April 2021

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AGM denies allegations of poor handling of COVID-19 cases

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on AGM denies allegations of poor handling of COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Zijin Mining Group, which operates the Aurora Gold Mine (AGM) located in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), has denied allegations that COVID-19 infections recorded at the site...

Minister Manickchand commissions country’s eight smart classroom at President’s College

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Manickchand commissions country’s eight smart classroom at President’s College

Kaieteur News – Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand recently commissioned the first smart classroom in District Four on Thursday at President’s College, making it the eighth facility to...

Banks DIH makes generous donation to St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH makes generous donation to St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Kaieteur News – Banks DIH Limited announced on Wednesday that it has joined national efforts to contribute critical relief items for citizens affected by the eruption of the La Soufriere...

GLDA’s Veterinary Services Lab receives GNBS certification

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GLDA’s Veterinary Services Lab receives GNBS certification

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) today received its official certification from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), bringing it one step closer to...

Minister Parag urges Guyanese to take advantage of 20,000 scholarships initiative

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Parag urges Guyanese to take advantage of 20,000 scholarships initiative

Kaieteur News – Minister of Public Service, Sonia Parag is encouraging Guyanese to take advantage of the 20,000 scholarships being offered through the Ministry of Public Service. Minister...

CORRECTION

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CORRECTION

Kaieteur News – On Thursday, Kaieteur News carried an article with the headline, “Nandlall, Jagdeo contradict each other on gas-to-shore studies…one says to be done, the other says it’s a...

Govt. fails in bid to remove Patterson as PAC Chair

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. fails in bid to remove Patterson as PAC Chair

Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has failed in its bid to remove Alliance for Change (AFC) General Secretary, David Patterson, as Chairperson of the Public...

Guyana lose first two matches in FIBA 2023 pre-qualifiers

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana lose first two matches in FIBA 2023 pre-qualifiers

Kaieteur News – Stanton Rose and his men had two tough opening matches of the FIBA 2023 World Cup Concecaba pre-qualifiers in which they lost to Nicaragua and Jamaica, respectively, in...

Turkeyen Sports Club and Bannas Foundation to hold football competition tomorrow

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turkeyen Sports Club and Bannas Foundation to hold football competition tomorrow

Kaieteur News – The Turkeyen Sports Club and Bannas Foundation will stage a 3-a-side football competition tomorrow at Vryheid’s Lust Tarmac starting at 2:00pm. The event is for Under-16...

Guyana complains to UN over access to COVID vaccines at affordable costs

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana complains to UN over access to COVID vaccines at affordable costs

Kaieteur News – Guyana on Thursday lodged a complaint with the United Nations (UN) over the hurdles being faced by developing countries—itself included—in accessing COVID-19 vaccines at an...

Sugar workers down tools over stalled wage talks

Apr 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers down tools over stalled wage talks

Kaieteur News – Sugar workers attached to the Uitvlugt Estate, West Coast Demerara (WBD), yesterday downed tools to stage a picketing exercise, calling on the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc....

Places open for ECB on GCB including Selection Panel – VP Foster

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Places open for ECB on GCB including Selection Panel – VP Foster

Preaches unity & inclusion to take Guyana’s forward By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Although most the executives of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) have openly supported the previous...

‘Geography & lack of sponsorship biggest challenges for E’bo cricket’ – ECB secretary

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Geography & lack of sponsorship biggest challenges for E’bo cricket’ – ECB secretary

Support return of four-day Snr Inter-County Cricket Tourney By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – With the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) President Faizul Bacchus unavailable due to ill health, its...

GCB/Dave Narine to launch Dave’s West Indian Imports & Exports Educational Trust Fund

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/Dave Narine to launch Dave’s West Indian Imports & Exports Educational Trust Fund

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) will, on Friday April 23, 2021, launch the Dave Narine Educational Trust fund for fifteen (15) young cricketers across Guyana. Under this...

Domestic-based Golden Jaguars to resume training today

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Domestic-based Golden Jaguars to resume training today

Kaieteur News – The domestic-based Guyana Senior Men’s National Squad will restart training sessions at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Training Centre today, in preparation for...

Barakat Brothers’ Cricket wishes GCB success

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barakat Brothers’ Cricket wishes GCB success

Kaieteur News – The Barakat Brothers Cricket takes this opportunity to congratulate the newly elected members of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB). The West Demerara based cricket organization was...

Launching of “LITTLE GURU” – A Sanskrit learning App

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Launching of “LITTLE GURU” – A Sanskrit learning App

DEAR EDITOR, H.E. Dr. K. J. Srinivasa, High Commissioner of India to Guyana yesterday formally launched ‘LITTLE GURU’, a specialised app for learning Sanskrit, in Guyana, Antigua &...

Guyanese will benefit from a host of advantages from these scholarships

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese will benefit from a host of advantages from these scholarships

DEAR EDITOR, When we examine how the pandemic has changed our country, one of the things that stand out is the fact that our education systems have become more technologically inclined. While this...

Banned goods made funeral rites difficult

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Banned goods made funeral rites difficult

DEAR EDITOR, As I have been performing rituals for the soul of my deceased mother, I reflect to the period of banned goods that were required for Hindu funerals and rites of other religions. The...

Swami justified in exposing inequity on Religious Vaccination Sites

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Swami justified in exposing inequity on Religious Vaccination Sites

DEAR EDITOR, Swami Aksharnand has justifiable reason(s) to question the selection and use of the West Coast Masjid (April 7) as a site for COVID vaccinations if equitable consideration was not given...

Opposition Leader must stop the political grandstanding

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Opposition Leader must stop the political grandstanding

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana’s Opposition Leader, Mr. Joseph Harmon, is still contending that Mr. Irfaan Ali is not the legitimate President of Guyana and will not recognise his status as Head of State. In...

An impressive Minister

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on An impressive Minister

DEAR EDITOR, From the time she took office, Hon. Dr. Vindhya Persaud, Minister of Human Services and Social Security has impressed and has been impressive. Her congenial and affable manner, down...

Local content occurring beyond the border

Apr 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Local content occurring beyond the border

DEAR EDITOR, Trinidad is snapping up prized oil business like a bear catching salmon in spawning season. Our CARICOM neighbour stands at the right place, with the assets in hand, and haul in the...

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...

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Government backs FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Pre-Qualifier as Kashif and...

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Kaieteur Sports – The Government of Guyana has thrown its full support behind the hosting of the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Pre-Qualifier tournament, with Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles...

Guyana’s costly misnomer

Jun 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – What is a bank? At its core, a bank intermediates between savers and borrowers. It takes deposits from the public—households, businesses, pension funds—and lends those funds out, subject to market discipline and prudential regulation. A bank that does not take deposits is...

Language is Infrastructure – Why Antigua and Barbuda’s...

Jun 07, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, led by Prime Minister Gaston Browne, to make...

Fun, frolic, filth

Jun 09, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Plenty has been said about flag-raising. So as not to lower my own standards the less said the better. Never been a man to join the pile-on. Low people do that sort of thing. Regarding the U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, the now venerated Excellency...

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