April 2018

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Our mosquito repellents are floor strippers

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our mosquito repellents are floor strippers

DEAR EDITOR, Whatever we rub on our skin enters the body, the blood stream, and eventually must have a discourse with our liver – so the biologists imply. Because we’re tropical, mosquitoes...

What have we from our highly-paid consultants?

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on What have we from our highly-paid consultants?

DEAR EDITOR, When it was announced that ExxonMobil had discovered oil in Guyana, we were told that Guyana had retained and was getting advice from some of the best consultants in the business. In...

Mr. Frederick Kissoon has written yet another untruth

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Frederick Kissoon has written yet another untruth

DEAR EDITOR, It is not my habit to respond to things written by your Columnist, Mr. Frederick Kissoon. I have not been doing so since he has no constituency and, therefore, has no responsibility for...

Surely Exxon has the most to lose by any oil spill

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Surely Exxon has the most to lose by any oil spill

DEAR EDITOR, One notes with a long eye roll, another sensational and deceptive front-page headline in which Chris Ram claims “ExxonMobil effectively bans fishing in huge swathe of Guyana’s...

The situation in the sugar industry is quickly evolving, not necessarily in the best direction

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The situation in the sugar industry is quickly evolving, not necessarily in the best direction

DEAR EDITOR, Our Union recognized, over the Easter Holidays, a number of reports in various sections of the media regarding happenings and developments in the sugar industry. For the GAWU, the...

Kudos to the Massy Group

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos to the Massy Group

DEAR EDITOR, I use this opportunity to commend the Massy Stores (supermarket) at Providence. On the 29th November, 2017, I wrote a letter in Kaieteur News, on the security situation at that location,...

Appointment of our distinguished judges to their rightful substantive positions

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Appointment of our distinguished judges to their rightful substantive positions

DEAR EDITOR, The recent recommendation by the Bar Association for appointment of both the acting Chancellor and Chief Justice of the Judiciary to substantive positions would be good to end the...

We do not need to be lackeys to our desires

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We do not need to be lackeys to our desires

DEAR EDITOR, A good friend of mine has dedicated himself and his resources in many ways to the success of Guyana. And while I have not done much if anything to further the development of our country,...

Corruption thrives in secret places

Apr 05, 2018 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Corruption thrives in secret places

The concept of open data has been gaining momentum among local governments in recent years, but some cling stubbornly to the culture of opacity. Open data refers to the process by which governments...

Gaskin yet to see Local Content proposals of oil companies

Apr 04, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Gaskin yet to see Local Content proposals of oil companies

…but tasked with completion of policy for sector By Kiana Wilburg The completion of the Local Content Policy is now up to Business Minister Dominic Gaskin. This crucial document will provide...

Guyana braces for lengthy World Court case on territorial claim

Apr 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana braces for lengthy World Court case on territorial claim

Guyana is unfazed by statements of neighbouring Venezuela that it will not recognize any ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the territorial claims. Foreign Affairs...

Man gets 16 yrs for killing girlfriend’s father

Apr 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets 16 yrs for killing girlfriend’s father

…accomplice released on time served Twenty three-year-old Veeran Dias Lall was yesterday jailed for 16 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter—admitting that on April 2, 2016,...

Govt. must reveal steps taken to guard against inflated costs by oil entities – Int’l Group

Apr 04, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Govt. must reveal steps taken to guard against inflated costs by oil entities – Int’l Group

What guarantee does the Government have that reported production costs by oil companies have not been inflated to reduce taxes along with the State’s share of profit oil? Without proper controls,...

Miner perishes in Mazaruni pit accident

Apr 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miner perishes in Mazaruni pit accident

A 25-year-old miner was killed at around 14.00 hrs on Sunday at Chinese Creek Backdam, Mazaruni River, after a pit in which he was working collapsed. Police said that Kevin Adams of Linden was...

Cops hunt suspects in shooting of market vendor

Apr 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cops hunt suspects in shooting of market vendor

Detectives were up to late yesterday evening trying to track down two young men who rode up on a bicycle, with one of them shooting market vendor Doodnauth Danasri to the head before relieving...

