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Local businesses being neglected; foreign companies given preference in oil sector – Business Chamber complains

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local businesses being neglected; foreign companies given preference in oil sector – Business Chamber complains

Kaieteur News – Local content, at its core, involves companies utilising as much as possible, indigenous goods and services for their operations as well as the transfer of skills, knowledge and...

Woman who paid to have father killed gets death sentence along with hitman

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Woman who paid to have father killed gets death sentence along with hitman

Kaieteur News – Fifty-five-year-old Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean was yesterday handed a death sentence for paying to have her father killed. The hitman, Linden Lewis called “Bullets” also...

Chinese company gets school contract despite bidding higher than local contractors

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese company gets school contract despite bidding higher than local contractors

Kaieteur News – Despite bidding higher than local contractors, a Chinese company, Shandong Degian International, was still awarded a contract to build the St. Rose’s High School located on...

Elderly man found dead in Linden apartment

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly man found dead in Linden apartment

Kaieteur News – A 71-year-old man was found dead in his Linden apartment on Thursday around 11:30hrs by his neighbours. According to police, Dennis Harold Dey of Lot 207, Wisrock Housing...

Govt. targets 30,000+ homes for solar power through IDB, India loans

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. targets 30,000+ homes for solar power through IDB, India loans

Kaieteur News – The Government is looking to provide solar powered electricity to more than 30,000 hinterland homes through loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the...

Body of second victim in boat mishap found

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Body of second victim in boat mishap found

Kaieteur News – The remains of the second victim, a pensioner 68, who had drowned in Wednesday’s boat mishap floated yesterday not too far away from where the first victim was found....

Pitbull without teeth

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Pitbull without teeth

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem minibus does behave as if dem own de road. Dem does fly pass yuh as if dem is ambulance, pull out from de corna without signalling, run red light as if...

A SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Kaieteur News – About 10 years ago, a decision was taken to establish a National School of Music. Such a school is needed to foster the development of the finer arts. This, when coupled with...

The PPP/PNC song and bell have been sung out and rung out

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP/PNC song and bell have been sung out and rung out

Kaieteur News – There is an entity named Overseas Friends of the WPA (OFWPA). It is headed by former Secretary to the Anglican Diocese under Bishop George’s leadership in the 1970s. His name...

Guyana’s oil and gas – a runaway bus on steroid

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyana’s oil and gas – a runaway bus on steroid

Kaieteur News – Most places blessed with commercial quantities of oil ended up cursed. It’s as if the curses are to compensate for the generosity of providence, nature, and circumstances....

Driver beaten, robbed by bandits in Goed Fortuin

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Driver beaten, robbed by bandits in Goed Fortuin

Kaieteur News – A 42-year-old man was last evening beaten and robbed by two bandits at Goed Fortuin Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara (WBD). At 19:45hrs, the victim was driving a car in the...

New Request for Proposals to be advertised for Guyana/Suriname bridge

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on New Request for Proposals to be advertised for Guyana/Suriname bridge

Kaieteur News – Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill said there has been a change in the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the construction of the Corentyne River Bridge linking Guyana...

Ruling on DPP’s appeal of Magistrate’s decision in former GECOM employee case deferred to October 13

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Ruling on DPP’s appeal of Magistrate’s decision in former GECOM employee case deferred to October 13

Kaieteur News – A ruling on the appeal by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, into the decision of Senior Magistrate Leron Daly’s to have former Deputy Chief...

Port Mourant woman remanded for fraudulent misappropriation

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Port Mourant woman remanded for fraudulent misappropriation

Kaieteur News – A thirty-one-year-old Port Mourant woman was on Thursday remanded to prison after facing two counts of fraudulent misappropriation in court. The defendant, Savitri Pertabnarine,...

COVID-19 claims lives of six more persons

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 claims lives of six more persons

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, the Ministry of Health reported that six more persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this, Guyana’s...

More than 11,000 adolescents fully vaccinated against COVID-19

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on More than 11,000 adolescents fully vaccinated against COVID-19

Kaieteur News – More than 11,000 children between the ages 12 to 17 have been fully vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19), Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, MP, has revealed. Since...

Over 900 Guyanese admitted to Indian University through GOAL Initiative

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Over 900 Guyanese admitted to Indian University through GOAL Initiative

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University (IGNOU) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) as 922 Guyanese have been...

Corentyne man released on bail for beating brother to death

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man released on bail for beating brother to death

Kaieteur News – Deodat Dhurup, the man who had beaten his brother to death was on Thursday granted bail in the sum of $250,000 at the Springlands Magistrate Court. The resident of No.72...

Sports Ministry to host inaugural Sports Conference today

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sports Ministry to host inaugural Sports Conference today

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport will host its Inaugural Guyana Sports Conference today at the National Cultural Centre from 08:30hrs. A release from the MCY&S...

ExxonMobil & YBG to develop basketball at the community level

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on ExxonMobil & YBG to develop basketball at the community level

Kaieteur News – The Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Academy is a “Community Partnership” which seeks to provide an alternative in the interim for core student-athletes ages 13 – 19...

Message from President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Agriculture Month 2021

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Message from President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Agriculture Month 2021

Kaieteur News – The designation of October as Agriculture Month is in recognition of the importance of the sector’s contributions to the country’s economy, and its critical role in...

U-12 Development ITF COTECC team Tournament Guyana lose to Bermuda to finish fourth

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on U-12 Development ITF COTECC team Tournament Guyana lose to Bermuda to finish fourth

Kaieteur News – Guyana finished fourth among nine teams in U-12 development ITF COTECC Team tournament which concluded yesterday in the Dominican Republic with the usual presentation ceremony...

Corentyne businessman beaten, robbed by armed bandits

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne businessman beaten, robbed by armed bandits

Kaieteur News – Police are investigating an alleged robbery under arms, committed on a 60-year-old businessman of Belvedere Village, Corentyne, Berbice. Reports are that an identifiable male...

Petra Organization saddened on tragic loss of Joshua Denny

Oct 02, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Petra Organization saddened on tragic loss of Joshua Denny

Kaieteur News – “The Petra Organisation has been saddened by the untimely and vicious death of Mr. Joshua Denny, who on Thursday 30th of September 2021, at approximately 06:00 hrs.while on...

Suriname oil: Keskesi South-1 well turns up unsuccessful

Oct 02, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname oil: Keskesi South-1 well turns up unsuccessful

Kaieteur News – APA Corporation recently announced that the Keskesi South -1, an oil well drilled approximately 6.2 kilometres from the discovery well Keskesi East-1 on Block 58, has...

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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

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…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more