January 2025

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Diamond and manganese production on the decline

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Diamond and manganese production on the decline

…as bauxite, stone and sand surge Kaieteur News- Bauxite, stone, and sand production surged in 2024, driving significant growth in Guyana’s mining and quarrying sector, even as diamond and...

Ramped up training for inmates, officers

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Ramped up training for inmates, officers

…as Guyana Prison Service gets$ 6.2B in this year’s budget Kaieteur News- The Guyana Prison Service was allocated $6.2B of the $108.9 allotted to the security sector for infrastructural...

Two men in custody over firearm found in Tucville

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Two men in custody over firearm found in Tucville

Kaieteur News- Police have detained two men following the discovery of a firearm during an operation in Tucville, Georgetown Saturday night. Around 11:00 hours on Saturday police officers, acting on...

Taxi driver, welder in custody over gun, ammo possession

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Taxi driver, welder in custody over gun, ammo possession

Kaieteur News- A taxi driver and a welder have been arrested in connection with an illegal firearm and ammunition recovered, during a police operation at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne Berbice, on...

Poverty cannot be solved by short-term interventions such as $100k cash grants—Jordan

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Poverty cannot be solved by short-term interventions such as $100k cash grants—Jordan

Kaieteur News- Former Finance Minister, Winston Jordan has described this year’s $1.382 trillion fiscal plan as a “Disaster Budget,” or the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP’s) farewell...

$1.3B budgeted to expand fisheries sector

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on $1.3B budgeted to expand fisheries sector

Kaieteur News- The Fishing and Aquaculture subsector under the Ministry of Agriculture was allotted $1.3B of the $104.6 billion allocated to the ministry in the national budget for 2025. Minister of...

Madray, Klass impress on Day Two

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Madray, Klass impress on Day Two

Terrence Ali National Open… …GDF poised for Best Gym award Kaieteur Sports- The second day of the Terence Ali National Open Boxing Championship unfolded with a series of exhilarating matchups on...

Sajid, Noman, Abrar share all 20 wickets as Pakistan go 1-0 up

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Sajid, Noman, Abrar share all 20 wickets as Pakistan go 1-0 up

(Cricinfo) – Well, how do you sum that up? A madcap two sessions of cricket on the third day saw 17 wickets fall. Pakistan lost seven for 48, with Jomel Warrican registering the third-best...

India skittle WI, SL bundle out Malaysia

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on India skittle WI, SL bundle out Malaysia

ICC Women’s U-19 World Cup… (Cricinfo) – Defending champions India started their Under-19 Women’s World Cup campaign with a bang, routing West Indies for just 44 before scripting a...

The shortest Test match to produce a result in Pakistan

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on The shortest Test match to produce a result in Pakistan

(Cricinfo) – 1064 – Balls bowled across the four innings in Multan, the fewest in a men’s Test match hosted by Pakistan to produce a result. The previous shortest completed Test in...

Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the seriousness it deserves. The events of the past few days—a violent rampage...

Budget 2025: first take

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Budget 2025: first take

Hard truths… Kaieteur News- The 2025 budget is callousness in numbers; it skewers Guyana’s expectant, needy, impoverished. It is a hatchet budget; one that drives a hatchet into whatever hopes...

Four years and still waiting

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Four years and still waiting

Editorial Kaieteur News- The President Irfaan Ali administration last Friday unveiled its final budget for the five-year term. Trillions of dollars have been expended thus far and more will be...

Little David is a lil scamp

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Little David is a lil scamp

Dem Boys Seh Kaieteur News- One day, de teacher tell de class, “Leh me hear what y’all family really need.” Lil girl jump up first. She seh, “Miss, we need more money. Me daddy wukking hard,...

‘Good governance: the most important issue today’

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ‘Good governance: the most important issue today’

Dear Editor I said last week that I intended to continue my contention that the most important social issue in Guyana today is the absence of good governance. Little did I know that I would be handed...

No chair must succumb to partisanship

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on No chair must succumb to partisanship

Dear Editor, We must question why the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), through its Chair, ret’d Justice Claudette Singh, announced at the 11th hour the agency’s claimed inability to enable a...

PPP/C must involve opposition to tackle Venezuelan aggression

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on PPP/C must involve opposition to tackle Venezuelan aggression

Dear Editor Kindly allow me to respond to Antonio Dey’s letter of 1-18-25 in the KN titled “We must not take the Venezuelan government for granted as more mischief is afoot” I must endorse Mr....

Trump’s Drill, Baby, Drill & Implication for Guyana

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Trump’s Drill, Baby, Drill & Implication for Guyana

Dear Editor, Donald Trump will be sworn in on January 20 for a second time as President of America. Congrats to the 47th President who also served as 45th. Guyana is relatively insignificant...

List of banned words need to be reviewed

Jan 20, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on List of banned words need to be reviewed

Dear Editor I welcome the Government’s agreement that the list of banned words need to be reviewed- but it must happen before the upcoming budget debates. Recently, Government Chief Whip Gail...

Exxon, partners walked away with US$15.4B of US$18B revenue generated in 2024

Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon, partners walked away with US$15.4B of US$18B revenue generated in 2024

…while Guyana received US$2.6B Kaieteur News- The Stabroek Block in 2024 generated a whopping US$18B in revenue, a 55.4% increase compared with the total export earnings of the sector in...

Oil prices expected to plummet by 10.9% this year

Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Oil prices expected to plummet by 10.9% this year

…Guyana projects less revenue from sector although another FPSO to come online Kaieteur News- While Guyana waits for the “bigger bone” in the future, or a larger share of profits from the oil...

Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire

Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Netanyahu issues warning ahead of Gaza ceasefire

BBC- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is ready to resume the war against Hamas should talks for a second phase of the ceasefire fail. In a televised speech just hours before...

State makes application to access bank account Brutus’ salary is deposited in

Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on State makes application to access bank account Brutus’ salary is deposited in

Kaieteur News- Prosecutors on Friday filed an application seeking access to embattled Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Calvin Brutus’ Demerara Bank account records as part of an ongoing...

Man of unsound mind shot by police after attacking rank with scissors

Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man of unsound mind shot by police after attacking rank with scissors

Kaieteur News- A man of unsound mind was hospitalized on Friday after he was shot by a member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF). Reports are that the man, identified only as Delroy, attacked a...

Fire Service allocated $68.1B for more fire stations, training in 2025

Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Fire Service allocated $68.1B for more fire stations, training in 2025

Kaieteur News-The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has been allocated $68.1 billion of the $108.9 billion allocated to the security sector in the 2025 national budget, Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh...

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2026 Republic Bank Limited CPL: Nabi, Shepherd & Joseph...

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The undefeated Guyana Amazon Warriors extended their flawless win streak this season while keeping their 2-0 record at home safe, after crushing the St. Kitts & Nevis...

The Kara Kara conundrum

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Linden Town Council does not possess an untouchable constitutional right to administer its affairs. The Constitution does not confer upon the Linden Town Council an unfettered right to govern Linden in whatever manner it chooses. It establishes local government within the...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Exxon upping the amps – profits

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is fascinating to watch Exxon on the move. Its people taking the floor, speaking with power and supreme confidence. What’s good news for Exxon’s investors is bad news for Guyanese. Follow Exxon’s sequence. It moved quickly. Burst the halo and bubble surrounding...

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