April 2018

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GRA no longer holding back on application of Property Tax—Statia

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA no longer holding back on application of Property Tax—Statia

By Kiana Wilburg There is a huge misconception when it comes to Property Tax. Many believe that it refers to a tax on a building. But according to Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority...

Gov’t project clashes with private farm lands in E’bo

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t project clashes with private farm lands in E’bo

Several farmers on the Essequibo Coast are severely aggrieved after hundreds of thousands of dollars in sucker plants were recently destroyed. These residents who farm on the East side of Riverstown...

World Customs body lauds GRA’s modernisation drive

Apr 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on World Customs body lauds GRA’s modernisation drive

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) came in for high praises from the Secretary-General of the World Customs Organisation (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, for its “determined” efforts at modernization. In a...

The essential thing about life, WPA doesn’t understand

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The essential thing about life, WPA doesn’t understand

Once your thought patterns have taken shape, then, wherever you are, whichever part of the world you were born into you must, as a matter of vital survival, you must understand one fundamental fact...

Jagdeo will surprise us with the candidate for 2020

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo will surprise us with the candidate for 2020

DEAR EDITOR, I believe that if the decision in third term case allows for Jagdeo to run again for President, he will do so, but somehow I also feel that he is giving a lot more thought to 2020 than...

Things have not changed much since those days

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Things have not changed much since those days

DEAR EDITOR, On the subject of mosquitoes, some years ago, while watching a TV cookery programme, I learnt that garlic and mosquitoes were natural enemies. Thus, a question that had puzzled me from...

The sugar industry remains too important for haphazard decision-making

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sugar industry remains too important for haphazard decision-making

DEAR EDITOR, Region #6 RDC Councillor, Mr Haseef Yusuf in letters appearing on April 04 in two dailies contended that the entire GuySuCo should be privatised. While the GAWU agrees that Mr Yusuf is...

Labelling of a welcome ceremony as excess sounds desperate

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Labelling of a welcome ceremony as excess sounds desperate

DEAR EDITOR, In response to my letter on the welcome home for the Honourable Prime Minister, Minette Bacchus attempts to demonstrate that the APNU+AFC government is acting without prudence and proper...

Detecting police misconduct

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Detecting police misconduct

Dear Editor The avowed intention of Government is the reform of the Guyana Police Force. Incidents of misconduct in the professional (and personal) lives of officers and ranks have reinforced the...

Raise the height of the Parking Meter

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Raise the height of the Parking Meter

DEAR EDITOR, The debate, the protests, the familiar organisational dislocation in the City Council –over-ruled by a Town Clerk – all cumulate into a serious joke. As a consequence, in order not...

Government’s flip-flop on GuySuCo continues

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government’s flip-flop on GuySuCo continues

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU/AFC Coalition continues to be ambivalent in its approach to the sugar industry. While in opposition, they bemoaned that the sugar industry is a “drain on the treasury”, that...

TIT-FOR-TAT DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY

Apr 07, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TIT-FOR-TAT DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY

On March 14, 2018, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from Britain after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his...

Several radio operations face imminent shutdown …as Broadcasting Authority gets tough for non-compliance

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Several radio operations face imminent shutdown …as Broadcasting Authority gets tough for non-compliance

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Even the longest rope has an end. That idiom is a stark reminder of the position taken by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) which has decided to publish a...

Charges likely today as… Employees, 19 and 17, lead cops to buried cash from Berbice store robbery/murder

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Charges likely today as… Employees, 19 and 17, lead cops to buried cash from Berbice store robbery/murder

– Mom who allegedly disposed of knife, washed son’s bloody clothes also held Police have retrieved some of the money that two teenage employees reportedly stole from Sukhram General Store...

Court Orders Arrest of Brazil’s Ex-President Lula – Pending Appeal of Corruption Conviction

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Court Orders Arrest of Brazil’s Ex-President Lula – Pending Appeal of Corruption Conviction

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justices on Brazil’s top court have delivered a major blow to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. They voted 6-5 early yesterday to reject his petition to stay out...

PM Nagamootoo resumes duties after warm welcome home

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PM Nagamootoo resumes duties after warm welcome home

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo stepped off a Caribbean Airlines aircraft yesterday to a warm welcome by ministers of government, family, friends, and well-wishers at the Cheddi Jagan International...

Bosai continues to hoard bauxite deposit areas without development

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bosai continues to hoard bauxite deposit areas without development

…as other investors being turned away While the line of potential investors with interest in bauxite gets longer, Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc. continues to hold on to several areas of bauxite...

Former GDF captain to be arraigned today

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Former GDF captain to be arraigned today

Six days after Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Captain, Orwain Sandy, surrendered to officers at the Ruimveldt Police Station, having allegedly shot his reputed wife, Reona Payne, a Travel Agent, he is...

Lula gone to jail, Jagdeo to follow

Apr 06, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lula gone to jail, Jagdeo to follow

People in some countries don’t like hear de word corruption. Is like holding a red cloth in front of a bull. Lula was a popular leader in Brazil and just like wha does happen in some...

Multi-million £££ UK project to make five local hospitals ‘safe and green’

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-million £££ UK project to make five local hospitals ‘safe and green’

Guyana is one of seven countries slated to benefit from a £38 million Smart Hospital project. The hospitals slated to be retrofitted and transformed in smart health facilities are the Diamond,...

Pele Alumni Corp. YEDP a resounding success – All 80 participants presented with gift vouchers

Apr 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pele Alumni Corp. YEDP a resounding success – All 80 participants presented with gift vouchers

The second edition of the Pele Alumni Corporation (PAC), Youth Education Development Programme came to an end on Wednesday afternoon last at the Carifesta Sports Complex and has been deemed a...

Govt. steams ahead with landing natural gas pipeline

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. steams ahead with landing natural gas pipeline

– GPL new Chief unveils short-term plans to keep lights on Government has announced aggressive plans to pull out all stops to reduce the shutdowns of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) with...

Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis wins opening bout at Commonwealth Games

Apr 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis wins opening bout at Commonwealth Games

Guyana’s Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis continued his boxing dominance over St. Lucian Nathan Ferrari after defeating him via unanimous decision in the Men’s 64 Kg (Welterweight) first round fight...

Guyanese men arrested at JFK with 26 birds in curlers

Apr 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese men arrested at JFK with 26 birds in curlers

New York – Two men, said to be Guyanese, were arrested Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport after federal authorities said they tried to smuggle songbirds into the country by...

Road to Mecca V officially launched – Eagles to make debut

Apr 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Road to Mecca V officially launched – Eagles to make debut

By Calvin Chapman The 2018 edition of Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation’s (GABF) National Club Championships, dubbed ‘Road to Mecca V’, which bounces off tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson...

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Canache lines up for Need for Speed Kart Clash Round 2

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown, Guyana – November 8, 2026 – The second round of the 2026 Need for Speed Karting Championship, organised by the Jumbo Jet Events team, is attracting...

What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are moments in the political life of every nation when the character of its people is tested by whether they have the courage to condemn wrongdoing when it is committed against those with whom they disagree. It is easy to champion justice when the victim belongs to your...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

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...

Light and darkness, lips to life

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The light that shines over Guyana must be at its dazzling purest. Not a speck of darkness on the horizon. Not a stray dark spot in the cupboard or under the carpet. When light is at its brightest, what chance for darkness to show its face, to linger? On the occasion of...

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