November 2017

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STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Weighing and Measuring Tips for Christmas Shopping

Nov 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…Weighing and Measuring Tips for Christmas Shopping

During this busy shopping season, it is customary for consumers to engage in the purchase of goods, such as rice, flour, sugar, meats, preserved fruits and cooking oil by Weights and Measures....

I told City Hall’s Legal Affairs Committee to refer this sex assault case to the DPP

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I told City Hall’s Legal Affairs Committee to refer this sex assault case to the DPP

Dear Editor, Please grant me the space in your publication to clear up a misconception that the public may have regarding the sordid situation at City Hall involving a rank of the City Constabulary...

We do not know of this new group speaking on behalf of the Rastafarian community

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We do not know of this new group speaking on behalf of the Rastafarian community

Dear Editor, I have noted letters in the media from ACDA. and an organization purported to be representing Rastafarians in Guyana. For the record, ACDA was invited by the Leader of the Opposition,...

Dehydration in Children: Water is life

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dehydration in Children: Water is life

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine I am not campaigning for GWI today, but I had to borrow their “water is life” phrase to emphasize the seriousness associated with...

My life: A reply to the PPP

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My life: A reply to the PPP

The PPP issued a press release in which it stated inter alia; “The truth is under Jagdeo’s Administration, Paul Slowe’s upward mobility in the Force landed him the post of Assistant...

Book review… A raw, brutal work of art

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book review… A raw, brutal work of art

Book: Everyone knows I am a Haunting Poet: Shivanee Ramlochan Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Trinidad-born Shivanee Ramlochan delivers a stark and aesthetically dark, edgy and haunting work. An...

NIS intensifies efforts to provide improved service

Nov 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on NIS intensifies efforts to provide improved service

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is intensifying efforts to remove public distrust and improve its record keeping system. In this regard, the scheme has commenced meeting with major employers to...

MPs rebuke the PPP for threatening to undo the nation’s gains

Nov 05, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on MPs rebuke the PPP for threatening to undo the nation’s gains

A group of relatives were gathered in the living room of the Copelands’ house in Alberttown, Georgetown all watching the television coverage of the ruckus in front of our venerable house of...

Marietta – A local ‘Halloween’ tale of intrigue (Part 2)

Nov 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Marietta – A local ‘Halloween’ tale of intrigue (Part 2)

By Dennis Nichols The day after the party, Marlene DeJonge sat in her bedroom after her three cousins (Her father’s relatives) had gone to church at the Brickdam Cathedral. The thing that had...

The Skink

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae and the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species, the Scincidae are one of the most diverse families of lizards. Skinks...

Companies, communities and citizens can cooperate

Nov 05, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Companies, communities and citizens can cooperate

(Address of His Excellency Brigadier David Granger President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the 30th Anniversary Celebration of Amazon Caribbean Guyana Limited on October 29, 2017) The...

The Baccoo Speaks

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The focus is on taxis. Many have been hijacked in the past, and this week the trend would continue, but with a difference. Some young men would have no interest in the vehicle but in the money they...

‘The Helpline’ – an initiative aimed at restoring mental wellbeing

Nov 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘The Helpline’ – an initiative aimed at restoring mental wellbeing

“Part of the reason that a number of these issues persist is because people may not have access to the services that help to prevent them from reaching to a point of feeling that there is no hope...

Small states must insist on rights to Climate Change compensation

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Small states must insist on rights to Climate Change compensation

By Sir Ronald Sanders Caribbean small states should be readying themselves for a major joint push to make the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Convention on Climate...

A case of the jumbie and the coffin

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column 2

The coalition government has been accused of many things, some of which were orchestrated by the opposition. For one, it has been accused of a slowdown in the economy. Just the other day, businesses...

GUYANA’S UNDIGNIFIED PARLIAMENT

Nov 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA’S UNDIGNIFIED PARLIAMENT

The ruckus which broke out in parliament on Thursday was an accident waiting to happen. The decline in standards in the National Assembly has been long in the making. The ruckus which the PPPC...

The Story within the Story…We have sold Guyana to the devil

Nov 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…We have sold Guyana to the devil

By Leonard Gildarie I have chosen a headline that has been muted. The space in this newspaper along with what is acceptable will not allow me to say what I really want to. There can be no other...

Shakeup in the police force in the making very soon – Minister of State

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Shakeup in the police force in the making very soon – Minister of State

The heads of some of the Guyana Police Force top brass are likely to roll, following the release of the damning Commission of Inquiry report into the alleged assassination plot against President,...

2016 Auditor General report finds …GRA fails to submit records to support $30B in exemptions to businesses

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 2016 Auditor General report finds …GRA fails to submit records to support $30B in exemptions to businesses

Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, is disappointed that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has failed to produce records to support $30B in exemptions it gave away to businesses last year. In his latest...

Patterson’s appointment as Grenada’s Chief Justice neither here nor there – Harmon

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Patterson’s appointment as Grenada’s Chief Justice neither here nor there – Harmon

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, is somewhat dismissive of new revelations which confirmed that newly appointed Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice James Patterson, was...

Gold sector spurs modest economic growth

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Gold sector spurs modest economic growth

…$187 billion in investment projects facilitated President David Granger has credited Guyana’s moderate economic growth to gold production. Addressing the opening of 71st sitting of the...

Digicel’s owner plays up landing fibre-optic cable in Guyana

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel’s owner plays up landing fibre-optic cable in Guyana

Jamaica (Jamaica Gleaner) – Deep Blue Cable, the new telecoms operation backed by Irishman Denis O’Brien, plans to extend its fibre-optic cable project beyond the Caribbean into the Americas....

Government takes over nearly $4B AHI debt.

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Government takes over nearly $4B AHI debt.

At the Seventy–first sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, the government announced that it has taken over nearly G$4B in debt from the Atlantic Hotels Incorporated (AHI). Minister of...

Broadcasting Authority issues postdated radio licences

Nov 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Broadcasting Authority issues postdated radio licences

The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) issued, yesterday, several postdated radio licences to operators who were deemed compliant up to the period ending 2016. The simple handing over...

MPs behave like market whores

Nov 04, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on MPs behave like market whores

When Jagdeo was in office de opposition use to protest. Soulja Bai and he kavakamites dem use to go and stand up wid placards in dem hand fuh one hour. Some hold de placard up in de air; some hold it...

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Guyanese boxers deliver historic clean sweep at IGG

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(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s boxers made an emphatic statement at the 2026 Inter Guiana Games (IGG) in Suriname with a clean sweep of their bouts as the sport made its historic debut at the...

Why should the private sector pay for an imitation festival?

Oct 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every year, as Mashramani approaches a familiar appeal goes out to corporate Guyana to open its wallets, sponsor the festivities and demonstrate its commitment to national culture. The appeal is usually accompanied by expressions of disappointment that businesses have not...

Are We All Ukrainians?

Oct 25, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 19 October, accepting the award of Ukraine’s Order of Merit, I said that my commitment to Ukraine rests on a principle essential to small nations everywhere: sovereignty is the freedom to govern ourselves, preserve our identity and decide our future....

PPP Govt: Best in class for deviousness

Oct 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese know how devious the PPP Govt can be. PPP insiders, hardliners, know this more than others. They are the prime beneficiaries of that deviousness. From recent history to today, the PPP Govt is held aloft as a world-class example of Machiavellian deviousness. ...

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