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Govt. announces review of Rusal’s bauxite contract

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. announces review of Rusal’s bauxite contract

The first Rusal taskforce meeting was held to discuss how the administration will handle the repercussions of recent US government sanctions against the company that employs over 500 Guyanese. Rusal,...

Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows

Guyana’s latest roundabout is impressive. But it would have been much better if it was part of an overall national transportation plan aimed at solving the myriad issues of transportation,...

Femicide—The latest Guyanese scourge

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Femicide—The latest Guyanese scourge

Dear Editor, Who will stem the tide in the rising femicide? In the absence of a visible concrete plan everything has become seemingly out of hand. In 2015, I wrote an article denouncing the rising...

Discontinue public ownership of sugar

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Discontinue public ownership of sugar

Dear Editor, In a recent letter to the media I strongly advocated the return of the sugar industry to private ownership or management which is independent of the government. Its current status as a...

Conduct staff audit at GECOM

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Conduct staff audit at GECOM

Dear Editor, Having noted the most recent development of what appears to be a controversy over the ethnic composition of the staff and employment practices of the Guyana Elections Commission...

Government continues to honour agreement

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government continues to honour agreement

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority wishes to respond to a letter published in the June 6, 2018 edition of the Kaieteur Newspaper, titled ‘We can’t continue governing with our heads buried...

GRA denies high taxation caused BEV closure

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA denies high taxation caused BEV closure

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has disagreed that high taxation contributed to the impending closure of BEV Processors, one of the country’s biggest fishing companies. The company’s owner,...

A flawed justice system

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A flawed justice system

Dear Editor, I would like to piggy back on Kissoon’s column dated Friday 05-08-18 about our backward nation, a nation with no intention to wake up and board the train to a place call sensibility. I...

Farmer jailed for eight grams of ganja gets High Court bail

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer jailed for eight grams of ganja gets High Court bail

Almost three weeks after a city resident was jailed three years for just over eight grams of marijuana, sparking public outrage, a lawyer who is appealing his case, pro bono, has managed to get him...

$Berbice double murder/suicide… Mom, daughter died from fractured skulls$

Berbice double murder/suicide… Mom, daughter died from fractured skulls

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice double murder/suicide… Mom, daughter died from fractured skulls

Two days after the murderous rampage executed by an enraged husband and father who subsequently ended his life at Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, the autopsy was completed and the results...

NIS appears to be toothless

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS appears to be toothless

Dear Editor I have chosen your newspaper to bring to light an injustice that is being perpetrated on some contractors by the National Insurance Scheme. It was good to see this agency stepping up its...

Don’t credit Queen Victoria for what others did

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t credit Queen Victoria for what others did

Dear Editor In a letter in today’s Kaieteur News in support of the preservation of the statue of Queen Victoria, Mr Rooplall Dudnath stated: “It was during her reign as Queen of England that she...

Full CSME implementation… CARICOM Secretary General tells regional officials to get it done

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Full CSME implementation… CARICOM Secretary General tells regional officials to get it done

Regional leaders yesterday admitted that there are deep disappointments over the slow rate of full implementation by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME). At the opening...

If not Victoria, then Wilberforce

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on If not Victoria, then Wilberforce

Dear Editor, I refer to a latter from T. Pemberton captioned “Was Burnham’s slate cleaner than Queen Victoria’s?” Actually I don’t quite understand a few things about this letter and indeed...

Guyana still awaiting response from Suriname in piracy attacks

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana still awaiting response from Suriname in piracy attacks

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan says Guyana is still awaiting a response from the Surinamese authorities in relation to the request made for statements from witnesses in the latest...

Some visiting city-based lawyers shortchanging Region Two residents

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some visiting city-based lawyers shortchanging Region Two residents

Dear Editor, There are several reports of lawyers based in Georgetown taking cases from Essequibians and not adequately representing them. Some of these lawyers collect the full fees (amounting to...

KUDOS TO GWI

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on KUDOS TO GWI

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” is from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798. It explains how a sailor on a stranded ship was...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more

Let the asylum seekers go: a first step for Venezuela to rebuild relations in the Americas

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has steadfast support from many... more

A leader undresses in public

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- Often when men of power open their mouths, it is fascinating how they give... more

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Govt. announces review of Rusal’s bauxite contract

Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows

Femicide—The latest Guyanese scourge

Discontinue public ownership of sugar

Conduct staff audit at GECOM

Government continues to honour agreement

GRA denies high taxation caused BEV closure

A flawed justice system

Farmer jailed for eight grams of ganja gets High Court bail

Berbice double murder/suicide… Mom, daughter died from fractured skulls

NIS appears to be toothless

Don’t credit Queen Victoria for what others did

Full CSME implementation… CARICOM Secretary General tells regional officials to get it done

If not Victoria, then Wilberforce

Guyana still awaiting response from Suriname in piracy attacks

Some visiting city-based lawyers shortchanging Region Two residents

KUDOS TO GWI

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