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Fisherman finds body while catching iguana

Aug 21, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman finds body while catching iguana

Kaieteur News – A fisherman hunting for iguanas in his backyard on Saturday stumbled upon the body of a taxi driver who had reportedly been missing for two days. The body was later identified...

Six years later: Leguan Stelling contractor misses another deadline

Aug 21, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Six years later: Leguan Stelling contractor misses another deadline

Kaieteur News – While the government of Guyana is steadfast in its commitment to enhancing the nation’s landscape and infrastructure, it is equally stern in holding contractors responsible...

Taxi-driver arrested for possession of air gun, revolver

Aug 21, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi-driver arrested for possession of air gun, revolver

Kaieteur News – A taxi-driver was on Saturday morning arrested after he was found with an Air Gun and a .32 Taurus Revolver in his Lot 161 Area ‘G’ Stratsphey, East-Coast-Demerara,...

Guyana secure an impressive six wins on day two

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana secure an impressive six wins on day two

6th Edition of the Winfield Braithwaite Schoolboys and Schoolgirls Junior Boxing C/ship Kaieteur Sports – The second day of the Winfield Braithwaite International Junior’s Schoolboy and...

Spain defeat England in final of record-breaking Women’s World Cup

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Spain defeat England in final of record-breaking Women’s World Cup

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Spain defeated England 1-0 in the Women’s World Cup final yesterday, capping off a tournament that has broken attendance and TV records and raised hopes of a surge in...

Briton John claims Regan Rodrigues Memorial Cycle Race title

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Briton John claims Regan Rodrigues Memorial Cycle Race title

Kaieteur Sports – The 19th edition of the Regan Rodrigues Memorial Cycle Race, a sponsored event by Ricks and Sari’s, took place on Saturday morning within the confines of the National...

Archibald PB in men’s 100m semis; Abrams bows out of women’s 400m

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archibald PB in men’s 100m semis; Abrams bows out of women’s 400m

…Guyana wraps up participation at World Athletics Championships By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s journey at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest, Hungary, concluded...

ORSCA/Adana Homes 10-10 final set for Sunday

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on ORSCA/Adana Homes 10-10 final set for Sunday

Kaieteur Sports – Excitement galore is anticipated for this Sunday when the 2023 Ontario Round-Arm Softball Association (ORSCA)/Adana Homes 10-10 knockout competition final will take place....

Superstars U-16 beat Vaughan Cricket Club in T&DCA Juniors T20 competition

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Superstars U-16 beat Vaughan Cricket Club in T&DCA Juniors T20 competition

Kaieteur Sports – Superstars defeated Vaughan Cricket Club by eight wickets last Sunday in the continuation of the 2023 Toronto and District Cricket Association (T&DCA) juniors 20-overs...

Tons from Cornelia Ida and Wakenaam Players highlight ACG’s One Guyana Festival Cricket Match in Toronto

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tons from Cornelia Ida and Wakenaam Players highlight ACG’s One Guyana Festival Cricket Match in Toronto

Kaieteur Sports – Canada-based Guyanese players Zaheer Allard and Krishna Persaud hit 117 retired out and 107 respectively to highlight the Association of Concerned Guyanese (ACG) One Guyana...

Uitvlugt Warriors humble Pouderoyen FC 2-1

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Uitvlugt Warriors humble Pouderoyen FC 2-1

Kaieteur Sports – Uitvlugt Warriors maintained their unbeaten run in the West Demerara FA’s Senior Men’s League (SML) when they held off a stiff challenge by Pouderoyen FC to win...

Tullow, Oh tricky Tullow

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Tullow, Oh tricky Tullow

Kaieteur News – When Guyanese thought they had seen and heard the last of the UK’s Tullow Oil operating here, the company had its own plans already firmly cemented. In essence, Tullow Oil...

The GMSA is seeking impermissible protection

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The GMSA is seeking impermissible protection

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) must be operating in some alternative universe. Surely, the main representative organization for manufacturing and...

