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Two years to the day…Former SWAT Boss fired

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two years to the day…Former SWAT Boss fired

Just one year ago on December 30, 2017, police ranks intercepted then SWAT Unit Commander, Motie Dookie, during a routine stop and search operation at Whim Village, Corentyne, Berbice. Motie was at...

GDF PROMOTES 818

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GDF PROMOTES 818

A total of 818 officers and ranks of the Guyana Defence Force have been promoted with effect from today. Of this total, 25 of the officers are from the regular Force while 10 are reserve officers....

Four elevated to Senior Counsel

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four elevated to Senior Counsel

Having considered their high quality of service in the legal profession, and with confidence in their knowledge of the law, His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative...

Mudslinging dominates major parties press conferences

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mudslinging dominates major parties press conferences

The major parties, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), have held many press conferences throughout the past year. Valuable time from these...

Guyana hires UK firm to evaluate Payara field development plans

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana hires UK firm to evaluate Payara field development plans

The Department of Energy has announced the hiring of a firm from the United Kingdom to review and evaluate the Payara field development plans. The company has been identified as Bayphase Geologists,...

10,000 acres lands at MMA-ADA…I did not benefit from any Duty Free Concessions – Chairman

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 10,000 acres lands at MMA-ADA…I did not benefit from any Duty Free Concessions – Chairman

Chairman of the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA/ADA), Kelvin Saul, has said that he has not benefitted from any duty free or other tax concessions. Saul was responding...

Oil and debt

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Oil and debt

Carl Greenidge should know something about debt. After all, he did admit in his Christmas Day letter in the Stabroek News that both Guyana and Nicaragua were among the most chronically indebted...

DEVELOPMENT is CONSTANT everywhere which comes at a COST

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DEVELOPMENT is CONSTANT everywhere which comes at a COST

When your leaders are asleep at the wheel however, then that cost can become a burden to the nation and its people Take a look at this example: ExxonMobil is building its headquarters and uses the...

Dharm Shala oldest resident dies

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dharm Shala oldest resident dies

The Dharm Shala’s oldest resident, Iris Agatha La Fleur, passed away yesterday, peacefully in her sleep. She was 100 years old. Iris, a cancer survivor, was accepted into the Dharm Shala by its...

DPP gave advice in 3,725 law enforcement cases for 2019

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DPP gave advice in 3,725 law enforcement cases for 2019

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has wrapped up the year by giving legal advice in 3,725 cases sent by law enforcement agencies. Legal advice is given by the DPP to the Guyana...

Kaieteur – a media empire making a positive impact

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur – a media empire making a positive impact

While the past year was filled with many challenges, there were many outstanding achievements that Kaieteur News gained. Among the most outstanding achievements was the 25th anniversary celebration...

Vendor, hairdresser jailed for trafficking cocaine at airport

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Vendor, hairdresser jailed for trafficking cocaine at airport

– Magistrate sends strong message so children won’t be tempted Mother of five, Christy Griffith, of 38 Norton Street, Georgetown, yesterday showed no remorse after being found guilty of a...

Govt. Minister sues Central Bank over failure to probe suspected money laundering

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. Minister sues Central Bank over failure to probe suspected money laundering

By Feona Morrison In a $90M lawsuit filed at the Victoria Law Courts in Georgetown, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan is accusing the Bank of Guyana of failing to probe the unauthorised deposit...

A Happy Decade of Development

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on A Happy Decade of Development

By President David Granger Guyanese! Happy New Year! I greet you at the start of 2020–a most auspicious year in our nation’s history. The year 2020 is an exciting time to be alive and to be...

What will the selectors come up with’?

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on What will the selectors come up with’?

Asks Sean Devers In March last year Guyana’s Captain Leon Johnson won his country’s fifth successive titles (2015-2019); one more than Tamar Lambert’ four and equalled Jamaica’s five-year run...

Police atrocities on the last day of 2019

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Police atrocities on the last day of 2019

The political bosses and the Police Commissioner will read this and they will not act and the police will continue in their old ways. Young people who are harassed by the police will migrate and the...

UDFA Christmas Football final for $700,000

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on UDFA Christmas Football final for $700,000

Tonight giant killers Coomacka seek first title as Topp XX attempts sixth …Botafago and H & L Winners battle for third place The drama ends tonight (New Year’s) to start a new year, but...

NEW YEAR’S DAY MESSAGES

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NEW YEAR’S DAY MESSAGES

Happy 2020 to all of Guyana from all of us at Kaieteur News!! Best wishes for the New Year are also extended to you from other individuals and organisations: PEOPLE’S NATIONAL CONGRESS REFORM...

Trophy Stall maintains seven-year support of UDFA football

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall maintains seven-year support of UDFA football

The proprietor of the Trophy Stall, Ramesh Sunich, presented the first place trophy to Mr. Terrence Mitchell, the President of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) for the association’s...

East Berbice man gets 20 years for raping child

Jan 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on East Berbice man gets 20 years for raping child

An East Coast Berbice man who was on trial for raping a child under 16 years old, was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in jail. The child was eight years old. The man, Jairam Ramgoolam, 44, of...

PKFF Annual 5-a-side floodlight football on tonight

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on PKFF Annual 5-a-side floodlight football on tonight

The much anticipated Port Kaituma Football Foundation (PKFF) 5-a-side floodlight football competition will be held at Fitzburg Recreational Ground, tonight. The annual event will see defending...

KMTC express gratitude to sponsors and fans

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on KMTC express gratitude to sponsors and fans

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) has expressed gratitude to its sponsors and fans following the successful staging of their Boxing Day meet which was held at Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice....

Hinds Financial Services hands over UDFA first prize, $200,000 Galaxy Note 9 for MVP

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hinds Financial Services hands over UDFA first prize, $200,000 Galaxy Note 9 for MVP

Yesterday as promised Nigel Hinds made good his promise to donate the first prize $700,000 which will be at stake for the Upper Demerara Football Association’s year end football championship,...

Hammie Green Birthday Inter-Ward football final set for January 5 at Leonora facility

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hammie Green Birthday Inter-Ward football final set for January 5 at Leonora facility

The final of the 9-a-side Inter-Ward Football Competition to commemorate the 85th Birth Anniversary of former Prime Minister and City Mayor Hamilton Green is set to conclude on Sunday January 5 at...

GFF Super 16 Cup Champs to be crowned tonight at GFC

Jan 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super 16 Cup Champs to be crowned tonight at GFC

Fruta Conquerors and the Guyana Defence Force to collide; Santos and Police play for third The 2019/2020 champions of the Guyana Football Federation Super 16 Cup would be crowned tonight, that team...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more