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Is this the efficiency of GPL?

Jun 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this the efficiency of GPL?

DEAR EDITOR, I detail a table of GPL charges [Account #0306603; Meter #03020509] and my payments to GPL from January 2019 to date: January 380 kwh 19,065 Pd 19,100 Estimated Cons. February 420 kwh...

Things have gotten worse for senior artists

Jun 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Things have gotten worse for senior artists

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana United Artists (GUA) would like to congratulate the Guyana Visual Arts Committee for another successful Guyana Visual Arts Competition (GVAC) 2019. Since the resuscitation of...

An Open Letter to Former President Bharrat Jagdeo

Jun 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Open Letter to Former President Bharrat Jagdeo

On a weekly basis I am the subject of lies fuelled by racism and peddled by PPP apologists on Berbice radio stations. The Ethnic Relations Commission is fully aware of this but have taken no action....

To presume to order the President to dissolve the National Assembly, in my view, is disrespectful

Jun 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on To presume to order the President to dissolve the National Assembly, in my view, is disrespectful

DEAR EDITOR, It is not surprising that almost everyone finds article 106(6) of the constitution which states that “The Cabinet including the President shall resign if the Government is defeated by...

We have to hold elected leaders and public officials accountable

Jun 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have to hold elected leaders and public officials accountable

DEAR EDITOR, I commend those media houses that saw the importance in taking time to provide pertinent background information to Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo’s claim that the Guyana Lands...

Lands and Surveys Commissioner provides facts on Opposition Leader’s land-grabbing claims

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Lands and Surveys Commissioner provides facts on Opposition Leader’s land-grabbing claims

Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC), Trevor Benn, made strong refutations to the claims made by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that there was a massive land-grabbing...

Work obligations for Guyana’s oil blocks almost nothing by industry standards – University of Houston Instructor

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Work obligations for Guyana’s oil blocks almost nothing by industry standards – University of Houston Instructor

Upon considering the work obligations companies have to fulfill when they acquire a licence for one of Guyana’s oil blocks, University of Houston Instructor, Tom Mitro says he can only describe it...

GLSC Head Trevor Benn says…Jagdeo in possession of stolen Lands and Surveys documents…Police called in

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GLSC Head Trevor Benn says…Jagdeo in possession of stolen Lands and Surveys documents…Police called in

The Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) has called in the police to conduct a formal investigation into the acquisition of several documents noted to be property of the...

Minimally invasive brain aneurysm surgery successful at GPHC – First of its kind locally

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minimally invasive brain aneurysm surgery successful at GPHC – First of its kind locally

Guyana’s lone Neurosurgeon, Dr. Amarnauth Duhki and the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) here in Guyana have recently and successfully completed a minimally invasive brain aneurysm surgery on a...

Charles Ceres to take Jagdeo to court

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Charles Ceres to take Jagdeo to court

Businessman and prominent engineer Charles Ceres has announced that he intends to take Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to Court over claims he made against Ceres at a press conference last Thursday....

Man remanded for stealing brother’s ducks

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for stealing brother’s ducks

“I don’t eat duck, I don’t eat rank. This man always coming up with a set of lies about me,” 48-year-old Joel Stuart, told a court yesterday as he stood in the prisoners’ dock. Stuart, a...

Labels on Guyana’s rums to soon have health warnings

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Labels on Guyana’s rums to soon have health warnings

Local and regional rums will soon have warnings on their labels about the dangers to driving and health. Rum producers from around the region met in Barbados this week to discuss how to promote...

Gas prices reduced at GUYOIL pumps

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gas prices reduced at GUYOIL pumps

The Guyana Oil Company Ltd (GUYOIL) yesterday announced that it has reduced gas price by $10. According to the state-owned company, which runs a number of gas stations countrywide, the reduction will...

GECOM Chairman replacement… Exhaust all options at home before looking abroad – WPA

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chairman replacement… Exhaust all options at home before looking abroad – WPA

If it comes to that, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said that he is prepared to find a suitable nominee from one of the Commonwealth nations for the post of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections...

