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Employers fleecing their workers is nothing new

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Employers fleecing their workers is nothing new

Dear Editor, I read the recent letter about employers fleecing their workers. In the past, employers from abroad did this in a big way, and their exploited workers were unaware of this.In the...

South Turkeyen needs greater attention

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on South Turkeyen needs greater attention

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force deserves our compliments for acting to ensure that Traffic Ranks are regularly posted in the South Turkeyen area. This follows two of my articles in mid-November...

Ongoing violations of human rights

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ongoing violations of human rights

Dear Editor On Tuesday 19 December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly called on Iran to end ongoing violations of human rights, including its persecution of members of the Baha’i Faith, the...

Congratulations to Kaieteur News for your outstanding investigative reporting!

Dec 25, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to Kaieteur News for your outstanding investigative reporting!

Dear Editor, Please allow me the honour of extending my heartfelt congratulations to you and the Kaieteur News staff on your professional and first world reporting on matters of vital importance to...

Sugrim family brings movie theaters back to Berbice

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sugrim family brings movie theaters back to Berbice

Business mogul Haresh Narine ‘Chinee’ Sugrim has done it again. He launched the first ever state of the art movie theatre in Berbice at his massive $1B hotel. The Classic International...

Govt.’s interest in constitutional reform a sham – Nandlall

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt.’s interest in constitutional reform a sham – Nandlall

The APNU+AFC government has, on many occasions, violated the constitution and has demonstrated little respect for the document. It has also failed to indicate what it is trying to achieve in the...

Jamaican shortlisted as GPL chief – Badal not interested in returning as Chairman

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican shortlisted as GPL chief – Badal not interested in returning as Chairman

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is preparing to name a new Chief Executive Officer earlier in the New Year. Officials last week confirmed that the state-owned power company, which has been without a...

No one held accountable for procurement breaches in Public Health – Dr. Frank Anthony

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on No one held accountable for procurement breaches in Public Health – Dr. Frank Anthony

Former Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has disagreed that the pronouncements by government during the 2018 budget debate will fix the procurement crisis that exists within the Ministry of...

Minister Garrido-Lowe takes Christmas cheers to Moruca

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Garrido-Lowe takes Christmas cheers to Moruca

Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe, on Wednesday shared close to 600 toys to children at Santa Rosa Village in the Moruca sub-district, Region One,...

Canada- based Guyanese, 70, admitted to the bar in Guyana

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Canada- based Guyanese, 70, admitted to the bar in Guyana

… home after 35 years Samuel Whyte A Canada- based Guyanese attorney at law who had not returned to Guyana for over 35 years, has felt the urge to be more associated and of service to the country...

Guyana’s Services Sector remains a major contributor to economy

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Services Sector remains a major contributor to economy

Little recognition is ever given to the services sector. This sector happens to be one of the largest in the Guyanese economy. It is even argued that it is perhaps the most loyal when it comes to...

Overseas-based couple robbed while heading home from CJIA

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based couple robbed while heading home from CJIA

An overseas-based couple was robbed at gunpoint around 01:49 hr. yesterday on the Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road while on their way home from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport...

Local electronic website… Agorua International takes Guyana by storm

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Local electronic website… Agorua International takes Guyana by storm

By Davina Ramdass Giving Guyanese a greater opportunity at shopping this Christmas, to avoid the downtown traffic and crowded streets is Agorua International. Agorua International is a local website...

GL&SC mulls over setting up National Land Policy in 2018

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GL&SC mulls over setting up National Land Policy in 2018

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission, (GL&SC) is mulling over a National Land Policy, (NLP) which will assist in the management of both public and private lands under the purview of the...

Police to partner with GRA, insurance company to crack carjacking ring

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police to partner with GRA, insurance company to crack carjacking ring

With vehicles being hijacked almost daily throughout the country, acting Crime Chief, Paul Williams, said that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has had enough of such cases. It is now determined more...

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 24, 2017 KNews The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

A year does not go by without the madness on the roads at this time. This year is no different. Some motorcycle bandits would try to attack a car. They would trail the occupants with a view to...

There is nothing better than a Guyanese Christmas

Dec 24, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There is nothing better than a Guyanese Christmas

Another Christmas and another round of enjoyment to the extreme. That is what Christmas does. There was a time when I was totally wrapped up in the season. As a boy, Christmas meant varnish, polish,...

Social Protection Ministry intensifies efforts in patient care, fight against sexual and domestic violence

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Ministry intensifies efforts in patient care, fight against sexual and domestic violence

The Ministry of Social Protection has racked up a number of accomplishments for 2017 and the plans in the pipeline for next year regarding patient care and the fight against sexual and domestic...

The man who loved CSI

Dec 24, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The man who loved CSI

By Michael Jordan I have a strange request for you. I want those of you, who love crime dramas, particularly the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) television series, to tell me if you recall any...

It’s the attitude that counts…If you love your country, read and circulate this so that as many people can reflect on it and change. Think about it…

Dec 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on It’s the attitude that counts…If you love your country, read and circulate this so that as many people can reflect on it and change. Think about it…

The difference between the poor and rich nations is not the age of the nation. This can be demonstrated by countries like India and Egypt, which are more than 2000 years old and are still poor...

Facts about painful periods

Dec 24, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Facts about painful periods

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Many women experience menstrual pains just before and during their menstrual periods. Statistics show that as many as 90% of adolescent...

“We could never do that, never!”

Dec 24, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “We could never do that, never!”

As a senior minister from the Alliance for Change said this week, activists in that Party would never stoop so low as to even think about putting out a press release maliciously alleging that a...

Snippets of memoirs

Dec 24, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Snippets of memoirs

Thirty years ago, even with my exposure to history, I would have laughed cynically even though there was no philosophical reason to. I’m referring to an email my friend sent to me last week. It was...

Healthier children, happier communities

Dec 24, 2017 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Healthier children, happier communities

(Remarks by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, at the re-launching of the National Commission for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable...

GECOM Commissioner sees need for national integrated database

Dec 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Commissioner sees need for national integrated database

Says will help alleviate issues raised during election process Given the historic concerns about the Official List of Electors (OLE), one of the Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission...

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CPL awaits new champions as Kingsmen and Falcons look to make history

Sep 20, 2026

(Cricinfo) – For only the third time in CPL history, a final will be played without Trinbago Knight Riders or their fiercest rivals, Guyana Amazon Warriors, participating. After Nicholas...

A failure of planning

Sep 20, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The electricity crisis in Guyana has now reached the point where it can no longer be explained away as a series of unfortunate technical incidents, because GPL itself has acknowledged that surging demand is placing enormous pressure on the distribution network and causing...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

PPP Govt. – sponsored noise nuisance

Sep 20, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – There is a creature called government noise nuisance. A government monster. Not VP Jagdeo at full blast. Nor Excellency Ali furiously boiling over. Follow the vibrations. Saturday, 12th Sept, 2026: 10:00 a.m. –14:00hrs Monday,14th Sept, 2026:09:00 a.m....

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