December 2019

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Our leaders should focus on bringing betterment to our people

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our leaders should focus on bringing betterment to our people

DEAR EDITOR, I recently saw a piece written by Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, the Presidential candidate of ANUG entitled Governance Reform of Saturday November 30, 2019. While it was a mediocre piece of...

Ignorance and/or disrespect by road users can lead to carnage

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ignorance and/or disrespect by road users can lead to carnage

DEAR EDITOR, The carnage on our roads is because of either ignorance or disrespect or both by road users: Here are a few examples: 1) At intersections between what is known as major roads and...

Does anyone believe Jagdeo’s threats?

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does anyone believe Jagdeo’s threats?

Dear Editor, Does anyone really believe Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo’s threats anymore? Just this week he warned that if his party returns to government it will exclude the company which...

Climate change and our economic systems

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Climate change and our economic systems

DEAR EDITOR, The annual average concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most significant anthropogenic greenhouse gas, increased to 405 and 408 parts per million (ppm) in 2017 and 2018,...

Matters of concern

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Matters of concern

DEAR EDITOR, It has been quite some time since I wrote an article to your newspaper. Today I shall write briefly on certain topics which may be of interest to the People of Guyana. These subjects...

NICIL sleeps while the country suffers

Dec 21, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on NICIL sleeps while the country suffers

DEAR EDITOR, It has now been two years since more than 7,000 of our brothers and sisters collected their final pay cheque from the four closed Sugar estates in Guyana. Further it has been two years...

Breaking News Guyana to begin Oil production three months ahead of schedule – President Granger

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News Guyana to begin Oil production three months ahead of schedule – President Granger

Guyana is set to become an oil producing nation sooner that was expected. In an address to the nation last night, President David Granger announced that oil production is set to begin three months...

Dr. Bynoe’s justification of oil sale in favour of companies not country – Jagdeo

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Bynoe’s justification of oil sale in favour of companies not country – Jagdeo

Former President and People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, is of the view that Energy Head, Dr. Mark Bynoe’s stance on a series of issues within the oil...

Guyanese Professionals must drive local Oil and gas debate

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Professionals must drive local Oil and gas debate

…but govt., operators should provide all available information—Anthony Paul By Gary Eleazar Professional organizations such as the Institute of Professional Chartered Accountants, and the Guyana...

Make all oil sale decisions transparent-IMF

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Make all oil sale decisions transparent-IMF

By Kiana Wilburg From 2015 to now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a key advisory role to the Government, particularly on oil related matters. The crucial development partner has...

Guyana’s reaction to ExxonMobil’s “bullying” with contract sanctity

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s reaction to ExxonMobil’s “bullying” with contract sanctity

One commentator said that ExxonMobil has a dark history of bullying countries with “contract sanctity” especially when it comes to renegotiation. He even stated that this “Giant Oil Company”...

Man scared of surgical blade escapes from GPHC in gown

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man scared of surgical blade escapes from GPHC in gown

A distraught mother is desperately searching for her 42-year-old son after he escaped from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The man was told a surgery was scheduled to be performed...

Energy Dept aims at capacity building … to meet local content demands

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept aims at capacity building … to meet local content demands

Energy Director Mark Bynoe has contended that blanket quotas for participation by local service providers and suppliers in the oil sector, and strict penalties for non-compliance to Guyana’s local...

Chief Magistrate deems Leslie Veersammy incompetent to lead evidence as an expert

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Magistrate deems Leslie Veersammy incompetent to lead evidence as an expert

– Fails to provide originals of certificates After given two weeks to provide the court with the certification of his profession, Leslie Veersammy, a co-manager of Nizam Ali and Company,...

The Speed Racers continue!

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on The Speed Racers continue!

The driver behind the wheel of this RAV-4 was in a quite a rush yesterday, so much so that he slammed into a parked Canter truck at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara. Eyewitnesses told Kaieteur News that...

Blame de bank fuh everything

Dec 20, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame de bank fuh everything

A man go to court to testify as an expert on behalf of anodda man who SOCU got busy fuh spending money that people pay to buy and sell rice. Is nuff money because before all de fuss some of de money...

Longer prison terms are a kneejerk response

Dec 20, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Longer prison terms are a kneejerk response

The sentencing of criminals should serve several purposes, but primarily these might be retribution, deterrence, prevention and rehabilitation. Courts and prisons are not most voters’ top priority...

BLIND MAN’S BUFF

Dec 20, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BLIND MAN’S BUFF

It is said that you cannot expect different results if you continue doing the same thing all the time. This is a strategy for failure Everyone has a solution to the deaths and accidents which are...

Guyana signals much more to come in Stabroek Block

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana signals much more to come in Stabroek Block

Guyana has discovered a number of oil blocks, with 14 wells at the giant Stabroek block resulting in six billion barrels-plus of oil equivalent and having an additional two at the smaller adjacent...

Judge orders Gaming Authority to process Casino License for SleepIn Hotel

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Judge orders Gaming Authority to process Casino License for SleepIn Hotel

Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln has granted a Writ of Mandamus compelling the Guyana Gaming Authority (GGA) to consider processing and determine an application for a Casino License for SleepIn...

Oil economy on radar as Guyana gears for next financial task force assessment

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Oil economy on radar as Guyana gears for next financial task force assessment

As Guyana prepares to enter the fourth round of evaluation by the financial action task force, Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams, SC says Guyana’s oil and gas...

American Airlines makes inaugural Georgetown-NY flight

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on American Airlines makes inaugural Georgetown-NY flight

United States (US) giant carrier, American Airlines, made its inaugural flight to Guyana Thursday morning. The airline is now offering daily flights between New York- John F. Kennedy International...

Defence seeks paper committal for mason accused of killing Mocha taxi driver

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Defence seeks paper committal for mason accused of killing Mocha taxi driver

Attorney-at-law Glenn Hanoman, who is representing the defendant in the case of Kwayana Fernandes, is asking for Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty to make a paper committal for his client. This is...

Porter allegedly breaks into woman’s home to steal Christmas outfit

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Porter allegedly breaks into woman’s home to steal Christmas outfit

A porter was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a break and entering charge, which alleged that he stole $359,500, worth of items...

Three held for East Canje supermarket heist

Dec 20, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Three held for East Canje supermarket heist

– Crime Chief says victim still to give cops statement Police have detained two suspects in connection with last Saturday’s brazen robbery at Chennick and Sons Supermarket. The attack was...

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May 13, 2026

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Just what is going on in Guyana?

May 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when the average Guyanese scandal involved a man stealing two plantains from a neighbour’s kitchen garden and then attending the same neighbour’s wake three weeks later pretending to be grief-stricken. We were a manageable people. Dysfunction arrived in...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

May 10, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Anand Persaud calls out, castigates, the PPP Govt.

May 13, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Governments govern. Leaders lead. Media reports on governance, leadership. People pronounce on the quality of both. I do. Anand Persaud did. As the former editor-in-chief of the much-praised, much-missed, Stabroek News, he would know about...

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