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Melon-headed whale

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Melon-headed whale

The melon-headed whale or melon-headed dolphin (species Peponocephala electra; other names are many-toothed blackfish, “melon whale” and electra dolphin) is a cetacean of the...

ONE MORE REASON WHY PPP SHOULD NEVER GOVERN THIS COUNTRY AGAIN

Aug 05, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ONE MORE REASON WHY PPP SHOULD NEVER GOVERN THIS COUNTRY AGAIN

Last week, Justice Donald Trotman presented his long-awaited report of the investigation into the 2008 Lindo Creek Massacre. Based on the comments made during the presentation, we conclude that that...

MAKE GOOD SELECTIONS OF BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on MAKE GOOD SELECTIONS OF BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES

In approximately a month’s time, school will reopen, and as always, we are in the moment when parents and guardians purchase school supplies and school uniforms. Whether imported or locally...

Women from 10 regions being educated on REDD+

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Women from 10 regions being educated on REDD+

More than 30 women across sectors and indigenous communities are being educated to better understand what Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is and their role in the...

Immigration Denial without issuing Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID)

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration Denial without issuing Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID)

By Attorney Gail Seeram Effective September 11, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will deny an immigration application or petition without first issuing a Request for...

Bosom of The Beast

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bosom of The Beast

Book: Doe Songs Poet: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné delivers a wrenchingly knifing confessional. Embedded in a matrix of imageries, Doe Songs...

Guyana records astounding HIV spending in 2016

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records astounding HIV spending in 2016

Ever since international funding for HIV started to dwindle, Guyana has been taking seriously its responsibility to maintain the gains made over the years. Moreover, in 2016 alone, Guyana’s...

Tumor victim seeks financial help

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Tumor victim seeks financial help

After being diagnosed with a tumor in the head, 26-year-old Tiffany Williams of Eccles, East Bank Demerara is now seeking the public assistance with funding a life saving surgery in the United States...

APNU/AFC Councillors absenting from RDC meetings

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on APNU/AFC Councillors absenting from RDC meetings

Councillors from the APNU/AFC Administration are accused of being absent from meetings at the Region Six Democratic Council, too often. At Thursday’s statutory meeting, there were only three...

Bus Overboard

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bus Overboard

This Route 44 minibus ran into the southern trench along Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown yesterday afternoon. The driver reportedly took evasive actions to avoid running into the back of a car. No one...

West Dem man jailed, another remanded in Canje River narco, guns and ammunition bust.

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on West Dem man jailed, another remanded in Canje River narco, guns and ammunition bust.

Five men, including a teenager, appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh at the Reliance Magistrate Court to answer to several charges. Lloyd Samuels, 26, of Bagotsville, West Bank Demerara was jailed...

Guyanese, please let us join forces with the Govt. to make a better oil deal for us

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese, please let us join forces with the Govt. to make a better oil deal for us

Dear Editor, I feel the coolness of the breeze that permeated the Guyana coastline from the letter penned by Chartered Accountant Nigel Hinds in the Kaieteur News of August 3. For this letter to be...

This govt. was given the mandate to bring about change and must be held accountable

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This govt. was given the mandate to bring about change and must be held accountable

Dear Editor, There are slippages in this society that must be arrested as matter of urgency. The Police Force, after a short hiatus, has returned to behave like judge, jury and executioner. This...

This Coalition now has another highly potentially destructive witch hunting weapon

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This Coalition now has another highly potentially destructive witch hunting weapon

Dear Editor, When in Opposition, this Government knew all the right answers for every aspect of good governance. They knew that the AML/CFT Bill proposed by the PPP/C Government was deficient and...

COI needed into the working of City Hall

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on COI needed into the working of City Hall

Dear Editor, When will someone in authority realize that there is a critical need for a Commission of Inquiry to be held into the workings of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown? Over...

High time the Medical Council and the way it discharges its functions be scrutinized

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on High time the Medical Council and the way it discharges its functions be scrutinized

Dear Editor, Much more appears to be wrong with the operations of the present Medical Council than has been mentioned in the letter by Gustavo Kuerten in “Kaieteur Mailbox” of the 22nd...

Public Infrastructure officials meets with PSC…Future of Berbice Bridge, Linden/Lethem road condition raised

Aug 05, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Public Infrastructure officials meets with PSC…Future of Berbice Bridge, Linden/Lethem road condition raised

Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson, and a team from his Ministry, including Minister in the Ministry, Annette Ferguson, on Friday held wide-ranging discussions with a delegation from the...

The Caribbean Single Market and Economy

Aug 05, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Caribbean Single Market and Economy

In today’s globalized world, regional integration offers a way forward for trade and the economic growth needed for reducing poverty and improve the well-being of the masses in the Caribbean. It is...

Alaska spent US$217M in legal fees to get its rightful revenue from ExxonMobil …Meanwhile, Guyana sets aside zero dollars to fight such cases

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Alaska spent US$217M in legal fees to get its rightful revenue from ExxonMobil …Meanwhile, Guyana sets aside zero dollars to fight such cases

…Finance Minister says this will be looked at later on By Kiana Wilburg Many countries have expended billions of dollars fighting legal battles against oil companies which have robbed them of their...

New anti-money laundering measures…FIU zeroes in on car dealers, cambios, banks and others

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New anti-money laundering measures…FIU zeroes in on car dealers, cambios, banks and others

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is to be given more powers to monitor an expanding pool of reporting entities for the purposes of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Finance of...

Prison authorities foil escape plot by two murder accused -inmates cut through steel bar at Lusignan Penitentiary

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Prison authorities foil escape plot by two murder accused -inmates cut through steel bar at Lusignan Penitentiary

Relief supplies to be placed in three regions for Venezuelans migrants

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Relief supplies to be placed in three regions for Venezuelans migrants

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced plans to pre-position relief supplies for enhancing the capacity of Regions 1, 7 and 9...

Two years after advice from UNDP … Guyana still to fix legislative, institutional weaknesses that will affect oil and gas sector

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two years after advice from UNDP … Guyana still to fix legislative, institutional weaknesses that will affect oil and gas sector

By Kiana Wilburg In 2016, the Government of Guyana received a crucial report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which outlined the legislative and institutional weaknesses that...

Owing $100,000 and more… GWI prepares to take 200-plus delinquent customers to court

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Owing $100,000 and more… GWI prepares to take 200-plus delinquent customers to court

The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is talking tough to delinquent customers. It has a list of over 1,000 delinquent customers who owe more than $100,000 as far back as 2015. A number of court judgments are...

Ejected from Stabroek Market Square… 112 hire car operators protest City Council action

Aug 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ejected from Stabroek Market Square… 112 hire car operators protest City Council action

The move by the Mayor & City Councillors (M&CC) of Georgetown to place Stabroek Market vendors from the dilapidated area aback of the Stabroek Market to the 42 mini bus park, and short drop...

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You cannot borrow your way to prosperity

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