October 2020

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Brazen gunman breaks car window to rob marketing agent in traffic jam

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Brazen gunman breaks car window to rob marketing agent in traffic jam

By Shervin Belgrave Kaieteur News – A brazen gunman yesterday robbed a woman in her car just metres away from a police rank who was directing traffic at the intersection of Mandela Avenue and...

GTT must return to detailed paper bills – PUC

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTT must return to detailed paper bills – PUC

Kaieteur News – The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is contending that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) must revert to giving consumers detailed paper bills instead of the...

All is fair in love and war!

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on All is fair in love and war!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Some lawyers does talk through dem behind. Imagine one of dem had the temerity fuh seh how prosecutors gat to be fair. Since Noah build de Ark dem boys bin...

I WISH

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on I WISH

Kaieteur News – I would love to live to one hundred years. Beyond that my limbs and joints would have become calcified, cataract surgery would be impossible as my sight declines and even if I...

Regional Agri. Ministers discuss ways to strengthen agricultural integration with IICA’s Director General

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Agri. Ministers discuss ways to strengthen agricultural integration with IICA’s Director General

– Minister Mustapha highlights Govt.’s vision to further market and develop agro-processing sector Kaieteur News – Yesterday Agriculture Ministers from across the Region met Director...

Lawyer sues AG’s office over fees owed for special prosecuting, other legal services

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer sues AG’s office over fees owed for special prosecuting, other legal services

Kaieteur News – Attorney-at-law, Patrice Henry, is suing the office of the Attorney General (AG) for millions of dollars worth of outstanding fees owed to him for special prosecuting and other...

Prime suspect in custody after attack on CJ’s premises

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prime suspect in custody after attack on CJ’s premises

Kaieteur News – Police have arrested the prime suspect in Wednesday’s attack on the home of the Chief Justice (ag), Roxanne George-Wiltshire. Kaieteur News had reported that Guyana’s law...

Lowenfield’s lawyer objects to MP prosecuting matter

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield’s lawyer objects to MP prosecuting matter

Kaieteur News – Attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes, who is representing the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, who is facing several electoral fraud charges, yesterday made objections in...

Rotary continues eradication fight as World Polio Day is observed

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rotary continues eradication fight as World Polio Day is observed

Kaieteur News – Today, the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central (RCGC) joins other Rotary Clubs, locally and across the globe, to commemorate World Polio Day under the theme: ‘Rotary and its...

Businessman donates hand sanitizer machine to GPHC

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman donates hand sanitizer machine to GPHC

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was yesterday the recipient of a hand sanitizer machine and a case of gel, all valued at some $75,000. The donation,...

US$200K CT scanner now operational at New Amsterdam Hospital

Oct 24, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US$200K CT scanner now operational at New Amsterdam Hospital

Kaieteur News – A Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner that has been in storage for the past few years, is now operational and will be used for patients in need of diagnostic in Region Six...

Is it true that Moses Nagamootoo is ill?

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is it true that Moses Nagamootoo is ill?

Kaieteur News – The GECOM statements of poll for the 2015 elections showed the rejection of the village for Whim for Nagamootoo where he came from. It was an ignominious rejection. Then one...

Multi talented Niran Bissu successful in CXC and CAPE Exams

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Multi talented Niran Bissu successful in CXC and CAPE Exams

Represents Guyana in Table Tennis and Cricket By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – National Junior Table Tennis player and National U-17 Leg-spinning all-rounder 17-year-old Niran Bissu has reaped...

Chess Federation receive $300,000 from GAICO Construction

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chess Federation receive $300,000 from GAICO Construction

On Tuesday last, the Guyana Chess Federation, (GCF) received welcomed financial support from GAICO Construction Company, intensifying the Federation’s efforts without risk in the midst of the...

Where are they today?

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Where are they today?

Kaieteur News – Where are they now? Where are the guardians of democracy? The private sector powers now reduced and exposed as self-enrich pretenders? Where are the lawyers and young...

Trump’s state of denial is of great concern to America and the world

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trump’s state of denial is of great concern to America and the world

Dear Editor, The final US Presidential election debate is over (the second one was cancelled) and the horses are off (election will be on Nov. 3rd). The winner or loser from last night doesn’t...

It has been a pleasure to work with the Rupununi Miners Association

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It has been a pleasure to work with the Rupununi Miners Association

Dear Editor, I would be appreciative of you publishing my profound gratitude to the membership of the Rupununi Miners Association (RMA) and the entire mining community of Region Nine (9) for allowing...

Kwayana disappointed many on election rigging

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kwayana disappointed many on election rigging

Dear Editor, Like Freddie Kisoon (KN Oct 21), I am also troubled by Mr. Eusi Kwayana’s duplicitous position during the attempt to rig the election. Mr. Kwayana should have come out clearly and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted everyone into an education culture shock

Oct 24, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted everyone into an education culture shock

Dear Editor, This expression of concern was penned on October 14th after discussion among a small group of parents and chaperones who are grappling with the steep learning curve occasioned by...

Taking our oranges and giving us peanuts

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Taking our oranges and giving us peanuts

Imagine your stepfather sold out a large farm which your real father left for you. He sold it to his friend Robert who lives in Canada. Once a year, Robert sends over a few oranges. Your family is so...

Canje owner sold 87.5% of block; Guyana got no capital gains tax

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canje owner sold 87.5% of block; Guyana got no capital gains tax

– Contract signed by Ramotar Kaieteur News – The owner of the Canje Block, Mid-Atlantic Oil & Gas Inc. has benefitted from its sale of 87.5 percent of Stabroek Block ownership, but...

Establish strong criteria for oil blocks to keep ‘bad’ companies at bay – Chatham House

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Establish strong criteria for oil blocks to keep ‘bad’ companies at bay – Chatham House

“It’s not just well-established companies which should be attracted, but those with records of opacity, negligence, theft or other damaging activities which should be actively kept out....

Chief Justice to hear full trial for elections petition

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice to hear full trial for elections petition

– To hear preliminary issues on November 24 Kaieteur News – Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire is expected to full trial of the two election petitions filed by the main...

Health Ministry orders 20,000 antigen tests for hinterlands

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry orders 20,000 antigen tests for hinterlands

– to produce COVID-19 results within minutes Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health has placed an order for 20,000 antigen tests which will be sent to selected hinterland regions to...

Argument over cash leaves teen death

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Argument over cash leaves teen death

Kaieteur News – A disagreement over money owed has left Adrian Purlette, 18, dead, after he was on Wednesday stabbed to death by three men. According information received by this media house,...

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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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