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Some tax exemptions stifle local business development – African Centre for Energy Policy

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Some tax exemptions stifle local business development – African Centre for Energy Policy

Kaieteur News – Certain tax exemptions have the effect of stifling local business development for the value chains of the extractives industry, said the African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP)...

Large discoveries must be managed for benefit of all – path ahead not without pitfalls

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Large discoveries must be managed for benefit of all – path ahead not without pitfalls

ExxonMobil Advisor warns Guyana… Kaieteur News – On December 20th, last, Guyana marked its one year anniversary as an oil producing state. And on that occasion, many regional, local and...

Army spent $92M to fix 30 vehicles – AG Report

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Army spent $92M to fix 30 vehicles – AG Report

– $7.2M to repair one 11 year-old pickup – Police Force, other agencies engaged in similar practice Kaieteur News – Details from the recently laid Auditor General’s Report for...

Cop beaten, robbed, shot to the back

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cop beaten, robbed, shot to the back

Kaieteur News – A police constable was beaten and shot to his back yesterday at Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, (ECD), by a group of eight men. The men are said to be from a gang...

Unauthorized vehicle collected $181M in army fuel – Auditor General 2019 report

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Unauthorized vehicle collected $181M in army fuel – Auditor General 2019 report

Kaieteur News – According to the Audit Report of 2019, one unauthorized vehicle uplifted 887,800 litres of fuel from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) totalling a whopping $181.567 million. But...

Bandit robs himself of life

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit robs himself of life

Kaieteur News – Kaieteur News has learnt of a bizarre tale where a well-known robber killed himself by accident at Bourda Market, on Christmas day. Persons identified the dead man only as...

Police mourns as fmr. Crime Chief, Heeralall Makhanlall, dies

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police mourns as fmr. Crime Chief, Heeralall Makhanlall, dies

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced that they have joined with the family in mourning the passing of retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Crime Chief,...

Hindu community in NY mourns after Uber slammed by Lamborghini, killing Guyanese woman – driver flees

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hindu community in NY mourns after Uber slammed by Lamborghini, killing Guyanese woman – driver flees

Kaieteur News – The Guyanese Hindu community of New York is in deep mourning after a prominent mandir member was killed tragically on Christmas Eve day. The New York Daily News reported that...

Dem prisoners want weed

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem prisoners want weed

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De Lusignan Prison is a high-tech facility. Dem gat more weed inside dan outside de prison and de amount of cellphones dem prisoners gat, if yuh run out of phone...

How do family, relatives and friends react to naked, ugly minds?

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on How do family, relatives and friends react to naked, ugly minds?

Kaieteur News – One of the things that have always bothered me about life is what do the family members, relatives and friends say to humans who do ugly, vile things, things that are so...

Popular TV show host, Reyaz Hussain, dies

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Popular TV show host, Reyaz Hussain, dies

Kaieteur News – Local broadcaster, Reyaz Hussain, died suddenly on Christmas Day, sending shockwaves in the media and sports fraternity. The late Hussain was a popular public announcer at...

Maintaining a tradition with the Rahaman’s Christmas Tree

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Maintaining a tradition with the Rahaman’s Christmas Tree

Kaieteur News – The driver of this white Toyota Premio was keen on maintaining a yearly tradition. He ploughed into the Christmas Tree at the Houston bypass, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The...

How to park like a boss

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on How to park like a boss

Kaieteur News – In yet another episode by our parking experts, it appears that it gets better each time. Shortly after midday, the driver of this Zone 48 minibus showed his colleagues how to...

No confidence – a lifetime later

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on No confidence – a lifetime later

Kaieteur News – Two years after that fateful no-confidence motion (NCM), the Democratic Republic of Guyana is in full swing. In some ways, it is a different place, some for good and some that...

Second leg of ICJ exercise should take no more than three and half years – Greenidge clarifies

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Second leg of ICJ exercise should take no more than three and half years – Greenidge clarifies

Guyana/Venezuela border case… Kaieteur News – Following the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that it has jurisdiction to hear Guyana’s case on the border controversy...

First Lady celebrates 11 Christmas babies at GPHC

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on First Lady celebrates 11 Christmas babies at GPHC

Kaieteur New s First Lady, Mrs. Arya Ali, on Christmas morning delivered care packages and holiday cheers to the mothers of newborns in the delivery unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

Guyana Fully Prepared For Vaccination Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on Guyana Fully Prepared For Vaccination Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic

Consumer Concerns: By Pat Dial Kaieteur News – When the Coronavirus struck the world in early 2020, no one could have imagined that one’s own country and the world would have been...

Matching jammies

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Matching jammies

President Irfaan Ali, First Lady Arya Ali and their son sporting matching pajamas on Christmas Day. (Sally’s Stitch Fix photo)

Guyana’s first locally trained helicopter pilot… Azam Ally is a ‘Special Person’

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Guyana’s first locally trained helicopter pilot… Azam Ally is a ‘Special Person’

“My advice would be to pursue it. It may be a difficult road with a lot of obstacles but it’s a nice field (aviation) with a lot of benefits. Always take an opportunity and make it into something...

Siblings see Christmas for the first time

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Siblings see Christmas for the first time

Born blind… By Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – Unlike most children, six year-old Shenny-Ann, five year-old Shelly-Ann, Two year-old Tariq and one-year-old Aaron are four children from...

Coronavirus: January may become our toughest month yet

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: January may become our toughest month yet

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center Kaieteur News – As the developed world begins vaccination against the Covid-19 infection, many are...

The Turtle Dove

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on The Turtle Dove

Interesting Creatures… Kaieteur News – Turtle Doves are featured in the song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” as the gift “my true love gives to me” on the second day of Christmas. If...

Berbice man dies after driving off road at Number 10 Village

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man dies after driving off road at Number 10 Village

Kaieteur News – A welder yesterday succumbed to injuries he received after he lost control of his car and drove off the Number 10 Village Public Road, West Coast Berbice. (WCB). Dead is Sunil...

The Famous Eggnog

Dec 27, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on The Famous Eggnog

What is this eggnog that we all so seemingly enjoy? Eggnog is a creamy drink made out of milk or cream, whipped eggs, sugar, and spices like nutmeg and cinnamon. Sometimes it preferably mixed with...

President Ali pledges more support services for elderly

Dec 27, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on President Ali pledges more support services for elderly

– at Dharm Shala Christmas luncheon Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali, on Christmas morning, pledged to implement more programmes and initiatives to ensure elderly people have more...

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Futebol Real Brazil executive Naranda Wislon visits Guyana

The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more