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Jan 07, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Is a presidential palace in the making?
Kaieteur News – During the early 1980’s, there were plans to build a presidential palace for Forbes Burnham who at the time was Prime Minister and laying the groundwork to become an Executive...Jan 07, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on One People, One Nation, One Destiny
Dear Editor, As I ponder what our National Motto: One People, One Nation, One Destiny means I also wonder about the inspired soul who came up with our National Motto. This inspired soul clearly saw...Jan 07, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on There must be accountability in 2024
Dear Editor, The year 2023 has ended and many Committees of the National Assembly have not completed their assignments. One such Committee is the ‘Committee on Appointments.’ The Committee on...Jan 07, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP abandoned many major projects in Region 10
Dear Editor, With reference to an article in SN dated January 6, 2024, captioned “US$35M contract sealed for McKenzie-Wismar bridge”, the Minister of Works is quoted in the article as saying...Jan 07, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Basdeo Panday: A Caribbean Indian Politician
Dear Editor, Panday, the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, lies in state at Red House in Port of Spain. The country’s newspapers noted he was the first Indian and first Hindu to earn...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Indian Govt. approves MoU to explore Guyana’s oil blocks
Kaieteur News – The Government of India has given its approval for a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be signed with Guyana for collaboration in the hydrocarbon sector. In a statement that...Jan 06, 2024 KNews ExxonMobil, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on Govt. will not be bound by recommendations outlined in Exxon’s Gas Utilisation Strategy – VP Jagdeo
Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana (GoG) will not be bound by recommendations contained in ExxonMobil’s Gas Utilisation Strategy, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Thursday. The...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition renews call for auditors’ training, consultants to engage Exxon but still considering ring-fencing
Kaieteur News – The Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton on Thursday listed a number of initiatives he wants to be implemented by the Government of Guyana (GoG) for the prudent management of...Jan 06, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Thief jailed for 15 months despite begging Magistrate to stay with child
Kaieteur News – A 36-year-old single parent of one, who admitted to stealing and escaping police custody, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Friday, was jailed for...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Werk-en-Rust man wanted for friend’s murder
Kaieteur News – Twenty-eight-year-old Carlton Bourne, also known as “Akeem Bourne”, from Chapel Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, is wanted in connection with the tragic murder of his...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan national dies in Pouderoyen house fire
Kaieteur News – Venezuelan national, Richard Lozada, 47, died in a fire on Friday morning at Plantain Walk, Vreed-en-hoop, West Bank Demerara (W.B.D). Lozada, a carpenter, had been residing at...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Contract signed for the construction of US$35M four-lane Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge
By Vanessa Braithwaite Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana and China Railway Construction Corporation Limited signed a US$35M contract for the construction of the new four-lane...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Only 35% works completed on Cemetery Road project
6 months behind deadline… Kaieteur News – The ambitious Cemetery Road upgrade project in Georgetown has hit a roadblock, facing substantial delays and falling significantly behind schedule....Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Port Mourant fire: Teacher died from smoke inhalation – PM reveals
Kaieteur News – Tokant Deokharan, the teacher who died in the Port Mourant, Berbice fire that gutted two houses died from smoke inhalation, a post mortem examination conducted by government...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Indian company gets $396M contract to set up solar plant at Leguan
Kaieteur News – The 0.60 MW solar PV farm slated for Leguan Island, Region Three will be built by a company out of India to the tune of $396 million. This is according to the National...Jan 06, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man, 59, slapped with six fraud charges
Kaieteur News – A 59-year-old man was on Friday slapped with six fraud charges when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Dylon Bess at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. He was not required...Jan 06, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Parika man remanded for murder of reputed wife
Kaieteur News – Thirty-nine-year-old Gurudeen Lalaram, a mason of Parika Façade, East Bank Essequibo, was on Friday remanded to prison for the murder of his reputed wife 25-year-old market...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Extractive revenues increased by 36% in 2021- Guyana’s 5th EITI Report
Kaieteur News – Guyana recorded a 36 percent increase in revenues generated from the extractive sector in 2021. This is according to the country’s fifth Extractive Industries and Transparency...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Public Servants to be trained in Spanish – Minister Parag
Kaieteur News – Public Servants will be taught Spanish this year, Minister of Public Service Sonia Parag announced on Friday. The Minister was at the time speaking at her ministry’s...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM Heads discuss situation in Haiti
Kaieteur News – The Seventh Meeting of the Caribbean Community Lead Heads of Government on Haiti was held on Friday under the chairmanship of President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the...Jan 06, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Patterson accuses NPTAB evaluation committee of fraud as documents submitted by bidder allegedly ignored
Kaieteur News – Former Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson has accused the evaluation committee of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) of committing...Jan 06, 2024 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Walking can be hazardous to your health
Kaieteur News – People nah like walk down de streets. Everything nowadays is driving. A man wanted to borrow de newspapers from he neighbour, so he jump on he electric bike and ride over to he...Jan 06, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on The battle for GFF Elite League qualification happens tomorrow
– Monedderlust Connection FC to clash with Slingerz FC for Elite League berth Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League Promotional Playoff final between...Jan 06, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fixtures revealed for historic ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 in West Indies and the USA
West Indies start against Papua New Guinea at the Guyana National Stadium on June 2 Kaieteur Sports – The fixtures for the ninth edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup have been revealed with...

Aug 25, 2026
MOE/Beharry Secondary School’s Under-19 T20 tournament finals…BEI vs. Annandale Secondary Kaieteur Sports – After more than a decade-long absence from the school system, competitive youth...Aug 25, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...Aug 23, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...Aug 25, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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