January 2017

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RHTY&SC launch 2017 with donation to Berbice Cricket Umpires

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC launch 2017 with donation to Berbice Cricket Umpires

Foster made Honorary Member The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S planned Calendar of 400-450 programmes activities for the year 2017 was launched on New Year’s Day with a donation to the...

Domestic air travel to be improved through better infrastructure

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Domestic air travel to be improved through better infrastructure

Persons in mining, logging, farming, tourism and other hinterland residents should benefit from the upgraded airstrips and their infrastructural works. This year, the government will be spending...

Nat’l Reference Lab now able to test for Zika Virus

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nat’l Reference Lab now able to test for Zika Virus

– Public Health Minister Despite battling for just about one year to combat the Zika Virus, the local public health sector was only two weeks ago able to boost its capacity enough to commence...

GRIF Fund enables more training opportunities under Small Business Bureau

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRIF Fund enables more training opportunities under Small Business Bureau

Five key areas of training will be available to persons from all 10 administrative regions under the Small Business Bureau (SBB). The training will be financed from the Guyana REDD + Investment Fund...

Double execution at Friendship…Cops to check surveillance cameras for possible leads

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Double execution at Friendship…Cops to check surveillance cameras for possible leads

The police are said to be checking nearby surveillance cameras for possible leads, as investigation continues into the execution-style shooting which claimed the lives of two persons at Friendship,...

Local manufacturers, importers to pay environmental levy

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Local manufacturers, importers to pay environmental levy

The National Assembly yesterday passed an amendment to the Customs Act which will now require local manufacturers and importers of metal, plastic or glass containers of any alcoholic or non-alcoholic...

Cost for transfer of motor vehicle registration increased

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cost for transfer of motor vehicle registration increased

The cost to transfer motor vehicles from one person to another has been increased as a result of the passage of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2016. The amendment was passed...

Main suspect arrested in Williamsburg death

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Main suspect arrested in Williamsburg death

One of the main suspects in connection with the death of a domestic worker whose body was recently discovered in a trench at Williamsburg, Corentyne, was arrested yesterday. Commander of B Division,...

Over 135 Mocha residents receive permission to occupy lands

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Over 135 Mocha residents receive permission to occupy lands

The Government of Guyana said yesterday that it came in for high praise when 135 residents of the community of Mocha/Arcadia, East Bank Demerara (EBD) received their ‘Permission to Occupy State...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IS VITAL

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IS VITAL

It is without question that Guyana’s economic outlook does not seem promising, as the prices of the country’s biggest financial earners – sugar and rice – continue to fall on the...

Chopping suspect ‘Crab Man’ captured

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chopping suspect ‘Crab Man’ captured

Police have captured the elusive Shamar Mohamed called “Crab Man,” who went into hiding after allegedly chopping his former girlfriend and her mother on Christmas Eve night. An official said that...

My theory is both contextual and philosophical

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

At the philosophical level, I reject with emotional firmness and attitudinal inflexibility, the longevity of individual leadership. It is not healthy for human freedom and intellectual thinking. It...

Second suspect in Corentyne cambio dealer robbery detained

Jan 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Second suspect in Corentyne cambio dealer robbery detained

After weeks of continued investigation into the robbery of Cambio Dealer Devendra Churaman at Number 79 Village, police in Berbice have managed to detain another suspect in connection with the...

The National Trust and Red House

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The National Trust and Red House

The arguments being advanced in relation to the effect of the National Trust Act on property rights to Red House are self-defeating. They do not lend credibility to the actions of the President or...

PPP and PNC have mortally damaged the Guyanese people

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Letters 3

Dear Editor, These two political parties – the PPP and the PNC – have mortally damaged the psyche of the Guyanese people. Just look at the fiasco that is ensuing in connection with the Red House...

From clean-up campaign to sustainable environment

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on From clean-up campaign to sustainable environment

Dear Editor, As we experience the rainy season and floods, the search is on again for solutions, that is, sustainable solutions. Let me start by stating that there is need for a comprehensive...

2016 was bad for rice farmers but 2017 will be worse

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on 2016 was bad for rice farmers but 2017 will be worse

Dear Editor, Rice production fell by more than 13% for 2016, the first negative growth since 2005 when the La Nina big flood impacted on rice. The Minister of Agriculture stated that rice production...

Do not compare Tacuma Ogunseye with Eusi Kwayana

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not compare Tacuma Ogunseye with Eusi Kwayana

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter from Mr. Nigel Westmass, whom I do not know. However, I do have a lot of respect for his academic writings. Mr. Westmass must not assume what he does not know. I just...

The “lease of Red House” does not exist; it never did

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The “lease of Red House” does not exist; it never did

Dear Editor, I point to Anil Nandlall’s insistence that the government as landlord to a faulty lease could not use its own failures of due diligence in securing that lease to invalidate it, merely...

APPOINTMENT OF SENIOR COUNSEL SHOULD CONCERN EVERYONE

Jan 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APPOINTMENT OF SENIOR COUNSEL SHOULD CONCERN EVERYONE

Dear Editor, The recent appointment of Senior Counsel (SC) by the President of Guyana may not concern most of us too much. This is seemingly not as sensitive as the revocation of the Cheddi Jagan...

Three dead in highway smash-up

Jan 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Three dead in highway smash-up

Three people died in a head on collision on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway last evening. Two of the dead have been identified as Dextroy Griffith, 25, a mechanic attached to Roraima Airways; and David...

New company replaces Wartsila for GPL engines

Jan 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New company replaces Wartsila for GPL engines

It is official now. Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has ended its management contract with Finnish-owned Wartsila. A new company, Power Producer and Distribution Inc. (PPDI), was established in...

US$150M CJIA Expansion on track for December completion

Jan 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US$150M CJIA Expansion on track for December completion

50% of monies already paid out The US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) is currently on track for its December 2017 conclusion, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Corporation,...

After 50 years a woman is Senior Counsel – Pres Granger

Jan 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on After 50 years a woman is Senior Counsel – Pres Granger

… says failure to confer such appointments is a travesty Nine distinguished, long-serving legal practitioners were presented with their commissions of appointment and named Senior Counsel by...

Chopping suspect escapes into backdam after boat chase along Canje Creek

Jan 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chopping suspect escapes into backdam after boat chase along Canje Creek

A former Tapir driver, Shamar Mohamed, of Number 70 Village, Corentyne, who went into hiding after going berserk and chopping his former girlfriend and her mother on Christmas Eve night was found by...

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Who owns the MSC?

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…MSC General Secretary Joe Chapman questions ownership, calls for transparency By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – With the remodeled Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) preparing to reopen its doors for...

Leave, but please explain why

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Apparently, in Guyana, the moment a person is accused of a serious offence, a mysterious administrative switch is supposed to be flipped. CLICK. The accused goes on leave. No investigation into whether the person’s continued presence could interfere with the investigation. No...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Congrats to Drs. Ali, Jagdeo

Oct 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It must be done; avoiding out of the question. Congratulations to Excellencies Ali and Jagdeo, the former a sitting president, the latter still a president in all but title. Drs. Ali and Jagdeo must have pig iron stomachs. Whoever is halal or haram, holy or a heathen...

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