September 2021

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Chaotic and inadequate delivery of financial services

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Chaotic and inadequate delivery of financial services

Dear Editor, I write on the state of the financial services industry in Guyana noting yet again that consumers are complaining bitterly on social and other media regarding monies missing from their...

Vaccines misleaders are worse than the virus itself

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vaccines misleaders are worse than the virus itself

Dear Editor, It is clear from the recent surge in cases that the Delta Variant is here in Guyana. The unvaccinated are holding this country to ransom. I repeat: the unvaccinated are holding this...

Authorities need to be in front of planned shutdown of mining town

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Authorities need to be in front of planned shutdown of mining town

Dear Editor, The planned shutdown of the mining town will no doubt see the blocking of the bridge, which is the gateway to hinterland communities. What steps are the authorities taking to ensure...

Clarification on deregistration of GOAL awardees at The UWI’s Open Campus

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clarification on deregistration of GOAL awardees at The UWI’s Open Campus

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter, appearing in Stabroek News on 3 September, 2021 – teaching sessions for vocational programmes offered by The University of the West Indies (Open Campus)...

Burnham and the PNC did much for Amerindians

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Burnham and the PNC did much for Amerindians

Dear Editor, I read with interest a letter titled ‘Amerindians benefit from development under successive PPP/C Governments’ by Attiya Baskh. We can have no objection to the writer referring to...

The fickleness of American friendship, the foolishness of partisan Guyanese

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The fickleness of American friendship, the foolishness of partisan Guyanese

Dear Editor, I read of Afghanistan continuing in its age-old unconquerable mould, the Taliban rising, and my fellow Americans withdrawing. The latter is where I focus today. As I think of this latest...

Vaccination is recommended for all, best for all

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vaccination is recommended for all, best for all

Dear Editor, A seemingly interminable battle is being waged, on whether or not vaccination against the COVID-19 is essential. To this debate, I have a few things to say. This is based on what I...

Education must accompany vaccination – not a passport to normalcy

Sep 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Education must accompany vaccination – not a passport to normalcy

Dear Editor, I believe that the government’s fixation on scoring political points has clouded its thought process and judgment, while exposing its policies and measures for what they are...

EPA increases flaring penalty for ExxonMobil

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA increases flaring penalty for ExxonMobil

– Already collected $400M from oil giant By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Mr. Kemraj Parsram disclosed on Thursday that the flaring...

Locals gear to sink US$16M in massive quarry business

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Locals gear to sink US$16M in massive quarry business

Kaieteur News – Once the requisite approvals are provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Malali Quarry Inc., a local company led by Jairaj Ramnarine, Terrence Neilson and Vickash...

Saudi Aramco chosen to market Guyana’s next oil lift

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Saudi Aramco chosen to market Guyana’s next oil lift

Kaieteur News – Saudi Aramco, the state oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the tender to market Guyana’s next oil lift, according to a report from online news...

Custom officers shot while chasing smugglers

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Custom officers shot while chasing smugglers

Kaieteur News – Two Enforcement officers attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) are now nursing gunshot wounds to their face and abdomen after they were shot during an anti-smuggling...

Man killed after being stuck by excavator

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man killed after being stuck by excavator

Kaieteur News – A 40-year-old man formerly of Lima Village, Essequibo was on Wednesday killed after he was accidently struck to the head by an excavator’s bucket. The dead man, Ricky Persaud,...

Brothers among 6 remanded for pandit’s murder

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Brothers among 6 remanded for pandit’s murder

Kaieteur News – Six men appeared at the No.51 Magistrates Court for the murder of Crabwood Creek Hindu Priest and joiner Rish Bharrat called ‘Haribole’. Devendra Khemraj...

Linden teachers protest mandatory vaccination

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Linden teachers protest mandatory vaccination

Kaieteur News – With support from the Upper-Demerara arm of the Guyana Teacher’s Union, scores of Linden teachers protested yesterday against the government’s mandatory vaccination policy....

Leave of absence and absence without leave is nat de same

Sep 04, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Leave of absence and absence without leave is nat de same

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – When dem boys used to wuk, dem boys used to get a couple of weeks leave every year. Now dem boys reading how politicians getting indefinite leave of absence....

A booklist of problems within our schools

Sep 04, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A booklist of problems within our schools

Kaieteur News – In the old days, parents used to begin as early as February to set aside money to cater for the purchase of school uniforms and supplies for the new school years commencing in...

David Granger: A Freudian analysis

Sep 04, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on David Granger: A Freudian analysis

Kaieteur News – This analysis was in the pipeline shortly after I did a Freudian assessment of the mind of Charrandass Persaud, thus it was not determined by the leave of absence Mr. Granger...

Fooling around with reduced freight charges

Sep 04, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Fooling around with reduced freight charges

Kaieteur News – It was bound to happen, this fooling around for more profiteering by our importers (“GRA warns against cheating on waived freight taxes” KN September 1). The man doing the...

Several laws to be passed to govern oil and gas, other sectors – AG

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Several laws to be passed to govern oil and gas, other sectors – AG

Kaieteur News – As Guyana steps into its new endeavour of the oil and gas sector, Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall, during a recent interview disclosed that...

Man found dead in mining pit

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man found dead in mining pit

Kaieteur News – Investigators have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dexter Carmichael, a 50-year-old miner, who was found dead in a mining pit with...

Plaisance woman robbed by armed bandits on motorcycle while heading to work

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Plaisance woman robbed by armed bandits on motorcycle while heading to work

Kaieteur News – Ranks stationed at the Sparendaam Police Station are on the hunt for four motorcycle bandits who allegedly held a 25-year-old woman of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) at...

COVID-19 claims lives of Regions Three & Four residents

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 claims lives of Regions Three & Four residents

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health in its latest report announced that four more persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this,...

New CARICOM SG “very hopeful” about upcoming hallmark climate conference

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on New CARICOM SG “very hopeful” about upcoming hallmark climate conference

Kaieteur News – Recently sworn-in Secretary-General at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr. Carla Barnett has aired her hopefulness for the upcoming 26th United National Conference on Climate...

Demerara Harbour Bridge slated for $10M maintenance works today – Engineer

Sep 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Harbour Bridge slated for $10M maintenance works today – Engineer

Kaieteur News – At a cost of $10 million, the Demerara Harbour Bridge will today undergo maintenance works which will help to improve its structural integrity. This is according to lead...

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(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

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Silence and sloth

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(Kaieteur News) – The death plunge of the MV Barima qualifies as a national catastrophe; an unprecedented local human tragedy. Obvious beyond argument, above denial. Yet, in its grim aftermath, there’s the reverse of what should be happening. With intensity and honesty. With frequency...

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