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Local Content Policy, Legislation must guard against “rent-a-citizen” scenarios – GCCI President

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy, Legislation must guard against “rent-a-citizen” scenarios – GCCI President

Kaieteur News – If Guyana is to succeed with its imminent Local Content Policy and Legislation, then it is paramount that it gets the definition of a local company right. This point was...

Essequibo County, Linden, Kwakwani, hinterland residents will not get power from Natural Gas Plant or Hydro

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo County, Linden, Kwakwani, hinterland residents will not get power from Natural Gas Plant or Hydro

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Government is currently pursuing some hundreds of millions of dollars in electricity projects, but the power generated will not be reaching almost half of the...

Teen attacked by 11 men, sodomized by boss

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Teen attacked by 11 men, sodomized by boss

Kaieteur News – A 19-year-old man was assaulted by a group of approximately 11 men for about four hours, and was also sodomized in a mining pit by his boss. The teen whose name is not being...

Guyana must invest better in sea defence or relocate coastal residents

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana must invest better in sea defence or relocate coastal residents

…as World Bank highlights urgency of Climate Change mitigation Kaieteur News – In wake of the escalating drastic impacts of climate change, including ocean and sea level rises, Guyana has...

Foreign pilots remanded for unauthorized landing at Mahdia

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Foreign pilots remanded for unauthorized landing at Mahdia

Kaieteur News – Two foreign pilots, who were arrested after they landed at the Mahdia airstrip, were yesterday remanded for two charges. David Caicedo Villa, a 32-year-old pilot of...

‘Friend’, accomplice remanded for doctor’s murder

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Friend’, accomplice remanded for doctor’s murder

Kaieteur Nesw – Two young men were yesterday remanded for the brutal murder of Dr. Colin Roach at his Duke Street, Kingston, Georgetown Office on Tuesday November, 3. The defendants, Hilton...

Fire razes T&T’s Natural Gas industrial zone

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fire razes T&T’s Natural Gas industrial zone

Kaieteur News – An inferno that erupted inside the eTecK Park in Point Lisas, yesterday evening—after a chemical factory went up in flames in the Natural Gas Industrial Zone—in neighbouring...

Supplier attempts to pass off 100 tons of bogus water treatment chemical to GWI

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Supplier attempts to pass off 100 tons of bogus water treatment chemical to GWI

Kaieteur News – A local supplier has attempted to pass off some 100 tons of bogus water treatment chemicals to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), and the utility company is now at its wits...

From pampering to peppering

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on From pampering to peppering

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem boys bin meet a ghal long ago. She bin pretty and she bin know it. She nah had time fuh dem ordinary boys. She eye bin shine, and she gat a right fuh be like...

Ole people can’t sleep at nights!

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Ole people can’t sleep at nights!

Kaieteur News – The government has to learn to solve simple problems. They have tried many years to solve the major economic and political problems of this country but their rewards have been...

A strange encounter in the National Park that left me stunned

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A strange encounter in the National Park that left me stunned

Kaieteur News – On Friday morning as I came out of my car, a uniformed security rank of the park came up to me and told me she was doing a survey and wanted my take on the National Park since...

Dissatisfaction with PPP leadership

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Dissatisfaction with PPP leadership

Kaieteur News – We have been saying it for a long time now, and on every occasion that we say it, PPP leaders and defenders say that we are biased, have a partisan agenda, and always seem to...

E’bo man remanded after being found guilty for rape

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo man remanded after being found guilty for rape

Kaieteur News – A twenty-five-year-old man was found guilty of rape last Monday, after a verdict was returned by a jury in the Suddie High Court, Essequibo Coast. The accused, identified as...

$469M estimated to fix roads in No.76 & 77 Villages

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $469M estimated to fix roads in No.76 & 77 Villages

Kaieteur New – During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday, bids were opened for $469,659,450 in road rehabilitation...

Outdated suicide laws to be amended

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Outdated suicide laws to be amended

Kaieteur News – During the opening of the Guyana Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference on Monday, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony stated that outdated suicide laws will soon be amended....

Elders leading the way in vaccination- Health Minister

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Elders leading the way in vaccination- Health Minister

Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, in his daily COVID-19 update on Monday, stated that persons who are sixty years and above are taking the COVID-19 vaccination process more...

Berbice man pleads guilty to manslaughter

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man pleads guilty to manslaughter

2016 murder of WCB couple… Kaieteur News – Nazamudin Rafeek called ‘Shazam’ who appeared virtually in the Berbice High Court on Monday and had pleaded not guilty to the murder of...

Seven City Hall Treasury staffers fired for misconduct, fraud

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Seven City Hall Treasury staffers fired for misconduct, fraud

Kaieteur News – Seven staffers from the Georgetown City Council Treasury Department have been fired for alleged gross misconduct. At its duly convened Statutory Meeting held on October 26,...

‘Fishing industry collapsing’ – fisherfolk boss tells Finance Minister

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Fishing industry collapsing’ – fisherfolk boss tells Finance Minister

Kaieteur News – Chairman of the Guyana National Fisherfolk Organisation and the Upper Corentyne Fisherman Co-op Society, Parmeshwar Jainarine has scrutinized the figures released by the...

Coalition paid $17M in advances to workers, who later walked off job – PAC hears

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition paid $17M in advances to workers, who later walked off job – PAC hears

Kaieteur News – In 2016, some staffers attached to the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Two were overpaid in excess of $17M in salary advances under the A Partnership For National...

Health Ministry recorded 6 more COVID-19 fatalities

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry recorded 6 more COVID-19 fatalities

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported that six persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this, the...

16-year-old still critical in hospital following Diwali chopping

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 16-year-old still critical in hospital following Diwali chopping

Kaieteur News – The 16-year-old boy, Brain Anthony of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, who heroically ran to his father’s defence on Diwali night following a chopping incident, is still...

Losses from poor construction works estimated at $50M

Nov 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Losses from poor construction works estimated at $50M

– Consumer Affairs Kaieteur News – The Guyana Competition and Consumers Affairs Commission (CCAC) said it has received a number of complaints in relation to faulty construction works...

CMU20Q…Victory against Nicagarua today will book Guyana’s place in the Championship

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on CMU20Q…Victory against Nicagarua today will book Guyana’s place in the Championship

Kaieteur News – It would be the clash of the undefeated sides when Guyana engage Nicaragua from 19:00hrs this evening in their final Group D match of the 2022 Concacaf Men’s Under-20...

Trophy Stall onboard Barbara Marshall Dominoes Tourney

Nov 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall onboard Barbara Marshall Dominoes Tourney

Kaieteur News – Dominoes teams in the City will be in action once again when the Barbara Marshall Birth Anniversary tournament commences from 18:00hrs today at R and R Sports Club, Meadowbrook....

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A false panacea for electoral integrity

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News – Advocates for fingerprint verification in Guyana’s elections herald it as... more