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Several Reg. 10 communities to get new water wells

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Several Reg. 10 communities to get new water wells

Kaieteur News – In expanding its programme this year, the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is planning on spending another $152 million to drill more water wells in a few communities in Region 10 and at...

Draughts Association holds 12th Biennial General Meeting

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Draughts Association holds 12th Biennial General Meeting

Kaieteur News – The 12th Biennial General Meeting of the National Draughts Association was held on Friday 16th, February 2024 in the Boardroom of Transport sports Club. Chairman of the...

Campbelle to lead star-studded Women’s team

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Campbelle to lead star-studded Women’s team

Kaieteur Sports – Senior all-rounder Shemaine Campbelle was named Captain of the Guyana’s Women Super50 and T20 teams, ahead of the upcoming CWI Regional tournament. Guyana Cricket Board...

A More Prosperous and Happier Life Will Come as We Learn and Enable Ourselves to Produce and Share More and Better Goods and Services

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on A More Prosperous and Happier Life Will Come as We Learn and Enable Ourselves to Produce and Share More and Better Goods and Services

Dear Editor I write in response to the headline, “You can’t build roads and teachers hungry”, attributed to the GTU President. Certainly, our teachers and all of us Guyanese need and are worthy...

Dr Jagan, Basdeo Panday & Race Politics

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Dr Jagan, Basdeo Panday & Race Politics

Dear Editor, A recent letter asserted that Dr Jagan’s politics transcended race, he didn’t appeal to Indians, and that he tried to bring the two major races together. Evidence suggested...

‘Avoid polarized exclusionary politics.’

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ‘Avoid polarized exclusionary politics.’

Dear Editor The freedom of a people depends upon its vigilance in designing, establishing, reforming, and implementing governance arrangements to keep the political establishment in check, and it is...

In one generation we can transform ourselves into a successful nation

Feb 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on In one generation we can transform ourselves into a successful nation

Dear Editor A country’s success does not depend on its natural resources, otherwise since Independence the people of Guyana would have been rich from Guyana’s gold, diamonds, bauxite,...

‘Tobago oil spill a stark reminder there is no safe way to produce or transport oil’

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Tobago oil spill a stark reminder there is no safe way to produce or transport oil’

– Int’l Lawyer, Melinda Janki Kaieteur News – In the wake of the oil spill that has adversely affected the island of Tobago and is now encroaching on Grenada and Venezuela,...

Japanese company profits US$800M from Guyana for FPSO order last year

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Japanese company profits US$800M from Guyana for FPSO order last year

…annual leasing costs not included Kaieteur News – Japanese shipbuilder MODEC reported revenues of US$800 million in 2023 related to its Guyana work, which accounted for about a quarter...

Private Sector to discuss role in ending nationwide teachers’ strike

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Private Sector to discuss role in ending nationwide teachers’ strike

Kaieteur News – Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Komal Singh has said that the Commission will be meeting next week to discuss whether there is a role for the Commission, as a...

Alleged drunken driver kills deputy toshao in accident

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Alleged drunken driver kills deputy toshao in accident

Kaieteur News – The driver of a Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) pick-up on Friday reportedly knocked down a motorcyclist and killed him along the Quarrie Access Trail, Central Rupununi, Region...

Speeding Cop dies in smash-up

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Speeding Cop dies in smash-up

Kaieteur News – A 41-year-old, Police Lance Corporal, attached to La Grange Police Station, was on Saturday morning killed in an accident after the motorcycle he was riding collided with...

Deh gat a word named ‘Schadenfreude’

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Deh gat a word named ‘Schadenfreude’

Dem boys seh… Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh dis country got ah real bad habit, yuh know. It is nasty habit. It is a disgraceful thing. We be like dem spectators at ah gladiator match,...

The lateral thinker

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS Peeping Tom Comments Off on The lateral thinker

Peeping tom… Kaieteur News – Jagdeo turned up at his last Press Conference with a spreadsheet which shows projected production that would continue until 2047. This was his defence in...

GCCI, gas project and possible disconnect

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on GCCI, gas project and possible disconnect

Kaieteur News – Richard Rambarran, Senior Vice President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has provided verbal backing for the chamber’s letter to the US Export Import...

Man, 21, granted bail for raping child under 16

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man, 21, granted bail for raping child under 16

A 21-year-old, resident of Success, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was on Friday charged allegedly raping a child. He appeared before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court and...

PANCAP turned 23 on Valentine’s Day

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on PANCAP turned 23 on Valentine’s Day

Kaieteur News – The Pan-Caribbean Partnership (PANCAP) against HIV and AIDS celebrated 23 years of service last Wednesday. PANCAP was established by the CARICOM Heads of Government on February,...

West Dem Secondary school student cops Guyana, China Friendship youth leadership prize for Region Three

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on West Dem Secondary school student cops Guyana, China Friendship youth leadership prize for Region Three

Kaieteur News – Malik Farley 15, a student of the West Demerara Secondary School is the new winner of the Guyana, China Friendship Youth Leadership prize for Region Three. Farley was selected...

Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Round-Up

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Round-Up

Kaieteur News – Below are several court cases which were heard at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, between February 12, 2024, and February 16, 2024. Monday Twenty-year-old Akeem Ali, known...

Teachers: have a conscience

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Teachers: have a conscience

Kaieteur News – “Teachers have to have a responsibility too. We have to be fair. We have to have a conscience, we can’t allow ourselves to become political pawns.” The speaker was...

Plaisance’s Mrs. Unis Bunbury joins centenarian club surrounded by well wishers on Love Day

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Plaisance’s Mrs. Unis Bunbury joins centenarian club surrounded by well wishers on Love Day

By Anasa Williams Kaieteur News – Just over 100 years ago on St Valentine’s Day, Walter and Lydia O’Neil welcomed a beautiful baby girl. They named her Unis Vernice O’Neil. In the...

Box Office: ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Easily Beats ‘Madame Web’ Over Valentine’s Day

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Box Office: ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Easily Beats ‘Madame Web’ Over Valentine’s Day

Source: Variety Kaieteur News – Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” stirred things up at the Valentine’s Day box office. The biopic about the reggae legend is outpacing estimates after...

US stingray falls pregnant despite having no mate

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on US stingray falls pregnant despite having no mate

Interesting Creatures… By Maddie Molloy BBC News – A stingray called Charlotte is pregnant despite not sharing her tank with a male for at least eight years. Charlotte is a rust-coloured...

“My home is where the heart is”, an exhibition opens to the public

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on “My home is where the heart is”, an exhibition opens to the public

Kaieteur News – “My home is where the heart is” is an exhibition that opens to the public on February 23, 2024 and runs until March 1 by Former Prime Minister of Guyana, Hamilton Green and...

Eleven beauties to vie for the Miss Guyana Teen with a Purpose Pageant, 2024 title

Feb 18, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Eleven beauties to vie for the Miss Guyana Teen with a Purpose Pageant, 2024 title

Kaieteur News – Eleven teenage beauties are set to vie for the Miss Guyana Teen with a Purpose Pageant, 2024 title slated to take place on April 20. According a statement from the pageant’s...

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Hope is what you rely on when you do not have a plan

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been comforted by something named “Hope”... more