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Lil Sharma nah deh pon de list!

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lil Sharma nah deh pon de list!

Dem Boys Seh… De Rig-adier legacy gone international. Dem boys remember how de Rig-adier bin spread de virus wah does cause rigging, recounting and recanting. De Bingo tried fuh rig with a...

The APNU+AFC will be outclassed in the National Assembly

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The APNU+AFC will be outclassed in the National Assembly

It is perhaps too early and there is too little information available to pronounce precisely on what exactly is taking place within the PNC/R. When the dust settles on the fallout from the elections,...

Foreign Minister appoints Greenidge as Advisor, several others

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Minister appoints Greenidge as Advisor, several others

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, yesterday announced several appointments within his Ministry. Todd said that the appointments are meant to bolster the...

“It is a slap in the face” – James Bond on Volda Lawrence not making APNU+AFC parliamentary list

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “It is a slap in the face” – James Bond on Volda Lawrence not making APNU+AFC parliamentary list

People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) member, James Bond, has expressed his disappointment that the name of the party’s Chairman, Volda Lawrence, is noticeably absent from the A Partnership...

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Paul Williams, proceeds on leave

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Deputy Commissioner of Police, Paul Williams, proceeds on leave

– as rumours surface that he was sent home Deputy Commissioner of Police and former Crime Chief, Paul Williams, was yesterday sent on 192 days annual vacation leave. The Public Relations...

US claims Guyana joins democratic countries in support of change in Venezuela

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US claims Guyana joins democratic countries in support of change in Venezuela

(CMC) – The United States says Guyana has joined “many democratic countries in support of democratic change in Venezuela,” but there has so far been no official response from the new...

87 year-old is Guyana’s latest COVID -19 fatality

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 87 year-old is Guyana’s latest COVID -19 fatality

An 87-year-old man is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality. According to information obtained by this publication, the man succumbed to COVID-19 related complications while hospitalized in the...

Mechanic injured as boat explodes at New Amsterdam Stelling

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic injured as boat explodes at New Amsterdam Stelling

A man is now nursing second degree burns about his body after a fibre glass boat that was moored at the New Amsterdam Stelling caught on fire yesterday and subsequently exploded. According to...

Special Constable charged for causing pensioner’s death

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Special Constable charged for causing pensioner’s death

Special Constable Michael Lewis was yesterday released on $200,000 bail for causing the death of 61-year-old Bibi Zalima Subrattie, a housewife of Pigeon Island Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara,...

Broomes, bodyguard hauled before Magistrate

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Broomes, bodyguard hauled before Magistrate

– Both released on self bail Former Youth Affairs Minister within the Ministry of the Presidency, Simona Broomes, and her bodyguard, Dexter Austin, were yesterday hauled before Senior...

District Council opposes resumption of mining in Regions 7, 8, 9

Aug 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on District Council opposes resumption of mining in Regions 7, 8, 9

The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) is maintaining its firm position that mining should not be an essential service and should be suspended in Indigenous communities, especially those that are...

Guyana Amazon Warriors and TKR clash in opening encounter today

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Amazon Warriors and TKR clash in opening encounter today

Hero CPL 2020… By Zaheer Mohamed Dubbed the biggest party in sport, this year’s edition of the Hero Caribbean Premier League T20 will be a quiet affair due to the crowd restrictions caused by...

PNC should reject the AFC’s selections for parliament

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on PNC should reject the AFC’s selections for parliament

Last Sunday, the AFC selected its nine parliamentarians and it is a sordid violation of the constitution, elections criteria and moral laws. The selection is amorphous and illogical. This country...

GABF looking to upgrade Courts during lockdown

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF looking to upgrade Courts during lockdown

The COVID-19 lockdown in Guyana has forced the commencement of basketball locally to be delayed by six months now and according to head of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF); Mike Singh,...

Hero CPL to broadcast the return of T20 around the world

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hero CPL to broadcast the return of T20 around the world

The broadcasters for the Hero Caribbean Premier League have been confirmed for the 2020 tournament with deals with key partners in place in India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, America,...

President Santokhi – pearls of oil wisdoms

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on President Santokhi – pearls of oil wisdoms

President Chandrikapersad Santokhi of Suriname hit the nail on the head during a recent press session. “The sustainable development should come from the private sector, from the small and medium...

Payara required an engineering rocket scientist; we got a politically connected regulator

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Payara required an engineering rocket scientist; we got a politically connected regulator

Dear Editor, I break my peace to share that, in the choice of Ms. Alison Redford, QC, fallen ex-premier, perennial regulator, and current World Bank Advisor, the PPP government continued the...

Freddie’s attacks on Eusi Kwayana have been abusive and disrespectful

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie’s attacks on Eusi Kwayana have been abusive and disrespectful

Dear Editor. We, the former students of Country High School (renamed Republic Cooperative High School) of Buxton Village, East Coast Demerara have had enough of Freddie Kissoon and his continued...

The AFC did not distinguish itself within the Coalition administration

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC did not distinguish itself within the Coalition administration

Dear Editor, In probing why they lost the government, the coalition parties, separately and collectively, must not remain locked down in the cheated-not-defeated mindset or they would miss several...

Kaieteur News should use its influence to bring government to its senses on Payara

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kaieteur News should use its influence to bring government to its senses on Payara

Dear Editor For the past couple of days Kaieteur News has featured the opinions and comments from Melinda Janki and Jan Mangal, both experts in the petroleum business who feel that the choice of the...

Guyanese should demand that President Ali hire Jan Mangal

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese should demand that President Ali hire Jan Mangal

Dear Editor, Now that we have had a change of regime, the nation’s attention should swiftly return to focus on that US $55 billion that the APNU/ AFC govt left on the table in negotiating that...

The new government should reduce the import duties on cars

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The new government should reduce the import duties on cars

Dear Editor, Please allow me to highlight an issue that is of great concern to many Guyanese. With access to the Internet, the world has become a small global village. As such, many Guyanese could...

Incoming government should use available data for accurate assessment of State finances

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Incoming government should use available data for accurate assessment of State finances

Dear Editor, As was the case in 2015 with the change of a new Government, we now hear expressions and opinions of an “empty treasury” and “bankrupt coffers” by both citizens and politicians...

What is exactly being reviewed in Payara?

Aug 18, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is exactly being reviewed in Payara?

Dear Editor, Thank you KN for your exposés on the oil sector. Reference is made to the Review of the Payara project (KN several dates). When I was asked for my opinion as someone who studied oil...

Guyana to pay every cent Exxon spends… never forget this!

Aug 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to pay every cent Exxon spends… never forget this!

Exxon said they spent US$70M “locally” on bora, ochro, bajee, eggs, rice, sugar, salt, etc…and lil transpee…here and there. Guess what Guyana? Dem ain’t even got a piece of paper or a...

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Camptown FC clinch historic Elite League berth with victory over...

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Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...

The politics of appointment

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

Jun 23, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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