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Young offenders to acquire skills for positive reintegration

Dec 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Young offenders to acquire skills for positive reintegration

– through two-year-programme The juvenile offenders at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), will soon participate in a two-year programme that is geared to provide them with the knowledge...

Lions Club distributes gifts, goodies to Leopold Street children

Dec 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lions Club distributes gifts, goodies to Leopold Street children

Hundreds of children from Leopold Street, Werk -en- Rust were treated at the end of year event hosted by the Georgetown/Stabroek Lions Club. According to President of the Georgetown/Stabroek...

Christmas fast approaching but business slow, say Lindeners

Dec 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Christmas fast approaching but business slow, say Lindeners

With Christmas just eight days away, stall holders at both the Mackenzie and Wismar Markets are complaining that business is still slow despite the fast approaching big day. There has however...

Rastafari, technology, liberation and ExxonMobil in Guyana

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rastafari, technology, liberation and ExxonMobil in Guyana

Dear Editor, Since May 21, 2015 when President David Granger with Comrades Joe Harmon and Raphael Trotman took a helicopter ride to the ExxonMobil oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean (Stabroek Block) to be...

A foreign Chancellor could have implications

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A foreign Chancellor could have implications

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a story in today’s edition of the Kaieteur News captioned “Overseas-based nominee for Chancellor Post identified”. This story raises several deeply troubling...

Assault on a policeman: Speaker should resign if…

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

Around the world your chances of getting off lightly if you are accused of assaulting a policeman are very slim. The judiciary in perhaps all countries thinks of a world of chaos and disorder if...

This statement is erroneous

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This statement is erroneous

Dear Mr Editor, Please refer to a letter which appeared in your daily’s issued Saturday, December 16, 2017 “When will the slackness at City Hall stop?” by Shanta Singh pg6. The Mayor and City...

Remembering Martin Carter on his death anniversary

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remembering Martin Carter on his death anniversary

Dear Editor, As we commemorate the twentieth death anniversary of our late National Poet Martin Carter, I believe his poetry should be taught in our schools and private education institutions in our...

A worrying case at Friendship

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A worrying case at Friendship

Dear Editor, For the past three years I have been struggling to have a nearby sawmill that is located on the Public Road at Friendship, on the Eastern Bank of the Demerara River to lower the level of...

A tangled web woven by the signature bonus

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A tangled web woven by the signature bonus

Dear Editor, The sweetheart deal of some US$18 million that the APNU/AFC Government signed and collected from the oil giant, ExxonMobil last year is mind boggling and causes one to raise an eyebrow....

Anil Nandlall has his say…

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall has his say…

That Mr. Adam Harris is one of the most skillful journalists in Guyana, I am in no doubt. My attention was drawn to his weekly column published in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News. It was...

Is Bharrat Jagdeo for real?

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Bharrat Jagdeo for real?

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Leader of the Opposition PPP/C Bharrat Jagdeo has promised retrenched sugar workers a monthly stipend if re-elected in the 2020 General Election (“If...

How were the legal fees computed?

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Guyana has to be the first country in the world which would negotiate a signing bonus strictly to pay legal fees and training. This is quite an unusual manner to negotiate a signing bonus. The...

FAIR, FACTUAL AND HONEST REPORTING

Dec 18, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on FAIR, FACTUAL AND HONEST REPORTING

The media is referred to as the fourth estate. Its objectives include keeping checks and balances on the three branches of government—executive, legislative and the judiciary. An independent media...

Markets, waste collection to benefit from M&CC budgetary allocation

Dec 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Markets, waste collection to benefit from M&CC budgetary allocation

A number of projects under the management of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) will receive some much needed financial assistance through the provision of a $200 million grant...