March 2020

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Suppliers want $12M for baggage scanners at Guyana Prison Service

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suppliers want $12M for baggage scanners at Guyana Prison Service

Yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, 17 bids were opened for several projects at the Ministry of Finance’s office, at Main and Urquhart Streets, Georgetown. One...

Coronavirus epidemic stalls women’s National TT team

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Sports Comments Off on Coronavirus epidemic stalls women’s National TT team

By Calvin Chapman Guyana national women’s senior National Table Tennis that was selected by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) to participate in the 2020 World Teams Table Tennis...

Miner remanded for allegedly killing coworker over stolen gold

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner remanded for allegedly killing coworker over stolen gold

Twenty-six-year-old Emric Joseph was yesterday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, after he was charged for the murder of his co-worker. An...

Sri Lankans charged for illegal entry

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sri Lankans charged for illegal entry

Two foreigners were yesterday charged for entering Guyana illegally. They both pleaded guilty to the charge after it was read to them by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’...

‘Otisha’ accused of stealing $100,000

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Otisha’ accused of stealing $100,000

Otis Pearson of 42 Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was yesterday granted bail after he denied stealing $100,000. The defendant appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Principal...

West R/veldt man shot while on his way home

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on West R/veldt man shot while on his way home

A West Ruimveldt resident is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was shot while on his way home. The incident occurred on Monday around 22:40hrs. Relatives have identified the...

Ganja smuggled from Berbice found in Charlestown bush

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja smuggled from Berbice found in Charlestown bush

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) has arrested one person after a seizure of ganja in Charlestown yesterday morning. According to the unit, the 14.2 kilos were found in a clump of bushes in an...

British, US envoys laud GECOM’s operations

Mar 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on British, US envoys laud GECOM’s operations

Two esteemed members of the diplomatic community congratulated the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for a job well done in its production of fair and credible elections. British High Commissioner,...

Gecom’s declaration of readiness

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Gecom’s declaration of readiness

We are ready! So said Gecom last week. As reassurances go, there is little room for failure on that promise, that commitment. The first phase of that authoritative pronouncement from the head of...

Stay calm, collected, and help keep Guyana safe

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Stay calm, collected, and help keep Guyana safe

I doubt when you pick up this edition of the Kaieteur News, there will be the 2020 election results. I wrote yesterday that it may very well be Thursday. Once GECOM and the international observers...

Guyana’s greatest asset is its people

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s greatest asset is its people

DEAR EDITOR, Recently, I returned home to Guyana after more than 10 years. It was apparent that numerous drastic changes have occurred in infrastructure, economy and society. Infrastructure obviously...

Work together for the benefit of all Guyanese

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Work together for the benefit of all Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, At the time of writing this letter no one knows the outcome of the 2nd March 2020 General Election in Guyana. I suggest that the winner extend a hand of friendship to the loser and start...

4 Anxiety over Elections’ Outcome

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on 4 Anxiety over Elections’ Outcome

DEAR EDITOR, There is much anxiety over the outcome of the elections. Voters, the nation, want an immediate, prompt declaration. That is not possible. It is not a constituency system where partial...

GECOM delivered as it said it would

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM delivered as it said it would

DEAR EDITOR, “It was a grand day” so says GECOM Chair. That I agree with. Quiet, peaceful and calm except for a few hiccups and skirmishes. GECOM delivered as it said it would. Kudos to...

We all have to take a stand against this unacceptable and detrimental trend

Mar 04, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We all have to take a stand against this unacceptable and detrimental trend

DEAR EDITOR, I write with concern for the recent upsurge in violence and crime among out youth. As I would have mentioned before on my social media platform, there is a desperate need for an...

GECOM Chair says… It was a grand day! … Minor hiccups resolved throughout the day

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chair says… It was a grand day! … Minor hiccups resolved throughout the day

By Kemol King and Shikema Dey Polls for the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections were off to a smooth start as reported by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) with Chairperson Justice...

Minister given total power over oversight body – Local Content Policy

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister given total power over oversight body – Local Content Policy

According to Guyana’s Local Content Policy, the Minister of Petroleum has the sole authority to administer the policy, including the review and approval of the Local Content Plans and Reports of...

GECOM will provide election results update via official website

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM will provide election results update via official website

The Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM) will provide real time updates on the elections results via its official website. During an Elections’ Day press briefing last evening, GECOM officials...

“Old grudge” leads to bloody showdown, four critical

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Old grudge” leads to bloody showdown, four critical

Four females were all rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after a year-old feud resulted in a blood bath, which left all parties involved nursing severe injuries about their bodies. The injured...

Card game turns deadly, labourer knifed to death

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Card game turns deadly, labourer knifed to death

A card game among friends reportedly ended on a bloody note after a labourer was left dead with several stab wounds about his body. The dead man was identified as 29-year-old Aubrey Prince, of...

Some people oversleep and couldn’t vote

Mar 03, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Some people oversleep and couldn’t vote

From de time Charran Rass holler ‘Yes… Yes… Yes…” and help pass a no-confidence motion, Guyana was de place to hear cuss and bad name. Who wasn’t a crook was a scamp or a thief. Dem...

God is in control

Mar 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on God is in control

Yesterday, a pastor was walking past the boss man’s house when he noticed him in the hammock. The Godly man hailed out the boss man and asked him whether he had voted as yet. The boss has a booming...

Local and overseas-based Guyanese pour over US$600M in investment projects – NICIL

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local and overseas-based Guyanese pour over US$600M in investment projects – NICIL

Guyanese at home and abroad have invested some US$600M in projects in the past year according to official National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) records. “There are more and...

Elections morning peaceful in Cinderella County

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elections morning peaceful in Cinderella County

There’s usually that atmosphere of great excitement and anxiety during Guyana’s elections. During yesterday, however, persons appeared to have been even more determined than ever before to cast...

ExxonMobil AUV contract for underwater data gathering vehicle

Mar 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil AUV contract for underwater data gathering vehicle

(Rigzone.com) – Exxon Mobil Corp. has awarded subsea marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity a contract for high-resolution autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical and geotechnical data...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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