December 2024

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Avianca Airlines to begin direct flights between Colombia & Guyana next week – Minister Walrond

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Avianca Airlines to begin direct flights between Colombia & Guyana next week – Minister Walrond

Kaieteur News- Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond on Wednesday announced that come next week Avianca Airlines is scheduled to start direct flights between Guyana and Colombia....

55 social service providers equipped to change youths’ lives

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on 55 social service providers equipped to change youths’ lives

Kaieteur News- Fifty-five (55) social service providers recently completed a four-month risk-informed training programme designed to strengthen their ability to positively impact vulnerable youths...

The death knell of a deep-water harbour

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The death knell of a deep-water harbour

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Fifteen years is an eternity in the world of global trade and infrastructure. Long enough for empires to rise and fall, markets to shift, and opportunities to...

Waltzing over Wales

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Waltzing over Wales

…Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- I begin with a question. What’s happening over there in Wales? Specifically, what’s up with that loan from the US Export-Import (EXIM) bank? ...

Guyanese gat de best contractors

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyanese gat de best contractors

…Dem Boys Seh Kaieteur News- Dem boys seh Guyanese contractors smarter than Einstein. Is only dem could turn bridge building into a business deal that does mek everybody happy—except de...

Child rights and abuse

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Child rights and abuse

…Editorial Kaieteur News- Violence against children whether physical, emotional, or sexual continues to be a major problem in our country. Its impacts are severe, leading to injuries, sexually...

Mr. President, Skeldon Vendors Are Suffering – Will You Keep Ignoring Their Plea?

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Mr. President, Skeldon Vendors Are Suffering – Will You Keep Ignoring Their Plea?

Dear Editor, One year ago, tragedy struck the Skeldon Municipal Market, consuming stalls in a devastating fire that left a trail of destruction and despair. The flames didn’t just scorch wood and...

What are the emoluments of the current Chief Executive Officer of WITH GUYSUCO?

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on What are the emoluments of the current Chief Executive Officer of WITH GUYSUCO?

Dear Editor, Reference to my letter published on Tuesday, December 3, 2024; where several issues were highlighted regarding the functioning of the twelfth Parliament of the Cooperative Republic of...

Confusion galore as $100k payout kicks off in Region 9

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Confusion galore as $100k payout kicks off in Region 9

Dear Editor, Confusion was not a surprising feature as the $100k payout to residents got underway in Lethem on Tuesday 3rd December, 2024. The confusion started with a Social Media Post on an...

Guyana Archives and the case of the missing ship

Dec 05, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Guyana Archives and the case of the missing ship

Dear Editor, On December 27th, 2023, Stabroek News posted an article on the inability of the Guyana’s National Archives to provide travel records of indentured servants from India, who landed on...

ExxonM mum on whether it wants new oil block on own terms

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ExxonM mum on whether it wants new oil block on own terms

—but confirms talks continuing with Guyana Govt. Kaieteur News- United States oil major ExxonMobil has declined to comment on whether it wants to use the new shallow-water block it won at...

Employment costs for Public Procurement Commission up by $115M- 2023 Annual Report

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Employment costs for Public Procurement Commission up by $115M- 2023 Annual Report

Kaieteur News- The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) in 2023 paid just over $175.7M in employment costs, a $115M increase from the previous year. According to the Audited Financial Statements of...

Israel continues to pound Gaza, issue new evacuation threats

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Israel continues to pound Gaza, issue new evacuation threats

Israeli military has ordered areas of Khan Younis cleared while at least 14 people were killed in strikes in northern Gaza. Aljazeera – Israel has continued to pound Gaza, killing dozens and...

$100K payout kicks off in Reg. 9

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on $100K payout kicks off in Reg. 9

— public registration commences in several areas Kaieteur News- With the hope of distributing at least 300,000 cash grants to citizens 18 years and older before the end of the year, the Government...

