August 2024

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A day at de races

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A day at de races

Kaieteur News – Horse racing is a mirror of class relations in society. Dem boys seh, if yuh want fuh see who running things, go to the races. Is not the horses who run things, but the big ones...

Has Jagdeo changed his position on the position of Foreign Secretary?

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Peeping Tom Comments Off on Has Jagdeo changed his position on the position of Foreign Secretary?

Kaieteur News – The Stabroek News of May 17th 2019 reported that then Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, as questioning the decision of the Granger administration to create the post of Foreign...

Govt. trusting Exxon’s oil reserves estimate

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on Govt. trusting Exxon’s oil reserves estimate

Kaieteur News – We reported last week that Vice President Bharrat is prepared to go along with what ExxonMbil has told him regarding Guyana’s current oil reserves. At a news conference last...

Miner admits to buying and selling weed

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Miner admits to buying and selling weed

Kaieteur News – A miner caught with marijuana in his possession on Saturday told police that he bought the drugs from Berbice, Region Six, to retail. The miner, Ronel Trotman, 38, of Golden...

$475M Cemetery Road project to be fully completed today – Edghill

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on $475M Cemetery Road project to be fully completed today – Edghill

Kaieteur News – The long-awaited $475 million Cemetery Road rehabilitation project which faced significant challenges will now be finished within the next 48 hours, enhancing the aesthetic of...

House approves $16B more for GPL to purchase fuel

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on House approves $16B more for GPL to purchase fuel

Kaieteur News – The National Assembly on Friday approved the total sum of $16 Billion to purchase fuel for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. The Committee of Supply first approved the sum...

Stolen fuel from toppled truck found at businessman’s shop

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Stolen fuel from toppled truck found at businessman’s shop

Kaieteur News – A Bartica businessman was on Saturday arrested after he admitted to stealing fuel from a truck that toppled along a trail near Takatu Landing, Region Seven. The stolen fuel is...

Tennis heat up the courts at NRC

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Tennis heat up the courts at NRC

Inaugural ‘One Guyana’ President’s Games… Kaieteur Sports – The 2024 ‘One Guyana’ President’s Games kicked off its Lawn Tennis segment in electrifying fashion on Saturday at the...

Int’l Building Expo or Guyana Presidential Expo

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Int’l Building Expo or Guyana Presidential Expo

Kaieteur News – If President Mohamed Irfaan Ali wishes to be taken seriously, he must conduct himself with the seriousness befitting his high office. His personal instincts may be to shout...

Kares T10: Montra, Mahdia, Titans and Diamond seal semi-final spots

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Kares T10: Montra, Mahdia, Titans and Diamond seal semi-final spots

Kaieteur Sporst – The semi-finals of the second Kares One Guyana T10 Tapeball Blast promises to be filled with blockbuster action, given the caliber of teams sealing spots at the National...

PAHO urges Caribbean countries to strengthen Mpox surveillance

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on PAHO urges Caribbean countries to strengthen Mpox surveillance

Kaieteur News – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has called on countries of the Americas, including the Caribbean, to strengthen surveillance, including laboratory detection and...

Guyana Cup 2024: Slingerz Racing Stables’ Olympic Kremlin steals Guyana Cup

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana Cup 2024: Slingerz Racing Stables’ Olympic Kremlin steals Guyana Cup

Kaieteur Sports – Javed Ali and his team at Slingerz Racing Stables were triumphant at the 16th running of the Guyana Cup when Olympic Kremlin pulled off an upset win in the 1600 meters feature...

SLBA President warns that his charges are coming with ‘Blood in their eyes’

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on SLBA President warns that his charges are coming with ‘Blood in their eyes’

Kaieteur Sports – President of the St Lucia Boxing Association (SLBA), David ‘Shakes’ Christopher, is optimistic about his team’s success at the impending Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean...

Agri. Minister discusses medium, long term plans for Region Five

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Agri. Minister discusses medium, long term plans for Region Five

Kaieteur News – Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday said government is working to modernise the country’s drainage and irrigation system. The minister made the disclosure...

Shuttle Strikers win inaugural ‘One Guyana’ President’s Cup Badminton title

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Shuttle Strikers win inaugural ‘One Guyana’ President’s Cup Badminton title

Kaieteur Sports – The President’s Cup tournament, organised by the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports in collaboration with the National Sports Commission, concluded on Saturday at...

President Ali’s ‘GIGO’ approach reflects the state of Capital City

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on President Ali’s ‘GIGO’ approach reflects the state of Capital City

Dear Editor, On Wednesday, August 7, President Irfaan Ali descended his royal throne and mingled with the common folks at Bourda Market. It appeared to be an impromptu visit so, naturally, one would...

We are living in “Interesting Times”

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on We are living in “Interesting Times”

Dear Editor The world is becoming a dangerous place as countries throughout the world pursue their own respective “far-right” ideology. We have Russia invading Ukraine on the pretext that...

‘Elections skulduggery’

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ‘Elections skulduggery’

Dear Editor Elections rigging, is using‘illegitimate and undemocratic means of tilting the playing field clearly in the favour of one party or candidate at the expense of others.’ Since it...

Freddie attacked me because I exposed the inconvenient truth of racism that the world knows about

Aug 12, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Freddie attacked me because I exposed the inconvenient truth of racism that the world knows about

Dear Editor I recently wrote three Letters to the Editor. The first addressed the European Zoo like imagery of People of African Descent being asked to parade in African clothing to receive small...

Contract for reconstruction of Soesdyke-Linden Highway to be signed soon – Pres. Ali

Aug 12, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Contract for reconstruction of Soesdyke-Linden Highway to be signed soon – Pres. Ali

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali on Thursday evening announced that the US$161M contract to upgrade the Soesdyke – Linden highway will soon be signed between the government and the...

Some items within a comprehensive teacher compensation package

Aug 12, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some items within a comprehensive teacher compensation package

Dear Editor, Now that the negotiations have once again stalled between the GTU and the MoE, both sides should revisit what is possible. Although not exhaustive, CRG suggest considering discussions...

Guyanese contemplating running from oil-rich country over high cost-of-living – UK media reports

Aug 11, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese contemplating running from oil-rich country over high cost-of-living – UK media reports

Kaieteur News – The Guardian, a UK based media house recently reported that citizens of oil-rich Guyana are contemplating to leave the country as the cost of food soars, making it difficult to...

Jagdeo changes tune on interest rates charged on ExxonMobil’s investments

Aug 11, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo changes tune on interest rates charged on ExxonMobil’s investments

Jagdeo before: “Regardless of whether you make the financing in the form of a loan or equity, you have to get a rate (of) return. There is a cost of capital and that is how it is.” Jagdeo now:...

Israeli strike kills nearly 100 in Gaza school refuge, civil defence officials say

Aug 11, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Israeli strike kills nearly 100 in Gaza school refuge, civil defence officials say

CAIRO, Aug 10 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City school compound housing displaced Palestinian families killed around 100 people, the Gaza Civil Emergency Service said on...

Firearm, stolen items recovered after McDoom robbery

Aug 11, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Firearm, stolen items recovered after McDoom robbery

Kaieteur News – Following an armed robbery at the ‘Thousand Dollar Store’ in McDoom, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Friday, detectives have recovered a .32 pistol along with several...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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