January 2019

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HEYS businesses in Deep South Rupununi receive a significant boost

Jan 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on HEYS businesses in Deep South Rupununi receive a significant boost

Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe, on Sunday handed over resource kits for the Hinterland Employment and Youth Service (HEYS) programme to...

The ring of truth was conspicuously absent in this latest tale

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ring of truth was conspicuously absent in this latest tale

DEAR EDITOR, Soviet and Russian poet and author Yevgeny Yevtushenko said: “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” The truth which was published by Stabroek News on...

The No-Confidence Motion: Democracy is alive! Long live respect and loyalty to the Constitution!

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The No-Confidence Motion: Democracy is alive! Long live respect and loyalty to the Constitution!

DEAR EDITOR, The subject “No-confidence Motion” has been topical recently. Last week the Greek Parliament had before it, a “No-confidence Motion” which after discussion and debate...

This govt. is totally disinterested while rice farmers struggle

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on This govt. is totally disinterested while rice farmers struggle

DEAR EDITOR, It is an understatement that rice farmers across Guyana have no confidence in the APNU+AFC government. The No-Confidence motion of December 21, 2018, in fact, wholly captures the...

We MUST continue the fight for righteousness in Guyana!

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on We MUST continue the fight for righteousness in Guyana!

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to respond to Mr. Winston Mars’s letter in another newspaper on 24 January, 2019 about my writings in the media as a citizen. I would like to make two points in response...

PPP/C’s Democratic Centralism

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP/C’s Democratic Centralism

DEAR EDITOR, The post-nomination reactions of some PPP/C key players, those who were unsuccessful in their nomination bid, particularly their statements, were a mix of great disappointment,...

Schizophrenic Populace

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Schizophrenic Populace

DEAR EDITOR, Taxi-man again, complaining about his child mother overseas with their only child. “He going to have to grow up there, go to school, get citizenship, before he come back home to...

CONSEQUENCES U.S GOVT. SHUTDOWN ON THE CARIBBEAN

Jan 26, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CONSEQUENCES U.S GOVT. SHUTDOWN ON THE CARIBBEAN

The partial government shutdown in the U.S by President Trump over the building of a wall along Mexico’s border has entered its fifth week. It is the longest such in the history of the United...

Elections date in limbo as GECOM meeting ends abruptly

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Elections date in limbo as GECOM meeting ends abruptly

A key meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ended abruptly last evening with no consensus on a date for General and Regional Elections. It will raise questions exactly what the...

Jagdeo practicing to boss Irfaan

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Jagdeo practicing to boss Irfaan

De way things going nobody can’t doubt that whoever de PPP put as president it gun be Jagdeo running de country. De man stand up de odda day and seh that he party gun open back three sugar...

Newborn dies after placed in toilet

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Newborn dies after placed in toilet

Police are to question a 25-year-old mother in connection with the death of her newborn, which was fished out of a toilet at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara, yesterday. Reports indicate that the...

Senior cop charged with rape of girl, 13

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Senior cop charged with rape of girl, 13

A senior member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) who is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl was yesterday charged and remanded for the offence. Seecharran Singh, 31, an Assistant Superintendent of...

$550M Cocaine in lumber… Stephen Vieira, Nazim Gafoor freed, two others jailed for five years

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $550M Cocaine in lumber… Stephen Vieira, Nazim Gafoor freed, two others jailed for five years

Two of the four men who were charged after the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) discovered $550M worth of cocaine hidden in dressed lumber, have been convicted of the crime. In her ruling...

Regal Sports U19 Tourney to bowl off tomorrow in Wakenaam

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regal Sports U19 Tourney to bowl off tomorrow in Wakenaam

Regal Sports and Wakenaam Cricket Committee Under-19 40-over competition is set to bowl off tomorrow with two matches. Good Success/Sans Souci and Jaguars Combined will take on G Square...

Prizes presented to champions of GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers Football League

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Prizes presented to champions of GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers Football League

The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) confirmed that the there will be a second season of the GUYOIL/Tradewind Tankers school football league during yesterday’s prize giving ceremony for the...

Jaikaran’s XI overcome Persaud’s XI in U19 fixture

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaikaran’s XI overcome Persaud’s XI in U19 fixture

Vikash Jaikaran’s XI defeated Navindra Persaud’s XI by 99 runs when the teams collided in a 40-over U19 fixture yesterday at the Gandhi Youth Organisation ground. Batting first, Vickash...

Concacaf Nations League Local based Golden Jaguars commence training for Belize clash following GFF Talent ID process

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Concacaf Nations League Local based Golden Jaguars commence training for Belize clash following GFF Talent ID process

An extended Guyana-based national squad will this weekend commence the Guyana Football Federation’s two-month preparations for the final round Concacaf Gold Cup and Nations League home...

PPP will criminalize non-release of info in oil industry

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PPP will criminalize non-release of info in oil industry

Transparency bodies and the media alike had an uphill task trying to get hold of the oil contracts signed by the APNU+AFC government, especially that which was signed with oil giant, ExxonMobil. The...

Third child succumbs to cancer treatment at GPHC

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Third child succumbs to cancer treatment at GPHC

The third child has succumbed to cancer treatment which was administered at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Six-year-old Sherezer Mendonca reportedly took her last breath yesterday...

Cop arrested in deadly West Dem motorbike accident

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cop arrested in deadly West Dem motorbike accident

A policeman was yesterday taken into custody for Wednesday’s horrific accident on the West Bank of Demerara which left a teenage pillion rider dead. According to officials, Orrin Parris, 26,...

Charrandass’ vote is irreversible – Lawyers argue

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Charrandass’ vote is irreversible – Lawyers argue

Attorneys-at-law, Anil Nandlall and Sanjeev Datadin have both argued that the no-confidence vote by expelled Member of Parliament, Charrandass Persaud, is irreversible. The lawyers based their...

The University of Guyana should be privatized

Jan 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The University of Guyana should be privatized

The strength of the University of Guyana has always been its students. The students have been good, but it is the university which has failed them – rather, the governments which have...

New Voters… Registration, claims and objections could be done in two weeks – Jagdeo

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New Voters… Registration, claims and objections could be done in two weeks – Jagdeo

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, says that claims and objections to clear up current issues being raised by the government about the voters’ list could be undertaken in two weeks. At his...

Let National Assembly determine fiscal terms for oil contracts – Dr. Jan Mangal

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Let National Assembly determine fiscal terms for oil contracts – Dr. Jan Mangal

Former Petroleum Advisor to the Government, Dr. Jan Mangal is of the firm view that the National Assembly should be the body determining the fiscal terms to be used in oil contracts. He insists that...

Executed taxi driver was on police radar – Crime Chief says cops still seeking motive

Jan 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Executed taxi driver was on police radar – Crime Chief says cops still seeking motive

As police continue to seek a motive for the execution-style killing of taxi driver Kelvin Walters, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves has disclosed that the 38-year-old victim had been on the police...

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(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?

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(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

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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

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(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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