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We salute Guyana’s Olympic Games trailblazers

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Sports Comments Off on We salute Guyana’s Olympic Games trailblazers

Kaieteur Sports – The 2024 Olympic Games opened on Friday in Paris France and Kaieteur Sports would like to salute the first ever athletes that represented the land of many waters at these...

Bhai Bharrat – yuh slip showing, desperation mounting

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Bhai Bharrat – yuh slip showing, desperation mounting

Kaieteur News – The more Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo fight against the tide, the lower his pants drop. His slip is showing, and it is not a half-slip, but the whole damn thing. The...

Cartoon – 28 July, 2024

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – 28 July, 2024

11B, 15B, or 18.7B, or much more

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Editorial Comments Off on 11B, 15B, or 18.7B, or much more

Kaieteur News – Guyana is sitting atop an offshore oil treasure house. The people exploring for and producing the oil have clammed up on how many new barrels of oil have been found in the...

Soiree: the African tradition that lives on

Jul 28, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Soiree: the African tradition that lives on

By Anasa Williams Kaieteur News – The African tradition is big on dance and rituals to invoke the spirit of the ancestors and seek guidance on the way forward. Soiree is a festival that marks...

The resource extraction model

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The resource extraction model

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s economic development has historically relied on the extraction of its abundant natural resources—bauxite, gold, timber, and now oil. This model of development,...

What’s New? Masquerading African Guyanese!

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on What’s New? Masquerading African Guyanese!

Dear Editor, For years now, across the different political regimes (PNC and PPP), it has been the policy and practice to provide grants to the African Guyanese communities for the purpose of hosting...

Venezuela’s elections will not end well

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Venezuela’s elections will not end well

Dear Editor, Today, July 28, Venezuela votes. The date, chosen by the National Electoral Council (CNE), signals their orientation: it is the birth anniversary of Hugo Chavez, 61-year-old Nicolas...

Urgent call to address public nuisance at J’s Sports Bar on Bent Street

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent call to address public nuisance at J’s Sports Bar on Bent Street

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my deep concern and frustration over the continuous public nuisance created by J’s Sports Bar on Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown. This establishment...

Complaints about the award of contracts

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Complaints about the award of contracts

Dear Editor, In travelling around the country recently and currently to conduct opinion polls, contractors of all sizes (large, medium, small companies) bitterly complained about...

Death does not give a second chance

Jul 28, 2024 KNews Letters Comments Off on Death does not give a second chance

Dear Editor, Over the years, hundreds of letters with suggestions to reduce the increasingly high traffic deaths in Guyana have been published in the national newspapers in the country. As far back...

New oil spill law to override any guarantee Exxon has with Guyana – Jagdeo

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on New oil spill law to override any guarantee Exxon has with Guyana – Jagdeo

Kaieteur News – The passage of the country’s new oil spill legislation will override any guarantee or agreement ExxonMobil Guyana has relative to oil spills and the scope of coverage the...

Regional Agri-insurance programme launched to safeguard farmers from threats

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Agri-insurance programme launched to safeguard farmers from threats

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in collaboration with Lynch Caribbean Brokers out of Barbados on Friday launched the Regional Economical Agri-Insurance Programme (REAP) which...

More than 180,000 displaced from Gaza’s Khan Younis in four days, UN says

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on More than 180,000 displaced from Gaza’s Khan Younis in four days, UN says

‘About 182,000 people’ displaced from central and eastern Khan Younis from Monday – Thursday, UN OCHA says. Al Jazeera – More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled bombardment around the...

Lethem man set on fire after row

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem man set on fire after row

Kaieteur News – A 24-year-old man from Tabatinga, Lethem, Region Nine is nursing burns about his body after he was set on fire by someone he had an argument with last Saturday. Reports are that...

Bandits beat South Ruimveldt man for motorcycle

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits beat South Ruimveldt man for motorcycle

Kaieteur News – Two bandits armed with a gun and a knife on Friday reportedly beat a 21-year-old man for his Lindy Scooter on Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The victim was...

Brazilian brothers charged for failing to keep gold records

Jul 27, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brazilian brothers charged for failing to keep gold records

Kaieteur News – Two Brazilian brothers were on Friday charged for failing to keep records of the gold they buy in Port Kaituma and Eyelash, North West District, Region One and Georgetown,...

Govt.’s 6% proposed increase to teachers another slap in the face – PNC

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Govt.’s 6% proposed increase to teachers another slap in the face – PNC

Kaieteur News – The People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) on Friday called the Ministry of Education’s proposed six to seven per cent increase for teachers a slap in the face. The party...

Bar Association warns against threats to Judicial Officers

Jul 27, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bar Association warns against threats to Judicial Officers

…says such action can result in imprisonment Kaieteur News – The Bar Council of The Bar Association of Guyana on Wednesday warned against threats and personal attacks against judicial...

U.S. citizen on $800,000 bail for alleged gold smuggling

Jul 27, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on U.S. citizen on $800,000 bail for alleged gold smuggling

Kaieteur News – A 52-year-old United States (U.S.) citizen was on Thursday granted $800,000 bail when he appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court to answer to a gold smuggling charge. The...

Construction worker remanded over Break and Enter and Larceny charge

Jul 27, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Construction worker remanded over Break and Enter and Larceny charge

Kaieteur News – A construction worker was on Thursday charged with Break and Enter and Larceny and remanded to prison when he appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court. The accused, Navindra...

No cover-up in GPF corruption probe – Jagdeo assures

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on No cover-up in GPF corruption probe – Jagdeo assures

…says PPP/C has depoliticised SOCU Kaieteur News – Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday assured that there will be no cover-up in the probe into the alleged financial impropriety and...

Former table tennis player on $1.3M bail for possession of guns, ammo and drugs

Jul 27, 2024 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on Former table tennis player on $1.3M bail for possession of guns, ammo and drugs

Kaieteur News – Former table tennis player Edinho Lewis was on Friday placed on $1,350,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Principal Magistrate Faith...

Man, 47, drowns at Orealla

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 47, drowns at Orealla

Kaieteur News – A 47-year-old salesman reportedly drowned on Tuesday after he slipped and fell from a boat in Orealla Village, Corentyne River, Berbice, Region Six. Dead is Paul Bahadur of...

Labour Minister discusses migrant workers’ welfare with PSC

Jul 27, 2024 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Minister discusses migrant workers’ welfare with PSC

Kaieteur News – Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton on Thursday met with representatives of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to discuss migrant workers and their wellbeing. The meeting was...

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Hridoy ensures draw in Sylhet; WI beat Bangladesh 1-0 in series

Nov 09, 2026

Cricinfo – With an 82 in the fourth innings, Towhid Hridoy ensured Bangladesh completed a hard-fought draw against West Indies in the Sylhet Test. The visitors clinched the series 1-0 on...

What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong

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...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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...

Light and darkness, lips to life

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...

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