October 2021

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Persaud wins Gandhi Memorial golf tourney

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Persaud wins Gandhi Memorial golf tourney

Kaieteur News – Pandit Rabindranauth Persaud turned in a splendid performance to win the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial golf tournament which was contested on Saturday last at Lusignan Golf Club....

Four more unvaccinated persons died of COVID-19

Oct 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Four more unvaccinated persons died of COVID-19

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

Mercenary whip OSCL’s All-Stars by 70 runs

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mercenary whip OSCL’s All-Stars by 70 runs

Kaieteur News – Mercenary continued their dominance from the competition to the invitational match trouncing an Ontario Softball Cricket League’s (OSCL) All-Stars X1 by 70 runs on Saturday at...

Severed sugar workers to receive $250,000 grant. – VP Jagdeo announces

Oct 06, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Severed sugar workers to receive $250,000 grant. – VP Jagdeo announces

Kaieteur News – In his first visit back to Region Six since assuming office in 2020, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced to sugar workers in Skeldon and Canje that 7000 workers who were...

IKO Guyana suspends indoor training

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on IKO Guyana suspends indoor training

Kaieteur News – The International Karate Organisation (IKO) Guyana has taken a decision to suspend indoor training at its Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) headquarters until further notice in...

Is Guyana’s history and heritage for sale? Means so little to us?

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Guyana’s history and heritage for sale? Means so little to us?

Dear Editor, Guyana is an interesting place. While Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, who is the lone member of the ‘National Investment Committee’ is telling the Guyanese people that we must temper...

BCB to benefit from $1.08 M sponsorship from Tenelec Inc for Under-15 and First Division tournaments

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB to benefit from $1.08 M sponsorship from Tenelec Inc for Under-15 and First Division tournaments

Kaieteur News – Cricket in the Ancient County of Berbice continues to attract investments and sponsorship as the pro active Berbice Cricket Broad continues to work hard to prepare for a...

Clarence Greene -convenient confessor or cover for greater criminality

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clarence Greene -convenient confessor or cover for greater criminality

Dear Editor, As a representative of the homo sapiens genre and possessing menssana in corpore sano, I refuse to participate in the swirling miasma surrounding the recent demise of the Brickdam Police...

Fire Service – workers are only as good as their tools

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fire Service – workers are only as good as their tools

Dear Editor, Everyone has pinpointed, how incapable the fire department was after the event that occurred on October 2nd. My question to you is, what if there were lives on the line? Disappointed,...

Afro-Guyanese very much present in the PPP

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Afro-Guyanese very much present in the PPP

Dear Editor, I was born in Supenaam, on the banks of the mighty Essequibo River, and was literally brought into this world by African hands. The midwife, Nurse Canterbury, struck me lightly; I cried...

The VP living Archimedes

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The VP living Archimedes

Dear Editor, It was Archimedes who boasted, “Give me a lever, and I will move the world.” I observe what is going on in Guyana, with a resurgent PPP, and an omnipotent commercial caste and I...

I agree with the President’s criticism of the GFS’s response to the Brickdam Station fire

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I agree with the President’s criticism of the GFS’s response to the Brickdam Station fire

Dear Editor, I want to say that Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas, Police Commissioner, Leslie James and other stakeholders handled the incompetence and...

Thank you for keeping Govt.’s promise

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thank you for keeping Govt.’s promise

Dear Editor, I am ecstatic and happy at the news that severed sugar workers will receive $250,000 each. I am even happier that the much-needed assistance will come in the New Year as announced by...

Local content

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Local content

Dear Editor, The recent raging debate over local content is truly a lot of words for what is a very simple issue. The oil sector and its subcontractors are focused on only three things: the cost,...

The Brickdam Police Station fire

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Brickdam Police Station fire

Dear Editor, Your Editorial in yesterday’s KN was carefully crafted to exclude the cause of fire, whether or not it was arson and who is to be blamed. I cannot understand why you have chosen to...

The faces behind the arson attack on the Brickdam Police Station are yet to be revealed

Oct 06, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The faces behind the arson attack on the Brickdam Police Station are yet to be revealed

Dear Editor, I have read with fascinating interest the news both on social media and traditional media that cover the fire that occurred days ago at the Brickdam Police Station. One thing that seems...

$50M seed paddy facility unused for 13 years now needs $25M to become operable

Oct 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $50M seed paddy facility unused for 13 years now needs $25M to become operable

Kaieteur News – During the tenure of former Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) had used $50M from the national purse to construct a seed paddy...

Wildlife habitat destroyed, beach closed as oil spill hits California

Oct 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Wildlife habitat destroyed, beach closed as oil spill hits California

– Guyana remains unprotected without full coverage insurance Kaieteur News – According to a Reuters report, a large oil spill off the southern California coast has left fishes dead, birds...

Oil and gas industry becoming a fossil

Oct 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and gas industry becoming a fossil

– It’s time to build a sustainable green economy – UN Secretary General warns at Trade Conference Kaieteur News – United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, issued a...

Citizen calls Kaieteur News after seeing stolen car in New Amsterdam

Oct 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Citizen calls Kaieteur News after seeing stolen car in New Amsterdam

Kaieteur News – Less than 24 hours after Kaieteur News published an article revealing that a man had found his stolen car for sale on Facebook, the very vehicle was spotted in New Amsterdam,...

Dead host ends wedding reception

Oct 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Dead host ends wedding reception

Kaieteur News – A wedding house celebration on Sunday came to an abrupt end after the host of the event was found dead. The host, identified as Rickey Persaud, was a labourer of Lot 8, Harrison...

Gunmen invades shop, duct tape Venezuelan siblings, escape with cash, jewellery

Oct 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen invades shop, duct tape Venezuelan siblings, escape with cash, jewellery

Kaieteur News – Three gunmen on Sunday reportedly invaded a grocery shop at Buck Hall located along the Essequibo River in Region Three and duct taped two Venezuelan siblings before escaping...

Lying gan send yuh to hell

Oct 05, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lying gan send yuh to hell

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – We teach we children fuh lie and den when dem lie to us we want to beat de living daylights out ah dem. How many of y’all had somebody tun up to yuh gate...

DYING TRADITIONS

Oct 05, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DYING TRADITIONS

Kaieteur News – There is an online radio station in Barbados which starts to play Christmas music non-stop during the evenings from September 25th. It is called Sturges Radio, The Beat and is...

The Police not the ERC should investigate Henry Jeffrey

Oct 05, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Police not the ERC should investigate Henry Jeffrey

Kaieteur News – There is cybercrime legislation. The Police investigate and charge people making inflammatory statements on social media. There have been two suspicious fires – one at a...

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GOA rewards S/A Youth Games medallists with ‘Cash Grants’ to...

Apr 28, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Olympic Association has rewarded the nation’s medal-winning athletes from the recently concluded South American Youth Games with cash grants, reaffirming its...

Glenn Lall has opened the eyes of the nation to an injustice

Apr 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil effectively allows the company to de-risk its investment after discovery while shifting the financial burden onto the country—deserves serious and sober scrutiny. This is why poorly structured contracts can...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

PPP’s fetid breath: democracy’s death

Apr 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It has been a war. The PPP’s relentless efforts at dismantling and destroying democracy in Guyana. Institutions and organs, architecture and machinery, weakened brick by brick, until they are either shadows of themselves, or collapse under the weight of accumulated rot. ...

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