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Taxpayers and their compliance with VAT – Part 1

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Taxpayers and their compliance with VAT – Part 1

By Kiana Wilburg It’s no secret, the significant role tax revenue plays in financing a country’s planned development activities. So important is its role that countries are keen to protect...

Amerindians should be consulted on development – Rohee

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News 1

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Clement Rohee, recently met with villagers from communities in the North and South Rupununi. He noted that there needs to be meaningful...

Sore Throat: Knowing when it’s dangerous

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sore Throat: Knowing when it’s dangerous

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine As we are fast approaching the flu season, many persons will develop a sore throat as part of their symptoms. For the most part, a sore...

Region Five REO transferred to Region Seven

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five REO transferred to Region Seven

…Chairman cites incompetence; unfair treatment at Regional Tender Board level The Region Five Executive Officer, Roderick Edinboro, has been transferred to the Region Seven RDC. It had been...

National Songs and National Unity

Jul 10, 2016 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on National Songs and National Unity

By His Excellency Brigadier David A. Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Guyana’s national songs have their origin in the centenary celebration of unification in 1931. British...

What the 50th Independence Arch means to Agricola

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on What the 50th Independence Arch means to Agricola

By Feona Morrison A week ago, I was standing at the Agricola Road Head, East Bank Demerara when I overheard a group of young men talking about how they were proud that the 50th Independence Arch was...

The unfortunate case of two young boys

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The unfortunate case of two young boys

By Adam Harris It was shortly after midnight when the telephone roused me from my much needed sleep. A fire was raging on Hadfield Street. I placed a few calls to some reporters but got no one....

Emancipation 2016 launched

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation 2016 launched

Emphasis to be placed on Guyana’s rich African Heritage – ACDA The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) has unveiled a list of intriguing activities for this year’s...

For a well connected, knowledge-based nation

Jul 10, 2016 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on For a well connected, knowledge-based nation

September 2016 will witness the grand opening of the long-awaited ICT Centre of Excellence located on the University of Guyana Turkeyen campus, inside the building that currently houses the National...

Police record 20 percent drop in serious crimes

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police record 20 percent drop in serious crimes

– lowest in ten years in ‘A’ and ‘F’ Divisions The Guyana Police Force has recorded a 20 percent reduction in serious crimes, with ‘A’ and ‘F’ Divisions having the lowest crime...

A world long gone

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

On Monday, July 4, I walked out of the Waterchris Restaurant on Waterloo Street with business woman, Allison Butters-Grant and Dr. David Hinds. Allison’s car was nearest to the entrance, so we all...

HIGH PROFILE ROBBERY ACCUSED JAILED

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on HIGH PROFILE ROBBERY ACCUSED JAILED

Three of four men who were implicated in 2013 in a daring high profile robbery in the island of Wakenaam, in the Essequibo River were each sentenced to jail on Thursday when the lengthy case came to...

The decline of the Working People’s Alliance

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 3

Twelve years after his assassination, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) believed that Walter Rodney still lived. In 1992, the Working People’s Alliance was hell bent on denying Dr. Cheddi...

CCJ still to be the regional court of appeal

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ still to be the regional court of appeal

by Oscar Ramjeet After ten years of inauguration only four countries, Guyana, Barbados, Belize and recently Dominica have joined the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Two children died in a fire that started in the most unlikely of places – a home for children. This is going to haunt the government more than anyone else. Now there is going to be a rush to...

Zika virus – still a very prevailing health challenge

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Zika virus – still a very prevailing health challenge

By Sharmain Grainger I have written a number of articles over the months about the Zika virus. But towards the end of last week, for the first time, I was actually confronted with the symptoms of the...

AN INSIDE JOB AT GRA

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor; I am responding to a letter published in your newspaper, Kaieteur News on July 9, 2016, entitled “Mr. Lucas has abused his authority at GRA”. I will not address insinuations that...

Ogle controversial flights…Probe to be completed this week – Patterson

Jul 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ogle controversial flights…Probe to be completed this week – Patterson

Weeks ago, the controversial departure of two planes from the Eugene F. Correia International Airport (EFCIA) – which made headlines, triggered an investigation from the Ministry of Public...

Gail Texeira failed miserably

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Letters 3

Dear Editor; Kindly permit me a space in your newspaper to register my rebuttal against the Honourable Gail Texiera MP who held a press conference on July 6, 2016 and spoke on the Old Age Pension of...

Interesting creatures… The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting creatures… The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) also known as the American black vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Central...

Remembering the Son Chapman

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Letters 2

Dear Editor; Last Wednesday, 52 years have passed since that fateful day when more than forty of Linden’s own were massacred on the Demerara River as they travelled home on the Son Chapman launch...

Oldendorff is an anti-union company

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oldendorff is an anti-union company

Dear Editor; A number of foreign and local Company operating in Guyana do not show respect to their workers’ rights and/or trade Unions that are elected by the said workers and also these companies...

Book Review… Promoting ethics as key to social growth

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Promoting ethics as key to social growth

Book: Marking Milestones: 21-Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders Author: Errol Miller Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Professor Errol Miller’s decision to...

Ogunseye is mixing up his facts

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Letters 2

Dear Editor; I refer to a letter from Mr. Ralph Ramkarran captioned “It was the mistake of the WPA….” published in the SN of July 9th, 2016. It is most disturbing that one Tacuma Ogunseye...

Jamaica’s CARICOM Review Commission – understanding the elephant

Jul 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Jamaica’s CARICOM Review Commission – understanding the elephant

By Sir Ronald Sanders Jamaica’s CARICOM Review Commission has been established and has had its first meeting. Quite what is the purpose of the Commission is not clear, nor is the prism through...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more