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Providing clarity on our Town Hall meetings

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Providing clarity on our Town Hall meetings

DEAR EDITOR, It is encouraging that the Stabroek News in its Editorial on April 23, 2019 sought to comment on the initiative of the Ministry of Education to host Town Hall meetings which are designed...

Beware of the WPA!

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Beware of the WPA!

The PNCR has to be very careful with the WPA. The President of Guyana who is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the APNU+AFC slate should be wary of the WPA. The WPA has degenerated in recent...

There is at least one Guyanese who finds interventions by the U.S. irritating

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is at least one Guyanese who finds interventions by the U.S. irritating

DEAR EDITOR, Let me establish emphatically for the record that my love for Guyana can only be equaled, never surpassed, and this was since I attained the stage of puberty (I am now in the fourth...

Mr. President, when will “the good life for all,” trickle down to the youth and the underprivileged?

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. President, when will “the good life for all,” trickle down to the youth and the underprivileged?

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT, I would like to know: when will “the good life for all,” trickle down to the youth and the underprivileged Guyanese populace? I keep hearing the good life rhetoric being...

Equal pay for women and men

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Equal pay for women and men

DEAR EDITOR, Iceland a country in northern Europe has made it illegal to pay men more than women. In the history of women and men pay, this is a first! A new law enforcing equal pay between genders...

Guyana’s Parliament should have been more sensitive to the reaction this tribute to Kadir would occasion

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s Parliament should have been more sensitive to the reaction this tribute to Kadir would occasion

DEAR EDITOR, Is the US response to Guyana’s Parliament paying tribute, as is customary, to a fallen former member, this one convicted of terrorism ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Not...

This May Day is being celebrated at a critical period in our history

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on This May Day is being celebrated at a critical period in our history

DEAR EDITOR, Today, May 1, is designated International Workers Day or Labour Day. This is a good time to reflect on the state of the labour movement in Guyana and by extension the condition of the...

How do we curb crime when we keep honouring/glamorizing criminals/terrorists?

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on How do we curb crime when we keep honouring/glamorizing criminals/terrorists?

DEAR EDITOR, In the words of philosopher George Santayana, ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’. These words were frequently cited by the late Forbes Burnham and the...

Without a doubt our country is now in very troubled waters

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Without a doubt our country is now in very troubled waters

DEAR EDITOR, I use this opportunity to address an issue of extreme national importance. The recent action of a Member of Parliament – to use the parliament to pay tribute to a deceased person...

A grave injustice has been committed against our nation

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A grave injustice has been committed against our nation

DEAR EDITOR, A grave injustice has been committed against our nation. From the outset, let me say first as a Guyanese citizen, second as a former Minister of Foreign and Home Affairs and third, as an...

Mary Crawford is 100!

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mary Crawford is 100!

Bubbly, yet classy are two words rightfully chosen to describe Mary Crawford of No.1 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. Born in the year 1919, Ms Crawford celebrated her 100th birth anniversary with family...

Venezuela: a volatile, combustible cocktail on the peripheries of this nation’s backyard

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Venezuela: a volatile, combustible cocktail on the peripheries of this nation’s backyard

There is scant attention on developments in Venezuela; or the associated suspicions and accusations. Most assuredly, there is close scrutiny in official quarters where such responsibilities weigh...

Guyana Goldfields received US$50M in tax exemptions in last three years …Duty free concessions for Peruvian company being questioned

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Goldfields received US$50M in tax exemptions in last three years …Duty free concessions for Peruvian company being questioned

In the early 90s, there were little investments coming. Guyana was seen as not so attractive. Guyana managed then to bring two major investments, including Malaysians for Barama Company...

Guyana entering oil industry without legislative, regulatory framework –Nigel Hughes

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana entering oil industry without legislative, regulatory framework –Nigel Hughes

By Kiana Wilburg It is highly unlikely that Guyana would be able to get the necessary legislative and regulatory framework in place before first oil comes on stream says seasoned Attorney-at-law,...

Taxi driver runs down wife with car,then butchers her.

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver runs down wife with car,then butchers her.

