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The long, long look back

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The long, long look back

Kaieteur News – Today begins a long look back at one of the worst years in both British Guiana and Guyana – 2020. There is an ocean of materials to be covered. I am not going to serialize my...

Wakenaam man committed to stand trial for attempted murder

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam man committed to stand trial for attempted murder

Kaieteur News – A Wakenaam man was on Wednesday committed to stand trial in the Suddie High Court for the attempted murder of 65-year-old Thakur Lokram of Sans Soucie, Wakenaam, Essequibo...

Captured Cuban remanded for brutal murders of girlfriend and her daughter, 11

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Captured Cuban remanded for brutal murders of girlfriend and her daughter, 11

Kaieteur News – Spending the new year behind bars, on remand, will be the Cuban national who reportedly confessed to brutally murdering his girlfriend and her young daughter. Yoel Rodríguez...

One fined, one granted bail, other still to be located

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on One fined, one granted bail, other still to be located

ERC takes legal action against defaulters… Kaieteur News – The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), has finally commenced taking legal action against persons who were found inciting racial...

Taxi driver on $300,000 bail for Durban Street dragging death

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver on $300,000 bail for Durban Street dragging death

Kaieteur News – Kester Lewis, a 29-year-old man who allegedly knocked down and killed an East Coast Demerara (ECD) man on Durban Street, was charged with manslaughter yesterday and placed on...

Detectives believe missing man’s body is buried in shallow grave

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Detectives believe missing man’s body is buried in shallow grave

Blood stains in Kuru Kururu home… Kaieteur News – As new details emerge, police believe that the missing man whose home was found with bloodstains, might be buried in a shallow grave at Kuru...

Government to give one-off $25,000 cash grant to public servants and sugar workers

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Government to give one-off $25,000 cash grant to public servants and sugar workers

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that all workers in the public sector including sugar workers currently employed at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), will receive...

A Grouchy Goodbye to the Year 2020

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A Grouchy Goodbye to the Year 2020

An Editorial Poem Goodbye to the year, 2020 Of anni horribilis, the worst. With trials and tribulations aplenty, We might as well pay tribute in verse. Goodnight to you, President Ali, Of...

RDC employee who accosted estranged wife in front of police station remanded

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on RDC employee who accosted estranged wife in front of police station remanded

– admitted to the National Psychiatric Hospital. Kaieteur News – The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Region 6 employee, who was on Tuesday arrested for threatening his reputed wife with...

Government extends COVID-19 measures to January 31

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Government extends COVID-19 measures to January 31

Kaieteur News – The government has extended the measures in the Official Gazette of COVID-19 measures. The guidelines under the gazette for the month of December were republished meaning that...

Oil and gas sector saw $125.8 billion tax exemption in 2019 – AG report

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and gas sector saw $125.8 billion tax exemption in 2019 – AG report

─ Billions in VAT refunds Kaieteur News – The oil and gas industry received tax exemptions totalling some $125.8 billion for the fiscal year 2019, Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, has revealed...

‘Yankee’ appeals 70 years jail sentence for murder of Parika fuel dealer

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Yankee’ appeals 70 years jail sentence for murder of Parika fuel dealer

Kaieteur News – An appeal has been filed on behalf of Kurt Thomas called ‘Yankee’ or ‘Deportee,’ to overturn the conviction and 70 years jail sentence he received for the April 2016...

KFC throws support behind GFF, K&S, MCYS Bounce Back Football

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on KFC throws support behind GFF, K&S, MCYS Bounce Back Football

Kaieteur News – Beharry’s Restaurant Holdings under its KFC franchise banner gifted an early New Year’s present yesterday to the tournament organizers, Guyana Football Federation, Kashif...

CGI name Squads for practice matches and Fitness Assessment

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on CGI name Squads for practice matches and Fitness Assessment

Kaieteur News – As the Guyana Jaguars prepare to compete in the 2021 CWI Regional Super 50 Tournament, CGI has named two squads to participate in three practice matches to be held at the LBI...

High Court puts temporary hold on year-end Police Service Commission promotions

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on High Court puts temporary hold on year-end Police Service Commission promotions

Kaieteur News – Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire yesterday granted an order which instructs that the current status quo in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) remain until the matter which...

GTT selected as telecommunications provider to Maraiko Bay Megaproject

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTT selected as telecommunications provider to Maraiko Bay Megaproject

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Telephone and Telecommunications Company (GTT) has been selected as the preferred telecoms provider to the billion dollar real estate, megaproject being built in...

Relatives need help locating Diamond woman with mental condition

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives need help locating Diamond woman with mental condition

Kaieteur News – Relatives of Maala Singh, a 36 year-old woman with a mental condition, need the assistance of the public finding her. Singh went missing from her Avenue ‘A’ Diamond, East...

Dominoes action set for Turning Point today

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dominoes action set for Turning Point today

Kaieteur News – Turning Point will be hosting a four-game six-sitting dominoes competition starting today at 14:00hrs. Entrance fee is $10,000 and teams are asked to be at the venue at least 30...

BCB invites clubs to register for 2021 Under-13 and Under-15 tournaments

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB invites clubs to register for 2021 Under-13 and Under-15 tournaments

– Clayton Lambert $1.5M gears project on tomorrow The Berbice Cricket Board has hit the road running as it strives to fulfill its promise to host thirty cricket tournaments in 2021 at all...

Archery Guyana certifies first batch of National Archery Judges

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archery Guyana certifies first batch of National Archery Judges

Kaieteur News – Archery Guyana congratulates the recent graduates of the Inaugural Online Archery Judges Seminar hosted by Archery Guyana in collaboration with World Archery (the International...

GFF/K&S/MCYS Bounce Back Football – Final

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/K&S/MCYS Bounce Back Football – Final

A grudge match of sorts between Linden and Georgetown to bring the curtains down tonight By Franklin Wilson Kaieteur News – Football returned to a competitive nature albeit for two days on...

A 2021 view in a 2020 rear view

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on A 2021 view in a 2020 rear view

Dear Editor, Wake up and smell the aromatic scent of a brand new year, 2021, the effervescence of the freshness of a new beginning, or, the hangover of a terrible stale-boozed old year, lingering...

An uncomplimentary picture

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on An uncomplimentary picture

Dear Editor, On the morning of December 29, 2020, I tuned in to the Voice of Guyana to listen to the 7am Guyana time news broadcast. Some minutes after 7am, I heard an interview featuring the...

Lewis errs, Freddie very anti-colonial

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lewis errs, Freddie very anti-colonial

Dear Editor, Lincoln Lewis’s attack on Freddie Kissoon (KN Dec 30) that Freddie is “contributing to the recolonization of Guyana” is absolutely absurd. Freddie is contributing to...

Keeping the sugar industry functioning

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Keeping the sugar industry functioning

Dear Editor, Those of us who have spent extended periods in the sugar industry, in some cases before it was nationalised in 1976, and at the highest managerial level, must, not for the first time,...