January 2025

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Speed bumps delaying ambulance access during critical times – Edghill

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Speed bumps delaying ambulance access during critical times – Edghill

Kaieteur News-While speed bumps are used to suppress the ongoing challenges with speeding, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill said at times they impede emergency services response. The public...

Body of unidentified man found in drain at Sophia

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Body of unidentified man found in drain at Sophia

Kaieteur News-The body of an unidentified man was, on Wednesday, found inside a drain at Black and White Road, ‘D’ Field Sophia, Georgetown. On Thursday, Police said that the discovery was made...

$130M more to be spent on $400M Charity Market project

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on $130M more to be spent on $400M Charity Market project

Kaieteur News-With over $400 million in contracts already awarded to construct the new Charity Market in Region Two, the government will be spending an additional $130 million more to construct the...

GECOM incapable of holding 2025 national elections – AFC says

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on GECOM incapable of holding 2025 national elections – AFC says

Kaieteur News-Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes has expressed the view that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is incapable of holding the 2025 General and...

West Indies U19 Women secure first win, advance to Super Six with victory over Malaysia

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on West Indies U19 Women secure first win, advance to Super Six with victory over Malaysia

SportsMax – The West Indies U19 Women’s team clinched their first win of the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup, defeating hosts Malaysia by 53 runs to advance to the Super Six round. After a...

“We will have a similar approach”

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on “We will have a similar approach”

– Athanaze says batsmen will continue to be aggressive against Pakistan spinners in second Test SportsMax – West Indies middle-order batsman Alick Athanaze expects the team to employ...

Sam, Fernandes outshine competition at GCF/Moo Milk National U12 chess tourney

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Sam, Fernandes outshine competition at GCF/Moo Milk National U12 chess tourney

Kaieteur Sports-The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Moo Milk sponsored 2025 National Rapid Under-12 tournament wrapped up with Abel Fernandez and Kataleya Sam being crowned champs, when the tournament...

Ramzan, Fraser pilot Demerara U15 to strong win over East Coast U17

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Ramzan, Fraser pilot Demerara U15 to strong win over East Coast U17

Kaieteur Sports-Demerara Under-15 stormed to a 48-run win over the East Coast Under-17 lads, thanks to brilliant spells from Shahid Ramzan and Patrice Fraser this past Sunday at the LBI...

Dave West Indian Imports gets Everest Cricket Club’s renovations off the mark

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Dave West Indian Imports gets Everest Cricket Club’s renovations off the mark

Kaieteur Sports-Popular Philanthropist and ardent cricket supporter, Dave Narine, of Dave West Indian Imports (USA), on Wednesday January 22 launched Everest Cricket Club’s pavilion and hall...

Interim leadership agreed to dissolve GCF executive issues

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Interim leadership agreed to dissolve GCF executive issues

Kaieteur Sports- In a significant development for the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF), ongoing internal and executive issues have been dissolved, paving the way for renewed focus on the growth and...

Berbice Cricket Board selects 25 females to continue training for female inter county Cricket competition

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Berbice Cricket Board selects 25 females to continue training for female inter county Cricket competition

Kaieteur Sports- The selection committee of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has short listed 25 female cricketers. Of the amount, 21 of those players were selected following two days of practice...

Tucber Park Cricket Club defeat Rose Hall Community Center B in BCB T20 2nd Division Competition

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Tucber Park Cricket Club defeat Rose Hall Community Center B in BCB T20 2nd Division Competition

Kaieteur Sports- Play in the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) second division T20 cricket competition continued over the last weekend for teams in The New Amsterdam/ Canje areas. Tucber Park Cricket Club...

Berbice and Jagdeo’s legacy

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Berbice and Jagdeo’s legacy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-By any reckoning, Region 6 should have been Guyana’s most prosperous region. It has a rich history, has produced some of Guyana’s most learned individuals and is...

Ministers and business ownership

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Ministers and business ownership

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- Ministers can own businesses. So said Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo. Ministers of the government, not ministers of religion, though for some...

Another audit, another set of questions

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Another audit, another set of questions

Editorial… Kaieteur News- A third audit of US$19.6B of expenses of ExxonMobil for the period 2021 to 2023 will take five months to complete. The team of VHE Consulting and Martindale...

30 Years Later, Still Secret!

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on 30 Years Later, Still Secret!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- In some places like de USA, dem people deh serious ‘bout history and transparency. Dem seh after 30 years, government papers mus’ come out so everybody could...

GECOM is unravelling the democratic process it has been put in place to secure

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on GECOM is unravelling the democratic process it has been put in place to secure

Dear Editor, I was not particularly surprised by the recent decision by the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, to rule against the...

Swami Aksharananda, the ubiquitous, indefatigable Hindu monk

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Swami Aksharananda, the ubiquitous, indefatigable Hindu monk

Dear Editor, Swami Aksharananda, the ubiquitous, indefatigable Hindu monk from Guyana received on January 10, 2025, the Pravasi Samman Award, the highest that India hands out to any individual or...

Fire in the garbage bins

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Fire in the garbage bins

Dear Editor, The fires that destroyed the garbage bins in an area that had recently undergone a beautification process should be condemned by all. Was it the work of Venezuelans? Was it the work of...

NDC workers still waiting on 10% retroactive

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on NDC workers still waiting on 10% retroactive

Dear Editor, December has long gone and January almost expired, the NDC workers are still waiting to receive their 10% retroactive pay announced for public servants by Government for 2024. In 2023 it...

Inadequacies, unfairness of certain policies of Insurance companies in Guyana

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Inadequacies, unfairness of certain policies of Insurance companies in Guyana

Dear Editor, I think it was Dr. Jerry Jailall who wrote recently on the inadequacies or unfairness of certain policies of Insurance companies in Guyana. I wish to give an account of MY personal...

Differences in transparency: LCDS v NRF

Jan 24, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Differences in transparency: LCDS v NRF

Dear Editor, I write to extend congratulations to the Senior Minister responsible for Finance for the clarity, and detail, regarding the expenditure of funds received under LCDS 2009 and LCDS 2030....

‘United front needed to fight for better oil deal’

Jan 23, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘United front needed to fight for better oil deal’

…WPA says all parties, organisations must come together on issue Kaieteur News-Guyana’s oil reserves which have grown significantly since first oil should be used as leverage when negotiating...

Canadian gold company expected to produce 353,000 ounces of gold annually

Jan 23, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Canadian gold company expected to produce 353,000 ounces of gold annually

Kaieteur News- Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh said that the Oko West Gold Project underscores the vast potential of Guyana’s untapped mineral resources. The Oko West Project is currently...

‘The battlefield is about to shift’: West Bank braces for rising violence

Jan 23, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘The battlefield is about to shift’: West Bank braces for rising violence

(ALJAZEERA) When the Gaza ceasefire was announced on January 15, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were overjoyed that Israel’s devastating war on the besieged enclave would finally end....

PREV 8 91011 12 NEXT LAST

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...

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Website Hits

Listen to the The Glenn Lall Show

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

Blunt of the day

Sports

Features/Columnists

Sir. Ronald Sanders

The GHK Lall Column

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

> Berbice Bridge […]