April 2017

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TOO MUCH BORROWING…

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TOO MUCH BORROWING…

The economy is heading in the wrong direction and the fallout will trickle down to hurt the citizenry through higher interest rates on loans and higher costs for goods, especially imported items, due...

Enrico Woolford is new NCN chairman

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Enrico Woolford is new NCN chairman

Government has picked two veteran media operatives, Enrico Woolford and Gordon Moseley, to help turn the fortunes of state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) around. Woolford will be the...

Govt. awaiting written judgment to challenge presidential term limit ruling

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. awaiting written judgment to challenge presidential term limit ruling

Government is awaiting a written judgment from the Court of Appeal in order to proceed further with the presidential third term limit case. In February of this year, the Court of Appeal ruled that...

Web-based surveillance system for hotels on the cards

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Web-based surveillance system for hotels on the cards

…as Guyana and CARPHA collaborate to boost health, tourism synergy The establishment of a web-based disease surveillance system for hotels, together with training for hospitality staff to...

Deeds Registrar is innocent – Attorney

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Deeds Registrar is innocent – Attorney

The Registrar of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority, Azeena Baksh who has been accused of corrupt practices has retained Nigel Hughes as her legal representative. Baksh is being...

Shut it down!

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Shut it down!

One of the disappointing features of the APNU+AFC government’s policies since it came into office has been its failure to abolish the duty free concessions on vehicles that are granted to...

Texas company to supply subsea equipment for Liza oil project

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Texas company to supply subsea equipment for Liza oil project

ExxonMobil has awarded TechnipFMC, a Texas-based firm, a contract for the engineering, manufacture and delivery of the subsea equipment for the Liza deepwater project. The award scope, announced...

$58.5M living quarters to be constructed at Mazaruni Prison

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $58.5M living quarters to be constructed at Mazaruni Prison

– Will house long-term prisoners from Camp St. Contracts in the sum of $58,558,000 were awarded to contractors to construct living quarters at the Mazaruni Prisons, Region Seven...

Berbice cops intercept stolen car

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice cops intercept stolen car

– Crane man in custody Police in B Division on Wednesday evening intercepted a stolen car during a road block in Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice. Commander of B Division, Ian Amsterdam told...

UG, Movie Towne ink MoU for solar farm

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UG, Movie Towne ink MoU for solar farm

Before the end of this year, the University of Guyana and Movie Towne Incorporated are expected to establish a solar power farm at the institution’s Turkeyen Campus. A Memorandum of Understanding...

Attorney/Parliamentarian takes issue with the DPP and Magistrates

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attorney/Parliamentarian takes issue with the DPP and Magistrates

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your paper for this letter to be published and also for comments/feedbacks from other interested parties to be published. I have seen many persons appear in...

Improper boats endanger lives on Guyana’s rivers

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improper boats endanger lives on Guyana’s rivers

Dear Editor, For many years now private passenger vessels have been ferrying travellers on the Vreed-en-Hoop-Georgetown crossing, Parika-Supenaam, Parika-Leguan, Parika-Buckhall on the Essequibo...

An Appeal to Government to help this Indigenous pensioner

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Appeal to Government to help this Indigenous pensioner

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter which relates to the non-representation from senior government officials on behalf of the disadvantaged. This is in relation to Mr. Hubert Cramer, an...

The Coalition will lose in 2020 because it is like the PPP

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition will lose in 2020 because it is like the PPP

Dear Editor, This Coalition went into Office on a lie and motivated by much political spite. After continuing the PPP’s efforts to confound the sugar industry by moving to prematurely close some of...

These young athletes must make full use of this opportunity

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on These young athletes must make full use of this opportunity

Dear Editor, Guyana’s exceptional performances and achievements at the recently held Carifta Games in Curacao must be lauded. The team of young athletes has made us proud. Likewise, Government must...

Stupid comment from Mr. Morrison, the REO of Region 5

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stupid comment from Mr. Morrison, the REO of Region 5

Dear Editor, I have been following this story in both Kaieteur News, and on the internet, and what strikes me most is the lack of understanding, among those who have expressed an opinion on this...

High Ranking officials are involved in the gold scandal

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I am glad to see that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo in relation to the current Gold Board probe is taking the position that the chips should be allowed to fall where they may...

Justice Holder’s request for an apology from the AG is infamy

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justice Holder’s request for an apology from the AG is infamy

Dear Editor, The Attorney General is the custodian and guardian of our national patrimony (both land and chattle assets, excepting where statute e.g the lands Department Act Cap 59:01; State Lands...

THE AFC BETRATED THEIR SUPPORTERS

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE AFC BETRATED THEIR SUPPORTERS

Dear Editor, The AFC is destined to be the party in Guyana with the greatest meteoric rise and fall. And to think that they had the objective, intelligent, independent voters eating out of their...

$1.1B Haags Bosch settlement…Minister dubs BK as a vulture for demanding more monies

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $1.1B Haags Bosch settlement…Minister dubs BK as a vulture for demanding more monies

Months after agreeing to a billion dollar settlement for work done on the Haags Bosch landfill, a prominent contractor has demanded more, but it is not going down well with the administration....

Money laundering probe widens… Gold Board boss denies ordering Compliance Officer to incorporate Rasul’s company

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Money laundering probe widens… Gold Board boss denies ordering Compliance Officer to incorporate Rasul’s company

insists entity is not required to verify production Days after being sent on administrative leave to facilitate a police probe of money laundering, General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Lisaveta...

Gold dealer money laundering probe widens…Rasul’s former employee arrested again

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Gold dealer money laundering probe widens…Rasul’s former employee arrested again

Ricardo Fagundes, called ‘Paper Shorts’, a former employee of embattled gold dealer, Saddiqi ‘Bobby’ Rasul, was on Tuesday re-arrested by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) as that...

Red flags raised over Govt engineers’ estimates

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Red flags raised over Govt engineers’ estimates

Concerns have been raised over the competence of engineers within the various Government agencies and ministries. A number of letters over the past few weeks from contractors and others, called on...

21 rescued from sinking Essequibo River speedboat

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 21 rescued from sinking Essequibo River speedboat

Some 21 persons stranded in a sinking speed boat were rescued yesterday thanks to the swift actions by Commander of the G division, Stephen Mansell. It was reported that around 11:30 am the vessel...

Body found tied to tree, with stab wound

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Body found tied to tree, with stab wound

Police in Berbice are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an unidentified Individual whose body was found tied to a tree at Onverwagt Village, Corentyne Berbice. It also bore a...

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A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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