July 2017

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2017 NGSA results…“Peculiar circumstances” allowed for “specialised treatment” at hinterland schools – CEO

Jul 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 2017 NGSA results…“Peculiar circumstances” allowed for “specialised treatment” at hinterland schools – CEO

Some regions operate under “peculiar circumstances.” This observation was taken note of when the Ministry of Education sought to implement an Emergency Action Plan geared at...

Port Mourant Training Centre wins Rollers Volleyball competition in New Amsterdam

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Port Mourant Training Centre wins Rollers Volleyball competition in New Amsterdam

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) once again successfully completed another volleyball tournament with the playing off of the Rollers Volleyball Club one day Volleyball extravaganza which was...

Local company helping firms to go digital

Jul 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Local company helping firms to go digital

Machines were designed to make life easier and Information Technology is used quite often to find solutions to a number of life’s problems. It is no secret that Guyana’s public sector in...

Republic Bank renews August Holiday Camp Educational Sponsorship

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Republic Bank renews August Holiday Camp Educational Sponsorship

The long standing and highly successful relationship between Republic Bank and the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, was renewed for the 11th successive year on Thursday last. The Bank at a...

13th P&P Insurance Brokers Junior Tennis Camp gets underway today

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on 13th P&P Insurance Brokers Junior Tennis Camp gets underway today

The Guyana Tennis Association is preparing to host its 13th P&P Insurance Brokers Junior Tennis Camp starting today. Children between the ages of 6-11 will be trained at the Cliff Anderson Sports...

Over 1,100 unapproved, unverified scales seized in 18 months

Jul 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Over 1,100 unapproved, unverified scales seized in 18 months

– 499 alone for the first half of 2017 In 18 months, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has seized some 1,193 unapproved and unverified scales from shop owners and vendors....

Contract employees and political change

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Contract employees and political change

The Deeds Registry and the Commercial Registry have vacancies. They have advertised for applicants to fill the positions of Internal Auditor, Information Technology Systems Manager, Office Assistant...

NO ONE SEEMS TO BE IN CHARGE?

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on NO ONE SEEMS TO BE IN CHARGE?

It seems that those who are entrusted to manage the affairs of the state at the regional level are doing a poor job. Some are abusing their authority to the extent that they are not making wise...

Sugar union defends itself against accusations of selling-out

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar union defends itself against accusations of selling-out

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has taken note of Mr. Abel Seetaram’s letter titled ”PPP & GAWU destroyed sugar” that appeared in another daily on...

This statement by the President on the prison fire is baffling to me

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This statement by the President on the prison fire is baffling to me

Dear Editor, The Commission of Inquiries Act empowers the President to commission an inquiry into any matter of public interest. Historically, this power was sparingly used. Whenever invoked, it was...

Atrocious service by the GRA in Essequibo

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Atrocious service by the GRA in Essequibo

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me a little space in your columns to share the following: The GRA office in Essequibo does not have a standby generator. Whenever a blackout occurs, transactions cannot be...

Fired from President College without due process

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fired from President College without due process

Dear Editor, My name is Abiola Charles and I am a very concerned citizen. My best friend worked at President’s College as a Farm Manager since 2014. A month ago he was fired by the board without...

Prison riot is symptomatic of failed governance

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prison riot is symptomatic of failed governance

Dear Editor, Last week’s swift public accountability reinforced good governance in Trinidad & Tobago. Ms. Marlene McDonald was sworn in as Minister of Public Utilities on June 30. Three days...

APNU+AFC machinery trying to change the prison riot narrative

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC machinery trying to change the prison riot narrative

Dear Editor, Whenever there are unpleasant truths to confront, the APNU+AFC machinery, including its leaders and its political commentators and those in the media who are supportive of APNU+AFC,...

Ministers deserve the perks that come from sacrifices they made

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ministers deserve the perks that come from sacrifices they made

Dear Editor, “Fortune knocks once at every man’s door” Apparently fortune isn’t knocking “hard enough” at some person’s door. I want your readers to follow with me carefully in a letter...

Examples of known countries relocating their capital city

Jul 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Examples of known countries relocating their capital city

Dear Editor, Guyana should move (not only consider moving) its present main prison from Georgetown, but our incumbent Government, should consider giving consideration of moving its current capital...

Senior GRA official sent home following late night shakedown of businessman

Jul 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Senior GRA official sent home following late night shakedown of businessman

An Assistant Commissioner of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is in deep trouble and could find himself without a job in the new week. The official, from the Law Enforcement and Investigation...

China’s modus operandi around the world mirrors events in Guyana Pt 1

Jul 16, 2017 KNews China’s Modus Operandi, News Comments Off on China’s modus operandi around the world mirrors events in Guyana Pt 1

“The story as to how this airport rose and fell is a dive into a quagmire of national politics, geopolitical manoeuvring, raw corruption, and the hunger of China to invest in massive...

ExxonMobil is a major funder of EITI –Pt 5

Jul 16, 2017 KNews News, What Guyana needs to know about ExxonMobil Comments Off on ExxonMobil is a major funder of EITI –Pt 5

The government is trying to accelerate Guyana’s application to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)—a global body whose noble objective is to ensure the open and accountable...

Mazaruni Prison Expansion works ongoing

Jul 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mazaruni Prison Expansion works ongoing

…several living quarters near completion Expansion of the Mazaruni Prison is currently ongoing as the construction of several living quarters for prison officers is almost completed. The Department...

Govt briefs opposition on Camp Street fire, jailbreak

Jul 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt briefs opposition on Camp Street fire, jailbreak

There will be a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the devastating Camp Street Prison fire and jailbreak, says the Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan. The Minister was at the time briefing...

Environmental Enthusiast, Alexander Arjoon, is a Special Person

Jul 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Environmental Enthusiast, Alexander Arjoon, is a Special Person

“The reason I do what I do, is because I want to show Guyanese Guyana…Many Guyanese are not aware of this country and the vast expanse, especially those on those Coast. When I came back home...

Some people drink fuh glutten pun Soulja Bai birthday

Jul 16, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people drink fuh glutten pun Soulja Bai birthday

Soulja Bai just celebrate a birthday and was a quiet day. Long time people use to send birthday card to people. Dem boys believe that birthday card did gone out of style until dem find out that de...

Camp Street unrest…One down, five more to go

Jul 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Street unrest…One down, five more to go

One of the six prisoners who escaped from the Camp Street, Georgetown prisons, last week Sunday, has been recaptured. Divisional Commander, Leslie James, yesterday confirmed that Desmond James was...

Winston George smashes national 400m record, also wins 200m

Jul 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winston George smashes national 400m record, also wins 200m

T&T’s Semoy Hackett wins Women 100m, 200m; Bajan Codogan upsets Collins & Callendar By Franklin Wilson Olympian Winston George proved yet again that he is a fierce competitor on home soil...

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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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