January 2018

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‘Guyana stands with Lusignan’

Jan 29, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Guyana stands with Lusignan’

-Social Cohesion Minister says at Lusignan Massacre memorial Minister of Social Cohesion, with the responsibility for Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. George Norton, on Friday evening, pledged the...

Impossible to Cap – Guyana’s Huge Oil Discovery

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Impossible to Cap – Guyana’s Huge Oil Discovery

Dear Editor, We don’t need to hear about the personal sacrifices of politicians during past political campaigns or the hardships of being a leader; especially when such inflated speech is used as a...

The AFC is the world’s most inexplicable political party

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The AFC is the world’s most inexplicable political party

I never knew Forbes Burnham in terms of “face to face” knowledge. I went to UG with fellow students who became close to Burnham and I respect their analyses of his political being. I also...

Justice delayed is justice denied

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justice delayed is justice denied

Dear Editor, President David Granger announced at the GDF Officer’s Conference (on Friday) that extrajudicial killings, phantom dead squad murders and other targeted killings as well as torture...

Who issued the lease for Reserve Land?

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who issued the lease for Reserve Land?

Dear Editor, There is a stretch of reserve land that borders the right hand side of the Montrose main road. On November 27, 2017 residents of Montrose were taken aback by the fencing of a large...

Let the COI into the crime wave begin

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let the COI into the crime wave begin

Dear Editor, I am supportive of the APNU+AFC Government of President David Granger holding a COI into the 2002-2009 Crime waves. As an outsider looking in, the gist of the problems started when...

THANK YOU GPL

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on THANK YOU GPL

Dear Editor, Not very often would you find a media publication commending G.P.L for the services it provides but I am obliged to write on behalf of our organisation, Indian Vision for National...

A great man has passed on

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A great man has passed on

Dear Editor, I was saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. George Maxwell Richards, former Principal and Vice Chancellor of the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies and later...

Where are our true patriots?

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are our true patriots?

Dear Editor, Any thought of revision of the PSA signed by Government and Exxon was thrown in the trash can by Natural Resource Minister Trotman. At a recent press conference, Trotman dropped the bomb...

GANDHI ON DEATH

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GANDHI ON DEATH

Dear Editor, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, son of Gujarat, father of Bharat, and teacher of all mankind, departed his mortal body on January 30, 1948 but left us lessons with his last breath. One of...

Taxing a head teacher who is already overtaxed

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Taxing a head teacher who is already overtaxed

Dear Editor, As a member of the Saxacalli Primary School P.T.A, I was shocked when I learnt that our headmaster was required to pay ten percent of his salary as rent for the teacher’s house that he...

Unfair treatment of the Rupununi Mining Association

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unfair treatment of the Rupununi Mining Association

Dear Editor, Due to the ongoing dispute between the small miners of Rupununi, Mining District Six and Romanex Guyana Exploration Ltd., the small miners have merged to form the Rupununi Mining...

An unconstitutional appointment

Jan 29, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An unconstitutional appointment

Dear Editor, On the 17th of January 2018, Dr. Arif Bulkan was appointed by President David Granger as a temporary Justice of Appeal. The life of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) expired on the...

ExxonMobil hands Guyana US$460M bill covering pre-discovery operations

Jan 28, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on ExxonMobil hands Guyana US$460M bill covering pre-discovery operations

Guyana is now hurrying to put measures in place to monitor and assess cost recovery claims. However, it has already tied itself to the repayment of US $460,237,918M. This is according to the 2016...

Sugar talks lead to bitter internal fallout in PPP

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar talks lead to bitter internal fallout in PPP

Komal Chand prepared to back workers over party affiliation President of the Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand, said yesterday that he will continue to place the needs...

GRA drops hammer on questionable vehicle auctions

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA drops hammer on questionable vehicle auctions

-yanks licences of several private Customs warehouses The frauds at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) over the years have been many with all kinds of schemes discovered. As a result, the state would...

Govt. secure mediocre Local Content provisions in contract with ExxonMobil

Jan 28, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Govt. secure mediocre Local Content provisions in contract with ExxonMobil

-Chartered Accountant highlights numerous flaws For several months, members of the private sector community and even various commentators have issued calls for there to be proper Local Content...

Incestuous relations highlighted at Eugene F. Correia Airport

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Incestuous relations highlighted at Eugene F. Correia Airport

…as Correia Mining Company land special lease One of the original investors of Ogle Airport Inc, (OAI) Michael Correia, has been able to lease for himself a sizeable plot of land at the Eugene F....

Jagdeo is de centre of everything

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo is de centre of everything

Every living thing that can breathe and smell love sugar. You put down sugar, ants, bees even li’l children does push dem tongue in it. Sugar mek Jagdeo, that scamp, learn to thief. He mamma use to...

Patriotic entrepreneur, Allison Butters-Grant, is a ‘Special Person’

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Special Person Comments Off on Patriotic entrepreneur, Allison Butters-Grant, is a ‘Special Person’

By Sharmain Grainger “We were always big on quality and not so much quantity. If your product is not up to a certain quality and following certain standards, the quantity wouldn’t matter because...

Opposition dares Granger to set up CoI into crime wave murders

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition dares Granger to set up CoI into crime wave murders

-Seeking to help craft terms of reference Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday dared President David Granger to fulfill the promise made to set up a commission of inquiry (CoI) into the spate...

President, ministers tour Timehri airport project

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on President, ministers tour Timehri airport project

President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and several Government officials yesterday toured the ongoing works at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The president and his team were...

GBTI names director as new chief

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI names director as new chief

The Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry (GBTI) has named Richard Isava, a director, as its new chief. Isava, who heads up the Guyana Americas Merchant Bank Inc, a sister company of the bank, was...

Transfer pricing: Companies illegally hide profits

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Transfer pricing: Companies illegally hide profits

The tax authority is warning companies about using ingenious ways to hide profits. The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is looking at the issue. On Thursday it admitted that it has far-reaching...

Michael Parris should be Guyana’s 2020 Olympics flag bearer .

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Michael Parris should be Guyana’s 2020 Olympics flag bearer .

Dear Editor, For as long as I can recall, I have always followed Sports Internationally via television broadcast, newspapers, magazines, videos etc. and I will admit, it’s the Olympic Games...

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West Ruimveldt Primary reign supreme in Demerara Zone of Future...

Jun 01, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

Absenteeism at School

Jun 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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