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Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Management mantra #1: “People are more important than shops, ships & sugar estates”
DEAR EDITOR, I joined the management team of Bookers Sugar Estates Ltd when this management mantra was originated by Sir Jock Campbell (later Lord Campbell of Eskan) as head of the Booker Group of...Jan 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on December 20, 2019 – the end of a long road in the search for oil
DEAR EDITOR, In the wee hours of December 20, 2019, it was announced that ExxonMobil had started to produce oil. “First oil” was the shout all around. This date ended a 62-year search for the...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PRO says… GECOM has no legal obligation to verify candidates’ eligibility
Pull quote: “The onus is on the politicians themselves to ensure that they are honest on the statutory declaration form…as it stands GECOM has no legal obligation to verify the information.”...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Every Guyanese should be given a share in a National Oil Company – Robert Badal
Recently formed political party, Change Guyana’s Presidential Candidate, Robert Badal, is of the view that every Guyanese citizen should be assigned shares in a state-owned National Oil Company...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another MMA/ADA chairman benefits from thousands of acres of state lands
The first post-2015 elections chairman of the Mahaica-Mahaicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA), Dr. Kenneth Sealey, also benefitted from state lands. According to documents of the...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner, 81, dies after struck down on pedestrian crossing
The life of an 81-year-old woman was yesterday morning snuffed out after a car struck her down while she was on a pedestrian crossing. The incident which took place opposite the Post Office in Nigg...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Major offshore oil find in Suriname
PARAMARIBO, Suriname – CMC – The US-based Apache Corporation (AC) and the France-based Total S.A yesterday announced they had made a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s declines to testify against CJIA deputy CEO
– Sexual assault case dismissed Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Andre Kellman, yesterday walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on January 17 is final day for parties to coalesce
Political parties have until January 17, 2020, to coalesce if they so intend. During a Nomination Day Press Briefing jointly hosted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and Guyana Press...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner killed after boat crashes into tree – friend hospitalised
By Shikema Dey A 25-year-old miner was killed just after midnight on Tuesday in the Pomeroon River after the boat he was travelling in crashed into a tree. A friend who was with him is hospitalised....Jan 08, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on City Hall is de best place fuh Nomination Day
Friday is when all dem political parties, new and old, will signify dem intention to contest de elections. Of course, dem boys seh is every time elections come around some [political parties does...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man nabbed with unlicensed firearm at party
A 25-year old construction worker of Area B, Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara was nabbed Monday night with an unlicensed firearm at a party in Prince William Street, Plaisance. Police said that...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic charged for stealing employer’s equipment
A 33-year-old mechanic was yesterday hauled before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, after he was charged for stealing equipment from the mining camp at which he was once employed. The defendant, Ruanda...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Iran attacks U.S. forces in Iraq in retaliation for killing of commander
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran said it launched a missile attack on U.S.-led forces in Iraq in the early hours today in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolboy beaten for not allowing peers to write on his uniform
A third form student of Campbellville Secondary School is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was allegedly beaten by several of his peers for not allowing them to write on his...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo man accused of fatally stabbing wife to stand trial
A 50-year-old chainsaw operator who is accused of stabbing his wife to death was yesterday committed to stand trial before a judge and jury at the next practicable sitting of the Essequibo Assizes....Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Girl, 12, dies after choking in hammock at friend’s home
The police in Number 1 sub-division in Region Six have launched an investigation in connection with the sudden death of a 12-year-old Vryman’s Erven Secondary School Student from Rotterdam, East...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lombard St. families to receive support upon relocation
– CH&PA to collaborate with other agencies to provide help Twenty (20) Broad and Lombard Street squatting area families will receive additional support from the Central Housing and Planning...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Clerk committed to stand trial for rape of girl, 10
A 43-year-old clerk was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the 2014 rape of a 10-year-old girl. The accused, Jomo McDonald of Republic Drive, Triumph, East Coast Demerara, was...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding bus driver threatens to put out passenger
A passenger who rebuked a driver for going beyond the speed limit was hastily asked to exit a minibus yesterday around 12:26pm, on Camp Street, Georgetown. The route 44 minibus, BXX 9516, was...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Unauthorised persons continue to occupy regional houses
The issue of unauthorised occupants living in government-owned buildings in Region Four, and not paying rent has been highlighted in the Auditor General’s most recent report. The Auditor General...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice beach hotel double-murder… Five persons released from custody
The five persons who were arrested by police last week for questioning have since been released from custody after investigators found no credible evidence to keep them detained. The men were...Jan 08, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Umana Yana is new venue for Nomination Day proceedings
The Umana Yana in Kingston is the new venue for Nomination Day proceedings. Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s PRO Yolanda Ward confirmed yesterday that the day’s activities were moved from...Jan 08, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Who gave the orders to sign the contract?
We live in a strange country. One man denied a link between debt and oil. Peeping Tom demolished the denial and yet the man rebutted that Peeping Tom had vindicated his position. Guyana has to repay...Nov 07, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The field will be a packed one on Sunday November 29, at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse race meet shoots off. More than 100 horses have thrown their names...Nov 07, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – Who says the government does not listen? That is an unfair accusation. The government does listen. In fact, it listens very attentively. The only problem is that it appears to have a rather selective hearing. It can hear a whisper from certain quarters of the private sector...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...Nov 07, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance is among the first bailing from a sinking ship. The Iran War led to the ashes of defeat in the midterms. President Trump suddenly sheds his crazy man persona. Now talks of working with Democrats. From America I wing to Guyana, and Vice...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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