September 2024

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Is the labelling of Guyana as an autocratic society by some a specious or trustworthy claim?

Sep 21, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the labelling of Guyana as an autocratic society by some a specious or trustworthy claim?

Dear Editor, For Guyanese to feel overwhelmed by the chatter about ‘autocracy’ and ‘democracy’ within the recent past is quite understandable. Several individuals, including myself,...

Woeful waste of money in circumstances where democratic norms are ignored

Sep 21, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Woeful waste of money in circumstances where democratic norms are ignored

Dear Editor, When will this madness, this wasteful spending spree come to an end? Instead, we have the top brass of the PPP Government talking about democracy in their speeches to the local and...

Public Reflections on Fourth Anniversary

Sep 21, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public Reflections on Fourth Anniversary

Dear Editor, Last August 2nd the fourth anniversary of the current administration was observed without much of the fanfare and spirit of jubilation and hype that was present after the first...

Former finance minister questions legality of using oil money to pay ExxonMobil for pipeline

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Former finance minister questions legality of using oil money to pay ExxonMobil for pipeline

Kaieteur News – Former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan has raised questions regarding the legality of using oil money to fund the pipeline being constructed by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited...

Jagdeo blames GPL’s management, old transmission lines for constant blackouts

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo blames GPL’s management, old transmission lines for constant blackouts

Kaieteur News – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday blamed the management of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) as well as the old transmission lines for the daily blackouts citizens are...

Remote attacks push Hezbollah and Israel to the brink of war

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Remote attacks push Hezbollah and Israel to the brink of war

Aljazeera – Lebanon has suffered two days of seemingly random explosions of hand-held communication devices used by Hezbollah members across the country and in Syria. Analysts say this has...

Exxon says not all costs for training being recovered

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon says not all costs for training being recovered

Kaieteur News – President of ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL), Alistair Routledge has said that the company is not recovering all of its investments in training of Guyanese to prepare them for...

Man wanted for Levoy Taljit’s murder arrested

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Man wanted for Levoy Taljit’s murder arrested

11 years after… Kaieteur News – More than 11 years after the mysterious disappearance and murder of Levoy Taljit, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has announced the arrest of a man they had...

Lawyers seeking answers from Top Cop over search of ‘Melly Mel’s’ relatives’ home

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyers seeking answers from Top Cop over search of ‘Melly Mel’s’ relatives’ home

Kaieteur News – A battery of lawyers has written the Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken seeking answers on the legal basis for searching the home of relatives of social activist, Melissa...

Alleged wife beater shot during scuffle with police

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged wife beater shot during scuffle with police

Kaieteur News – An alleged wife beater was shot on Wednesday during a scuffle with police, who were responding to an assault report made by the man’s wife at Little Diamond Squatting Area,...

Man in court for $6.4M land sale scam

Sep 20, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man in court for $6.4M land sale scam

Kaieteur News – A 56-year-old man from Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD), on Wednesday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged for allegedly defrauding an American citizen in a...

500 women to benefit from Govt’s new skills training initiative

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on 500 women to benefit from Govt’s new skills training initiative

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has launched a new skills training initiative that aims to transform the lives of 500 women across the country. The programme...

Cozier community gets $261M pump station

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Cozier community gets $261M pump station

Kaieteur News – Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha on Thursday commissioned a new $261 million pump station at Cozier, Lower Pomeroon in Region Two. The project was being undertaken by...

$191M set aside for new annex at recently commissioned Yarrowkabra School

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on $191M set aside for new annex at recently commissioned Yarrowkabra School

Kaieteur News – With $790 million already spent to construct the Yarrowkabra Secondary School, the facility is set to get a new annex which is estimated to cost an additional $191 million. The...

Baracara students to be accommodated at new N/A Amerindian hostel

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Baracara students to be accommodated at new N/A Amerindian hostel

Kaieteur News – Students from Baracara, a riverain community in Region Six, will soon benefit from accommodation at the newly renovated Amerindian Hostel in New Amsterdam. The $11 million...

Guyana, Qatar sign MoU to strengthen biodiversity conservation, management

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Qatar sign MoU to strengthen biodiversity conservation, management

Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana, through the Protected Areas Commission (PAC), has formalised an agreement with the State of Qatar, marking a significant step in strengthening...

PUBLIC ADVISORY- HIGH TIDES ALERT

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on PUBLIC ADVISORY- HIGH TIDES ALERT

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works would like to advise the general public to take all necessary precautions during the spring tides period from September 15, 2024 to September 22,...

10,000 Little Diamond residents to gain access to water

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on 10,000 Little Diamond residents to gain access to water

Kaieteur News – Following the completion of ongoing works on the water distribution system at the new housing development in Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara, some 10,000 residents will soon...

PAHO and MSD launch project to improve maternal health in Latin America

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO and MSD launch project to improve maternal health in Latin America

Kaieteur News – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and MSD, known as Merck & Co. Inc., in the United States and Canada on Thursday launched a partnership to improve health care and...

Rystad: Platform Electrification Could Slash Upstream Emissions by 86%

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Rystad: Platform Electrification Could Slash Upstream Emissions by 86%

Kaieteur News – Oil and gas companies can slash emissions from producing facilities by as much as 86% by electrifying the platforms to run on renewables electricity or natural gas that would be...

Lamaha squatting homes maliciously set on fire, 12 homeless

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Lamaha squatting homes maliciously set on fire, 12 homeless

Kaieteur News – Twelve persons are now homeless after several houses in the Lamaha Squatting Area, ‘B’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, were maliciously destroyed by fire on Wednesday....

GYSBI awards technical scholarships to 11 outstanding students

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on GYSBI awards technical scholarships to 11 outstanding students

Kaieteur News – Eleven students—ten from Region Three and one from Region Nine (South Rupununi) are the latest recipients of the Guyana Shore Base Inc. (GYSBI) Technical Scholarship...

Completion of new Demerara River Bridge pushed back to March 2025

Sep 20, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Completion of new Demerara River Bridge pushed back to March 2025

Kaieteur News – Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill on Thursday disclosed that the completion of the US$260 million New Demerara River Bridge was pushed back to March 31, 2025. The bridge,...

Yuh can’t judge a thief by he clothes

Sep 20, 2024 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Yuh can’t judge a thief by he clothes

Kaieteur News – Long ago, things was easy. You could spot a suspected shoplifter from far. All yuh had to do was look for de man wid de tear-up pants or de woman wid de slipper hanging off she...

Banks DIH on board for President’s Cup

Sep 20, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH on board for President’s Cup

Kaieteur Sports – Beverage giants Banks DIH continues to support horseracing in Guyana. The latest support came this week ahead of the President’s Cup which is set for Sunday September 22 at...

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Hetmyer (111*) scorches Queen’s Park Oval, as TKR plummet to...

Sep 01, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL… GAW vs. TKR Kaieteur Sports – Shimron Hetmyer dropped a nuke at the Queen’s Park Oval, as his breathtaking 111 not out scorched the Trinbago Knight Riders, who...

The tragedy of a society that has stopped reading

Sep 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time in Guyana when a child caught reading a book was considered a good thing. Today, if you see a child quietly reading for twenty minutes, you may want to call the police. Something unusual is happening. The child is either studying, hiding from his parents, or...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

World-class and back of class

Sep 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Aussies are now on the bandwagon. Guyana is a world class mining place. Before the Australians, Americans from Exxon were waxing brightly about Guyana’s world class oil reservoirs. And, before the Australians and Americans, there was the irrepressible Mohamed Irfaan...

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