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VP Jagdeo promises to look at insurance for oil spill

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on VP Jagdeo promises to look at insurance for oil spill

Kaieteur News – As the government continues its review of key documentation related to ExxonMobil’s fourth Stabroek Block Project called Yellowtail, Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has...

Home Affairs Ministry spent US$80M to boost security – Mid-year Report

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Home Affairs Ministry spent US$80M to boost security – Mid-year Report

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Finance’s Mid-year Report has revealed that the sum of $16.1B (equivalent to US$80M) has been expended out of the $38.1B that was allocated for security in the...

EPA processing over 2,500 residential pollution complaints

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA processing over 2,500 residential pollution complaints

Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received over 2,500 complaints from residents as it relates to pollution and noise nuisance in various neighbourhoods across...

Drunk cop crashes vehicle into parked truck

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Drunk cop crashes vehicle into parked truck

– station runs out of breathalyzer tests Kaieteur News – A drunk cop, who was on Tuesday reportedly speeding in his motorcar along the Goed Fortuin Public Road located on the West Bank of...

Missing pensioner found dead in Parika backdam

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Missing pensioner found dead in Parika backdam

Kaieteur News – The body of a man was found lying motionless in a drain at Parika backdam, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) on Tuesday around 14:30hrs. According to reports, after an unknown...

Ex-police Sergeant Bailey freed of Diamond businesswoman’s murder

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-police Sergeant Bailey freed of Diamond businesswoman’s murder

Kaieteur News – Less than 48 hours after Collin Grant, the man accused of being the hitman in the murder of Diamond, East Bank Demerara businesswoman, Sirmattie Ramnaress pleaded guilty to the...

We gat de best truckers and loaders in de world

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We gat de best truckers and loaders in de world

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – California gat supply-chain problems. Dem gat plenty containers pun de wharves but dem nah gat enough truck driver fuh transport dem, and nah gat enough...

Give me an unpopular democracy over dictatorship!

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Give me an unpopular democracy over dictatorship!

Kaieteur News – The COVID-19 Containment Measures state that workers in the private sector ‘shall’ work on rotation as determined by their employers. But most private sector workers are not...

There are two worlds in Guyana that are killing this country

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on There are two worlds in Guyana that are killing this country

Kaieteur News – In yesterday’s column, I referred to a conversation I had in the supermarket with Dr. Nigel Gravesande, in which I told him I write about many ills in Guyana because just as I...

What is going on with the GPF?

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on What is going on with the GPF?

Kaieteur News – If the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is unable to speak openly, early, and truthfully about what is going on inside its sphere and, more importantly, on matters regarding the public...

Judge refuses guilty plea of murder accused

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Judge refuses guilty plea of murder accused

Murder of British teen in Berbice… Kaieteur News – The guilty plea of Aaron Hing, who is charged with the murder of British teen, Dominic Bernard, was yesterday refused by High Court Judge,...

43 percent decrease in fire reports – Deputy Fire Chief, Wickham

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 43 percent decrease in fire reports – Deputy Fire Chief, Wickham

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) have recorded a major decrease in the number of reports of fires as at the end of September 2021, when compared to the same...

Peter Headley’s file now with DPP

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Peter Headley’s file now with DPP

Kaieteur News – The investigation into the death of 45-year-old Peter Headley, who was allegedly shot and killed by a cop some five months ago, is nearing completion as police are now awaiting...

Former GECOM DCEO’s matter to continue indictably

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Former GECOM DCEO’s matter to continue indictably

Kaieteur News – The matters involving former Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers, in relation to the March 2, 2020, General and Regional...

3 more persons succumb to COVID-19

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 3 more persons succumb to COVID-19

Kaieteur News – With the deaths of three more persons, Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll has moved to 851. This is according to information released by the Ministry of Health yesterday. The...

Essequibo man jailed 18 years for raping woman

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo man jailed 18 years for raping woman

Kaieteur News – An Essequibo man, who was found guilty of rape by a 12-member jury at the Suddie High Court on Tuesday, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the crime. The sentence was...

Trophy Stall annual Golf tourney tees off on Saturday

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall annual Golf tourney tees off on Saturday

Kaieteur News – Trophy Stall has continued with its support for sports and on Saturday the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) is expected to be buzzing with excitement when the entity’s annual Golf...

Softball Cricket League formed in Essequibo

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Softball Cricket League formed in Essequibo

Kaieteur News – An Essequibo Softball Cricket League (ESCL) was recently formed and Chairman Wakeel Layne has expressed excitement since its launching last August. According to Layne, the...

Providence, Gangster, Quiet Storm through to final

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Providence, Gangster, Quiet Storm through to final

Kaieteur News – Providence, Gangster and Quiet Storm have secured their places in the final of the Sevens Collymore birth anniversary Dominoes competition which continued recently at Turning...

Sound chemicals management remains a priority to the government – Minister Mustapha

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Sound chemicals management remains a priority to the government – Minister Mustapha

– As PTCCB donates 100 toxic chemicals storage containers to farmers across country Kaieteur News – Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board...

GNBS recognises standard compliant businesses

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS recognises standard compliant businesses

– launches ‘Made in Guyana’ certification mark Kaieteur News – The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 hosted its third National Quality Awards...

Guyana’s proposal selected by ITTF for the 2021 Edition of “My Gender. My Strength”

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s proposal selected by ITTF for the 2021 Edition of “My Gender. My Strength”

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Table Tennis Association’s (GTTA) project proposal for the 2021 Edition of “My Gender. My Strength” – Member Association Assistance Programme for Women’s...

GOA supports Green Machine

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA supports Green Machine

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has filled the budget deficit for the national men’s Rugby Sevens team; the ‘Green Machine’, to ensure that they will be able to...

Fourth Urban Benjamin Memorial Road Race set for Cinderalla County on Sunday

Oct 14, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fourth Urban Benjamin Memorial Road Race set for Cinderalla County on Sunday

Kaieteur News – The cream of the nation’s cyclists will on Sunday be invading the Cinderella county to sontest the 4th Urban Benjamin Memorial Road Race organised by Evolution Cycle Club and...

“Love your eyes” being promoted as World Sight Day is observed

Oct 14, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on “Love your eyes” being promoted as World Sight Day is observed

Kaieteur News – Today is World Sight Day (WSD). A day that promotes advocacy to highlight the fact, that at least one billion people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or...