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One year on, questions still remain about CCJ’s impartiality

Jun 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on One year on, questions still remain about CCJ’s impartiality

DEAR EDITOR, I appreciate consideration of my letter for publication in your newspaper. On May 21, 2018, the Kaieteur News graciously published my letter that called attention to the linkage between...

The trouble with stray animals

Jun 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The trouble with stray animals

DEAR EDITOR, On Thursday, 30th May, 2019 about 11:30 a.m., I was at my home at Lot 54 Aurora Village, Essequibo Coast, when a woman passing informed me that some goats were in the yard of another...

Season of promises

Jun 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Season of promises

DEAR EDITOR, This is the season of promises. Things that were not done for years will now be done or appear to be done. There will be several Ministerial and Cabinet outreaches in areas that were...

Truth remains absolute whether we embrace it or not!

Jun 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Truth remains absolute whether we embrace it or not!

DEAR EDITOR, Happenings over the past months (the Charrandas vote, Cabinet reshuffle, decisions involving GECOM, CCJ engagements, etc.) remind us that man at his best is flawed and finite and that...

Disastrous negotiations with Exxon may have cost Guyana US$120B

Jun 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disastrous negotiations with Exxon may have cost Guyana US$120B

DEAR EDITOR, The Honourable Minister Trotman, in the Guyana Standard online publication on the 28th May 2019, said “… at no point during his tenure did he (Jan Mangal) ever request that capacity...

Ramotar misled the nation… PPP knew oil was found when it signed away Kaieteur, Canje blocks days before elections

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar misled the nation… PPP knew oil was found when it signed away Kaieteur, Canje blocks days before elections

By Kiana Wilburg Former President, Donald Ramotar, is on record saying he had no knowledge that ExxonMobil found oil when he signed away two oil blocks to inexperienced firms just days before...

Bandits cornered in Norton Street Three shot dead, cop wounded

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits cornered in Norton Street Three shot dead, cop wounded

Norton Street, Lodge, was the scene of high drama last night after three bandits were cornered and killed during a bungled robbery that e nded in a one-hour shootout at the home of a constructor...

Tenders scrapped for Marriott casino …after minister holds secret talks with investor

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tenders scrapped for Marriott casino …after minister holds secret talks with investor

A government minister last year reportedly had direct contact with a bidder who had expressed interest in operating a casino at the Marriott Hotel, Kingston. That contact was deemed highly unusual...

US$18M signing bonus transferred to Consolidated Fund

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on US$18M signing bonus transferred to Consolidated Fund

By Kiana Wilburg The Government of Guyana has finally transferred the US$18M signing bonus it had received from ExxonMobil to the Consolidated Fund along with an extra US$480,000. The money was...

Adolphus Mining not granted special consideration in licence approval -independent review of Gold Board records finds

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Adolphus Mining not granted special consideration in licence approval -independent review of Gold Board records finds

Local law firm, Cameron and Shepherd, has found no red flags in the assessment of a gold export licence to Adolphus Mining Inc. The Guyana Gold Board recently came under the spotlight after it became...

House-to-house registration postpone – GECOM

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on House-to-house registration postpone – GECOM

Staffers of the Guyana Elections Commission should not allow the chairman, Justice (ret’d) James Patterson, or the commissioners ap pointed by the coalition, to bully or pressure them into starting...

Granger should not be involved in routine management of oil sector … should heed medical advice to take it easy – Jagdeo

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Granger should not be involved in routine management of oil sector … should heed medical advice to take it easy – Jagdeo

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is of the opinion that President David Granger should heed the advice of his medical team and ease his workload, especially as it relates to the management of...

Politicians lying bout taking oil from de bock

May 31, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Politicians lying bout taking oil from de bock

Some people does lie like when horse trotting. Jagdeo and some of de people use to tell nuff lie. Now Soulja Bai look like he falling in de boat and he got a lot of liars behind him. Jagdeo lie when...

‘Sharky’ caught in prison net after sentenced for several charges

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Sharky’ caught in prison net after sentenced for several charges

Wayne Anthony Chester, called ‘Sharky’, was yesterday sent to prison after Magistrate Rondel Weever found him guilty of armed robbery, damage to property and for being in possession of an...

