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Parallel treasuries

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Parallel treasuries

The buck stops with Granger! He shall have to decide now what action will be taken against those persons who deceived this nation in relation to the signing bonus which the government received. The...

Guysuco’s management and government should provide G$90,000/mth to displaced sugar workers.

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guysuco’s management and government should provide G$90,000/mth to displaced sugar workers.

Dear Editor, After reading my own article published in your letters column on December 6, 2017, within the context of the unfolding news of sugar workers being sent home, I could not stop tears...

GAWU precipitated the demise of the sugar industry

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU precipitated the demise of the sugar industry

Dear Editor, As a former GAWU General Council member from 1991-2000, at every meeting each field secretary has to report on the various estates each represents. I was the representative for the rice...

The Prime Minister cannot be a friend of the sugar workers

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Prime Minister cannot be a friend of the sugar workers

Dear Editor, Prime Minister and First Vice President, Moses Nagamootoo, writing in the December 3, 2017 Guyana Chronicle, spent a great deal of his column entitled “Different strategy in changing...

The truth is ‘profits before people’

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth is ‘profits before people’

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Guyana’s President David Granger is in Kenya telling people to put people before profits. Yet, with the sacking of thousands of people and increased stealth...

Has the AFC sold its morality?

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has the AFC sold its morality?

Dear Editor, The major news outlets have reported that in a leaked email to Alliance For Change (AFC) members, Dr. Rohan Somar, from the New York AFC said the appointment by the PNC Executive...

The plight of a calf tests human morals

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The plight of a calf tests human morals

Dear Editor, It seems like ignoring issues affecting Berbicians is becoming an accepted pattern by those in authorities. We are being ignored about the withdrawal of the Guysuco redundancy letters;...

St Rose’s demolition will not be cheap

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on St Rose’s demolition will not be cheap

Dear Editor, Permit me a space in your newspaper to express my disappointment in some pseudo contractors who are bent on mischief. As president of the P.T.A of St Rose’s High School and being fully...

The antics of the APNU/AFC and PPP continue

Dec 09, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The antics of the APNU/AFC and PPP continue

Dear Editor, The antics of the APNU/PNC Government and opposition PPP continue. So, too, are their hypocrisy, lies and skullduggery. Today it’s about oil and sugar. US oil company, ExxonMobil did...

Breaking News…. Leaked Finance Ministry document confirms that Govt. opened account to collect Exxon signing bonus

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News…. Leaked Finance Ministry document confirms that Govt. opened account to collect Exxon signing bonus

A leaked document of the Ministry of Finance has confirmed that the administration made moves to open a bank account for a signing bonus with ExxonMobil last year. Government had denied it is aware...

PricewaterhouseCoopers selected to value GuySuCo’s assets

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PricewaterhouseCoopers selected to value GuySuCo’s assets

The Special Purpose Unit (SPU) under the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), yesterday announced that that PricewterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been selected as the firm to...

US$80M from Norway remains in limbo- Harmon updates nation

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US$80M from Norway remains in limbo- Harmon updates nation

By Abena-Rockcliffe-Campbell Minister of State, Joseph Harmon used the opportunity presented in the delivery of his contribution to the ongoing Budget debate to inform the nation of the status of a...

Nine-fingered burglar prints new tattoo over old one

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nine-fingered burglar prints new tattoo over old one

– victims of other breakages produce similar security footage of intruder The nine-fingered burglar seen on security video brazenly carting off money and a safe from the offices of...

Detectives charged with stealing $500k from gold miner

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Detectives charged with stealing $500k from gold miner

Two Detective Constables attached to the Bartica Police Station were yesterday charged and taken before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for allegedly...

K/News apologises to GBTI

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on K/News apologises to GBTI

An article appeared on the front page of the November 15, 2017 issue of this newspaper under the caption “Financial Institutions’ unwillingness to cooperate with SOCU tells worrying story” ....

Budget 2018 has brought smiles to the bulk of Guyanese – Harmon

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Budget 2018 has brought smiles to the bulk of Guyanese – Harmon

…Assures monies set aside to pay sugar workers severance Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, has assured that Government has budgeted monies to help the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) meet...

Businessman offers to demolish St. Rose’s for half of engineer’s estimate

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman offers to demolish St. Rose’s for half of engineer’s estimate

Questions have surfaced about whether the Ministry of Education should spend $30 million on the demolition of the St. Rose’s High School, in keeping with the Engineer’s estimate. While some...

Finance Minister criticised for skipping majority of debate on 2018 budget

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister criticised for skipping majority of debate on 2018 budget

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, drew heavy criticisms yesterday from the main opposition, People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), for his absence from the ongoing debate in the...

Terminated Skeldon Sugar Workers contemplate life after GuySuCo

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Terminated Skeldon Sugar Workers contemplate life after GuySuCo

business owners worried about increase in criminal activity caused by unemployment The majority of Skeldon Estate sugar workers have received their termination letters from the Guyana Sugar...

Govt. engineers still robbing de treasury

Dec 08, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Govt. engineers still robbing de treasury

Dem brucking down St Rose’s High School because that scamp, Jagdeo, use to go to that school. And anyway Jagdeo been, dem either breaking it down or changing it completely. He been at Oh Pee...

Operators scramble to get in order as drones’ regulations announced

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Operators scramble to get in order as drones’ regulations announced

As regulators move to clamp down on the use of drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a number of stakeholders have started meeting on the issue. Yesterday, representatives of the regulator-...

AFC urges early offer of severance package for sugar workers

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on AFC urges early offer of severance package for sugar workers

The Alliance For Change (AFC), the smaller faction in the governing Government coalition, is urging that an offer for severance be presented to sugar workers now. This comes two days after one...

Minister suggests ignorance of Hindu holidays is acceptable because she is not a Kshatriya

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Minister suggests ignorance of Hindu holidays is acceptable because she is not a Kshatriya

“I am not a Kshatriya (Guyanese say Chatree) so I may not know when there is Diwali or Phagwah, but I do know what it takes to improve the education sector.” That is how Minister of...

Budget 2018 lacks programmes for women empowerment

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Budget 2018 lacks programmes for women empowerment

– PPP Parliamentarian According to Opposition Parliamentarian, Vindya Persaud, Budget 2018 can be termed singularly uninspiring. It fails to meaningfully or significantly engender growth...

Niece of murdered Pegasus taxi driver gives emotional testimony

Dec 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Niece of murdered Pegasus taxi driver gives emotional testimony

Anastacia Persaud, the niece of murdered Pegasus taxi driver, Rudrinauth Jeeboo, wept intermittently as she recalled her uncle going missing and then identifying his bloodied body at the Lyken...