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Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s licence restricts power purchasing from private businesses, individuals
– Minister seeks amendments While a number of local businesses and individuals are eager to acquire purchasing power in the Guyana Power Light, (GPL) Inc, achieving the objective may not be as...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Deficiencies in court system hindering pace of justice – Attorney-at-law
For Guyana‘s justice system to be more efficient and effective in its cause, a number of administrative deficiencies must be addressed, Attorney-at-law, Sanjeev Datadin has said. The...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Surveillance cameras in the city…AFC seeks to quell invasion of privacy concerns
The Alliance For Change (AFC) believes that criminals, rather than the law-abiding public, should be apprehensive about the presence of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras around...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged wife-killer, ex-cop in Kitty bar slaying still on the run
Alleged wife-killer Clive Wilson, and ex-cop Kurt Anthony Duncan accused of gunning down a Kitty night spot patron remain at large, almost two weeks and a month after their victims were slain....Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Supremacy of the Constitution has been subverted – Ramkarran
Former Speaker of the House and Leader of A New and United Guyana (ANUG), Ralph Ramkarran contends that the Constitution has been undermined by the occurrences of the past year, following the...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ministerial outreaches were a part of 2019 budget – Harmon refutes Jagdeo’s claims
Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon has refuted accusations by Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo that the Coalition Government has been spending taxpayer’s...Sep 09, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Justice Claudette Singh’s attitudinal metamorphosis
There have been several editorials, columns and letters in the newspapers the past five weeks that have not been endearing to Justice Claudette Singh, the GECOM chairperson. The fundamental reason...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Welcome to the enchanted Cinderella county!
Pomeroon-Supenaam, also known as the Cinderella county, borders the Atlantic Ocean on the north, the East with Essequibo Island-West Demerara, the South with Cuyuni-Mazaruni and on the west...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Horror Fiction…SANDRA DREAMS OF FLYING (also published as the Ring)
“We floated above a bed. A woman and her baby were sleeping there. Isabella bent to the mother, who moaned something, and kept on sleeping. But the baby woke up….and —and—and...Sep 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Farming transforming lives of Baracara women
Utele Amsterdam has been farming all her life and is not ready to slow down just yet. The 49-year-old Baracara resident is one of the many women farmers in the Region 6 community who earn a...Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Draft Policy…Minister’s approval not necessary for foreign companies’ local content plans
The third and current draft of the Department of Energy’s local content policy leaves much to be desired. So far, Kaieteur News has uncovered a series of issues in the policy which essentially...Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Increased need for dialysis prompts Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital to subsidize cost
-working patients will soon be accommodated on Sundays Subsidized dialysis is now being offered at the Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital (DBSH). The privately operated East Street hospital in making the...Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $205M in solar systems contracts
In keeping with the government’s Green State Development Strategy (GSDS) Vision 2040, the Cabinet has moved forward with its approval of several contracts for solar systems. Approval was...Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CANU appeals Magistrate’s decision to dismiss ecstasy charge
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) prosecutor, Narrissa Leander, has filed an appeal against Senior Magistrate Leron Daly’s decision to free a 26-year-old man who was charged with possession of...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Special Person Comments Off on Hoping to inspire the next generation of Scientists…Professor Dr. Vern Singhroy is a ‘Special Person’
“As the Chief Scientist of satellites, I am truly gratified that I am part of a team that is providing valuable images to help folks all over the world, including the tiny country where I was born....Sep 08, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on COMPETITION AND CONTROL
At a certain junction where there are traffic lights, two disabled individuals of different ethnicities stand each day soliciting alms from motorists. Both of them are in need because given...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, The Story within the Story Comments Off on Paying lots of money for poor quality?
By Leonard Gildarie In recent years, I have been insisting on our people to take control of their country. What exactly does that mean? We have to be more vocal. We have to take on our...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo’s promises are no more than comfort for fools
This nation is going through yet another iteration of a draft Local Content Policy. We are being advised it is the “final draft.” Many stakeholders, including the trade union and...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Representative Democracy stifled in the mother of all parliaments
By Sir Ronald Sanders Had a government of a developing Commonwealth country suspended parliament to stop the opposition introducing a bill, British High Commissioners would have publicly...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Philosophy of Poetry
Book: A Portable Paradise Author: Roger Robinson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Roger Robinson’s work is shrouded in darkness, a tenebrous blanket that provokes our every sense. Still, its...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) also known as the American black vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to...Sep 08, 2019 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dorian’s strike; and good stories in not-so-good times
By Dennis Nichols This week, I’m tempted to go off on Hurricane Dorian, but I’ll limit my slightly-subjective response to just two or three paragraphs. The Bahamas was my home and work...Sep 08, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Charge Rule Expanded to Deny Green Card Faces Legal Challenges in U.S. Courts
By Attorney Gail Seeram On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule redefining the public charge ground for denying green card issuance....Sep 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tullow Oil, its affiliated companies, sub-contractors, get tax free ride for Orinduik Block
By Kiana Wilburg UK based Tullow Oil and its partners, French multinational Total and Eco Atlantic headquartered in Toronto, Canada, are not the only beneficiaries of a tax free ride for the...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Jun 18, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, has announced that Guyana’s Junior Jaguars will participate in the inaugural FIFA Global U-15 Boys...Jun 18, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The government has done it again. It has indicated that workers can look forward to an increased income tax threshold of $200,000 by the end of the decade. One Facebook comment hit the nail on the head. It urged the government to file for intellectual bankruptcy. Increasing the...Jun 14, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...Jun 18, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – President Ali got that one right. Institutions such as churches have a duty to function as “society’s moral compass.” I couldn’t agree more with the president. Commend him. More commendations for Excellency Ali: “together let us find the soul of this...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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