the Kaieteur news about the President’s position of having no place for corporal punishment in Guyana. He stated his plans to...

Comments on Bharrat Jagdeo’s hypocrisy

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Comments on Bharrat Jagdeo’s hypocrisy

Dear Editor, Dr. Henry Jeffrey has written in his SN Column (27/1/16) about the 3 Ps: Public Purse, Pay and Patronage. This brings to mind the other notorious Ps under the Jagdeo regime when it was...

Guyana School of Agriculture must account for this money

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana School of Agriculture must account for this money

Dear Editor, I wish to enlighten the public on the unprofessionalism of Guyana’s pioneer agriculture education institute” The Guyana School of Agriculture” It has been approximately...

Wales Estate should not be closed

Jan 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wales Estate should not be closed

Dear Editor, Sase Singh wrote that GAWU, the PPP and sugar workers should accept the closure of Wales Sugar Estate in order to save the other estates and Guysuco (KN Jan 26). People feel there is a...

NICIL sells prime lands to Nat’l Hardware at $5M per acre

Jan 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL sells prime lands to Nat’l Hardware at $5M per acre

…demanded $24M per acre from other company By Abena Rockcliffe More information has surfaced about how Former President Bharrat Jagdeo secured wealth and assets for his friends at the expense of...

Deputy CEO, Director charged for GPL theft

Jan 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Deputy CEO, Director charged for GPL theft

– arrest warrant issued for Deonarine Two former Guyana Power and Light (GPL) senior officials were yesterday accused of being part of a multi-million-dollar fraud at the power company. The men...

Ramjattan’s tax files secretly photocopied after elections – Sattaur

Jan 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan’s tax files secretly photocopied after elections – Sattaur

– “That’s news to me,” says Chairman Shortly after the new Government took office last May, a senior official of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) photocopied the tax file of leader of...

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Sep 05, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. JKM at Providence – Hetmyer, Hope, Dindyal lead batting charge (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors announced their arrival home with a brutal 8-wicket...

How should I schedule my day?

Sep 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Deep in the Himalayas, I once visited a Hindu guru and asked him, “Guru, how should I schedule my day?” He looked at me for a moment, smiled, and asked, “What is it that you want to schedule?” “My day,” I replied. “I want to organise my time better. There is so...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

The Donny and Delcy show

Sep 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What to make of this America-Venezuela oil deal, this best in history? First, it’s best to put the 65 billion barrels of heavy crude in its proper place. It’s the Donny and Delcy Gong Show. A quarter of Venezuela’s premier national treasure, a concealed deal, a very...

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