February 2019

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Irfaan Ali is meeting a larger constituency

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Irfaan Ali is meeting a larger constituency

Dear Editor, Maruranau, Nappi, Aishalton, Karadarnauwa, Katoonarib, Potannau, Rukumuta. Irfaan Ali has been traveling throughout Guyana, these are but a few of the names of villages visited in the...

Where are the tax dollars at work?

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Where are the tax dollars at work?

Dear Editor, After reading Adam Harris’s article this morning, I would like to make a comment. He wrote, “there is a difference between Guyana and the foreign countries. People pay...

All political sides are not being realistic with Guyana’s Fossil Fuel Industry’s future

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on All political sides are not being realistic with Guyana’s Fossil Fuel Industry’s future

Dear Editor I have come to the conclusion that none of the major political parties in Guyana have any sort of comprehensive long term plans for Guyana’s Energy Future. The Deal with ExxonMobil is...

No ambulance at Wales

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on No ambulance at Wales

Dear Editor, I write this email to you because I am so fed up with this life. I am living at Wales, for over thirty years years now. My husband is a dedicated worker for the now defunct Wales Estate....

Irfaan Ali ‘degree gate’ opens even wider

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Irfaan Ali ‘degree gate’ opens even wider

Mr. Editor, The Irfaan Ali ‘degree gate’ scandal continues to anger Guyanese throughout the nation, especially the independent thinking PPP supporters. There are many more of us than Bharrat...

No Jagdeo No!

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on No Jagdeo No!

Dear Editor, Why is the PPP-Civic so obsessed to hold elections now? Why are they opposed to a clean voters’ list? Is it because the current voters’ list is so bloated that they fear a fair list?...

A case of bullying

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on A case of bullying

Editor, We the residents of the lower section of Dowding Street are deeply concerned by the recent attempts of the owner of Lot 85 Railway Line. Over the past weeks under the guise of cleaning up the...

“The Truth about the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Co-op Society”

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on “The Truth about the Belle Vue Cane Farmers Marketing Co-op Society”

Dear Editor, We refer to your letter dated, 19th February, 2019, page 5, titled “The Co-operative Movement of Belle Vue is under threat”. This letter is inaccurate and seeks to paint a...

How much longer before Transport ground is fixed?

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on How much longer before Transport ground is fixed?

Dear Editor, I am calling on the Minister of Public Infrastructure, Mr. David Patterson and Junior Minister Annette Ferguson, Culture Youth & Sports and Minister George Norton; Christopher Jones...

The APNU commissioners are guilty of subversion

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on The APNU commissioners are guilty of subversion

Dear Editor, The Legal Definition of subversion is a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working from within; also: the crime of committing acts...

Glaring errors

Feb 25, 2019 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Glaring errors

In raw, street-level terms, what does that translate to? That embarrassing ‘poke-in-the-eye and egg on the face’ putdown embedded through the “glaring errors” present in the government’s...

RUSAL rents presidential annexe for peanuts

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on RUSAL rents presidential annexe for peanuts

As the spotlight continues to center on the operations of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI), there are details that for years it occupied a prime state-owned property in Queenstown, paying a...

World Cup missing BMW jeep found abandoned at LBI

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on World Cup missing BMW jeep found abandoned at LBI

A government-owned BMW jeep that investigators were looking for has been found abandoned on the East Coast of Demerara. The X3 sports utility vehicle (SUV) was recovered at LBI based on a number of...

SARA owes Trinidad and UK consultants millions

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on SARA owes Trinidad and UK consultants millions

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) may be taken to court even before it can file its first case. This newspaper understands that SARA owes in excess of $13M to two...

Pilot’s recklessness caused crash -was seen flying low over Cuyuni River minutes before tragedy

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pilot’s recklessness caused crash -was seen flying low over Cuyuni River minutes before tragedy

A decision to fly low over the Cuyuni River appears to have caused the death of Domestic Airways pilot, Captain Randy Liverpool, on Thursday. Eyewitness reports and video footage gleaned by Kaieteur...

Baby burnt in incubator had health issues from premature birth

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Baby burnt in incubator had health issues from premature birth

The family of Quavo Daniel had long suspected that his death was caused by burns suffered in Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s incubator after the bulb of a heat lamp exploded....

Liberty and Justice Party demands Public Service College scrapped -urges probe into hiring practices

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Liberty and Justice Party demands Public Service College scrapped -urges probe into hiring practices

Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice Party (L&JP), Lenox Shuman, says he will support an investigation into the hiring practices of the public service. A former Vice Chairman of the...

Jagdeo will not meeting with President David Granger

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo will not meeting with President David Granger

“Since when I have to be the only responsible one”? That was the question Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo asked the media at his most recent press conference. It was actually his response to...

Mash come and lef some people wounded

Feb 24, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Mash come and lef some people wounded

Whenever is a holiday all dem criminals does come out like mosquito in de rainy season. Dem done decide that de more people pun de road is de more people dem can rob. And that is wha dem does do. Dem...

RDC 10 commences massive road project to aid development

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on RDC 10 commences massive road project to aid development

After almost two decades of planning and attempts at securing Government’s assistance to kick start an agricultural project at Milly’s, the Regional Democratic Council [RDC] of Region Ten has...

GMR&SC National Race of Champions Starlet Cup geared to have scorching action

Feb 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC National Race of Champions Starlet Cup geared to have scorching action

The hype is building with two weeks remaining for the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMR&SC) Race of Champions, which will speed off on March 3 at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri....

Upgrade to Eccles dumpsite road:

Feb 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Upgrade to Eccles dumpsite road:

A local contractor, International Import and Supplies Limited, has taken it upon himself to upgrade a large section of the road. The road leads to the industrial area, Nandy Park, Windsor Estate and...

Allicock, Amsterdam head shortlist for Pan AM games qualifier training Sessions to commence tomorrow morning

Feb 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Allicock, Amsterdam head shortlist for Pan AM games qualifier training Sessions to commence tomorrow morning

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) shortlisted six Boxers for possible selection for the Pan AM games qualifiers scheduled for April, while three pugilists have been put on the stand bye...

Consistency and positivity key for top order As Jaguars look to rebound from two-day defeat in Jamaica

Feb 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Consistency and positivity key for top order As Jaguars look to rebound from two-day defeat in Jamaica

By Sean Devers In the five-year history of the Regional First Class Cricket, the Guyana Jaguars Franchise has dominated and has won every title since the League was inaugurated in 2015, but...

Jumbo Jet Triple Crown 1st leg runs off today at Rising Sun

Feb 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet Triple Crown 1st leg runs off today at Rising Sun

All systems are set for the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee’s Triple Crown’s first leg which gallops off today at the Rising Sun Turf Club in West Coast, Berbice, according to chairman of...

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The price of prosperity

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(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, there is a peculiar arithmetic to prosperity. The country announces itself as one of the fastest-growing economies in the hemisphere, a petroleum state that has been transformed almost overnight into a place of billion-dollar projects, expanding infrastructure and...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

What if

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Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Brace for what’s coming, my fellow Guyanese. A bit off the beaten track. Here goes. What if the U.S. as a matter of immigration policy would experiment with visa-free travel for Guyanese? A kind of seasonal work permit, along the lines that used to be...

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