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Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, others slapped with $19M fraud charge

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, others slapped with $19M fraud charge

Kaieteur News – Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kevin Adonis, and three other members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday made their first court appearance after they were...

Guyana faces new COVID-19 wave

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana faces new COVID-19 wave

– Country passes 10,000 cases. – Brazil is a disaster in your backyard. – March one of Guyana’s deadliest months, sees highest daily avg. for new cases. By Kemol King Kaieteur...

Roger Khan was the intended target in Main street execution – sources

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Roger Khan was the intended target in Main street execution – sources

Kaieteur News – The bullets that riddled the body of popular gold dealer, Ricardo Fagundes better known as “Paper Shorts,” may not have been intended for him, but rather his close...

Int’l lawyer challenges VP Jagdeo to show evidence that gas-to-shore project will work

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l lawyer challenges VP Jagdeo to show evidence that gas-to-shore project will work

By Shikema Dey Kaieteur News – The Irfaan Ali led administration is steadfast in its plan to land a multibillion dollar pipeline at Wales, West Bank Demerara, for the proposed gas-to-shore...

Girl, 12 allegedly raped by father

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Girl, 12 allegedly raped by father

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) last Thursday announced the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl by her father, who is still to be apprehended. The release stated that the incident...

Toddler killed, mom injured after tree falls on them

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Toddler killed, mom injured after tree falls on them

Kaieteur News – A toddler was last Thursday killed after a tree fell on him and his mother at Cashew Landing, Tasserene Backdam, Middle Mazaruni River, Region Seven. The dead child has been...

Schoolchild stabbed five times during robbery

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolchild stabbed five times during robbery

Kaieteur News – An Annandale Secondary School student was on Thursday afternoon stabbed at least five times, while being robbed by a group of perpetrators, moments after leaving school....

Suriname to put up more oil blocks for public auction

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname to put up more oil blocks for public auction

Kaieteur News – Governments around the world make big money when they award oil and gas contracts by open, competitive bidding processes. They also ensure that when such a process is upheld...

Nuff mad people de outside de asylum

Mar 27, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Nuff mad people de outside de asylum

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Lang time dem used to gat some strange characters on de streets of Georgetown. Some of dem had names and others bin get names from de public. Dem boys...

GREED OR NEED?

Mar 27, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GREED OR NEED?

Kaieteur News – Greed is groovy. But does this make it right or best for all concerned? And is this what the people want. Today’s column examines these issues. Since the capitalist system is...

I have never seen such nonsense in a column before

Mar 27, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I have never seen such nonsense in a column before

Kaieteur News – I walk the streets of Guyana, shop at the stores, restaurants and food outlets, buy gasoline, exercise on the seawalls and the National Park and walk my dog everywhere in...

Outraging public decency

Mar 27, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Outraging public decency

Kaieteur News – The unbelievable occurred down there in Australia, as was carried by an article in the Insider on March 12 that was titled, “Porsche driver filmed and taunted 4 police...

Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding hospitalised

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding hospitalised

Kaieteur News – Jamaica Gleaner — Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has been hospitalised. In a statement, his daughter Sherene Golding Campbell said the former Prime Minister was this...

Occupational Safety and Health Month to be observed in April

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Occupational Safety and Health Month to be observed in April

Kaieteur News – Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Month will be observed in April this year, which will see the Ministry of Labour rolling out several programmes countrywide to boost safety...

CELAC endorses CARICOM’s call for Global Vaccine Summit

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CELAC endorses CARICOM’s call for Global Vaccine Summit

Kaieteur News – The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is supporting the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) call for a global summit on equitable access and distribution of...

81-year-old pensioner found dead in North Sophia home

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 81-year-old pensioner found dead in North Sophia home

Kaieteur News – The body of an 81-year-old pensioner, Budhan Singh, was discovered on Thursday, March 25, 2021, at his Block ‘R’ North Sophia, Georgetown, home. Investigations revealed that...

Two injured in separate accidents on Saffon Street

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Two injured in separate accidents on Saffon Street

Kaieteur News – A homeless man is now hospitalised and a 22-year-old man was left injured after they were both struck down by separate vehicles moments apart on Saffon Street, La Penitence,...

Minister Persaud to engage Cabinet on death of Berbice mom and child

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Persaud to engage Cabinet on death of Berbice mom and child

– says there must be a “thorough and unbiased” probe Kaieteur News – As the family of Vanessa Lewis and her baby of Williamsburgh,Corentyne, Berbice continue to seek answers...

Motorcycle bandits rob Guy-Bisco employee of $1.4M

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcycle bandits rob Guy-Bisco employee of $1.4M

Kaieteur News – An employee of Guy-Bisco Importation Limited was allegedly robbed of $1.4M cash, while conducting business on Thursday March 25, 2021, on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. According...

Guyana to receive 224,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines next week

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to receive 224,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines next week

Kaieteur News – President, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali has revealed that 224,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines are slated to arrive in Guyana by next Tuesday. The Department of Public Information...

Minister Benn urges escaped prisoners to surrender

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Benn urges escaped prisoners to surrender

Kaieteur News – During the last few months there have been a number of breakouts from the various prisons in the country, which recently ended with two Mazaruni prison escapees being killed...

Agri. Ministry to spend $3M on corn, soya bean cultivation in Moco Moco

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Agri. Ministry to spend $3M on corn, soya bean cultivation in Moco Moco

Kaieteur News – Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha recently announced that his Ministry will be expending $3 million in 2021 to commence the cultivation of corn and soya bean in Moco Moco...

APNU+AFC says Patterson ‘fit & proper’ to scrutinize how it spent $230B in 2016

Mar 27, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC says Patterson ‘fit & proper’ to scrutinize how it spent $230B in 2016

…says ‘tainted’ Irfaan Ali had chaired Accountability Committee with no objection Kaieteur News – Scrutiny of the spending undertaken by the coalition A Partnership for National...

Young Matthew Nandu lands Adidas endorsement through Cricket Zone USA

Mar 27, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Matthew Nandu lands Adidas endorsement through Cricket Zone USA

Emerging Guyanese batsman Matthew Rohan Nandu has become the latest Brand Ambassador of Cricket Zone USA, landing a two-year endorsement deal with global sport brand Adidas. Cricket Zone USA, North...

NY Tri State U-15 Coach disappointed with bad weather

Mar 27, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on NY Tri State U-15 Coach disappointed with bad weather

By Sean Devers When the New York Tri State U-15 team from the USA arrived here on Thursday afternoon to begin their 11-game tour to Guyana they were greeted by sweltering heat and bright sunshine....