March 2017

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Awareness in TIP sees more cases being reported – Ministerial Advisor

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Awareness in TIP sees more cases being reported – Ministerial Advisor

With more education and sensitization being placed on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues, the Ministry of Social Protection is seeing an increase in the number of reported cases being made to the...

SOCIETY’S TREASURE

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on SOCIETY’S TREASURE

The development of any country, whether in the first world or the so-called third world, depends largely on youths, who are essentially its future leaders. It is generally believed that those who are...

Stakeholders support needed to eliminate Neglected Infectious Diseases

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Stakeholders support needed to eliminate Neglected Infectious Diseases

Controlling Neglected Infectious Diseases (NIDs) requires a long term, interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral approach that includes the collective efforts of all concerned stakeholders. This notion was...

Fire destroys unoccupied Anna Catherina house

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys unoccupied Anna Catherina house

-blaze believed to be deliberately set A two-storey wooden and concrete house, believed to be owned by some overseas-based Guyanese, went up in flames late Monday night. According to Fire Prevention...

Impasse over new GECOM chairperson…Opposition doubts anyone could fit “restrictive” criteria set by President

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Impasse over new GECOM chairperson…Opposition doubts anyone could fit “restrictive” criteria set by President

A new list of candidates for the chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) could be submitted as early as next week, but the Opposition is not happy. Yesterday, a statement from the...

Setback of teachers’ promotion irks Union

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Setback of teachers’ promotion irks Union

A mere two weeks remain before this school term comes to an end, but the process of teachers’ promotion within the public education system is yet to be completed. According to information out of...

I’m calling on the President to help this aging Amerindian fellow

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I’m calling on the President to help this aging Amerindian fellow

To say that I live in disgust of how poor people are treated in this country would be an understatement. I believe people like President Granger, Vincent Alexander and many others, if pressed to bare...

Trade union movement needs urgent overhaul – GTUC President

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trade union movement needs urgent overhaul – GTUC President

By Brushell Blackman President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Coretta Mc Donald, is of the firm opinion that the trade union movement in Guyana needs an urgent overhaul, since much has...

$$M sluice to be constructed at Triumph; M.V Lady Northcote for rehab

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $$M sluice to be constructed at Triumph; M.V Lady Northcote for rehab

During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday, contractors vied for the contract to construct a sluice at Triumph on the East Coast of...

Nat’l Assembly to be briefed on new direction for CH&PA

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nat’l Assembly to be briefed on new direction for CH&PA

The recently appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), Lelon Saul, has started to coordinate the information and studies that are resident...

Matthews Ridge manganese mines for 2018 restart

Mar 22, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Matthews Ridge manganese mines for 2018 restart

-over 300 workers for employment Plans to resuscitate manganese mining in Region One are well on track with production set to start next year. The Matthews Ridge operations will employ up to 400...

Economists’ wrong advice can wreak a country’s economy

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Economists’ wrong advice can wreak a country’s economy

Dear Editor, Economists today stand as the most dangerous and socially destructive non-combat professionals after politicians. A de facto source of advice on managing an economy, their ill-advised...

Who really is in charge of cricket administration in Berbice?

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who really is in charge of cricket administration in Berbice?

Dear Editor, Allow me to respond to the two articles written by Mr. Mortimer George which was published on Februray 28th, 2017 in the Kaieteur News, and then in Kaieteur News on 1 March, 2017. In...

A thousand curses on those responsible for Wales’ factory closure

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A thousand curses on those responsible for Wales’ factory closure

Dear Editor, I have been following the events surrounding the closure of operations at Wales with a mixture of amazement and concern for the people of our blessed, or cursed country. What we know is...

Killer dogs on the loose

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Killer dogs on the loose

Dear Editor, For quite some time dogs of special breeds have been assigned roles of sentry, protector and defender of property and owner, and in many instances are even regarded more highly than...

Possible solutions for the Wales severance pay controversy

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Possible solutions for the Wales severance pay controversy

Dear Editor, The recent negative news on the lack of severance pay for cane harvesters and transporters from Wales Estate is quite concerning. Correct or not it is starting to give a less positive...

Min. Lawrence’s justification of the $606M purchase should be rejected

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Min. Lawrence’s justification of the $606M purchase should be rejected

Dear Editor, Even Joe Harmon and the Cabinet find Minister Volda Lawrence’s explanation for the $606M no-tender, sole-sourced $606M emergency purchase of medicines from Ansa McCal incredulous. She...

Nurses’ exam re-sit reveals nurses did not know their onions

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nurses’ exam re-sit reveals nurses did not know their onions

Dear Editor, Now that the results of the nurses’ state final examination are at hand, the resulting picture is even more grave than anticipated. Governmental intervention is imperative as the...

The NBS case and poetic justice

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The NBS case and poetic justice

Dear Editor, In the year 2007, several officials of the previous- administration conspired to place trumped up charges against three Managers of the NBS which was confirmed in a report by the then...

Diversification and divestment in the sugar industry long overdue

Mar 22, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Diversification and divestment in the sugar industry long overdue

Dear Editor, In the past the economic performance from sugar used to make us proud. The industry was always regarded as an integral part of our tri-sectoral approach to development. Today the...

Contract for emergency pharmaceuticals …GPHC Board to examine procedure used – Minister Lawrence

Mar 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Contract for emergency pharmaceuticals …GPHC Board to examine procedure used – Minister Lawrence

-insists she did not breach procurement laws – says lawyer being engaged to deal with delinquent suppliers By Kiana Wilburg Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence has attempted for a second...

New GPC’s 2015 drug contract being investigated – Health Minister

Mar 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New GPC’s 2015 drug contract being investigated – Health Minister

An investigation has been launched into the billion-dollar drug contract that was awarded by the former regime to New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC) just three days before the General...

‘Backtrack’ regularization…Suriname’s army, police, food inspectors to be stationed at Nickerie crossing

Mar 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Backtrack’ regularization…Suriname’s army, police, food inspectors to be stationed at Nickerie crossing

The regularization of an age-old ‘backtrack’ crossing point in Nickerie, Suriname, seems to be taking shape, with authorities there announcing plans to build a checkpoint and landing stage. The...

Evidence points to total closure of East Demerara sugar estates – GAWU

Mar 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Evidence points to total closure of East Demerara sugar estates – GAWU

…as GuySuCo tells planting crew to cut cane It appears that the one sugar factory remaining in operation on the East Coast of Demerara is on track for closure too. At least, that is the word of the...

Public servants mull court action over Yarde’s 30-year reign

Mar 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Public servants mull court action over Yarde’s 30-year reign

By Brushell Blackman As the picketing exercise continued yesterday outside the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU)’s headquarters at the junction of Shiv Chanderpaul Drive and Regent Street, Bourda,...

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Knight Riders keep qualification hopes alive with win over Tridents

Sep 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – An innings of 59 from Nicholas Pooran and four wickets from Sunil Narine was enough to keep the Trinbago Knight Riders slim qualification hopes alive with a 35 run victory over...

Recalling the disaster of Jagdeo’s personal summitry

Sep 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Ray Chickrie’s latest letter, published in the Kaieteur News of September 1, 2026, is an interesting exercise that should trigger a recollection of the failure of Bharrat Jagdeo’s ‘personal summitry’. His letter dealt with Guyana’s surging Middle Eastern relations. In...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

When the political shelters in the biblical

Sep 06, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – In recent times, Guyanese have been eyewitnesses to the extraordinary. The political reaches for a connection to the biblical. Many are likely to see that as offensive, corrosive, and more of the abusive. Desperation is preferred. Swinging in the wind...

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