October 2021

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Former Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk … 80 years on

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk … 80 years on

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Veteran former Guyana Chronicle’s Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk celebrated his 80 birthday last month with his family but for someone who had served...

Kaieteur News Cartoon 10/17/2021

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Cartoons, News Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon 10/17/2021

Oil companies must release timely production data to foster transparency

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oil companies must release timely production data to foster transparency

Dear Editor, Imagine if you drive your car to an Esso gas station and fill your tank with US$27.20 in gas. Then, you decide to pay the cashier only US$20 for your gas and you walk out. The police...

Central Bank regulation of commercial banks nonexistent

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Central Bank regulation of commercial banks nonexistent

Dear Editor, I recall, sometime last year, the former Minister of Finance had reason to complain that commercial banks had restricted banking hours, while raising their fees for using their ATM...

Let there be STEAM, not just STEM; and more strength in Literature and Social Studies

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let there be STEAM, not just STEM; and more strength in Literature and Social Studies

Dear Editor, After viewing the telecast and listening to the various presentations and the announcement of the CAPE, CSEC and other CXC examination results, I am motivated to make the following...

Govt. needs to setup more centres countrywide to offer free counselling

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. needs to setup more centres countrywide to offer free counselling

Dear Editor, Guyana has been severely affected by the COVID-19 virus. As a result, many lost close ones, or have been feeling the effects financially. Many issues also arise, coupled with the...

Stop politicising crimefighting

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop politicising crimefighting

Dear Editor, Guyana is in the midst of a criminal pandemic and the Government is at its wits end at the possible methods they can use to solve it. This criminal onslaught is both worrisome and mind...

Crime is crime and should be condemned and dealt with the full force of the law

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crime is crime and should be condemned and dealt with the full force of the law

Dear Editor, No less than five persons have been murdered at the hands of the Guyana Police Force since August 2020. Wanton extrajudicial killing has returned and this time more ominous than before....

Guyanese and COVID-19

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese and COVID-19

Dear Editor, I take note of a letter penned by one Brian E. Plummer titled “Has our COVID Strategy been Successful”. Sometimes Editor, I wonder about Guyanese and how they managed to survive this...

The outcome could have been different

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The outcome could have been different

Dear Editor Stealthily and ever cautiously the bandit moved to the chair where the gun lay as the guard was comatosed, never realising he was visited until sometime later. Another familiar case of...

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...

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Prisoners snatch overall boxing Novice Championship title

Sep 29, 2026

– ends extended GDF run (Kaieteur News) – The Republican Gym’s return to competitive boxing ended in championship glory, as the prisoners captured the overall team title at the Guyana...

No security of tenure for ministers

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There is a new career opportunity developing in Guyana that could revolutionise the public service. You can become a former Minister. Traditionally, when somebody stopped being a Minister, the public assumed that was the end of the ministerial chapter. The person might return...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

From Salem and Wisconsin to Georgetown, Guyana

Sep 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Over three hundred years after Massachusetts, the plague that roiled it struck Georgetown. Over three quarters of a century after Wisconsin, that same bomb has been detonated across Guyana. It’s a bunker buster. Everyone keeping their heads low; who doesn’t have cover...

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