June 2017

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This law has barbarous provisions which must be removed

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This law has barbarous provisions which must be removed

Dear Editor, The EU Commission wants to remove Guyana from the anti-money-laundering blacklist. The EU Parliament says no. They want the EU to have an independent, autonomous process for judging...

Nine roads across Linden due for rehabilitation

Jun 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nine roads across Linden due for rehabilitation

– Region Ten Chairman Nine roads across Linden are due for rehabilitation, while other infrastructural work, including drainage repairs is to commence soon. Some of the roads include Wallaba...

The Arjune High Court ruling should be handed down now

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Arjune High Court ruling should be handed down now

Dear Editor, I could not believe my eyes when I read about the Arjune case in your paper. It is terrible that a case can last as long 6 years when it should be finished in months. But when there is...

UG’s Diaspora Engagement Conference is open to all Guyanese

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG’s Diaspora Engagement Conference is open to all Guyanese

Dear Editor, The Diaspora Engagement Conference Secretariat of the University of Guyana has received the email from Ms. Mohamed about diversity in participation by Guyanese and other Caribbean...

Region 5’s REO should be reined in by central government

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 5’s REO should be reined in by central government

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News front page on Saturday, July 10, screams the caption of an article in bold red lettering, ”Overpaying teachers cost Region Five $80 million – Harmon”. The...

Tracing the political history of a great Guyanese woman

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tracing the political history of a great Guyanese woman

Dear Editor, The movement for the Sixth Pan African Congress in Tanzania up to 1973 saw Burnham as a sponsor of a Pan African secretariat, led by Bro. Zolili, a science teacher from California....

Commissioner-General of GRA creating a repressive atmosphere

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Commissioner-General of GRA creating a repressive atmosphere

Dear Editor, In what seems to be very familiar of the days when Sattaur was in charge, now current Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Godfrey Statia, is lashing out at his staff...

I advocate for privatization of the water sector

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I advocate for privatization of the water sector

Dear Editor, I would be happy if you allow space in your newspaper to publish this letter. I refer to the recently carried article under the caption, “GWI blames contractor for faults”. This is...

The bar association has finally awakened but….

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The bar association has finally awakened but….

Dear Editor, I’ve noticed that the sleeping beauties in the Guyana Bar Association have finally awakened, well, somewhat. And their first grenade launched, is about its “concern that there has...

Persecution and prosecution of Baha’is in Iran continues

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Persecution and prosecution of Baha’is in Iran continues

Dear Editor, I write about the continued and relentless persecution of the Baha’is community of Iran by the Iranian Authorities. Reports are that Wafa Hoveida’i, a student who was in the second...

This is an attack on the mining industry

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is an attack on the mining industry

Dear Editor, Recent articles have dealt with the issue of excavators etc. not being registered and GRA losing over a billion dollars because of this. This is ridiculous. To register heavy duty...

Glad that the President and Opposition Leader are in dialogue

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Glad that the President and Opposition Leader are in dialogue

Dear Editor, It is good news that President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo have decided to meet and consult on the nomination/appointment of the GECOM Chairman. We recall that...

TRUST

Jun 12, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on TRUST

In Guyana, the business of politics is one that is fraught with the risk of relying on falsehoods and propaganda as a way of promoting one’s views. In the current climate of a struggling economy...

Messy situation at City Hall…Council paying $82,000 each monthly for portable toilets

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Messy situation at City Hall…Council paying $82,000 each monthly for portable toilets

– March bill close to $2M Despite claiming to be “cash-strapped” and rolling on battered bearings, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is serving up enormous chunks of money to private...

CHEC uses substandard cement blocks for Airport Project

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CHEC uses substandard cement blocks for Airport Project

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is using low grade blocks for the expansion works that are being done on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Kaieteur News has been able to access...

GRA sends mixed signals on false number plate issue

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA sends mixed signals on false number plate issue

Recent actions by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) have left some critics wondering whether the entity is sending mixed signals on the issue of false number plates. It was last Thursday that GRA...

Region Ten Chairman allegedly threatens transfer if ranks disobey him

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten Chairman allegedly threatens transfer if ranks disobey him

– says he is the boss for Linden Region Ten Chairman, Renis Morian, has once again found himself in the news but this time for the wrong reasons. Several reports surfaced, recently, of him...

GRA has no authority to grant tax waivers on vehicles- lawyers

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA has no authority to grant tax waivers on vehicles- lawyers

Legal minds are contesting claims by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) that it has the power to grant duty free waivers on vehicles. A number of lawyers yesterday insisted that in 2003, amended laws...

Full investigation ordered into Skeldon sugar project

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Full investigation ordered into Skeldon sugar project

– damaged co-gen plant requires US$17M fix A recent visit to the Skeldon Estate with officials from the Skeldon Energy Inc (SEI), Minister within the Ministry of Finance Jaipaul Sharma, and...

GRA zeroes in on huge tax evading businesses

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA zeroes in on huge tax evading businesses

-Billions of dollars already collected The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been focusing its efforts on how it can maximize revenue collection. In this regard, the organization has been checking...

Confusion surrounds discharge of Crum-Ewing’s alleged killer

Jun 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Confusion surrounds discharge of Crum-Ewing’s alleged killer

While the Director of Public Prosecutions, (DPP) is empowered under Sections of the Criminal Law Procedure Act to direct a Magistrate to commit an accused to stand trial, this directive must be given...

G/T got a shitty counshle

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on G/T got a shitty counshle

In Jagdeo time was a shad, shad shisuashion. Mitta Sharma did seh suh because de city was very dutty, and smelly. As soon as Soulja Bai tek affice de coalition govt start a countrywide cleanup. De...

RAN 15s Competition…Another day of gloom for T&T ruggers as Guyana win 24-17

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RAN 15s Competition…Another day of gloom for T&T ruggers as Guyana win 24-17

-Green Machine move on to play Mexico By Rawle Welch It was another day of gloom for Trinidad and Tobago national ruggers against Guyana’s ‘Green Machine’ who condemned them to another defeat...

Ostapenko roars back to upset Halep in French Open final

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ostapenko roars back to upset Halep in French Open final

PARIS (Reuters) Jelena Ostapenko produced an astonishing fightback to overpower favorite Simona Halep 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the French Open final yesterday and become the first Latvian grand slam champion....

Independence Draughts competition set for next Saturday

Jun 11, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Independence Draughts competition set for next Saturday

The Guyana Draughts Association would be holding its National Independence ‘B’ Class tournament on Saturday 17th June. Then on Sunday June 25th the National ‘A’ Class competition would be...

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GBF names boys’ and girls’ teams for Inter-Guiana Games...

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has named its boys’ and girls’ teams for the basketball competition at the 2026 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), scheduled for October 23–25...

The politics of a box of cook-up

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – During the PNC era, a gentleman who had been persuaded to participate in one of the many marches organised by the government received a box of food at the end of the proceedings. He opened it. Inside was cook-up rice and a generous piece of chicken. There was only one small...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Great Game: right around here

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana now has more than oil in its hands. Guyana has a strain of this century’s Great Game now hanging over its head. It’s not the Great Game played out by Britain and Imperial Russia almost 200 years ago for dominance in Central Asia. Wish it was that distant, and...

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