June 2018

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Ambassador Ten-Pow elected VP for upcoming UN General Assembly

Jun 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ambassador Ten-Pow elected VP for upcoming UN General Assembly

Rudolph Michael Ten-Pow, Permanent Representative and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guyana to the United Nations, has been elected by acclamation as a Vice-President of the upcoming...

Guyana’s pathetic state of journalism

Jun 09, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s pathetic state of journalism

The Attorney-General made an observation that is pregnant with political controversy – a referendum may be needed to change the sentence structure for possession of small quantities of...

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...

Jagdeo rubbishes ExxonMobil’s rationale for local content

Jun 08, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Jagdeo rubbishes ExxonMobil’s rationale for local content

…Says, “I hire over 250 companies a month” By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo agrees with those who have bemoaned the sad state of affairs in Guyana particularly as...

Check the motivation of consultancy companies predicting glory for Guyana- Jagdeo

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Check the motivation of consultancy companies predicting glory for Guyana- Jagdeo

By Abena Rockcliffe- Campbell “Everything must not be taken at face value,” said Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday as he spoke about a recently highlighted report from a Norwegian...

Customs officials shot in anti-smuggling operation on East Coast

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Customs officials shot in anti-smuggling operation on East Coast

Two Customs enforcement officers were shot last evening during an anti-smuggling exercise on the East Coast of Demerara. According to reports, the officials were in a coordinated operation to...

Full benefits as unions, BEV seek alternative for workers

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Full benefits as unions, BEV seek alternative for workers

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) says it is disheartened after learning of the decision by businessman Bruce Vieira to shut his BEV Processors Inc., at Houston, East Bank...

Oil Companies must make disaster response, compensation plans public-NRGI

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Oil Companies must make disaster response, compensation plans public-NRGI

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is of the firm view that oil companies should allow the government and civil society to hold them to account for their mitigation strategies. To do...

Contractor allegedly forges signature on $10M application letter

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor allegedly forges signature on $10M application letter

An Alliance For Change executive member and contractor of Quad Constructions in Berbice, has come under scrutiny for allegedly forging a businessman’s signature on a $10M pre-qualification...

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West Ruimveldt Primary reign supreme in Demerara Zone of Future...

Jun 01, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

Absenteeism at School

Jun 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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