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Bandit confesses to stabbing teen to death during robbery

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit confesses to stabbing teen to death during robbery

Kaieteur News – A nineteen-year-old man was yesterday killed by a bandit who had invaded his family’s store called Deals on Electronics located at Strathspey on the East Coast of Demerara...

Draft Local Content Law proposes Guyanese participation in 152 oil sector services

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Draft Local Content Law proposes Guyanese participation in 152 oil sector services

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – The Government’s Draft Local Content Legislation is proposing to have Guyanese participate in 152 oil sector services so as to ensure maximum participation...

GDF rank pleads guilty to being part of multi-million-dollar gold heist

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GDF rank pleads guilty to being part of multi-million-dollar gold heist

– Tells court he was recently demoted and was struggling to provide for his family Kaieteur News – Keyon King now labeled as an ex-member of the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) yesterday...

Porter killed by plane’s propeller at airstrip

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Porter killed by plane’s propeller at airstrip

Kaieteur News – A porter employed with Air Services Limited (ASL) was killed after he was chopped multiple times about his body by a plane’s propeller at the Kamarang Airstrp located in...

Teen missing after dropping brother to school

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Teen missing after dropping brother to school

Kaieteur News – A worried mom is seeking the public’s help to locate her teenage daughter who disappeared on Wednesday after dropping off her brother at the Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School on...

Success Elementary tops NGSA performance

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Success Elementary tops NGSA performance

Kaieteur News – Out of the 13,821 students who wrote the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations back in August, it was Nirvana Wimal of Success Elementary School who was named the...

Family of three beaten, tied up during home invasion

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Family of three beaten, tied up during home invasion

Kaieteur News – A family of three from La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) remains in a state of shock after two bandits invaded their house Thursday night, held them at gunpoint, then beat and...

Kaneville murder suspect surrenders to police

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Kaneville murder suspect surrenders to police

Kaieteur News – Days after a wanted bulletin was issued for 25-year-old Seon Caesar called ‘Ratty’, the murder suspect yesterday surrendered to the police. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) in...

Ex-Deputy Commissioner of Police on bail for fraud, sexual assault

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-Deputy Commissioner of Police on bail for fraud, sexual assault

Kaieteur News – Suspended Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) and Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Slowe, yesterday made his first court appearance and was slapped...

Essequibo residents join forces to capture bandits after robbery

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo residents join forces to capture bandits after robbery

Kaieture News – Residents of Good Hope located on the Essequibo Coast, Region Two joined forces with police yesterday to capture two of three bandits moments after they invaded the home of a...

Yuh know yuh getting old when…

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Yuh know yuh getting old when…

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Yuh know yuh getting old when despite putting on yuh young boys’ threads fuh go and pay yuh light bill, de security tek yuh out de line and put yuh in de...

THE POLICE FORCE NEEDS MORE RECRUITS FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE POLICE FORCE NEEDS MORE RECRUITS FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS

Kaieteur News – You are not going to improve the professionalism and performance of the Guyana Police Force by simply having a strategic management team located outside of the existing...

Charles Mills who exceeded Walter Rodney is dead

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Charles Mills who exceeded Walter Rodney is dead

Kaieteur News – Charles Mills, one of the most learned minds the CARICOM region and the Third World has birthed is dead. He died from cancer on September 20, last. I didn’t know until I was...

Pollution complaints

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Pollution complaints

Kaieteur News – This is too small a country, with less than a million people, for its Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be showered with over 2,500 complaints (KN October 14). It is also...

Man who assaulted women at Bourda, slapped with six charges

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man who assaulted women at Bourda, slapped with six charges

Kaieteur News – A thirty-six-year-old man, Kellon Albert, who was caught on camera assaulting two women in Bourda Market, yesterday made his first court appearance and was slapped with six...

Health Ministry records five more COVID-19 deaths

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry records five more COVID-19 deaths

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that five more persons who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease have died. As a result of this, Guyana’s COVID-19...

Another 1,000 House Lots Distributed on East Bank Demerara

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Another 1,000 House Lots Distributed on East Bank Demerara

Kaieteur News – Another 1,000 Guyanese are now proud landowners, as the Ministry of Housing and Water – Central Housing and Planning Authority, hosted yesterday its second allocation exercise...

Public Works Ministry signs eight $1.5B contracts

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Public Works Ministry signs eight $1.5B contracts

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works on Friday signed eight contracts valued at $1.5 billion for major road upgrades in several parts of Guyana. The signing was done this week in the...

Jamaica’s Skillibeng drops first album

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaica’s Skillibeng drops first album

– Slingerz Records expresses gratitude for opportunity to collaborate Kaieteur News – Skillibeng in collaboration with Johnny Wonder released his first album yesterday, Friday, titled...

EPA conducts noise nuisance workshop with police force

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA conducts noise nuisance workshop with police force

Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday and Thursday conducted training workshops on noise management with members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in Region...

Six-member contingent for South America C/ships

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Six-member contingent for South America C/ships

Beginning today, a quartet of Guyanese athletes will represent the Golden Arrowhead at the South American under-23 Championships that is being held in Ecuador. The team consists of South American...

How about a “Release of all Oil and Gas Statistics & EPA Day?”

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on How about a “Release of all Oil and Gas Statistics & EPA Day?”

Dear Editor, I noticed in yesterday’s paper three full-page ads in newspapers, celebrating Caribbean Statistics Day under the theme, “Leave No One Behind…Everyone Counts.” There were messages...

Little being done both on and off the field

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Little being done both on and off the field

GCA clean bowled by Pandemic… By Sean Devers In late March two rounds of first division cricket was contested but the rain stopped all Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) competitions....

Budget for 2021 Seniors discussed as GBBFF pays courtesy call on NSC

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Budget for 2021 Seniors discussed as GBBFF pays courtesy call on NSC

The Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GBBFF) paid a courtesy call on the Director of Sports, Steve Ninvalle and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC) Kashief Muhammad on Tuesday...

Travelling with Sputnik-V

Oct 16, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Travelling with Sputnik-V

Dear Editor, I’ve encountered just one question, on numerous occasions. It’s been the talk of the topic, inside and outside of my residence. The question is always, “why issue a...