August 2021

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Police called in after drunken brawl erupts at bar

Aug 18, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police called in after drunken brawl erupts at bar

Kaieteur News – Police were called in on Monday after a drunken brawl erupted at the Chill Out Bar located at Harlem, West Coast Demerara. According to a police report, the brawl erupted among...

Energy Chamber inks MoUs with Texas-based Engineering University

Aug 18, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Chamber inks MoUs with Texas-based Engineering University

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Oil & Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC) took full advantage of the opportunities to collaborate with international companies at the ongoing Offshore Technology...

Four women are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

Aug 18, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Four women are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, the Ministry of Health reported that four women, who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this, the country’s COVID-19...

GMC signs contracts to modernise packaging and processing facilities

Aug 18, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GMC signs contracts to modernise packaging and processing facilities

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) recently signed three contracts for the modernisation of facilities that deals with food processing and packaging. The contracts were...

Fitness Express maintains support for Carlos ‘The Showstopper’ Petterson-Griffith

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express maintains support for Carlos ‘The Showstopper’ Petterson-Griffith

Kaieteur News – Manager of Fitness Express, located at John and Sheriff Streets, Campbellville has maintained his company’s support of Guyana’s leading powerlifter, Carlos...

Team Guyana arrive ahead of tomorrow’s start, 12 nations to compete

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Team Guyana arrive ahead of tomorrow’s start, 12 nations to compete

18th IPF/NAPF/Pan American Regional Powerlifting C/ships By Franklin Wilson in Orlando, Florida compliments of Pele Alumni, Fitness Express and the Trophy Stall Kaieteur News – President of the...

26 players selected for West Indies Rising Stars U19s High Performance Camp

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on 26 players selected for West Indies Rising Stars U19s High Performance Camp

Kaieteur News – ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced the 26-member squad to continue preparations for the West Indies Rising Stars U19s tour of England next month....

ECB saddened at the passing of Coach Michael ‘Franco’ Hyles

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB saddened at the passing of Coach Michael ‘Franco’ Hyles

Kaieteur News – The Essequibo Cricket Board is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Coach Michael ‘Franco’ Hyles and wishes to extend condolences to his family, colleagues and...

Partial training for Boys team to Jnr Pan Am C/Ships

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Partial training for Boys team to Jnr Pan Am C/Ships

Inaugural Jnr Games in Colombia set from Nov 26 – Dec 5 By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – It’s been close to two years since a Squash tournament has been organised by the Guyana Squash...

Overseas based Guyanese Bodo slams 169 in OSCL competition

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Overseas based Guyanese Bodo slams 169 in OSCL competition

Kaieteur News – Canada-based Guyanese Ravi Bodo struck an aggressive 169 to guide Leguan Warriors to a resounding 114-run win against Miss Pheobe Cricket Club (MPCC) on Saturday last in the...

Please explain

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please explain

Dear Editor, On Monday, the President made some announcements, (1) about old age pension, (2) about public assistance, and (3) about 75 kWh free electricity payable to GPL. I would like to know if...

Congratulations to the Government/GOAL Awardees – plan needed

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to the Government/GOAL Awardees – plan needed

Dear Editor, Lists of awardees were published in a 20-page supplement of the dailies. The ‘scholarship’ awards have been made to the following Universities: 1) International University of Applied...

Issues of concern, which need urgent action

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Issues of concern, which need urgent action

Dear Editor, The following areas of life are in need of urgent attention from the Government. In brief, here they are. The crime situation in Guyana, of recent I observe that petty and other serious...

Hakeem Jeffries repeated the lies peddled to him by APNU+AFC

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hakeem Jeffries repeated the lies peddled to him by APNU+AFC

Dear Editor, I ask that you kindly allow me space in your column to talk about a few things, which I observed over the weekend in relation to the APNU+AFC’s anti-PPP protest and rally in Brooklyn,...

I have parted ways with the PNC/R

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have parted ways with the PNC/R

Dear Editor, I would like to announce that I tendered my resignation as a member of the People’s National Congress/Reform on May 22, 2021. In fact, since 2019, I became an inactive member and...

PPP/C building on Coalition foundation, but still coming up short

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP/C building on Coalition foundation, but still coming up short

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space in your letter column to publish my missive. Last week the People’s Progressive Party/Civic celebrated its first year in office, the government has, over the...

Proposed Public Servants Reconciliation Fund

Aug 18, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proposed Public Servants Reconciliation Fund

Dear Editor, I would like to enquire from President, Irfaan Ali, about what are his plans to provide alternative employment for those hundreds of public servants, whose services were terminated from...

Exxon decides when and how much oil money Guyana gets

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon decides when and how much oil money Guyana gets

…Country in need of corrective action plan – Sanzillo Kaieteur News – The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that was signed in 2016 between the Guyana Government and Esso...

Govt. pumps $356M more into cash-strapped GuySuCo

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. pumps $356M more into cash-strapped GuySuCo

– Contracts inked for other Agri. Ministry projects Kaieteur News – Several Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) agencies yesterday signed off on a total of $474M in contracts. The majority of...

E-Networks gets greenlight to land fibre optic cable from Suriname

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on E-Networks gets greenlight to land fibre optic cable from Suriname

Kaieteur News – Local telecommunications and internet service provider, E-Networks Inc. has been given the greenlight to land and install a fibre optic cable from Suriname to Guyana. This is in...

President Ali announces new $2.6B relief measures for citizens – To target most vulnerable in society

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on President Ali announces new $2.6B relief measures for citizens – To target most vulnerable in society

Kaieteur News – With the severe economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the aim of giving further support to citizens, President Irfaan Ali on Monday night announced an additional...

High-level Surinamese team set to arrive today

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on High-level Surinamese team set to arrive today

– Oil and gas, infrastructure, agriculture areas of focus Kaieteur News – As a high-level delegation headed by Surinamese President, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, is set to arrive in Guyana...

Guyana finally puts locals to monitor oil production

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana finally puts locals to monitor oil production

Kaieteur News – Guyana as a nation is finally putting locals in place to monitor oil production from the Liza Destiny, Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Stabroek...

Man uses sister to trap alleged fraudster

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man uses sister to trap alleged fraudster

Kaieteur News – An alleged fraudster found herself before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday facing two charges, after one of her victims used his sister to trap her. Charged by...

Mechanic crashes motorcycle, dies while evading police

Aug 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic crashes motorcycle, dies while evading police

Kaieteur News – A 20-year-old mechanic died yesterday, hours after he crashed the 150 CC G8 motorcycle, which he was riding along a road in La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD). At...

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– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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