CDC continues consultations on Disaster Risk Management Bill

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CDC continues consultations on Disaster Risk Management Bill

The Civil Defence Commission [CDC], yesterday, opened another round of consultation for the Disaster Risk Management [DRM] Bill, which is geared at finalising a comprehensive document to target...

Labourer remanded for allegedly robbing a policewoman

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer remanded for allegedly robbing a policewoman

A labourer was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he allegedly held up a policewoman with a scissors and robbed her. Jafar Carter, 25, of Haslington Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, appeared...

The government is not you

May 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The government is not you

Buju Banton came, entertained and left. But the debate that is ongoing is less about his terrific performance and more about his controversial reference to Roger Khan. There has been a deliberate...

Wanted men nabbed in cordon and search operation …One time murder accused and two time prison escapee among duo

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted men nabbed in cordon and search operation …One time murder accused and two time prison escapee among duo

Following their recent success with the shooting death of three dangerous criminals deep in the back lands of Black Bush Polder a few we eks ago, the Police in Berbice under the leadership of...

National Physical Display Championships begin

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National Physical Display Championships begin

The Ministry of Education’s Annual National Schools Physical Display Championships began yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Schools from nine education districts are participating. The...

Alleged armed robber now answers charge after six years

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged armed robber now answers charge after six years

A miner who allegedly robbed a man and went into hiding was only recently caught and brought before the courts. Six years has passed since the incident reportedly occurred. Kenrick Blades,...

THE TWO SIDES OF AUDITING: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on THE TWO SIDES OF AUDITING: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL

BY JOHN M. SEERAM May is designated International Internal Auditing month by the Institute of Internal Auditing – Global (IIAG), of which the Guyana Chapter is affiliated to that body. In its...

Welder jailed 75 years for Mocha murder

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Welder jailed 75 years for Mocha murder

Kenkossie Lynch, a welder of Lot 110 CC Eccles, East Bank Demerara, has been sentenced to serve 75 years in prison, for June 20 15 murder of Terence Lanferman. The murder occurred at the...

Guyanese embassy in China celebrates Independence Day

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese embassy in China celebrates Independence Day

To mark the 53rd Anniversary of Independence of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, a reception took place at the Guyanese Embassy in Beijing on May 27, last. The Ambassador of Guyana to China,...

EU entrusts PANCAP with Euros 530,000 to advance HIV/AIDS fight

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on EU entrusts PANCAP with Euros 530,000 to advance HIV/AIDS fight

To aid the fight against HIV/AIDS, the European Union [EU] invested approximately €530,000 to the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS [PANCAP] intended to cover the period October 2017...

Foreign Minister calls for investment in Guyana at Berlin forum

May 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Minister calls for investment in Guyana at Berlin forum

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karen Cummings, recently called on German companies to invest in Guyana, while noting that her Government was committed to building a more robust and diversified economy....

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Podium dreams alive as Guyana’s U20 athletes shine on Day One in...

Aug 06, 2026

By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s largest-ever team to the World Athletics U20 Championships has made an encouraging start to its campaign in Oregon, USA, with several athletes advancing...

Caste, capitalism and the plantation

Aug 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The argument was recently made on a BBC radio podcast dealing with Indian indentured immigration that the Indian caste system was incompatible with the capitalist ethos of the post-Emancipation Caribbean plantation. There is an appealing simplicity to the argument. Caste was...

Nicaragua’s Abandoned Ballot: What the OAS Can and Cannot Do

Aug 02, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Daniel Ortega has now said openly what his regime has demonstrated for years: the people of Nicaragua are not to be permitted to remove their rulers through elections. During celebrations marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Ortega...

Who’s responsible, who will take responsibility?

Jul 30, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – A tragedy of catastrophic proportions is now Guyana’s to manage. An old passenger ferry boat went to the bottom. According to news reports of Saturday, 73 bodies have been recovered and 76 rescued. Taking the official count of 179 passengers on...

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