September 2018

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Potential cannot buy anything in the market

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Potential cannot buy anything in the market

During the last Congress of the PNCR, there were some candidates, offering themselves up for leadership posts, and who were campaigning on the grounds that they were young. But when you look at them...

Plainclothes cop single-handedly arrest 3 suspects, seize Magnum

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Plainclothes cop single-handedly arrest 3 suspects, seize Magnum

The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that it is commending the brave and courageous action of a plainclothes policeman who arrested three suspects without any backup. According to the police, the...

Lincoln Lewis is stalking Moses Nagamootoo

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Lincoln Lewis is stalking Moses Nagamootoo

I have known Lincoln Lewis for over forty years now. I see some similarities we have. Maybe that is why we have remained friends for all these decades. We have big mouths, we make noise when we argue...

MOE Initiates Curriculum Renewal Process -Emphasis on social inclusion, gender informed approaches

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on MOE Initiates Curriculum Renewal Process -Emphasis on social inclusion, gender informed approaches

The Ministry of Education (MOE) is poised to employ a curriculum renewal within Guyana’s education sector; a curriculum renewal aimed at incorporating social inclusion and gender informed...

New Amsterdam Hospital doctor pioneers surgical research

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam Hospital doctor pioneers surgical research

Doctor Tameshwar Algu, who works out of the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital (NARH), has managed to conduct extensive research on hernia procedures. His work has now been published in Caribbean...

Vendors accuse City Police of shakedown

Sep 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vendors accuse City Police of shakedown

Street vendors are subjected to a regular shakedown by ranks of the City Constabulary. The matter was brought to the fore by vendors, who have filed complaints with the Commission of Inquiry, (CoI)...

Govt borrowing from China: Graft or Alzheimer’s?

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Govt borrowing from China: Graft or Alzheimer’s?

Dear Editor, Just after two months from signing the MOU with China on the BRI programme and in the context of President Granger’s telling the Media that Guyana is going to be prudent in its...

Britain has condemned the mistreatment of the Baha’i community in Yemen

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Britain has condemned the mistreatment of the Baha’i community in Yemen

Dear Editor, Britain has condemned the mistreatment of the Baha’i community by Houthi rebels in Yemen, after a court under the Iran-backed rebels’ control began prosecuting 24 members of the...

Judgment Day is coming

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Judgment Day is coming

Editor, Judgment is something we all will have to endure sooner or later. As humans, there are two appointments we will be unable to get out of: death and judgment. The Bible says that;’’ it’s...

What is the purpose of the Childcare Protection Agency

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is the purpose of the Childcare Protection Agency

Dear Editor, Our Childcare Protection Agency, staff in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Police Force, must move around the streets and market places and pick up all school age...

Deceptions of the Alliance for Change

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deceptions of the Alliance for Change

Dear Editor, The deceptions of the Alliance for Change (AFC) continue. Every day is markedly accentuated by the nefarious activities of its leaders, executive members and some cardholders. Ever since...

Probable cause and reasonable suspicion are vastly different

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Probable cause and reasonable suspicion are vastly different

Dear Editor Over the past two months for diverse reasons, I refrained from writing my usual letters to the editor on law enforcement issues, but I still maintain an abiding interest in that area....

Kitty roundabout being used as a parking lot

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kitty roundabout being used as a parking lot

Editor, I recently had cause to use the Kitty roundabout around 23:30 hrs last Sunday night. I was stunned to see this roundabout being used as a parking lot with many vehicles parked haphazardly on...

We cannot help but wonder if this is not putting the cart before the horse

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We cannot help but wonder if this is not putting the cart before the horse

Dear Editor, The editorial of the September 21 Kaieteur News titled “Sugar’s glorious days over” contended that sugar’s glory days can never be rekindled and pointed to the ending of...

Are we in Georgetown going to be saddled with the same party hacks for another three years?

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are we in Georgetown going to be saddled with the same party hacks for another three years?

Dear Editor, The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. The apology issued by the Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Akeem Peter last Friday for the failure of...

OUTDATED COLONIAL MODEL OF GOVERNANCE

Sep 26, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on OUTDATED COLONIAL MODEL OF GOVERNANCE

Corruption, crime and the lack of lasting progress and prosperity have been major problems for Guyana since its attainment of independence 52 years ago. Governments, past and present have failed to...

Republic Bank halts GuySuCo’s bond financing over misuse of funds

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank halts GuySuCo’s bond financing over misuse of funds

A commercial bank that played a critical role in negotiating a $30B (US$150M) bond facility to help finance capital works for the three-estate Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has halted any...

Waste in Government spending costs Latin America, Caribbean as large as $220B per year – IDB finds

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Waste in Government spending costs Latin America, Caribbean as large as $220B per year – IDB finds

Guyana fails all eight evaluation areas A landmark analysis by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) into Government spending in Latin America and the Caribbean reveals widespread waste and...

Subryanville hotel owner manslaughter charge upgraded to murder

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Subryanville hotel owner manslaughter charge upgraded to murder

One month after the owner of the Tourist Villa Hotel was charged with manslaughter for shooting his neighbour, he was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison. The murder charge was...

Royston King leases out NICIL riverfront to shipping company

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Royston King leases out NICIL riverfront to shipping company

A plot of riverfront land, reportedly not the property of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC), was leased to a shipping company by Town Clerk, Royston King. King has reportedly been...

Uitvlugt Hit & Run driver remanded

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt Hit & Run driver remanded

Zameer Alli, a 25-year-old resident of Tuschen Old Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, to answer seven charges in relation to a hit and run...

High Court grants injunction against Region Five REO

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on High Court grants injunction against Region Five REO

The High Court has granted an injunction against Region Five Executive Officer, (REO) Ovid Morrison, in a case filed by a group of cash crops farmers. Three cash crop farmers had taken the REO to...

US$16M contract awarded for Region One ferry

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US$16M contract awarded for Region One ferry

A $3.2Billion (US $15.6Million) contract was awarded for construction and supply of a passenger and cargo ocean ferry vessel and associated equipment that will ply the North West route from Parika to...

Dem boys seh …Royston and Jagdeo should be in jail

Sep 25, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …Royston and Jagdeo should be in jail

Not everybody should get power on de earth. De Clown Clerk is one of dem. Imagine he so powerful that he tek state land and rent it out. Nobody don’t know if he pay in de money. His action mirrors...

Since April, over 2200 Venezuelans migrants arrived in Guyana

Sep 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Since April, over 2200 Venezuelans migrants arrived in Guyana

The National Multi-Sectoral Coordinating Committee continues to work to find ways and means to lend greater support to Venezuelan migrants in Guyana. The Immigration Department has informed that...

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Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Keeping my day job advising Pres. Ali

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Because Pres. Ali needs the hand, I’m keeping my day job. Unpaid advisor to HE Ali. It’s a thankless gig. But for country and presidency, no sacrifice is too high. Guyana needs some standards. Plenty; with starting all over recommended. ...

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