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Regional sugar body to meet over COTED’s import tariff decision

Nov 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Regional sugar body to meet over COTED’s import tariff decision

Directors of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) are due to meet in early December to reflect on a decision taken by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)’s Council for Trade and Economic...

Brian Tiwari birthday tournament on Sunday shifted to Leonora ground

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brian Tiwari birthday tournament on Sunday shifted to Leonora ground

Play in the Brian Tiwari birth anniversary 9-a-side Inter-Ward football Tournament, which is set to conclude on Sunday, has been shifted to the Leonora ground and not Uitvlugt as was mistakenly...

Banks DIH 15/15 Softball Cricket League in Berbice

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH 15/15 Softball Cricket League in Berbice

Despite rains four more teams qualify for quarters Four more teams have advance to the quarterfinal stage of the ongoing Banks DIH 15/15 Softball Cricket League in Berbice. Despite heavy rains which...

The part about Charran that Ramjattan left out

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The part about Charran that Ramjattan left out

I don’t want a smart phone. Someone wanted me to listen to Khemraj Ramjattan’s eulogy on the death anniversary of Sheila Holder, so he sent it to the smart phone of a friend, who played it for...

BACIF to produce one of a kind trophy for ‘GFF SUPER 16 CUP’ 2019/2020

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BACIF to produce one of a kind trophy for ‘GFF SUPER 16 CUP’ 2019/2020

Casting and machining specialists, Brass Aluminum and Cast Iron Foundry Ltd. (BACIF) will be producing a historical trophy for the Guyana Football Federation, GFF Super 16 Cup 2019/2020 edition. The...

Heart health

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Heart health

It is in-the-face and the gut and, most worrying of all, it is about the clogging and destroying story of heart disease in the region. That includes Guyana, which means us, as in self, or family, or...

A divisive political trend

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A divisive political trend

Dear Editor, It is common in the expression of free speech that misinformed or intended to misinform definitions and accusations are thrown out into the public opinion pool. I wish to refer to Hydar...

Ethanol, not sugar

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ethanol, not sugar

Dear Editor, Why is our sugar industry a huge problem in Guyana? Well, labour is too expensive. Labour is also short. We receive too much rainfall to mechanise effectively and have become...

GECOM is testing the patience of the Guyanese people

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM is testing the patience of the Guyanese people

Dear Editor, How much more patience does GECOM expect the Guyanese people to have? Why is the GECOM chair still so silent? Should she not be giving weekly updates? Why are we hearing from individual...

Queen Victoria statue should be respected, preserved

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Queen Victoria statue should be respected, preserved

Dear Editor, We read that one of your newspaper reader is questioning again the Queen Victoria statue in our Victoria law court compound. One of history’s most iconic monarchs, Queen Victoria...

‘Black Belt’ factories

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘Black Belt’ factories

Dear Editor, I believe the time has come for the relevant ministries/organizations including the Guyana Revenue Authority and the ministry with responsibility for sports to keep a closer eye on what...

It is the minister’s responsibility

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is the minister’s responsibility

Dear Editor, I note with great concern the letter written by Claudeston G. Massiah, Kaieteur News, Wednesday November 27, 2019 titled ‘Can Guyanese justify the still prominent display of Queen...

Mr. Kissoon has propagated falsehood about TIGI

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Kissoon has propagated falsehood about TIGI

Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon sometimes wields his Kaieteur News (KN) column like a blunt instrument and with it he recently bludgeoned his way into a matter about which he lacked basic...

Tax free raises

Nov 29, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tax free raises

letter DEAR EDITOR, I am writing with concern about the above captioned. I don’t believe that in any other part of the world the Government can discriminate between the public and private sectors...

GCCI and GMSA unaware of members unable to get same tax breaks as foreign companies

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI and GMSA unaware of members unable to get same tax breaks as foreign companies

– Promise to undertake review By Kiana Wilburg In the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) signed between Guyana and ExxonMobil, there is a provision which states that subcontractors and...

RUSAL selling electricity to businesses at commercial rates

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on RUSAL selling electricity to businesses at commercial rates

…company also selling electricity at commercial rates to businesses—Lewis Revelation that the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) is selling excess electricity generated from its...

Carter Centre accredited for 2020 elections

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Carter Centre accredited for 2020 elections

The Carter Centre has been accredited to observe the 2020 elections, an official of the Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM) confirmed yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the Carter Centre team...

Boy, 7, dead, family hospitalised after driver ploughs into pedestrians

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 7, dead, family hospitalised after driver ploughs into pedestrians

A seven-year-old boy is dead, his mother, sister and two other persons including another child are hospitalised after a reckless driver ploughed into them while they were standing along the Bush Lot,...

GNBA mulls regulatory framework for internet broadcast

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GNBA mulls regulatory framework for internet broadcast

– Promises Collaborative approach for monitoring elections Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) announced yesterday that the authority has kicked off its Citizen Monitoring Programme,...

Angry parent assaults primary school teacher

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Angry parent assaults primary school teacher

A grade one teacher attached to the Winfer Gardens Primary School was on Wednesday morning attacked by an angry parent who accused her of beating her child. The injured teacher, Yolanda Jackson, said...

Witnesses fearful of testifying against suspected gang members

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Witnesses fearful of testifying against suspected gang members

Witnesses have conveyed to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that they are fearful of testifying against two men who are currently on remand for attempting to murder Teon “Spoil Child”...

Is sheer madness

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is sheer madness

When de police ketch dem criminals and when de judges and magistrates send dem to jail de people does glad. Yesterday, people start to find out dat de people who controlling de jail don’t want some...

GECOM needs to get its house in order

Nov 28, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GECOM needs to get its house in order

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is in a mess. The problems which the Commission and its Secretariat are encountering reflect a palpable lack of understanding of data science. If GECOM wishes...

Three charged for gun possession following Agricola Raid

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Three charged for gun possession following Agricola Raid

Following a raid that was conducted in Agricola last week, three people faced gun-related charges. They were all remanded to prison. The men who were charged individually are Gregory Boyce, 31, of 39...

Corentyne’s businesses help former reporter with brain aneurysm

Nov 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne’s businesses help former reporter with brain aneurysm

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC), in keeping with one of its corporate responsibilities to assist those in need, has made a monetary contribution to ruptured brain aneurysm patient,...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more