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Talks ongoing for extension of local content requirements to mining sector – GMSA 2nd Vice President

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Talks ongoing for extension of local content requirements to mining sector – GMSA 2nd Vice President

By Shervin Belgrave Kaieteur News – Talks are ongoing to have the country’s local content policy, which is exclusively for the oil and gas sector, be extended to the mining and other sectors,...

Basil Williams loses appeal to be struck out in libel suit by Prithima Kissoon

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Basil Williams loses appeal to be struck out in libel suit by Prithima Kissoon

Kaieteur News – Former Attorney General (AG), Basil Williams SC is not entitled to any immunity that can prevent him from being sued in his personal capacity. This was essentially the ruling...

14 companies submit bid to supply stationery to Health Ministry

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on 14 companies submit bid to supply stationery to Health Ministry

Kaieteur News – Fourteen companies have submitted bids to the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) office to supply stationery to the Ministry of Health. This was...

Hururu Toshao denies misusing funds

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Hururu Toshao denies misusing funds

…accuses ‘small group’ of villagers of stirring up trouble in community Kaieteur News – Residents of the Upper-Berbice River village of Hururu are accusing their Toshao Mark Gomes of...

Man drowns while swimming in Ituni creek

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Man drowns while swimming in Ituni creek

Kaieteur News – A West Bank Demerara (WBD) man reportedly drowned on Monday around 16:00hrs while swimming in the Kamakabra Creek, Ituni, Region 10. The dead man has been identified as...

Missing migrants in the Caribbean reached record high in 2022

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Missing migrants in the Caribbean reached record high in 2022

Kaieteur News – The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Missing Migrants Project documented at least 321 deaths and disappearances of migrants in the Caribbean in 2022 –...

‘Oil revenue budget will only benefit the elites’ – Opposition MP

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Oil revenue budget will only benefit the elites’ – Opposition MP

Kaieteur News – Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Ronald Cox, said the presentation of the country’s first ‘oil budget’ proved disappointing for the masses. During the first day of...

Offshore drill contractors set to cash-in big

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Offshore drill contractors set to cash-in big

…charging oil companies more than US$400,000 per day to lease rig – Wall Street Journal Kaieteur News – Offshore drill contractors are positioned to cash-in big with their rates to...

Jamaican trade delegation on second visit to Guyana

Jan 25, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican trade delegation on second visit to Guyana

…Govt. outlines investment opportunities Kaieteur News – In a follow-up visit, to their first back in October 2022, a second Jamaican trade delegation is in Guyana seeking business...

Shine rice losing its sheen

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shine rice losing its sheen

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De times changing. Lang ago, on Old Year’s Night was blackeye peas cook-up rice used to bubble in dem pot. Nowadays is a different variety. Nuff people...

Charles ‘Lilly’ Pollard returns as Slingerz FC Head Coach

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Charles ‘Lilly’ Pollard returns as Slingerz FC Head Coach

Kaieteur News – Decorated former National player, Charles ‘Lilly’ Pollard, has returned to the Slingerz Football Club as the ‘West Side’ Champion’s Head Coach. Pollard, 49, served...

Hales, Rutherford lead Desert Vipers to comfortable seven-wicket win over MI Emirates despite fifties from Pollard and Pooran

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hales, Rutherford lead Desert Vipers to comfortable seven-wicket win over MI Emirates despite fifties from Pollard and Pooran

SportsMax – Unbeaten half-centuries from Alex Hales and Sherfane Rutherford led the Desert Vipers to a comfortable seven-wicket win over the MI Emirates in their DP World IL T20 fixture at the...

Dominant India completes 3-0 sweep against New Zealand

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dominant India completes 3-0 sweep against New Zealand

INDORE, India (AP) — Powered by centuries from openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, India beat New Zealand by 90 runs yesterday to win the third one-day international and sweep the series. Gill...

BCB hosts highly successful coaches’ refresher and captaincy seminars as the developmental programme expands

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB hosts highly successful coaches’ refresher and captaincy seminars as the developmental programme expands

Kaieteur News – The Berbice Cricket Board on Sunday last hosted two highly successful seminars at the Albion Sports Complex as the board expands its developmental programme. The first seminar...

AAG hosts first Development meet for the 2023 Season

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on AAG hosts first Development meet for the 2023 Season

…Eron Leitch bags four victories Kaieteur News – This past Sunday the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) gave their athletes their first chance of the season to compete when they...

Former athlete gives back to sport he participated in

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former athlete gives back to sport he participated in

…Anthone Wright wins birthday athletic road race in Canje Kaieteur News – Young and upcoming distance athlete Anthone Wright on Sunday easily won the Lochan “Barry” Singh road race...

Young Achievers hand GDF first defeat in DVA League

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Achievers hand GDF first defeat in DVA League

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) picked up their first defeat in the on-going Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) League, after going down to Young Achievers 3 – 2 at the...

We need answers GCB selectors?

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on We need answers GCB selectors?

Kaieteur News – Former Essequibo players Devon Ramnauth and Dillon Heyliger are vehemently questioning the omission of the left-arm orthodox spinner Antony Adams from the national team for this...

President Ali must look at what President Biden did

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ali must look at what President Biden did

Kaieteur News – Since colonialism ended with formal Independence, the US and Europe have shaped Third World (TW) economies to benefit both Europe and the US. One of the ugliest vulgarities that...

Messy circumstances

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Messy circumstances

Kaieteur News – Some people with convictions trapped in messy marriages find ways to get out of such relationships, and to their advantage. Others who are constricted by shabby jobs take...

Sugar is at death’s door

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Sugar is at death’s door

Kaieteur News – The PPP/C has failed the sugar industry. No amount of spin-doctoring by its lackeys in the sugar industry can save that industry. The PPP/C had promised to revive the industry...

As a man, I stand with harassed and victimised women in the workplace

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on As a man, I stand with harassed and victimised women in the workplace

Dear Editor, The headlines of two letters this past week have gotten beneath my skin and today I want to publicly declare that I stand up for equality and do not support any form of abuse against...

India has done much for Guyana, it has not been treated well

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on India has done much for Guyana, it has not been treated well

Dear Editor, Guyana celebrates republic day on Thursday as part of its 75 years of independence (1947). There are significant reasons – economic and security — for greater Guyanese engagement...

Contract employment – a Govt. gift horse biting workers

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Contract employment – a Govt. gift horse biting workers

Dear Editor, During the Jagdeo presidency, contract employment was birthed in the public service on the premise that workers were not living long enough to inherit their gratuity. Contract employment...

There is no political mileage from destroying what belongs not to government, but the people

Jan 25, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no political mileage from destroying what belongs not to government, but the people

Dear Editor, On 13th January 2023, every Guyanese regardless of age, ethnicity or political persuasion suffered another tremendous loss after the inferno which completely gutted the Christ Church...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

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...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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