April 2018

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Int’l expert help sought in oil spill contingency plan- CDC head clarifies

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l expert help sought in oil spill contingency plan- CDC head clarifies

The Guyana Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has sought international expertise to draft its contingency plan in the unlikely event of an oil spill, Director Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig has said....

Exxon slights Kaieteur News

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Exxon slights Kaieteur News

Foreign companies who operate in Guyana must obey the Laws of Guyana. Or go home! It is as simple as that. No sovereign country should allow foreign companies to impugn the laws of Guyana. The...

Men charged for resisting police arrest

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Men charged for resisting police arrest

Two men yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan, to answer to two separate charges. Accused was 29-year-old Tramain McKenzie of Middle Road, Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara; and 21...

Good Hope Waterfront project to commence soon

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Good Hope Waterfront project to commence soon

Essequibo Coast residents will soon benefit from a brand-new development which is set to commence at Good Hope. The project which is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Public...

Guyana lauded for use of US$1.7 million Early Childhood Development grant

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana lauded for use of US$1.7 million Early Childhood Development grant

An evaluation process recently concluded to ascertain whether a US$1.7 million grant from the Global Partnership for Education [GPE] to improve the Ministry of Education’s Early Childhood...

Health Ministry moves to close procurement loopholes

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry moves to close procurement loopholes

Health officials have instituted a new procurement rule that requires a manufacturer’s authorization from suppliers of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. According to senior officials at the...

13 bids for the rehabilitation of roads in Region 10

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 13 bids for the rehabilitation of roads in Region 10

The following are bids presented at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board Yesterday. The Ministry of Public Infrastructure received bids for Urban Roads 2018: Lot 1- Rehabilitation...

Representing the poor, neglected and maltreated workers of the G/town Municipality

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Representing the poor, neglected and maltreated workers of the G/town Municipality

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to use this opportunity to publicly applaud Mr. Carvil Duncan and the Executive of the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) for their empathy and advocacy on behalf of the poor,...

Bad contracts

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bad contracts

DEAR EDITOR, Back in 1990, the PNC Government sold our only telecommunications company to a foreign entity and granted them a monopoly for forty years. The negotiators in the Government never...

No Proper Health Care in Mahaica Creek

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on No Proper Health Care in Mahaica Creek

DEAR EDITOR, World Health Day was observed on April 7th, 2018, where we saw a number of celebrations being held across Guyana at a number of health facilities, where residents were able to access...

Videos launched to help promote ‘positive discipline’ in schools

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Videos launched to help promote ‘positive discipline’ in schools

Violent discipline is meted out to some 69 percent of children between the ages of one and 14. Some of this violence occurs in the school system where bullying, aggression and other violent...

Vendor recounts seeing husband’s lifeless body in boat in Demerara River

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vendor recounts seeing husband’s lifeless body in boat in Demerara River

A relatively calm Ashmoon Khan was yesterday summoned to testify in the trial of Marlon Callender. Callender is accused of killing Khan’s reputed husband Envil Pollard called “Rastaman”, who...

We should stand with Govt. to bring errant public officials to justice

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We should stand with Govt. to bring errant public officials to justice

DEAR EDITOR, In 2015, the nation voted with great enthusiasm for the Coalition Government to bring back the issue of transparency, accountability and democracy to a country that seemed to be void of...

Siting of the Indian Arrival Day Monument

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Siting of the Indian Arrival Day Monument

DEAR EDITOR, I recognize that my continuing efforts to have the Indian Arrival Day monument sited at Highbury, where the first batch of Indian immigrants actually arrived, instead of Palmyra, which...

Wholesale vendor disappears without a trace

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Wholesale vendor disappears without a trace

Relatives of a 56-year-old wholesale and retail vendor are worried sick and are desperate after the vendor left his home at Lot 41 Queenstown, Corriverton, Berbice and has not returned. Missing is...

About Sugar Heritage

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on About Sugar Heritage

DEAR EDITOR, During his tenure, Harold B. Davis, the first Executive Chairman of GuySuCo Commissioned (in the 1980s) the coordination of a range of heritage projects for the sugar industry. Ogle...

Unconscionable in their rape and plunder of Guyana

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unconscionable in their rape and plunder of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, What is “political” when former government officials are found to have been participants in activities amounting to criminal misdemeanor, accused of doing so after detailed...

One in every 68 children autistic – Education Ministry

Apr 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on One in every 68 children autistic – Education Ministry

–as moves are implemented to improve special education Autism can present a major challenge to the delivery of education in any education system if it is not recognised and appropriately dealt...

Cabinet’s decision not to renegotiate the PSA is more a fallacy than policy

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cabinet’s decision not to renegotiate the PSA is more a fallacy than policy

DEAR EDITOR, The list of the anomalies of the PSA continues to grow. Recently, it was revealed by the IMF that Exxon will recover the cost of “interest, expenses and related fees incurred on loans...

We, non-white people have the temerity to cuss down white countries

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on We, non-white people have the temerity to cuss down white countries

What Trinidad has done to 40 Venezuelan refuges applicants last week, no other white country has, including Hungary, which has a policy of not accepting refugees, and Australia which takes them in...

IMPACT OF FLOODS

Apr 25, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on IMPACT OF FLOODS

The deluge on April 16, last, and the attendant high tide, flooded a number of streets in Georgetown for several hours. But as soon as the high tide receded, the waters drained off, which suggests a...

DPP discontinues private criminal charges against Govt Ministers – Former AG Nandlall files three more

Apr 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on DPP discontinues private criminal charges against Govt Ministers – Former AG Nandlall files three more

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has discontinued the charges against Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, and Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr George Norton....

Innocent buyers of stolen state property may get settlement – SARA Chairman

Apr 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Innocent buyers of stolen state property may get settlement – SARA Chairman

By Abena Rockcliffe Campbell All may not be lost for those individuals who can show the court that they did not conspire to defraud the State, when the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA) moves to...

ExxonMobil ignores Kaieteur News for media visit to drillship

Apr 24, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on ExxonMobil ignores Kaieteur News for media visit to drillship

Last Saturday saw ExxonMobil taking six reporters on an all-day trip to the drillship Noble Bob Douglas, the vessel that is currently operating offshore Guyana in waters explored by the oil company....

Harmon on $1.7B judgment in TPL land battle… PPP left some “deep dark holes”

Apr 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon on $1.7B judgment in TPL land battle… PPP left some “deep dark holes”

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon has labelled as “unfair”, a recent ruling of the High Court, which has ordered the government to pay over $1.7B in damages to Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) in...

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Prisoners snatch overall boxing Novice Championship title

Sep 29, 2026

– ends extended GDF run (Kaieteur News) – The Republican Gym’s return to competitive boxing ended in championship glory, as the prisoners captured the overall team title at the Guyana...

No security of tenure for ministers

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a new career opportunity developing in Guyana that could revolutionise the public service. You can become a former Minister. Traditionally, when somebody stopped being a Minister, the public assumed that was the end of the ministerial chapter. The person might return...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

From Salem and Wisconsin to Georgetown, Guyana

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Over three hundred years after Massachusetts, the plague that roiled it struck Georgetown. Over three quarters of a century after Wisconsin, that same bomb has been detonated across Guyana. It’s a bunker buster. Everyone keeping their heads low; who doesn’t have cover...

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