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Aug 17, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CRIME IMPACTING TOURISM
The recent report on crime in the Caribbean by the International Development Bank (IDB) has cast a dark shadow on the region. The report shows that in 2016, the crime rate has soared in a number of...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nagamootoo in Berbice: No country for young men
Once again, for the umpteenth time, I spent days in hospital after spilling hot coffee on my legs while having breakfast because I saw an unbelievable item in the newspaper. It has happened so often...Aug 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 670 Brazilian Scholarships available to Guyanese
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities (GCUB) with the support of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Pan American Health Organization...Aug 17, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO/WHO gets wind of purported plan to impede enactment of Tobacco Control Bill
-alerts Minister of Public Health, prepared to lend assistance Moves may be afoot to dissuade President David Granger from signing into law the Tobacco Control Bill. This purported development was...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shooting of 15-yr-old in mouth…Accused Cadet Officer to call doctor as final witness
A doctor will be the final witness to testify on behalf of Cadet Officer Franz Paul, who is on trial for allegedly shooting a 15-year-old boy in the mouth back in 2014. This was disclosed on Tuesday...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fisherman who committed armed robberies ‘to relieve stress’ jailed
A fisherman will spend 12 months in prison after he admitted to two armed robbery charges. Thirty-one-year-old Asid Mohamed of Soesdyke Linden Highway appeared before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger should take a pay cut as an example
Dear Editor, President David Granger, who has been President of Guyana for over two years, should consider cutting the Presidential Salary to minimum wage. When you think about it, the President is...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The reason why the Basil P Show has lost its slot
Dear Editor, The call by a letter writer for the restoration of the original broadcast duration of the ‘Basil P Show ‘ (i.e. 18:00 – 00:00 H) is testimony of the popularity of this...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The courts will throw out the amendments to the broadcast law
Dear Editor, I refer to my letter in KN yesterday, captioned on the amendments to the broadcast legislation. My other arguments follow. The other draconian and constitutionally offensive feature of...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Consultations were held on the amendments to the law
Dear Editor, Please allow me to make a few observations derived after examining the scintillatingly incredulous doctrinal postulation entitled “The amendments to the Broadcast Law violate the...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on “Out-crazying” Kim Jong Un can be very dangerous
Dear Editor, Listening and reading that incumbent United States President Trump threatening to bring “fire and fury” down on North Korea because of its nuclear defiance reminded me of an incident...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Amerindian prisoners are suffering under our justice system
Dear Editor, The Georgetown prison was burnt down on Sunday 9th July, 2017. In relation to this disaster the relatives of many Amerindian prisoners are eager to officially know about their current...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The criticism of this commercial bank made me wonder
Dear Editor, I read the recent letter written from a very dissatisfied customer and wondered. Service in banks was pretty grim in the 1990s, when queues were endless, many anxious customers waiting,...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo has a compulsion to deceive this nation
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Ms. Audreyanna Thomas in the print media of Aug. 12th 2017) titled “Molasses would be the preferred raw material for ethanol production in Guyana” in...Aug 17, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on I strongly believe youths should be given the chance to lead
Dear Editor, As letters continue to highlight what seems to be a misinterpretation of the affairs of the Maha Sabha, I wish to support the article by Pandit Yogeshwar Mathoo B.Sc Soc. I am an old...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA already cashing in from embryonic oil and gas industry – Jordan
By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has already begun to collect revenues from the still developing oil and gas industry in Guyana. This fact was highlighted at a recent...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Oil will not fall victim to vicious ‘friends and family’ culture – Trotman promises
By Kiana Wilburg The mining, forestry, and broadcasting sectors, among others, have been victims of an unscrupulous culture. It is a culture which sees the close friends and families connected to...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sweeper/cleaners picket Education Ministry
continue to demand better wages Yesterday, a number of sweeper/cleaners stood in front of the Ministry of Education’s Brickdam location to picket for better wages. The major concerns of these...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Commercial bank halts lending for home construction
As Government moves to jumpstart the once-booming housing sector, there are indications that at least one commercial bank may be saying no to applicants for construction. While the banking sector has...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic ranks strip tint from 18 police vehicles
“If we are taking tint off civilian vehicles, then equally police ranks (who are unauthorized) should take theirs off as well…” -Traffic Chief What’s unlawful for the civilian is...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on NDC office near Police Station broken into
The Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) at Grove, East Bank Demerara, located a stone’s throw away from a police station was on Monday broken into, during the wee hours of the morning. It was...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Malaysian businessman trailed from bank, robbed in café
Gunmen yesterday trailed a Malaysian businessman from a city bank to a café on Church Street, Georgetown where they robbed him of over one million Guyana dollars. The unmasked men robbed about seven...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe suspected hot car death of baby girl
Police have questioned the relatives of a baby girl, who died at around 14.30 hrs yesterday, after being left unattended in her father’s car. The eight-month-old infant, of Greater Georgetown, was...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Plane found on illegal runway…Aircraft bears similar registration to plane owned by Brazilian bank
The aircraft which was discovered on an illegal runway on Sunday at Santa Fe, North Rupununi bears a similar registration number to a plane owned by a bank in neighbouring Brazil, according to a...Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records 92.57 percent pass rate at CAPE
Government says that 851 candidates from nine secondary schools and four private institutions sat the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in May-June of 2017. Guyana achieved a 92.57%...

Sep 05, 2026
2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. JKM at Providence – Hetmyer, Hope, Dindyal lead batting charge (Kaieteur News) – Guyana Amazon Warriors announced their arrival home with a brutal 8-wicket...Sep 05, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – Deep in the Himalayas, I once visited a Hindu guru and asked him, “Guru, how should I schedule my day?” He looked at me for a moment, smiled, and asked, “What is it that you want to schedule?” “My day,” I replied. “I want to organise my time better. There is so...Aug 30, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...Sep 05, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – What to make of this America-Venezuela oil deal, this best in history? First, it’s best to put the 65 billion barrels of heavy crude in its proper place. It’s the Donny and Delcy Gong Show. A quarter of Venezuela’s premier national treasure, a concealed deal, a very...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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