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Oct 16, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on The Bigger Picture

Kaieteur News – We thank the PPP/C government for the removal of the VAT on electricity and water and for the free water for pensioners. We thank the PPP/C for the $25,000 COVID-19 cash grant...

Award of Canje, Kaieteur blocks must face independent forensic probe – Ramon Gaskin

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Award of Canje, Kaieteur blocks must face independent forensic probe – Ramon Gaskin

Kaieteur News – Ramon Gaskin said that the suspicious awards of the Canje and Kaieteur oil blocks leading up to the 2015 general and regional elections, must face the scrutiny of independent...

GuySuCo floods Success lands to ‘flush-out’ squatters

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo floods Success lands to ‘flush-out’ squatters

Kaieteur News – Lands occupied by squatters at Success, East Coast of Demerara (ECD) are now heavily flooded following a decision earlier this week by the Guyana Sugar Corporation Incorporated...

Former Deputy Commissioner’s son remains in custody

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Former Deputy Commissioner’s son remains in custody

Robbery at Chinese supermarket … Kaieteur News – Police sources have confirmed that the son of a former Deputy Police Commissioner remains in custody for Tuesday’s robbery of the Egou...

Prosecution closes case in Gary Best’s dangerous driving trial

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution closes case in Gary Best’s dangerous driving trial

Kaieteur News – The prosecution has closed its case in the dangerous driving trial of former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief of Staff, Gary Best. Best of 108 Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara,...

Cops caught on camera trying to drive away after hitting down pedal cyclist

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops caught on camera trying to drive away after hitting down pedal cyclist

Kaieteur News – A video yesterday surfaced on Facebook and subsequently went viral after it revealed that three police ranks in a pick-up attempted to drive away after hitting down a pedal...

UNDP offers to help Guyana with electoral reform

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UNDP offers to help Guyana with electoral reform

Kaieteur News – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has offered assistance to Guyana on the issue of electoral reform. According to information issued by the Ministry of Legal...

Man jailed 60 years for GPHC’s dispatcher murder

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed 60 years for GPHC’s dispatcher murder

Kaieteur News – Allan Sim, the man who was indicted for the 2015 murder of his former partner, Melissa Skeete, has been sentenced to serve 60 years in jail. The sentence was imposed by Justice...

GNBS issues new requirements in wake of ‘tyre ban’ reversal

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS issues new requirements in wake of ‘tyre ban’ reversal

Kaieteur News – In light of the reversal of the ban on importing used passenger car tyres, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has issued an advisory to importers, highlighting...

If yuh good enough, yuh nah gat problem finding wuk

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on If yuh good enough, yuh nah gat problem finding wuk

Kaieteur News – Dem Boys Seh… De rule is dat once you deh pun de list of candidates fuh de Opposition, yuh should resign once de new government come in. Once your employment is not by the...

China is our best hope!

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on China is our best hope!

Kaieteur News – By the end of the month of October, a mere two weeks away, another 20 persons may die from the novel coronavirus. This is based on the large number of cases which has been...

Frontline workers will be first to get COVID-19 vaccine

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Frontline workers will be first to get COVID-19 vaccine

− other at-risk groups will be prioritised – Health Minister Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has said Government will ensure its frontline workers are first to...

Family feud leaves two nursing chop wounds

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Family feud leaves two nursing chop wounds

Kaieteur News – A feud between a Guyanese family and a Venezuelan family at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, has left two persons nursing chop wounds. Residents of the area are concerned that...

APNU+AFC to present Observation Reports in election petitions – says it will not rely on SOPs

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC to present Observation Reports in election petitions – says it will not rely on SOPs

Kaieteur News – The main parliamentary opposition, the A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), will only present the Observation Reports which were produced from...

Another death as Ministry records 31 new COVID-19 cases

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another death as Ministry records 31 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that there has been yet another death resulting from COVID-19 complications. This death has moved the country’s death toll to 107....

Ministry official says no additional COVID-19 isolation facilities needed

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry official says no additional COVID-19 isolation facilities needed

Despite airports’ reopening… Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has assured that there will be no need for additional facilities to isolate COVID-19 patients in light of the...

100 students benefit from Superbet-donated Kindle tablets

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 100 students benefit from Superbet-donated Kindle tablets

Kaieteur News – Bet placing company, Superbet, concluded the distribution of 100 Kindle Fire tablets to Guyanese students. In a release, Guiana Holding Inc., the company that runs the Superbet...

Audwin Rutherford and the AFC: People create their own untergang

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Audwin Rutherford and the AFC: People create their own untergang

Kaieteur News – Mr. Basil Blackman, an enduring PNC stalwart and a confidante of David Granger, has resigned from the PNC executive. Executive member of the AFC, Audwin Rutherford (AR), has...

Phantom claim Champion of Champions dominoes title

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Phantom claim Champion of Champions dominoes title

Phantom edged Executive by one game to win the final of the Champion of Champions dominoes competition which concluded on Sunday last at R and R Sports Club, Meadowbrook. Phantom, Executive and Quiet...

Illegal mining operation destroyed in New River Basin

Oct 16, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal mining operation destroyed in New River Basin

Kaieteur News – A Joint Operation conducted earlier this week by the Guyana Defence Force in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC),...

Payless Allstars overcome Savage XI

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Payless Allstars overcome Savage XI

Payless Allstars defeated Savage XI by 53 runs when the teams collided in a 15 overs softball fixture on Sunday last at the Georgetown Cricket Club Ground, Bourda. Batting first, Payless Allstars...

BCB interface with Ministers Nandalal and Bharrat who has been named as Honorary Patron

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB interface with Ministers Nandalal and Bharrat who has been named as Honorary Patron

A Berbice Cricket Board delegation led by its President Hilbert Foster on Tuesday last met with two senior Government Ministers in what was described as highly successful meetings at their Georgetown...

Racism and children

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Racism and children

Kaieteur News – What kind of children are we rearing here? What burdens do we – family, community, and society – heap upon them? Do we know what we are doing to our children, and...

In a new Guyana, Guyanese will want to see that all politicians adhere to the rule of law

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on In a new Guyana, Guyanese will want to see that all politicians adhere to the rule of law

Dear Editor, Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil in the world (300 Billion barrels).Since 1928, Venezuela has been infected with the oil ‘Dutch Disease’ in its financial, political,...

The new government should immediately move the retirement age to 65

Oct 16, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The new government should immediately move the retirement age to 65

Dear Editor, The new government should immediately move the retirement age from 55 years to 65. Those persons who reached 45 years at this point and will accumulate the required 33 years of service...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more