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Let us ensure that light reigns over darkness.

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us ensure that light reigns over darkness.

DEAR EDITOR, Please allow my voice to be heard within the 83,000 square miles of Guyana, by publishing this article. I am angry with the APNU/AFC coalition government. This government must take some...

BCB celebrates 80th Anniversary with gala event

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB celebrates 80th Anniversary with gala event

Nagamootoo, Lamberts, Deonarine and Derick Kallicharran inducted into Berbice Hall of Fame The Berbice Cricket Board on Friday last celebrated its 80th Anniversary by hosting a Gala Ceremony at the...

Support for a Commission of Inquiry into Violence

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for a Commission of Inquiry into Violence

Dear Editor, Former President and current Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is reported to have said two days ago that he is not opposed to a commission of inquiry into (politically directed) violence...

Demand for greater transparency and accountability in governance is gaining ground worldwide

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demand for greater transparency and accountability in governance is gaining ground worldwide

DEAR EDITOR, Some exciting developments are taking place on the local and international stage that could impact our domestic and global politics. There is, for instance, the formal initiation of...

Guyana shouldn’t look to Ghana for local content guidance

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana shouldn’t look to Ghana for local content guidance

DEAR EDITOR, The most recent version of Guyana’s local content policy has sparked much commentary this week, some helpful and some less so. As Guyanese cast about for other examples from which to...

Continuing lies and mischief by a ‘’disheartened’’ PPP/C supporter

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Continuing lies and mischief by a ‘’disheartened’’ PPP/C supporter

DEAR EDITOR, There can be no moral expectation, of any degree, that can be expected from any PPP/C supporter. In fact, they all have been part of its scheme of national deception, lies, and...

Frequent, inconveniencing road blocks

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Frequent, inconveniencing road blocks

DEAR EDITOR, I am writing to express my deep concern over the inconvenience many people are facing due to unwarranted destructive protests and frequent, unannounced road blocks within the city of...

Congratulations to NIS for its 50th Year

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to NIS for its 50th Year

DEAR EDITOR, We are writing to congratulate NIS, its management and Staff on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Organization. 50 years ago we joined the staff of NIS in the capacities of...

Does the CCJ have anything to say to the Guyana Govt. and people of the Caribbean?

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does the CCJ have anything to say to the Guyana Govt. and people of the Caribbean?

DEAR EDITOR, I join the handful of Caribbean citizens who have called on CARICOM to issue an official statement on the breach of the Guyanese Constitution and of the ruling by the Caribbean Court of...

Protest is a right; a must. But let there be temperateness and better sense

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Protest is a right; a must. But let there be temperateness and better sense

DEAR EDITOR, What unfolded last Thursday in and around the Pegasus should not be repeated in any form or to any degree. By any group in this country. Nothing else should have to be said. Today, I am...

The real issue at hand: breaking the current banking oligarchy structure by issuing more licences

Sep 26, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The real issue at hand: breaking the current banking oligarchy structure by issuing more licences

DEAR EDITOR, The decision to deny Republic Bank (RB)’s bid to take over the assets of Scotia Bank leaves much to be desired. According to both Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News of September 25,...

Essequibo boat tragedy… Captains were using cellphone lights at time of crash

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo boat tragedy… Captains were using cellphone lights at time of crash

–victim identified as Suriname-based Guyanese –search continues for missing passengers Police sources have confirmed that the captains of both vessels involved in the deadly collision in...

President to address nation on elections today

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on President to address nation on elections today

…GECOM decides: – ‘Claims and Objections’ to begin October 1, will run for 35 days – Qualifying date for electors is December 31 – Commission will engage the United States and the...

Former Civil Aviation Chairman succumbs after found beaten, bound in home

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Former Civil Aviation Chairman succumbs after found beaten, bound in home

Shock waves rushed through the community of North Sophia, when a man was found bound and beaten in his home on Monday morning, following a home invasion. He later succumbed. The now deceased man has...

Venezuela border claims… World Court hearings in March to determine jurisdiction

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela border claims… World Court hearings in March to determine jurisdiction

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hear arguments next March on whether it has jurisdiction to determine on a border claim case involving Guyana and Venezuela. Yesterday, the Ministry...

E-Networks’ subsea fibre cable did not require our permission -Telecoms Ministry

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on E-Networks’ subsea fibre cable did not require our permission -Telecoms Ministry

E-Networks Inc., the country’s biggest private cable television operator, did not need permission from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications to land a subsea fibre optic cable. Rather, from all...

Local regulator refuses approval for Republic Bank’s takeover of Scotiabank’s operations

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local regulator refuses approval for Republic Bank’s takeover of Scotiabank’s operations

Bank of Guyana has refused to approve Republic Bank’s takeover of Scotiabank’s operations. Governor of Central Bank, Dr. Gobind Ganga, told Kaieteur News that the two banks were notified of the...

‘Roger’ Khan released

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Roger’ Khan released

Three and a half days after he was deported to Guyana from the United States, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was yesterday released from police custody on $200,000 bail. Khan had been jailed in the US in...

Environmental Activist against World Bank’s criticism of EPA Act

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Environmental Activist against World Bank’s criticism of EPA Act

“Guyana should not allow the World Bank or other organisation to come to Guyana to dismantle the laws that protect the people and environment of Guyana.” These were the profound words of...

Taxi driver remanded on rape charge

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver remanded on rape charge

A taxi driver was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before a city magistrate on a rape charge. Neville Thomas was not required to plead to the indictable charge which read that he...

The police engaged in overkill

Sep 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The police engaged in overkill

The police yesterday blocked off a number of busy roads in the city in order to keep protestors away from the precincts of the Ministry of the Presidency. The closure of these roads resulted in...

‘Accessory after the fact…’ Judge to rule on defence’s no case submission today

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Accessory after the fact…’ Judge to rule on defence’s no case submission today

Justice Priya Sewnarine Beharry is expected to rule today on the defence’s no case submission when the trial of the woman who is charged with accessory after the fact, in the murder of a security...

Woman drops attempted murder charge against husband

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Woman drops attempted murder charge against husband

Dereck Solomon, 60, of Block ‘F’ North Sophia; Greater Georgetown, who was accused of attempting to murder his reputed wife by stabbing her about the body, yesterday saw the charge against him...

Procurement Commission meets with public entities on burning issues

Sep 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement Commission meets with public entities on burning issues

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) yesterday conducted a stakeholder meeting with public procuring entities at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown. Attending were Permanent Secretaries and Heads of...

New Building Society Ltd 40 overs Second Division Cricket Competition in Berbice

Sep 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Building Society Ltd 40 overs Second Division Cricket Competition in Berbice

Young Warriors ‘B’ 13-yr Romeo Deonarain leads them to victory over Tucber Park ‘B’ The New Building Society Ltd sponsored 2019/2020 Second Division Cricket for teams in...