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Payara: Ducking and Defending Should Be Adjusting and Correcting

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Payara: Ducking and Defending Should Be Adjusting and Correcting

The Guyana government has signaled where it stands with Canadian consultant, Ms. Redford. It is ready to rationalize and defend. It is not enough. Look at us: we are so far gone in our reciprocal...

Guyana to participate in Online Archery Cup of the Americas

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to participate in Online Archery Cup of the Americas

Archery Guyana is proud to announce that due to our affiliation to World Archery Americas (WAA), we have been invited to participate in the Online Archery Cup of the Americas, which is organised by...

Africo Selman appointed advisor to Minister Manickchand

Aug 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Africo Selman appointed advisor to Minister Manickchand

The Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has appointed an advisor, Africo Selman. A former parliamentarian for the Coalition leading up to the 2015 elections, she switched to the People’s...

Buxton wins Emancipation 5k road relay

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Buxton wins Emancipation 5k road relay

The community of Buxton ran away with the first Emancipation 5k inter-village road relay that sped off on Sunday last in the village of Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara. A total of five villages...

Aberdeen reaffirms oil and gas links with Guyana

Aug 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Aberdeen reaffirms oil and gas links with Guyana

Scotland (Energy Voice)- Scores of oil and gas representatives met virtually Wednesday to discuss the opportunities available to supply chain companies in post-election Guyana. The world’s eye has...

Ross, Giddings, Balram, Gajnabi and the BCB are 2019 Awardees

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ross, Giddings, Balram, Gajnabi and the BCB are 2019 Awardees

RHTY&SC, Gregory Gaskin Memorial Berbice Sports Awards The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) and it’s ten cricket teams recently hosted the annual Gregory Gaskin Memorial...

17 arrested at bar in Montrose

Aug 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 17 arrested at bar in Montrose

Seventeen persons were on Wednesday afternoon arrested after they were caught at a bar imbibing.Police, acting on information, went to Khan’s Hideout Bar located at 100 Second Street, Montrose,...

The lack of character for honesty and integrity

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The lack of character for honesty and integrity

DEAR EDITOR, As the names, faces, appointments and portfolios are announced, there are a variety of expressions of deep consternations, denunciations, suspicions, reservations, recommendations,...

Something should come through from all of this

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something should come through from all of this

DEAR EDITOR, I am reading what is below the captions these days. Mr. Glenn Lall, his newspaper, his radio station, and his team are all hailed as saviours and bastions of democracy and being heavily...

Guyana can’t afford to slide downhill

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana can’t afford to slide downhill

DEAR EDITOR, I read with alarm, the reactions of the citizens of Guyana to some recent political appointments. Kudos to those members of the new administration that are clearly attempting to take...

The way forward with the Coronavirus

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The way forward with the Coronavirus

DEAR EDITOR, I would humbly like to voice my opinion about the novel coronavirus that continues to plague our shores. Let me start with reminding your readers, when the virus first hit our shores, I...

Importance of fire sprinklers

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Importance of fire sprinklers

DEAR EDITOR, The importance of fire sprinklers being installed in commercial buildings (three levels and higher), malls, gas stations, hotels, manufacturing facilities, sawmills, oil and lubricants...

What are we doing about the military?

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on What are we doing about the military?

DEAR EDITOR, Although I am a pacifist I do see the need for the necessity of a military force. We are not going to have the biggest or strongest military in the world. But, we can have a better...

Disclaimer

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disclaimer

DEAR EDITOR, I, Jagnarine Singh, Bsc, MSc., the former head of the Guyana Rice Development Board, member of the PPP/C, completely and unequivocally disown the letter titled “The Honeymoon Period Is...

Burn the hatchet – supporting the call for social cohesion

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Burn the hatchet – supporting the call for social cohesion

DEAR EDITOR, I support the call made by Mr. G.H.K Lall for a “Truth and Reconciliation Mechanism” to address the racial dissonance prevailing in Guyana. My call is also encouraged by a letter...

That EPA has to sue Exxon for $2,600 for oil spills is reason to renegotiate oil contracts

Aug 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on That EPA has to sue Exxon for $2,600 for oil spills is reason to renegotiate oil contracts

DEAR EDITOR, I find a news report that the Guyana EPA will be taking Exxon to court for the failure to pay fines of US$2,600 for 3 small oil spills to be very troubling. People of Guyana, do you...

Govt should consult the Guyanese people on Exxon’s Payara project – Chris Ram

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt should consult the Guyanese people on Exxon’s Payara project – Chris Ram

Attorney-at-Law Christopher Ram said that the Government of Guyana should hold public consultations with the Guyanese people, as part of its review process for the Payara project, ExxonMobil’s...

Engineers scramble as spring tide collapses sluice door at Diamond/Grove

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Engineers scramble as spring tide collapses sluice door at Diamond/Grove

– dozens of homes under water; Diamond Secondary identified as temporary shelter Dozens of home owners were scrambling last evening to stave off flood waters in the Grove/Diamond area as a...

Lands sold by NICIL to be revoked – Minister Mustapha

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lands sold by NICIL to be revoked – Minister Mustapha

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, in a statement on Monday, announced that the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) will be revoking lands belonging to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo)...

Fire destroys DeSinco’s buildings on Sheriff Street

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys DeSinco’s buildings on Sheriff Street

By Renay Sambach It was chaos yesterday afternoon as fire ripped through three DeSinco Trading Limited buildings on Sheriff Street, Georgetown. While firefighters struggle to control the blaze hours...

Two arrested in Canadian citizen’s alleged kidnapping

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two arrested in Canadian citizen’s alleged kidnapping

A maid and her son were arrested yesterday and are being questioned in connection with the disappearance of Canadian citizen, Nicholas Jaipaul who was on vacation with his grandfather at Number 69...

Two months of chartered flights approved by GCAA

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two months of chartered flights approved by GCAA

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has approved Eastern Airlines for chartered flights for both inbound and outbound passengers, during September and October, this year. Minister of Public...

BK to fix new sea defence breach at Dantzig

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BK to fix new sea defence breach at Dantzig

– Could cost $145M – Public Works Minister By Shikema Dey BK International Inc. will now be tasked with fixing a new and additional 100 meters of breached sea defence resulting in massive...

All stakeholders were consulted – Granger

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on All stakeholders were consulted – Granger

Parliamentary selection… The selection of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) candidates for Guyana 12th sitting of Parliamentary is embroiled in internal conflict between its constituents...

Fmr. GECOM Deputy CEO awarded $4.3M in libel suit against Vincent Alexander, Chronicle

Aug 20, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fmr. GECOM Deputy CEO awarded $4.3M in libel suit against Vincent Alexander, Chronicle

Former Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Vishnu Persaud, has been awarded approximately $4.3M in a defamation suit brought against Vincent Alexander...

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more