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Season’s Greetings

Dec 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Season’s Greetings

DEAR EDITOR, The Cooperative Republicans of Guyana (CRG) wishes All Guyanese and Visitors to Our Beautiful Nation all the best for the Holidays and may we all have an Excellent New Year that brings...

Building State Capacity in the Caribbean – The State of the Civil Service in Guyana

Dec 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Building State Capacity in the Caribbean – The State of the Civil Service in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, The captioned document is dated November 2018. It is essentially an ‘assessment of the Human Resources Management functions’ of the administration in operation in 2017. It begins...

Domestic Violence — Incarceration —Punitive or Curative?

Dec 25, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Domestic Violence — Incarceration —Punitive or Curative?

DEAR EDITOR, Incarceration should not dominate the treatment landscape of domestic violence. Daily grim news about domestic violence has been inundating our television screens and airwaves. In...

Failure to start audit leaves Guyana forced to accept ExxonMobil’s 2015- 2018 local content costs as correct

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Failure to start audit leaves Guyana forced to accept ExxonMobil’s 2015- 2018 local content costs as correct

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – According to the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) Guyana signed with ExxonMobil in 2016, the Minister responsible for the oil sector has only two years to...

COVID-19 deaths begin to abate, but new highly contagious foreign strains loom

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 deaths begin to abate, but new highly contagious foreign strains loom

By Kemol King Kaieteur News – An examination of the current environment and COVID-19 statistics since March, paints a picture some would find promising: with the September to November period...

Murder accused dodges bullets to escape Lusignan jail

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused dodges bullets to escape Lusignan jail

Kaieteur News – An inmate on remand for murder reportedly “dodged” bullets yesterday to escape the Lusignan Prison located on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD). According to police, the...

Attorney General asks ‘Top Cop’ to investigate controversial Sussex Street bond

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney General asks ‘Top Cop’ to investigate controversial Sussex Street bond

Kaieteur News – The country’s Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall, has written to the Commissioner of Police, Nigel Hoppie, instructing that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) launch an...

Parliamentary Committees to be convened on December 28

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary Committees to be convened on December 28

Kaieteur News – Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, has set Monday December 28, 2020, as the date for the convening of the duly constituted Parliamentary Committees. The Speaker...

$200M overpaid for government contracts- AG report

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $200M overpaid for government contracts- AG report

Kaieteur News – Details from the Auditor General’s 2019 Report show that some $199.381M was overpaid by the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for four major...

Government mulling development of Mahaica-Mahaicony corridor – President Ali

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Government mulling development of Mahaica-Mahaicony corridor – President Ali

– lauds Demerara Bank for opening new branch in Mahaica Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana will be looking at areas on the Mahaica-Mahaicony corridor to cultivate new developmental...

Govt. could have cashed in on US$15M bond instead of signing new airport deal – Patterson

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. could have cashed in on US$15M bond instead of signing new airport deal – Patterson

Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government could have opted to cash in on the close to US$15 million bond on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA)...

Go home early today!

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Go home early today!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Long ago, late shopping used to begin from de 15th of December. Dem stores were permitted to open until 6pm from de 15th right through to de 23rd. On Christmas...

Blow her mind this Christmas

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blow her mind this Christmas

Kaieteur News – I met a friend a few days ago. He looked all stressed out. I asked him what was the problem, and he replied that he just could not decide what to give his partner as a gift....

Racists mask their racism by calling others racist

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Racists mask their racism by calling others racist

Kaieteur News – UG Deputy Vice Chancellor, Dr. Mellissa Ifill, has joined Lincoln Lewis in publishing a letter with a title that includes the words, “Freddie Kissoon is obsessed with African...

US Embassy announces recipients of YLAI 2021

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy announces recipients of YLAI 2021

Kaieteur News – Three Guyanese have been chosen for the U.S. Department of State’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship Programme. The US Embassy in a statement...

Ministry records two more COVID-19 deaths

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry records two more COVID-19 deaths

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday reported two more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the COVID-19 death toll to 162. In a release, the Ministry stated that the deceased are an...

Opposition Chief Whip seeks Court order to have Parliamentary Secretaries removed

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition Chief Whip seeks Court order to have Parliamentary Secretaries removed

Kaieteur News – A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+ AFC) Member of Parliament (MP) and Opposition Chief Whip, Christopher Jones, has filed an action in the High Court...

Traditional delicacies that characterize the ideal Guyanese Christmas season

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Traditional delicacies that characterize the ideal Guyanese Christmas season

Kaieteur News – It is all well and good to indulge in the most expensive bottles of champagne, the best selections of wine, cheeses, and even chocolates from the most exotic places of the...

Guyoil workers strike for year-end bonus, salary increase

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyoil workers strike for year-end bonus, salary increase

Kaieteur News – Supervisors and station managers of the Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) were forced to sell at the gas station pumps yesterday after a number of its workers decided to strike....

“I don’t have any Christmas this year” – Success Squatter

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “I don’t have any Christmas this year” – Success Squatter

By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News – “I don’t have Christmas this year… I might send them children to spend the holiday with their grandmother or something.” Those were the words of...

Santa Claus is not always dressed in red and white, sporting a flowing beard!

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Santa Claus is not always dressed in red and white, sporting a flowing beard!

Ho Ho Ho it’s Christmas again… By Enid Joaquin Kaieteur News – Christmas is here once again, and children the world over are scrambling for toys and all the other goodies associated...

In search of Christmas normalcy during a pandemic

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on In search of Christmas normalcy during a pandemic

By Mikaila Prince Kaieteur News – It is needless to say that in Guyana and all across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically disrupted the lives of millions. But during this Christmas...

Christmas movies: The Naughty and Nice on Netflix!

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Christmas movies: The Naughty and Nice on Netflix!

By Shikema Dey Kaieteur News – The holiday season is here again and with abundance of cold, rainy nights, who wouldn’t want a nice, steaming cup of hot chocolate to warm their spirit as they...

$250,000 bail for teacher convicted of sexually assaulting student

Dec 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $250,000 bail for teacher convicted of sexually assaulting student

Kaieteur News – A teacher who was jailed for sexually assaulting his student was yesterday placed on $250,000 High Court bail pending the ruling of his appeal for the conviction. The accused,...

Seven Movies that embody the Spirit of Christmas

Dec 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Seven Movies that embody the Spirit of Christmas

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Like opening presents, watching movies is unequivocally one of the Christmas rituals most of us simply can’t do without. Unquestionably, movie watching allows...

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What Guyanese leaders can learn from Donald Trump

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-There is little dispute that Donald Trump knows how to make an entrance. He does so without... more