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PM issues second show-cause letter to Slowe

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on PM issues second show-cause letter to Slowe

– Accuses him of joining force with Opposition Kaieteur News – The Prime Minister (PM), Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips, on Tuesday, issued a notice to the Chairman of the Police...

Parliament requires media members to show COVID-19 vaccination card or negative test to cover sessions

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament requires media members to show COVID-19 vaccination card or negative test to cover sessions

Kaieteur News – According to a Press Release issued by the Parliament Office, members of the Media are required to produce proof of their COVID-19 vaccination card or a negative COVID-19 test...

NGSA students can write mock exams at home

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on NGSA students can write mock exams at home

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Education (MOE) has announced on Wednesday that students writing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) can do a mock examination at home. According to the...

Woman who said she buys and sells weed gets bail

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Woman who said she buys and sells weed gets bail

Kaieteur News – A woman who had reportedly told police that she bought weed in order to sell it, was granted $200,000 bail on Wednesday. Jenette Gravesande, a 40 year-old businesswoman of...

Businessman wins case against GRA over wrongful classification of Land Cruiser

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman wins case against GRA over wrongful classification of Land Cruiser

Kaieteur News – Businessman, Mohamed Shaw Jahan has successfully challenged the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) over their wrongful classification of his 2020 Toyota Land Cruiser. The Land...

Four additional deaths take Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll to 400

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Four additional deaths take Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll to 400

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has now reached its 400 benchmark. This was recorded yesterday after the Ministry of Health announced that four more persons who tested positive...

Inaugural GCB Under-19 One Day 50 Overs Franchise Tournament Postponed

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural GCB Under-19 One Day 50 Overs Franchise Tournament Postponed

Kaieteur News – The inaugural GCB Under-19 One Day 50 Overs Franchise Tournament has been postponed until further notice a release from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) informed. The postponement...

Holder and Stewart elated with historic performance

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Holder and Stewart elated with historic performance

By Calvin Chapman Kaieteur News – The two locally based sprinters in Noelex Holder and Akeem Stewart that won Guyana’s first men’s 4×100 relay bronze medal at the recently concluded...

Goalkeeper Coach Ian De Vieira assured his charges will help pull it off for Guyana

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Goalkeeper Coach Ian De Vieira assured his charges will help pull it off for Guyana

FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Qatar 2022… By Franklin Wilson in Antigua with the compliments of the GFF and Industrial Safety Supplies Inc. A football team comprises multiple players who take...

Guyana gets 500 cots in aid of flood relief efforts

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gets 500 cots in aid of flood relief efforts

Kaieteur News – The first of shipment of cots donated by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) to support flood relief efforts in Guyana, has been handed over to the...

Davo Memorial dominoes set for Sunday at Lil Hole bar

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Davo Memorial dominoes set for Sunday at Lil Hole bar

Kaieteur News – Providence Sports Club will be hosting the Davo Memorial dominoes competition on Sunday at Lil Hole bar, East Bank Demerara. Entrance fee is $12,000 and $50,000 will be added to...

Captain Briggs urges players to play and enjoy St. Kitts match today; Golden Jaguars aiming for win

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Captain Briggs urges players to play and enjoy St. Kitts match today; Golden Jaguars aiming for win

FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Qatar 2022… By Franklin Wilson in Antigua with the compliments of the GFF and Industrial Safety Supplies Inc. The battle lines would be drawn between Guyana and home...

Beharry supports Pomeroon youths with cricket gear

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beharry supports Pomeroon youths with cricket gear

Kaieteur News – Former Berbice cricketer Anil Beharry has thrown his support behind the youths of Pomeroon with a quantity of cricket gear. Beharry, an ex-Berbice Cricket Board president, made...

Mabaruma man stabbed in heat of argument

Jun 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Mabaruma man stabbed in heat of argument

Kaieteur News – A Mabaruma man was stabbed multiple times earlier this week after he and another man started arguing while drinking. According to a police report, the man, who is identified as...

Aleka Persaud aiming to qualify for Junior Pan Am Games in November

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Aleka Persaud aiming to qualify for Junior Pan Am Games in November

Kaieteur News – Former Carifta 11-12 age group champion, Guyanese Aleka Persaud, will aim to qualify for the upcoming Junior Pan Am games (swim meet) slated for November in Colombia. Persaud...

We have a long way to go

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have a long way to go

DEAR EDITOR, With the Covid-19 having the world in a somewhat lockdown, the education sector is being greatly affected. Even though many parents are not working full-time, and children are home most...

Cheer placard sign on oil renegotiation

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cheer placard sign on oil renegotiation

DEAR EDITOR, I thank the publisher of Kaieteur News, Mr. Glenn Lall for his avowed focus on renegotiation of the oil contract. I cheer his placard sign. Several writers lament the refusal of the...

Right of citizenship participation constitutionally enshrined

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Right of citizenship participation constitutionally enshrined

DEAR EDITOR, Within the next two months, the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Government would have completed one year in office and has yet to accommodate members of Civil Society in an...

Doubts about dismissals from GECOM

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Doubts about dismissals from GECOM

DEAR EDITOR, While motions for the dismissal of the famous GECOM trio have been tabled, it is doubtful any forward movement will happen any time soon. Why? As has seen happened during the long five...

Diaspora, Diaspora – Can We Hear You Now?

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Diaspora, Diaspora – Can We Hear You Now?

DEAR EDITOR, Hydar Ally’s June 2, 2021, letter, “Guyanese diaspora has an important role to play”, is noteworthy. Of course, my sense is that Mr. Ally would agree with a head nod – nothing...

Present in school system and cash grant eligibility

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Present in school system and cash grant eligibility

DEAR EDITOR, Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has reiterated the party’s manifesto promise that the “Because we care” cash grant would again be for the benefit of those Guyanese...

Country going in wrong direction

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Country going in wrong direction

DEAR EDITOR, I really do not like the direction the country is going. The only rainbow recently was that a democratically elected government has assumed office. I am an objective person and so I...

The women representation system has evidently collapsed or never worked

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The women representation system has evidently collapsed or never worked

DEAR EDITOR, The appearance in the letter column of SN June 2 and KN June 3 of another gender-rights petition, signed by several advocates, prompts the question: do Guyanese women have the power and...

Degradation of the presidency

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Degradation of the presidency

DEAR EDITOR, I examine the last half-century and the state from then to now of the highest office in this land, and how I see it through the years. It is of that instrumentality that, when wielded...

Rainforest Pancakes

Jun 04, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Rainforest Pancakes

Kaieteur News – Earlier this week, a furor erupted online after a city café, praised for its innovative use of traditional Guyanese foods in the preparation of primarily foreign-themed meals,...