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Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Berbice trio on trial for killing taxi driver
(Kaieteur News) – A 12-member jury was empaneled on Wednesday at the Berbice High Court to serve in the trial of three men accused of killing a 47-year-old taxi driver back in 2020, at his...Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Audit Findings Expose Systemic Waste in Housing and Security
Dear Editor, The Auditor General’s Report for 2024, laid in the National Assembly on November 3, 2025, offers a sobering view of public-fund management across critical sectors. It details...Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Buxton railway embankment vendors to be relocated – Public Works Ministry
(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Public Works on Friday announced that some 42 vendors from the community of Buxton who operate along the Railway Embankment will be relocated to facilitate the...Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on From Bogotá with Love: A Philosopher in the City
Dear Editor, Georgetown and Bogotá face different oceans. One stretches toward the Atlantic, the other breathes the salt of the Pacific. Between them rise the Andean mountains, and between them too...Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS News, Xtra Entertainment Comments Off on SounDown Festival Returns to Georgetown with International Headliners
(Kaieteur News) – The Marriott beachfront is about to transform into the Caribbean’s hottest electronic music destination. On December 6th, SounDown Festival returns for its sophomore year,...Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Guyana begins demolition of HQ to make way for new masjid and complex
Dear Editor, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Guyana has announced the commencement of the demolition of its National Headquarters, located at 198 Oronoque and Church Streets, Georgetown. This historic...Nov 08, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Between 2022 and 2024 implementation rate of AG recommendations has been the highest in over a decade
Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana has noted that some sections of the media are attempting to sensationalise selected parts of the Auditor General’s report that was released on Monday,...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on GRA drops $191B Mohameds tax case ahead of US extradition
(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has withdrawn and discontinued all tax-related charges against sanctioned businessmen Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed, in light of ongoing...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on US military chief lands in Guyana
…talks to centre on security cooperation, regional stability (Kaieteur News) – United States Admiral Alvin Holsey, Commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), is in Guyana for high-level...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Israel ramps up Lebanon strikes as Hezbollah vows to defend itself
(Al Jazeera Staff) The Israeli military says it has launched a wave of air strikes targeting what it says are Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon as Israel escalates daily attacks on its...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Show us the oil billions’ …APNU pushes transparency with motion to overhaul NRF
(Kaieteur News) – A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament (MP) Terrence Campbell has launched a high-stakes push to overhaul the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act, challenging...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jagdeo slams ‘convenience bail’ for Mohameds
…amid US$50M gold fraud extradition case (Kaieteur News) – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday criticised the granting of bail to businessmen Azruddin and Nazar Mohamed and even argued...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Migration policy coming’ – but voting rights off the table, Jagdeo says
(Kaieteur News) – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday announced that the government is actively considering the creation of a migration policy to regulate the growing number of non-nationals...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Cop walks free in Quindon Bacchus killing
…judge upheld no-case submission (Kaieteur News) – Former Police Lance Corporal Kristoff De Nobrega has been freed of the murder charge brought against him over the fatal shooting of Quindon...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pres. Ali: COP 30 must be turning point for climate action
President Dr. Irfaan Ali charged the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) 30 to shun extremism, promote collaboration, and use bureaucracy to...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Public Works cracks down’ …new hotlines launched to report shoddy contractors, road hazards
(Kaieteur News) – The Ministry of Public Works has launched two new hotlines aimed at empowering citizens and contractors to report concerns and improve accountability across the country....Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on COP30: World leaders take aim at Trump for climate inaction
(BBC NEWS) US President Donald Trump has been criticised by world leaders for his stance on climate change, ahead of the global COP30 summit. President Trump, who is not attending the meeting in the...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on GWI to spend $175M for new water well at Central Ruimveldt
(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) is preparing to spend approximately $175 million for the drilling of a new water well at Central Ruimveldt, Georgetown. According to the bids which...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Auditor General exposes police in $15M contract-splitting breach
(Kaieteur News) – The 2024 Auditor General’s Report has uncovered that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) violated the Procurement Act of 2003 by illegally splitting contracts, awarding 62 contracts...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Petra launches 2025 MVP Sports Girls’ Under-11 Football Tournament
Kaieteur Sports – The Petra Organisation, in collaboration with MVP Sports, has officially launched the 2025 edition of the Girls’ Under-11 Schools’ Football Tournament, a vibrant platform...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t tek worries
(Kaieteur News) – If yuh gan deh in de kitchen, yuh gat to be able to handle de heat. Nuff people like fuh give pressure but dem can’t tek pressure. Dem does buckle under pressure. Yuh does see...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on US-sanctioned Colombian drug suspect nabbed in Guyana
(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Police Force confirmed that on Tuesday a Lethem-bound minibus was stopped at the Kurupukari Police Checkpoint during routine security screening, leading to a major...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Sugar industry “boom” a sham – APNU slams PPP for ‘wasted billions, broken promises’
(Kaieteur News) – Shadow Minister of Agriculture and APNU MP Vinceroy Jordan has dismissed the government’s claims that Guyana’s sugar industry grew by over 100%, calling the PPP/C’s 2025...Nov 07, 2025 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Lovell hits four for Saints, as Munroe lead Nat’ O-40 to easy win
Kaieteur Sports – Day two of the Bounty Supermarket National Indoor Hockey Championship delivered another round of excitement on Wednesday, as GCC Spare Parts, National Over-40, GCC Vintage, and...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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