April 2017

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TIME FOR A PUBLIC, TELEVISED DEBATE ON CORRUPTION

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on TIME FOR A PUBLIC, TELEVISED DEBATE ON CORRUPTION

Dear Editor, The litany of accusations of corruption that continues to be hurled at the former PPP/C administration and even public servants who were merely doing technical jobs have not ceased and...

The PPP’s opportunistic quest of guilt transference

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP’s opportunistic quest of guilt transference

Dear Editor, I received an email through the network that I am linked to from the ‘Office of the Leader of the Opposition – Press Release March 24, 2017’ I read its details and pondered on...

Guyana’s sugar estates and my angst at what is happening

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s sugar estates and my angst at what is happening

Dear Editor, My compassion for people – particularly my Guyanese people – is what has driven me to politics. I grew up in a rice farming family. In fact, my family still owns rice lands. In my...

Mr. President please let the army fix my car it damaged

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. President please let the army fix my car it damaged

Dear Editor, I am kindly asking your newspaper to reproduce this letter I have sent to H.E. President David Granger. I am writing to express my frustration over the sloth of the Guyana Defence Force...

In defence of Swami Aksharananda

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on In defence of Swami Aksharananda

Dear Editor, I write in response to Frederick Kissoon’s column, “Aksharananda gets a taste of his own medicine” of April 4, 2017 in the Kaieteur News. The Hindus for Selfless Service (HSS)...

Opposition wants answers from British High Commission

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Opposition wants answers from British High Commission

Dear Editor, At the Parliamentary Opposition press conference held on March 29, 2017, Mr. Adam Harris, Editor of the Kaieteur News, challenged me on my statement that the British High Commission had...

Russia appreciates the condolences from all of Guyana

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Russia appreciates the condolences from all of Guyana

Dear Editor, An investigation is underway to restore a chain of events that led to the detonation of explosive device in the St. Petersburg subway on April 3, 2017. A second explosive device was...

PPP has an agenda that is about destroying Guyana’s future

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP has an agenda that is about destroying Guyana’s future

Dear Editor, It is with great concern that I am penning this letter because of what I have heard and read about during the years when the PPP were in opposition before 1992 elections. During my...

That GECOM Chairman selection process

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on That GECOM Chairman selection process

PART II Dear Editor, In my last letter dated 29th March, 2017, I advocated that the methodology for choosing and placing Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) must undergo serious...

Work nowadays is not within easy reach of most of us in Guyana

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Work nowadays is not within easy reach of most of us in Guyana

Dear Editor, It does not appear that the current Board of Guysuco will ever be able to turn around the industry without very serious measures being taken. To date we are witnessing the harassment of...

Suspected cutlass-wielding thief refused bail

Apr 06, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Suspected cutlass-wielding thief refused bail

Eon Worrell, a 25-year-old bus conductor was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he was accused of robbing a man with a cutlass. Worrell, of Lot 277 South Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara,...

Car dealerships, real estate entities could fall prey to ill-gotten cash

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Car dealerships, real estate entities could fall prey to ill-gotten cash

– Central Bank officials say supervisory authorities needed Local authorities are of the opinion that the car dealership industry and real estate businesses do not have enough mechanisms in...

Abusive man strangles wife with bed sheet – suspect on the run

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Abusive man strangles wife with bed sheet – suspect on the run

A 30-year-old man is on the run after strangling the mother of his three children with a bed sheet at their Parika Façade, East Bank Essequibo home around 07:00 hrs yesterday. Dhanwantie Ram, 29, a...

Corruption, incestuous relationship in Region 8 contracts – Mahdia Chamber of Commerce

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption, incestuous relationship in Region 8 contracts – Mahdia Chamber of Commerce

A senior Region Eight executive has raised alarm over the spending of tax dollars in that area, without proper procurement procedures being followed. Not only are millions of dollars being granted in...

Farmer remanded for shallow grave murder

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer remanded for shallow grave murder

Nearly three weeks after the corpse of 24-year-old Arnold Gordon was found in a shallow grave, his 28-year-old cousin was yesterday remanded to prison for his murder. Levi Stevens 28, of Kumu,...

Inflation rate increases by 1.2% in 2016

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Inflation rate increases by 1.2% in 2016

The Urban Consumer Price Index increased by 1.2 per cent between the period of December 2015 and November 2016. According to an economic bulletin produced by the Ministry of Finance, the major driver...

Shooting victim will survive ‘Granny’ bullet

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Shooting victim will survive ‘Granny’ bullet

The 23-year-old maintenance worker who was shot in the stomach by a 69-year-old woman is in a stable condition at the Male Surgical Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital. The incident occurred last...

Cost of electricity, poor infrastructure among key factors affecting private sector growth – IDB Report

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cost of electricity, poor infrastructure among key factors affecting private sector growth – IDB Report

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)’s Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin is out and already, heads have begun to turn. The report explores primarily, constraints to private sector...

US withdrawal from IDB investment will have adverse impact

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US withdrawal from IDB investment will have adverse impact

… but can be seen as an opportunity – Goolsarran Since Guyana benefits significantly from loans and grants from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United States decision to...

Granny tun gunman

Apr 06, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Granny tun gunman

When dem boys was small dem use to love de cowboy movies. Dem was all de movies that dem boys wanted to see because dem parents use to buy gun and socket. Was a time when every young boy was a cowboy...

Prominent engineer supports PAC’s “value for money” audits

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Prominent engineer supports PAC’s “value for money” audits

Questions why former Gov’t didn’t do any Renowned Guyanese Engineer, Charles Ceres believes that the “Value for Money” audits that have been ordered by the Opposition-led Public...

US energy team in Guyana to assist in country’s oil development

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US energy team in Guyana to assist in country’s oil development

A team from the US Department of State’s Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative (EGCI) is in Guyana to explore ways it can help the country to prepare for the development of the oil and gas...

West Dem. road expansion project “65% complete”

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on West Dem. road expansion project “65% complete”

Permanent Secretary (Acting) of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Geoffrey Vaughn said yesterday that works on the US$42M West Demerara Road Expansion Project are moving apace, and approximately...

Foreman says June deadline attainable for Liliendaal Bridge rehab

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Foreman says June deadline attainable for Liliendaal Bridge rehab

By June, motorists will once again have access to the Liliendaal Bridge. The bridge which is situated in the Greater Georgetown section of the city has for almost a month been closed off to road...

Grove/Diamond NDC anxious for closure in $20M-plus fraud

Apr 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Grove/Diamond NDC anxious for closure in $20M-plus fraud

Officials of the Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) say that they are cooperating with police investigators and are eagerly awaiting the outcome of a major fraud probe. Giving an...

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FIFA bans former GFF General Secretary Ian Alves over sexual...

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By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) General Secretary, Ian Alves, has been banned from all football-related activities for five years after the world...

The PPP was always likely to constrict freedom

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a habit, which we have developed with a certain skill in Guyana. That habit is the borrowing large words from abroad and using them to explain local developments. One such phrase “the resource curse.” It has the sound of intellectualism. But before we surrender to...

A Pin, a Principle, and the Integrity of the Caribbean

May 03, 2026

Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during official engagements in the...

Essequibo: we shall fight, we shall never surrender

May 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Essequibo is Guyana’s. Essequibo will never be conceded. Never compromised. Essequibo is ours, forever be ours. We shall fight everywhere. We shall never surrender. Never Essequibo, so help me God. Noble, stirring words. Indeed, soaring, lofty convictions,...

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