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Oct 09, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Domestic Violence Demands a Firm Judicial Response
Dear Editor, On October 5, 2026, the Sparendaam court entered a guilty verdict, and the learned Magistrate remanded Mr. Daniel Seeram in custody until November 2, 2026 for a formal sentencing...Oct 09, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Neville Sarjoo Memorial T20 bowls off Saturday
(Kaieteur News) – The inaugural Neville Sarjoo Memorial Over-50 T20 Tournament is set to bowl off this weekend, with six teams preparing to compete in a competition aimed at honouring the memory...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on 16-yr-old rock guitarist dies in motorcycle crash at Eccles
(Kaieteur News) – A 16-year-old musician, Vitor Leca-De Alencar of Green Acres, East Bank Demerara, died on Wednesday afternoon after the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a lamp pole on...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Security guard shot dead by masked gunman at Chinese Supermarket
(Kaieteur News) – A lone gunman wearing a surgical mask on Thursday walked into the Lida Chinese Supermarket along Sussex Street, Charlestown and shot a CMC security guard dead. The deceased has...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on BK wins $1.3B contract to salvage MV Barima
(Kaieteur News) – The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) has awarded GYD $1.034 billion contract to local infrastructure firm BK International Inc. to raise the wreck of...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon to repair gas-to-energy pipeline off Crane
…but won’t disclose nature of defect (Kaieteur News) – ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) will be conducting maintenance activities on the 220-kilometre subsea pipeline it built for the...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Who is responsible?’ — Barima COI Chairman vows to follow evidence wherever it leads
(Kaieteur News) – The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the fatal capsizing and sinking of the M/V Barima officially opened its public proceedings on Wednesday morning, with commission chairman...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Maduro to face new U.S. charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says
(Reuters) – Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are expected to face new criminal charges in the U.S. over the alleged torture of Americans held in the South...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on President Ali blasts visa barriers, says Caribbean cannot build tourism with ‘stone age’ system
(Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday criticised visa barriers facing Caribbean travellers, noting that visa and biometric requirements are undermining tourism, regional connectivity...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Life expectancy takes centre stage as massacre convict asks CCJ to cut parole period
By Renay Sambach (Kaieteur News) – Justices at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday heard an appeal filed by attorneys for Michael Caesar, who earlier this year had his sentences for...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on 13 children benefit from paediatric cardiac procedures
Thirteen children have benefitted from specialised cardiac care at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), following a series of paediatric cardiac procedures performed through a...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Widespread distrust in MV Barima inquiry as survivors, families demand answers
(Kaieteur News) – The overarching theme of Wednesday’s consultation with the commissioners of the MV Barima Commission of Inquiry was a profound lack of trust in presidential inquiries, as...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on AGM featured as “the Next Generation of Guyanese Gold Mining” in Int’l B2B magazine
…company revenue reached US$334M by mid-2026 (Kaieteur News) – Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd., a Chinese state-owned mining giant operating in Guyana through its subsidiary AGM Inc., has been...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ERC to host consultations of constitutional reform
(Kaieteur News) – The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) will host a National Consultation on Constitutional Reform and the ERC’s Draft Glossary of Ethnically Sensitive Terms on Tuesday, 13th...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on What yuh doing deh?
(Kaieteur News) – Dem Boys seh Guyana got a new national sport. It ain’t cricket. It ain’t football. It is going to a meeting you don’t trust, then complaining that you don’t trust the...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Zoo, Botanical Gardens set for major transformation
…Wildlife sanctuary, aquarium, SkyTrail and amphitheatre among new attractions (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese and visitors to Georgetown could be walking through a vastly transformed Botanical...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Phillips to represent Guyana at regional energy meeting in the Dominican Republic
(Kaieteur News) – Prime Minister, Mark Phillips, will represent Guyana at the 56th Meeting of Ministers of the Latin American and Caribbean Energy Organization (OLACDE), scheduled for 8th-9th...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Minister Bharrat to represent Guyana, LAC on EITI Board
(Kaieteur News) – Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat was on October 6, formally appointed to represent Guyana, Latin America and the Caribbean on the Board of the Extractive...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on 4R Lioness capture Prime Minister’s Softball Cup title
(Kaieteur News) – The 4R Lioness cricket team emerged as the 2026 Prime Minister’s Softball Cup female champions after defeating Bacchus X1 in the 15-over final on Sunday at the Police Sports...Oct 08, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on World Bank: Stronger growth possible in Latin America, Caribbean despite 2.2% outlook
WASHINGTON, 6th October, 2026 — Latin America and the Caribbean is projected to grow 2.2% in 2026, broadly in line with the rate of 2.4% recorded in 2025, according to the World Bank Group’s...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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