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Overseas-based nominee for Chancellor Post identified

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based nominee for Chancellor Post identified

After years without a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary, it appears that the position is likely to be filled. Yesterday, President David Granger said that a nominee has been identified from...

Illegal aircraft at Santa Fe… Prime suspect linked to another illegal plane, airstrip found in 2016

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal aircraft at Santa Fe… Prime suspect linked to another illegal plane, airstrip found in 2016

As it turns out, the discovery of the illegal plane and airstrip on August 13, last, at Santa Fe, Region Nine was not the first time Lethem businessman, Shawn Hutson Singh, was fingered in...

65 police officers’ vehicles stripped of tint – Traffic Chief

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 65 police officers’ vehicles stripped of tint – Traffic Chief

Traffic Chief Dion Moore said that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Traffic Department has extended its tint campaign to include ranks of the force. The Traffic Chief was at the time speaking at the...

Relationships depend on how much money you got – lang term or shart term

Dec 16, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Relationships depend on how much money you got – lang term or shart term

De Waterfalls paper had a quiz last Sunday. De question was put to de whole country, “What is de sweetest thing on earth?” De newspaper receive 200,000 answers. When dem envelope open 199,999 seh...

Natural Resources and National Toshaos Council sign MOU

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Natural Resources and National Toshaos Council sign MOU

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on December 8, last, established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Toshaos Council (NTC). This MOU was signed at the MNR Boardroom,...

Union “hopeful” after meeting privatisation body… Unit to run three sugar estates until investors found

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Union “hopeful” after meeting privatisation body… Unit to run three sugar estates until investors found

A 16-person team from the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), including leaders and workers representatives from Skeldon, Rose Hall, East Demerara and Wales Estates, on Thursday,...

National Assembly can become voice of oil contracts – Trotman

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on National Assembly can become voice of oil contracts – Trotman

The Coalition Government, that had promised the highest levels of transparency and accountability, found itself in the proverbial pickle when the nation learned that an US$18M signing bonus was...

$75.1 M spent to procure vehicles for Ministry of the Presidency – Harmon

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $75.1 M spent to procure vehicles for Ministry of the Presidency – Harmon

…Claims President’s vehicle encountered mechanical problems Since the coalition Government came to power in May of 2015, the Ministry of the Presidency has singled sourced or utilized...

Region Two saves $240M in cautious spending

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two saves $240M in cautious spending

The year 2017 has been yet another year of successful saving for Region Two [Pomeroon Supenaam]. The Regional Administration governing this agricultural Region has saved over $240 Million. According...

GPL workers get 6.5 percent salary increase

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL workers get 6.5 percent salary increase

After approximately six months, negotiations between the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and Management of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL)...

Economy being rebalanced… Govt allows for moderate growth – Pres. Granger

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Economy being rebalanced… Govt allows for moderate growth – Pres. Granger

There have been several criticisms that since the coalition administration took over; Guyana’s economy has been going through a dismal period. In fact, the growth rate for 2017 is projected to be...

Malaria cases reduced by 15 percent in two years – Minister Volda Lawrence

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Malaria cases reduced by 15 percent in two years – Minister Volda Lawrence

Between 2015 and 2016, the Ministry of Public Health was able to record a near 15 percent reduction in malaria cases. The malaria state of affairs translated to 13,245 cases in 2015 but by 2016, it...

‘Wanted’ carjacker recaptured at roadblock

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Wanted’ carjacker recaptured at roadblock

A 24-year-old carjacker, who was wanted by the police, was nabbed around midnight on Thursday in the vicinity of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, two months after he escaped from police custody at the...

McDoom robbers remanded to prison

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on McDoom robbers remanded to prison

Three men who were caught in a house at Agricola, East Bank Demerara, covered in sheets and pretending to be asleep, were yesterday remanded to prison after they allegedly robbed three passengers at...

P&P donates $1M to Non Profit organisations

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on P&P donates $1M to Non Profit organisations

The joy of the Christmas season was spread throughout several non profit organisations as P&P Insurance Brokers made their annual presentation to organisations and a means of thanking them for...

The National Psychiatric Hospital gets massive face lift

Dec 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The National Psychiatric Hospital gets massive face lift

…Ground being rehabilitated A multi-million-dollar venture is ongoing at the National Psychiatric Hospital, known as Mental Hospital, situated at Fort Canje, East Berbice. The institution which was...

The Exxon bonus explanation is infantile and silly

Dec 16, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

The nation experienced some very silly and childish politics with both Presidents – Jagdeo and Ramotar –and their Ministers. With each passing day, we are seeing the same genre of foolish...

Guyana has gotten the shaft

Dec 16, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana has gotten the shaft

The APNU and the AFC, when in opposition, were highly critical of the US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport Extension Project. You could have easily been led to believe that no sooner had they...

Jordan welcomes Auditor General’s probe of secret US$18M signing bonus

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Jordan welcomes Auditor General’s probe of secret US$18M signing bonus

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan yesterday said that he welcomes the decision of the Auditor General, Deodat Sharma to probe the US$18 million signing bonus provided by oil giant ExxonMobil to...

GCCI recognises several entities, entrepreneurs for outstanding service

Dec 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI recognises several entities, entrepreneurs for outstanding service

In an effort to recognize the outstanding demonstrations of service and corporate social responsibility for 2017 by entrepreneurs and small and large businesses, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce...

Granger takes full responsibility for secret $18M Exxon fund

Dec 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Granger takes full responsibility for secret $18M Exxon fund

…Some Cabinet members were in the dark President David Granger claimed full responsibility for the secrecy surrounding the U.S. $18 million signing bonus from United States oil giant, ExxonMobil....

Auditors misled during probe of GECOM’s $100M radio set fraud

Dec 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Auditors misled during probe of GECOM’s $100M radio set fraud

Security reasons cited for non-use of sets before they arrived Auditors probing the alleged procurement fraud at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) were told that there were security...

Several GRA ranks sent home over past year in corruption crackdown

Dec 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Several GRA ranks sent home over past year in corruption crackdown

Investigators are continuing to question a number of officials, including people from Berbice branch of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) over the seizure of a quantity of smuggled goods. The goods...

Man stole employer’s shotgun to take revenge for assault on wife

Dec 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man stole employer’s shotgun to take revenge for assault on wife

-refused bail for allegedly shooting granny, little girl Appearing on Tuesday at the Whim Magistrate Court before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga was Suraj Singh, aka ‘Akash’, 26, of Lot 192...

Lean Back!

Dec 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lean Back!

These utility poles seem to be taking a break, but residents of Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, are certainly not amused by this. They claim that the poles have been like this for months and the...

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The three leashes of empire

Sep 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Empire, in its modern form, seldom arrives wearing a military uniform. It comes dressed instead as an investment banker, carrying a development plan, or as the representative of a multinational corporation bearing gifts in the language of progress. The empire does not always...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Deportees-inevitable was written all over them

Sep 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It was just a matter of when. From where they hail. Then, how many of them. Last, what kind of undesirables. They go by the name of ‘deportees’, third country nationals. From the moment the first word of a destination for deportees from the U.S. came up, I...

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