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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...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...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...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...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,...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...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...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....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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Sophia man confesses to robbing the Chinese supermarket at Soesdyke
Kaieteur News- One of the suspects seen in a recent viral video robbing a Chinese supermarket at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD), reportedly confessed to the crime on Saturday. Police identified...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Bandits zip-tie goldsmith after snatching customer’s $7M gold chain and band
Kaieteur News-Two men armed with a gun on Saturday zip-tied a goldsmith after they entered his shop at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and robbed him of his 12-karat gold chain and pendant...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Clean water coverage rises to 62% in 2024; as $10B set aside for 16 new water treatment plants in 2025
Kaieteur News- As clean water coverage increased over the last four years from 52% in 2020 to 62.3% in 2024, the government has budgeted $10 billion for the installation of 16 new water treatment...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on $191.4M pump station, pumps commissioned at Trafalgar, WCB
Kaieteur News- The Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday commissioned the rehabilitated pump station at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice (WCD) as well as a new 200 cubic feet per second (cusec) pump and...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Brazilian miner charged with murder of colleague, remanded
Kaieteur News- A Brazilian national was charged on Friday with the murder of a miner when he appeared at the Bartica Magistrates’ Court. The accused, Raimundo Dos Santos Coimbra called...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Duo nabbed with illegal gun, ammo, and foreign currency
Kaieteur News- Two men, aged 25 and 37, were found on Saturday with an unlicensed firearm, ammunition, and a quantity of foreign currency during a police raid at Crabwood Creek, Berbice. Police...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Lorry driver, porter busted with 35,650 grams of cannabis
Kaieteur News- Two men were arrested on Friday after they were caught with 35,650 grams of marijuana when police intercepted the lorry, which they were traveling in on the Grove Public Road, East...Jan 19, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on $2B allocated to expand GPF vehicle fleet in 2025-Finance Minister
Kaieteur News-The Guyana Police Force (GPF) was allotted $2B from the $108.9billion allocated to the security sector in the 2025 national budget to expand its fleet of vehicles. This was announced on...Nov 09, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown, Guyana – November 8, 2026 – The second round of the 2026 Need for Speed Karting Championship, organised by the Jumbo Jet Events team, is attracting...Nov 09, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There are moments in the political life of every nation when the character of its people is tested by whether they have the courage to condemn wrongdoing when it is committed against those with whom they disagree. It is easy to champion justice when the victim belongs to your...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 09, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The light that shines over Guyana must be at its dazzling purest. Not a speck of darkness on the horizon. Not a stray dark spot in the cupboard or under the carpet. When light is at its brightest, what chance for darkness to show its face, to linger? On the occasion of...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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