Fish vendors charged for Sophia man’s murder

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Fish vendors charged for Sophia man’s murder

Kaieteur News- Two fish vendors were remanded on Tuesday to prison after being charged with the murder of Nigel Devon Williams. The duo 23-three-year-old Joshua Persaud of Vigilance, East Coast...

Five Cubans ordered deported from Guyana

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Five Cubans ordered deported from Guyana

Kaieteur News- Seven Cuban nationals, including four females and three males, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday after the Guyana Police Force (GPF) issued an order for...

Chief Justice orders release of remigrant’s SUV

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Chief Justice orders release of remigrant’s SUV

—declares GRA’s actions illegal Kaieteur News- Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire ruled on Tuesday, that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) acted unlawfully by questioning the source of...

‘Reckless, negligent security firm must be held responsible for shooting death of teen’- Avalon and Reshma Jagnandan

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Reckless, negligent security firm must be held responsible for shooting death of teen’- Avalon and Reshma Jagnandan

Kaieteur News- The parents of 18-year-old Jared Jagnandan want Cerberus Security Inc., private security firm, to be held responsible for his death. Jagnandan was shot dead on March 21, 2024 at his...

Massy Gas Products denies gas bottle explosion in Better Hope home

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Massy Gas Products denies gas bottle explosion in Better Hope home

… despite footage to the contrary Kaieteur News- Massy Gas Products Guyana Limited (MGPGL) on Monday denied that there was a gas bottle explosion at a Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home...

GTUC concerned over Opposition’s failure to hold government accountable

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on GTUC concerned over Opposition’s failure to hold government accountable

Kaieteur News- The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the failure of the political opposition to hold the government accountable. In a statement issued on Tuesday ahead of...

WPA renews call for national oil company

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on WPA renews call for national oil company

Kaieteur News- The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is calling for the government to establish an upstream national oil company, citing that Guyana is now a rapidly developing petro-state and that...

ExxonMobil Vice President, Liam Mallon to retire after 34 years

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ExxonMobil Vice President, Liam Mallon to retire after 34 years

Kaieteur News- President of ExxonMobil Upstream Company and Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Liam Mallon will be retiring after 34 years of service with the company. In a statement on...

ANUG calls on government to eschew partisan politics, increase transparency

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ANUG calls on government to eschew partisan politics, increase transparency

Kaieteur News- New leader of A New and United Guyana (ANUG), Dr. Mark France has called on the government to eschew partisan politicking and to increase transparency and accountability with the...

Four consultants shortlisted to supervise $6.5B Lethem Hospital project

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Four consultants shortlisted to supervise $6.5B Lethem Hospital project

Kaieteur News- With a contract recently awarded to construct the state-of-the-art hospital in Lethem, Region Nine, four consultants have been shortlisted to bid to supervise the project. During the...

UDFA Year-End Futsal Tournament kicks off December 15

Dec 04, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on UDFA Year-End Futsal Tournament kicks off December 15

-$1M up for grabs in 15-team tournament Kaieteur Sports- The Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Futsal Year-End Tournament 2024/2025 was officially launched on Monday at the Retrieve Hard...

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Seales (3-39)/Hinds (3-30) deliver historic title win after Eagles...

May 21, 2026

2026/27 West Indies Regional 4-Day Championships Finals…GHE vs TTRF Day 4 – Guyana lose by 141 runs after pacers dominate 2nd innings By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – Trinidad and Tobago...

Cash grant and old age pension tourism

May 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was a time, not too long ago, when some – not all – overseas Guyanese approached Guyana with caution, disgust and the occasional handkerchief pressed dramatically to the nose. They came down from New York and Toronto with accents that had ripened in exile, and with...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

Pres. Ali is his own public address system

May 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese know that Pres. Ali is prone to verbal excess. A standard not likely to be reversed. Citizens who had contact with him, actually heard him, have had orchestra seats to his blasts of the artificial (solemn promises to the grieving hurt by...

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