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GuyOil workers to receive disputed salary increase

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GuyOil workers to receive disputed salary increase

Kaieteur News – Workers of the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GuyOil) will be receiving their long-disputed salary increases in the second quarter of 2021, according to the President of the...

Govt. to introduce self-testing for HIV

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to introduce self-testing for HIV

Launch of new strategic plan… Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has announced a plan for Guyanese to self-test for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes the...

Police on the hunt for suspect

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police on the hunt for suspect

Clothes vendor’s New Year’s Day murder… Kaieteur News – Police have issued a wanted bulletin for a man who they believed might have killed Paul Anthony Smith, a clothes vendor, on New...

Student in UG bomb threat matter walks free

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Student in UG bomb threat matter walks free

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, almost two years after she was charged for a bomb threat at the University of Guyana (UG), 26-year-old Sheneza Diane Jaffarally of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara...

David dominoes set for Sunday at Bagotstown

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on David dominoes set for Sunday at Bagotstown

Kaieteur News – Shawn David will be hosting his birth anniversary dominoes competition on Sunday at Lil Hole bar, Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara. Entrance fee is $12,000, while $30,000 will be...

Shepherd test positive for COVID-19 Says he has no symptoms

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shepherd test positive for COVID-19 Says he has no symptoms

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – For 26-year-old Guyana and West Indies fast bowling all-rounder Romario Shepherd it came as shock when he was tested positive for the corona virus and was ruled...

Over 29,000 devices verified by GNBS in 2020

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Over 29,000 devices verified by GNBS in 2020

Kaieteur News – Despite being faced with COVID-19 related challenges, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), the national measurement institute, was able to verify a total of 29,675...

RHTYSC completes another successful year despite Covid-19 pandemic

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC completes another successful year despite Covid-19 pandemic

– Surpasses target of 700 activities Kaieteur News – While the Covid-19 pandemic forced the majority of youth and sports organisations to close up their doors, the Rose Hall Town Youth...

Very Quiet 2020 for hockey

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Very Quiet 2020 for hockey

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) national women programme is due to resume shortly with training as the ladies, managed by head coach Philip Fernandes, prepare for a busy 2021...

Line Top, Bachelor’s XI triumph at Success Games

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Line Top, Bachelor’s XI triumph at Success Games

Kaieteur News – Over a three days period, outstanding performances coupled with sportsmanship, harmony and respect were the order of the day. The results from the games have left some wounds,...

Bogus – there will be more

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Bogus – there will be more

Kaieteur News – It is a case of: ‘here we go again.’ And even as we say, no more of this nonsense, we know to our regret that there will be others – vulnerable victims, who can least...

I never thought that matters would come to this point in the United States of America

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I never thought that matters would come to this point in the United States of America

Dear Editor, I never, ever, thought that matters would come to this point in the United States of America. Here is a situation where the Vice President of the United States has to be hidden away. And...

The roads in Providence Phase Three are bad and residents are suffering

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The roads in Providence Phase Three are bad and residents are suffering

Dear Editor, Please grant me a space in your newspaper to bring to the relevant authority the plight and daily suffering the residence of Providence Phase Three is enduring. For the past two years,...

With regard to elections, the Black race and Black leaders have nothing to be ashamed of

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on With regard to elections, the Black race and Black leaders have nothing to be ashamed of

Dear Editor, Permit the right to respond to Freddie Kissoon’s “Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit” (KN 5th January 2020). Valuable, but necessary, time is being taken to deal with the...

Elections are over and the time has come for us to avoid “cussing” each other

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Elections are over and the time has come for us to avoid “cussing” each other

Dear Editor, My wife and I had the opportunity to usher in the new year in the serene environment of our home; thanks to the coronavirus. It afforded us the opportunity to reflect upon the political...

An open letter to the Governor of the Bank of Guyana

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to the Governor of the Bank of Guyana

Kaieteur News – As head of the regulatory body for the Act governing the operations of Financial Institutions, I hereby ask of you the Governor of the Bank of Guyana to recommend to the Finance...

Marjoleine Kars’s “Blood on the River” contains some problematic aspects

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Marjoleine Kars’s “Blood on the River” contains some problematic aspects

Dear Editor, As a trained historian and anthropologist, I was unnerved when reading Marjoleine Kars’s “Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast” last year. This...

Jagdeo laments liberal tax regime in Stabroek agreement but makes no commitment to fix it

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo laments liberal tax regime in Stabroek agreement but makes no commitment to fix it

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, is in agreement with criticisms of the tax regime of the Stabroek block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) granted to ExxonMobil, Hess and...

Guyana begged for USD$61M in COVID aid

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana begged for USD$61M in COVID aid

– but gave away USD$600M in taxes to oil companies in 2019 Kaieteur News – When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, Guyana, like many other third world countries, were forced to seek...

FBI assisting police in solving West Berbice teen murders

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on FBI assisting police in solving West Berbice teen murders

Kaieteur News – Assisting the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in its efforts to solve the gruesome triple murders of the Berbice teens is the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI is a...

Woman, 59, killed by police vehicle on pedestrian crossing

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Woman, 59, killed by police vehicle on pedestrian crossing

– during three-lane EBD traffic system Kaieteur News – A 59-year-old woman was yesterday morning struck down and killed as she was heading to work by a Guyana Police Force (GPF) vehicle....

Bartica woman and children burnt alive… Suspect for court today

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica woman and children burnt alive… Suspect for court today

Kaieteur News – The man accused of burning his wife and daughters to death on December 12, 2020, at Four Miles Squatting Area, Potaro Road, Bartica, is scheduled to appear in the Bartica...

Man who gets ‘buss head’ by cop, robbed Venezuelan moments before

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man who gets ‘buss head’ by cop, robbed Venezuelan moments before

Kaieteur News – The man who was seen in a video having an altercation with a police officer that resulted in him receiving a ‘burst head’, allegedly robbed a Venezuelan national moments...

Four more officers join court action over unfair police promotions

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Four more officers join court action over unfair police promotions

Kaieteur News – Four more officers have joined the court action over the unfair practices used in the promotion of senior ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF). Deputy Superintendent of...

Concerns raised over construction of chemical warehouse at Friendship

Jan 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Concerns raised over construction of chemical warehouse at Friendship

Kaieteur News – The fact that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not requiring an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) be conducted for the proposed construction and operation of a...