March 2018

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Shade house farming allows constant vegetable prices

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shade house farming allows constant vegetable prices

Prices for crops grown under shaded conditions seldom fluctuate owing to fixed environmental conditions year-round. This oftentimes influences consumers’, especially those who are price...

IDB Country Rep. underscores need policy decisions based on sound data

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on IDB Country Rep. underscores need policy decisions based on sound data

Country representative of the International Development Bank (IDB), Sophie Makonnen has highlighted the need for policy decisions based on sound data. Speaking at the recent launch of the first...

IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH

Yesterday Guyana joined the Commonwealth nations to celebrate the 88th anniversary of Commonwealth Day under the theme “Towards a Common Future.” It is a voluntary association of 53 sovereign...

“Depression almost made me kill my daughter”

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “Depression almost made me kill my daughter”

– a survivor tells her story By Shevon Nedd “I wanted to kill my daughter, not because I did not love her but because I did not want her to be in this world to suffer the way I was...

The reason why David and Lincoln were fired

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The reason why David and Lincoln were fired

David Hinds of the Working People’s Alliance has become a victim of his own advice. He is the latest casualty of the coalition’s inability to utilize the skills at its disposal to deal with...

Region Ten contractors highlight concerns in meeting with new CEO

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten contractors highlight concerns in meeting with new CEO

By Enid Joaquin Recently installed REO of Region Ten Orrin Gordon says that he wants to see people bidding for $203M contracts in Linden and Region Ten, and not just the smaller contracts. Gordon...

The PPP in Berbice, Berbice in the PPP

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP in Berbice, Berbice in the PPP

The PPP lost state power in 2015, therefore there have been three presentations at the BabuJaan death anniversary of CheddiJagan since then. Since then there hasn’t been one instance in...

Mahaicony Community Policing celebrates 42 years

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony Community Policing celebrates 42 years

A route march was held on Saturday in Mahaicony to observe the 42nd anniversary of the establishment of the Community Policing Groups (GPGs) in Guyana. Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramattan, in...

Laid off estate worker opens barber shop, turns to cash crop farming

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Laid off estate worker opens barber shop, turns to cash crop farming

Afzal Deendial is a former GUYSUCO estate worker. He worked 21 years at the Enmore Estate and when that estate closed recently, Deendial decided that he was going to find ways in maintaining his...

Guyana Peoples militia pilots Cadet Corps at Mackenzie High

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Peoples militia pilots Cadet Corps at Mackenzie High

Several students from the Mackenzie High School presently make up the Cadet Corp of the Guyana Peoples Militia in Linden. The group is known as the Cadet Company of Mackenzie High School and is a...

A Case for an Autonomous Oil and Gas Commission

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Case for an Autonomous Oil and Gas Commission

Dear Editor, According to the Executive Secretary of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) of Nigeria, 90 percent of the corruption in that country involves the oil and gas sector. He...

The truth about GuySuCo’s IMC

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth about GuySuCo’s IMC

Dear Editor, A commonly asked question amongst the GuySuCo employees, both current and severed, is ‘what has become of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) that was put in place in June 2015 to...

The WPA may have to consider its future in the coalition

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The WPA may have to consider its future in the coalition

Dear Editor, When the news broke that columnists, Dr. David Hinds Executive member of the WPA, and prominent trade unionist Mr. Lincoln Lewis were banned from the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper, I was...

Investment opportunities in Berbice

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Investment opportunities in Berbice

Dear Editor, Along the Atlantic Coast of Berbice in what is known as the Corentyne there are two major towns that anchor the development of the area; those being Rose Hall and Skeldon. It is quite...

A most unnecessary rebuff

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A most unnecessary rebuff

Dear Editor, United States Ambassador to Guyana, His Excellency Perry Holloway recently issued a wonderfully balanced recommendatory piece on the urgent need for the establishment of a Sovereign...

The Lighter Side of Freddie

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Lighter Side of Freddie

Dear Editor, In today’s Freddie Kissoon column (Sunday, March 18, 2018), we saw the lighter side of Freddie. No fire and brimstone, no unrelenting trashing and dressing down. This time, we were...

The recent flooding on West Demerara was instructive

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The recent flooding on West Demerara was instructive

DEAR EDITOR, The recent inundation at Anna Catherina, Cornelia Ida, Leonora, Stewartville and Uitvlugt, Essequibo Islands/West Demerara has left many citizens in discomfort. They are slowly bringing...

TT Govt. to reopen and renegotiate contracts with energy companies

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on TT Govt. to reopen and renegotiate contracts with energy companies

– Prime Minister says that nation deserves more than crumbs “It is our view that there is a role for the government in ensuring that the people of Trinidad and Tobago, while being...

US$460M pre-contract costs must be subjected to special audit -Ram finds that figures in financial statements tell a different story

Mar 18, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on US$460M pre-contract costs must be subjected to special audit -Ram finds that figures in financial statements tell a different story

Local commentators remain outraged at the US$460M pre-contract costs, which ExxonMobil has imposed on Guyana. This cost dates back to ExxonMobil’s 1999 agreement with the Janet Jagan...

Guyana lost over US$40M in Govt.’s cheap sell out of Orinduik block

Mar 18, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Guyana lost over US$40M in Govt.’s cheap sell out of Orinduik block

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Charles Ramson is of the opinion that the decision taken by the Government of Guyana not to auction its remaining oil blocks, after the 2015 oil find that de-risked the...

Michael Correia (Ogle Airport) sues K/News

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Michael Correia (Ogle Airport) sues K/News

Chairman of Ogle Airport Inc. (OAI) Michael Correia has filed legal proceedings for libel against Kaieteur News. Correia has filed for damages in excess of G$5M. The libel proceedings have been filed...

Focus-driven Probation Officer, Trenetta Elliot, is a ‘Special Person’

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Special Person Comments Off on Focus-driven Probation Officer, Trenetta Elliot, is a ‘Special Person’

By Sharmain Grainger “If you want to enter this profession, you have to really have a love for working with people. You have to genuinely want to see improvement in the lives of persons in various...

Soulja Bai give ee doctah stress over shoes

Mar 18, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Soulja Bai give ee doctah stress over shoes

Guyana got stress wid de oil and de way how de govt handle it. Dis stress carrying people to dem grave but dem boys know how to handle it. Dem realize dat at de end of life what really matters is not...

Local fishermen likely to ground boats in response to U.S. ban on catfish

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Local fishermen likely to ground boats in response to U.S. ban on catfish

Dozens of fishermen are likely to ground their boats as the price of catfish is expected to plummet in response to an export ban implemented by the United States. Gilbacker, the most valuable catch...

Delay in hotel’s wind turbine permit… GPL was not aware of acquisition, shipment – Minister Patterson

Mar 18, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Delay in hotel’s wind turbine permit… GPL was not aware of acquisition, shipment – Minister Patterson

Government is defending the delay in permission for operation of a wind turbine in Berbice. The turbine was imported last year for use by Classic International Hotel, Corriverton, Berbice....

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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