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Small country, Suriname, promises Big Impact on championships

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Small country, Suriname, promises Big Impact on championships

Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys/girls Boxing Extravaganza Kaieteur Sports – Suriname, a small Dutch-speaking colony to the east of Guyana, gained its independence in 1975 from the...

Promised made, promised fulfilled, via Project “Cricket Gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana”, compliments of Derrick Kallicharran and friends

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Promised made, promised fulfilled, via Project “Cricket Gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana”, compliments of Derrick Kallicharran and friends

Kaieteur Sports – Three under17 cricketers, who represented Berbice in the recently concluded inter county tournament organised by the Guyana Cricket Board, have received their cricket gear...

Corruption and inflation: imagination or real conditions

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Corruption and inflation: imagination or real conditions

Kaieteur News – Dare to peak about corruption and cost-of-living in this country and government gets bent out of shape, loses its thin coating of cool. Products of overblown imagination,...

Independent oversight oil body

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Independent oversight oil body

Kaieteur News – If an independent oversight oil sector body is put in place, the already dubious utility of Vice President Jagdeo withers to zero. If an independent oversight oil sector body...

Jagdeo’s attitude towards Kaieteur News not consistent with standards expected of public officials

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo’s attitude towards Kaieteur News not consistent with standards expected of public officials

Kaieteur News – It is my belief that Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo’s displayed crass arrogance and contempt towards reporters from Kaieteur News at yesterday’s press conference. In so...

Many of our politicians are mentally at rest; some are mentally at sea; some are without a moral compass

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Many of our politicians are mentally at rest; some are mentally at sea; some are without a moral compass

Dear Editor, Kahlil Gibran once said, “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them”. He was certainly speaking to Guyanese who collectively know Guyana needs a new...

Venezuelans should continue to mount a peaceful challenge to electoral fraud

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Venezuelans should continue to mount a peaceful challenge to electoral fraud

Dear Editor, The words “Love, Peace, and Truth”, have different meanings and have had a variety of interpretations over time. Recently, the PPP with their well-oiled machinery have...

Freedom to Protest for democracy in USA, Guyana, Venezuela

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freedom to Protest for democracy in USA, Guyana, Venezuela

Dear Editor, The protests (and state sponsored violence against protesters) for respecting the will of voters (democracy) in Venezuela (that voted last July 28) brings back memories of responses to...

Utility service providers continue to damage the roads

Aug 09, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Utility service providers continue to damage the roads

Dear Editor, This, I have seen all my life from 1964 to 1992, the Government of Guyana had a way of building new roads. However, just after the completion of these roads, the Guyana Telephone Company...

ExxonM, EPA bosses facing arrest after failing to appear before Parliamentary Committee

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonM, EPA bosses facing arrest after failing to appear before Parliamentary Committee

…MPs unanimously agree to expedite process Kaieteur News – American oil major, ExxonMobil and regulator of the petroleum sector, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been...

New Oil PSA toothless without Petroleum Commission – Glenn Lall says

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on New Oil PSA toothless without Petroleum Commission – Glenn Lall says

Kaieteur News – Civil Society Advocate and businessman Glenn Lall is questioning the Government of Guyana’s reason to have in place oil laws and a new agreements but no governing body to...

Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court

Aug 08, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a U.N. court to join South Africa’s lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said. Turkey’s ambassador to...

Massive protest over high cost of living grips oil-producing Nigeria

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Massive protest over high cost of living grips oil-producing Nigeria

Kaieteur News – Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest economies, blessed with abundant oil and natural resources, is currently grappling with one of its worst economic crises. The nation’s...

Venezuelan killed by countrymen in Diamond

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan killed by countrymen in Diamond

…wife stabbed as attackers hijack car Kaieteur News – A woman on Tuesday night was forced to watch her husband being stabbed to death in Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD). She too was stabbed...

Security guard jailed for beating wife

Aug 08, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Security guard jailed for beating wife

Kaieteur News – A 52-year-old security guard of Norton Street, Lodge Georgetown was on Wednesday sentenced to three months in prison after admitting to assaulting his wife. The man also faced...

CDB and global infrastructure facility forge new alliance to boost private sector

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on CDB and global infrastructure facility forge new alliance to boost private sector

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB, the Bank) is in a new alliance with six International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and private sector interests to mobilise greater private...

AFC says deeply concerned over mismanagement of public funds on road contract

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on AFC says deeply concerned over mismanagement of public funds on road contract

Kaieteur News – The Alliance For Change (AFC) said it is deeply concerned about the recent revelations regarding the significant advance payment made to the Trinidadian contractor Kalco for the...

Sophia man shot by ‘Hulk’ hours after row

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man shot by ‘Hulk’ hours after row

Kaieteur News – Juhu Mingo, a 27-year-old resident of Cummings Park, Sophia was shot by a man identified only as ‘Hulk’ on Tuesday, August 6. At about 17:50 hrs., an argument erupted...

PAHO, Canadian agency launch programme to prevent excessive healthcare testing and treatment

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO, Canadian agency launch programme to prevent excessive healthcare testing and treatment

Kaieteur News – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) have announced a new partnership to address excessive or unnecessary testing and treatment in...

Govt. accepts $5.5M in compensation after vessel crashed into harbour bridge

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. accepts $5.5M in compensation after vessel crashed into harbour bridge

Kaieteur News – The MV Princess Anisa, a vessel owned by INS Shipping, that drifted into the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Jul 24, 2024, has fully compensated the corporation for the damages...

UN resident coordinator ends tour of duty

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on UN resident coordinator ends tour of duty

Kaieteur News – Yeşim Oruç, United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator of the UN System in Guyana, will end her assignment today after serving in this position since August 2021, the agency...

14 contractors vying for retendered A-Line pump station project

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on 14 contractors vying for retendered A-Line pump station project

Kaieteur News – Following the termination of the previous contract, it was revealed during the latest opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) that...

Bus driver dies in three-vehicle smash-up

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver dies in three-vehicle smash-up

Kaieteur News – A minibus driver lost his life on Wednesday morning after he collided with two motorcars on the Garden of Eden Public Road East Bank Demerara. Dead is Keith Caesar. Police said...

Pres. Ali promises police outpost improved infrastructure for Bourda Market

Aug 08, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Pres. Ali promises police outpost improved infrastructure for Bourda Market

…after vendors complain about motorbike thieves, garbage build-up Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said that the Government intends to place a mobil police outpost and fix...

Govt.’s decision to retroactively implement excise tax increase on re-migrants must be challenged in Court – Nigel Hughes

Aug 08, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Govt.’s decision to retroactively implement excise tax increase on re-migrants must be challenged in Court – Nigel Hughes

Kaieteur News – A move taken by the Government to retroactively implement excise tax increase on re-migrants is likely to attract legal proceedings. This is according to Leader of the Alliance...

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Guyana to participate at 2024 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup

A presidential display of “Project Management”

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- So, there I was, blissfully dreaming about cappuccinos and tropical sunsets, when I heard... more