January 2018

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Security searches at CJIA

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Security searches at CJIA

Dear Editor, We refer to the letter by Candice Rowena Ramessar dated January 20, 2018 published in the Stabroek News captioned “The CJIA should not be profiling Rastafari and those with locks.”...

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...

Jagdeo knows about politically influenced supersession

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo knows about politically influenced supersession

Dear Editor: To listen to Bharrat Jagdeo speak is to test ones stomach. Jagdeo is spouting about supersession when all the world know what he did to senior Colonels of the GDF including Gordon Benn,...

Trotman’s Ministry thanks Melinda Janki

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trotman’s Ministry thanks Melinda Janki

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources welcomes all feedback from the public on any of the subjects under its remit. We would like to especially thank Melinda Jankie (What is being gained...

GAWU, the PPP/C and the Goose that laid the golden egg

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU, the PPP/C and the Goose that laid the golden egg

Dear Editor, None of us can find comfort in the plight of the close to five thousand sugar workers who recently found themselves on the breadline. When the dust finally settles, we must, as a nation,...

A presumptuous police sergeant‘

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A presumptuous police sergeant‘

Dear Editor, A Sergeant of police attached to Anna Regina Station presumptuously refused to charge a young man against whom a report was made for using threatening language to me twice on the same...

GAWU got nothing for its labour college

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU got nothing for its labour college

Dear Editor, We refer to Mr. Eon Andrews’s letter titled “GTUC executive never had any discussion on closure of sugar estates” which appeared in the January 20, 2018 Stabroek News. We of the...

A lure for the criminals

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A lure for the criminals

Dear Editor, Serious action needs to be taken against the vendors who are vending in front of the Enterprise Primary School on immovable concrete and wooden structures which are encouraging a series...

GAWU, the PPP/C and the Goose that laid the golden egg

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU, the PPP/C and the Goose that laid the golden egg

Ministry introduces free ‘Maths Camp’ for Grade Six pupils

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry introduces free ‘Maths Camp’ for Grade Six pupils

As part of its continued effort to improve the Mathematics performance of pupils at the National Grade Six Assessment [NGSA], the Ministry of Education has introduced a ‘Maths Camp’ initiative....

Accused was seen stooping at window after threatening wife’s life – Witness tells court

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Accused was seen stooping at window after threatening wife’s life – Witness tells court

Miguel Barker, who is on trial before Justice Navindra Singh for allegedly killing his wife, Donessa Barker, was seen stooping at a window of the woman’s home, before her face was later seen...

Child care director chides wanting reportage on children’s issue

Jan 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Child care director chides wanting reportage on children’s issue

The media, like the rest of the society, has a crucial role to help protect the rights of children. In so doing, it is always imperative that deliberate efforts are made to ensure that the...

The pontific, poignant point of Raphael Trotman

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The pontific, poignant point of Raphael Trotman

It has been a long time since I have applauded a ruling politician on his/her anger in response to criticism arising from society. At the last AFC press conference, Raphael Trotman was in full swing....

China’s spreading influence: look in the gift horse’s mouth

Jan 24, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on China’s spreading influence: look in the gift horse’s mouth

(Republished from The Guardian) The arrest of a former CIA agent last week is the stuff of a classic murky spy tale. Though he is charged with unlawfully retaining national defence information, the...

Govt. pre- approves uncapped importation for ExxonMobil – Contract

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. pre- approves uncapped importation for ExxonMobil – Contract

The Government has found it prudent to pre-approve uncapped importation for ExxonMobil. The oil giant can import unlimited numbers of items totalling more than 250. These items include All Terrain...

Telecoms liberalisation… No deadline when GTT negotiations will conclude

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Telecoms liberalisation… No deadline when GTT negotiations will conclude

After years of little progress to bring new telephone companies, in July 2016 Guyana managed to pass key legislations – the Telecommunications (Amendment) Bill 15/2016. It would be part of the...

Top Cop says he had a glorious career …Begins pre-retirement leave in March

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop says he had a glorious career …Begins pre-retirement leave in March

After nearly seven months of leave, Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud, returned to office yesterday, and said that his first day back on the job, yesterday, was like any other day in his...

AFC councillor arrested for alleged assault of chips vendor

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on AFC councillor arrested for alleged assault of chips vendor

Alliance For Change Councillor, Abel Seetaram, who was fired from his post as Prime Minister Representative Region Five in May 2016, has once again found himself in the spotlight on an alleged...

Freed robbery accused arrested within hours of being released

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Freed robbery accused arrested within hours of being released

Mere hours after having a robbery under arms charged dismissed against him in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, a mechanic was arrested and taken into custody at the Brickdam Police Station after...

All 10 acres of land to be used for ExxonMobil’s HQ

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on All 10 acres of land to be used for ExxonMobil’s HQ

Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) yesterday denied that its Public Relations consultant, Kit Nascimento, told this newspaper that negations with ExxonMobil are young and he is therefore not permitted to...

Soesdyke woman takes rap for coke in ceiling

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Soesdyke woman takes rap for coke in ceiling

A 50-year-old woman was yesterday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $14.2 M, after she admitted that she had 11 pounds on cocaine in her possession. Nickela Craig Singh, of Lot 237...

$1.2B East Bank Berbice road project advancing

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $1.2B East Bank Berbice road project advancing

Commuting will soon be stress-free for residents on East Bank Berbice (EBB), as the $1.2B road rehabilitation project advances. The exercise which commenced in August 2017 was delayed due to the...

Dem boys seh…Minister smoke cocaine before he sign dat contract.

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Minister smoke cocaine before he sign dat contract.

If yaal think Jagdeo was bad when he did give BaiShanLin ten trillion gallons of paint dat coulda paint all Guyana green, think again, Dis Minister Trotty give Exxon everything under de sun from rope...

Letter to the Sports Editor RHTY&SC surprised at Rose Hall basketball donation refusal article

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor RHTY&SC surprised at Rose Hall basketball donation refusal article

Dear Sir, Please allow us the opportunity to respond to an article in your Sunday Edition under the headline “RHT Basketball Team did not request RHTYSC assistance”. This is shocking to us...

Joshua Gopaul wins GCF Junior Chess Qualifier

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Joshua Gopaul wins GCF Junior Chess Qualifier

Joshua Gopaul played unbeaten to emerge champion of the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) seven-round, National Junior Qualifier, last weekend at the National Aquatic Centre, Lilliendaal. Young...

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Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

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(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

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...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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