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Peruvian Judge bars oil executives from leaving country after oil spill

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Peruvian Judge bars oil executives from leaving country after oil spill

…Guyana still awaits full-cover insurance from oil companies Kaieteur News – A judge in Peru on Friday last, barred four executives from Spanish oil company, Repsol, from leaving the...

‘Tax reliefs in budget are for the rich’

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Tax reliefs in budget are for the rich’

…Economist urges direct cash transfers from NRF to help ordinary citizens Kaieteur News – The tax reduction measures announced in this year’s budget will not benefit the ordinary...

Plane found abandoned at Kuruduni

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Plane found abandoned at Kuruduni

– propeller missing as police probe discovery Kaieteur News – A Cessna airplane bearing registration number YV 506 was on Saturday found abandoned at Kuruduni, Essequibo with its...

Fire destroys GNSC workshop

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys GNSC workshop

Kaieteur News – An early morning fire destroyed a workshop at the Guyana National Shipping Company (GNSC) Wharf‘s Lombard Street, Georgetown. According to an eyewitness, the fire started...

After doling out billions in contracts without oversight

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on After doling out billions in contracts without oversight

– Govt. now promising rigid ranking system for bidders this year Kaieteur News – Against the background of awarding a slew of mega contracts last year- some to contractors with no track...

Wanted man nabbed by police dressed as a woman

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted man nabbed by police dressed as a woman

Kaieteur News – In his effort to avoid being caught, 30-year-old Shawn Bobb, a labourer, of East La Penitence, Squatting Area Georgetown, disguised himself as a woman and hid away in a house at...

Over 20,000 COVID-19 cases recorded in January

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Over 20,000 COVID-19 cases recorded in January

Kaieteur News – In March 2020, Guyana recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case. At the end of that year, a total of 6,391 confirmed cases were recorded in the country. In this month alone,...

Fish cage or fish cake?

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fish cage or fish cake?

Kaieteur News – Dis whole plan fuh help de fishermen sound fishy. De guvament seh dem planning fuh build fish cage fuh help dem fishermen wah punishing because of low catch. But dem boys nah...

A bourgeois Budget

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A bourgeois Budget

Kaieteur News-The 2022 National Budget follows in the tradition of recent Budgets. The Budget has been described as pro-people but it is fundamentally pro-business. Considering that the Budget is...

Elderly man severely beaten during fight over land

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly man severely beaten during fight over land

– police arrest two suspects, looking for third Kaieteur News – A dispute over a plot of land at Clifton Settlement, Corentyne led to an elderly man being severely beaten about his body...

Contractor given two weeks to wrap up works on $275M UG road

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor given two weeks to wrap up works on $275M UG road

Kaieteur News – Unhappy about the pace of work on the $275.5 million University of Guyana parallel road being rehabilitated by Yunas Civil and Building Construction, Minster of Public Works,...

Woman remanded for allegedly stabbing children father

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Woman remanded for allegedly stabbing children father

Kaieteur News- A 22-year-old woman, Maria Walcott, of Lot 465 East Ruimveldt was remanded to prison on Monday last for allegedly stabbing the father of her two children to the chest. Walcott appeared...

English Coach Ian Greenwood completes term as GFF Technical Director

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on English Coach Ian Greenwood completes term as GFF Technical Director

Kaieteur News- Georgetown –: Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Technical Director Ian Greenwood will in March complete a successful five-year term in charge of the day-to-day national football...

GCA’s U-15 trial over the weekend… Henry grabs 6-10, Mohabir (46) shine on Saturday Persaud (41) & Wilkinson (4-7) perform on Sunday

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s U-15 trial over the weekend… Henry grabs 6-10, Mohabir (46) shine on Saturday Persaud (41) & Wilkinson (4-7) perform on Sunday

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News- Rain affected third trial match organised by the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) as preparation for the U-15 Demerara Inter-Association 50-over tournament ended in...

Two new magistrate courts for East Bank Demerara

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Two new magistrate courts for East Bank Demerara

Kaieteur News-Government has announced that it will be building two additional magistrate courts at Friendship and Timehri on the East Bank Demerara this year. During his budget presentation last...

Come feel the love at MovieTowne’s ‘Garden of Love’

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Come feel the love at MovieTowne’s ‘Garden of Love’

Kaieteur News – To celebrate the upcoming season of love, MovieTowne Guyana on Saturday launched its ‘Garden of Love.’ From its launch and for the entire month of February, couples can...

Govt. to export 120 pre-fab wooden houses to Ghana this year

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to export 120 pre-fab wooden houses to Ghana this year

Kaieteur News – In a bid to expand the local value chain for wood products, government said this year, it will be exporting pre-fabricated houses to the West African nation, Ghana. The...

Banks DIH records $6.7 billion in after-tax profit for 2021

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH records $6.7 billion in after-tax profit for 2021

Kaieteur News – Local manufacturing company, Banks DIH in its 2021 Annual Report has documented a profit of $6.777 billion, after taxes, representing an increase of $1.506 billion or 28.6...

Laparkan Fire – what happened and for what purpose?

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Laparkan Fire – what happened and for what purpose?

Dear Editor, Today, I put something before my fellow Guyanese, which I ask them to consider carefully. It has to do with the Laparkan fire, which is now swiftly fading into the mists. It is of the...

Cultural barbarians at City Hall

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cultural barbarians at City Hall

Dear Editor, After reading of the unfortunate and unpleasant experience encountered by Mr. Sahadeo Bates when he visited City Hall, to pay up his property rates, I felt compelled to commiserate with...

Thank you

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thank you

Dear Editor, Please allow me the opportunity to thank everyone who has helped me during my recent visit to my home country, Guyana, especially the men who help to carry my heavy suitcases from the...

KISSOON IS NO RACIST

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on KISSOON IS NO RACIST

Dear Editor, Please permit this brief response to Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye’s January 28th letter published in the Kaieteur News, titled “Addressing Kissoon’s attack on Walter...

When will Guyanese be refunded by Fly Jamaica or the Govt. of Guyana?

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on When will Guyanese be refunded by Fly Jamaica or the Govt. of Guyana?

Dear Editor, I am kindly asking that the Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill and Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Director General, Egbert Field please investigate this situation so Guyanese...

Errant minibuses proving to be challenging for police

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Errant minibuses proving to be challenging for police

Dear Editor, Yet again the police are to roll out a campaign against untidy and reckless minibus conductors and drivers (INews Jan 28). Too often these campaigns are rolled out with much fanfare and...

It is time our Govt. takes control of food prices

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time our Govt. takes control of food prices

Dear Editor, The PPP/C government has opted (in part) to take the advice of the Opposition to increase pensioners’ allowance. The paltry $3000 and $2000 a month increase to old age pensioners...