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MotP assistant researcher paid super salary of $300k

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MotP assistant researcher paid super salary of $300k

– contract renewed one month before elections According to new details, a research assistant attached to the Ministry of the Presidency (MotP) had secured a salary of over $300,000 a month,...

NIS still to honour court’s ruling on late payment

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NIS still to honour court’s ruling on late payment

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is yet to implement a Court decision months after a ruling was made on how the state-owned entity handles late payments from self-employed and other categories of...

UN asks Guyana to explain polarization, misinformation and insufficiencies of 2020 elections

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UN asks Guyana to explain polarization, misinformation and insufficiencies of 2020 elections

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has asked Guyana to explain a series of issues stemming from its contentious 2020 General and Regional Elections. The Committee raised concerns that...

Rapid assessment of 19 state entities completed

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rapid assessment of 19 state entities completed

– Report to be submitted today The four-member ‘special technical’ team hired by President Irfaan Ali to conduct a rapid assessment of 19 key state-owned entities has completed its work....

Region Two REO, six others given marching orders

Aug 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two REO, six others given marching orders

The Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Two, Denis Jaikaran, was yesterday issued with a letter of Termination of Contract Service from the Ministry of Local Government and Regional...

Are Vincent Alexander and others letting down African Guyanese?

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Are Vincent Alexander and others letting down African Guyanese?

If you belong to another planet, and you descended upon Guyana on Monday, August 10, 2020 and you read a letter by Vincent Alexander in the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News on the recent election...

Ex-WI batsman Sarwan pulls out 2020 CPL

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ex-WI batsman Sarwan pulls out 2020 CPL

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday – FORMER West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan will not be the assistant coach of the Jamaica Tallawahs for the 2020 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20...

May all of Guyana enjoy the Ashirvad of Shri Krishna and remain protected under His umbrella

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on May all of Guyana enjoy the Ashirvad of Shri Krishna and remain protected under His umbrella

DEAR EDITOR, In Guyana and throughout the world, Shri Krishna Janmashtmi or Gokulashtmi is being celebrated today and spilling over to tomorrow as it is a midnight celebration, the time when the Lord...

Belle Vue Pilot Scheme Co-op congratulates Dr. Irfaan Ali and PPP/C Govt.

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Belle Vue Pilot Scheme Co-op congratulates Dr. Irfaan Ali and PPP/C Govt.

DEAR EDITOR, We, the people from Belle Vue Pilot Scheme, West Bank Demerara, Toevult-Patentia –NDC, Region # 3, that are made up of Cane Farmers Co-op Members, sugar workers and our families, feel...

Sell the four closed sugar estates to DDL for a symbolic $1

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sell the four closed sugar estates to DDL for a symbolic $1

Dear Editor, I note the sugar union GAWU is calling for reopening of the closed sugar estates. One must recall that the government-owned GuySuCo had dominated the news when the Coalition took power...

APNU+AFC was never interested in the growth or survival of the agriculture sector

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC was never interested in the growth or survival of the agriculture sector

Dear Editor The now opposition APNU+AFC, when in government, was never interested in the growth or even survival of the agriculture sector. They saw it as a predominantly PPP/C support base,...

Research on paddy bug management was disrupted under the previous government

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Research on paddy bug management was disrupted under the previous government

Dear Editor I will be happy if you can permit me space in your letter column to bring attention to matters of national importance. Before I do, I want to congratulate H.E. President Dr. Irfaan Ali...

On the use of ‘Amerindian’ instead of ‘Indigenous’

Aug 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on On the use of ‘Amerindian’ instead of ‘Indigenous’

Dear Editor, In recent days, just after the swearing in of this new government, some members of local Amerindian organisations and some candidates and affiliates of opposition parties have expressed...

Min. of Communities paid hundreds of millions to over 50 contract workers – Minister Dharamlall

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Min. of Communities paid hundreds of millions to over 50 contract workers – Minister Dharamlall

No proof of work done… By Shikema Dey The then Ministry of Communities with Minister Ronald Bulkan at the helm expended over $800 million in salaries to 56 contract staffers with no evidence...

Office of the President takes charge of Natural Resources and Finance

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Office of the President takes charge of Natural Resources and Finance

In response to “several queries”, the Office of the President (OP) of President Irfaan Ali said in a brief yesterday that it will retain oversight responsibility for the areas of Finance and...

Minister Edghill questions where $200M In asphalt went

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Edghill questions where $200M In asphalt went

Minister responsible for Public Works, Juan Edghill, yesterday revealed to Kaieteur News that some $200M is owed to the Demerara Harbor Bridge Cooperation (DHBC) for asphalt procured by the previous...

Van West Charles, Christopher Jones sent packing

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Van West Charles, Christopher Jones sent packing

– told to immediately return govt. properties Managing Director of the state-owned Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Dr. Richard Van-West-Charles had his services terminated via...

Public not aware of US $8M IDB-funded Criminal Justice project – Anil Nandlall

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Public not aware of US $8M IDB-funded Criminal Justice project – Anil Nandlall

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has expressed his dissatisfaction with the management of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) US $8 million funded project titled...

Trinidad returns Rowley to power

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad returns Rowley to power

Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, last evening celebrated another general elections win. Just after 10:30hrs, Rowley declared 22 seats to the United National Congress’ 19 seats declared. Addressing...

Special team launches investigation into ranks’ shooting of unarmed men

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Special team launches investigation into ranks’ shooting of unarmed men

A special team working directly from the Police headquarters at Eve Leary has commenced a thorough investigation into the shooting of two unarmed men in a car by police ranks on Mandela Avenue three...

Govt. paid $50M for Buju Banton tickets, not PNC/R

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. paid $50M for Buju Banton tickets, not PNC/R

– new information contradicts Amna Ally’s claim While the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) continues to peddle the narrative that they did not utilize tax payer dollars to purchase...

We tired scratching; is time we start living!

Aug 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We tired scratching; is time we start living!

Dem Boys Seh… Guyana is about to become de richest country in the Caribbean. And eventually it gun become one of de richest places in de world. If Guyana get what it deserve from dem oil companies,...

The Inauguration Address

Aug 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Inauguration Address

President Mohamed Irfaan Ali’s inauguration address has generated a fierce debate. It has been the subject to less than flattering front page commentaries, editorials and letters to the editors....

Language and Citizenship in the COVID-19 era

Aug 11, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Language and Citizenship in the COVID-19 era

The advent of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Guyana has – as it has elsewhere – served in part to map the gaps, and chasms, in our society in critical areas. Our shortcomings in healthcare...

Sports Director, Christopher Jones, sent packing

Aug 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sports Director, Christopher Jones, sent packing

The Director of Sports Christopher Jones was yesterday immediately relieved from his post and will be replaced by popular football promoter Kashif Muhammad. This was revealed by the Minister of...

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Walls eyes AmeriCup breakthrough for Guyana

Jun 24, 2026

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Newly appointed Guyana Men’s National Basketball Team Head Coach Alan Walls wasted little time settling into his new role, arriving in Guyana last Friday and...

MOTHER KNOWS BEST!

Jun 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when a young man receiving his first pay packet did not suddenly transform himself into an international financial expert. He did not rush to buy expensive sneakers, upgrade his cellphone, or begin offering investment advice to people twice his age. In those...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank – what’s coming

Jun 24, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Development Bank (GDB) has generated much excitement. Not yet fully airborne, but still stirring considerable interest. Guyanese sit, wait, smile. They are ready. One set anticipates what’s in it for them. To get them off the...

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