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US pulls visas for two MPs, others charged in GRDB matter

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US pulls visas for two MPs, others charged in GRDB matter

The United States of America has yanked the visas of two sitting Opposition Members of Parliament (MP). According to the PPP in a statement Thursday night, the two MPs are Dharamkumar Seeraj and...

Authorities move to implement metric system

Jun 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities move to implement metric system

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday disclosed that the action plan for the implementation of a metric system in Guyana has been approved by Cabinet. The Minister who was briefing media...

Second sibling freed of cocaine in fish charge

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Second sibling freed of cocaine in fish charge

Almost a year after his sister was freed on a cocaine trafficking charge, Shafaur Alli was yesterday freed of the same charge after Magistrate Leron Daly ruled that there was insufficient evidence to...

Drunk driver jailed

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Drunk driver jailed

A 59-year-old security officer was yesterday jailed for four years on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. Fifty nine-year-old Michael Fraser, of Lot 61 Block Y Annandale, East Coast...

Labourers get three years

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Labourers get three years

Two labourers were yesterday each sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly and pleading guilty to two...

Goldminer accused of stealing from employer

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Goldminer accused of stealing from employer

A man who police say stole $150,000 from his employer while he was sent for drinking water in the man’s house, was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman, charged with simple larceny....

City Council must fix this part of Bourda Street

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council must fix this part of Bourda Street

Dear Editor, I would like to know if any senior municipal official of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown has ever taken a walk along Bourda Street between South and North Roads. That roadway...

All types of religious leaders must speak for the poor

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on All types of religious leaders must speak for the poor

Dear Editor, I was pleased and contented to hear Mr Ian McDonald comparing the Sugar Industry from its inception to now, i.e. 1966 to 2012. That comparison has enlightened my horizon and caused me...

The PPP’s strategy of loading the list with straw candidates

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP’s strategy of loading the list with straw candidates

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Mr. Clement J. Rohee for his letter of June 9 in response to mine of June 8 which discussed the Gecom chairman selection process. Mr. Rohee admonished me for introducing...

There are bribery requests at the Office of Births and Deaths

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are bribery requests at the Office of Births and Deaths

Dear Editor, As community activists, we get very little rest. Once one takes the torch to help others, one commits to giving up the luxury of own’s own time. You do it; I do it. I would appreciate...

Hiring of contract employees is addressed in the COI

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hiring of contract employees is addressed in the COI

Dear Editor, The Report of the Commission of Inquiry in the Public Service (COI), 2016 addresses employment and related issues in the Public Service. The many recommendations from COI aim at...

‘De King’ spends $82,020 monthly for a toilet but what about horse dung on the roads?

Jun 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘De King’ spends $82,020 monthly for a toilet but what about horse dung on the roads?

Dear Editor, Since His Excellency, President David A Granger was sworn in 2015, he has been advocating for Guyana to push for a green state. Somehow, I believe that “Her worship and the King”...

ExxonMobil gets production license for Liza well

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil gets production license for Liza well

By Suraj Narine The Government of Guyana (GoG) has taken a decision to grant a production licence to US oil company ExxonMobil, for the Liza field project. This announcement was made last evening by...

GTT gets approval to increase landline rates

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTT gets approval to increase landline rates

…international charges reduced By Murtland Haley The Public Utilities Commission has approved the application of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to increase its landline rates and...

Tax exemptions…GRA has no authority to approve bigger engines for its employees

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tax exemptions…GRA has no authority to approve bigger engines for its employees

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been advised that it has no authority to take it upon itself to unilaterally increase the engine size (cubic capacity) on vehicles granted to public servants...

GCCI wants national database to deter cover-up of contractor’s inefficient works

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI wants national database to deter cover-up of contractor’s inefficient works

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday hosted a press conference at its Waterloo Street office to bring the media up to date on a number of...

Parliamentary sittings spark widespread confusion on city roads

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary sittings spark widespread confusion on city roads

Amidst growing concerns over the traffic build up around the city, the Guyana Police Force is informing members of the public that in order to facilitate sittings in the National Assembly at Public...

Small miners’ production climbs even higher

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Small miners’ production climbs even higher

…but Troy resources, Guyana gold field fall- Quarterly report Bank of Guyana’s quarterly report and statistical bulletin has noted that the mining and quarrying sector registered higher output of...

‘Hijacked’ driver held after burglary next to police station

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hijacked’ driver held after burglary next to police station

Bandits yesterday morning broke into an electronics and stationary store situated a few buildings away from the Albion Police Station. It was at about 2:30hrs when a constable on duty observed a male...

Several Magistrates promoted

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Several Magistrates promoted

There have been several promotions within the Magistracy. According to information received by this newspaper, Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus, Faith Mc Gusty and Judy Latchman are among those...

Watch how you tekking people at dem word

Jun 16, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Watch how you tekking people at dem word

When you tek a man at he word always believe anything can happen to you. Nutten he ever talk was true and onto now people still believe in him. Brassington, de fat crook, tek every word he seh now he...

Pensioner’s missing car found, con man charged

Jun 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner’s missing car found, con man charged

Seventy-Two year old Sukdai Ramsammy, the pensioner who gave O’Neil Simon, the con man, her blue Toyota Corolla, HC 5044, to work for hire has now been reunited with her vehicle. According to the...

Caribbean Governments urged to invest in Boxing…

Jun 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Governments urged to invest in Boxing…

Guyana invited to next month’s Creole tournament By Sean Devers in St Lucia ”It’s time Caribbean Governments invest in the sport of boxing since there are so many spin-offs from this...

Nikkoloi Smith, Jamal Gilkes attending Basketball “College Exposure Camp”

Jun 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nikkoloi Smith, Jamal Gilkes attending Basketball “College Exposure Camp”

Two of Guyana’s future national senior basketball prospects, Nikkoloi Smith and Jamal Gilkes are being facilitated at a “College Exposure Camp” hosted by Caribbean Hoops. According to a press...

RHTY&SC Patron’s Green Economy Cricket…New India Insurance and Yokohama Trading join list of sponsors

Jun 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Patron’s Green Economy Cricket…New India Insurance and Yokohama Trading join list of sponsors

New India Insurance Company of Brickdam, Georgetown, and Yokohama Trading of Barrack Street, Kingston, are the latest companies to come on board in support of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(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

Nov 01, 2026

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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