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De system does not wuk!

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De system does not wuk!

Kaieteur News – Each year we government does manage to siphon hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars, only to produce… well, what exactly? A spectacular display of bureaucratic...

Oil and the ordinary man

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on Oil and the ordinary man

Editorial… Ordinary Guyanese are too weighed down with eking out a daily existence to care too much about oil and corruption, to be preoccupied with Guyana’s iniquities and inequities. They...

Govt. to spend $68M to construct five prefab health huts in Reg. 1

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. to spend $68M to construct five prefab health huts in Reg. 1

Kaieteur News – The government through the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region One is preparing to spend approximately $68 million to construct five prefabricated health huts in...

CDB to hold seminar on improving trade connectivity and logistics for growth

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on CDB to hold seminar on improving trade connectivity and logistics for growth

Kaieteur News – Recognising the critical importance of trade for economic growth, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is convening a seminar to examine essential imperatives for creating an...

Albouystown man gets bail on ganja trafficking charge

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Albouystown man gets bail on ganja trafficking charge

Kaieteur News – A 28-year-old contractor Quinn Neblet residing in Sussex Street, Albouystown, appeared before Senior Magistrate Clive Nurse on Monday on charges of ‘possession of...

Rainy season brings flooding to Black Bush Polder again

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Rainy season brings flooding to Black Bush Polder again

– residents blame poor drainage infrastructure Kaieteur News – Due to the incessant rain that began during Independence weekend, some Black Bush Polder communities, particularly...

GPL pre-qualifying contractors for major upgrades to electricity grid

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on GPL pre-qualifying contractors for major upgrades to electricity grid

Kaieteur News – As electricity outages continue to plague the nation even—with the addition of 36MW rented powership connected to the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (BDIS)—the...

A winner could end up a loser

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on A winner could end up a loser

Kaieteur News – The debate is on. In the wake of the unbelievable Manchester United FA Cup victory over neighbours, archrivals, and European football powerhouse, Manchester City, the issue is...

Man disappears from boat heading to Essequibo

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man disappears from boat heading to Essequibo

Kaieteur News – Relatives of a man who went missing from a boat on May 10, 2024 are seeking answers surrounding the circumstances of his disappearance. The man has been identified as Imlach...

Glasgow, De Rosario, Moriah-Welsh in Shabazz World Cup qualifier squad

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Glasgow, De Rosario, Moriah-Welsh in Shabazz World Cup qualifier squad

Kaieteur Sports – Chicago Fire’s Omari Glasgow and Seattle Sounders forward Osaze De Rosario have been named in Coach Jamaal Shabazz’s 24-man roster for Guyana’s start of their 2026...

BV man in court for cocaine and ganja trafficking

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on BV man in court for cocaine and ganja trafficking

Kaieteur News – A 46-year-old businessman appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Dexter Aulder also known as...

GSA, GTI and LTI on winners row in latest encounters

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on GSA, GTI and LTI on winners row in latest encounters

Youth Basketball Guyana Tertiary Basketball League (round 4) Kaieteur Sports – Action in the Youth Basketball Guyana Tertiary Basketball League, Round 4, continued at the National Gymnasium on...

Ogando, Archibald to headline Men’s 100m at AP Invitational

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Ogando, Archibald to headline Men’s 100m at AP Invitational

– Guyana, Dominican Republic and T&T in 4x100m Relay Kaieteur Sports – The Dominican Republic’s Alexander Ogando and Guyana’s Emanuel Archibald will headline the men’s 100m at...

Jettison exclusive narratives

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Jettison exclusive narratives

Dear Editor Last Sunday, we celebrated another Independence Day. But are we any closer to becoming a nation than on that fraught night in 1966 when we received all the symbols of “nationhood’ –...

Two letters on Israel’s continued annihilation of Palestine

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Two letters on Israel’s continued annihilation of Palestine

Dear Editor Two recent letters, both dealing with Israel’s ongoing annihilation of Palestine make instructive reading. The call by the group for the local conglomerate to divest itself of the...

Free education

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Free education

Dear Editor One of the high points of The PNC Administration, was the provision of free education from nursery to university. We are ever grateful to the PNC Government that such an offer could have...

UG Student Loan Agency engaged in discriminatory practices

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on UG Student Loan Agency engaged in discriminatory practices

Dear Editor, The government’s write-off of UG students’ loans is most welcomed. Thousands of Guyanese will be rewarded for having stayed and worked for the development of the country but how...

Only polls, not common sense, can determine popularity of politicians

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Only polls, not common sense, can determine popularity of politicians

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Gaylord Riley’s missive “Potpourri – Freddie Kissoon, Vishnu Bisram and AG Nandlall” (May 24) as it relates to remarks about me. I agree with the writer that...

Time to enforce a ban on plastic bags

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Time to enforce a ban on plastic bags

Dear Editor, Last Friday, after attending a funeral service, I stopped to purchase two packets of envelopes. The clerk placed it in a plastic bag that could easily hold ten times my purchase. Later,...

Guyana has made genuine gains in life expectancy, reducing child, maternal mortalities

Jun 04, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Guyana has made genuine gains in life expectancy, reducing child, maternal mortalities

Dear Editor Two daily newspapers prominently carried a letter penned by Dr. Kenrick Hunte. Dr. Hunte made reference to a statement by the President, HE Dr. Irfaan Ali, who stated last week that...

16,000 Americans demand US-EXIM Bank withhold funding for Guyana’s Gas-to-Energy project

Jun 03, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on 16,000 Americans demand US-EXIM Bank withhold funding for Guyana’s Gas-to-Energy project

…say project a disaster for country By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – More than 16,000 Americans have written to Chair of the United States Export-Import Bank (US-EXIM), Reta Jo Lewis demanding...

Oil Minister mum on whether full audit report of Exxon’s US$7.3B expenses released

Jun 03, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Oil Minister mum on whether full audit report of Exxon’s US$7.3B expenses released

Kaieteur News – Amid growing concerns as to whether the full audit report of ExxonMobil’s US$7.3B expenses has been released, the Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat is mum. The...

US expects Israel will accept Gaza ceasefire plan if Hamas does

Jun 03, 2024 Neeraj Khan News Comments Off on US expects Israel will accept Gaza ceasefire plan if Hamas does

(BBC NEWS) – The US government has “every expectation” that Israel will accept a ceasefire proposal that would begin with a six-week cessation of hostilities in Gaza if Hamas...

Proposed Engineers Bill geared at enhancing accountability — Min. Edghill

Jun 03, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Proposed Engineers Bill geared at enhancing accountability — Min. Edghill

As part of the government’s drive to ensure engineers executing public works are held accountable, the Engineer’s Bill will soon be tabled in the National Assembly. Minister of Public Works, Juan...

Cop caught on camera slapping man with gun

Jun 03, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Cop caught on camera slapping man with gun

Kaieteur News – A policeman was on Saturday caught on camera slapping a civilian in his face with his gun during a confrontation at Camp and Church Streets, Georgetown. The Guyana Police Force...