April 2016

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REFORMING THE CONSTITUTION

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on REFORMING THE CONSTITUTION

In Guyana, there are not too many people who have ever seen a copy of the constitution or let alone have thoroughly read its contents. We reckon the few persons who have seen it are those who have...

President must ensure his ministers cease being clones of the arrogant ministers of the PPP govt.

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on President must ensure his ministers cease being clones of the arrogant ministers of the PPP govt.

DEAR EDITOR, It seems to me that the harm is on. Yes, the coalition government is being harmed by its stunning disregard of history, its arrogance, and its inability to control Joe Harmon. Though...

Former Guyana envoy sues Gov’t over wrongful dismissal

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Former Guyana envoy sues Gov’t over wrongful dismissal

– claiming $49 million in damages Guyana’s former High Commissioner to Canada, Harry Narine Nawbatt, has brought a lawsuit against the Government for breaching the contractual agreement made...

G/Town Magistrates’ Courts commit three murder accused

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on G/Town Magistrates’ Courts commit three murder accused

Three men were committed to stand trial in the High Court within the past four months for the indictable offence of murder by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, who is presiding in Court One of the...

Global Competitiveness Index shows…Inefficient Government bureaucracy most problematic factor for doing business in Guyana

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Global Competitiveness Index shows…Inefficient Government bureaucracy most problematic factor for doing business in Guyana

The World Economic Forum (WEF), in its Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016, has listed inefficient government bureaucracy – the failure of an organization to complete the work that it exists to...

President Granger calls for the Caribbean to be preserved as zone of peace.

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger calls for the Caribbean to be preserved as zone of peace.

President David Granger has issued a call for the Caribbean to be preserved as zone of peace. The Head of State issued the call, while delivering the feature address at a dinner hosted by the...

Camp Street prisons fallout…Mom seeks help for son blinded during prison riot

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Street prisons fallout…Mom seeks help for son blinded during prison riot

A Corentyne, Berbice mother is seeking the assistance of the public to fund an eye surgery for her son who is now blind. He was shot with pellets during the second day of the Camp Street prison...

Line Path Skeldon collision

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Line Path Skeldon collision

Two drivers are counting their lucky stars after their vehicles collided on the Line Path, Skeldon Corentyne Berbice public road. According to the information received, the driver of HC 2306 struck...

City Hall…Other councilors will have input into finance committee- Mayor Chase-Green

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall…Other councilors will have input into finance committee- Mayor Chase-Green

Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green, is adamant that despite criticisms, only A Partnership for Nation al Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) councilors sit on the Georgetown municipality’s...

St Joseph Secondary to host Independence pageant

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on St Joseph Secondary to host Independence pageant

Although Guyanese are anticipating Guyana’s 50th Independence in May, members under the Lloyd N De Arts Productions are hoping that their pageant and cultural extravaganza will be a unique cultural...

Life is even easier for those seniors who can afford

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Life is even easier for those seniors who can afford

Dear Editor, GRA I believe, announced that senior citizens will no longer pay $4000 tax to travel, instead will pay $1500. Seniors also won’t have to pay for driver’s licence. While I ...

The Labour Department needs to focus on the City Council’s behaviour

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Labour Department needs to focus on the City Council’s behaviour

Dear Editor, Indications in the press are that the Labour Department in the Ministry of Social Protection is clamping down on employers throughout the country who do not adhere to the labour laws and...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Standards – Implemented to benefit Consumers

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Standards – Implemented to benefit Consumers

As consumers, whenever we turn on a light switch, use the internet, unwrap food from a supermarket, or our children play with toys, or we do hundreds of other everyday things, we knowingly or...

This will not blow over, ‘Honourable’ Joe Harmon

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on This will not blow over, ‘Honourable’ Joe Harmon

Dear Editor, If Minister of State, the ‘Honourable’ Joseph Harmon believes that by running from explaining to the nation the repulsive reports of his relationship with Bai Shan Lin and Brian...

Victoria is too historical to be a neglected village

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Victoria is too historical to be a neglected village

Dear Editor, Please provide me space in your column to speak of the expectations of Victorians. Local government has just finished and expectations are high all over Guyana of those who are elected...

Five ways to help unmask and curb corruption in Guyana

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Five ways to help unmask and curb corruption in Guyana

By Kiana Wilburg Corruption has taken interesting twists and turns in Guyana. It has affected national growth, held the nation back from technological advancement and infected the integrity of...

Is Guyana really ready for the 50th Jubilee Celebration?

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Guyana really ready for the 50th Jubilee Celebration?

Dear Editor, Guyana has come a long way and while we are poised to observe 50 years of independence from British Rule, the question arises “Are we as a nation really ready for the 50th Jubilee...

An adumbration on African land rights

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on An adumbration on African land rights

Dear Editor, The Chairman of the Reparations Committee Eric Phillips represented a position articulated from the early 1990’s by ACDA, and was argued in Parliament by the late Deborah Bakker. That...

Corentyne man freed on charges of sex with a minor

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Corentyne man freed on charges of sex with a minor

Arjune Reddi, 43, of Albion, Corentyne, Berbice, who was facing two charges of sexual activity with a child walked out of the Berbice High Court a free man after the virtual complainant fail to show...

MAKING ASSUMPTIONS

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on MAKING ASSUMPTIONS

A policeman was heading home after a long, hard day on patrol. He had dealt with a whole succession of difficult people, and a mountain of frustrating paperwork. All he wanted at this point was to...

Rally, rally round the West Indies!

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rally, rally round the West Indies!

Dear Editor, Sunday 3rd April, 2016 a historic day for cricket, particularly for the people of the Caribbean, a day we will always remember, at the beginning of the World T/20 Tournament for both...

Sunday Cartoon

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Jagdeo’s compilation of official-wrong-doings is a joke

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo’s compilation of official-wrong-doings is a joke

Dear Editor, I read online this morning, that the PPP intends to create a database of acts of discrimination and witch hunting committed by public officers. What crass hypocrisy! Isn’t he thirteen...

Supernatural…Those faded roses I brought for Linda

Apr 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Supernatural…Those faded roses I brought for Linda

A short story by Michael Jordan It was close to evening when I reached the crossroads leading into the cemetery. Not remembering how I had got there; guessing I was maybe drunk again but not really...

The battle for control of a television station

Apr 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The battle for control of a television station

Dear Editor, It is instructive that the persons who are involved in the furore over who should be in charge of the television station in Linden were in 2012 busy trying to put systems in place to...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(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

Nov 01, 2026

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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