December 2018

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Some security guards are being fleeced

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some security guards are being fleeced

Dear Editor, From a survey recently done it was discovered that many of the private security firm’s/companies are not paying their security guards the minimum wage of $255 per hour. One...

Praying for thePresident

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Praying for thePresident

Dear Editor， The Guyana Veterans Legion GVL), on Sunday at 18:00 hours (6.00pm) held a Candlelight Prayer and Songs Service in the forecourt of their Headquarters at Carifesta Avenue. The activity...

These traffic disruptions during parliamentary sittings

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on These traffic disruptions during parliamentary sittings

Dear Editor, Since the beginning of the eleventh biennial Parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, nationals and non-nationals alike have been experiencing complete chaos, without any...

The NIS payment remains illusive

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The NIS payment remains illusive

Dear Editor, My name is Rampaul Chetaru NIS # B-6078547. I attained the age of sixty on 24th February,2018. I filed for my old age benefit on 3rd January,2018. I appeal to your newspaper to highlight...

Slugger Williams takes a long look back

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Slugger Williams takes a long look back

The Editor, I am a product of the NIGGER yard. I grew up in “Pakoo Dam” Wortmanville in Green and Gold rum shop yard, at D D’Urban Street and Louisa Road. My upbringing was spent in...

Minimum wage still outstanding

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minimum wage still outstanding

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space in the letter column of your highly read newspaper to highlight our grave plight and suffering as a security guard employed in the private security service and...

Unbecoming behaviour, in a ‘just so’ society

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unbecoming behaviour, in a ‘just so’ society

Dear Editor, Whether we consider it a good thing or not in the Caribbean (including Guyana), we see our women as the custodians of our virtues, and our morality. This is why it offends us more when...

Declaring an Unlawful and Vulgar Partisan Political Discrimination in Employment

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Declaring an Unlawful and Vulgar Partisan Political Discrimination in Employment

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter motivated by the statement by the Chairman of the PNC, Volda Lawrence, and the Minister of Health on preference of PNC party comrades for employment and...

Borrowing could lead to an economic crisis

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Borrowing could lead to an economic crisis

Editor, I am no Economist but one does not have to be good at Economics to know that in an environment of declining production, it is not possible to grow the economy to any significant level. The...

EATING DISORDERS AMONG TEENAGERS

Dec 05, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on EATING DISORDERS AMONG TEENAGERS

The aim of most teachers, parents or guardians, as well as faith based business and community organizations in Guyana and elsewhere, is to prepare children for a bright future. During this period of...

New discovery pushes oil reserves over 5B barrels Suppliers jostle for jobs as local content forum begins

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New discovery pushes oil reserves over 5B barrels Suppliers jostle for jobs as local content forum begins

Local companies are meeting with ExxonMobil and its contractors to talk jobs and opportunities as the countdown continues for first oil in early 2020. Yesterday, scores gathered at the...

US$150M and counting at CJIA… Contract says: Six large screen TVs cost $80M

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US$150M and counting at CJIA… Contract says: Six large screen TVs cost $80M

As scrutiny of the 2011 contract for the Timehri airport expansion contract continues, it is throwing up some surprising costs that taxpayers will have to be saddled with. For example, the US$150M...

Volda Lawrence apologises for ‘jobs for PNC people’ statement

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Volda Lawrence apologises for ‘jobs for PNC people’ statement

Following a week of public criticisms, Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, yesterday offered an apology for her controversial statements of offering jobs to only People’s National...

Teen assaults Head Teacher, leaves her with split lip, swollen face

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teen assaults Head Teacher, leaves her with split lip, swollen face

The police attached to the Fort Wellington Police Station, West Coast Berbice, staged a confrontation between Gangadai Iasacs, the acting Head Teacher of No.5 Primary School and her alleged teenage...

More than 20 initiatives in 2018 Budget untouched-Ram&McRae

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on More than 20 initiatives in 2018 Budget untouched-Ram&McRae

While the government and political opposition are engaged in the budget 2019 debates, Ram and McRae Chartered Accountants have highlighted in a comprehensive report that the coalition administration...

Provide evidence of $$ spent in hinterland communities – PPP MP …as Govt. boasts about expenditure in 2019 budget.

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Provide evidence of $$ spent in hinterland communities – PPP MP …as Govt. boasts about expenditure in 2019 budget.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) back-bencher, Yvonne Pearson, has labeled Government’s 2019 budget ‘tasteless’ and lacking the ingredients to deliver ‘the good life’ as promised by the...

Travis Chase incident… Injured man discharged from hospital; claims journalist kicked, then shot him

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Travis Chase incident… Injured man discharged from hospital; claims journalist kicked, then shot him

One day after a shooting incident which saw 28-year-old Jimmy Ramgobin, said to be a substance abuser, being shot in the leg by TV journalist, Travis Chase, the injured man has been discharged from...

Passengers frustrated as CAL, airport authorities clash over wrecked Fly Jamaica aircraft

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers frustrated as CAL, airport authorities clash over wrecked Fly Jamaica aircraft

Caribbean Airline Limited (CAL) passengers faced more frustrations yesterday as more delays were blamed on an attempt to relocate the crash-landed Fly Jamaica aircraft from the end of the runway at...

Marriott court action prompts Kingston noise ban.

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott court action prompts Kingston noise ban.

The decision by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to ban events that generate excessive noise was made because of a court action against the government by the Marriott Hotel, to the Supreme...

Chief Justice set to rule on legality of charges against Ashni Singh and Winston Brassington

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice set to rule on legality of charges against Ashni Singh and Winston Brassington

Chief Justice Roxane George is set to rule in a matter in which former Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh and former head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL),...

Some people put up sick Xmas 3s

Dec 04, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people put up sick Xmas 3s

Dem boys learn Xmas preparation does begin in November. Late shopping does start December 15. Courts start de Christmas tree light up in November. Marriott follow last week. De tree at Rahaman turn...

The Ethnic Relations Commission should audit public service employment

Dec 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Ethnic Relations Commission should audit public service employment

The Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform and Minister of Health, Volda Lawrence, has apologized for statements she made last week and which have raised a firestorm of...

Farmer charged for stealing $4M engine from wrecked vessel

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer charged for stealing $4M engine from wrecked vessel

A farmer who allegedly stole a boat engine worth $4M and one air box worth $1M from a wreck that was stranded on a sand bank was yesterday charged and released on $100,000 bail. Andrew De Freitas,...

Internal Auditing In Central Government

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Internal Auditing In Central Government

There are provisions in the various Budget Agencies in Central Government for the establishment and for the operations of internal auditing units (IAU). The Auditor General (AG) who is in effect the...

Truck driver freed of causing death in Friendship crash

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver freed of causing death in Friendship crash

One year after a truck driver was charged with causing the death of two brothers in a horrific accident at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, the matter was yesterday dismissed against him by a City...

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