In broad daylight, as she was making her way to work on foot through a street in Williamsburg, Corentyne, 21-year-old Omwattie “Anjalie” Gill never expected what was heading her way when...

Chinese national dead, seven quarantined after mystery breakout at manganese mine

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese national dead, seven quarantined after mystery breakout at manganese mine

One of several afflicted manganese workers is now dead, after exhibiting symptoms of a viral influenza, yesterday. The other seven, who are also Chinese nationals, are currently being treated at the...

National oil spill plan still incomplete but offshore drilling accelerates

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National oil spill plan still incomplete but offshore drilling accelerates

Since 2016, calls have been unending for Guyana to have in place, a National Oil Spill Contingency Plan. To date, this document is still to be completed. In the meantime, offshore drilling activities...

Chinese restaurant defies Housing Authority’s order to close

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese restaurant defies Housing Authority’s order to close

Two months after closing, a Chinese restaurant on the Diamond access road, East Bank Demerara has reopened and angry neighbours are raising questions. In January, the owners of ‘Georgie’ were...

GRA clamps down on unlicensed liquor stores, rum shops

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA clamps down on unlicensed liquor stores, rum shops

The Guyana Revenue Authority has put unlicensed liquor stores and rum shops on notice “to take necessary action to regularize their operations.” In a release, the organization noted that the...

Lawlessness mek Statia tackle rum shops

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lawlessness mek Statia tackle rum shops

People don’t like paying taxes. All over de world people does try to dodge. Some of dem does hide dem accounts and if dem is to declare $100, dem does only declare $50. It don’t matter dat dem...

Terrifying feelings at twilight… when a nondescript-looking labourer terrorized the nation

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Terrifying feelings at twilight… when a nondescript-looking labourer terrorized the nation

By Michael Jordan “Headless corpse of boy found…sixth missing boy murdered…round-the-clock hunt for child killers…” He’d been dead for more than four decades, yet those headlines, in...

GFF Elite League Season 4Ten-man Fruta Conquerors edge Police; Santos beat Ann’s Grove for first win

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Elite League Season 4Ten-man Fruta Conquerors edge Police; Santos beat Ann’s Grove for first win

By Franklin Wilson Defending champions Fruta Conquerors, despite competing with 10-men from the 39th minute when Rishaun Sandiford received a straight red card for serious foul play, rallied to...

Region Six makes light work of Region Ten in Sports exchange

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Region Six makes light work of Region Ten in Sports exchange

The Regional DemocraticCouncils of Region Ten and Six recently met in what is being described as the inaugural Inter RDC Sports Games. The meet which was held in Linden saw RDC employees from...

Linden Town Week inaugural Mayor’s Cup Football on tonightMayor Waneka Arrendell excited about its prospects

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Town Week inaugural Mayor’s Cup Football on tonightMayor Waneka Arrendell excited about its prospects

Her Worship the Mayor of Linden Mrs. Waneka Arrendell has expressed her appreciation as the first ever Linden Mayor’s Cup football championship will get started tonight at the Mackenzie...

MV Serenissima makes second visit to Port Georgetown

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on MV Serenissima makes second visit to Port Georgetown

Yesterday, the MV Serenissima docked in port Georgetown for the second time since 2016. On board were 77 passengers and 57 crew members. The cruise ship will be here for three days giving visitors...

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Motie (5-51), Permaul (82* & 4-20) subdue Volcanoes, as Eagles...

Apr 22, 2026

2026/27 West Indies Regional 4-Day Championships Round 2… GHE vs WWIV Day 3 By Clifton Ross Kaieteur Sports – Left-arm spin twins Gudakesh Motie, who followed up his 10-wicket haul in the...

My wish

Apr 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – To live to a hundred: that is the wish. But beyond that, the body gives way—the joints harden into little more than stone, the eyes dim past the help of any knife, and the memory, that fragile vessel, empties itself without ceremony. That would be the proper time to go, to...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

Two U.S. ambassadors on Exxon contract: times change

Apr 22, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – During her Guyana tour, US Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch pronounced on the Exxon-Guyana oil contract. Current US Ambassador to Guyana, Excellency Nicole D. Theriot recently relayed Washington’s position on that same Exxon contract. The learned US diplomats are a study in...

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