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A test of democracy

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A test of democracy

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU/AFC regime was clinching to straws with their legal challenges to stave off the December 2018 No-Confidence vote and set a date for General Elections as per Constitution for a...

I maintain that Ambassador Ten Pow submitted his resignation

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I maintain that Ambassador Ten Pow submitted his resignation

DEAR EDITOR, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has seemingly succumbed to what I can term “Granger’s disease” – an inability to understand language that needs no gloss. On the...

Encounters on the first working day of 2020

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Encounters on the first working day of 2020

As each year closes, it is customary for humans in all countries to say to themselves, and to others, that the new year should see greater efforts by all peoples around the world to make their...

GPHC, back to the drawing board on this one

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPHC, back to the drawing board on this one

DEAR EDITOR, We refer to the article in Kaieteur News, December 28, 2019, “40 Nurses at GPHC now fluent in French and Spanish”. We wish to question both the accuracy of the headline and the...

Badal roasts President Granger on his “Decade of Development” slogan

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Badal roasts President Granger on his “Decade of Development” slogan

DEAR EDITOR, In his New Year’s Day message, President Granger outlined that his Coalition’s plan for the next decade is based on four pillars, The Green State, The Digital State, The Petroleum...

Only an adequately qualified person should be selected to head GFC

Jan 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only an adequately qualified person should be selected to head GFC

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Kaieteur News article of Saturday Dec 28th 2019 on the subject that GFC Commissioner departs after 21 yrs. Indeed James Singh served the GFC and sector well. Moving on, there...

Guyana holds the cards for non-stop NY flights

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana holds the cards for non-stop NY flights

– Caribbean Airlines says it has met all the regulatory requirements Trinidad and Tobago-controlled Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is calling on Guyana and the US to clear the hurdles which will...

IDB tempers Guyana’s projected growth in 2020 from 86% to 39%

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on IDB tempers Guyana’s projected growth in 2020 from 86% to 39%

Echoes IMF that majority of wealth will leave the country By Kemol King The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has posited that Guyana will experience economic growth of 39 percent in 2020. That...

ExxonMobil’s project in Papua New Guinea is an economic parasite

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil’s project in Papua New Guinea is an economic parasite

“Exxon’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in the highlands of Papua New Guinea provides a distressing case study of large-scale economic parasitism.” That is the view of a former Australia...

Five New Year’s babies grace New Amsterdam Hospital

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Five New Year’s babies grace New Amsterdam Hospital

—Several more expected While many were welcoming the New Year, the doctors and nurses at the New Amsterdam Hospital were kept busy as five babies made their entrance into a new decade. First-time...

6,535 unverified registrants can have undue influence on elections outcome — Nandlall

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 6,535 unverified registrants can have undue influence on elections outcome — Nandlall

People‘s Progressive Party, (PPP) Executive Member and Attorney -at- law, Anil Nandlall, believes that the inclusion of 6,535 unverified new registrants on the Revised List of Electors,(RLE) can...

Foreign Ministry denies Ten-Pow resigned as UN ambassador

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Ministry denies Ten-Pow resigned as UN ambassador

…Guyana takes over as chair of Group of 77 Guyana has taken over as chair of the influential Group of 77 developing countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also disclosed that Ambassador Rudolph...

Fight over 14-year-old girl… One dead, one hospitalized, one remanded and one on the run

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fight over 14-year-old girl… One dead, one hospitalized, one remanded and one on the run

A fight between four males over a 14-year-old girl has left one remanded to the juvenile holding center, one in hiding, one hospitalized and one dead. Remanded was 17-year-old boy who was not...

Two dead, several injured in four accidents

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two dead, several injured in four accidents

By Shikema Dey It appears as if the road madness from 2019 has seeped into the New Year. 2020 was met with four accidents; two of which were fatal and the reminder leaving several injured. Those dead...

Corruption crippling rich Nigeria

Jan 03, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Corruption crippling rich Nigeria

The World Bank find that de money Nigeria collect from selling its energy is only fuh a select few. Dem boys seh that energy money is Nigeria’s wealth. Is de same World Bank helping Guyana develop...

Oil does end

Jan 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Oil does end

Carl Greenidge in his Christmas Day letter made a frantic attempt to debunk the link between oil and debt in Africa. In so doing, he missed some important metrics. For example, he argued that the...

I will never forget and forgive Jagdeo and Ramotar

Jan 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I will never forget and forgive Jagdeo and Ramotar

The election season hits the country once more. The five-year cycle is here. Election time is not a nice feeling for a nation that has had authoritarian rulers. What triggers angry emotions in people...

Mechanical failures, strikes contribute to 17,000 tonnes sugar shortfall

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanical failures, strikes contribute to 17,000 tonnes sugar shortfall

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has confirmed that it has fallen short of its target last year by 17,000 tonnes. “Reflecting on the year 2019 total of 92,246 tonnes of sugar was declared to...

PI to commence for man who set girlfriend afire

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PI to commence for man who set girlfriend afire

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Olivia De Freitas will soon commence. This was after Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers yesterday told the court that the prosecution’s file is...

Balwant Singh Hospital’s lawsuit against Melly Mel continues March 23

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Balwant Singh Hospital’s lawsuit against Melly Mel continues March 23

A lawsuit filed by Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital against social media personality, Melissa ‘Melly Mel’ Atwell, is set to continue on March 23, 2020 before Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln at the High...

Persons forced to evacuate as sewage overflows at G/Town Magistrates’ Court

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Persons forced to evacuate as sewage overflows at G/Town Magistrates’ Court

Police officers, reporters and persons attending the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday had to either put up with or run away from the unbearable smell coming from overflowing sewerage. In...

GPF rings in new year with hundreds of promotions

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPF rings in new year with hundreds of promotions

Commissioner of Police, Leslie James, DSS, DSM has announced the promotion of over 700 ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) The advancements were approved by the Police Service Commission (PSC) and...

GDF PROMOTION – OFFICERS

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GDF PROMOTION – OFFICERS

TO SUBSTANTIVE COLONEL: 99358 Lt Col Raul Jerrick TO SUBSTANTIVE MAJOR: 99595 Capt Andre Cush; 99687 Capt Kevaun Gray; 99697 Capt Fidel Fredericks; 99640 Capt Marvin Simpson; 99657 Capt Kevin Moore;...

GWI to procure two drill rigs for coast, hinterland

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GWI to procure two drill rigs for coast, hinterland

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) will be procuring two drill rigs in this year, to increase water access. One will be used on the coast and the other in the hinterland This was highlighted by...

Tullow’s recent find suggests high quality oil exists in Kanuku, Orinduik Blocks – report

Jan 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Tullow’s recent find suggests high quality oil exists in Kanuku, Orinduik Blocks – report

… Could mirror Stabroek Block discoveries Tullow has discovered at Carapa-1 well in the Kanuku Block high quality oil that mirrors that of the Stabroek Block discoveries. Preliminary results of...

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Guyana Beverages Inc. partners with GFF for Maid Marian Wheat Up Women’s Cup

Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more