Latest update March 25th, 2025 7:08 AM

Guyana's largest selling daily and New York's most popular weekly

Latest News

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Breaking News!!! Ex-Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj dies

Breaking News!!! Ex-Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj dies

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Breaking News!!! Ex-Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj dies

Former Home Affairs Minister under the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) administration, Ronald Gajraj, died at the Woodlands Hospital today after he was rushed there for medical attention. He...
Read More
Crime Chief confident of locating Annandale ‘killer driver’ – cops have “no doubt” damaged bus linked to accident, says Divisional Commander

Crime Chief confident of locating Annandale ‘killer driver’ – cops have “no doubt” damaged bus linked to accident, says Divisional Commander

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Crime Chief confident of locating Annandale ‘killer driver’ – cops have “no doubt” damaged bus linked to accident, says Divisional Commander

  Traffic Chief Linden Isles is confident that investigators will eventually apprehend the driver who left 15-year-old Karamchand Khemraj to die at Annandale, East Coast Demerara, after hitting...
Read More
Detective Sergeant Keith Conway is “A” Division’s “Best Cop”

Detective Sergeant Keith Conway is “A” Division’s “Best Cop”

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Detective Sergeant Keith Conway is “A” Division’s “Best Cop”

  Detective Sergeant Keith Conway, the rank that the Guyana Police Force said solved many crimes, including murders, and saw much success in apprehension of wanted persons, and dismantling of...
Read More
Broadcasting Authority briefs broadcasters on tough 2019 – Televised public events, newscasts must have closed captions, sign language interpreters next year

Broadcasting Authority briefs broadcasters on tough 2019 – Televised public events, newscasts must have closed captions, sign language interpreters next year

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Broadcasting Authority briefs broadcasters on tough 2019 – Televised public events, newscasts must have closed captions, sign language interpreters next year

  Regulators are moving to making public events more friendly for persons with disabilities, starting next year. In fact, TV newscasts will have to include a sign language interpreter and closed...
Read More
Magistrate finds case against Trini who faked own kidnapping but allows him to leave jurisdiction

Magistrate finds case against Trini who faked own kidnapping but allows him to leave jurisdiction

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Magistrate finds case against Trini who faked own kidnapping but allows him to leave jurisdiction

  A City Magistrate yesterday granted permission to a Trinidadian, who faked his kidnapping, to leave the jurisdiction and return to his homeland, despite finding sufficient evidence against him...
Read More
Man joins friend in jail after carrying ganja in food

Man joins friend in jail after carrying ganja in food

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Man joins friend in jail after carrying ganja in food

Chris Otto, who was yesterday arraigned before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, is to spend Christmas in jail with a friend after being caught trying to smuggle...
Read More
GECOM Chairman hospitalized

GECOM Chairman hospitalized

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on GECOM Chairman hospitalized

  Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson, has been hospitalized. The 85-year-old official missed a statutory meeting of commissioners last week...
Read More
Govt. must consider pros and cons of continuing with Production Sharing Agreements – Ram urges

Govt. must consider pros and cons of continuing with Production Sharing Agreements – Ram urges

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Govt. must consider pros and cons of continuing with Production Sharing Agreements – Ram urges

By Kiana Wilburg Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram is of the firm view that the government needs to carefully examine the pros and cons of Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) before moving to...
Read More
GRA Headquarters for Turkeyen

GRA Headquarters for Turkeyen

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on GRA Headquarters for Turkeyen

The New Guyana Revenue Authority Headquarters will be built at Turkeyen. Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, told the National Assembly this, as he answered questions for the motion of the approval...
Read More
Agri Ministry stands behind CEO, sacks NAREI Chairman

Agri Ministry stands behind CEO, sacks NAREI Chairman

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Agri Ministry stands behind CEO, sacks NAREI Chairman

  Government has sacked its agricultural research Chairman after weeks of wrangling between him and his Board. On Thursday, Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, informed Dr. Patrick Chesney...
Read More
Man cover up ee bus like how cops does cover up case

Man cover up ee bus like how cops does cover up case

Dec 15, 2018 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Man cover up ee bus like how cops does cover up case

Guyana got a solution fuh de prison situation but if Ram Jattan didn’t talk nobody woulda know. Two years straight dem prisoners set fire inside Camp Street and eventually bun it down. Ram Jattan...
Read More
Guyana and first oil

Guyana and first oil

Dec 15, 2018 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana and first oil

Guyana is not yet ready for first oil. Oil will be produced by Exxon by the end of 2020, but in terms of Guyana’s preparation to ensure that the country is not swindled of its deserving wealth, the...
Read More
New steel cells for Camp Street prison will be portable – Public Security Minister

New steel cells for Camp Street prison will be portable – Public Security Minister

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on New steel cells for Camp Street prison will be portable – Public Security Minister

The new specially fabricated steel cells, which will be installed at the Camp Street Prison, are to be portable, according to Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan. The Minister made the...
Read More
Mother of 7 charged for attempting to kill lover

Mother of 7 charged for attempting to kill lover

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Mother of 7 charged for attempting to kill lover

  A 39-year-old mother of seven who allegedly stabbed her lover was yesterday slapped with an attempted murder charge. She allegedly did this after she saw him in the company of his ex-wife....
Read More
PPP will seek legal recourse to prevent PM from sitting in National Assembly

