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Alleged prison escapee gets $100,000 bail

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged prison escapee gets $100,000 bail

Kaieteur News – Twenty-four-year-old Shawn Collins of Ketley and Drysdale Streets, Charlestown, Georgetown, who reportedly escaped from the Camp Street Prison during a riot in 2017, was on...

Venezuelans among three remanded for slitting pork-knocker’s throat

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelans among three remanded for slitting pork-knocker’s throat

Kaieteur News – Two Venezuelan nationals are among the three men who were remanded yesterday for allegedly slitting the throat of a pork-knocker on November 27 last. The pork-knocker, Kevin...

School uniform and supplies voucher distribution launched in Georgetown

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on School uniform and supplies voucher distribution launched in Georgetown

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Department of Education on Tuesday launched the distribution of the School Uniform and Supplies Voucher programme in the Georgetown Education District. The launch...

Suspected ‘fowl thief’ nabbed in Sussex Street canal

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected ‘fowl thief’ nabbed in Sussex Street canal

Kaieteur News – Suspected to be a fowl thief in the Charlestown neighbourhood, this anaconda was captured last night in the Sussex Street canal. Its capturers believe that it had just swallowed...

Health Ministry records 26 new COVID-19 cases

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry records 26 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday recorded 26 new COVID-19 cases, pushing Guyana’s total number of confirmed cases to 5,449. This was presented in the Ministry’s daily...

Elderly, persons with multiple illnesses to be given first preference

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly, persons with multiple illnesses to be given first preference

COVID-19 vaccine… Kaieteur News – As part of its plan to shortly roll out a COVID-19 vaccination programme, government will be giving first preference to the elderly and persons with multiple...

Housing Ministry engages West Demerara communities on developments

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Ministry engages West Demerara communities on developments

Kaieteur News – Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues, recently met with representatives from 14 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) within Region Three...

‘Big Head’ for sentencing in NY court next April after plea deal

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Big Head’ for sentencing in NY court next April after plea deal

Kaieteur News – Local businessman and hotelier, Shervington Lovell, is to be sentenced in a New York court on Friday, April 16th, next year. According to court documents, the order was made by...

Young Guyanese creates board game to foster learning

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Young Guyanese creates board game to foster learning

– Education Ministry to buy quantity for schools Kaieteur News – Thirty-four-year-old Linden Cave of Goedverwagting, East Coast of Demerara has created a board game titled ‘Real # 1...

GTT warns as scammers target children

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTT warns as scammers target children

Kaieteur News – Officials at the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) are said to be incensed by a scam that targets the nations’ children to gather sensitive information. Moreover,...

Molly Hassan is new GuyOil Deputy GM

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Molly Hassan is new GuyOil Deputy GM

Kaieteur News – The Board of Directors, management and staffer of the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GuyOil) has a new Deputy General Manager. Her name is Molly Hassan. She was the former Chief...

Two accused plead guilty to manslaughter in Bath arson/murder

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two accused plead guilty to manslaughter in Bath arson/murder

Kaieteur News – Two men, who were part of a gang back in 2016 that caused terror by executing two brutal murders within days on the West Coast of Berbice, have pleaded guilty to the lesser...

Dr. Bob Ramnauth heads new MMA-ADA board

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Bob Ramnauth heads new MMA-ADA board

– Entity to open new lands, develop Phase Two of the scheme – land-use policy also to be developed On Tuesday, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, officially installed the Board of...

Kind-hearted businessman posts bail for accused

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kind-hearted businessman posts bail for accused

Murder of abusive brother in defence of sister-in-law… Kaieteur News – Lashena Morgow, the woman who allegedly killed her abusive brother last week in defence of her sister-in-law, is out...

Spotlight on challenges faced by Persons With Disabilities

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Spotlight on challenges faced by Persons With Disabilities

…As Int’l Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed All are at risk for COVID-19 and this has become abundantly clear to those within the blind society. Ganesh Singh, the Programme and...

The Guyana Police Force

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Guyana Police Force

Kaieteur News – Guyana needs a vibrant Police Force, to speak to commonsense. At the individual and community level, citizens, be they urbanites or villagers yearn for an institution that they...

GCB/Tropical Springs O-40 T20 cricket Balgobin & Ramcharran score fifties in penultimate round

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/Tropical Springs O-40 T20 cricket Balgobin & Ramcharran score fifties in penultimate round

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Half centuries from Manishwar Balgobin and Chabiraj Ramcharran highlighted the latest round of the GCB/Tropical Springs O-40 T20 cricket Tournament when the...

The Cassandra Crossing of Raphael Trotman

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Cassandra Crossing of Raphael Trotman

Kaieteur News – There was a popular movie worldwide when I was young. I remember going to the cinema after classes while I was a UG student to see it. A terrorist afflicted with a deadly,...

Fisherman Masters skipper Hassan credit team effort for win

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fisherman Masters skipper Hassan credit team effort for win

Kaieteur News – Fisherman Masters’ Skipper Hassan has lauded his players’ efforts for their win in the recently concluded Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc Prime Minister’s...

DPP reduces murder charge to manslaughter for cops accused of killing unarmed civilian

Dec 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DPP reduces murder charge to manslaughter for cops accused of killing unarmed civilian

Kaieteur News – The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has reduced a murder charge to manslaughter for two police ranks accused of killing an unarmed civilian. Cecil Sampat, 39, was among...

Some simple, basic advice on COVID-19

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some simple, basic advice on COVID-19

Dear editor Seeing photographs of two presidents and their spouses ostensibly without masks prompted my letter of December 01, 2020 essentially saying that leaders should lead by example. In one of...

Ali Administration is bent on returning the country to pre-2015

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ali Administration is bent on returning the country to pre-2015

Dear Editor, Something must be said for longevity in politics. In their book ‘We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill’ Celia Sandys and Jonathan Littman note that...

Guyana is a place filled with lunatics

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is a place filled with lunatics

Dear Editor, Any honest lookback would confirm that Guyana is a full-fledged lunatic world; definitely not a fringe element of local lunatics anymore. Take a look, and recognize them from the parade...

There needs to be established standards for government electrical work

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on There needs to be established standards for government electrical work

Dear Editor, With all the emphasis being placed on the elimination of sub- standard works done by contractors contracted by the Government, one would expect that technical specifications and...

US Republicans are behaving in the exact atrocious manner that APNU+AFC did

Dec 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on US Republicans are behaving in the exact atrocious manner that APNU+AFC did

Dear Editor, As a troubled world sits tensely on a slippery precipice awaiting the much prolonged and controversial acceptance of Donald Trump acceding to an electoral win in favor of Joe Biden, Iran...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more