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Oil costs and a fair share

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oil costs and a fair share

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr. Tara Singh’s KN letter dated 5-19-2023, and captioned ‘Once Capital Costs are recovered by Exxon, the flow of oil money will accelerate!’. While I do not agree with...

All Guyana needs to do fire safety checks, Mahdia tragedy must spark major reforms

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on All Guyana needs to do fire safety checks, Mahdia tragedy must spark major reforms

Dear Editor The Mahdia students heart-wrenching tragedy that made international headlines must jolt all Guyana to be fire-safety conscious, and major reforms must be implemented for fire prevention,...

Pause and pray and reflect on the lives lost at Mahdia

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pause and pray and reflect on the lives lost at Mahdia

Dear Editor The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana expresses its deepest condolences and sincere sympathies to the families of 19 children who tragically lost their lives in a fire at their...

Electric Bikes Laws

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Electric Bikes Laws

Dear Editor Electric bikes are a controversial means of transportation. It is very beneficial to the lower income population across the country. The new laws concerning these bikes are a bit too...

Henry Jeffrey brings Naipaul and Fanon alive, but for the wrong reasons

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Henry Jeffrey brings Naipaul and Fanon alive, but for the wrong reasons

Dear Editor In a recent letter in Kaieteur News (5/21/2023) Dr. Henry Jeffrey fired off a long and emotional outburst about oppression, a performance that in my view, brings to life V.S. Naipaul’s...

IRRESPONSIBILITY

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on IRRESPONSIBILITY

Dear Editor The only thing left to say about the tragedies and missteps pervading in my country is for all present parliamentary politicians to give the people a well deserved break from the endless...

Mahdia’s tragedy, the pain

May 24, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mahdia’s tragedy, the pain

Dear Editor My pain is unbearable, and if this be mine, then that of the Indigenous Guyanese community has to be beyond the blood of anguish that I sweat, the convulsions that wrack. Oh! The horror...

At a time like this

May 24, 2023 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on At a time like this

Kaieteur News- This is a time for every Guyanese in the national space to come together. It is most fitting that we do so with sincerity, with humility, with an openness to learning, and with a...

18 girls, 1 boy die in dorm fire at Mahdia after upset student allegedly sets building ablaze

May 23, 2023 KNews News 1

By Allyiah Allicock Kaieteur News – Nineteen children – 18 of them school girls and one 5-year-old boy died Sunday night when fire swept through a heavily-grilled dormitory which housed...

Exxon dodges KN’s request for full disclosure of formula used to arrive at US$2B parent guarantee

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon dodges KN’s request for full disclosure of formula used to arrive at US$2B parent guarantee

Kaieteur News – Guyanese, it appears, may never know the formula used by an independent consultant to determine that US$2B was an adequate enough a sum to be provided as a parent guarantee by...

Children of fire

May 23, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Children of fire

Kaieteur News – You went to bed to dream the dreams of a better day ahead, Not knowing that the next day you would be dead. Your laughter is no more, Your smiles we will never see again for...

Haiti’s problem is not security

May 23, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Haiti’s problem is not security

Kaieteur News – Guyana and Haiti were once listed as the two poorest countries in the western hemisphere. Because Guyana fell so far behind the rest of the countries of the Region during the...

Opposition and oil

May 23, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Opposition and oil

Kaieteur News – The Opposition spoke about oil recently. Frankly, Guyanese would have been better off if the Opposition had stayed silent, said not a single word. For when the Opposition...

The township of Mahdia

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on The township of Mahdia

Kaieteur News – Mahdia is the capital of the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana,[2] located near the centre of the country at an altitude of 415 metres (1,362 ft). Commerce is centred on the...

Dorm mother loses 5-yr-old son while trying to rescue students

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Dorm mother loses 5-yr-old son while trying to rescue students

Mahdia fire… … angry residents stage protest, President declared three days of mourning By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News The Mahdia Secondary School female dormitory fire which claimed the lives of...

Woman dies in accident at Camp Street

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Woman dies in accident at Camp Street

Kaieteur News – Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred on Sunday May 21, 2023 at about 23:00 hrs at Camp and Church Streets, Georgetown. Police in a statement said that the...

More than twenty-seven persons arrested, one person sentenced for littering — Solid Waste Director

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on More than twenty-seven persons arrested, one person sentenced for littering — Solid Waste Director

Kaieteur News – In January alone, more than 27 persons were arrested, one of whom was charged for littering in the city. Director of Solid Waste Management at the Georgetown Mayor and City...

Jagdeo confident US bank will approve loan for Wales gas project

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo confident US bank will approve loan for Wales gas project

Kaieteur News – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is confident that government’s loan application to the United States Export Import (US-EXIM) Bank will be approved for the Gas-to-Energy (GTE)...

Caricom leads tributes for Mahdia students killed in dorm fire

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Caricom leads tributes for Mahdia students killed in dorm fire

Kaieteur News – Condolences poured in on Monday as news circulated about the death of 19 children who perished in a fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School Sunday night. Leading...

UG deploys specialist team to survivors of Mahdia tragedy

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on UG deploys specialist team to survivors of Mahdia tragedy

– rolls range of other services Kaieteur News – The University of Guyana has announced a range of initiatives to help bring relief to survivors of the tragedy Sunday night which claimed...

25 candidates certified for Level 1, 23 certified for Level 2

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on 25 candidates certified for Level 1, 23 certified for Level 2

CWI Coaching Education Coaches (Guyana) concludes… Kaieteur Sports – Cricket West Indies (CWI) wrapped up its Coaching Education Courses at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence on Sunday,...

Exclusive Visa Pre-Sale Window for CPL Finals Tickets opens today

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exclusive Visa Pre-Sale Window for CPL Finals Tickets opens today

Kaieteur Sports – A limited number of tickets will be on sale online exclusively to Visa customers for the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League knockout stages from 9am ECT on 23 May 2023....

Santos defeats Milerock in second round

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Santos defeats Milerock in second round

KFC Elite League… Kaieteur Sports – Santos Football Club on Sunday snatched a 3-0 win over Milerock Football Club to move to six points on the KFC Elite League table. In a highly competitive...

Guyana identified by Barbados & T&T for prep stages

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana identified by Barbados & T&T for prep stages

– GBA President welcomes venture Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has been officially selected by Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados as their base for the staging of boxing training camps and...

Exxon ‘shaky’ on supply of gas from Liza Field

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon ‘shaky’ on supply of gas from Liza Field

Kaieteur News – As the discussion continues on the need for a feasibility study, to utilise the gas in the Liza Fields for the purpose of electricity generation to power the national grid,...

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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