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The health of Guyanese manganese workers must be given priority over profit

Dec 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The health of Guyanese manganese workers must be given priority over profit

Dear Editor, Once again, the government is planning to mine manganese with a restart planned for April of 2021. In the previous administration, there was the death of Chinese workers and the toxic...

Demerara Harbour Bridge

Dec 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demerara Harbour Bridge

When initially it was given several nicknames, one was ‘Longest Floating Socialist Bridge’, referring to Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham during whose regime the Demerara Harbour Bridge was...

Embezzlement, not misappropriation of funds

Dec 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Embezzlement, not misappropriation of funds

Dear Editor, It is somewhat dismaying to read the various articles on the numerous instances of funds not accounted for. I once defined such situations as “misappropriation” of funds....

Government must be commended for pandemic response

Dec 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government must be commended for pandemic response

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 cases currently stand at 5,665 at the time of penning this letter but cases of persons who have recovered are 4,749 making this situation manageable and not problematic for...

Truth and reconciliation, oil management, and the economy should top presidential meeting agenda

Dec 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Truth and reconciliation, oil management, and the economy should top presidential meeting agenda

Dear Editor, I like the idea. This one about gathering five presidents (former and present) in one room. It was something I have always pushed for, but I confess that the PPP did me one better. My...

President Ali’s invitation to past presidents is a bold, magnanimous move

Dec 10, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Ali’s invitation to past presidents is a bold, magnanimous move

Dear Editor, President Ali last week extended invitations to all the past presidents to meet on December 15. The full agenda is not known but the President has indicated that it would be an...

Govt wants to indebt Guyana more with US$30M IDB loan for COVID-19

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt wants to indebt Guyana more with US$30M IDB loan for COVID-19

– despite getting US$30M last month Kaieteur News – The Irfaan Ali administration is heading towards getting its third loan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, on a road to racking up so...

ExxonMobil says it won’t recover $2.7B donations

Dec 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on ExxonMobil says it won’t recover $2.7B donations

DEAR EDITOR, The headline in Kaieteur News on December 8th (“ExxonMobil makes $32M COVID donation it can take back later”) was disappointing and misleading. It is particularly disappointing,...

Govt. cancels plans to restart Moleson Creek ferry operations – engages ambassador

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. cancels plans to restart Moleson Creek ferry operations – engages ambassador

Cubans in limbo at Suriname border… By Shervin Belgrave Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana has halted plans to restart the Suriname ferry operations, engaging with the Cuban ambassador...

Teens charged with rape of Bartica girl, 7

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teens charged with rape of Bartica girl, 7

Kaieteur News – Two teenage boys were yesterday charged for the rape of a seven-year-old Bartica girl, who was on Friday discovered sexually assaulted and unconscious, some distance away from...

Review of Guyana’s outdated oil laws long overdue – fmr. AG Anand Goolsarran

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Review of Guyana’s outdated oil laws long overdue – fmr. AG Anand Goolsarran

Kaieteur News – In a few days, Guyana will hit its one-year anniversary as an oil-producing nation. Five years have passed since US oil giant, ExxonMobil, discovered massive crude oil resources...

Curfew-breaking party goers fined; accused hostess on bail

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Curfew-breaking party goers fined; accused hostess on bail

Kaieteur News – Two partygoers pleaded guilty on Monday for breaching the COVID-19 curfew. The accused hostess of the Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara party was released on $10,000 bail. The...

Oil money must not be used to line pockets of the privileged while small man collects crumbs – Ram

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil money must not be used to line pockets of the privileged while small man collects crumbs – Ram

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur Nes – In Papua New Guinea, almost US$467M in oil money is lost annually to corruption. The politicians who siphoned off the nation’s wealth live like kings and...

Berbice market vendor robbed, raped in early morning attack

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice market vendor robbed, raped in early morning attack

Kaieteur News – A female market vendor, 35, from the Corentyne, East Berbice, is now traumatised after a morning attack. She was raped and robbed while awaiting transportation to the market....

Woman, 74, visiting grandkids in Venezuela, dies after being run over by speedboat

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman, 74, visiting grandkids in Venezuela, dies after being run over by speedboat

Kaieteur News – A woman, who was visiting her grandkids, died on Sunday after she met with a boat accident in the Cuyuni River, Region Seven. According to police, Maria Williams, 74, popularly...

Shopping on the state account

Dec 09, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Shopping on the state account

Dem Boys Seh… Dem gat something called ‘double parking’ which is against the law. But dem boys seeing some unbelievable double parking downtown, Georgetown. Dem boys wonder wey de police does...

Lil wuk and big wuk

Dec 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Lil wuk and big wuk

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works has big plans. It is involved in planning for bridges across the Demerara River and the Corentyne River. And it is also going to build a new highway...

Dr. Vincent Adams used the wrong set of words

Dec 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Dr. Vincent Adams used the wrong set of words

Kaieteur News – Dr. Vincent Adams is quoted in the newspapers as saying that professionals should not face losing their job because of political preference. That statement is a misleading one....

Agri. Minister commits to major D&I works in West Watooka

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Agri. Minister commits to major D&I works in West Watooka

– residents complain about blocked canals, lack of proper infrastructure – $123M to be expended to develop conservancy early 2021 Kaieteur News – Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar...

Mom needs help finding teenage daughter

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mom needs help finding teenage daughter

Kaieteur News – A mother is pleading with the public to assist her in finding her 16-year-old daughter who disappeared from home on Wednesday, December 2. Missing is Trinity Carew of Rainbow...

Berbice man ran into path of minibus – driver claims

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man ran into path of minibus – driver claims

Kaieteur News – A labourer is currently hospitalized after a minibus hit him down on Monday, along the Chester Public Road, West Coast Berbice (WCB). The labourer, Maxwell Mona, 55, of Chester...

Police track killers as traumatised survivor surfaces

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police track killers as traumatised survivor surfaces

Eadly Garnett Street attack… Kaieteur News – As police continue its efforts in tracking down the killers of Peter Gonsalves, 60, who was shot dead on Monday night for his motorcycle, his...

Over 2,000 residents to receive electricity in Little and Big Baiboo

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Over 2,000 residents to receive electricity in Little and Big Baiboo

Kaieteur News – Over 2,000 residents of Little and Big Baiboo, Mahaica Creek, Berbice, will access electricity for the first time as the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is currently...

NDC chairman insists protestors had old grievances

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NDC chairman insists protestors had old grievances

Protests at Crabwood Creek… Chairman of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) of Crabwood Creek/Moleson Creek, Tero Arjune, is denying that he has under-performed and acted unfavorably with...

‘Hot Skull’ found guilty of footballer’s murder

Dec 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hot Skull’ found guilty of footballer’s murder

Kaieteur News – Alvin Jones called “Hot Skull” was yesterday found guilty for the murder of Albouystown footballer, Paul Daniels. Jones, a fish cleaner of Castello Housing Scheme,...

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Choosing between bad and worse

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- I’ve always had an aversion to elections, which I suppose is natural for someone who... more