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Guyana ranks higher on Human Development Index- UNDP

Sep 18, 2018 KNews News 0

Guyana has maintained its position in medium human development, with an improvement in its Human Development Index (HDI) according to a 2018 statistical update published by the United Nations...

Stabroek Market wharf Vendors to build own stalls to relocate

Sep 18, 2018 KNews News 0

Eighteen Councillors of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council have voted in support of the conditions under which vendors will be relocated to the Route 42 minibus park during an extraordinary...

Vendors continue to occupy wharf despite warnings

Sep 18, 2018 KNews News 0

Vendors of the Stabroek Market Wharf continue to ply their trade on the otherwise perilous structure despite warnings from the Mayor and City Council to desist. The Mayor and City Council of...

Omar Shariff case should have been heard by a Judge and not Magistrate – lawyer contends

Sep 18, 2018 KNews News 0

As the trial of former Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Public Service continued yesterday, Attorney-at-Law Sanjiv Datadin, made a no-case submission before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore...

E’bo rice farmers halt harvesting due to poor roads

Sep 18, 2018 KNews News 0

Heavy rains and the poor dam preparations are reportedly the cause of the week-long delay in the harvesting of rice on the Essequibo Coast. This is according to the president of the Essequibo Paddy...

Poor management on major road projects is an indictment

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, It is with much dismay that I pen this correspondence. I have been involved in the environmental monitoring of construction projects for the past 15 years and much hasn’t changed in...

Some clarity needed from GWI on new rates

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I note that the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) has been publishing a series of advertisements indicating that the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved changes in rates with effect...

The authoritarian posture of President David Granger

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, This past week, we witnessed two brazen examples of sheer, mind-numbing hypocrisy practised by President David Granger and APNU+AFC. It is not simply the hypocrisy that bothers me, it is...

APNU/AFC not fostering social cohesion

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Social Cohesion was initiated in 2015 after the APNU/AFC Coalition government assumes office. The establishment of this specific ministry remains mysterious since...

Why are we petitioning ExxonMobil when we are supposed to be demanding?

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Mr. Editor, I was appalled and left in a state of concern after reading a story in the Stabroek News with the headline, “Harmon petitions ExxonMobil for help in city restoration efforts.” A...

The amount was $845 G

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0

I told my daughter when I die, I want every scrap of paper that relates to me; ones that I wrote, ones that people wrote on me, ones that have some bearing on me to be given to the University of...

Putting context to integrity, relative to Granger’s leadership

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I find a recent missive in “hindsight” captioned, “Granger’s candidacy in 2020. A mixed bag, a more provocative than altruistic in reality. Dr Hinds gives my head a pendulum...

These donations by ExxonMobil

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I read in a recent print media, an article from the Department of Public Information that Dr. Mark Bynoe, Head of the Department of Energy, has said that his first task is to find an...

Disgusted with these articles

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter and trusting that it will be published in your newspaper for I am utterly disgusted with articles written on stories coming out of the agency and this week-end...

78 Carib villagers have hanged themselves

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Residents of Baramita Village (Barima- Waini) are calling on His Excellency, President David Granger, to urgently appoint a task force into the mysterious hanging- suicides currently...

President Granger should visit sugar communities hard hit by layoffs

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, From reports appearing in several sections of the media, our union, and more so thousands of jobless sugar workers, learnt that President David Granger reportedly said, according to one...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON THE RISE

Sep 18, 2018 KNews Editorial 0

In Guyana, trafficking-in-persons seems to be on the rise, despite the United States State Department upgrading Guyana’s status from last year’s Tier 2 ranking to a Tier 1 ranking, which is the...

ExxonMobil’s cost recovery list will shock Govt. – Jagdeo

Sep 16, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News 0

As government continues to see ExxonMobil as friend, it will be left in a state of total shock upon seeing the list of goods and services along with the price they attracted when ExxonMobil files for...

GPL generators sit on wharves for months racking up charges as E’bo Coast suffers

Sep 16, 2018 KNews News 0

For a past few months, the power outage situation on the Essequibo Coast, Region Two, has reached crisis levels with frustrated residents staging a protest after continuous blackouts. Senior...

Rolls Royce, Range Rovers, and Ferraris entering Guyana through abuse of re-migrant scheme-Statia

Sep 16, 2018 KNews News 0

By Kiana Wilburg Blatant breaches of the re-migrant scheme have resulted in a number of high end vehicles making their way into Guyana. This was confirmed recently by Commissioner General of the...

De foreigners tek over and Guyanese silent

Sep 16, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 0

There is a saying, “When yuh walk wid purpose, you collide wid destiny. Is a video dem boys see. A man play blind and walking down de road wid ee cane. He got a $5,000 and a $500 bill. He asking...

Guyana Amazon Warriors aim for first title; clash with Trinbago Knight Riders in today’s final

Sep 16, 2018 KNews Sports 0

Since the birth of the Hero Caribbean Premier League, Guyana Amazon Warriors have reached the final on four occasions and while they are yet to win the title, their opponents in today’s final, the...

Third Ralph Green / EBFA U11 League Unveiled – Coaches receive equipment to aid efficiency

Sep 16, 2018 KNews Sports 0

The Third Annual Ralph Green sponsored East Bank Football Association Under-11 League was launched yesterday at the Timehri Red Ground. Attending the event were President of the Guyana Football...

Cartoon Sept.16 2018

Sep 16, 2018 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists, News 0

GTU threatens resumption of industrial action -following Government’s rejection of union nominees to chair arbitration panel

Sep 16, 2018 KNews News 0

A continuance of industrial action is not being ruled out by the Guyana Teachers Union [GTU]. The strike is to retaliate in the face of what seems to be Government’s unwillingness to fast-track the...

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The amount was $845 G

I told my daughter when I die, I want every scrap of paper that relates to me; ones that I wrote, ones that people wrote... more

In the public interest

It was bound to happen sometime. The police have become overbearing. Someone was bound to one day explode and this is exactly... more