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Govt. allocates $51.7 M to push agricultural development in Region 10 -Region to provide free materials to farmers

Aug 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. allocates $51.7 M to push agricultural development in Region 10 -Region to provide free materials to farmers

The Upper Demerara-Berbice Region, mostly known for being rich in bauxite, in 2019 has benefited from a budgetary allocation of $51.762M from Central Government to push agricultural development....

Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association gives back

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association gives back

The Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Karate Association took the time to contribute to two families who have lost their loved ones. The association was represented by members of the association, the...

Justice Claudette Singh’s behaviour justifies harsh criticism

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Justice Claudette Singh’s behaviour justifies harsh criticism

People don’t like criticism – it is a permanent fixture in Homo sapiens. But criticism has saved civilization from tyranny and disasters. If the human mind gives up on criticism, civilization...

Regional Blind cricket tourney postponed to October due to lack of funding to host event

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regional Blind cricket tourney postponed to October due to lack of funding to host event

This year’s Blind Cricket Tournament has been rescheduled for early October due to host team Guyana’s inability to find the funding for Accommodation, Uniforms and Meals for the participating...

This is a disgrace in a democracy

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is a disgrace in a democracy

DEAR EDITOR, House-to-House Registration was unreasonably and deliberately unleashed by the caretaker Granger Government to delay and to ultimately deny the benefits of the No Confidence Motion (NCM)...

Bartica basketball camp concludes

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bartica basketball camp concludes

The second annual Bartica basketball camp, which was sponsored by Grace Kennedy Remittance Services (GKRS) and Banks DIH limited, concluded in that town on Sunday and Andrew Hercules, head of the...

Challenge for the Police Force – Make Stabroek Market area safe

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Challenge for the Police Force – Make Stabroek Market area safe

The Stabroek Market area has been taken over (again) by the forces of lawlessness. This is a troubling state of policing; one that must not be allowed to stand for long. It must be reversed and...

What we need for our sugar industry is…

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on What we need for our sugar industry is…

DEAR EDITOR, Many of us Guyanese are appalled at the closing down of some of the sugar estates here in Guyana by the incumbent national administration, as we know that sugar and its byproducts are...

Breaking News! GECOM rules: House-to-house registration ends Saturday

Aug 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News! GECOM rules: House-to-house registration ends Saturday

– data gathered to be merged with National Register – extensive Claims and Objections period to be held Almost one month after being sworn in as chair of the Guyana Elections Commission...

On the subject of mental health

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on On the subject of mental health

DEAR EDITOR, I have mental health problems. I have had it for nearly twenty years. It is not something that I am ashamed of or need to hide. I am fortunate to live in a society where the majority of...

Whoever made those oil deals, you could have done better

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Whoever made those oil deals, you could have done better

DEAR EDITOR, I felt somewhat disappointed when I read of the two percent royalty that Guyana would be receiving from Exxon. Then I thought of the opportunities our people would be having. Then came...

Giftland Mall and GPL

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Giftland Mall and GPL

DEAR EDITOR, I have been following this ongoing saga with the Giftland Mall and GPL Power Supply, and it appears that the government does not want to purchase power from the Giftland Mall. Mr. Beepat...

Where is the power promised by the Govt?

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the power promised by the Govt?

DEAR EDITOR, In June, the government announced with great fanfare that they would be improving the situation by getting excess power from Giftland....

Leave Guyana’s trees alone

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Leave Guyana’s trees alone

DEAR EDITOR, When we see headlines emblazoning our newspapers about leading “logging” in any “region”, it is a patent denial of the much touted “Low Carbon” policy fostered by the Kingdom...

Leave Guyana’s trees alone

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Leave Guyana’s trees alone

The ball is now in the GECOM Chair’s court

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ball is now in the GECOM Chair’s court

DEAR EDITOR, It is now crystal clear that regional and general elections cannot be held within the constitutionally prescribed period – that is, before September 18, 2019. The Granger...

Proselytizing the minds of Guyanese into a belief in falsehood

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proselytizing the minds of Guyanese into a belief in falsehood

Dear Editor, I write in relation to an article in the Sunday August 25, 2019 edition of your newspaper, on page 35, captioned, ‘Mr. Jagdeo, let GECOM do its work; you do yours’ written by Lincoln...

Such reckless, ill-informed commentary, cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged

Aug 27, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Such reckless, ill-informed commentary, cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged

DEAR EDITOR, In a recent edition of the Kaieteur News, Mr. Oscar Dolphin spouted some of the most ill-informed points of view that I have seen in recent times in a letter, under the headline ‘The...

Guyana can use radar satellite images to detect, monitor oil spills

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana can use radar satellite images to detect, monitor oil spills

– But Local capacity to read images has to be developed-Chief Scientist, Professor By Kiana Wilburg Instead of depending solely on the operators to inform the authorities when an oil...

Patterson’s promise of Gas to Power Plant by 2021 unrealistic – Charles Ramson Jr.

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Patterson’s promise of Gas to Power Plant by 2021 unrealistic – Charles Ramson Jr.

Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson has said that the government will build a 188 megawatt power plant which will come on stream by 2021. But according to Attorney-at-Law and...

Pork-knocker on the run after killing reputed wife – Sneaked into victim’s home as she slept

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pork-knocker on the run after killing reputed wife – Sneaked into victim’s home as she slept

Waves of horror and shock rippled through Victoria Village, East Coast of Demerara at around 03:55 hrs yesterday, after a jealous pork-knocker stabbed his reputed wife and mother of his three...

Mahaicony rice farmers blast MMA for refuting extent of losses

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony rice farmers blast MMA for refuting extent of losses

– claim NDIA official refused to visit flooded fields Rice farmers from First Savannah, Mahaicony Creek went to great lengths yesterday to prove their claims of severe losses due to...

Top CSEC performer aims to become neurosurgeon

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Top CSEC performer aims to become neurosurgeon

– wants to help treat children diagnosed with conditions like his brother’s Sixteen year-old Daniel Roopchand has always performed well in school and loved the sciences. As such, he...

Local Content Policy must target investment outside Petroleum Sector – Vincent Adams … in line with GSDS Vision 2040 – Dean of SEBI

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy must target investment outside Petroleum Sector – Vincent Adams … in line with GSDS Vision 2040 – Dean of SEBI

Because oil will not last forever, Guyana’s local content plan must target investment outside of this potentially lucrative sector. That was insistence of Energy expert and Head of the...

Another failed anti-crime campaign? Touts and robbers return in full force to Stabroek Square

Aug 26, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Another failed anti-crime campaign? Touts and robbers return in full force to Stabroek Square

It was just a few months ago that the Guyana Police Force promised a sustained campaign against minibus touts on the Stabroek bus parks. It was also around that same time that police promised to get...