June 2018

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Ethnicity and GECOM

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ethnicity and GECOM

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Elections Commission is a constitutional commission established by Article 161 of the Constitution. Its functional responsibilities are set out in Article 162. In short, it is...

About the Kitty Roundabout

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on About the Kitty Roundabout

DEAR EDITOR, I am not a little perplexed by what the Minister of Public Infrastructure is reported to have said on the occasion of the opening of the Kitty roundabout, especially the part about...

Govt. proposes to increase local authority areas

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. proposes to increase local authority areas

Government anticipates redrawing some boundaries to provide for an increase in the number of local authority areas for the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE). According to Minister of...

Social Compact demands Government sincerity

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Social Compact demands Government sincerity

DEAR EDITOR, The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) recognized that President David Granger in his remarks to an activity he hosted in honour of the GPSU’s 95th Anniversary is...

Friend of murdered teacher testifies as PI continues

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Friend of murdered teacher testifies as PI continues

A friend of murdered High School teacher, Kescia Branche, whose battered body was found in a cemetery last year November, went into the witness box yesterday as the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the...

Venezuela remains part of the OAS; Belize abstains

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela remains part of the OAS; Belize abstains

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has survived an attempt by the United States Government to have it suspended from the Organization of American States (OAS). The US had proposed a motion at the...

Private ownership in the sugar industry was far from “halcyonic”

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Private ownership in the sugar industry was far from “halcyonic”

DEAR EDITOR, Mr Nowrang Persaud in a letter which appeared in the May 30, 2018 in another section of the media, contended that for the sugar industry to return to its “halcyonic days” it must...

Commission lauds whistle-blowing, “Me-Too” women

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Commission lauds whistle-blowing, “Me-Too” women

In the wake of a number of persons coming out and claiming harassment, the Women and Gender Equality Commission (W&GEC) said it hoping that the National Assembly adopt key sexual harassment...

Hung jury for East Bank businessman charged with attempted murder

Jun 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hung jury for East Bank businessman charged with attempted murder

After six long hours of deliberation, the jury in the attempted murder trial of businessman Deryck Jaisingh, were still unable to reach a verdict of guilty or not guilty as it relates to the offence....

A reminder of a worthy erstwhile royal empress

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A reminder of a worthy erstwhile royal empress

DEAR EDITOR, One of history’s most iconic monarchs, Queen Victoria (1819-1901) ruled for more than sixty years. She was empress of the world’s largest ever empire, and her name denotes an entire...

PEG RETIREMENT AGE AT 60

Jun 08, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on PEG RETIREMENT AGE AT 60

The last five decades have seen a rapid increase in lifespan in Guyana. People are living as much as a decade longer and have been staying much healthier later in life, yet the retirement age remains...

CID officers graduate from Canada-based JES training programme

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CID officers graduate from Canada-based JES training programme

Twenty-one officers from the Guyana Police Force, (GPF) have successfully completed the Key Opinion Leaders programme which is organized by the Canada- based, Justice Education Society, (JES)...

ExxonMobil has its own definition of Local Content – Brasington

Jun 07, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on ExxonMobil has its own definition of Local Content – Brasington

By Kiana Wilburg “Money invested in the economy” is what qualifies as local content for USA oil giant, ExxonMobil. This was explained, yesterday, by the company’s head of Public and...

Chris Ram says company never worked for ExxonMobil

Jun 07, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Chris Ram says company never worked for ExxonMobil

…only executed work for subcontractors independent of oil company’s help While it is true that Ram and McRae have been servicing the subcontractors of ExxonMobil, it has been doing so...

Deadly high seas attack…. Key teenage ‘witness’ charged with murder

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Deadly high seas attack…. Key teenage ‘witness’ charged with murder

More than one month after one of the most deadly high seas pirate attacks in the region, police yesterday charged a teen with murder. However, from all indications the investigators and prosecutors...

Man goes berserk, hammers wife and stabs daughter to death, then hangs self

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man goes berserk, hammers wife and stabs daughter to death, then hangs self

By Malisa Playter-Harry Berbicians are in utter shock after the gruesome murder of a woman and her daughter yesterday, committed by a man residents described as “quiet”. The man later...

Boundary issue…Int’l Court summons Guyana, Venezuela for key meeting on pleadings

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Boundary issue…Int’l Court summons Guyana, Venezuela for key meeting on pleadings

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported that resulting from the filing of its application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on March 29, 2018, it has gotten word back. “The...

Mae’s apologises to schoolboy, parents

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mae’s apologises to schoolboy, parents

Proprietor of Mae’s Schools, Stacey French, has officially apologised to student Joshua Chacon and his parents. Chacon, who is of Amerindian heritage, was reportedly evicted from the school during...

Open a school on local con-tent fuh de coalition

Jun 07, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Open a school on local con-tent fuh de coalition

Local content has a meaning fuh everybody else in de world but when it comes to Exxon that company got a different definition. Local content is when a foreign company invest and develop skills that...

The Govt. is hanging out Exxon’s ‘fine things’ in public

Jun 07, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Govt. is hanging out Exxon’s ‘fine things’ in public

We have a government which is less smart than is presumed. Which right-thinking government releases a list of names provided to it by Exxon without verifying the information received, ensuring...

GABBFF Senior Nationals now set for Parc Rayne Event Centre on July 15 next

Jun 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABBFF Senior Nationals now set for Parc Rayne Event Centre on July 15 next

The battle lines will be drawn come July 15 next when the Guyana Amateur Body Building and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) hosts its marquee event, Senior Nationals at the new venue, Parc Rayne Event...

Bramble to Captain Windies Invitational team in Global Canadian T20 tournament

Jun 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bramble to Captain Windies Invitational team in Global Canadian T20 tournament

The Guyana Cricket Board and Cricket Guy Inc. can again claim that whatever they are doing to Guyana’s cricket is working. The on field performance of Guyana Jaguars in the CWI Professional Cricket...

‘Two Brothers’ fired HR manager for inappropriate interview

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Two Brothers’ fired HR manager for inappropriate interview

A Human Resources Manager accused of inappropriate behaviour with a young, female job applicant was fired a year ago. According to executives of Two Brothers Corp, a fuel distribution business...

Junior cyclist doing Guyana proud overseas

Jun 07, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior cyclist doing Guyana proud overseas

National Cyclist Romello Crawford is doing Guyana proud overseas. Crawford is presently campaigning in the United States with success. Crawford who has been in ripping form in Guyana was recently...

Solar farm to provide 17 hours power to Mabaruma

Jun 07, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Solar farm to provide 17 hours power to Mabaruma

Seven hundred residents of Mabaruma will by August enjoy 17 hours of clean and reliable electricity with the completion of Guyana’s first ever solar farm. The $264M farm in Region One will cover...

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Groundbreaking Beharry U19 School’s Cricket launched yesterday

May 30, 2026

Beharry Schools Under-19 Cricket Tournament… – Tournament to focus on growing core value among youths through cricket By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – The Beharry Group of Companies...

Who do you think will win?

May 30, 2026

Peeping Tom… (Kaieteur News) – The countdown has begun. In homes across Guyana, television sets will soon be tuned to one thing and one thing only — the FIFA World Cup 2026. From Georgetown to Lethem, from Berbice to Bartica, football fever will once again take over the country. Sleep...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Crumbling into disarray

May 30, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The world was crumbling long before China’s strongman Xi Jinping said so. The leader of the free world surrenders the high ground, the first flakes fly, the crumbling begins. Standards fragment. Come alarmingly close to a world shredded, left...

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