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Golf Academy supports Cancer Awareness for 5th Year

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golf Academy supports Cancer Awareness for 5th Year

Five years ago, President of the Guyana Golf Academy/Nexgen Golf Academy Aleem Hussain engaged the Cancer Institute of Guyana and proposed that the sport be used as a vehicle for awareness and...

Poverty index reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups – UNDP

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Poverty index reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups – UNDP

– in 2019 51,000 people in Guyana were classified as vulnerable to multidimensional poverty Kaieteur News – Disparities in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups are consistently...

GOA contribute US$8,000 for Wong’s Training Camp

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA contribute US$8,000 for Wong’s Training Camp

Table Tennis player Miguel Wong, who will be representing Guyana at both the Panam Junior and Senior Championships next month, has benefited from a timely investment from the Guyana Olympic...

For the Caribbean, relations with the US and China is not one or the other

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on For the Caribbean, relations with the US and China is not one or the other

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – On October 12, more than a dozen representatives in the US Congress sent a letter to the US Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, asking for immediate...

GCB donate Kits To BCB Coaching Programme

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB donate Kits To BCB Coaching Programme

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on October 15 last donated a number of Coaching Kits to the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) for use in Coaching programmes throughout the Ancient County. On hand to receive...

Bartica pensioner burnt to death in home

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica pensioner burnt to death in home

Kaieteur News – An 81-year-old woman was on Friday burnt to death in her one-storey wooden and concrete home in Bartica, Region Seven after an unattended candle fell and started a fire. The...

‘Top-Tier Elegance & Online Shopping’ …Catering to your fashion needs

Oct 17, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Top-Tier Elegance & Online Shopping’ …Catering to your fashion needs

“I believe that young entrepreneurs play a crucial role in society, in that we help to create jobs and this contributes to the country’s growing economy.” By Allyiah Allicock Kaieteur News...

Former Finance Minister incensed at insinuations and innuendoes

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former Finance Minister incensed at insinuations and innuendoes

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter, “Time for Justice”, penned by H. Yusuf and published in Kaieteur News, October 16, 2021. An excerpt from the letter reads, “It boggles the mind that after all...

Former Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk … 80 years on

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk … 80 years on

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Veteran former Guyana Chronicle’s Sports Photographer Winston Oudkerk celebrated his 80 birthday last month with his family but for someone who had served...

Kaieteur News Cartoon 10/17/2021

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Cartoons, News Comments Off on Kaieteur News Cartoon 10/17/2021

Oil companies must release timely production data to foster transparency

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oil companies must release timely production data to foster transparency

Dear Editor, Imagine if you drive your car to an Esso gas station and fill your tank with US$27.20 in gas. Then, you decide to pay the cashier only US$20 for your gas and you walk out. The police...

Central Bank regulation of commercial banks nonexistent

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Central Bank regulation of commercial banks nonexistent

Dear Editor, I recall, sometime last year, the former Minister of Finance had reason to complain that commercial banks had restricted banking hours, while raising their fees for using their ATM...

Let there be STEAM, not just STEM; and more strength in Literature and Social Studies

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let there be STEAM, not just STEM; and more strength in Literature and Social Studies

Dear Editor, After viewing the telecast and listening to the various presentations and the announcement of the CAPE, CSEC and other CXC examination results, I am motivated to make the following...

Govt. needs to setup more centres countrywide to offer free counselling

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. needs to setup more centres countrywide to offer free counselling

Dear Editor, Guyana has been severely affected by the COVID-19 virus. As a result, many lost close ones, or have been feeling the effects financially. Many issues also arise, coupled with the...

Stop politicising crimefighting

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop politicising crimefighting

Dear Editor, Guyana is in the midst of a criminal pandemic and the Government is at its wits end at the possible methods they can use to solve it. This criminal onslaught is both worrisome and mind...

Crime is crime and should be condemned and dealt with the full force of the law

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crime is crime and should be condemned and dealt with the full force of the law

Dear Editor, No less than five persons have been murdered at the hands of the Guyana Police Force since August 2020. Wanton extrajudicial killing has returned and this time more ominous than before....

Guyanese and COVID-19

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese and COVID-19

Dear Editor, I take note of a letter penned by one Brian E. Plummer titled “Has our COVID Strategy been Successful”. Sometimes Editor, I wonder about Guyanese and how they managed to survive this...

The outcome could have been different

Oct 17, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The outcome could have been different

Dear Editor Stealthily and ever cautiously the bandit moved to the chair where the gun lay as the guard was comatosed, never realising he was visited until sometime later. Another familiar case of...

Bandit confesses to stabbing teen to death during robbery

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit confesses to stabbing teen to death during robbery

Kaieteur News – A nineteen-year-old man was yesterday killed by a bandit who had invaded his family’s store called Deals on Electronics located at Strathspey on the East Coast of Demerara...

Draft Local Content Law proposes Guyanese participation in 152 oil sector services

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Draft Local Content Law proposes Guyanese participation in 152 oil sector services

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – The Government’s Draft Local Content Legislation is proposing to have Guyanese participate in 152 oil sector services so as to ensure maximum participation...

GDF rank pleads guilty to being part of multi-million-dollar gold heist

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GDF rank pleads guilty to being part of multi-million-dollar gold heist

– Tells court he was recently demoted and was struggling to provide for his family Kaieteur News – Keyon King now labeled as an ex-member of the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) yesterday...

Porter killed by plane’s propeller at airstrip

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Porter killed by plane’s propeller at airstrip

Kaieteur News – A porter employed with Air Services Limited (ASL) was killed after he was chopped multiple times about his body by a plane’s propeller at the Kamarang Airstrp located in...

Teen missing after dropping brother to school

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Teen missing after dropping brother to school

Kaieteur News – A worried mom is seeking the public’s help to locate her teenage daughter who disappeared on Wednesday after dropping off her brother at the Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School on...

Success Elementary tops NGSA performance

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Success Elementary tops NGSA performance

Kaieteur News – Out of the 13,821 students who wrote the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations back in August, it was Nirvana Wimal of Success Elementary School who was named the...

Family of three beaten, tied up during home invasion

Oct 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Family of three beaten, tied up during home invasion

Kaieteur News – A family of three from La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) remains in a state of shock after two bandits invaded their house Thursday night, held them at gunpoint, then beat and...

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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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