January 2020

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Granger confirms Ramjattan as PM candidate

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger confirms Ramjattan as PM candidate

A statement made by A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) presidential candidate, David Granger, yesterday prompted the Alliance For Change (AFC) to point out that the...

Burnt body in car trunk… DNA results confirm victim is vanished eyewitness Collin Rodney

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Burnt body in car trunk… DNA results confirm victim is vanished eyewitness Collin Rodney

The burnt body that was found in a car trunk at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, on November 1, 2019, has been positively identified as that of vanished eyewitness Collin Rodney....

Govt. not contemplating making Caribbean Airlines national flag carrier

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. not contemplating making Caribbean Airlines national flag carrier

Government is not at the moment contemplating Caribbean Airlines (CAL) as bearing the flag of Guyana. It would have eventually also allowed the airline to conduct direct flights between Guyana and...

Aracari Hotel room deaths… Girl strangled, boyfriend drank poison – PM Report

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Aracari Hotel room deaths… Girl strangled, boyfriend drank poison – PM Report

Speculations behind the suspected double suicide of an East Coast Demerara couple have been put to bed after the autopsy revealed that the female, 25-year-old Subrina Nandram, called Priya, was...

Cuban charged for forging immigration stamp

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cuban charged for forging immigration stamp

A Cuban national was yesterday granted bail following a strong application by his lawyer for a charge in which he allegedly forged an immigration stamp. Kenlhys Hernandez Cartaya was arraigned in the...

People want to know bout Soulja Bai and Ram Jattan

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on People want to know bout Soulja Bai and Ram Jattan

People does tek odda people problem and mek it dem own. Dem boys see people go to funeral wheh dem ain’t know de people and dem does cry more than de people who de dead concern. Now Soulja Bai and...

GECOM appoints nine Returning Officers to oversee elections

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM appoints nine Returning Officers to oversee elections

The Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM) has sworn in nine Returning Officers (ROs) to oversee the conduct of the Regional and General elections slated for May2, 2020. The representative from Region...

Guyana’s Yellow Fever free status linked to laudable vaccination coverage

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Yellow Fever free status linked to laudable vaccination coverage

‘A current threat’ is how Yellow Fever has been classified by the World Health Organisation [WHO]. Yellow Fever during the past year wreaked unprecedented havoc in a number of countries including...

Exxon’s Gas Project in Papua New Guinea has been described as a parasite

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s Gas Project in Papua New Guinea has been described as a parasite

An Australian advocacy body has said that the country would have been better off without ExxonMobil’s Gas project in Papua New Guinea {PNP}. It turns out that the project bears similarities to...

MOPI wants verification on the Auditor General report

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MOPI wants verification on the Auditor General report

The Minister of Public Infrastructure spoke extensively on the contents of the Auditor General Report at a New Year press conference yesterday. The report made claims to the Ministry of Public...

Health Ministry upgraded Diamond Hospital without NPTAB’s approval

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry upgraded Diamond Hospital without NPTAB’s approval

The Ministry of Public Health committed a “red flag” act, after the agency extended the contract for the upgrade of the Diamond Diagnostic Centre without the approval of the tender administration...

India doubles Guyana’s scholarship quota

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on India doubles Guyana’s scholarship quota

The Indian High Commission has informed Kaieteur News of its decision to double its scholarship quota to Guyanese, namely its Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) training slots from 24...

Miner who ran to City Constabulary for help, arrested, charged for stealing from partner

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner who ran to City Constabulary for help, arrested, charged for stealing from partner

A miner, of Dazzell Scheme, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday granted bail after he was charged for stealing from his partner when they booked a room for a three-day outing together at a hotel in...

Guyana gearing towards FAA category 1 Flight Status

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gearing towards FAA category 1 Flight Status

Guyana is once again on its way to operating a domestic airline at an international level. This was revealed by Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Jaipaul Sharma, yesterday,...

Mocha resident challenges 25-year jail sentence

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mocha resident challenges 25-year jail sentence

Mocha, East Bank Demerara resident, Jegede Hodge, has moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge a 25 years’ jail sentence imposed on him after he was found guilty by a jury for engaging in sexual...

Labourer remanded from vagrant’s murder.

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer remanded from vagrant’s murder.

A 19-year-old labourer was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of a vagrant. Charged with murder is Dave Jacobs, a labourer who worked at the Corriverton Market. He appeared before Magistrate...

Duo sentenced to life for 2013 murder of security guard files appeal

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Duo sentenced to life for 2013 murder of security guard files appeal

Alvin Kissoon and Calvin King who were both found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment are looking to have their convictions and sentences overturned. They have moved to the Court of...

US Senator leads team to discuss energy, infrastructure

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US Senator leads team to discuss energy, infrastructure

United States Senator representing the District of Virginia, Richard Black, on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on Public Telecommunications Minister, Catherine Hughes. Black would be leading a team to...

Special Department established to monitor Civil Works Project

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Special Department established to monitor Civil Works Project

According to the Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, a new Service Division has been established with the aim of monitoring various civil works projects. Speaking at the Ministry’s...

Burn patients at GPHC to receive counseling

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Burn patients at GPHC to receive counseling

The Board of Directors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be adding counseling sessions to the hospital curriculum, with the aim of assisting burn patients on ways to deal with...

Sheriff-Mandela road expansion project resumes

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sheriff-Mandela road expansion project resumes

The Sheriff-Mandela road expansion project is now back on track following a period of suspension that began in November 2019. This is according to Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson,...

Enmore CCCC and Lusignan SC (A) to clash in SPR Enterprise finals this weekend

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Enmore CCCC and Lusignan SC (A) to clash in SPR Enterprise finals this weekend

The Enmore CCCC (A) will take on defending champions Lusignan SC (A) in the final of the 2019 SPR Enterprise 40 overs cricket competition on Sunday at the Enmore Community Centre Ground. The final...

Nadeza Rodrigues runs thriving HEYS Business despite disability

Jan 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nadeza Rodrigues runs thriving HEYS Business despite disability

Nadeza Rodrigues, an entrepreneur in the Hinterland Employment Youth Service HEYS movement, continues to run a thriving business establishment that meets the needs of residents of Karawab Village,...

Ninvalle for meeting with AIBA President

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ninvalle for meeting with AIBA President

President of the Guyana Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle will travel to Panama next week to attend a meeting with AIBA President Dr. Mohamed Moustasane. Ninvalle will lead a team of 15 Caribbean...

Lloyd Rawlins supports Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes

Jan 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lloyd Rawlins supports Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes

Lloyd Rawlins has thrown his support behind the Mark Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes competition which is set to commence on Sunday at Turning Point sports bar. Rawlins, who also plays...

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2026 IMC Over-40’s World Cup… Akmal/Ghani fifties push...

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Adnan Akmal and Sheharyar Ghani punched fifties to help Pakistan rally to a 7-wicket win over India when World Cup action continued yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium,...

Either way Rodrigues-Birkett cannot lose

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was thrust unexpectedly and suddenly into the contest for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. A woman presently occupies an important diplomatic post – Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations – was nominated belatedly...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

Jagdeo’s funeral march symphony Part II

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s number one political detector of danger, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, attended an evening of reflection for Mr. Robert Corbin, one-time deputy prime minister and opposition leader. In trademark fashion, he came armed with his own classical composition: the Jagdeo...

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