January 2018

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The PM’s Rep only confirmed what I have said

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PM’s Rep only confirmed what I have said

DEAR EDITOR, I am most elated that Mr. Gobin Harbhajan has tacitly agreed that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has indeed forsaken his principles of frugality and a lean and clean Government, and...

Family seeks help to find missing 16-year-old

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Family seeks help to find missing 16-year-old

A distraught father is appealing to the public at large to help him find his 16-year-old daughter who went missing since Monday. Crystol Muss, 16, of 73 Self Help, Amelia’s Ward, left home on...

Boosting the education drive

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Boosting the education drive

The responsibility of educating the citizens of our nation has been placed squarely on the shoulders of the government of the day. Successive governments have gladly accepted this responsibility and...

Seeram’s Bar, Wiltshire Dominoes set for Sunday

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Seeram’s Bar, Wiltshire Dominoes set for Sunday

Seeram’s Bar of First Street, Alexander Village in collaboration with Mark Wiltshire will be hosting a dominoes competition on Sunday at the above address starting at 14:00hrs. Entrance fee is...

What is GRA doing about insider trading?

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is GRA doing about insider trading?

DEAR EDITOR, I am the shareholder of a beverage company here. During a light engagement over the last weekend with one of my colleagues (who is also a shareholder at the same company), he expressed...

More regulations are needed for housing

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on More regulations are needed for housing

DEAR EDITOR, The great efforts by Guyana’s Housing Authorities to provide information and sensitisation to the public must be commended. However, with the absence of qualified and experienced...

There is no basis or justification for Ravi Dev’s roar!

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no basis or justification for Ravi Dev’s roar!

DEAR EDITOR, On the eve of 2018, Ravi Dev attempted another roar. His features are referred to as “The Roar of Ravi Dev”. This time, he roared at Henry Jeffrey’s reiterated proposal...

A proposal to advance Inclusion and Transparency (Oil and Gas)

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A proposal to advance Inclusion and Transparency (Oil and Gas)

DEAR EDITOR, Every Guyanese hopes to partake in the promised boon from our natural resources and simultaneously fears it all going terribly wrong with Guyana becoming a failed state from the...

NBS behaved more like a multinational corporation than an indigenous entity

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on NBS behaved more like a multinational corporation than an indigenous entity

DEAR EDITOR, The imbroglio involving the New Building Society and its erstwhile managers is indeed a landmark case which will be remembered for years to come. Corporate social responsibility (CSR,...

E’bo appeals for re-opening of Onderneeming sand, loam pits

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo appeals for re-opening of Onderneeming sand, loam pits

The Region Two Democratic Council continues to pursue the Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, for the re-opening of the Onderneeming sand and loam pits. This is according to the Region...

Lethem, Mabaruma, Bartica receive vehicles

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem, Mabaruma, Bartica receive vehicles

In an effort to build capacity within the regional administrations, Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, on Wednesday handed over vehicles valued at $18M, to representatives of Mabaruma, Bartica,...

Jagdeo: Embourgeoisification of a working class party

Jan 25, 2018 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Jagdeo: Embourgeoisification of a working class party

I wish to quote words former president, Bharrat Jagdeo uttered days ago; “And I made it clear that the PPP is open to people. It was set up as a working-class party. It was not set up as a party...

Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

As the Ministry of Social Protection (MoSP) continues its efforts to digitise the old age pension system in coastal Guyana, the exercise will see information technology being utilised to eliminate...

Authorities acquiring vessel to monitor Guyana’s fishing zone

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities acquiring vessel to monitor Guyana’s fishing zone

As efforts continue to monitor the country’s marine resources, the Ministry of Agriculture’s (MOA) Department of Fisheries has budgeted $54M for the acquisition of a vessel to monitor boats...

$Corentyne road fatality….GuySuCo employee died from a fractured spine, haemorrhage- PM report$

Corentyne road fatality….GuySuCo employee died from a fractured spine, haemorrhage- PM report

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne road fatality….GuySuCo employee died from a fractured spine, haemorrhage- PM report

Vedenand Hardeo Rupa, aka ‘Shuga’, who was fatally struck down along the Number 71 Public Road by a speeding 25-year-old Keith Griffith, died from a fractured spine and haemorrhage. The...

Gold Board wooing miners after fall in declarations last year

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gold Board wooing miners after fall in declarations last year

The Guyana Gold board will soon undertake a Public Awareness Campaign to improve gold declarations after 653,754 ounces were declared in 2017. Gold declarations for 2017 fell short of the 700,000...

Farmer alleges police pickup crushes foot

Jan 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer alleges police pickup crushes foot

“Police in this country are here to protect people not harass them”. Those were the sentiments uttered by a fuming relative of a man, whose leg was reportedly crushed by a police pick-up...

Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Funeral parlour, Registrar Office collaborating to sanitise Old Age Pension system

As the Ministry of Social Protection (MoSP) continues its efforts to digitise the old age pension system in coastal Guyana, the exercise will see information technology being utilised to eliminate...

Suspected carjacking ring busted

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected carjacking ring busted

– owner of taxi service held, four cars seized Investigators believe that they might have cracked a carjacking ring with the arrest of a taxi base operator, four of his employees and the...

Brazilian bandits captured after robbing Lethem jeweller, crashing victim’s car

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian bandits captured after robbing Lethem jeweller, crashing victim’s car

Prompt response by police and horrible driving by a bandit, led to the capture yesterday of three Brazilians who had robbed the wife of a Lethem businessman after tying her up at gunpoint. The...

Standoff at NBS over court judgment…Managers, guards arrested as mortgage giant forced to pay $59M to sacked CEO

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Standoff at NBS over court judgment…Managers, guards arrested as mortgage giant forced to pay $59M to sacked CEO

– customers, Court Marshals, lawyer locked in building for several hours It was a case that should have never been. A former chief and two senior managers were in 2007 arrested and...

8th Prabudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Golf Open on this weekend

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 8th Prabudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Golf Open on this weekend

The 8th annual Prabudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Open golf tournament tees off this Saturday from 12:30hrs at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) course. The one day tourney will feature...

GRA finds database flooded with dead people, bogus accounts and migrants

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA finds database flooded with dead people, bogus accounts and migrants

– to remove over 100,000 accounts by March By Kiana Wilburg The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is set to begin a data-cleansing exercise which will see tens of thousands of accounts being...

Guyana could end up repaying all donations ExxonMobil makes …according to contract

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana could end up repaying all donations ExxonMobil makes …according to contract

The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman signed with ExxonMobil, on government’s behalf, makes provision for the possibility of Guyana footing the...

Non-existent Chief Inspector assigned major roles in oil industry

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Non-existent Chief Inspector assigned major roles in oil industry

There are several deficiencies in the existing legal framework that is supposed to govern the developing petroleum industry. However, some of the provisions that are in place to strengthen the...

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Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, has announced that Guyana’s Junior Jaguars will participate in the inaugural FIFA Global U-15 Boys...

Income tax thresholds

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The government has done it again. It has indicated that workers can look forward to an increased income tax threshold of $200,000 by the end of the decade. One Facebook comment hit the nail on the head. It urged the government to file for intellectual bankruptcy. Increasing the...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Churches as moral compass

Jun 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – President Ali got that one right. Institutions such as churches have a duty to function as “society’s moral compass.” I couldn’t agree more with the president. Commend him. More commendations for Excellency Ali: “together let us find the soul of this...

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