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Beharry’s century fires Untouchable to victory in Hibernia Over-40 T20 final

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Beharry’s century fires Untouchable to victory in Hibernia Over-40 T20 final

Kaieteur Sports – Former Senior Essequibo Inter-County opening batsman Ravi Beharry hit a boundary-studded, unbeaten 129 to spur Untouchable to victory in the final of the Hibernia Over-40, T20...

Wakenaam U-15 beat South Essequibo by 123 runs in 30-over fixture

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Wakenaam U-15 beat South Essequibo by 123 runs in 30-over fixture

Kaieteur Sports – Wakenaam Under-15 beat South Essequibo Under-15 by 123 runs in a 30-over match played recently at Pomona ground, Essequibo Coast, Region 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam). After winning...

More contracts, better facilities promised to Region 6

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on More contracts, better facilities promised to Region 6

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday promised to upgrade more facilities, improve services and deliver more contracts to Berbicans if the PPP/C returns to office on...

Guyanese youth mobilize for the SDGs at Int’l Youth Day 2025 conference

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyanese youth mobilize for the SDGs at Int’l Youth Day 2025 conference

Kaieteur News – More than 100 youth leaders and stakeholders participated in Guyana’s observance of International Youth Day (IYD) 2025 which was held on Friday at Duke Lodge, Georgetown. The...

Guyana’s Junior Pan Am Hockey campaign ends in heavy defeat

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Junior Pan Am Hockey campaign ends in heavy defeat

Kaieteur Sports – Guyana’s run at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games came to an abrupt end on Friday, following a crushing 11–0 defeat to the United States. The national women’s junior...

Guyana lone Caribbean country to record Oropouche virus

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana lone Caribbean country to record Oropouche virus

WASHINGTON (TrinidadExpress)– Guyana is the only Caribbean Community (Caricom) country that has a confirmed case of the Oropouche fever, a viral disease that has resurged across the Americas since...

$250k bail for contractor accused of obtaining money by false pretence

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on $250k bail for contractor accused of obtaining money by false pretence

Kaieteur News – A 38-year-old contractor was on Friday placed on $250,000 bail for obtaining money by false pretence. The accused, Terbhawan Ramjit, of Lot 126 Bath, West Coast Berbice (WCB),...

Jagdeo sees PPP securing significantly more votes from Indigenous communities

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jagdeo sees PPP securing significantly more votes from Indigenous communities

Kaieteur News – The Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) believes that support from Indigenous communities will allow the party to secure more votes than it did in 2020. Vice President...

Canadian firm to complete updated PEA for 5.4M gold project

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Canadian firm to complete updated PEA for 5.4M gold project

Kaieteur News – Canadian firm, Aris Mining Corporation has disclosed that it will be conducting a new Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for its Toroparu Gold Project located in Guyana’s...

Beware of the PPPC!

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPPC) has long been accustomed to playing the saviour of Guyana. But it has a well-established record of political roughhousing as is...

One jailed, two remanded for cocaine possession

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on One jailed, two remanded for cocaine possession

Kaieteur News – A man was on Friday sentenced to five years in prison for possession of cocaine while two others were remanded for the same offence. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in a...

Jagdeo the shifter

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column 1

Kaieteur News – First it was the son, now it is the father, according to Vice President Jagdeo. He plucks what he was sure is a rose out of thin air, and when it rots in his hand, he then...

It has been more than 4 years since the government promised to release the oil companies’ tax certificates.

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on It has been more than 4 years since the government promised to release the oil companies’ tax certificates.

Dear Editor, In Canada, it is estimated that the average family pays 42% of their income in taxes (see https://tinyurl.com/bdapxsrt). Corporations also pay taxes which range across the provinces, but...

PPPC leaders only visit Enterprise during election time

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on PPPC leaders only visit Enterprise during election time

Dear Editor, Only NOW the PPPC leaders are PROMISING to build the roads, build concrete drains and culverts and install street lights in Enterprise after 33 years in power! They have severely...

Purchase more American goods to eliminate the Trump tariff

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Letters 1

Dear Editor, Much has been written on President Trump’s tariff, a consumption tax and a protectionist policy meant to protect American industries and to reduce trade deficits. Guyana, as does...

The ERC

Aug 16, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News 1

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) now stands as a disgraced body, one in which Guyanese are seeing their fears proven. It is an entity with sensitive national...

U.S. deploys military to protect oil companies, fight drugs trade in Caribbean

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on U.S. deploys military to protect oil companies, fight drugs trade in Caribbean

…Secretary Rubio cites cartel threats to American oil companies operating offshore Guyana Kaieteur News – United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday disclosed that the Donald...

CGX losses on Corentyne Block pegged at US$56.4M

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on CGX losses on Corentyne Block pegged at US$56.4M

…says Govt. position that JV licence expired has caused uncertainty Kaieteur News – CGX Energy has disclosed that it has recognised the loss US$56.4 million on its exploration and evaluation...

40,000 children suffering from malnutrition in Gaza – UN says

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on 40,000 children suffering from malnutrition in Gaza – UN says

…32 killed in Israeli attacks yesterday (ALJAZEERA) The United Nations’ World Food Programme says food insecurity in Gaza is “catastrophic”, with at least 40,000 children under age one...

Jagdeo confirms Azruddin Mohamed never visited Venezuelan embassy

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jagdeo confirms Azruddin Mohamed never visited Venezuelan embassy

Kaieteur News – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said that the government has evidence of businessman Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed visiting the Venezuelan Embassy and not his son,...

Int’l Building Expo 2025 opens

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Int’l Building Expo 2025 opens

…President Ali unveils plan to build 30,000 homes in 5 years Kaieteur News – The 2025 edition of the International Building Expo officially opened on Thursday, with President Irfaan Ali...

No access to information until after elections – Jagdeo

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on No access to information until after elections – Jagdeo

Kaieteur News – Following six months of protest for greater access to public information and the refusal of the Commissioner of Information, Charles Ramson Snr. to respond to requests from...

GECOM to reconsider allowing cell phones in voting booths – Commissioner

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News 1

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is reconsidering its previous decision to allow voters to carry their cell phones into polling booths during the September 1 General and...

Gov’t tired of excuses from GPL

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Gov’t tired of excuses from GPL

…promises shake-up in management if returned to office …says current management cannot lead transformation of sector Kaieteur News – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo (VP) has had it up...

Patriots beat Falcons in CPL opener

Aug 15, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Patriots beat Falcons in CPL opener

CPL – Six teams. Six venues. 34 matches. Only one eventual winner. The 13th edition of The Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) got underway in Basseterre last night as the St Kitts...

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St. Stanislaus, Essequibo Islands surge to huge wins

Jun 21, 2026

Beharry U19 School’s T20 Cricket tournament… Kaieteur Sports – T20 School’s Under-19 cricket action continued yesterday on the West Side at the Uitvlugt Community Center Ground, with a few...

The great rediscovery

Jun 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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