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Rape accused soldiers granted bail

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rape accused soldiers granted bail

Two GDF ranks who were yesterday arraigned before Magistrate Esther Sam in the Suddie Magistrate’s Court, for the alleged rape of a 26 year old woman, on the Essequibo Coast, were both granted...

Roxanne Myers sworn in as Deputy Chief Elections Officer

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Roxanne Myers sworn in as Deputy Chief Elections Officer

Roxanne Myers was yesterday sworn in as Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), after taking the oath before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The swearing comes...

Cabinet approves three sets of wildlife conservation regulations

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves three sets of wildlife conservation regulations

Proposed legislation related to wildlife management and conservation, drafted by the Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission was submitted to the Cabinet for consideration and...

Guyana’s brain drain at worrying levels …US State Dept. highlights shortage of even semi-skilled individuals

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s brain drain at worrying levels …US State Dept. highlights shortage of even semi-skilled individuals

Guyana’s brain drain is at worrying levels. Not only is there a disquieting loss of qualified individuals, but even semi-skilled persons. This revelation was recently made by the US State...

UWI Students, Police clash during protests of “Rape Zone” at Trinidad Campus

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on UWI Students, Police clash during protests of “Rape Zone” at Trinidad Campus

By Kemol King Police and students of the University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine Campus clashed during a protest of security issues that have resulted in multiple robbery and rape attempts on...

Promoter charged with trafficking cocaine

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Promoter charged with trafficking cocaine

A party promoter who was under surveillance for one month by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’...

New and renovated bonds to avoid offsite storage of medical supplies – Harmon

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New and renovated bonds to avoid offsite storage of medical supplies – Harmon

Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence is the only person who can fully explain matters surrounding the contamination of drugs and medical supplies that were stored at Ocean View International Hotel....

No request made for preliminary action from City Hall CoI – Gov’t

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on No request made for preliminary action from City Hall CoI – Gov’t

Government is not deaf to what is emerging from the ongoing Commission of Inquiry (CoI) being conducted by former Chancellor Justice Cecil Kennard, into the working of the Georgetown Mayor and City...

Banal and visionless: President in Parliament

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Banal and visionless: President in Parliament

President Granger addressed Parliament last Thursday. Don’t take my word for it; read the speech yourself. You cannot find one, I repeat not one idea that is transformative, novel and that breaks...

The killing of our women has reached crisis proportions

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The killing of our women has reached crisis proportions

Dear Editor, Please permit me to speak out about the rise in domestic violence in our country Guyana. As I opened the Monday Kaieteur News dated Oct 15, 2018, I saw that another woman was murdered by...

China as seen through the eyes of a Guyanese student

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on China as seen through the eyes of a Guyanese student

Dear Editor, Please permit me some space in your Newspaper to share with readers the incredible experience I had while studying in China. I am a 24-year-old University of Guyana Student, pursuing a...

Are there no young people capable of being Mayor?

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are there no young people capable of being Mayor?

Dear Editor, To say that I was disillusioned to learn that the current Mayor of Georgetown has put herself up as her party’s candidate yet again for her constituency, would be the understatement of...

Small contractors to benefit from 20 percent of public procurement from January

Oct 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Small contractors to benefit from 20 percent of public procurement from January

Government has announced plans for small contractors to get a piece of the billion-dollar state spending pie. Yesterday, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, disclosed that the Cabinet has approved the...

Environmental Pressures

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Environmental Pressures

Editor, It is often said that some parents tend to disengage from their children’s education. This translates into “giving up” or resigning the parent role. The exercise of a parent’s...

Holland answers PPP

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Holland answers PPP

Dear Editor, I am happy to answer the question asked by the PPP in a recent newsletter titled, “What have Mr. Holland and the APNU leadership done for young people in Linden and Region Ten in...

The APNU+AFC govt. will never legalize recreational marijuana

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The APNU+AFC govt. will never legalize recreational marijuana

The biggest opponents of the decriminalization of the use of marijuana are big businesses, including the entertainment, beverage and cigarette industries. These industries believe that if marijuana...

Ramjattan is failing

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramjattan is failing

Dear Editor, The current crisis in Guyana’s security sector, with the recent escape of three prisoners from the Lusignan prison, has again gripped the nation in a frenzy of fear – not irrational...

MID-TERM REPORT NEEDED

Oct 20, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on MID-TERM REPORT NEEDED

The Granger-led coalition government has been in office for more than 1200 days which means that it is in the second half of its five-year mandate, but the President has not given a progress report,...

Govt. used seven rooms at hotel to store drugs, items destroyed by termites

Oct 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. used seven rooms at hotel to store drugs, items destroyed by termites

While it was paying $25M per month to use a house in Sussex Street as a drug bond, the APNU+AFC Government still found it necessary to store drugs at Ocean View International Hotel. This was revealed...

Contractor collects $112.1M on two projects last year; fails to start work

Oct 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor collects $112.1M on two projects last year; fails to start work

As it relates to advance payments to contractors and the non-commencement of works, the Auditor General’s Office has discovered that one contractor received an advance payment of $39M in 2017 from...

Granger assures Govt. will not squander oil revenue …Says Natural Resources Fund legislation to be tabled next month

Oct 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Granger assures Govt. will not squander oil revenue …Says Natural Resources Fund legislation to be tabled next month

President David Granger has assured that the Coalition Government is committed to transparency in the management of the oil and gas sector, promising to be prudent with revenues which will flow from...

Appeal Court upholds President’s appointment of GECOM Chairman

Oct 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal Court upholds President’s appointment of GECOM Chairman

The Court of Appeal has upheld President David Granger‘s decision to unilaterally appoint retired Justice James Patterson to the office of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission,...

Ranks deny collusion in Lusignan escape -several tips, but no sign of fugitives

Oct 19, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Ranks deny collusion in Lusignan escape -several tips, but no sign of fugitives

The five ranks who are under close arrest following the Lusignan jailbreak continue to hold out that they did not assist the inmates in their escape. But they have reportedly been unable to give any...

Sophia Man killed after bicycle and food row

Oct 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia Man killed after bicycle and food row

Seon Harry, 26, was stabbed in the region of the heart yesterday morning after an altercation with an accomplice in the South Sophia Squatting Area. The two men were on the “Blacka” dam between...

Govt seeks additional $7.5B in spending -$2.4B for sugar workers’ severance

Oct 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt seeks additional $7.5B in spending -$2.4B for sugar workers’ severance

Government has tabled a supplementary budget to the National Assembly for $7.58B in additional funding. Part of the monies, some $2.45B of it, will go to pay 1,400 sugar workers whose services were...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(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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