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International Education Day 2022

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on International Education Day 2022

Kaieteur News – International Education Day 2022 is being observed today, January 24. A look at the statistics involving Guyana’s topflight students would give the impression that we have...

Murder convict who escaped from Lusignan Prison recaptured

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Murder convict who escaped from Lusignan Prison recaptured

Kaieteur News- Seven months after escaping from the Lusignan Prison, murder convict, Shazam Khalil was on Saturday evening recaptured in Blairmont, Berbice. According to reports, ranks acting on...

GDF Colonel graduates from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on GDF Colonel graduates from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Kaieteur News- The U.S. Embassy here has congratulated Colonel Raul Jerrick, of the Guyana Defence Force, who was successfully awarded a Master of Arts in Security Studies, with an emphasis on...

Two held as police seize guns, ammo

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Two held as police seize guns, ammo

Kaieteur News- Two men were on Sunday arrested in separate police operations in Georgetown and on the East Bank Demerara during which two guns as well as ammunition were found. In a release, police...

2022: The year that Guyana will see the unbelievable

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 2022: The year that Guyana will see the unbelievable

Kaieteur News– Just to inform readers, I am still to produce part 4 of the review of 2021 and will publish it but so many things got in the way. I once wrote that life in Guyana is so curiously...

Engineer estimates $24M for two pickups

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Engineer estimates $24M for two pickups

Kaieteur News– The supply, delivery and testing of two new 4×4 Double Cap pickups for the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary/ Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA), according to an engineer’s...

Court challenge to tax-free ride in Exxon deal could level playing field for Guyanese – Ram

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Court challenge to tax-free ride in Exxon deal could level playing field for Guyanese – Ram

Kaieteur News – The recent legal challenge filed by Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall via his lawyer, Mr. Mohamed Ali, against the extraordinary tax-free ride given to the affiliated...

Butts’ X1 beat Barry’s in GCA U-15 Trials at DCC

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Butts’ X1 beat Barry’s in GCA U-15 Trials at DCC

By Sean Devers In glorious sunshine yesterday at the refurbished DCC ground in Queenstown, Clyde Butts’ X1 beat Neil Barry’s X1 by six wickets in the first GCA’s U-15 Trial match as...

GuySuCo mourns the loss of Dr. Yesu Persaud

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo mourns the loss of Dr. Yesu Persaud

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation mourns the loss of Dr. Yesu Persaud, CCH, who was the former Vice Chairman of the entity since its incorporation on May 21, 1976 when the Government of...

YESU PERSAUD: AN EXEMPLARY LIFE WELL LIVED

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on YESU PERSAUD: AN EXEMPLARY LIFE WELL LIVED

Dear Editor, It was the late sixties. Guyana had just achieved political independence in 1966. Guyanese celebrated the idea that they can now determine their own system of government; choose how they...

Cronyism sinking the country

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cronyism sinking the country

Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that a State official is renovating a government owned mansion, not at his own cost, with the most expensive amenities and accessories that money can buy....

Region Three ramps up COVID-19 enforcement amid surge, deaths

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region Three ramps up COVID-19 enforcement amid surge, deaths

Dear Editor, The Region Three COVID-19 Task Force along with stakeholder agencies will join the Guyana Police Force from today (January 24, 2022) in ramping up enforcement of all breaches of the...

GECOM must put its house in order

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM must put its house in order

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission is moving too slowly in putting its house in order. As the sole institution mandated to carry out elections in Guyana, we expect that matters there ought...

“Terror Grips The Land”

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on “Terror Grips The Land”

Dear Editor, I have penned this poem in commemoration of the Lusignan Massacre: By Nikhil Sankar “Cries of anguish grip the air, Sinister shadows dance across the land, The calm and quiet of 2a.m....

I call on Mr. Granger – let there be some leadership pride, honour too

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on I call on Mr. Granger – let there be some leadership pride, honour too

Dear Editor, I am disappointed. I waited for, and hoped that, some decency would surface, and that I would be spared having to take matters to a place where I didn’t want to go. One that required a...

Govt. has key opportunity to rebalance agreement in favour of the Guyanese people -Chris Ram

Jan 23, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. has key opportunity to rebalance agreement in favour of the Guyanese people -Chris Ram

KN Publisher’s challenge to tax giveaways in Exxon deal… Kaieteur News – When he served as Opposition Leader back in 2019, the now Vice President (VP), Dr . Bharrat Jagdeo had repeatedly...

3 courageous Guyanese women file legal challenge against EPA to stop ExxonMobil’s flaring

Jan 23, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on 3 courageous Guyanese women file legal challenge against EPA to stop ExxonMobil’s flaring

– asks High Court to order independent expert probe into company’s compliance with manufacturer’s standards for operating oil vessel Kaieteur News – Three courageous Guyanese...

EPA quietly amends permit for Liza Phase Two project

Jan 23, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on EPA quietly amends permit for Liza Phase Two project

– still fails to hold parent companies liable for oil spills Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears to have quietly amended and uploaded to its website, the...

Cease oil production until Exxon agrees to contract changes – protestors demand

Jan 23, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Cease oil production until Exxon agrees to contract changes – protestors demand

Kaieteur News – Scores of protestors on Saturday morning took to the streets, for a second time this week, to demand that the “oppressive” oil contracts be changed so as to benefit...

Oil money will be used for budget 2022 – Jagdeo

Jan 23, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Oil money will be used for budget 2022 – Jagdeo

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo has revealed that his government will be using monies from the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) to support this year’s budget. He also...

Cricket gan affect learning loss

Jan 23, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cricket gan affect learning loss

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – We gat learning loss. Dem students bin home a lang time. And de virtual or online learning dem claim was not as effective. So de Ministry feel dat dem children...

The local face of neo-liberalism

Jan 23, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The local face of neo-liberalism

Kaieteur News – Yesu Persaud, the former Chairman of Demerara Distilleries Limited (DDL) was stinking rich and famous. But that fame and fortune was achieved principally via state...

Yesu Persaud: He became my father that I loved dearly

Jan 23, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Yesu Persaud: He became my father that I loved dearly

Kaieteur News – My parents got seven of us. My mother sold wood and my dad was a groundsman. Then my mom couldn’t cope anymore and from the sixties my father was the only source of income. I...

Oil Fund theft – over before it even started

Jan 23, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Oil Fund theft – over before it even started

Kaieteur News – It was always going to come to this inevitable conclusion. After all the agitating, arguing, and assuring, it was the edge of one seat in parliament, the advantage of one more...

ANUG warns Govt. of dangers country faces if it remains ‘open’

Jan 23, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ANUG warns Govt. of dangers country faces if it remains ‘open’

Alarming increase in COVID-19 cases… Kaieteur News – The A New and United Guyana (ANUG) Political Party has warned the government that if the country maintains its “open for business”...

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Berbice ease past Demerara in low-scoring match

Does the PNCR really want to go down this road?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- By the time I reached the fourth cup of chamomile tea—don’t judge me, it’s calming—I... more