September 21, 2016

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A family racket?…GECOM buys $14M in pliers/nippers from brother of radio supplier

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on A family racket?…GECOM buys $14M in pliers/nippers from brother of radio supplier

How many pliers would it take to run an election? That is the multi-million-dollar question now being asked. More than two weeks before the May 11, 2015, General and Regional Elections, the Guyana...

Surinamese company in US$7.5M crushed stone deal for CJIA expansion

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News 1

By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname- Suriname’s state-owned mining company, Grassalco, recently secured a multi-million-dollar deal to supply crushed stone for the US$150M expansion of the Cheddi...

Two GNBA Board members accused of corrupt practices

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News 2

By Abena Rockcliffe- Campbell It seems like the reputation of the Board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is getting from bad to worse. Over the past few months, the Board has been...

Central Bank makes key improvements to payment systems

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Central Bank makes key improvements to payment systems

An efficient payment system is an essential component of Guyana’s financial stability. Taking this into account, the Central Bank of Guyana has been upgrading its payments system. It has done so in...

Arrest warrants out for Barry Dataram, reputed wife in cocaine trial

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Arrest warrants out for Barry Dataram, reputed wife in cocaine trial

Arrest warrants were yesterday issued for Barry Dataram and his reputed wife after they failed to attend a court hearing yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman. The magistrate was scheduled to...

Search intensifies for escaped prisoners

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Search intensifies for escaped prisoners

Members of the joint services are on a manhunt to recapture two convicted prisoners, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison facility on Tuesday. According to Director of the Guyana Prison Service, Carl...

Digicel and GTT give Guyanese G0-dee instead of 4G

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Digicel and GTT give Guyanese G0-dee instead of 4G

People who live in this country always getting shaft and this ain’t start happening yesterday. In de colonial days dem people use to tek de children out of school fuh stand up in de burning sun to...

Guyana will create a global footprint in environmental sustainability

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana will create a global footprint in environmental sustainability

-President Granger at United Nations General Assembly President David Granger has said that Guyana is on the path to creating a global footprint in environmental sustainability as it pursues...

Fitness Express sponsors Queen’s College Fitness Competition

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express sponsors Queen’s College Fitness Competition

Fitness Express has agreed to sponsor the Queen’s College Inter House Fitness Competition which is being held on September 21st at Queen’s College. This week, Phys Ed. Teacher Mr. Jaryl Moore and...

Home Designs and Associates awarded contract for GFF forward project

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Home Designs and Associates awarded contract for GFF forward project

By Zaheer Mohamed Home Designs and Associates of New Amsterdam had been awarded the contract to commence work of the FIFA forward programme (formerly goal project) at Providence, East Bank Demerara....

Sebastien replaces Walsh on Windies selection panel

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sebastien replaces Walsh on Windies selection panel

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Former Dominica, Windward Islands and Combined Islands opener Lockhart Sebastien has been appointed as a selector for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the board...

Correction

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Correction

Kaieteur Sport mistakenly published the name of Minister of Indigenous People’s Affairs as Carolyn Rodrigues instead of Valarie Garrido-Lowe in the sports pages of its Tuesday edition. The...

Argentine rugby coach working with local squad

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Argentine rugby coach working with local squad

Argentine rugby coach Deiego Giannantonio (3rd right) seen organising a scrum during the national squad practice yesterday at the National Park.

NSBF continues on Sunday

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSBF continues on Sunday

Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) wishes to advise that the National School Basketball Festival (NSBF), which was rescheduled due to Guyana’s hosting of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC)...

Winners of Indigenous Heritage Games 2016 Archery competition receive prizes

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winners of Indigenous Heritage Games 2016 Archery competition receive prizes

The curtains came down on the Indigenous Heritage Games in the wee hours of Monday morning, September 19, 2014 when the Guyana Sport Shooting Federation/Archery Guyana’s Finals Outdoor Competition...

Lindeners access much needed Dental Services

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners access much needed Dental Services

Residents of Linden yesterday turned out in their numbers for a Dental outreach held at the Egbert Benjamin Recreation Hall and Conference Centre. The dental services were offered by the Humanitarian...

New Guyana Ambassador presents credentials to Obama

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Guyana Ambassador presents credentials to Obama

On Friday, Dr. Riyad Insanally, Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, presented his Letter of Credence to President Barack Obama at the White House. “Both President Obama and...

FIRST INDIGENOUS FASHION LINE TO BE FEATURED DURING SONIA NOEL’S 2016 FASHION WEEK

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on FIRST INDIGENOUS FASHION LINE TO BE FEATURED DURING SONIA NOEL’S 2016 FASHION WEEK

Indigenous designers will be making their debut during the Sonia Noel Fashion Weekend extravaganza from November 6. Noel is arguably Guyana’s most celebrated Fashion designer. Minister within the...

Teen dies, following freak accident at sawmill in Linden

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Teen dies, following freak accident at sawmill in Linden

A Linden family is in mourning after one of their own died, following a sawmill accident last week Friday. Dead is Ramish Rajbally, a 19-year-old of Blueberry Hill, Wismar, Linden. According to the...

Bahamas man charged with killing Guyanese schoolteacher

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bahamas man charged with killing Guyanese schoolteacher

Bahamas (tribune242.com) -Alister Williams, 30, on Tuesday, appeared before Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes for the murder of Marisha Bowen, a native of Guyana who had taught at Charles W. Saunders...

Woman critical after caught in crossfire

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Woman critical after caught in crossfire

Around 17:30 hrs yesterday, an exchange of gunfire at the Timehri bus park between two unknown men and police officers, left Jean Rodrigues in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Ganja, house breaking implements found during City Constabulary raid

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja, house breaking implements found during City Constabulary raid

Ganja and house breaking implements were among the items found, during a cordon and search conducted by ranks of the City Constabulary, Friday last. The operation was conducted in section seven of...

Guyanese man deported for caressing thigh of Bajan teen

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Guyanese man deported for caressing thigh of Bajan teen

Barbados (Barbados Today) -A Guyanese national was handed over to immigration officials on Monday after appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on an assault charge. The 48-year-old...

Major investors interested in ICT sector

Sep 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Major investors interested in ICT sector

–Go-Invest CEO Continuous development in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), is signalled for Guyana as interests and applications for investments in the sector have been...

Who is bailing out the workers?

Sep 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Who is bailing out the workers?

The government this past week issued a debenture to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) for $5.6 billion. This is not a bailout. It is a series of advances over a long period so as to allow the NIS...

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Republic Bank U18 Football League: Unbeaten trio flex muscles as...

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The intensity was palpable at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue this past Sunday as the seventh annual Republic Bank Under 18 School’s Football League...

We have entered the dark zone once again

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The police account of the incident in which shots were fired in Kitty at a vehicle in which was the leader of the opposition, brings back haunting and uncomfortable memories of one of the darkest eras of Guyana. And it specifically brings back memories of the assassinations of...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

King Charles III – post visit reflections

Nov 02, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The mind can be a funny thing. Mine played a trick on me, did a somersault. Now that King Charles III came and went, it’s confession time. He should come again. Guess who would lead the parade, the welcoming party? Incidentally, there could be a temporary halt to...

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