NORTON’S CALL FOR AFRICANS TO GO INTO BUSINESS IS HISTORIC

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on NORTON’S CALL FOR AFRICANS TO GO INTO BUSINESS IS HISTORIC

Dear Editor, In my letter of 14 April 2021 published some three years ago in the KN, I had suggested that Africans need to embrace capitalism in Guyana. Now three years later, the Opposition...

What is GTT doing with the Pinktober Funds?

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is GTT doing with the Pinktober Funds?

Dear Editor, There is a saying that goes “Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape”. Today, I heard that saying and was immediately reminded of GTT and the Pinktober funds it has...

Roger Forbes Luncheon – remember the name

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Roger Forbes Luncheon – remember the name

Dear Editor, There comes a time in the life of every nation when its history demands the presence of a figure that stands tall, well above the fray, with a commitment and will to lift the life of its...

Reparative justice for the Caribbean remains a work in progress

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reparative justice for the Caribbean remains a work in progress

Dear Editor, The heirs of a slave owning family is following in the footsteps of the heirs of another slave owning family in offering apologies and making a contribution. That the Gladstone family...

Real Works is needed, not a Facade

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Real Works is needed, not a Facade

Dear Editor, One cannot be amused watching Min. Edghill as he parades to various areas with selected media personnel to inspect works undertaken by contractors. It’s interesting to see how he...

Guyana is truly a land of paradoxes

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is truly a land of paradoxes

Dear Editor, First, we say crime is down but we won’t allow tints on vehicles because of crime. Then we allow our politicians, police and others to drive around with tinted vehicles, including...

Disgusted by treatment at Woodland’s Hospital

Aug 21, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disgusted by treatment at Woodland’s Hospital

Dear Editor, On Saturday last, my mother’s health deteriorated, and as a result, we rushed her to Woodland’s Hospital at the Emergency ward. We reached at around 12:30 pm and at that point in...

VP Jagdeo loses temper when questioned on ExxonMobil’s US-multibillion $$$ expenses

Aug 20, 2023 KNews ExxonMobil, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on VP Jagdeo loses temper when questioned on ExxonMobil’s US-multibillion $$$ expenses

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo during a media engagement at the Arthur Chung Conference Center (ACCC) on Thursday lost his temper when questioned by a Kaieteur News reporter on...

Govt. would not hand over oil sector management to Parliament

Aug 20, 2023 KNews ExxonMobil, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on Govt. would not hand over oil sector management to Parliament

– Opposition would try to cripple the industry or delay operations – VP Jagdeo By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – The Guyana Government has rejected a number of legislative amendments...

AFC wants feasibility study on Guyana’s oil refinery

Aug 20, 2023 KNews ExxonMobil, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on AFC wants feasibility study on Guyana’s oil refinery

Kaieteur News – As the world transitions to cleaner energy sources amid threats from climate change, the Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling on the Government of Guyana (GoG) to conduct a...

Govt. unsure if Chinese company paid off US$5M owed for GTT shares it sold 10 years ago

Aug 20, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. unsure if Chinese company paid off US$5M owed for GTT shares it sold 10 years ago

Kaieteur News – Ten years after selling out its 20% share in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to a Hong Kong firm for US$30M, the government is unsure if an outstanding amount...

Man stabbed to death at Reg. 7 backdam, three persons arrested

Aug 20, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Man stabbed to death at Reg. 7 backdam, three persons arrested

Kaieteur News – Police in Region Seven are investigating the murder of a miner identified as ‘Sunny’ who was reportedly stabbed to death at Kumung Kumung Backdam, Puruni River, following an...

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Legacy meets hunger in uncompromising Leopold St, Bent St final

May 01, 2026

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ decides Georgetown champions tonight Kaieteur Sports – Former champions Leopold Street stormed into the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown...

The stranger next door

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – As late as the early 1970s, when night fell, dinner consumed and the children completed their homework, members of the household would usually sit either in the sitting room or on the verandah and discuss various matters, but mainly the events of the day. In those days there...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

APOLOGY AND RETRACTION TO MR. DEVINDRA KISSOON

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On April 29, 2026, I published in Kaieteur News, as part of The GHK Lall Column, a piece entitled “A special kind of lawyering, and at its best” (the “Column”). Mr. Kissoon has never acted for the Government on the Gas-to-Energy Project. He has never received any...

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