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Enterprise Busta SC congratulates members’ achievement

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Enterprise Busta SC congratulates members’ achievement

The members of the Enterprise Busta Sports Club wishes to congratulate four of their members on their recent achievement. Those being recognised are young Bhaskar Yadram who was selected to play for...

Freedom of Information is a myth

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Freedom of Information is a myth

It has long been believed that a Freedom of Information Act serves the best interests of a democracy by ensuring that persons have greater access to information. This is a myth. Freedom of...

Semi-conscious wife does not remember husband’s death

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Semi-conscious wife does not remember husband’s death

Cindy Dawson, 28, got up Saturday morning and after discovering that her husband was dead, she went into a state of shock. This is the theory the teacher’s friends and family came up with after she...

Bids in for purchasing of two fiberglass vessels for GDF

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bids in for purchasing of two fiberglass vessels for GDF

– Several Parks to be constructed During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), tenders were submitted for the contract to procure two...

Media Monitoring Unit needs enforcement powers – Carter Centre

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Media Monitoring Unit needs enforcement powers – Carter Centre

“There is much room for improvement in the work of the media-monitoring unit (MMU), as it lacks any power to sanction or discipline the media actors in any way.” This is the position of the...

Pradoville Scheme Fiasco

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Heist of Guyana, News Comments Off on Pradoville Scheme Fiasco

November 28, 2010 More silence on exclusive ‘Pradoville 2’ * matter addressed already, says Irfaan *AFC: the public has the right to know Amidst questions over ongoing construction at what seems...

ExxonMobil and Guyana…Publish all contract drafts; make negotiations accountable to Parliament –TIGI urges

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil and Guyana…Publish all contract drafts; make negotiations accountable to Parliament –TIGI urges

Considering that contract secrecy can be injurious to countries rich with natural resources such as oil, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) is urging the government to publish all contract...

No other police force in the world like Guyana’s

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on No other police force in the world like Guyana’s

Always in the night, I travel north on Lombard Street when I leave Kaieteur News offices; Monday night was no exception. As I turned east into Hadfield Street, a traffic rank pulled me aside. I did...

OVER-CONFIDENT

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on OVER-CONFIDENT

It is clear that when a government is over confident about victory in elections, it would behave as though there is no longer any need to listen to the people or address their problems. History is...

Guyana to get PAHO-funded disaster health facility

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to get PAHO-funded disaster health facility

Guyana has been named among seven Caribbean territories where health facilities will be selected to be suitably transformed to cater to health care delivery in the advent of a disaster. This is...

Finance Minister threatened with Contempt proceedings

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister threatened with Contempt proceedings

In a matter filed against Central Housing and Planning Authority, (CH&PA), Former Chief Justice (Ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards had awarded the sum of $200,000, to be paid to Linda Persaud for...

GECOM composition not ideal but it works – Commissioner

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM composition not ideal but it works – Commissioner

By Murtland Haley Since 1992 six Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have been appointed by the parliamentary political parties and the President acting in his own deliberate...

Security guard gets six months for escaping police custody

Jun 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard gets six months for escaping police custody

A security guard who was on the run since 2015 yesterday made an appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and was sentenced to six months imprisonment...

Enable our aspirations with deeds that nurture social cohesion

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Enable our aspirations with deeds that nurture social cohesion

Dear Editor, No doubt I am one of many whose concerns and fears have been heightened by our President Granger finding unacceptable the second list of nominees put by our Leader of the Opposition...

The old dispensary at Supenaam is a historical site

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The old dispensary at Supenaam is a historical site

Dear Editor, I published a letter two years ago in the Kaieteur News and other papers, in which I basically said that the building that formerly housed the Supenaam Dispensary should be renovated and...

Political violence in Guyana has come from both sides

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Political violence in Guyana has come from both sides

Dear Editor, Columnist Frederick Kissoon’s piece, “Trump’s head: Dangerous, deadly moment in politics,” (KN, June 7, 2017), which used US comedian, Kathy Griffin’s recent political faux...

Abuse will continue against people with mental illness unless….

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Abuse will continue against people with mental illness unless….

Dear Editor, Our colonial past left its footprints buried deep in the archives of our sub-conscious. According to WHO-AIMS report (2008) on the state of mental illness in Guyana, an outdated Mental...

Every cent of public money must be carefully spent

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Every cent of public money must be carefully spent

Dear Editor, With reference to an article titled: “Education PS sees nothing wrong with half million-dollar guard hut” published in the Kaieteur News on 6th June, 2017, this is a deeply...

NATIONAL AWARDS; HULLABALOO OF CYNICISM

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NATIONAL AWARDS; HULLABALOO OF CYNICISM

Dear Editor, Media reports and other commentaries on the recent award of ‘National Honours’ indicated a hullabaloo of cynicism and apparent boomerang in the public domain regarding the...

We are appealing to the Govt. to stop the eviction from our homes

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are appealing to the Govt. to stop the eviction from our homes

Dear Editor, We the residence of Timehri Hilltop who are occupying the government quarters which was given to us by the Ministry of Works through the Region 4 RDC, would like to draw to the attention...

Is the State Paper on GuySuCo a misguided document?

Jun 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the State Paper on GuySuCo a misguided document?

Dear Editor, The recently tabled State Paper on the future of the sugar industry in the National Assembly clearly demonstrates the Govt’s ill-founded destiny for the industry. Sugar output,...

Ministry pays $20,000 monthly to rent portable toilet for guard

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry pays $20,000 monthly to rent portable toilet for guard

Following a recent exposé by this newspaper over the utilisation of taxpayers’ monies to construct more than a half-million-dollar guard hut at the residence of a Permanent Secretary (PS),...

Man kills neighbour over borrowed cash

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills neighbour over borrowed cash

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for a 42-year-old man who murdered his neighbour Monday night during an argument over borrowed cash. The suspect is Troy Tasho, called “19” of ‘B’...

Residents shut down Skeldon over planned privatization of sugar estate

Jun 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Residents shut down Skeldon over planned privatization of sugar estate

Over 500 sugar workers, business owners, housewives, pensioners and vendors from the Skeldon/ Corriverton area on Tuesday closed their businesses and took to the streets to protest the planned...

Courtney Crum-Ewing murder…Magistrate declines DPP’s order to commit ‘Grey Boy’ for trial

Jun 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Courtney Crum-Ewing murder…Magistrate declines DPP’s order to commit ‘Grey Boy’ for trial

City Magistrate Judy Latchman has declined to carry out an order by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to commit Regan Rodrigues to stand trial at the High Court for the...