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Nine killed, 2,750 wounded in Hezbollah pager blasts across Lebanon

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Nine killed, 2,750 wounded in Hezbollah pager blasts across Lebanon

(ALJAZEERA) – At least nine people were killed and about 2,750 were wounded by exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon, the country’s health minister has said. Firass Abiad said that an...

Bandits in $65M heist at Samtronix

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits in $65M heist at Samtronix

– cut alarm wires, erase CCTV footage Kaieteur News – The owner of Samtronix is now at his wits ends after discovering Monday morning that his store was burglarised and the thieves...

Murder, robbery suspects nabbed in city raids

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Murder, robbery suspects nabbed in city raids

Kaieteur News – Police on Monday arrested several men- one of whom was wanted for murder during raids across Georgetown. Among those arrested were a 25-year-old man who is wanted for murder and...

Cops in controversial search of home of ‘Melly Mel’s’ relatives

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Cops in controversial search of home of ‘Melly Mel’s’ relatives

– allegedly found black bag with ganja in alleyway outside of yard Kaieteur News – A senior police officer on Tuesday led a search of the home of relatives of social activist, Melissa...

Pile driving activities underway for delayed Gas-to-Energy project

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Pile driving activities underway for delayed Gas-to-Energy project

Kaieteur News – The joint venture contracted by the Government of Guyana, Linsayca-CH4, to construct two gas plants at Wales, West Bank Demerara is currently conducting pile driving works for...

Less than a year newly built Leonora dorm to be renovated, extended for estimated $139M

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Less than a year newly built Leonora dorm to be renovated, extended for estimated $139M

Kaieteur News – Less than a year after it was commissioned, the $75 million students’ dormitory at Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) is set to undergo renovation and extension works for...

Police investigating circulation of fake old age pension books, disability books

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Police investigating circulation of fake old age pension books, disability books

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, through the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has launched an investigation into the unauthorized copies of old age pension and...

Man gets five years for robbing businesswoman

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man gets five years for robbing businesswoman

Kaieteur News – A 30-year-old man was sentenced to five years imprisonment on Tuesday, after he pleaded guilty, when he appeared at the Lenora Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of...

Taxi driver gets bail for bomb threats to Marriott Hotel

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Taxi driver gets bail for bomb threats to Marriott Hotel

Kaieteur News – A 42-year-old taxi driver on Tuesday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court facing charges related to allegedly using a mobile phone to make bomb threats at the...

Election Fraud case further delayed

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Election Fraud case further delayed

…court may be forced to change Magistrate Kaieteur News – The trial concerning the 2020 Election Fraud case which was set to reopen on Tuesday, has been postponed yet again to October 31,...

Govt. in move to revive Skeldon sugar estate

Sep 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. in move to revive Skeldon sugar estate

– seeking contractors to prepare, plant fields Kaieteur News – A total of nine bidders have signaled their interest in undertaking the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) project which is...

Doing business in Guyana gat added costs

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Doing business in Guyana gat added costs

Kaieteur News – Owning a business in Guyana is like running a marathon with a sack of bricks strapped to your back. Except, in this race, the bricks have names—Shoplifting Sherry, Burglar...

Warriors eyeing comeback win, with important Guyana leg looming

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warriors eyeing comeback win, with important Guyana leg looming

2024 Caribbean Premier League… GAW vs. TKR Kaieteur Sports – Defending Champs Guyana Amazon Warriors are eyeing a much-needed rebound victory tonight against home team Trinbago Knight...

Teams briefed ahead of Saturday’s start

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams briefed ahead of Saturday’s start

Courts Optical Pee Wee U11 Schools Football Kaieteur Sports – Yesterday, several schools gathered at the National Library’s Conference Room for the Petra Organisation’s customary team...

Guyana open its medal quest today in Argentina

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana open its medal quest today in Argentina

South American Women’s and Men’s Classic Powerlifting Championships Kaieteur Sports – Making her international debut last year in Peru and setting the tone for what was a very...

Jockey Ross anticipates exciting President’s Cup

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jockey Ross anticipates exciting President’s Cup

Kaieteur Sports – One of Guyana’s best jockey, Colin Ross, is expecting fireworks on Sunday September 22 at Rising Sun Turf Club when the President’s Cup horse racing takes Centre stage....

Ramdhani, de Boulet cop Bronze in Costa Rica badminton tourney

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdhani, de Boulet cop Bronze in Costa Rica badminton tourney

Kaieteur Sports – Guyanese badminton star Priyanna Ramdhani and Trinidadian Chequeda de Boulet copped the Bronze in the Costa Rica Future Series Women’s Doubles. The duo lost their...

Sowter called up by Amazon Warriors

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sowter called up by Amazon Warriors

– Jordan drafted by TKR Kaieteur Sports – England international Chris Jordan will join the Trinbago Knight Riders for the remainder of the 2024 season while Aussie Nathan Sowter will...

Proposed cybercrime changes: rich resourcefulness or reason to fear

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Proposed cybercrime changes: rich resourcefulness or reason to fear

Kaieteur News – The social media space in Guyana is out of control. It needs policing. The proposed amendments to the Cybercrime law would introduce some much-needed regulation. On the...

Spending like crazy on roads

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Spending like crazy on roads

Kaieteur News – The PPP/C Government is running on a fast road. In the first six months of this year $25.5B has been spent on roads. Whatever is used to describe such a huge amount of...

Irfaan Ali’s dilemma and the shadow of Jagdeo

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Irfaan Ali’s dilemma and the shadow of Jagdeo

Kaieteur News – If history is to be trusted, the bourgeoisie of any society has always been marked by unity of purpose. Their economic interests, control of capital, and appetite for expanding...

This MoE employee encouraged disrespectful behaviour from a student and his parent at Annandale Secondary School

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on This MoE employee encouraged disrespectful behaviour from a student and his parent at Annandale Secondary School

Dear Editor, Maintaining discipline in schools is a constant battle that teachers face every day, many have simply chosen to ‘give up’ the fight and seek more peaceful and lucrative professions...

The Aubrey Norton versus Jermaine Figuiera matter

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Aubrey Norton versus Jermaine Figuiera matter

Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton is doing what he knows best, that is, humiliating an opponent or someone whom he claims to be an opponent and reduce them to nothingness. It is...

The villagers are now questioning if the “Kingpins” who are the “Dons” in Leonora have a “Godfather”

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on The villagers are now questioning if the “Kingpins” who are the “Dons” in Leonora have a “Godfather”

Dear Editor, The aching soul of a disgruntled Leonora, Region 3, now featured regularly in the much-published national newspapers, sadly cries in a hurtful agony, as it regrettably mourns the devious...

Reducing Guyana’s & CARICOM’s Value of Food Imports by 25% by 2025

Sep 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reducing Guyana’s & CARICOM’s Value of Food Imports by 25% by 2025

Dear Editor, Endowed with several natural resources (bauxite, gold, diamond, manganese, pristine forest, arable land, and an abundance of fresh water) and now oil, Guyana moves to extract these in a...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Horse Racing Authority Bill of 2024, though ostensibly aimed at regulating horse racing... more