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Relinquishment provision in 2016 Stabroek Block deal reckless and irresponsible – Ram

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Relinquishment provision in 2016 Stabroek Block deal reckless and irresponsible – Ram

Kaieteur News – Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram is of the firm conviction that the arrangement for relinquishment in the 2016 Stabroek Block Production Sharing...

Almost $500M worth of computers procured for OLPT project were damaged – PAC hears

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Almost $500M worth of computers procured for OLPT project were damaged – PAC hears

Kaieteur News – Almost $500M worth of the laptops procured for teachers under the One Laptop Per Teacher (OLPT) Project, which was implemented under the David Granger-led A Partnership For...

Govt. now begging oil companies to hire sugar workers

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. now begging oil companies to hire sugar workers

Kaieteur News – The government has been pleading with oil and gas companies to hire workers who have been laid off by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). At least this was what the Minister...

Govt. ready to spend $600M more to rehabilitate CJIA

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. ready to spend $600M more to rehabilitate CJIA

Kaieteur News – With over US$160 million already spent on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s (CJIA) expansion project, the government is prepared to spend even more money to facilitate...

Man arrested for allegedly raping three boys at knifepoint

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man arrested for allegedly raping three boys at knifepoint

Kaieteur News – Police are investigating the alleged rape of three teenagers, ages 15, 17 (brothers) and 16 from Corentyne, Region Six. The man, whom the allegations were levelled against, was...

Police chase causes hijacker to crash stolen car

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police chase causes hijacker to crash stolen car

Kaieteur News – A 32-year-old man is now in police custody after he crashed a stolen car into a bridge, which is still being constructed, during a police chase at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara...

Guyana receives $2.5 billion in royalties at third quarter – Report

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana receives $2.5 billion in royalties at third quarter – Report

Kaieteur News – For the third quarter of 2021, inflows into the Natural Resource Fund amounted to $19.5B (US$91.92 million) comprising of profit oil totalling $16.6B (US$79.62 million) and...

Suspected bandit killed by cops

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected bandit killed by cops

Kaieteur News – A 34-year-old man was killed yesterday morning during a shootout with ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) at Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The dead man has been identified...

GAWU field officer arrested for assaulting Rose Hall Mayor

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU field officer arrested for assaulting Rose Hall Mayor

Kaieteur News – The Mayor of Rose Hall Town has once again caught himself in another incident hot on the heels of a previous one in which a man threatened to kill him. Mayor Dave Bhudu was this...

Fish gone overseas

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Fish gone overseas

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De price of fish increase. Whether yuh buying it in de morning, at midday or at midnight, yuh paying more. Dem fishermen seh how dem fish tun like migrants;...

Guyana is being run like a cake shop

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana is being run like a cake shop

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, an image appeared on social media of the President and the Vice President attending what was described as a virtual 22nd Special Meeting of Heads of Government of the...

Mo fyaah, slo fyaah: Volda Lawrence kills Macbeth’s witches

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mo fyaah, slo fyaah: Volda Lawrence kills Macbeth’s witches

Kaieteur News – “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” Those were some of the words of the witches in Macbeth as they prepared their fiery brew for Macbeth to...

Guyana’s EPA is its biggest white elephant

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyana’s EPA is its biggest white elephant

Kaieteur News – What is the purpose of today’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Guyana? Whose interests come first for this politically paralysed, comatose state entity? What comfort...

Westminster Secondary school poised to deliver well-rounded students – Education Minister

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Westminster Secondary school poised to deliver well-rounded students – Education Minister

Kaieteur News – In keeping with its mandate to achieve universal secondary education, the state-of-the-art Westminster Secondary School was constructed in Region Three and yesterday marked the...

SOPs, SORs disclosed, trial to commence in December

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on SOPs, SORs disclosed, trial to commence in December

Elections fraud cases… Kaieteur News – A canter load of Statements of Polls (SOPs) and Statements of Recount (SORs) were yesterday disclosed to seven persons charged with electoral fraud. The...

Prosecution given time to gather evidence in matter involving Fire Chief

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution given time to gather evidence in matter involving Fire Chief

Kaieteur News – The prosecution was yesterday granted time to gather all statements in the case involving Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo, who was previously placed on $10,000 bail for a private...

2 unvaccinated persons are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 2 unvaccinated persons are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

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

Pedestrian critical after being struck down by drunk driver

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Pedestrian critical after being struck down by drunk driver

Kaieteur News – A 53-year-old pedestrian is critical after he was reportedly struck down by a drunken minibus driver along the New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD) Public Road...

Men robbed by bicycle bandit while having lunch

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Men robbed by bicycle bandit while having lunch

Kaieteur News – A 64-year-old man was on Sunday last, robbed and beaten while on a bench having lunch with his colleagues at the Lusignan Centre Ground, East Coast Demerara (ECD). Kaieteur News...

Jonathan van Lange gains wildcard spot for Junior Panam

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jonathan van Lange gains wildcard spot for Junior Panam

Yesterday, the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) announced that national Starlet, Jonathan van Lange has qualified for the inaugural Junior Pan American Games, scheduled for November 25 to...

‘Green Machine’ scores $1.2M NSC support for RAN 7’s

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Green Machine’ scores $1.2M NSC support for RAN 7’s

The Green Machine, yesterday scored a $1.2M touchdown, receiving much needed support from the National Sports Commission (NSC) as they get-set to depart Guyana on Thursday for Providenciales, Turks...

Guyanese marine experts complete ground-breaking wildlife survey

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese marine experts complete ground-breaking wildlife survey

– Ocean expedition captures rarely seen species Kaieteur News – An all-Guyanese research team recently completed the first extensive expedition and survey of Guyana’s marine area. The...

GFF Promotes former national player Bryan Joseph to Assistant Technical Director

Oct 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GFF Promotes former national player Bryan Joseph to Assistant Technical Director

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has promoted former Golden Jaguar and Youth Development Officer Bryan Joseph to the newly-created position of Assistant Technical Director, as it accelerates its...

Georgetown FA appoints former National player Colin Nelson as YDO

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown FA appoints former National player Colin Nelson as YDO

By Franklin Wilson Former junior and senior National Footballer Colin ‘Callo’ Nelson has been appointed as the Youth Development Officer of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA). This was...

Excellent weekend for Dorado swimmers

Oct 12, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Excellent weekend for Dorado swimmers

Dorado Speed Swim Club (DSSC) swimmers Raekwon Noel and Vladimir Woodroffe both participated in meets last weekend. It was their first competition since February 2020. Woodroffe participated in...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more