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Dec 01, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The public service is too bloated
The imposition of VAT on water and electricity is a revenue-generating measure. It is an inefficient way of promoting conservation. The best way to promote conservation of water is to have a...Dec 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Joshua Abdool admitted to the bar
Joshua Abdool was admitted to the bar yesterday morning on a petition presented by Senior Counsel Edward Luckhoo before Justice Diana Insanally. Abdool, the son of Peter Abdool, a prominent insurance...Dec 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on US citizen donates 43 homes to West Berbice families
A number of residents from the Hopetown community and environs were on hand on Tuesday to witness the inauguration of the New Hope Community Development Project, at Onderneeming, Wrest Coast Berbice-...Dec 01, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man tells court smoking weed is hobby, remanded for trafficking
Lois Byass of 356 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown, who police say was caught in his home with a quantity of marijuana on a table, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of trafficking...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on No bail for attempted murder accused
A visibly injured Royston Jones appeared yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman and was remanded to prison until December 13, on an attempted murder charge. Jones, 57, a farmer, of Port Kaituma,...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The importance of prioritization and frugal spending
Dear Editor, With a budget comprising such a high percentage of the money we make (Gross Domestic Product or GDP) as a nation. It is important that the projects we undertake are cost efficient, pay...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Political favours were granted to E-Networks
Dear Editor, Editor’s Note: This concludes Leonard Craig’s response to Tony Vieira which was carried in our Tuesday edition under the caption, “Leonard Craig takes issue with Tony Vieira.” If...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on My thoughts on the crime situation
Dear Editor, The crime rate in our country is definitely on the rise although the statistics from GPF is of the contrary. If we were to debate the incompetence, unreliability and the slow response of...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police responds to Kaieteur News’ letter
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption ‘The police at Aurora Station need to arrest this man’ Please be...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on 4 indictments against the 2017 Budget
Dear Editor, The 2016 budget was about beckoning the ‘good life’, and we saw what happened: a rising cost of living, the drastic decline of rice and sugar production, contraction of the...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The State should pay for this boy’s surgery
Dear Editor, In a time of super salaries and pensions for government workers, there is the story of Omkar Persaud whose family is still looking for money for surgery for him (Kaieteur News, November...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on There were always close links between Guyana and Barbados
Dear Editor, Barbados will on Wednesday November 30 join Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana in celebrating its golden jubilee as an independent nation, and the 166 square mile country started...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The importance of youths to rural development
Dear Editor, In the past few days we witnessed the graduation ceremonies at the University of Guyana Turkeyen and Tain campuses. What struck me was the fact that Tain is showing that the investment...Dec 01, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Georgetown bureaucrats are hurting us, in Wakenaam
Dear Editor, I am a resident of Zeelandia Estate, Wakenaam Island; a father of five who climbs coconut trees for estate owners, gets paid seven hundred Guyana dollars for every one hundred coconuts I...

Aug 23, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – The stage is set for the most lucrative day in Guyana’s horse racing, today, Sunday August 23 at Rising Sun Turf Club. The weather conditions are immaculate, and 14...Aug 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – In the 1970s when I was a young employee of a large, service-oriented private-sector firm in Guyana, I was not yet a confirmed employee and therefore could not wear the prescribed uniform. But I was nevertheless expected to dress in a manner appropriate to the office. One day I...Aug 23, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...Aug 23, 2026
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, they had their arms wrapped around demand. Then the PPP Govt confessed. It did not. They had plans and visions. Only for those to become blurred. It’s the haze of the “unusually hot” weather, stupid. What’s so hard about...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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