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Demerara Bank at Mahaica

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Demerara Bank at Mahaica

DEAR EDITOR, Recently, Demerara Bank opened a branch at Mahaica to expand its customer base and better serve its existing customers on the East Coast Demerara and West Coast Berbice corridor. The...

Building greater trust between the Black Community and the banking sector

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Building greater trust between the Black Community and the banking sector

DEAR EDITOR, There is growing concern within the Black community in Guyana about inequities in the banking sector. One of the activities being planned for ‘Black History Month’ this year is,...

Away with the obstructionists, the bipartisan approach is best for our democracy!

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Away with the obstructionists, the bipartisan approach is best for our democracy!

DEAR EDITOR, There is great discussion now on as it relates to the work and function of The Joinder party. These form a group of parties whom the sum total of the votes cast were able to gain a seat...

Concerns about the recently appointed EPA Director

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concerns about the recently appointed EPA Director

DEAR EDITOR, Recently, Guyana’s EPA has come under increasing scrutiny and intensifying fire. Though I have been unsparing in my contributions, I try not to be unkind. Sharp, yes, unkind,...

President Biden should take Trump’s knee off the neck of Cuba!

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Biden should take Trump’s knee off the neck of Cuba!

DEAR EDITOR, President Biden has had a very busy first week in office. In that time, he has been confronting the immediate task facing us the world head on, i.e. the COVID-19 virus. He has given hope...

Puzzlement of an ignorant layman

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Puzzlement of an ignorant layman

DEAR EDITOR, Let me confess that my acquaintances with the law and its intricacies is tending upwards from minus to zero to plus zero. Thus pray tell me, how does a layman reconcile the recent fraud...

Waiting for the final pronouncement

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Waiting for the final pronouncement

DEAR EDITOR, It is about time that we hear from the Ministry of Education on the status of the 2020 CSEC and CAPE results. Mid-November last was the deadline for students who wrote the exams to...

Concerns over Local Government Elections (LGE)

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Concerns over Local Government Elections (LGE)

DEAR EDITOR, As a supporter of the PPP/C, I am deeply concerned that the PPP/C Government has not as yet set a date for Local Government Elections (LGE) which is supposed to be held this year. The...

Tales of a gifted gold band, the screams of a dying woman and a shootout between police and a bandit

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tales of a gifted gold band, the screams of a dying woman and a shootout between police and a bandit

DEAR EDITOR, A few weeks ago, Guyanese woke to the news that a former minister of Government was gifted a half million dollar gold band. The former minister’s denial of the acceptance of the gift...

ExxonMobil wants to submit fourth FDP for approval by December – Hess says

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil wants to submit fourth FDP for approval by December – Hess says

– Development cost likely between US$6-9 billion By Kemol King Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil has set its sights on a fourth oil development in the Stabroek block, and intends to ask for the...

Dissatisfied shareholder to challenge ExxonMobil for board seats

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Dissatisfied shareholder to challenge ExxonMobil for board seats

– Deeply concerned about company’s carbon emissions Kaieteur News – Engine No. One, a new investment firm, that seeks to enhance long-term value through active ownership, announced...

First person jailed for hosting illegal private party

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on First person jailed for hosting illegal private party

Kaieteur News – A Lindener, is the first to be jailed for hosting a private party in breach of the COVID-19 restrictions, as it relates to social events. The man, Clive Nobrega, of...

Lowenfield hands over SOPs, SORs to Supreme Court Registrar for safekeeping

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield hands over SOPs, SORs to Supreme Court Registrar for safekeeping

Election petition case… Kaieteur News – Chief Elections Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Keith Lowenfield, has handed over the original copies of all Statements of...

MP Figueira sues Hamilton, Kaieteur News, Guyana Times over pigpen reports

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on MP Figueira sues Hamilton, Kaieteur News, Guyana Times over pigpen reports

Kaieteur News – Opposition Member of Parliament (MP), Jermaine Figueira, has filed a lawsuit against Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, Kaieteur News and Guyana Times Newspaper claiming in...

Man arrested after killing sleeping vagrant with brick

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man arrested after killing sleeping vagrant with brick

Kaieteur News – Police have arrested a man who allegedly killed a sleeping vagrant yesterday in the vicinity of Camp and Robb Streets, Georgetown. The man, who has been identified as a...

OAS demands Venezuela release Guyanese fishermen from illegal detention

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on OAS demands Venezuela release Guyanese fishermen from illegal detention

Kaieteur News – The Organization of American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional body, yesterday called for the prompt release of the Guyanese fishermen and fishing vessels by the...

Irfaan giving de Vee Pee jankalar wuk

Jan 28, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Irfaan giving de Vee Pee jankalar wuk

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem boys hear small talk and dem boys selling it how dem buy it. People talking how Irfaan nah bothering too much with de Vee Pee. After de government had to...

Birds of the same feather

Jan 28, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Birds of the same feather

Kaieteur News – The President is a man of his word. He continues to deliver on his promises. He promised that he would be inclusive and, on Tuesday, he met with representatives of some...

Why Granger wasn’t interested in a Buxton Commission of Inquiry?

Jan 28, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why Granger wasn’t interested in a Buxton Commission of Inquiry?

Kaieteur News – There are four types of players in what I refer to as the Buxton mayhem – 2002 to 2006. One group is the central players who were the actual killers. The second group...

Local political leaders could learn from Senator McConnell

Jan 28, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Local political leaders could learn from Senator McConnell

Kaieteur News – He is not an easy man to like. As a ferocious partisan politician, he just went down like a stone in the estimation of many more. Besides Republicans, there were few who loved...

Venezuelan military detain third Guyanese fishing vessel

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan military detain third Guyanese fishing vessel

Kaieteur News – A third Guyanese fishing vessel, ‘Miss Annie,’ bearing registration number GR972360 and its seven-man Guyanese crew were on Monday detained by the Venezuelan...

CANU intercepts cocaine found in packages at Ogle airport

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CANU intercepts cocaine found in packages at Ogle airport

Kaieteur News – A woman is currently in custody and several others are being sought after a Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer intercepted a box containing cocaine at the Eugene F....

CORRECTION/APOLOGY

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CORRECTION/APOLOGY

Kaieteur News – APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Jermaine Figueira, has unequivocally stated that he did not sign for, or receive any money for a pigpen project under the Sustainable Livelihood...

$3.4M West Watooka Community Centre/ ICT Hub abandoned

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $3.4M West Watooka Community Centre/ ICT Hub abandoned

Kaieteur News – It has been revealed by the Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, that the $3.4 million West Watooka Pavillion/Community Centre and Information and Communications Technology...

Cops charged with assaulting citizens

Jan 28, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Cops charged with assaulting citizens

Kaieteur News – Two police officers were on Tuesday charged and placed on bail for allegedly assaulting two civilians. The defendants, Kevin Watson and Roger Smith, both police constables,...