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18 girls, 1 boy die in dorm fire at Mahdia after upset student allegedly sets building ablaze

May 23, 2023 KNews News 1

By Allyiah Allicock Kaieteur News – Nineteen children – 18 of them school girls and one 5-year-old boy died Sunday night when fire swept through a heavily-grilled dormitory which housed...

Exxon dodges KN’s request for full disclosure of formula used to arrive at US$2B parent guarantee

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon dodges KN’s request for full disclosure of formula used to arrive at US$2B parent guarantee

Kaieteur News – Guyanese, it appears, may never know the formula used by an independent consultant to determine that US$2B was an adequate enough a sum to be provided as a parent guarantee by...

Children of fire

May 23, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Children of fire

Kaieteur News – You went to bed to dream the dreams of a better day ahead, Not knowing that the next day you would be dead. Your laughter is no more, Your smiles we will never see again for...

Haiti’s problem is not security

May 23, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Haiti’s problem is not security

Kaieteur News – Guyana and Haiti were once listed as the two poorest countries in the western hemisphere. Because Guyana fell so far behind the rest of the countries of the Region during the...

Opposition and oil

May 23, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Opposition and oil

Kaieteur News – The Opposition spoke about oil recently. Frankly, Guyanese would have been better off if the Opposition had stayed silent, said not a single word. For when the Opposition...

The township of Mahdia

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on The township of Mahdia

Kaieteur News – Mahdia is the capital of the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana,[2] located near the centre of the country at an altitude of 415 metres (1,362 ft). Commerce is centred on the...

Dorm mother loses 5-yr-old son while trying to rescue students

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Dorm mother loses 5-yr-old son while trying to rescue students

Mahdia fire… … angry residents stage protest, President declared three days of mourning By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News The Mahdia Secondary School female dormitory fire which claimed the lives of...

Woman dies in accident at Camp Street

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Woman dies in accident at Camp Street

Kaieteur News – Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred on Sunday May 21, 2023 at about 23:00 hrs at Camp and Church Streets, Georgetown. Police in a statement said that the...

More than twenty-seven persons arrested, one person sentenced for littering — Solid Waste Director

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on More than twenty-seven persons arrested, one person sentenced for littering — Solid Waste Director

Kaieteur News – In January alone, more than 27 persons were arrested, one of whom was charged for littering in the city. Director of Solid Waste Management at the Georgetown Mayor and City...

Jagdeo confident US bank will approve loan for Wales gas project

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo confident US bank will approve loan for Wales gas project

Kaieteur News – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is confident that government’s loan application to the United States Export Import (US-EXIM) Bank will be approved for the Gas-to-Energy (GTE)...

Caricom leads tributes for Mahdia students killed in dorm fire

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Caricom leads tributes for Mahdia students killed in dorm fire

Kaieteur News – Condolences poured in on Monday as news circulated about the death of 19 children who perished in a fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School Sunday night. Leading...

UG deploys specialist team to survivors of Mahdia tragedy

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on UG deploys specialist team to survivors of Mahdia tragedy

– rolls range of other services Kaieteur News – The University of Guyana has announced a range of initiatives to help bring relief to survivors of the tragedy Sunday night which claimed...

25 candidates certified for Level 1, 23 certified for Level 2

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on 25 candidates certified for Level 1, 23 certified for Level 2

CWI Coaching Education Coaches (Guyana) concludes… Kaieteur Sports – Cricket West Indies (CWI) wrapped up its Coaching Education Courses at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence on Sunday,...

Exclusive Visa Pre-Sale Window for CPL Finals Tickets opens today

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exclusive Visa Pre-Sale Window for CPL Finals Tickets opens today

Kaieteur Sports – A limited number of tickets will be on sale online exclusively to Visa customers for the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League knockout stages from 9am ECT on 23 May 2023....

Santos defeats Milerock in second round

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Santos defeats Milerock in second round

KFC Elite League… Kaieteur Sports – Santos Football Club on Sunday snatched a 3-0 win over Milerock Football Club to move to six points on the KFC Elite League table. In a highly competitive...

Guyana identified by Barbados & T&T for prep stages

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana identified by Barbados & T&T for prep stages

– GBA President welcomes venture Kaieteur Sports – Guyana has been officially selected by Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados as their base for the staging of boxing training camps and...

Exxon ‘shaky’ on supply of gas from Liza Field

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon ‘shaky’ on supply of gas from Liza Field

Kaieteur News – As the discussion continues on the need for a feasibility study, to utilise the gas in the Liza Fields for the purpose of electricity generation to power the national grid,...

GOA continues sponsorship of Willion Cameron

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA continues sponsorship of Willion Cameron

Kaieteur Sports – The Executive Committee of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has announced that they continued the sponsorship of Willon Cameron, who is the Physical Education Teacher at...

Mahdia – distant disaster, a close-up national tragedy

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia – distant disaster, a close-up national tragedy

Kaieteur News – Nineteen of Guyana’s young children are dead in Mahdia. A fire in a school dormitory ended their young lives, with seven more injured and being attended to, as this is...

Big wins for Cummings Lodge of Day 2

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Big wins for Cummings Lodge of Day 2

Oceaneering U14 Indoor Hockey League… Kaieteur Sports – The second day of the Oceaneering U14 Indoor Hockey League held on Friday, May 19, at Saints Stanislaus College saw strong performances...

Coalition calls for National Day of Mourning on Friday

May 23, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition calls for National Day of Mourning on Friday

Kaieteur News – The APNU+AFC Coalition has called on Guyanese to make Friday- Independence Day a National Day of Mourning for the deaths of some 18 school girls and boy at the Mahdia Secondary...

Delroy Tyrrell sets new national records at TT’s National Long Course Swim meet

May 23, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Delroy Tyrrell sets new national records at TT’s National Long Course Swim meet

Kaieteur Sports – Delight swept over the National Aquatic Centre in Balmain, Couva, as Delroy Tyrrell, a talented swimmer from Guyana, emerged victorious at Trinidad and Tobago’s National...

Guyanese are more aware that something is definitely wrong with the Exxon contract

May 23, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese are more aware that something is definitely wrong with the Exxon contract

Dear Editor Kaieteur News – One of the things about which I am confident is that Guyanese are now more certain than ever that there is something definitely wrong with the existing GoG/Exxon...

Thoughts and prayers for the relatives of the victims of the Mahdia tragedy

May 23, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thoughts and prayers for the relatives of the victims of the Mahdia tragedy

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones due to the fire in Mahdia. May their young souls rest in peace. Given what has occurred, we must see a...

We are too dishonest for our own good

May 23, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are too dishonest for our own good

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – The recent deadly fire tragedy at Mahdia, where at least 20 schoolgirls lost their lives when their dormitory became engulfed in flames, tells us one fundamental...

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Land, taxes and penalties

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more