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“Value for money” always

Aug 13, 2017 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists 0

By PAT DIAL As part of Consumer Education, we will be carrying more articles on Consumer Rights and warnings against those who supply goods and services in a dishonest, careless and substandard...

Why Financial Literacy Matters

Aug 13, 2017 KNews News 0

Dr. Terence Smith, Deputy Governor, Bank of Guyana The money problem From time to time, we must refresh our thinking about the things that are important in our lives. For most people, the number one...

GRA officials “sailing” on Exxon contract

Aug 09, 2017 KNews ExxonMobil, News 0

– employees face embarrassment at recent meeting with oil giant Even senior operatives of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) are at a loss when it comes to the contractual arrangement between...

Defiant NBS appealing $79M judgment in wrongfully dismissed CEO case

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

Mortgage lender, New Building Society (NBS), which late last month was ordered by the High Court to shell out that $70M to its former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Maurice Arjoon, is refusing to pay...

Chief Prison Officer interdicted, as cops step up drug-smuggling probe

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

The Chief Prison Officer who was implicated in a drug-smuggling scandal at the Timehri Prisons has been released from custody. A senior police official said that the rank “has been released into...

Nonperforming loans continue to hamper bank lending

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

Lending by banks continues to be hampered due to a high level of nonperforming loans in the system. This is according to the Finance Ministry’s half year report. The document says that commercial...

Cry fuh yuh own calf and Guyana is a calf

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 0

From de time he start he political campaign fuh de presidency, Donald Trump start talking ‘bout putting America first. People couldn’t vex wid him, because is always nice when people put dem...

Low-graded works on GMC office building…Ex-GM’s former assistant testifies

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

The trial of Nizam Hassan and Felecia De Souza-Madramootoo, who are accused of conspiring with others to approve payments for low-standard works on the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) building,...

Body of missing Crabwood Creek man washes up

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

The search for 52-year-old Karamchand Parbudyal of Grant, 1651 Crabwood Creek came to an abrupt end yesterday when his son-in-law discovered the missing man’s body along the Number 73-74 Foreshore....

Fly Jamaica explains irregular operation

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

– says safety is its first priority Having experienced mechanical and other challenges, Fly Jamaica has, for the past week, been subjected to an irregular operation. However, passengers can...

This is the most progressive and sincere regulatory effort since Independence

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, As one of the principal contributors to the shaping of the Broadcasting Amendment Bill (BAB) of 2017, I think it is necessary that I add my voice in an effort to proffer added context to...

The Minister is rude with language but he is an honest politician

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, There have been repeated calls for the resignation of Minister Ramjattan by persons who have themselves failed to put forward any solution dissimilar to the Minister’s. Therefore, in...

There has to be a way to attract our folks to agriculture

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, As a Guyanese with a multi-racial background, I am very familiar with the problems/issues/etc. affecting poor Guyanese of Indian and African descent. As regards our African brothers,...

This GuySuCo Director is publicizing his ignorance

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. E.B. John’s letter to print media (Aug. 3rd, 2017) titled “Letter was full of assumptions”. Editor, it is clear that, this GuySuCo Director is bent on either...

The Minister said sugar doesn’t have a future

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I read through a media report, that embattled Vice President and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan is reported to have said, during a visit to the Caricom Cement factory...

City Hall’s non-tender awards should be investigated

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, CITY HALL has awarded non-tender contracts to three new garbage companies. This event should send out alarm bells ringing at all levels of the media. Awarding such contracts is a huge...

These mysterious plane crashes in our interior

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, It’s very strange that, given Guyana’s good aviation record and standards, local aircraft are suddenly crashing. It’s one thing for planes to crash, but the frequency and location...

A pensioner desperately begs the NIS for his entitlement

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I, the undersign hereby implore to your newspaper to permit me space to highlight my plight that I have been enduring from the National Insurance Scheme, the past two years. My name is...

President orders police promotions halted

Aug 09, 2017 KNews News 0

– Opposition says commission’s independence trampled The Opposition is raising concerns about Government’s interference, after the Police Service Commission was purportedly written to late...

I find UG Chancellor Harris’ words offensive

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0

I don’t want to single out for criticism any diaspora personality who has returned here to work. In two previous columns on the Vice Chancellor of UG, I carefully worded my paragraphs to avoid any...

WORRYING TRENDS

Aug 09, 2017 KNews Editorial 0

The 2017 mid-year economic report is something of a mixed bag, in the sense that while revenue has increased by 13 percent or $97 billion, and production in some sectors has increased, the decline in...

More than half of NGSA students lack foundation to excel at Secondary level – Mid-Year Report

Aug 07, 2017 KNews News 0

Notwithstanding the recent improvement in the performance of students at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), “half of all students lack the basic foundation needed to excel at the secondary...

With oil money, corruption will flow

Aug 07, 2017 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Since it was discovered in July 2015 that the then GPL DCEO and a Director had allegedly signed for the transfer of sums from the Petro Caribe fund to their personal accounts – there...

Hero CPL t20 cricket…Gayle, careless batting sink Warriors to 2nd defeat in USA

Aug 07, 2017 KNews Sports 0

By Sean Devers in Florida In association with Carib Beer, Vnet Communications, Ming’s Services & Products & Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Captained by Man-of-the-Match Chris Gayle...

GT Beer Keep Your 5 Alive KO Futsal Tourney…West Front Road-Gold is Money, Future Stars are joint champs

Aug 07, 2017 KNews Sports 0

Unruly fans spoil grueling final By Franklin Wilson What turned out to be a colossal battle of a never say die disposition, experience, youth and determination displayed by Future Stars and West...

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CPL T20 Cricket… Capacity crowd see Warriors find another way to lose; Tallawahs snatch thrilling two-run win

A cruel neo-liberal government rules Guyana

What did Cheddi Jagan, Forbes Burnham, the New World group and later Walter Rodney have in common? They believed that post-colonial... more

Businesses are being hurt by crime

Criminals this past week invaded a private café in the centre of the city. The bandits robbed the customers of their money... more

Playing a role in Venezuelan crisis

By Sir Ronald Sanders Continuing conflict in Venezuela between the government of President Nicolas Maduro and opposition... more

Show us the ExxonMobil deal

Guyana is on the cusp of becoming an oil-producing nation. About three years ago ExxonMobil announced that it had made a... more

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