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A Guyanese-style Christmas

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on A Guyanese-style Christmas

By Feona Morrison The Christmas season is most importantly about reflecting on the birth of Jesus Christ. It is also a time for family and other social gatherings, gift gifting, feasting and symbolic...

ANSA Mc AL Guyana Limited making major investments in Guyana

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ANSA Mc AL Guyana Limited making major investments in Guyana

…says Managing Director Troy Cadogan at Annual Christmas Children Party in Berbice Ansa McAl Trading (Guyana) Limited (AMTL) continued its Annual Christmas tradition by taking Christmas to...

The diplomatic debt-trap

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The diplomatic debt-trap

Today, Christmas Day, will find Guyanese homes soaked with various aromas – black cake, sponge cake, ginger beer, pepperpot, picnic hams, baked chicken and turkeys, you name it – and the smell of...

Govt. working to improve Miami Consulate – Greenidge

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. working to improve Miami Consulate – Greenidge

Government is making moves to boost the services offered to some Guyanese living in Florida. Several Guyanese residing overseas, particularly in Miami, Florida, have been complaining about the poor...

73-year-old fails to collect NIS pension for 14 years

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 73-year-old fails to collect NIS pension for 14 years

– forced to do domestic work to survive A feeble 73-year-old pain-riddled man is pleading for the relevant authorities to give an ear as he has been for the past 14 years fighting with...

Teachers’ salary negations…Task Force misses December 20 deadline, looking for extension

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers’ salary negations…Task Force misses December 20 deadline, looking for extension

Teachers from all indications will have to continue to wait for a new remuneration package, since according to reports reaching this publication, not only has the Task Force appointed to negotiate...

How one NGO is changing lives in the Grove/Diamond communities

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on How one NGO is changing lives in the Grove/Diamond communities

It is estimated that the communities of Diamond and Grove, East Bank Demerara, have almost 20,000 residents. The area not only includes Diamond and Golden Grove, but also ‘old’ Grove, Samatta...

Political manoeuverings and Caribbean Court of Justice

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Political manoeuverings and Caribbean Court of Justice

By Oscar Ramjeet It seems to me that no other country will join the Appellate Division of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) before the retirement of the second president Sir Denis Byron in...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Today, Guyanese from all walks of life are celebrating Christmas at home and in the diaspora. Christmas is a time of joy, peace and goodwill towards all mankind. It is a time to strengthen bonds with...

PPP Central Committee selecting Leadership smacks of cronyism

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP Central Committee selecting Leadership smacks of cronyism

Dear Editor, The current method that the PPP uses in selecting leadership must be changed from the current manner, whereby the 35 members of the Central Committee agree on leadership to the more...

2017 was hectic year for ICT development – Minister Hughes …says most targets achieved

Dec 25, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 2017 was hectic year for ICT development – Minister Hughes …says most targets achieved

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications is continuing its mission to transform Guyana into a knowledge-based, well educated society with people and businesses that are productive and globally...

I was slandered in an open letter

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I was slandered in an open letter

Dear Editor, My name is Neilson Mc Kenzie. I worked for two years as the Legal (Assistant) and Business Liaison Officer at the Ministry of Business. My name is referenced in an article published...

Seriously now…

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seriously now…

Dear Editor, I am responding to Ms. Gillian Burton-Persaud on the assumption that the remarks attributed to her in the Saturday December 23 edition of the Kaieteur News, under the caption ‘Gov’t...

Employers fleecing their workers is nothing new

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Employers fleecing their workers is nothing new

Dear Editor, I read the recent letter about employers fleecing their workers. In the past, employers from abroad did this in a big way, and their exploited workers were unaware of this.In the...

South Turkeyen needs greater attention

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on South Turkeyen needs greater attention

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force deserves our compliments for acting to ensure that Traffic Ranks are regularly posted in the South Turkeyen area. This follows two of my articles in mid-November...

Ongoing violations of human rights

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ongoing violations of human rights

Dear Editor On Tuesday 19 December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly called on Iran to end ongoing violations of human rights, including its persecution of members of the Baha’i Faith, the...

Congratulations to Kaieteur News for your outstanding investigative reporting!

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to Kaieteur News for your outstanding investigative reporting!

Dear Editor, Please allow me the honour of extending my heartfelt congratulations to you and the Kaieteur News staff on your professional and first world reporting on matters of vital importance to...

Trini bank insider trading scandal…Players make major move on Dem Bank shares

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trini bank insider trading scandal…Players make major move on Dem Bank shares

More than three years after a major scandal involving insider trading at a Trinidad bank, there is evidence that the players have now cast their eyes to Guyana. They recently began buying up...

THE RISKY OIL AND GAS SECTOR…ExxonMobil, other companies falsified oil spill capability

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on THE RISKY OIL AND GAS SECTOR…ExxonMobil, other companies falsified oil spill capability

…Congressional Panel finds: the only technology used by five companies for oil spill response plan was a photocopying machine There mere thought of billions of dollars in revenue that will...

Brazil police bust $$million fraud to export precious Amazon wood to China

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil police bust $$million fraud to export precious Amazon wood to China

– Chinese entrepreneurs, state officials among 31 charged In a case that is bound to raise questions about the strength of Guyana’s systems of monitoring, it is now being reported that...

Sugrim family brings movie theaters back to Berbice

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sugrim family brings movie theaters back to Berbice

Business mogul Haresh Narine ‘Chinee’ Sugrim has done it again. He launched the first ever state of the art movie theatre in Berbice at his massive $1B hotel. The Classic International...

Madness at Freedom House and de White House

Dec 24, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Madness at Freedom House and de White House

This is Christmas season and dem boy learn plenty things. This is a de season of plenty drinks and madness. Nuff of dem govt people does get away fuh go and drink rum all over de place. Soulja Bai...

Govt.’s interest in constitutional reform a sham – Nandlall

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt.’s interest in constitutional reform a sham – Nandlall

The APNU+AFC government has, on many occasions, violated the constitution and has demonstrated little respect for the document. It has also failed to indicate what it is trying to achieve in the...

Jamaican shortlisted as GPL chief – Badal not interested in returning as Chairman

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican shortlisted as GPL chief – Badal not interested in returning as Chairman

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is preparing to name a new Chief Executive Officer earlier in the New Year. Officials last week confirmed that the state-owned power company, which has been without a...

No one held accountable for procurement breaches in Public Health – Dr. Frank Anthony

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on No one held accountable for procurement breaches in Public Health – Dr. Frank Anthony

Former Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has disagreed that the pronouncements by government during the 2018 budget debate will fix the procurement crisis that exists within the Ministry of...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-If you had asked me ten years ago what I wanted for Guyana, I would have said a few things:... more