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Duo get pension contributions from Chris Ram after being denied by NIS

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Duo get pension contributions from Chris Ram after being denied by NIS

Kaieteur News – Two pensioners who have been denied old age pension from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will receive the monthly pension amount from Attorney Christopher Ram. The...

Motorcyclist hospitalized following accident with car

Aug 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist hospitalized following accident with car

Kaieteur News – A 26-year-old motorcyclist is hospitalized after he crashed into a car at the corners of South Road and Light Street, Georgetown. The car was heading East along South Road when...

Ten students benefit from GCCI’s annual ‘Teenternship’ Programme 2024

Aug 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Ten students benefit from GCCI’s annual ‘Teenternship’ Programme 2024

Kaieteur News – Ten students from Camille’s Academy benefit from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GCCI) 2024 ‘Teenternship’ programme. The programme is...

Retired serviceman gets new home

Aug 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Retired serviceman gets new home

DPI – Albert Hunte, 66, who served in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is the latest beneficiary of a house through the Men on a Mission (MoM) initiative. Hunte received his new home at...

MoE, GTU to establish committee to fast track teachers’ housing applications – GTU President

Aug 18, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on MoE, GTU to establish committee to fast track teachers’ housing applications – GTU President

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) will soon put together a committee to address the fast-tracking of teachers’ housing applications that...

De Vee Pee like old-time story

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De Vee Pee like old-time story

Kaieteur News – Dem boys been around in this country long before Jagdeo. Dem boys see hard times. Dem boys know about when you couldn’t find soap to wash yuh skin. When bread was a treasure,...

Local boy Niles conquer St Luican Monrose on opening night

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local boy Niles conquer St Luican Monrose on opening night

Trinidad, St Lucia also with two wins each Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Boxing Association, in partnership with the National Sports Commission, kicked off its premier Youth Boxing event at the...

Windies suffer 40-run loss despite late innings fightback from Motie

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies suffer 40-run loss despite late innings fightback from Motie

South Africa Tour of the West Indies 2024… – South Africa complete series win 1-0 Kaieteur Sports – It turned out to be a comprehensive win for South Africa, who wrapped up the two Test...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National C/ship starts September 5

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National C/ship starts September 5

Kaieteur Sports – The Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National Championship will commence on September 5th at the Pouderoyen Tarmac, West Bank Demerara. Given the support that was...

Hikers Hockey Club returns to Barbados Hockey Festival

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers Hockey Club returns to Barbados Hockey Festival

Kaieteur Sports – The Hikers Hockey Club is set to return to the Barbados Hockey Festival, competing in both the Mixed and Masters categories. After a 15-year hiatus, the Hikers made a strong...

GTA rewards finalists in the ‘One Guyana’ President’s Games Cup

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTA rewards finalists in the ‘One Guyana’ President’s Games Cup

Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) successfully concluded the first-ever ‘One Guyana’ President’s Games Tennis Cup on Monday at the National Racquet Centre, marking the...

Vindya and Mohabir

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Vindya and Mohabir

Hard Truths by GHK Lall Kaieteur News – I read with interest political observer and pollster Dr. Vishnu Bisram’s take on the cancer of corruption in Guyana. Close attention was paid to his...

Cartoon – 18 August, 2024

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – 18 August, 2024

Oil disclosures – pulling teeth

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Oil disclosures – pulling teeth

Kaieteur News – Guyanese know less than they should about their oil wealth. The PPPC Government has been comfortable operating like Ebenezer Scrooge with sharing some of the essentials of...

Can private companies be summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee?

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Can private companies be summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee?

Kaieteur News – The powerful bourgeois class in Guyana, that exerts influence on the political classes in Guyana, must be petrified at the idea that a parliamentary committee can have the...

Cleaning Georgetown

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cleaning Georgetown

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the public notice on the subject of Citizens being urged to get involved in a cleanup exercise (SN 8-16-2024). While this is a positive effort to solve a serious...

Strengthen Ties with India

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Strengthen Ties with India

Dear Editor, India observed the 77th anniversary of its independence last August 15. India has significant influence on former colonies, including Guyana and several West Indian territories) of...

Civil Society activism is the Hope of Guyana

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Civil Society activism is the Hope of Guyana

Dear Editor, Recently, friends have posed the question to me of whether my continued advocacy of electoral reform for Guyana has achieved anything and is it worth the effort. After four years working...

Stop attacking our women

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop attacking our women

Dear Editor, This week, I have been disturbed by the rise in disrespectful and baseless accusations against Guyanese women, notably from a popular social media commentator. These attacks, targeting...

Put an end to orchestrated forays into parts of the country’s capital

Aug 18, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Put an end to orchestrated forays into parts of the country’s capital

Dear Editor, Around this same time in August 2020, I broke ranks with some of my colleagues when I proposed that we give young President Irfaan Ali an opportunity to do things necessary to make...

ExxonM’s project plans cannot be released to the public – Minister Vickram Bharrat

Aug 17, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonM’s project plans cannot be released to the public – Minister Vickram Bharrat

…Document “very technical” and contains proprietary information Kaieteur News – The Field Development Plans (FDPs) outlining the blueprint of the offshore oil projects being...

Govt. wants payment period to Guyanese companies operating in oil and gas sector reduced to 21 days

Aug 17, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. wants payment period to Guyanese companies operating in oil and gas sector reduced to 21 days

…Locals earned US$314M within first half of 2024 Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana (GoG) through the Local Content Secretariat (LCS) is working to have the payment period to local...

‘Pure terrorism’: World reacts to Israeli settler attack in West Bank

Aug 17, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Pure terrorism’: World reacts to Israeli settler attack in West Bank

Deadly attack on Palestinian village of Jit sparks condemnation and calls for accountability, sanctions against Israel. Al Jazeera – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are reeling after...

Two miners die after mining pit collapses at Madhia

Aug 17, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Two miners die after mining pit collapses at Madhia

Kaieteur News – Two miners were killed on Friday after a mining pit collapsed at a back dam at Mahdia, Region Eight. Dead are Sherwayne Joseph of Moruca, North West District, Region One and...

Bandit allegedly shot while trying to rob money changer

Aug 17, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit allegedly shot while trying to rob money changer

Kaieteur News – One of two bandits was shot on Friday while attempting to rob a moneychanger at the corner of America Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown. Reports are that masked...

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Sinclair’s Central Retainer Contract reinstated by GCB

Oct 18, 2026

– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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