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Congrats to Chris Ram

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congrats to Chris Ram

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your letter column to extend congratulations to Mr. Christopher Ram on his completion of his Masters in Oil and Gas at the Reading University. While Reading...

Re-zoning residential neighbourhoods?

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Re-zoning residential neighbourhoods?

Dear Editor, Over the last two years there has been a sleuth of new Governmental and their semi-autonomous offspring rentals in residential neighbourhoods. The latest publicized one being The Guyana...

Students to help plant 15,000 mangrove seedlings along Essequibo foreshore

Jul 09, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Students to help plant 15,000 mangrove seedlings along Essequibo foreshore

By August month-end, mangrove seedlings would be planted along 300 metres of foreshore by Walton Hall, Essequibo Coast. In May, approximately $1.6 million in contracts were awarded to several...

The reports were incorrect

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The reports were incorrect

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent statements and allegations made in the Kaieteur News on July 3rd and 8th and certain television news broadcast, much of which is erroneous, on the incident...

A breach of protocol

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A breach of protocol

Dear Editor, The photograph in today’s SG of the Minister holding a newborn has me thinking that maybe protocols were not observed in the haste and eagerness. The Minister is in the Nursery, a very...

Private business in a government office

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Private business in a government office

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to the attention of the Prime Minister a matter of concern towards his office in Region Six. A few days back my aunt asked me to accompany her to the Prime...

Proof that accusations against Guyana Prize are without merit

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proof that accusations against Guyana Prize are without merit

Dear Editor, In my letter of July 6, 2018, “Proof that the accusations against the Guyana Prize are false, ultra vires and without merit” I did not mention the following. Ryhaan Shah’s career...

An open letter to the Ministry of Education

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to the Ministry of Education

Dear Editor, It’s that time again when teachers will be taking a much-needed vacation, but time flies, and soon we’ll be preparing for back-to-school. While normal people will be deciding what...

Bullseye

Jul 09, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bullseye

Dear Sir, Ever so often your cartoonist hits the bull-eye. That was the case on Sunday July 8th 2018. It was absolute brilliance! Or in the vernacular of the subject “ pure fyah”. Candice

NY-based company sole sourced in $366M drug contract -major local suppliers disqualified

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NY-based company sole sourced in $366M drug contract -major local suppliers disqualified

There are questions over a $350M-plus drug contract last year to a New York-based company. The contract, valued at US$1,789,886.15 ($366,926,660.80) was awarded on sole sourcing to a company called...

Guyana shouldn’t waste time behind National Oil Company now-Dr. Mangal …warns it would be a perfect avenue for corruption

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana shouldn’t waste time behind National Oil Company now-Dr. Mangal …warns it would be a perfect avenue for corruption

By Kiana Wilburg If Guyana creates a National Oil Company (NOC) now, or even two to three years after oil production, it would simply be another avenue for corruption. This was essentially the...

Fuel truck driver dies after Lethem trail “explosion”

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel truck driver dies after Lethem trail “explosion”

– Family suspects foul play A father of two who sustained third degrees burns about his body after a fuel truck exploded in Lethem succumbed on Friday, at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH)....

Jagdeo has no moral authority to speak on corruption – Badal

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo has no moral authority to speak on corruption – Badal

Local businessman, Robert Badal has declared that this is the last time he will respond to former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, who is “fading into insignificance.” However, in his “last”...

Police tell home invasion victims story does not sound “real”

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police tell home invasion victims story does not sound “real”

– questions family where they got money from A 39-year-old woman and her brother are now in fear after their 51 Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice residence was invaded by armed bandits at their...

First triplets born at GPHC since 2012

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on First triplets born at GPHC since 2012

One set of triplets and three sets of twins are currently enjoying the hospitality of staffers of the Maternity Wing of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC]. While the birth of twin...

Large Greenheart shipment leaves for New York

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Large Greenheart shipment leaves for New York

Amid all the bad news- at least one of them involving a fatality- on the hinterland roads, there is some good ones. A large shipment of Greenheart piles and timber is currently being loaded for New...

Bus kills man on McDoom pedestrian crossing

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bus kills man on McDoom pedestrian crossing

Dexter Thomas, 48, of Lot 14 Haslington, East Coast Demerara, died yesterday after he was struck down by minibus BWW 6110 on a pedestrian crossing, on the Mc Doom public road. The accident was caught...

Pauline and Kumar mek Guyanese more shame

Jul 08, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pauline and Kumar mek Guyanese more shame

When shame was sharing Guyanese tek all. Dem ain’t got nobody who got more shame than Guyanese. Dem does stand up and hear people talking bad bout Guyana and dem does be too shame fuh seh anything....

Driven to improve the delivery of knowledge… Senior Education Officer, Ms. Carol Benn, is a ‘Special Person’

Jul 08, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Special Person Comments Off on Driven to improve the delivery of knowledge… Senior Education Officer, Ms. Carol Benn, is a ‘Special Person’

““You get a lot of satisfaction from this work because you don’t just get a chance to point out where teachers are going wrong, but you get a chance to correct them and see them improve.”...

Chris Ram excels in UK Oil and Gas Law Programme

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Chris Ram excels in UK Oil and Gas Law Programme

On Tuesday, Chartered Accountant, Chris Ram received a Certificate for the Masters of Laws in Oil and Gas at a graduation ceremony in the Great Hall of Reading University in England. Reading is one...

BV boy is President of America Heart Association

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on BV boy is President of America Heart Association

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – With a father who worked as a postmaster and a mother who was a homemaker, Ivor Benjamin grew up under modest circumstances. The Benjamins lived in Guyana, a small nation on...

Bus catches afire on Highway

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bus catches afire on Highway

A Pit-bull minibus caught afire on the, Soesdyke-Linden Highway recently after developing mechanical problems in the vicinity of the Hararauni Village. The minibus caught afire around 07:00 hrs....

Operators hike sand prices by as much as 100 percent

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Operators hike sand prices by as much as 100 percent

Operators on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, East Bank Demerara, have announced a major hike in the price for sand from tomorrow. However, it appears that the hike would be raising some eyebrows....

MPs to debate re-establishment of Labour Ministry

Jul 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on MPs to debate re-establishment of Labour Ministry

The People’s Progressive party (PPP) is pushing for the re-establishment of a Ministry of Labour and the issue is up for debate in the National Assembly this week. Trade union leaders have been...

GBA School Boys & Junior Boxing C/Ships… FYF dominates as Coach Blake asks RDC’s for assistance for out-of-Towns teams

Jul 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBA School Boys & Junior Boxing C/Ships… FYF dominates as Coach Blake asks RDC’s for assistance for out-of-Towns teams

The third Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) School Boys and Junior Boxing Championships were held yesterday at the Andrew ‘six heads’ Lewis Boxing Gym in Albouystown with the youngsters from...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more