April 2021

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Sarwan talks about his new role as National Selector

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarwan talks about his new role as National Selector

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – At the age of 40, former Guyana and West Indies Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan is now a successful businessman, a husband and father and was Monday official named as...

congratulate the Foreign Secretary for continuing the charade

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on congratulate the Foreign Secretary for continuing the charade

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the article titled, “Excluding Diaspora from long term oil plans is a mistake – Foreign Secretary” (KN April 13). The Hon. Foreign Secretary harboured such thoughts,...

Is it mandatory to wear face mask while driving alone?

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is it mandatory to wear face mask while driving alone?

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me to share a personal event with your readers. On the 13th day of April in the year 2021, I was stopped in what was a road block by the Guyana Police Force in Mahaicony. The...

Black leaders need to emphasise capitalism

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Black leaders need to emphasise capitalism

DEAR EDITOR, Dr. Walter Rodney [Guyanese Marxist] in his book – How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by imperialism would have been amazed how Black Leaders and many Blacks intellects in Africa and...

The PPP & PNC ignoring each other will not wish away their corresponding existence

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP & PNC ignoring each other will not wish away their corresponding existence

DEAR EDITOR, The PPP and the PNC present strategy seems to suggest that if they concentrate hard enough on ignoring each other, then magically one of them would cease to exist. This is wishful...

Time to regularise and regulate transportation in Guyana

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time to regularise and regulate transportation in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Have you ever tried getting a bus only to have bus operators tugging and pulling at you (while cursing each other and quarrelling and fighting over you) to force you into this bus or the...

Consistent attempts to derail the progress of the ruling administration

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Consistent attempts to derail the progress of the ruling administration

DEAR EDITOR, It is of no surprise that the APNU+AFC and their affiliates would consistently try to derail the progress of the PPP/C Government by peddling misinformation and blatant lies. After all,...

I have never heard of this before

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have never heard of this before

DEAR EDITOR, I have never heard such confounded nonsense before. Where a man is shot for having air fresheners dangling from his rearview mirror. Daunte Wright was not only shot, but he was also shot...

Proposed national COVID-19 mitigation plan

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proposed national COVID-19 mitigation plan

DEAR EDITOR, The Citizenship Initiative’s leadership has noticed the alarming rise in COVID-19 infections and deaths attributed to the emergence of several strains of the virus characterized by...

Government doing its part, people must rush to be vaccinated

Apr 14, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government doing its part, people must rush to be vaccinated

DEAR EDITOR, I find it quite alarming that every day an average of almost 100 new people get infected with the coronavirus, and the number of deaths keep climbing. What will it take for our Guyanese...

Guyanese must not be cooks and servants for Oil Industry

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese must not be cooks and servants for Oil Industry

…build national capacity to demand ‘high-end’ jobs from ExxonMobil—Prof. Terrence Blackman “…that’s the way in which I would like to see us approach the local content, not to be...

Construction of $857M Good Hope Secondary plagued with “challenges”

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Construction of $857M Good Hope Secondary plagued with “challenges”

15 months later… – contractor to complete project by August Kaieteur News – Fifteen months after it should have been completed, the construction of the $857M Good Hope Secondary...

Deputy Commander, ASP charged for falsifying meals payment

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Deputy Commander, ASP charged for falsifying meals payment

Kaieteur News – A Deputy Commander and an Assistant Superintendent of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were yesterday charged for falsifying over $1million in meals payment for riot ranks. Deputy...

Bel Air Park woman wanted by police for operating Ponzi Scheme

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bel Air Park woman wanted by police for operating Ponzi Scheme

Kaieteur News – A Bel Air Park woman is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the operation of a Ponzi scheme and collecting monies. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday issued...

Redouble mask wearing efforts – Emergency Medicine Specialist urges

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Redouble mask wearing efforts – Emergency Medicine Specialist urges

– as fears of more infectious COVID variants surface Kaieteur News – Instead of subsiding, it would seem that COVID-19 has not only been increasing but steadily mutating, with scientists,...

COVID-19 law breakers crawl out of bushes as police tow away their vehicles

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 law breakers crawl out of bushes as police tow away their vehicles

Kaieteur News – Seven COVID-19 law breakers, who had attended a private party in Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Sunday, were forced to crawl out of bushes in which they were hiding...

Equal pay for equal work for locals and foreigners – Labour Minister insists

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Equal pay for equal work for locals and foreigners – Labour Minister insists

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Labour is currently in the process of updating its human resources and other capacities, in order to deal with issues related to the influx of Venezuelans,...

De big sale!

Apr 13, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De big sale!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De Opposition Leader nominate persons fuh de Local Government Commission, according to de news. But is de President who got to make de nomination. So we want...

The dilemma of treating the mentally ill who are also destitute

Apr 13, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The dilemma of treating the mentally ill who are also destitute

Kaieteur News – There are a great number of suspected mentally ill persons walking around the streets of the country. There are a great many others who are not mentally ill but simply destitute...

David Granger and Volda Lawrence: Comparative notes

Apr 13, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on David Granger and Volda Lawrence: Comparative notes

Kaieteur News – I received several inquiries about my column of Friday, April 2, 2021 titled, “PNC will have to rig its own election to stop Volda Lawrence.” Some folks asked if I do not...

Cash is King

Apr 13, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Cash is King

Kaieteur News – The government’s COVID-19 cash relief provision of $25,000 per family has meant a lot to many families that were faced with numerous hardships during the pandemic that is...

Eight commissioners sworn in to have oversight of Local Govt. Organs

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Eight commissioners sworn in to have oversight of Local Govt. Organs

New LGC board takes effect… Kaieteur News – Eight persons were sworn in by President Irfaan Ali yesterday to function on the Local Government Commission (LGC); the body charged with oversight...

Ramadan fast to begin tomorrow

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Ramadan fast to begin tomorrow

Kaieteur News – The Central Islamic Organisation (CIOG) has advised that the Crescent for Ramadan has not been sighted and therefore the fasting will begin tomorrow, Wednesday April 14, 2021....

Man remanded for touching policewoman’s breast

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for touching policewoman’s breast

Kaieteur News – A man was last Friday remanded to prison for allegedly touching a policewoman’s breast. The defendant, Jason Yanis, of Lot 31 Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, had...

Mason’s wrist severed during row at Annandale

Apr 13, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Mason’s wrist severed during row at Annandale

Kaieteur News – A 26-year-old mason of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara, was on Saturday hospitalised with a severed left wrist after an argument he had with another man turned violent. According...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, – The two-day racing extravaganza that kicks off an action-packed month of motorsport starts today at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Thomaslands venue...

Punctuality is now a problem in Georgetown Schools

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

Jun 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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