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Errant contractors under pressure as consumers’ regulator sounds warning

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – With the welfare of homebuilders in mind, the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) yesterday officially launched it Homebuilder’s Roadmap, to empower consumers...

Frustrated farmers complain bitterly about roads, poor drainage

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

Flooding in Black Bush Polder… Kaieteur News – Residents from the four polders in Black Bush – Lesbeholden, Mibicuri, Johanna and Yakusari – yesterday complained bitterly about a...

Former Anglican priest was stabbed in heart

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

– PM reveals Kaieteur News – A post mortem examination conducted on the body of 52-year-old George Chuck-A-Sang, former Anglican Priest, has revealed that he died as a result of...

Boat captain involved in ATV accident dies

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – The boat captain who was involved in the ATV motorcycle accident on Christmas Day along the Floor Access Road, Port Kaituma, North West District, died on Monday at the...

ERC Commissioner, Neaz Subhan, details struggles with depression in book

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) Commissioner, Neaz Subhan, has written a book titled “Coming Back: An Escape from Suicide” centered on his battle with depression over the...

Turf war gunplay leaves ‘Pretty Boy’ injured

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – A suspected gunplay over the selling of ganja on someone else’s turf has left Edward ‘Pretty Boy’ Skeete, 32, a shop owner of 309 Independence Boulevard, nursing two...

Boy, 9, hospitalised after struck by speeding car

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – A nine-year-old of Bagotville, West Bank Demerara is now hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after being struck down by a speeding car on Canal #1...

Romario Shepherd sponsors Under-13 tournament for BCB

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Sports 0

– Board launches another Mortimer George book on Berbice Cricket Kaieteur News – “You are a gem of Berbice Cricket, a positive role model and it is a good feeling for all of us at the...

RHTYSC, MS completes largest ever Christmas Outreach Programme

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Sports 0

– Christmas Village described as smashing success Kaieteur News – The 30th annual Christmas Outreach Programme of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS which concluded on Boxing...

Twist in Durban Street fatal incident

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

– taxi driver accused of holding onto victim, smashing him into parked cars Kaieteur News – New details have emerged regarding the death of a 29-year-old Triumph, East Coast Demerara man...

Nurse of Guyanese origin administers COVID-19 vaccine on Kamala Harris

Dec 30, 2020 KNews News 0

US (USAToday) – Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at United Medical Center in southeast Washington, D.C., Tuesday...

Fitness Assessment & Practice matches set by CGI

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Sports 0

Kaieteur News – As Cricket Guyana Incorporated (CGI) prepares to bowl off cricket activities in early January 2021, the Guyana Jaguars will lead the way with fitness assessment activities to be...

Competitive football is back and long standing benefactor, Mohamed’s Enterprises, is thrilled

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Sports 0

Kaieteur News – Managing Director of the company, Mohamed’s Enterprise, Nazar Mohamed said yesterday that he is “certainly happy to see the sport is back.” Mohamed who presented a...

Brain Ramphal Awards Programme BCB President calls on executives to rededicate themselves

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Sports 0

– unveils massive 2021 list of programmes Kaieteur News – President of the Berbice Cricket Board Hilbert Foster on Sunday last urged his fellow executives to rededicate themselves to the...

Dollars for distress

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Editorial 0

Kaieteur News – Open the papers and everyday it is more of the same news: millions borrowed from over there, and more millions taken from those in other places and institutions, all too willing...

BCB and RHTYSC, MS presents Clayton Lambert with their highest award

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Sports 0

Board also honours six other national players including Hetmyer, Shepherd and Permaul Kaieteur News – “You are our hero as you have always represented our county, country and the West Indies...

We look forward to greater successes in 2021

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

DEAR EDITOR, As the year draws to a close, it is necessary for us to take time out to reflect on our successes. Parents, teachers, guardians and caretakers of all levels have continuously supported...

Alcoholism is largely fuelled by conditions of poverty

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

DEAR EDITOR, In Guyana, alcoholics are erroneously blamed for their problems and labelled as useless because of ignorance. Government is also acting on such ignorance. There is no empathy and thus no...

A renewed sense of hope and optimism

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

DEAR EDITOR, The dawn of a new year always brings with it a renewed sense of hope and optimism. Such optimism, I believe, is not misplaced. We have, as a country, turned the corner and are well on...

Guyoil bonus: A case of legitimate expectation

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) since its formation in 1976 has been one among the very few autonomous state corporations that has consistently made a profit each year of it operations....

Kissoon has earned his place as a key contributor to the recolonisation of Guyana

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

DEAR EDITOR, I am exercising the right to respond in like measure to Frederick Kissoon’s article “Granger ignored Lewis, will Trump ignore Flynn?” (KN 23rd December 2020). I am a proud...

Holiday season among pioneering Guyanese New Yorkers

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

DEAR EDITOR, The holiday season among pioneering Guyanese Americans (during the 1960s and early 1970s) was extremely lonely unlike in recent years in America. In fact, there was hardly such a thing...

Happy New Year: A return to “normalcy” should not form part of our vocabulary

Dec 30, 2020 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, In just a matter of days, the year 2021 will be upon us. While many are looking forward to a brand new year, we cannot help but regard it as the year when the past will not only be an...

Without proper depletion policy, oil producing states could lose billions of dollars

Dec 29, 2020 KNews News 0

– Someone needs to defend Guyana’s case before it is too late – T&T Expert warns By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – With its discovery of over nine billion barrels of oil equivalent...

GRA takes fuel company to court over falsified invoice

Dec 29, 2020 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has taken Atlantic Fuels Inc. to court for making a false declaration on an invoice. The matter is scheduled to come up before the Georgetown...