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Return on investment – the Guyana way

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Return on investment – the Guyana way

Kaieteur News – Give something to get something. When all the textbooks are written, lectures and dissertations delivered, this is what an investment is all about. Of course, it has much...

Jagdeo risks deserving ridicule

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Jagdeo risks deserving ridicule

Kaieteur News – What policies, and which minister, Mr. Jagdeo, when they are barely allowed to speak, usually have little to offer, because those reside with the chief national policymaker for...

If oil prices collapse, Guyana can find itself in a serious debt crisis

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on If oil prices collapse, Guyana can find itself in a serious debt crisis

Kaieteur News – In the early 1990s, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), then in opposition, was vocal about Guyana’s staggering per capita debt, one of the highest in the world at the...

PPP must be condemned for using Emancipation Day to divide and dishonour Afro-Guyanese

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP must be condemned for using Emancipation Day to divide and dishonour Afro-Guyanese

Dear Editor, The PNCR condemns the actions of the PPP government in using this year’s Emancipation Day observance to seek to divide and dishonor the Afro-Guyanese community and to undermine its...

To not produce verifiable proof of victory sends an ominous message

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on To not produce verifiable proof of victory sends an ominous message

Dear Editor, A declaration was made at midnight that 80 percent of the votes were counted and the incumbent won 51 percent, while the challenger got 44 percent. On this basis the incumbent was...

Sir Clive Lloyd is a gentle giant

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Sir Clive Lloyd is a gentle giant

Dear Editor, Sir Clive Lloyd was recently conferred with the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC), the region’s highest honour at the 47th regular meeting of the conference of CARICOM Heads of...

Another aspect of diaspora engagement was the New York job fair

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Another aspect of diaspora engagement was the New York job fair

Dear Editor, “The event was a success and is a clear manifestation of the GoG’s (Government of Guyana) interest and commitment to ensuring that the Diaspora is integrally involved is the...

The sloth of Justice in Guyana

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sloth of Justice in Guyana

Dear Editor, The sloth of justice in Guyana continues to manifest itself. Four years to get the elections case to this stage is ridiculous, but it still falls short of the time it is taking to have...

Urgent call for stricter penalties for gun and drug offenders

Jul 31, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent call for stricter penalties for gun and drug offenders

Dear Editor, I am writing to express deep concern regarding the escalating issues of gun violence and drug trafficking that are severely affecting our nation, Guyana. Given our relatively small...

Mozambique demands oil companies provide salaries, contract sums to Govt.

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Mozambique demands oil companies provide salaries, contract sums to Govt.

– while Jagdeo says Guyana has no say in award of contracts by ExxonM Kaieteur News – The Government of Mozambique is demanding that oil companies operating there provide information on...

GRA’s imposition of 30% excise tax on re-migrant illegal – Court rules

Jul 30, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on GRA’s imposition of 30% excise tax on re-migrant illegal – Court rules

– urged to refund those who were overtaxed Kaieteur News – Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday granted an order declaring that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA)’s...

Gaza a ‘polio epidemic area’, says Health Ministry

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Gaza a ‘polio epidemic area’, says Health Ministry

(ALJAZEERA) – Gaza’s health ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the Palestinian enclave, blaming Israel’s devastating military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a...

Man dies after run over by soldier’s car

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies after run over by soldier’s car

Kaieteur News – A 36-year-old resident of Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice (WCB) was killed on Monday morning after he was run over by a motorcar driven by a Private of the Guyana Defence Force...

Man charged with attempted murder of 6-year-old

Jul 30, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man charged with attempted murder of 6-year-old

Kaieteur News – A 29-year-old construction worker was on Monday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court following an attempted murder charge. The accused,...

Man rapes, kills female sex worker

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Man rapes, kills female sex worker

Kaieteur News – At about 19:00hrs Monday, police arrested the 25-year-old suspect who allegedly strangled Miracarmen Rodrigues Serrano, a 26-year-old female sex worker from Santa Elena De...

Trial into 2020 election fraud case opens

Jul 30, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trial into 2020 election fraud case opens

Kaieteur News – After four years of delays, the trial for the 2020 Elections fraud case finally got underway on Monday when Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Sonia Parag...

Man wanted for murder in US, nabbed in Guyana

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Man wanted for murder in US, nabbed in Guyana

Kaieteur News – Ranks from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Special Branch on Monday afternoon arrested Rakeem Antonio Gilgeous, a citizen of the United States (U.S) who is...

Alleged chicken smuggler hospitalised with gunshot wounds

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged chicken smuggler hospitalised with gunshot wounds

Kaieteur News – An alleged chicken smuggler is still hospitalised nursing gunshot wounds after he was shot by Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement officers on Saturday evening at the...

Guyana’s health institutions transitioning to renewable energy – Health Minister

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s health institutions transitioning to renewable energy – Health Minister

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s health institutions are transitioning to renewable energy, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony disclosed on Sunday at a climate change, health, sepsis and justice...

Berbician drowns at Resort

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Berbician drowns at Resort

Kaieteur News – Nineteen-year-old Navin Ramnaught of No.1 Village, Berbice lost his life on Sunday after he reportedly drowned at the Splashmins Resort located along the Soesdyke-Linden...

Govt. to spend $1B to purchase new hydrographic survey vessel

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to spend $1B to purchase new hydrographic survey vessel

Kaieteur News – The government through the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), an agency under the Ministry of Public Works is preparing to spend approximately $1,093,812,500 to procure...

Contractor who bid half of engineer’s $123M estimate awarded Lusignan Market project

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor who bid half of engineer’s $123M estimate awarded Lusignan Market project

Kaieteur News – Out of the 49 contractors who submitted bids to construct the Lusignan Market located on the East Coast Demerara (ECD), R&P Engineering & General Construction, the...

Kitty man remanded for possession of firearms, ammo

Jul 30, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Kitty man remanded for possession of firearms, ammo

Kaieteur News – Forty-six-year-old Eon Fagundes was remanded to prison, on Monday, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer three charges: possession of firearm without...

Education key to effective policing – Acting Top Cop

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Education key to effective policing – Acting Top Cop

Kaieteur News – Commissioner of Police (ag) Clifton Hicken on Sunday stressed the importance of the pursuit of higher education by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF). The acting Top Cop...

195 persons selected for 1st International Human Rights Law Certificate Course

Jul 30, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on 195 persons selected for 1st International Human Rights Law Certificate Course

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance (MPAG) on Monday launched an International Human Rights Law Certificate Course, at the Savannah Suites, Pegasus Hotel,...

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Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more