PPP will seek legal recourse to prevent PM from sitting in National Assembly

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on PPP will seek legal recourse to prevent PM from sitting in National Assembly

Opposition Chief Whip, Gail Teixeira, has said that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will be seeking legal recourse to prevent Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo from sitting in the National...
Read More
Guyana made proud at 2018 CXC Regional Awards ceremony

Guyana made proud at 2018 CXC Regional Awards ceremony

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Guyana made proud at 2018 CXC Regional Awards ceremony

  In addition to Queen’s College receiving the 2018 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination [CAPE] School of the Year award, four Guyanese students were among the outstanding performers who...
Read More
AG report provides irrefutable evidence of worrying increase of Treasury overdraft -Goolsarran

AG report provides irrefutable evidence of worrying increase of Treasury overdraft -Goolsarran

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on AG report provides irrefutable evidence of worrying increase of Treasury overdraft -Goolsarran

Chartered Accountant and former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran is maintaining that the Treasury overdraft is indeed increasing at a worrying rate. He is also insisting that the overdraft is...
Read More
Teen killed in Mabura accident

Teen killed in Mabura accident

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Teen killed in Mabura accident

Sixteen-year-old Clay Docton Skybar of Mahdia yesterday died as a result of an accident which occurred at about 11:30 hrs at 58 Miles, Mabura Road. The teen sustained injuries to his hips, neck, and...
Read More
Police stations being upgraded to facilitate plans for regional force – Ramjattan

Police stations being upgraded to facilitate plans for regional force – Ramjattan

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Police stations being upgraded to facilitate plans for regional force – Ramjattan

The construction of new divisional headquarters and repairs to several police stations are said to part of a wider effort to decentralize the Guyana Police Force (GPF) through the establishment of...
Read More
Caribbean Airlines lends support to GTA’s annual Tourism Awards Gala

Caribbean Airlines lends support to GTA’s annual Tourism Awards Gala

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Caribbean Airlines lends support to GTA’s annual Tourism Awards Gala

  The productive relationship shared by Caribbean Airlines and the Guyana Tourism Authority [GTA] saw the former lending its support towards the Annual Tourism Awards Gala held at the Kingston,...
Read More
Wounding convict appeals 20-year sentence

Wounding convict appeals 20-year sentence

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Wounding convict appeals 20-year sentence

  Arguing that the 20-year sentence imposed on his client for felonious wounding by Justice Jo Ann Barlow is severe and not in keeping with current sentencing practice, Attorney-at-Law Glenn...
Read More
Food and Drug Dept. advised to initiate voluntary recall of Del Monte Fiesta Corn

Food and Drug Dept. advised to initiate voluntary recall of Del Monte Fiesta Corn

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Food and Drug Dept. advised to initiate voluntary recall of Del Monte Fiesta Corn

Local distributor of the recalled Del Monte Fiesta Corn, Toucan Industries, has notified the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department [GA-FDD] that it has imported 204 cases of the product. GA-FDD...
Read More
Dance promoter jailed 30 years for raping girl, 14 -tells probation officer he was drunk, cannot recall doing such

Dance promoter jailed 30 years for raping girl, 14 -tells probation officer he was drunk, cannot recall doing such

Dec 15, 2018 News Comments Off on Dance promoter jailed 30 years for raping girl, 14 -tells probation officer he was drunk, cannot recall doing such

  Claiming he was intoxicated and cannot recall having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, dance promoter Esmond Slowe was sentenced yesterday to 30 years imprisonment for the crime. Two...
Read More
No Christmas shopping permitted in Georgetown on December 21

No Christmas shopping permitted in Georgetown on December 21

Dec 15, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on No Christmas shopping permitted in Georgetown on December 21

    My honest opinion is that there are persons in the PPP hierarchy whose fox-like thinking is way above many of the effete leaders in the APNU+AFC fortress. There is a strong sense of...
Read More
Regional 4-day Cricket in Antigua Singh leads Jaguars to first innings lead over Volcanoes

Regional 4-day Cricket in Antigua Singh leads Jaguars to first innings lead over Volcanoes

Dec 15, 2018 Sports Comments Off on Regional 4-day Cricket in Antigua Singh leads Jaguars to first innings lead over Volcanoes

  Test batsman Vishaul Singh registered his second half-century of the season and 14th at this level with a carefully constructed unbeaten 68, while Chris Barnwell fell four short of his tenth...
Read More

The Glenn Lall Show|| March, 17th, 2025

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Groups, schedule announced for One Guyana 3×3 Quest

Groups, schedule announced for One Guyana 3×3 Quest

Mar 25, 2025

Kaieteur Sports- With just 11 days to go before Guyana welcomes 16 nations for the largest 3×3 basketball event ever hosted in the English-speaking Caribbean, excitement is building. The Guyana...
Read More
2025 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League Fixtures confirmed

2025 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League...

Mar 25, 2025

Virtual Meeting of Caribbean Boxing Promoters held, Guyana among six countries with interest

Virtual Meeting of Caribbean Boxing Promoters...

Mar 25, 2025

GBA AirBadminton Tournament spikes off with historic showing at St. Cuthbert’s Mission 

GBA AirBadminton Tournament spikes off with...

Mar 25, 2025

Briton John sets sights on another sweep with second leg win

Briton John sets sights on another sweep with...

Mar 25, 2025

Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot...

Mar 24, 2025

Features/Columnists

Publisher’s Note

Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.

Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]