Prisoners and lawyers calling de shots

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Prisoners and lawyers calling de shots

Long time a court was a place wheh people use to frighten to even walk past. And if a man had to go to court he would put on he best clothes, shine he shoes, and look very sharp. Now times change. De...

Govt. confuses Concession Agreement with a PSA

Apr 04, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Govt. confuses Concession Agreement with a PSA

…Makes puzzling comparisons between oil deals in Saudi Arabia and Guyana While Guyanese lawyers, businessmen, environmentalists and opposition politicians believe that the nation is being shafted...

RERC Easter Regatta Grass Track Meet… Rasul and Vieira (125cc Pro.), Sears (125cc Novice), O. Young (Quads), Fagundes (Bush Bikes) are Overall champs

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RERC Easter Regatta Grass Track Meet… Rasul and Vieira (125cc Pro.), Sears (125cc Novice), O. Young (Quads), Fagundes (Bush Bikes) are Overall champs

Franklin Wilson story and photos The Red Earth Riders Club (RERC) of Bartica successfully brought off their first Grass Track Meet of the year, held to coincide with the Bartica Easter Regatta...

Public education key to ensuring better participation at LGE – Minister Bulkan

Apr 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Public education key to ensuring better participation at LGE – Minister Bulkan

With the sum of $2.9 billion allocated to ensuring democratic governance at the Local Government Elections (LGE) slated for later this year, the Ministry of Communities is working to ensure a greater...

GFF appoints Canada-based Dr. Ivan Joseph as Lady Jags head coach

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF appoints Canada-based Dr. Ivan Joseph as Lady Jags head coach

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has appointed Dr. Ivan Joseph as Head Coach of the National Senior Women’s team, the Lady Jags, with immediate effect for a period of one year. Dr. Joseph, a...

32 cases disposed of in January session of Demerara Assizes

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 32 cases disposed of in January session of Demerara Assizes

According to information from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), 32 out of 229 cases were disposed of at the January session of the Demerara Criminal Assizes. During that time, Justice James...

Pele Alumni Annual Youth Education Development Programme off to great start – Denis Carrington

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pele Alumni Annual Youth Education Development Programme off to great start – Denis Carrington

Pele Alumini Corporation Director Denis Carrington, Coordinator of the Second Annual Youth Education Development Programme has declared that the programme, which started yesterday and concludes...

Banks United Circle Tennis claim NSC title

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks United Circle Tennis claim NSC title

Banks United Circle Tennis (BUCT) won the National Sports Commission/AL Sport and Tour Promotions Sponsored Season Opener Circle Tennis competition by defeating rival Victory Chasers Circle Tennis...

Elections of Georgetown Football Association Member Clubs

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Elections of Georgetown Football Association Member Clubs

As mandated by the Constitutions of all Georgetown Football Association member Clubs, we hereby give notice of our upcoming election of Office bearers, which is schedule to be executed during the...

GCA’s NYTS 50 overs U-19 cricket… DCC, TSC win, NYTS/ GCC washed out

Apr 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s NYTS 50 overs U-19 cricket… DCC, TSC win, NYTS/ GCC washed out

DCC and TSC notched up victories, while the game between New York Tri State and GCC at Ogle was abandoned due an unfit ground in the latest round of matches in the GCA’s NYTS’ 50-over cricket...

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CPL – Saint Lucia Kings recorded back-to-back wins as they beat the Trinbago Knight Riders by 36-runs at the Queen’s Park Oval in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Tim Seifert...

Second-class patients

Aug 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something wonderfully modern about a health system in which the government pays a private hospital to provide a service to poor people, and the private hospital then tells those poor people to come back tomorrow for the results. It is almost as if the voucher comes...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

Nothing to hide

Aug 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali has said that he has nothing to hide about his farm tucked away inside Long Creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Comforts me to hear that statement. Having made his representation, the president is now obligated to go further. Beyond his words would be a good...

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