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Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on WHO urges 50% hike in taxes on tobacco, alcohol, ‘sweet drinks’
Kaieteur News- Geneva/Sevilla, July 2, 2025 (WHO)– The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched a major new initiative urging countries to raise real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. continues consultation for compulsory acquisition of lands in path of GTE transmission cables
Kaieteur News- Earlier this week, the government continued the consultation process with citizens for the compulsory acquisition of lands along the corridor earmarked for the installation of...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Forward Guyana Movement given 3 days to re-submit party symbol
Kaieteur News- The newly formed political coalition, Forward Guyana Movement (FGM), has been granted three days to resubmit a rectified version of its party symbol after the original submission...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on GPHC to facilitate surgeries on weekends to reduce backlog in orthopedic procedures
Kaieteur News- In a significant move to reduce the growing backlog of joint replacement surgeries, the Orthopaedics Department at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has announced that...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Young mother on $45,000 bail for 3 charges
Kaieteur News- A 26-year-old mother of one was released on $45,000 bail on Wednesday for three charges. Johanna Lawson, of Lot 306 Coma Street, Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Bids open for several projects at Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute
Kaieteur News- During the recent opening of bids at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) office, it was revealed that the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security is...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Nandlall says tweets attacking Mohamed not orchestrated by Govt
…but lobbying firm says it was done on behalf of Guyana Govt. Kaieteur News- Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, SC, has dismissed local media reports that the...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on After 37 years, Guyanese man is exonerated of NYC murder he says he didn’t commit
(NYC) For more than 30 years, Brian Kendall has insisted he and a few friends were simply playing video games inside a Flatbush game room after school when a man wearing a hoodie casually strolled in...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Noncommunicable disease deaths in the Americas have risen 43% since 2000–PAHO report shows
Kaieteur News- Deaths from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, have surged by 43% in the Americas since 2000, reaching 6 million in 2021, according to the...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Civil society to ramp up protest against non-implementation of Freedom of Information Act
Kaieteur News- Citizens, civil society advocates, and trade union representatives have announced the escalation of their long-running protest demanding genuine implementation of Guyana’s Freedom of...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Former President David Granger responds to article in Guyana Standard
Dear Editor, The Office of the former President has taken note of an article published in the Guyana Standard on 26 June, 2025, under the caption: “If Granger means well, he must do for Norton what...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Attention turns to East Bank/West Demerara in Kares One Guyana T10
Kaieteur Sports- Following a weekend of compelling action in Berbice, the Kares One Guyana T10 Tapeball Blast will now focus on the East Bank and West Demerara zones. Despite weather disruptions...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Setback for Deputy Mayor’s Cup as tournament postponed due to heavy rain forecast
Kaieteur Sports- The highly anticipated 32-team Seven-a-side Inter-Ward/Village Knockout Football Championship billed as one of the most exciting tournaments on the local calendar has suffered...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The PPP has constructed a 7.8 km road for US$133.8M, averaging US$17.8M per km, and is now touting this as an example of fiscal discipline and value for money
Dear Editor, In an article today on the commissioning of the East Coast Eccles bypass road, it was reported that “Modified plans including bridges, drainage systems, elevated sections to prevent...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Broomes verbally attacked at police headquarters, party condemns inaction
Kaieteur news- The Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity (ALP) has condemned what it described as a verbal attack on its party leader, Dr. Simona Charles Broomes, by a member of the public, while in...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ExxonMobil: We remain committed to transparency and welcome open, fact-based discussions
Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your publication to respond to recent media reports concerning the financial reporting and profit-sharing arrangements under the Stabroek Block Petroleum...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Police seeking to rebuild public trust
…Top Cop says Kaieteur News- The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is undergoing a major overhaul that is focused on enhanced safety, accountability, and modernisation. Speaking on the programme...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana dominates Individual Events at 2025 Junior CASA Championships
-securing four golds and four silvers Kaieteur Sports- Team Guyana has made a resounding statement at the 2025 Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships in the Cayman Islands,...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Decide fust before yuh press record
Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- Dem boys seh social media is like fast food—quick, greasy, and gone in 60 seconds. But some people treating TikTok like it’s a Sunday sermon or a three-act...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The constant disrespect towards journalists must stop
Dear Editor, I wish to condemn the vilification and disrespect towards my media colleague, Miss Svetlana Marshall, by Head of State Irfaan Ali. I must commend Miss Marshall for maintaining her...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on GFF launches second Women’s Elite League with major upgrades and impressive $1M cash prize
Kaieteur Sports- The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has officially launched the second installment of its Women’s Division 1 League, unveiling an upgraded and rebranded competition that aims to...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on There is no democracy without fairness, and no legitimacy without trust.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) and the Institute For Action Against Discrimination (IFAAD) jointly call on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to immediately distribute the...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on President’s College reigns supreme at ExxonMobil Inter-School Kayaking C/ships
Kaieteur Sports- President’s College (PC) delivered a dominant performance to capture the 2025 ExxonMobil Inter-School Kayaking Championship title on Sunday at the scenic Watooka Guest House in...Jul 03, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Open Letter to The Carter Center: On the freedom of elections and the tyranny of tweets
Peeping Tom… Dear Carter Center, You once played an instrumental role in the rebirth of democracies — from Nicaragua to Nepal and from Liberia to Guyana. But in all of these countries, there...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Apr 23, 2026
…Ezekiel Millington to contest 100m finals today Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s Ebo McNeil delivered a strong performance on the track in Panama, claiming bronze in the boys’ 1500m final at the...Apr 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There is something fundamentally incongruent about a country standing atop one of the most promising oil frontiers of the 21st century while simultaneously deepening its reliance on external debt. Guyana today embodies that contradiction. It is hailed as the world’s...Apr 19, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...Apr 23, 2026
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It is obvious that there are two sets of folks who want Messrs. Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Mohamed out of Guyana. Persons of interest in the first set take the form of the Government of Guyana, specifically the hostile PPP leadership...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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