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Preparations to be finalized as Guyana’s contingent gets ready for Carifesta

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Preparations to be finalized as Guyana’s contingent gets ready for Carifesta

Whilst meetings are being held by the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) in Trinidad and Tobago with regards to Carifesta XIV 2019, Guyana has been doing some preparations of its own for the event. An...

Eureka! Eureka! I know Charran was bribed!

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Eureka! Eureka! I know Charran was bribed!

They say the hope for this country lies in its large young population. Almost eighty percent of Guyana is under 45. That is good for the future. For some reasons, the folks in the sixties and...

US Report on anti-money laundering and drug trafficking “fairest”—Ron Sanders

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on US Report on anti-money laundering and drug trafficking “fairest”—Ron Sanders

Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Sir Ronald Sanders, has described the 2019 US International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on Antigua and Barbuda...

Miner shot twice chasing after bandits during Wismar attack on neighbours

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miner shot twice chasing after bandits during Wismar attack on neighbours

Police are investigating a robbery under arms committed on Omeanna Davis, Jermaine Adams and Fidel Smith which occurred about 20:00hrs Thursday. According to police, the bandits struck first...

Drunken woman allegedly attempts to kill husband

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken woman allegedly attempts to kill husband

A 40-year-old mother of five yesterday found herself facing a charge of attempted murder because she reportedly chopped her husband about the body following a drunken argument they had. The accused,...

Bosai’s Matthew’s Ridge Manganese operation underway ─113 Guyanese employed

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bosai’s Matthew’s Ridge Manganese operation underway ─113 Guyanese employed

To date, 113 Guyanese have already been employed with Guyana Manganese Incorporated (GMI), the local company formed by Bosai Minerals to head its operations at Matthew’s Ridge, Region One....

Buxton man stabbed to death by countryman in Trinidad

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Buxton man stabbed to death by countryman in Trinidad

A Guyanese man is dead after an altercation, Wednesday night, with a fellow countryman. Dead is Kobina Andrews, 32. According to a report in the Trinidad Newsday, Andrews of Caroni, Savannah Road,...

Jagdeo says: I do not trust gov’t with “carpetbagger” oil companies

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo says: I do not trust gov’t with “carpetbagger” oil companies

The Leader of the Opposition has said that the current A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) cannot be trusted to steer the country’s oil resource well, with...

10,000-plus to benefit from modern Moruca bridge slated to open in 3 weeks

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 10,000-plus to benefit from modern Moruca bridge slated to open in 3 weeks

After enduring years of hardship traversing an old wooden bridge that was below water level and deemed unsafe, the residents of Moruca, Region One, have said they are delighted with the construction...

Nations students continue to excel at ABE exams

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Nations students continue to excel at ABE exams

The largest provider of the Association of Business Executives [ABE] courses in Guyana is Nations School of Business and Management. The New Market Street, Georgetown institution yesterday announced...

$20M Cotton Field Nursery School commissioned.

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $20M Cotton Field Nursery School commissioned.

It is believed that the delivery of nursery education within the Pomeroon/Supenaam region has undergone significant improvement. The commissioning of the Cotton Field Nursery School, yesterday...

Principles of Convenience

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Principles of Convenience

Glenn Lall, the publisher of this newspaper, is fond of reminding us here at Kaieteur News that if you do not stand for something you will fall for anything. Well, if the response of the government...

Mom calls police on son who stashed rifle

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mom calls police on son who stashed rifle

The police in Berbice are currently on the hunt for a 15-year-old school dropout of Angoy’s Avenue after the mother of the teen made contact with authorities and informed them that a gun was...

Guyana launches National Youth Corps… 500 young people to begin training in April

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana launches National Youth Corps… 500 young people to begin training in April

“This country needs youths more than ever. Our economy is about to experience high levels of economic growth in the advent of petroleum production next year. The development of a diversified...

Courtesy Call

Mar 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Courtesy Call

International Atomic Energy Agen cy (IAEA) Programme Management Officer, Saskia Frater Smith, on Thursday, paid a courtesy call on Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings at...

Calamity at Guyana Goldfields

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Calamity at Guyana Goldfields

DEAR EDITOR, Having read the comment attributed to the esteemed Minister of Natural Resources in yesterday’s newspaper on what is happening at Guyana Goldfields I cringed. Is this man...

I’m no jurist, but…

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on I’m no jurist, but…

DEAR EDITOR, Whatever may be implied by the term, I’ll identify myself as apolitical. Further, and by a long way, I’m no jurist. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and having been inundated with...

The Guyana Constitution must foster stability

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyana Constitution must foster stability

DEAR EDITOR, The constitution provides that, in order to be carried, a motion for the passing of ordinary bills simply needs more yeahs than nays in any sitting of the House. This means that a...

Stop harassment of small business hustlers

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop harassment of small business hustlers

DEAR EDITOR, After seeing a video on Facebook of a young single parent being harassed at the Bartica stelling, I ask that you help publish this ridiculous act by the Bartica stelling authorities and...

Our young people need jobs

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our young people need jobs

DEAR EDITOR, The private sector, through its representative bodies, has been playing an increasing role in the body politic of Guyana. This, in my view, is a welcome development. Gone are the days...

Not even a word of sympathy?

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not even a word of sympathy?

DEAR EDITOR, I am appalled and disappointed that I see nothing in the media to offer even a word of sympathy to the people of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A cyclone which started last week has...

The fundamentals of good journalism include the truth

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The fundamentals of good journalism include the truth

DEAR EDITOR, We at the Georgetown City Council are becoming very worried about the reports published in the print media about our statutory meetings. Over the past weeks, as Public Relations Officer,...

Guyanese things that startle

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese things that startle

DEAR EDITOR, Guyanese are endlessly innovative people, blessed with an expansive imagination. Those citizens that think less than cleanly, legally, and righteously come up with one concoction or...

The PPP never claimed purity

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP never claimed purity

DEAR EDITOR, It is always more fun than a challenge to respond to published letters penned by Eusi Kwayana. Some have questioned the timing and the purpose of Kwayana’s letter published in...

We do rise above our positions

Mar 30, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on We do rise above our positions

Many people grow up with poverty; it was and still is a constant companion. A few sturdy, purposeful souls grow out of it, as in above and beyond. NBA superstar, Lebron James, now worth tens of...

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Legacy meets hunger in uncompromising Leopold St, Bent St final

May 01, 2026

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ decides Georgetown champions tonight Kaieteur Sports – Former champions Leopold Street stormed into the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown...

The stranger next door

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – As late as the early 1970s, when night fell, dinner consumed and the children completed their homework, members of the household would usually sit either in the sitting room or on the verandah and discuss various matters, but mainly the events of the day. In those days there...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

APOLOGY AND RETRACTION TO MR. DEVINDRA KISSOON

May 01, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On April 29, 2026, I published in Kaieteur News, as part of The GHK Lall Column, a piece entitled “A special kind of lawyering, and at its best” (the “Column”). Mr. Kissoon has never acted for the Government on the Gas-to-Energy Project. He has never received any...

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