CJIA sexual assault allegations… Airport official back on job, female accuser remains off

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA sexual assault allegations… Airport official back on job, female accuser remains off

Just a little more than a week after a senior official at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) embroiled in sexual assault allegations was suspended, pending a police investigation, he is...

Jagdeo can get he brain surgery in Guyana

Jun 29, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Jagdeo can get he brain surgery in Guyana

Guyana improving every day. Things dat dis country had to get from overseas, it now getting right here. Dem boys remember de time when people use to seh Guyana can’t even mek a bicycle spokes and...

Hab Int’l moves to Fogarty’s building –zero commission on online purchases up to today

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Hab Int’l moves to Fogarty’s building –zero commission on online purchases up to today

All week long, customers of Hab International [Hab.it], Fogarty’s location have been benefitting from zero percent commission on everything that they purchase online. However, the company’s Miami...

Land for the poor

Jun 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Land for the poor

If you drive through most of our farming areas, you will notice persons cultivating large tracts of the reserves which separate the farmlands from the drainage canals, other farmlands or roadways....

Two Skyvans arrive for Army

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Two Skyvans arrive for Army

Two Skyvans for the army have arrived in the country. According to officials, the aircraft landed on Thursday at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and were given the traditional water...

National Ruby team leaves Cayman Islands on Tuesday Face T&T in first game at 12:20 PM on Saturday

Jun 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Ruby team leaves Cayman Islands on Tuesday Face T&T in first game at 12:20 PM on Saturday

A 13-man squad was announced yesterday at the National Park ‘old’ Ruby field to represent Guyana at the Ruby Americas North (RAN) Seven Championships in the Cayman Islands July 6 – 7. The...

Trial imminent for Captains in Mazaruni River crash that left 10 dead

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Trial imminent for Captains in Mazaruni River crash that left 10 dead

On January 22, 2013, a boat accident in the Mazaruni River left 10 persons dead. Now, six years later, the boat captains who were involved in the accident have been listed to go on trial for...

Rastafarian Core Group to stage family fun day on Monday

Jun 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rastafarian Core Group to stage family fun day on Monday

The Rastafarian Core Group will be staging a family fun day on Monday July 1 at the Golden Grove Playfield on the East Coast Demerara starting at 10:00am. The event is being staged in collaboration...

Guyana ranked ‘fastest growing economy in the world’

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana ranked ‘fastest growing economy in the world’

Guyana has taken the lead as being the country with the fastest growing economy in the world. This is according to a report by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations...

Call records of murdered taxi driver provided to police within days – GTT

Jun 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Call records of murdered taxi driver provided to police within days – GTT

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) on Friday revealed that the company has been in full compliance with the Guyana Police Force, with efforts to solve the investigation of murdered...

Upcoming West Indies, India T20’s in Florida break ticket sales record

Jun 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Upcoming West Indies, India T20’s in Florida break ticket sales record

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket fans in the United States are excited about the upcoming two MyTeam11 Twenty20 Internationals between West Indies and India on August 3 and 4 at the Broward County...

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13 races set for President’s Cup on November 29

Nov 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – A total purse of G$21,750,000 and 13 high-profile races is on the cards at Rising Sun Turf Club on Sunday November 29. The top horses will be out for glory, and all eyes will be...

Guyana’s foreign exchange crisis

Nov 05, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Businessmen are complaining bitterly about the difficulty of obtaining foreign exchange to pay their overseas suppliers. They are equally distressed that, despite billions of US dollars in oil revenues, they must now pay between G$235 and G$240 to acquire US$1. This represents...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The American system

Nov 05, 2026

Kaieteur News – A year ago, a man of depth shared a sentence about the U.S., political system. Amid the turmoil of Trump mania, and anxieties over the direction and future of America, an elderly American woman said to him: ‘we believe in the system, we trust in the system, and the system...

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