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GTT’s parent company may seek compensation for any loss of exclusive rights over market

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GTT’s parent company may seek compensation for any loss of exclusive rights over market

Kaieteur News – Even though the PPP/C Administration broke the back of its monopoly over the telecommunications market, Atlantic Tele-Networks Inc. (ATN), the US-based parent company of the...

Protesting Linden nurses to receive salary cut

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Protesting Linden nurses to receive salary cut

– GPSU to take legal action against Ministry of Health Kaieteur News – In a missive dated April 9th 2021, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Malcolm Watkins, officially...

CANU rank caught on camera assaulting Lethem businessman with rifle

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CANU rank caught on camera assaulting Lethem businessman with rifle

– Unit says ranks need more training when dealing with ‘civilian agitation’ Kaieteur News – A rank attached to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) was yesterday caught on camera...

Vaccines alone will not stop current COVID-19 surge – PAHO Director warns

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Vaccines alone will not stop current COVID-19 surge – PAHO Director warns

Kaieteur News – Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, is urging countries to employ a “comprehensive strategy” of not only immunisation, but also public...

US$150M-upgraded CJIA has to be ‘redone’

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on US$150M-upgraded CJIA has to be ‘redone’

… four-lane road network to reach E/bo & Berbice—VP Jagdeo Former Guyanese Head of State now Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, this past week briefly outlined his vision for the country as...

Gerry Gouveia to head prisons sentence management board

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gerry Gouveia to head prisons sentence management board

…as Cabinet approves senior Home Affairs roles Leading private sector businessman, Captain Gerald Gouveia, has been named to head the Guyana Prison Service Sentence Management Board, while engineer...

Bus driver charged for killing pensioner in Avenue of the Republic accident

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver charged for killing pensioner in Avenue of the Republic accident

Kaieteur News – A 30-year-old bus driver was yesterday placed on $300,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving. The defendant, Leon Kyle of Lamaha Street, Kitty,...

Over 300 benefit from TIP awareness outreach in Region 6

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Over 300 benefit from TIP awareness outreach in Region 6

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Human Services, in a release yesterday, stated that it had conducted a series of structural awareness sessions, in the form of walkabouts, in Region 6, over a...

OSH Dept. investigating allegations of poor handling of COVID-19 infections at AGM

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on OSH Dept. investigating allegations of poor handling of COVID-19 infections at AGM

Kaieteur News – The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department of the Ministry of Labour is currently investigating allegations that COVID-19 infections at the Aurora Gold Mines (AGM)...

Craig man confesses to 2015 killings, attempted murders

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Craig man confesses to 2015 killings, attempted murders

Kaieteur News – Orpheus Johnson, a former resident of Craig East Bank Demerara has confessed to killing two people and wounding two others. According to the first indictment presented to...

Trial to commence on May 11

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Trial to commence on May 11

Pharmaceutical supplier charged for providing expired HIV Testing Kits… Kaieteur News – The trial for the executive of a pharmaceutical supplies company, who was charged for providing...

Local investors looking to undertake massive corn and soya bean cultivation project

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local investors looking to undertake massive corn and soya bean cultivation project

– Govt’ to explore Public/Private/Partnership Kaieteur News – Six local companies have joined together to undertake a massive project that could see Guyana on the path to becoming...

One arrested as police hunt wounded workmate

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on One arrested as police hunt wounded workmate

…Murder of youth found floating in creek Kaieteur News – It could be that the youth whose remains were found last week Thursday floating in the Arakaka River, Region One, was murdered by...

Government between a rock and a hard place!

Apr 16, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Government between a rock and a hard place!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – People complaining about roads in dem area. Some of dem thing dem calling road look more like mud track. Dem asking de government to fix dem road. But why dem...

Mass testing and vaccination now more critical than ever!

Apr 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Mass testing and vaccination now more critical than ever!

Kaieteur News – When last did Guyana have a flu outbreak? At least not in the past year! It was reported in the media yesterday that some residents of Aishalton, South Rupununi, came down with...

What are truths? We may never know but here are some

Apr 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What are truths? We may never know but here are some

Kaieteur News – Truth no. 1 – Gregory Smith concealed an explosive mechanism in a walkie-talkie and it exploded and killed Walter Rodney in the car with his brother, Donald, who almost...

Biden so far

Apr 16, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Biden so far

Kaieteur News – Even with COVID-19 and its globally disruptive presence still growing, despite the introduction of multiple vaccines, in one important aspect so far, the world seems to have...

Guyana committed to support St. Vincent as the country recovers

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana committed to support St. Vincent as the country recovers

Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana is committed to fully assisting the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines not only in this immediate period but also in the medium and long term as...

Lethem’s main access bridge opened for vehicles up to 30 tons

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem’s main access bridge opened for vehicles up to 30 tons

Kaieteur News – Days after a section of Lethem’s main access bridge collapsed under the weight of a heavily loaded truck, the bridge has since been opened for vehicles of up to 30 tons to...

Body of Wazim Ramjattan exhumed

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Body of Wazim Ramjattan exhumed

Kaieteur News – The body of Wazim Ramjattan, who was mistakenly buried by the wrong family on April 4, was exhumed yesterday for identification. Kaieteur News would have reported that, on...

Health Ministry says there is no shortage of vaccines

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry says there is no shortage of vaccines

– as persons 18 and over eligible for vaccination from today Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday expanded the age group of persons eligible to receive COVID-19...

CXC adjusts CSEC exams after St. Vincent Volcano and surge in COVID-19 cases

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CXC adjusts CSEC exams after St. Vincent Volcano and surge in COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in a statement issued yesterday announced a few changes for its 2021 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, in...

Car flips several times on Nigg Public Road, driver injured

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Car flips several times on Nigg Public Road, driver injured

Kaieteur News – The driver of a car owned by Nand Persaud & Company is nursing injuries about his body after he lost control of the vehicle on the Nigg Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice....

Agri. Minister discusses proposed action for challenges in Guyana’s agriculture sector during LAC Roundtable

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Agri. Minister discusses proposed action for challenges in Guyana’s agriculture sector during LAC Roundtable

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, Agriculture Ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean, and senior officials from the World Bank participated in a virtual roundtable to discuss re-imagining...

Claims of race discrimination must be supported by evidence – President Ali

Apr 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Claims of race discrimination must be supported by evidence – President Ali

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali has said that any claims of racial discrimination leveled against his administration must be supported by evidence. The Head of State was at the time...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more