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‘Food and water more important than oil’

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Food and water more important than oil’

– PM Mottley tells Agri Investment Forum By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – After cheering President Irfaan Ali on for being the host of the inaugural Agri Investment Forum which provides...

Guyana targets aquaculture, soya, poultry to cut food import bill – Pres. Ali

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana targets aquaculture, soya, poultry to cut food import bill – Pres. Ali

By Zena Henry Kaieteur News – Guyana is looking to upscale its food production in key areas to avoid the pitfalls of food insecurity challenges. Addressing numerous regional Heads of...

PM Rowley offers to build business model to boost regional food supply

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on PM Rowley offers to build business model to boost regional food supply

– Mulls one CARICOM register for businesses – Calls on int’l donors to help fund supply vessels By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Now more than ever, Member States of the Caribbean...

Gunmen abandon car during gunfight with police

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen abandon car during gunfight with police

Kaieteur News – Three men on Thursday abandoned their car in vicinity of Crown Dam Industry, East Coast Demerara (ECD) after they opted to discontinue a gunfight with police. According to the...

Lack of access to loans continues to stifle local businesses

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Lack of access to loans continues to stifle local businesses

By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News – In 2021, Guyana passed its local content legislation, which caters for locals getting first preference in the country’s oil and gas sector. The Local Content...

Govt. issues warning about air quality over Sahara dust

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. issues warning about air quality over Sahara dust

Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Hydrometerological Service on Thursday advised the public that air quality monitoring has determined that the concentrations of...

CCJ orders GRA to refund taxpayer over $45M

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ orders GRA to refund taxpayer over $45M

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ordered the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to refund a taxpayer over $45 million which was deducted from a judgment award he had secured...

Foreign taxi driver beaten, robbed by passenger

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign taxi driver beaten, robbed by passenger

Kaieteur News – A midnight trip on Thursday, for only $600, has left a foreign taxi driver without a car, a cell phone and $40,000 cash after his passenger and two accomplices beat and rob him...

One more COVID death; 62 new infections

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on One more COVID death; 62 new infections

Kaieteur News – After reporting its last COVID-19 death over a month ago, the Ministry of Health on Thursday revealed that a fully vaccinated 74-year-old man from Region Six is now the...

$20M default judgment against Jagdeo stands

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $20M default judgment against Jagdeo stands

– as Full Court split on decision in libel case Kaieteur News – A split decision by the Full Court on Thursday has resulted in a default judgment against Vice President (VP) Bharrat...

Traffic more dan ants

May 20, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Traffic more dan ants

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Guyana should learn from Trinidad. Dem bin build nuff road and highway and superhighway. Dem buy expensive ferries fuh help move people to wuk in de morning. Dem...

The Chamber is out of line

May 20, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Chamber is out of line

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GGCI) is becoming a nuisance. Its most recent publicity-grabbing release expresses its disagreement with the intention of the...

Local 007 put a jumbie lash pon TLF, TUS, CMC, PNL

May 20, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Local 007 put a jumbie lash pon TLF, TUS, CMC, PNL

Kaieteur News – A friend sent me a Facebook post of James Bond. It is too early to tell whether our local 007 is positioning himself to seek the leader position of the PNC. I suspect he will....

The Attorney General Chambers walks a fine line

May 20, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Attorney General Chambers walks a fine line

Kaieteur News – Of all the places in Guyana, the Attorney General Chambers should know better. We believe that its complement of legal minds knows better, but that there was a momentary rush of...

GECOM has no unified position on amendments to RoPA

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM has no unified position on amendments to RoPA

…Opposition calls meeting with AG a fiasco Kaieteur News – Even as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) met with Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday, officials from the organisation...

Three CXC subjects now needed to join police force

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Three CXC subjects now needed to join police force

Kaieteur News – A sound primary education is no longer sufficient to join the Guyana Police Force (GPF). In order to become a policeman or policewoman, you must have passes in at least three...

Govt. to spend $8M to rehabilitate ‘Six Head’ Gym

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to spend $8M to rehabilitate ‘Six Head’ Gym

Kaieteur News – The Government through the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is preparing to spend some $8 million this year to rehabilitate the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis Gym located in...

Guyana’s LCDS yielding benefits for climate change, Indigenous development

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s LCDS yielding benefits for climate change, Indigenous development

By Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – Keeping Guyana’s forest intact is critical to fighting climate change. Standing forests absorb greenhouse gases, regulate water flows and protect coastal...

Phase Three of New Providence in dire need of attention – resident

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Phase Three of New Providence in dire need of attention – resident

Kaieteur News – About five years ago when Kumar Balraj moved into his own home at Phase Three New Providence, East Bank Demerara, he thought this would have made life much easier. Although the...

Man pleads guilty to killing unidentified male

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Man pleads guilty to killing unidentified male

Kaieteur News – After spending more than five years on remand, Marlon Garrett now 22, formerly of Campbell Street, Albouystown, Georgetown on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of...

Policewoman holds protest against DPP’s decision to drop racial assault charge against lawyer

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Policewoman holds protest against DPP’s decision to drop racial assault charge against lawyer

Kaieteur News – The People’s National Congress/ Reform (PNC/R) on Thursday condemned the decision of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, S.C, to discontinue the...

CWI Regional First-Class cricket…Chanderpaul, Motie score tons as Guy reach 490-7 decl.

May 20, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Regional First-Class cricket…Chanderpaul, Motie score tons as Guy reach 490-7 decl.

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with WD Hotel & Mall Charity & Dave’s West Indies Imports On another day of sweltering heat, defending Champions Barbados Pride were 48-2...

PAHO helping Guyana step up efforts in addressing maternal deaths

May 20, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO helping Guyana step up efforts in addressing maternal deaths

By Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – While Guyana has seen a significant decline in the area of maternal mortality rate in recent years, the Ministry of Health is continuing its partnership with...

Pressy Enterprises supports Prime Minister Independence Domino tourney in Linden

May 20, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pressy Enterprises supports Prime Minister Independence Domino tourney in Linden

The Honorable Prime Minister, Ret’d. Brigadier Mark Anthony Phillips’ Independence Domino Tournament 2022 will be staged on Thursday May 26, 2022 at 2330 Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden...

Winners Connection tackle Capital FC, Milerock face Topp XX challenge

May 20, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winners Connection tackle Capital FC, Milerock face Topp XX challenge

Two more matches in Upper Demerara Senior League tonight When the Upper Demerara Football Association Senior League championship resumes tonight a double header feature will see Capital FC and Haynes...

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Futebol Real Brazil executive Naranda Wislon visits Guyana

The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more