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$864M in payment vouchers not presented for audit – AG Report

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $864M in payment vouchers not presented for audit – AG Report

Kaieteur News – According to the 2019 Auditor General’s report, 744 payment vouchers totalling some $864.41 million were not presented to his office to be audited resulting in the limitation...

Passengers hijack taxi at ‘Policeman Corner’

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers hijack taxi at ‘Policeman Corner’

Kaieteur News – A taxi driver on Tuesday had his car hijacked by his passengers at Policeman Corner, La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD). The taxi driver, Bhagwandin Narine, 39, of...

Bandits on the de loose

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bandits on the de loose

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – People getting rob every day. Pick-pocket return. Dem picking yuh pocket in de minibus. Dem putting bag pun yuh leg and den one of dem friend gan create...

The cart is being put before the horse

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The cart is being put before the horse

Kaieteur News – The social media site, OilNow, reported that the Minister of Natural Resources told the National Assembly that the Department of Energy will be converted into a professional...

Guyana in 2020: The Black woman they couldn’t vilify

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana in 2020: The Black woman they couldn’t vilify

Kaieteur News – The envoys of the EU, Canada, UK and USA came in for exceptional abuse from those who supported the five months of attempted rigging in the election last year. From the time...

Union official granted $680,000 bail

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Union official granted $680,000 bail

Bogus oil and gas training… Kaieteur News – The General Secretary of the Guyana Seafarers and General Workers Union (GS&GWU) was yesterday slapped with a total of 17 charges at the...

Region 10 pensioner recorded as 167th COVID-19 fatality

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Region 10 pensioner recorded as 167th COVID-19 fatality

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health reported a new COVID-19 fatality yesterday. The latest fatality is a pensioner from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) who is the country’s 167th...

US-based CDC lends support to Health Ministry’s COVID-19 surveillance unit

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on US-based CDC lends support to Health Ministry’s COVID-19 surveillance unit

– Case trackers to be trained for each region – CMO Kaieteur News – Guyana is set to receive a boost in its capacity to track cases of the deadly Coronavirus/COVID-19 disease. With...

GuyOil workers to receive disputed salary increase

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GuyOil workers to receive disputed salary increase

Kaieteur News – Workers of the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GuyOil) will be receiving their long-disputed salary increases in the second quarter of 2021, according to the President of the...

Govt. to introduce self-testing for HIV

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to introduce self-testing for HIV

Launch of new strategic plan… Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has announced a plan for Guyanese to self-test for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes the...

Police on the hunt for suspect

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police on the hunt for suspect

Clothes vendor’s New Year’s Day murder… Kaieteur News – Police have issued a wanted bulletin for a man who they believed might have killed Paul Anthony Smith, a clothes vendor, on New...

Student in UG bomb threat matter walks free

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Student in UG bomb threat matter walks free

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, almost two years after she was charged for a bomb threat at the University of Guyana (UG), 26-year-old Sheneza Diane Jaffarally of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara...

David dominoes set for Sunday at Bagotstown

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on David dominoes set for Sunday at Bagotstown

Kaieteur News – Shawn David will be hosting his birth anniversary dominoes competition on Sunday at Lil Hole bar, Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara. Entrance fee is $12,000, while $30,000 will be...

Shepherd test positive for COVID-19 Says he has no symptoms

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shepherd test positive for COVID-19 Says he has no symptoms

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – For 26-year-old Guyana and West Indies fast bowling all-rounder Romario Shepherd it came as shock when he was tested positive for the corona virus and was ruled...

Over 29,000 devices verified by GNBS in 2020

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Over 29,000 devices verified by GNBS in 2020

Kaieteur News – Despite being faced with COVID-19 related challenges, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), the national measurement institute, was able to verify a total of 29,675...

RHTYSC completes another successful year despite Covid-19 pandemic

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC completes another successful year despite Covid-19 pandemic

– Surpasses target of 700 activities Kaieteur News – While the Covid-19 pandemic forced the majority of youth and sports organisations to close up their doors, the Rose Hall Town Youth...

Very Quiet 2020 for hockey

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Very Quiet 2020 for hockey

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) national women programme is due to resume shortly with training as the ladies, managed by head coach Philip Fernandes, prepare for a busy 2021...

Line Top, Bachelor’s XI triumph at Success Games

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Line Top, Bachelor’s XI triumph at Success Games

Kaieteur News – Over a three days period, outstanding performances coupled with sportsmanship, harmony and respect were the order of the day. The results from the games have left some wounds,...

Bogus – there will be more

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Bogus – there will be more

Kaieteur News – It is a case of: ‘here we go again.’ And even as we say, no more of this nonsense, we know to our regret that there will be others – vulnerable victims, who can least...

I never thought that matters would come to this point in the United States of America

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on I never thought that matters would come to this point in the United States of America

Dear Editor, I never, ever, thought that matters would come to this point in the United States of America. Here is a situation where the Vice President of the United States has to be hidden away. And...

The roads in Providence Phase Three are bad and residents are suffering

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The roads in Providence Phase Three are bad and residents are suffering

Dear Editor, Please grant me a space in your newspaper to bring to the relevant authority the plight and daily suffering the residence of Providence Phase Three is enduring. For the past two years,...

With regard to elections, the Black race and Black leaders have nothing to be ashamed of

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on With regard to elections, the Black race and Black leaders have nothing to be ashamed of

Dear Editor, Permit the right to respond to Freddie Kissoon’s “Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit” (KN 5th January 2020). Valuable, but necessary, time is being taken to deal with the...

Elections are over and the time has come for us to avoid “cussing” each other

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Elections are over and the time has come for us to avoid “cussing” each other

Dear Editor, My wife and I had the opportunity to usher in the new year in the serene environment of our home; thanks to the coronavirus. It afforded us the opportunity to reflect upon the political...

An open letter to the Governor of the Bank of Guyana

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to the Governor of the Bank of Guyana

Kaieteur News – As head of the regulatory body for the Act governing the operations of Financial Institutions, I hereby ask of you the Governor of the Bank of Guyana to recommend to the Finance...

Marjoleine Kars’s “Blood on the River” contains some problematic aspects

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Marjoleine Kars’s “Blood on the River” contains some problematic aspects

Dear Editor, As a trained historian and anthropologist, I was unnerved when reading Marjoleine Kars’s “Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast” last year. This...

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Jagdeo is skirting the issue

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The greatest challenge facing Guyana is not about exploiting its immense wealth, but in... more