October 2018

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Leave my brother alone

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Leave my brother alone

Dear Editor, I would like to know why two van loads of CANU officers stormed into my brother’s house last night. They claimed to be looking for drugs and ammunition. This is frightening. This is...

Attacking the AFC

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attacking the AFC

Dear Editor, It is quite an absurdity that the AFC is now concluding that ‘votes can’t be forged on Elections Day’, when the Party has forged signatures on the ‘backers form’, which has...

It is time to disband the City Constabulary

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time to disband the City Constabulary

Dear Editor, One has to wonder if the time has not come for the disbanding of the City Constabulary of Georgetown. If the time has not come for the formal handing over of the responsibilities of...

A reply to Stabroek News

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A reply to Stabroek News

Editor, The page 21 Stabroek News article of Thursday October 25 captioned, “Six weeks on… Sherod Duncan still ‘on leave’ from Chronicle” refers. The Chairman and Board of Directors of the...

No pay for the new nurses

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on No pay for the new nurses

Dear Editor, It is with great appreciation that you highlight this dilemma faced by fairly new nurses in the health system. Sir, it is gross disrespect in our view, that after nine months of...

UG launches Food and Nutrition Institute

Oct 26, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on UG launches Food and Nutrition Institute

By Kemol King The University of Guyana, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, officially launched the Institute for Food and Nutrition Security (IFANS)...

Clarifying Ramson’s comments on off shore blocks

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clarifying Ramson’s comments on off shore blocks

Dear Editor, Those of us interested in the oil and gas sector deserve some clarification on Charles Ramson’s recent statements regarding the size of our offshore blocks. Ramson says that the blocks...

BERBICE BRIDGE CONTROVERSY

Oct 26, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on BERBICE BRIDGE CONTROVERSY

The current impasse between the Government and Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) has taken a new twist, with BBCI seeking an increase in tolls of over 350 percent to be implemented on November 12,...

Royston King pockets $6.8M from sale of govt. reserve

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Royston King pockets $6.8M from sale of govt. reserve

Town Clerk, Royston King, has been implicated in the sale of city lands identified as government reserve and then diverting monies from the sale through his Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)...

New York Sues Exxon Mobil for deceiving Shareholders

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New York Sues Exxon Mobil for deceiving Shareholders

By John Schwartz New York’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil on Wednesday that claims the company defrauded shareholders by downplaying the expected risk of climate change to...

Auditors have trouble verifying lawful disbursement of PIDs worth over $12B

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Auditors have trouble verifying lawful disbursement of PIDs worth over $12B

The Audit Office of Guyana continues to find the need to highlight issues surrounding the handling of Permission for Immediate Delivery (PID) by Customs which falls under the Guyana Revenue Authority...

National Assembly needs urgent answers on controversial $366M HDM Labs deal – Dr. Anthony

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on National Assembly needs urgent answers on controversial $366M HDM Labs deal – Dr. Anthony

In light of the Auditor General’s findings into the controversial $366M deal with HDM Labs to provide emergency medical supplies, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member of Parliament, Dr. Frank...

GTU, Education Ministry sign agreement after “long haul”

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GTU, Education Ministry sign agreement after “long haul”

Soon after inking an agreement with the Ministry of Education which will allow for teachers to receive salary increases for the period 2016 – 2018, President of the Guyana Teachers Union [GTU],...

Success of Natural Resource Fund not possible without consensus –NRGI Consultant

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Success of Natural Resource Fund not possible without consensus –NRGI Consultant

By Kiana Wilburg For any Natural Resource Fund (NRF) to be successful there must be a degree of consensus. Without it, countries risk being trapped in a cycle where rules governing the use of the...

Acting Town Clerk caught in dilemma trying to defend faulty M&CC transactions

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Acting Town Clerk caught in dilemma trying to defend faulty M&CC transactions

Acting Town Clerk, Sharon Harry- Munroe, found her in a dilemma yesterday as she sought to defend the actions of officials within council before the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into City Hall...

Trump suspects Crown Prince Involvement in Khashoggi Killing – UK revokes visas of all suspects involved

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Trump suspects Crown Prince Involvement in Khashoggi Killing – UK revokes visas of all suspects involved

Turkish media has reported that Turkish intelligence has shared “all the evidence” with the Director of the CIA, Gina Haspel. She had visited Ankara, Turkey, to discuss the slain journalist’s...

De Town Clown gat more bodyguards than Soulja Bai

Oct 25, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De Town Clown gat more bodyguards than Soulja Bai

Some people does really think a lot of dem self. When dem dressing to go out dem deh in front de mirror pampazetting and trying to mek up dem face. When dem step out breeze even can’t touch dem....

Ex-cop, 53, convicted of raping toddler

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop, 53, convicted of raping toddler

Former policeman Deon Aaron is now awaiting sentencing after he was convicted yesterday by a 12-member mixed during of raping a three-year-old girl. Aaron, 53, a security guard engaged in sexual...

Several questioned as rejected rice containers return from Panama

Oct 25, 2018 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Several questioned as rejected rice containers return from Panama

Several persons have been questioned and four containers are being checked minutely on a city wharf as investigations continue into how thousands of tonnes of rice managed to be rejected by Panama....

Inaccurate info delays salaries for Joint Services, other agencies – Finance Minister

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Inaccurate info delays salaries for Joint Services, other agencies – Finance Minister

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, says the delay in the payment of members of the joint services this week is not as a result of unavailable finances, but rather the submission of inaccurate...

Miner strikes again with fraud

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Miner strikes again with fraud

Standing before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Raymond Harilall was made to answer to three charges of fraud. It was alleged that between September and...

Shooting death at Subryanville hotel… Eyewitness testifies after DPP intervention

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shooting death at Subryanville hotel… Eyewitness testifies after DPP intervention

One week after Special Prosecutor, Dexter Todd, told the court that he would be calling an eyewitness to testify on behalf of the State, he was yesterday forced to call the said eyewitness based on...

Two new lawyers admitted to the bar

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two new lawyers admitted to the bar

Shivanie Lalaram and Tonza Sarrabo are two new lawyers that have recently been admitted to the bar. Lalaram was issued her legal certificate on October 15, last, by Judge Sandil Kissoon. She is eager...

Potholes yet to be filled after many concerns raised at NDC

Oct 25, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Potholes yet to be filled after many concerns raised at NDC

The plight of the residents of the Grove/Diamond, East Bank Demerara area have become unbearable as they believe that the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) does nothing but only give a deaf...

Casino robbery trial… Accused asked court to review evidence before Prosecution closes case

Oct 25, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Casino robbery trial… Accused asked court to review evidence before Prosecution closes case

Wayne Griffith, one of the men charged with a multi-million-dollar robbery at the Princess Casino on April 29, 2016, yesterday told Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman that he would like to review the...

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Guyana Cup rematch on the cards in President’s Cup feature

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...

Who says the government does not listen?

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

Nov 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...

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