October 2018

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There is a lot wrong at Stabroek Market Square

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is a lot wrong at Stabroek Market Square

Dear Editor, Only recently l penned a letter about the vendors’ (mainly water, juice and drinks) plight and asked that some sort of leniency or agreement could be made with the vendors and the City...

Guyana’s Public Health – A Human Resources Development Plan?

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s Public Health – A Human Resources Development Plan?

Dear Editor, In his usual elegantly articulated column ‘Future Notes’ (SN October 3, 2018), Dr. Henry Jeffrey quoted the following by the current Minister of Public Health ‘speaking to a...

Who is listening to the male cry?

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who is listening to the male cry?

Dear Editor, Permit me to inquire how many more men will steal, kill and destroy before society lifts its head and notice that something is radically wrong. We read about the female victims of...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union has to better represent the interests of its members

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyana Teachers’ Union has to better represent the interests of its members

Dear Editor, For those familiar with the workings of democracies, Guyana is fast becoming a poster child for Comedy Central as David Granger continues to undermine his credibility and that of his...

The woes on the Lady Northcote

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The woes on the Lady Northcote

Dear Editor, As a concerned resident who travels on the Lady Northcote from Northwest to Georgetown, I would like to say that I am surprised at the unmannerly behavior of the staff. A clear case was...

Have we lost our sense of history?

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Have we lost our sense of history?

Dear Editor, This week marks the 65th anniversary of the Suspension of the Waddington Constitution on 9th October, 1953. I saw no reference in the press to that historical fact. Perhaps, your paper...

SOCU AND THE COURTS

Oct 13, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on SOCU AND THE COURTS

In the last few months, the government through the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) has filed a number of cases involving fraud and the theft of state resources against individuals from the former...

Jagdeo admits to failing to declare assets to Integrity Commission

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo admits to failing to declare assets to Integrity Commission

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, is among the large group of public officers, including Members of Parliament, who have not declared their assets to the Integrity Commission as mandated by law....

With all these loans, Guyana heading towards ‘pre-source curse’ – Ramson

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on With all these loans, Guyana heading towards ‘pre-source curse’ – Ramson

Attorney at Law Charles Ramson is worried that Guyana is headed swiftly towards the pre-source curse. He said this at a recent press conference. There, Ramson explained that the pre-source curse...

Sierra Leone cancels US$300M airport deal with China …officials say project not feasible

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sierra Leone cancels US$300M airport deal with China …officials say project not feasible

Guyana is bent on completing the controversial expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport utilising Chinese financing, but other countries have rejected Chinese funds. According to reports...

GGMC working to build capacity in petroleum, but not at expense of mining sector – Dennison

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC working to build capacity in petroleum, but not at expense of mining sector – Dennison

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) sees the need to build capacity in the nascent oil and gas sector. However, Commissioner Newell Dennison said that he is not willing to go down the road...

High Court orders release of aircraft seized by SOCU

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on High Court orders release of aircraft seized by SOCU

The High Court has ordered the release of a Venezuelan registered aircraft, which was detained by the Special Organized Crime Unit, (SOCU) last August, as part of its investigations into allegations...

Govt spends $1.2B more than PPP on local travel expenses, yearly – Jagdeo

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt spends $1.2B more than PPP on local travel expenses, yearly – Jagdeo

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, said that the current APNU/AFC administration spends $1.2B more than the PPP/C every year, on travel expenses alone. He made this statement during his press...

IDB provides more development assistance to Guyana than any other partner …Averages US$45M in annual approvals

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on IDB provides more development assistance to Guyana than any other partner …Averages US$45M in annual approvals

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has long been the dominant development partner in Guyana. Since 2000, the IDB has provided more development assistance to Guyana than any other partner,...

Who will be the world’s largest oil producing country per person in the 2020s?

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Who will be the world’s largest oil producing country per person in the 2020s?

Kuwait perhaps, with three million barrels per day and a population just over four million? Saudi Arabia or, looking further afield, Brunei or Norway? No, that honour will belong to the South...

Jagdeo want people do wha he never do- release contracts

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo want people do wha he never do- release contracts

People does do things and regret. Jagdeo sign nuff thing into law and now he regret. He sign de third term into law then he became very upset at de end of he second term because he wanted a third,...

Campbellville property sold to radio station… Two Transports surface

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Campbellville property sold to radio station… Two Transports surface

There appears to be light at the end of the tunnel over a disputed piece of Campbellville property that has ended up in the hands of radio station controlled by a Trinidadian company. On Wednesday,...

Advance monies from oil companies will be treated as a donation to Guyana – Jagdeo

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Advance monies from oil companies will be treated as a donation to Guyana – Jagdeo

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, believes that the Government is contemplating taking an advance from United States oil giant, ExxonMobil, ahead of oil production in 2020. “We have not even...

Regional Super50… Century stand and good spin bowling give Jaguars win over Volcanoes

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Super50… Century stand and good spin bowling give Jaguars win over Volcanoes

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Regal, Vnet, Noble House Seafoods & Cascadia Hotel A century stand between Sherfane Rutherford and Trevon Griffith and good spin bowling from...

GMRSC Ignite… 10 racers from T&T confirmed for South Dakota meet – Teenage Radical sensation Deen included

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC Ignite… 10 racers from T&T confirmed for South Dakota meet – Teenage Radical sensation Deen included

Two-time defending Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) winners, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), have confirmed that at least 10 drivers will be on hand to contest for top...

Junior Jaguars engage Seniors in warm up match – Encouraging improvements as preparations continue ahead of Concacaf U20 C/ship

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior Jaguars engage Seniors in warm up match – Encouraging improvements as preparations continue ahead of Concacaf U20 C/ship

The national Under-20 team which are in the third week of preparations ahead of the Concacaf Championship set for the IMG Academy, Florida USA from November 2, on Tuesday last engaged members of the...

Reaching for the stars!… Hemraj in ODI squad after Sabbatical from Guyana’s cricket

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reaching for the stars!… Hemraj in ODI squad after Sabbatical from Guyana’s cricket

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Regal, Vnet, Noble House Seafoods & Cascadia Hotel Since growing up in the Village of Strathavon in Cane Grove, East Coast of Demerara, Chanderpaul...

Former player donates uniforms to Queenstown United FC

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former player donates uniforms to Queenstown United FC

It has been one of the oldest clubs affiliated to the Essequibo/Pomeroon Football Association (EPFA) and is on a mission to ensure that it is not only dominant in its local association but beyond the...

Winners in East Bank Berbice Police Youth and SC day of sports rewarded

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winners in East Bank Berbice Police Youth and SC day of sports rewarded

After the successful re-launching of five Police Operational Youth and Sports Clubs by B division of the Guyana Police Force in the East Bank Berbice area and a day of keen rivalry in games and other...

Head teacher suffers seizure, falls into drain, dies

Oct 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Head teacher suffers seizure, falls into drain, dies

A head teacher met her untimely demise yesterday after she reportedly suffered a seizure and fell into a drain. The now dead woman has been identified as 42-year-old Serojanie Singh, a former head...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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