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The focus of our union’s negotiation should be on nontaxable benefits and such like

Aug 31, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The focus of our union’s negotiation should be on nontaxable benefits and such like

DEAR EDITOR, From the first look, it can lead to a misleading conclusion due to the gross inaccuracies of the information posited by my very emotional and irate colleague. I do forgive her, for it is...

Teachers, like ministers and members of parliament, deserve a livable wage

Aug 31, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Teachers, like ministers and members of parliament, deserve a livable wage

DEAR EDITOR, It is disheartening to note the Government’s approach to the salaries negotiation with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), which has been ongoing since 2016 and has now...

This will further destroy the remnants of respectability of the AFC

Aug 31, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This will further destroy the remnants of respectability of the AFC

DEAR EDITOR, Social cohesion is always an elusive element in our country, primarily because it is not the will of our politicians who believe in the ‘divide and rule’ principle. Being in...

EXTRAVAGANCE IN PARLIAMENT

Aug 31, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on EXTRAVAGANCE IN PARLIAMENT

It seems that the Members of Parliament (MPs) are eating and drinking the country to death, while the poor and the homeless have hardly anything proper to eat due to the fact that they cannot afford...

Guyana deserves more in future oil contracts; fiscal regime must change – Chatham House

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana deserves more in future oil contracts; fiscal regime must change – Chatham House

By Kiana Wilburg No one has to wonder anymore. It is a fact that Guyana is rich with oil. As such, future contracts with oil operators must reflect that the government is aware of the value of its...

President Granger bows to pressure, hosts third press conference tomorrow

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger bows to pressure, hosts third press conference tomorrow

More than three years after being sworn in, an under pressure President David Granger is set to host his third press conference tomorrow. The forum comes at a time when the government is facing a...

Identify Top Cop nominee before we meet

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Identify Top Cop nominee before we meet

– Jagdeo writes to Granger Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo late yesterday wrote to President David Granger requesting that he identify his nominee for Commissioner of Police before today’s...

Mother who fatally stabbed three-year-old son remanded

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mother who fatally stabbed three-year-old son remanded

Brenda Ferreira, the 26-year-old mother who stabbed her three-year-old son twice to the heart, last Saturday, killing him, was yesterday charged with murder at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court....

Deadlock remains in Education standoff

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Deadlock remains in Education standoff

– GTU says arbitration will end strike; Ministry insists on conciliation process The Guyana Teachers’ Union [GTU] is prepared to bring an end to its ongoing strike action if the Ministry...

Department of Citizenship to handle remigrants’ applications by October

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Department of Citizenship to handle remigrants’ applications by October

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, in shedding light on the remigrant system and the ministry’s role in the process, clarified that over the years, the fiscal concessions afforded to...

Disciplinary action recommended for engineer overseeing Eccles, Supply Health Centres

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Disciplinary action recommended for engineer overseeing Eccles, Supply Health Centres

…Payment made to contractor questioned The Region 4 (Demerara/Mahaica) administration has dispatched a letter to the Ministry of Communities requesting disciplinary action be taken against an...

Green Paper on Natural Resource Fund deeply flawed – contradicts the Constitution, increases discretion of Finance Minister – Ram

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Green Paper on Natural Resource Fund deeply flawed – contradicts the Constitution, increases discretion of Finance Minister – Ram

By Kiana Wilburg Government’s Green Paper on the establishment of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) is filled with worrying flaws. It also holds opportunities for abuse by its managers, the principal...

Dem boys seh …Exxon can be a messy tenant

Aug 30, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …Exxon can be a messy tenant

When yuh rent a house to somebody yuh got to keep yuh eye pun dem, because people who rent don’t treat de house like dem own. Nuff people cry when dem tenants move out. De place look so bad that it...

Blackout blues… Angry E’bo coast residents reject GPL officials, demand minister’s presence

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Blackout blues… Angry E’bo coast residents reject GPL officials, demand minister’s presence

Over the past few days, residents on the Essequibo Coast have been persistent in their protests against Guyana Power and Light, in an attempt to garner answers on the frequent power cuts. After a...

Auditor General to look into teachers’ union finances

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General to look into teachers’ union finances

– Union says books are available for scrutiny An audit into the management of the finances of the Guyana Teachers’ Union [GTU] is underway. This is according to Auditor General...

AG finally activates JRA, in keeping with CJ’s order

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on AG finally activates JRA, in keeping with CJ’s order

Following weeks of delay, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams has finally activated the Judicial Review Act in keeping with the original order of Chief Justice (ag) Roxane...

Athletic road race and fitness walk in New Amsterdam successful

Aug 30, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Athletic road race and fitness walk in New Amsterdam successful

Athletics returned to the town of New Amsterdam with a bang when Country Pride Television in collaboration with the Guyana Committee of Services (GCOS) and some Business entities organised a series...

Berbice Volleyball Association host second 4×4 competition

Aug 30, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Volleyball Association host second 4×4 competition

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) on Sunday last held the second phase of its 4×4 volleyball and softball cricket competitions and fun-day at the Bound Yard Playfield, Port Mourant,...

$Battered pensioner died from fractured spine, blunt trauma to the head$

Battered pensioner died from fractured spine, blunt trauma to the head

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Battered pensioner died from fractured spine, blunt trauma to the head

Seventy-two year-old Krishnachand Dabee, who was found on Monday evening lying motionless in his yard at Lot 149 Annandale, South, East Coast Demerara, by family members who were not getting in...

BWF CAREBACO Regional Championships 2018 Priyanna Ramdhani takes U17 Girls Doubles gold; Mishka Beharry cops U11 Singles Bronze

Aug 30, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BWF CAREBACO Regional Championships 2018 Priyanna Ramdhani takes U17 Girls Doubles gold; Mishka Beharry cops U11 Singles Bronze

Guyana’s Priyanna Ramdhani copped gold in the Under-17 Girls Doubles Round Robin competition whuile Mishka BEharry took the Bronze medal in the Under-11 Girls Singles Round Robin competition when...

GFF-RAP capacity building underway

Aug 30, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF-RAP capacity building underway

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) / FIFA Refereeing Assistance Programme (RAP) commenced yesterday at the Conference Room of Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue. Proceeding the in-house...

‘Whistle’ remanded for robberies, attack on cops

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Whistle’ remanded for robberies, attack on cops

Former murder accused Leon Duncan also known as ‘Whistle’ was escorted into the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court compound on a stretcher yesterday, nearly four days after he was shot...

Rugby Americas Challenge Series Green Machine no match for trounced by Paraguay

Aug 30, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rugby Americas Challenge Series Green Machine no match for trounced by Paraguay

The national Men’s 15s Ruggers who are popularly known as the ‘Green Machine’ caem in for a fine trouncing at the hands of Paraguay, 7-86 yesterday morning. This was the Green Machine’s...

Subryanville fatal shooting… Court hears of death threats to alleged killer

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Subryanville fatal shooting… Court hears of death threats to alleged killer

Weeks after Erwin Bacchus, the businessman who is accused of fatally shooting his neighbour was granted $1.5M bail on a manslaughter charge, the matter was called again yesterday. Yesterday in the...

Whistleblowing city policeman back on the job

Aug 30, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Whistleblowing city policeman back on the job

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) has been forced to reverse its decision and fully reinstate the Corporal who reportedly fought against city officials accused of covering up the...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The Jagdeo Doctrine is an absurd, reckless, and fundamentally shortsighted economic fallacy.... more