March 2017

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Public Servants’ pay in lieu of leave, a financial drain on national coffers – Harmon

Mar 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Public Servants’ pay in lieu of leave, a financial drain on national coffers – Harmon

The deliberate accumulation of annual leave which is later cashed in by Public Servants, has become a major source of “financial drain” for the administration. This assertion was made by Minister...

New wells for Diamond, Sparendaam, Sophia by August

Mar 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New wells for Diamond, Sparendaam, Sophia by August

New water wells are to be drilled at Diamond, Sparendaam and Sophia. This should provide improved water quality and services to the residents in these areas. A contract to the tune of 552,855 Euros...

‘Bruck’ and Rebuild

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ‘Bruck’ and Rebuild

The Prime Minister of Jamaica had established, last year, a Public Sector Transformation Oversight Committee after research by two civil society organizations found that inefficiency caused by...

VAT on private education will cause the Coalition votes in 2020

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on VAT on private education will cause the Coalition votes in 2020

Dear Editor, On March 1st, 2017, President Granger announced that the Value Added Tax (V.A.T) on private education will remain. It was quite an unwise decision. He stated that the Cabinet examined...

Where did Smart City Solutions get this $US10 million from?

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where did Smart City Solutions get this $US10 million from?

Dear Editor, I would wish to wholly commend the Movement against the Parking Meters, and other interest groups for the principled stand and genuine concern for transparency, fairness and lawfulness...

City Constabulary needs to be reformed into a professional body

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Constabulary needs to be reformed into a professional body

Dear Editor, Come May 4th of this year, vendors, businesspersons and indeed citizens at large of our capital city shall be relieved of a parasitic, menacing and avaricious senior member of the...

The parking meters situation; an analysis

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The parking meters situation; an analysis

Dear Editor, In light of the extensive coverage, weekly protests, letters in the press, interviews, call-in programs on the Parking Meters situation, I thought it may be useful to share with you some...

Quoting Barack Obama in one’s defence

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Quoting Barack Obama in one’s defence

Dear Editor, The commentary provided by Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye in Kaieteur News dated February 28, 2016, was filled with personal attacks and insinuations targeting me. Accusing me of being dishonest,...

Allegations of worms in fried rice meal

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Allegations of worms in fried rice meal

Dear Editor, My students and I for over a month have purchased lunch from an East Coast Chinese eatery. On Friday, February 24, 2017, I purchased the ritual of a mixed Fried Rice. As I sat down to...

Impressed with the frankness of Joe Harmon

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Impressed with the frankness of Joe Harmon

Dear Editor, I was very impressed with the candor and perspicacity attributed to Minister of State Joseph Harmon in which he was reported as saying that the Board of the Central Housing &...

The PPP got rich through the awarding of contracts

Mar 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP got rich through the awarding of contracts

Dear Editor, The PPP refused to set up the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) without leaving in the section for their Cabinet’s “No Objection”. In other words, the PPP wanted the Commission...

Justice Cummings-Edwards named Chancellor (ag)

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Justice Cummings-Edwards named Chancellor (ag)

Justice George-Wiltshire to be Chief Justice (ag) Two women have been tipped to take up the two most powerful posts in the judiciary- that of Chancellor and of Chief Justice. Following a meeting late...

Police Corporal arrested for attempting to smuggle AK-47

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police Corporal arrested for attempting to smuggle AK-47

– ASP among several fingered Police ranks yesterday arrested one of their colleagues who allegedly attempted to facilitate the smuggling of an AK-47 assault rifle out of the Guyana...

CANU head told to take accumulated leave

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CANU head told to take accumulated leave

-fmr. Army Chief to perform duties Government has asked the head of the country’s premier illicit drug fighting agency, the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU), to proceed on outstanding leave. The...

VAT on private education fees remains in effect

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on VAT on private education fees remains in effect

-but Govt. reportedly not opposed to possible review Although it has been the subject of protest action and a petition against it which has gained the attention of Government, the 14 percent Value...

T&T abandons MOU for 10,000 acres of agri land – Minister Holder

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on T&T abandons MOU for 10,000 acres of agri land – Minister Holder

Now that both Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago have new governments, the arrangement to make 10,000 acres of agricultural lands available to the Twin-Island Republic, seems to have been abandoned....

Syndicates, GGDMA clash over mining sector

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Syndicates, GGDMA clash over mining sector

Small miners are holding firm to their position that establishing Mining Syndicates is the answer to addressing the issue of landlordism. They said that they would have endured this situation for a...

$1B Kato Secondary School …Court action still on the books for Kares Engineering –Minister Patterson

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $1B Kato Secondary School …Court action still on the books for Kares Engineering –Minister Patterson

Kares Engineering Inc. may be getting a second chance to redeem itself regarding the $1B Kato Secondary School which it left fraught with defects. But this in no way means that the company is off the...

Special department launched to end “ad hocery” in environmental management

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Special department launched to end “ad hocery” in environmental management

The Department of the Environment (DoE) was officially launched yesterday by President David Granger with the charge that it must seek to ensure that Guyana achieves the objectives of a...

Jagdeo mek acting a way of life

Mar 02, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo mek acting a way of life

When dem write de constitution and decide that de president and de opposition leader got to agree to appoint some people dem never believe that it would be like tying a cat and a dog together. Dem...

Investigators monitor 141 businesses for not issuing receipts in 2016

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Investigators monitor 141 businesses for not issuing receipts in 2016

Some businesses seem relentless in their bid to dodge taxes by not issuing receipts to customers after goods would have been purchased. Based on statistics provided by the Head of the Guyana...

Chinese wooed to help boost army’s engineering capacity

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese wooed to help boost army’s engineering capacity

President David Granger yesterday met with China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Cui Jianchun, at State House to discuss the strengthening of cooperation between the two countries. The Ambassador was...

‘Act now to get back monies overpaid to contractors’

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Act now to get back monies overpaid to contractors’

– PAC member urges Regional Officials Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member, Charandass Persaud, has urged regional officials to strike now while the iron is hot, to recoup monies that were...

Women among several in custody for teacher’s home invasion

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Women among several in custody for teacher’s home invasion

Ranks in ‘B’ Division of the Guyana Police Force are once again hot on the heels of criminals whose main aim is to rob, terrorize and kill. Commander of ‘B’ Division, Ian...

Authorities asked to consider new roof designs for schools

Mar 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities asked to consider new roof designs for schools

The administration is expected to begin talks with regional engineers to examine the viability of altering the roofing designs currently being used on school buildings across the country. During an...

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The transportation cash grant

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(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when public policy was expected to solve real problems rather than create expensive spectacles. The government’s transportation cash grant for every primary school child is a prime example of a policy that confuses universality with fairness. When I...

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Unlimited benefits for former presidents – third go

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – This is the third go at the unlimited benefits bill for former presidents introduced by the PPP govt. in parliament. Three expresses anger, may even lead to a part four. I let the facts and numbers speak. Guyanese get to think, decide. Differing is fine....

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