May 2021

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Brian Ramphal /BCB Mother-of-the-Year 2021 Award…Bibi Farida Shaw honored as Mother-of-the-Year

May 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brian Ramphal /BCB Mother-of-the-Year 2021 Award…Bibi Farida Shaw honored as Mother-of-the-Year

– Foster stresses the importance of parents in the development of youth cricketers Kaieteur News – The Berbice Cricket Board on Friday last honored Ms Bibi Farida Shaw of No 72 Village,...

Arrival Day Softball Cup postponed due to inclement weather

May 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Arrival Day Softball Cup postponed due to inclement weather

Kaieteur News – The organisers have postponed the K and P Pharmacy and Diagnostic Centre Arrival Day softball cup due to inclement weather. The tournament which was scheduled to be held on May...

Politicians pulling numbers out of hats to make promises seem believable – Lincoln Lewis

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Politicians pulling numbers out of hats to make promises seem believable – Lincoln Lewis

Kaieteur News – When it comes to the implementation of Government projects or plans to develop the Guyanese society, politicians seem to be “pulling numbers out of a hat” to make their...

No one will be forced to take a COVID-19 vaccine – Health Ministry advisor reinforces

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on No one will be forced to take a COVID-19 vaccine – Health Ministry advisor reinforces

Kaieteur News – Following reports circulating in the media claiming that the Government is currently considering mandatory vaccination for all adults due to continued breaches of the gazetted...

Two men are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Two men are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that two persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. Their deaths now bring Guyanas COVID-19...

Minister Rodrigues outlines 21 projects for GWI

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Rodrigues outlines 21 projects for GWI

Kaieteur News – Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues, has outlined 21 Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) projects that she embarked on since taking office last...

Man who robbed sleeping gold miner in hotel room released on $300,000 bail

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man who robbed sleeping gold miner in hotel room released on $300,000 bail

Kaieteur News – One of the suspects who was arrested by police for stealing from a gold miner while he was sleeping in his hotel room was on Friday released on $300,000 bail after he was...

City Mayor says lack of funds hampering municipality work

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on City Mayor says lack of funds hampering municipality work

Kaieteur News – In light of recent criticism regarding the lack of work that is being done by the Georgetown municipality, City Mayor, Ubraj Narine, has come forward to clear the air as he...

GREED OR NEED?

May 10, 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...

19 new programmes added to Govt.’s scholarship initiative

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 19 new programmes added to Govt.’s scholarship initiative

Kaieteur News – Some 19 programmes have been added to the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) scholarship programme and will be offered by the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open...

Money changer and daughter murder PI…Magistrate to rule on submissions this week

May 10, 2021 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Money changer and daughter murder PI…Magistrate to rule on submissions this week

Kaieteur News – Magistrate, Alisha George, is expected to rule on May 13, 2021 on the submissions for the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of a money changer and his daughter. According...

Congratulations to Sir Hilary Beckles

May 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to Sir Hilary Beckles

Dear Editor, Despite pervasive comments of covert, threatening actions from a traitorous Darth Vader, on Friday April 30, 2021, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Hilary...

Pensioner to face charge for ganja trafficking

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner to face charge for ganja trafficking

Kaieteur News – A 65-year-old man will appear in court soon to be charged for allegedly trafficking marijuana. The elderly man was busted on Saturday at his Middle Walk, Buxton home located on...

Companies engaging in shadow operations gravitate towards countries like Guyana

May 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Companies engaging in shadow operations gravitate towards countries like Guyana

Dear Editor, While the nation seems to be consumed by which individual is more racist than the other is, or the never-ending bitterness of slavery, or indentured labour; people from the outside are...

$166.5M contract signed for expansion of Northwest Secondary School

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $166.5M contract signed for expansion of Northwest Secondary School

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Education on Friday last signed a contract valued $166.5 million (US $832,883.96) for the expansion of the Northwest Secondary School in Region One...

This is what an “objective, honest” take on race relations looks like

May 10, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on This is what an “objective, honest” take on race relations looks like

Kaieteur News – APNU/WPA politician, Tacuma Ogunseye, published a letter on race relations in the Stabroek News of Friday, May 7, titled, “Guyanese are not ready for objective and civil...

GRA should conduct a study to determine factors, which influenced increased tax returns in 2021

May 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on GRA should conduct a study to determine factors, which influenced increased tax returns in 2021

Dear Editor, It is with much interest that I read Mr. Godfrey Statias letter in the Stabroek News on 8 May 2021, titled, Astounding number of tax returns filed both manually and electronically. In...

Will the free press stand its ground in light of this assault by a former President?

May 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Will the free press stand its ground in light of this assault by a former President?

Dear Editor, I am reminded constantly of the saying of Nelson Mandela that, “a free press is a pillar of a democratic society.” Then I am also reminded of Barack Obama’s saying before he left...

Labourer beaten by man after argument

May 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer beaten by man after argument

Kaieteur News – A Labourer was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital last evening after he was found lying in a pool of blood by his neighbour. According to a police report, 50-year-old...

I support the GOAL scholarship programme

May 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I support the GOAL scholarship programme

Dear Editor Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, noted that “Investment in education is the surest path to personal upliftment.” He made this emphatic pronouncement a few days ago, when he “… urged...

Indians did not have an automatic right to practice their culture under indenture ship

May 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Indians did not have an automatic right to practice their culture under indenture ship

Dear Editor, Hamilton Green in his S.N. May 9th letter seems to be rambling of someone who on one hand demands that his kith and kin be given their rightful respect and at the same time sought to put...

Leadership arrogance – the prices

May 10, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Leadership arrogance – the prices

Kaieteur News – Arrogance, an overwhelming pride, makes men trip over their feet and fall with their noses flush into the sewers of discredit and disrepute. The arrogance of unhearing leaders...

Wake Up Guyana!

May 09, 2021 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Wake Up Guyana!

Kaieteur News – Would you allow a man to come in your house and blatantly rob you and your family? No way! Well, that is what ExxonMobil and oil companies are doing to every one of us when it...

Guyana’s royalty is for oil sold but Exxon recovers costs on everything produced

May 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s royalty is for oil sold but Exxon recovers costs on everything produced

Kaieteur News – Much has been said about the quantum of the Royalty that is received for crude being produced from the Stabroek Block, with stakeholders promulgating that the Production...

World standing at the edge of the cliff with climate change

May 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on World standing at the edge of the cliff with climate change

– We can no longer afford big fossil fuel projects anywhere – UN Secretary General By Kiana Wilburg When it comes to climate change, the world is standing at the edge of the abyss. In...

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Brathwaite fifty, Claxton three-for seal series win for West Indies

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(Cricinfo) – Jahzara Claxton’s three-for, followed by Eboni Brathwaite’s rapid half-century, sealed a dominant eight-wicket win for West Indies in Harare, which gave them an...

An accusation is not a conviction

Oct 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is something ominous about a rape allegation. The word itself can become a verdict long before it reaches a courtroom. The letter “R” is sometimes enough to transform suspicion into certainty. It can turn an accusation into guilt; it can overnight cast a human being...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Ministers Persaud, Nandlall

Oct 06, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – One’s from the priestly caste. The other claims warrior caste status. Both are commended for high-mindedness. Both Hon Minister of Women’s Safety, Dr. Vindya Persaud, and Hon Minister of Justice, SC Anil Nandlall have programmes that they placed in the public space. ...

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