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NDIA installs mobile pump in No. 52 outfall channel to assist with draining

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA installs mobile pump in No. 52 outfall channel to assist with draining

– Sees an estimated $2.3 million operational cost The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) installed a mobile pump at the No. 52 outfall channel on the coast of...

The demise of petty bourgeois politics in Guyana: A class analysis

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The demise of petty bourgeois politics in Guyana: A class analysis

There have been four major, third parties in Guyana – the National Democratic Party (NDP), United Force (UF), Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and Alliance for Change (AFC). Two other small...

Chase too much for Guyana

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chase too much for Guyana

CPL – Another excellent St Lucia Zouks bowling performance ensured Roston Chase’s backs-to-the-wall fifty was not in vain, as Chemar Holder bowled a brilliant last over to deny th e Guyana...

RHTYSC 30th Anniversary Celebration 1990-2020 Fudadin, Crandon, Williams named in RHTYSC all time X1 after thirty years

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC 30th Anniversary Celebration 1990-2020 Fudadin, Crandon, Williams named in RHTYSC all time X1 after thirty years

Campbelle leads all time female team The Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS has unveiled the club’s all time cricket team as the celebration continues for its 30th...

Change Guyana dissolved by majority vote

Aug 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Change Guyana dissolved by majority vote

Change Guyana, a political that was formed just months before the March 2 General and Regional Elections, published a statement last night noting the dissolution of the party. Of the 460,352 valid...

The Coming COVID-19 Storm

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Coming COVID-19 Storm

When, back at the beginning of April, the PAHO-WHO Resident Representative in Guyana, Dr. William Adu Krow stated that Guyana’s COVID-19 cases were going to reach 20,000 by the May 5, the number...

Mr. Jagdeo, it’s OK to use the “r” word; PPP must “renegotiate” the Exxon contract now!

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Jagdeo, it’s OK to use the “r” word; PPP must “renegotiate” the Exxon contract now!

DEAR EDITOR, Our national hero, Bharrat Jagdeo, who just broke the back of the PNC dictatorship trying to rig an election in front of the whole world, and who is now our illustrious Vice President...

Jagdeo should not be the point person in the oil renegotiations

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo should not be the point person in the oil renegotiations

Yesterday, two women approached the publisher of Kaieteur News as he was about to enter his office. They said they could not afford to buy the newspapers everyday but they have been following the...

Change Guyana – Courage to the Finish Line

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Change Guyana – Courage to the Finish Line

DEAR EDITOR, Change Guyana Political Party has achieved outsized accomplishments in pre and post March 2020 General and Regional Elections of Guyana. Now in this August month of 2020, the month where...

Basil Williams responds to the Attorney General

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Basil Williams responds to the Attorney General

DEAR EDITOR, I write with reference to your articles on the ‘Establishment of the Law Reform Commission’ published in Sunday’s edition of the Kaieteur News and The Guyana Chronicle at pages 1...

The Chris Jones saga, too much of the vindictive and viciousness

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Chris Jones saga, too much of the vindictive and viciousness

DEAR EDITOR, I am following some of the Chris Jones saga as relayed in mainstream media, which becomes more of an ordeal as I learn more. It should not have been this way, there are better ways to...

The Guyana Police Force again under the microscope

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyana Police Force again under the microscope

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana, well in its fourth “honeymoon never begun” ambitious week, is basking with the freshness and relief from an impoverished and treacherous five-month siege from the heartless...

Memo to Lenox Shuman

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Memo to Lenox Shuman

DEAR EDITOR, Allow me to use your pages to recommend that the leader of the LJP take note of the words of our most distinguished poet: “…a mouth is always muzzled by the food it eats to...

Female Indo Guyanese NYPD captain under siege

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Female Indo Guyanese NYPD captain under siege

DEAR EDITOR, The headline of the lead article from the New York Post dated August 21 told the sordid tale: “NYPD captain to sue department for $5million over alleged sexual harassment.” This has...

GOUVEIA SHUMAN GREENIDGE AND RAMKARRAN

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GOUVEIA SHUMAN GREENIDGE AND RAMKARRAN

BY Tulsi Dyal Gouveia, Shuman, Greenidge and Ramkarran: One of long attachment; one of newest promise; One mih fren from sixty years ago; And de last one, from long before is back. Ah glad to see dem...

OPEN LETTER TO MR. DARREN WOODS, CEO OF EXXONMOBIL

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on OPEN LETTER TO MR. DARREN WOODS, CEO OF EXXONMOBIL

DEAR SIR, Namaste (the divinity in me salutes the divinity in you). You must be aware of the efforts of numerous groups to get the Government of Guyana to reopen the oil contracts with EXXON....

Disappointed that media fail to provide coverage on indentureship

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disappointed that media fail to provide coverage on indentureship

DEAR EDITOR, It is most regrettable that Guyanese media makes no mention of or report on the international conference on Indian indentureship held in Trinidad on August 22 and 23 hosted by the...

Is there a medium for taxpayers to record or voice their suggestions for improvements in the city?

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there a medium for taxpayers to record or voice their suggestions for improvements in the city?

DEAR EDITOR, Some years ago, I wrote a letter to the press advocating that the Mayor and City Council adopt and put in place the payment of city taxes by Escrow Account. This methodology I suggested...

Future-Oil Dividend Payouts to Guyanese

Aug 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Future-Oil Dividend Payouts to Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, It’s not too soon to bring this topic up, but the state of Alaska, in the US, has a population of under 1 million like Guyana, and in 1976 established the Alaska Permanent Fund (for...

Tricky Exxon!

Aug 23, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Tricky Exxon!

ExxonMobil is cunning. The new government must not fall for its excuses or entrapments. ExxonMobil says that it will be forced to reduce production because of ‘gas flaring’ concerns. That is a...

ExxonMobil giving wishy-washy answers on critical environmental matters for Payara

Aug 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil giving wishy-washy answers on critical environmental matters for Payara

– EPA head insists all concerns have to be addressed before approval By Kiana Wilburg As the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government continues with the review of the Payara Field...

Maid’s other son participated in burning body of kidnapped Canadian

Aug 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Maid’s other son participated in burning body of kidnapped Canadian

– rice farmer still being grilled Investigators attached to the Major Crimes Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Georgetown are still grilling the Corentyne rice farmer who...

Ramkarran, Shuman, Gouveia appointed government advisors

Aug 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ramkarran, Shuman, Gouveia appointed government advisors

The Irfaan Ali administration yesterday announced three new political appointments as advisors. The Office of the President, in a release, announced that Chairman of the Private Sector Commission...

Two Kaieteur News reporters test positive for COVID-19

Aug 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two Kaieteur News reporters test positive for COVID-19

– Guyana spends billions to renovate old hotel but only has one testing machine Two Kaieteur News reporters were recently informed that they tested positive for COVID-19, but the time it took...

APNU+AFC spends over $92M on Law Reform Commission …no work done

Aug 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC spends over $92M on Law Reform Commission …no work done

The Coalition Government had expended over $92M to pay secretarial staff, rent a building on Robb Street, and pay for other facilities for a Law Reform Commission (LRC) which remains inoperable years...

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Morally Right. Legally wrong

…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more