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Jan 11, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The absence of a fixed date for the elections does not prohibit the GECOM from starting non-statutory preparatory activities
Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your letter column to given clarity to some misleading matters that were published in the January 8, 2025 edition of the Guyana Times in an article titled...Jan 11, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Project management needs urgent improvement
Dear Editor, The Ministry of Labour has continued to experience gaps in the enforcement of the safety requirements for the construction industry. The number of deaths has bounced back to previous...Jan 11, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Response to GECOM’s Press Release: Upholding Transparency and Restoring Public Confidence
Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has issued a press release dismissing concerns regarding its transparency and decision-making processes. While GECOM assures the public of its...Jan 11, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Withdrawal of my Presidential Candidacy from the 2025 Regional and General Elections
Dear Editor, I would like to announce that I am withdrawing my Presidential candidacy from the 2025 Regional and General Elections. This has been an extremely interesting journey since 2020 when I...Jan 11, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Little Guyana, USA strongly condemns Venezuela’s threats to elect a Governor for Essequibo
Dear Editor, As President of the Committee to Preserve Guyana’s Sovereignty and District Leader of Richmond Hill and Ozone Park, designated “Little Guyana” on the NYC and US maps, we strongly...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jagdeo-led PPP supported tax waivers to Exxon without seeing terms of oil contract
Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, on Thursday, said the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) gave its support for the tax waivers to ExxonMobil in the National Assembly, although it had not...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on President stomps Nandlall’s plan to appeal $24M awarded to Quindon Bacchus’ family
Kaieteur News- President Irfaan Ali has stopped Attorney General Anil Nandlall from appealing a court award of $24M for the slaying of Quindon Bacchus by a policeman. over two years ago. Nandlall had...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict. The...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Benn flags citizens lax approach to fire safety
…as Guyana recorded 21 deaths by fire in 2024 Kaieteur News- Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, expressed concern over the public’s response to potential fire hazards, particularly...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Chinese man missing after falling off new harbour bridge
Kaieteur News- A Chinese national, up to press time, is still missing after he reportedly fell into the Demerara River on Wednesday night while works were ongoing at the site of the new Demerara...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trinidadian man charged for stealing rum, cigarettes, snacks
Kaieteur News- A 34-year-old Trinidadian plumber has been remanded to prison after pleading guilty to a charge of simple larceny, at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. Adrian...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on EPA updates EIA scope for Exxon’s 7th project after citizens file legal action
Kaieteur News- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, announced that it has amended the Terms and Scope for ExxonMobil’s seventh project – Hammerhead – following a...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Ganja seized in police raid at Mahdia Arcade
Kaieteur News- A police raid at the Mahdia Arcade in Region 8, on Wednesday, led to the discovery of 66 grams of marijuana. According to the Police, the operation was conducted around 11:00 hrs by...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Shadow foreign secretary calls for urgent meeting to address Venezuela’s latest aggression
Kaieteur News- Shadow Foreign Minister Amanza Walton-Desir has called for the immediate convening of the sectoral committee on foreign relations against the backdrop of Venezuela’s recent threat to...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jagdeo says ministers can own shares in companies, but must avoid conflict of interest
Kaieteur News- General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has stated that while government ministers can hold shares in companies,...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on CNOOC fined £125,000 as crackdown on excessive flaring and venting continues
Operator sanctioned for breach of venting consent at Buzzard field Since 2022 the NSTA has imposed £825,000 in financial penalties for flaring and venting breaches NSTA urges operators to...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on PSC meets Jagdeo, others on upcoming elections
Kaieteur News- The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Wednesday, met with officials of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), to deliberate on key issues related to the upcoming General and...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Ask Exim Bank for feasibility and environmental studies on Gas-to-Energy project’ –Jagdeo tells reporters
Kaieteur News- Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, on Thursday, refused to commit to releasing the feasibility and environmental studies in relation to the Gas-to-Energy project. In response to a...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on GEMS Theatre Productions to premiere “From Whence We Came – The Chinese Experience”
Kaieteur News- GEMS Theatre Productions is set to debut the highly anticipated historical and educational drama, “From Whence We Came – The Chinese Experience” on January 11, 2025, at the...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on CWI’s Shallow, Bascombe circumspect amid two-tier Test system debate
SportsMax – While arguing that news of a pending proposal to introduce a two-tier Test cricket system could merely be a rumour, Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Dr. Kishore Shallow pointed...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana to play Suriname, Grenada in “Nations Cup” b/ball tournament
– GBF shortlists 23 players for trials Kaieteur Sports- The Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) yesterday announced the participation of Guyana’s Senior Men’s Basketball Team in the highly...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana Football Federation announces opening of 2025/2026 mid-season transfer window
Kaieteur Sports- The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is pleased to announce that the 2025/2026 Mid-Season Transfer Window officially opened on January 1, 2025, and will close at midnight on January...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on West Indies unveil powerful 17-man squad for O50s World Cup in Sri Lanka
– 6 fresh talents included in the lineup Kaieteur Sports- The West Indies O50s team will gather in New York before departing for Colombo, Sri Lanka via Abu Dhabi on February 4th, 2025. They are...Jan 10, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Renegotiation – the latest Guyanese curse
Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- Tireless national rescue worker Christopher Ram, Esq, ACCA, has attracted slings and arrows; plus, broadsides and blindsides from left, right, and...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...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...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...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...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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