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Imlach named Guyana Harpy Eagles’ Captain

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Imlach named Guyana Harpy Eagles’ Captain

2024 CWI Men’s Regional Super50 Championships… Kaieteur Sports – Tevin Imlach will lead a star-studded Guyana Harpy Eagles squad ahead of the upcoming CWI Regional Super50 Championships...

Persaud, Leung pedal to victory at Percy Boyce Memorial Cycle Race

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Persaud, Leung pedal to victory at Percy Boyce Memorial Cycle Race

Kaieteur Sports – Robin Persaud and Alexander Leung claimed top honours yesterday at the Flying Ace Cycling Club’s Annual Percy Boyce Memorial Cycle Road Race, co-hosted by the PAB...

North Ruimveldt upsets Sparta Boss

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on North Ruimveldt upsets Sparta Boss

Champion of Champions Futsal… – North East, Back Circle, Gold is Money march on Kaieteur Sports – North Ruimveldt created the biggest upset to date in the Bent Street ‘Champion of...

Asalanka, Madushka help Sri Lanka take 1-0 lead

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Asalanka, Madushka help Sri Lanka take 1-0 lead

(ESPN Cricinfo) – A 137-run stand between Charith Asalanka and debutant Nishan Madushka provided the base as Sri Lanka comfortably chased down a DLS-adjusted target of 232 in Pallekele, to take...

Sod turned for construction of $182M Tabatinga Secondary School, Region 9

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Sod turned for construction of $182M Tabatinga Secondary School, Region 9

Kaieteur News– President Irfaan Ali and Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Sunday turned the sod for the construction of the $182 million Tabatinga Secondary School, located in Lethem,...

Five companies bid to build Palmyra Cultural Market

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Five companies bid to build Palmyra Cultural Market

Kaieteur News – Five companies, including two local firms, have submitted bids to design, build and finance (DBF) a cultural market at Palmyra, Berbice, Region Six. This was revealed at the...

Is this right or wrong?

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Is this right or wrong?

Kaieteur News – The attendance of a sitting Head of State at the political event of a ruling party in another country is a practice fraught with ethical dilemmas and potential controversies....

Smoke and mirrors

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Smoke and mirrors

Dear Editor, The suddenness with which the regime decided to make a $200,000 cash grant to all Guyanese households and with which it also altered both the procedure, quantity and timing of this...

President Irfaan remains preferred choice over Opp. Leader Norton

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on President Irfaan remains preferred choice over Opp. Leader Norton

Dear Editor, Incumbent President Irfaan Ali and the ruling PPP in Guyana lead the opposition APNU (PNC) and AFC and would win a comfortable majority government if the election were held soon,...

Unhelpful occurrences

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Unhelpful occurrences

Dear Editor, Almost a year of the dreadful helicopter crash which claimed five of our best. Now we are learning the voice recorded was badly damaged (Demerara waves October 19). Likewise, several...

Numerically, how many 18 years and older will benefit from the GY$100,000?

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Numerically, how many 18 years and older will benefit from the GY$100,000?

Dear Editor, The reconciled matrix of GY$100,000 from the $200,000 axiom now for all over 18 instead of per family is still, sadly, shrouded in mystery. Annually, a list of all 16-year-old...

I haven’t done a poll, but I daresay that no one is taking you seriously on that

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on I haven’t done a poll, but I daresay that no one is taking you seriously on that

Dear Editor, Now that Vishnu Bisram has apparently arrived at the conclusion that his self-proclaimed campaign that he was Bhagwan’s gift to Guyana to be its representative to replace the former...

Increase in Physical Education at private schools around Guyana

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Increase in Physical Education at private schools around Guyana

Dear Editor, There is an increase in Physical education at private schools in Guyana. Physical education is a course taught in schools that focuses on developing physical fitness and the ability to...

Housing development

Oct 21, 2024 KNEWS Editorial, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Housing development

Kaieteur News – Housing development in this country remains a major challenge despite the PPP/C Government’s boasts of their successes. In this year’s budget, the sum of $78 billion...

‘It’s foolish to think Exxon lopsided deal was made better with local content law’

Oct 20, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘It’s foolish to think Exxon lopsided deal was made better with local content law’

Kaieteur News- Economist and advisor to the People’s Nation Congress Reform (PNCR) on oil and gas Elson Low told the Kaieteur News in an invited comment, that it would be foolish of the government...

The Brutus files, the Guyana papers

Oct 20, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on The Brutus files, the Guyana papers

Kaieteur News- First there were the Panama Papers, which caused a storm in a big pot. Second, there came the Paradise Papers, which had nothing to do with the Garden of Eden. Third, there was the...

UG backs quality tuition-free education

Oct 20, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on UG backs quality tuition-free education

Kaieteur News- The University of Guyana said it supports quality tuition-free education as government announced that fees will be removed from January 2025. In a statement on Saturday, the university...

Sod turned for US$31M Lethem Hospital

Oct 20, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Sod turned for US$31M Lethem Hospital

President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Sunday turned the sod for a new state-of-the-art Lethem Regional Hospital. The new hospital will be well equipped with 75 in-patient beds, two fully functional...

Crane residents fearful as mysterious oily substance seeps through house floor

Oct 16, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Crane residents fearful as mysterious oily substance seeps through house floor

…says strong fumes causing headaches, skin irritation, burning of eyes and nose By: Rehanna Ramsay and Davina Bagot Kaieteur News- A Crane, West Coast Demerara resident is...

Exxon says don’t compare Guyana’s contract terms with those of Suriname

Oct 15, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon says don’t compare Guyana’s contract terms with those of Suriname

…Guyana’s deal ‘very successful’ Kaieteur News – Country Manager for ExxonMobil Alistair Routlegde has said that the lopsided contract signed with this country is very...

Local consultants handed GYD$312M contract to audit Exxon’s 2021, 2022 & 2023 expenses

Oct 15, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Local consultants handed GYD$312M contract to audit Exxon’s 2021, 2022 & 2023 expenses

(Local consultants handed GYD$312M contract to audit Exxon’s 2021, 2022 & 2023 expenses. VHE Consulting was awarded the project on October 10). Kaieteur News- The National Procurement...

‘No legal bars in President appointing Hicken’- Nandlall

Oct 15, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘No legal bars in President appointing Hicken’- Nandlall

Kaieteur News – Attorney General, Anil Nandlall said that there is no legal impediment to Clifton Hicken being appointed substantively as Commissioner of Police although he has reached the age...

WPA calls for annual cash transfer to citizens out of oil money

Oct 15, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on WPA calls for annual cash transfer to citizens out of oil money

Kaieteur News – The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has welcomed the government’s initiative of a one-off $200,000 cash grant to every household. However, the party noted that...

Man dies after losing control of ATV

Oct 15, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man dies after losing control of ATV

Kaieteur News- On Sunday, a 37-year-old man identified as Marlon Davidson lost his life after he lost control of the All Terrain Vehicle he was driving (ATV). According to police, the incident...

Worker crushed by cement mix truck

Oct 15, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Worker crushed by cement mix truck

Kaieteur News A serviceman lost his life on Saturday morning, after the rear right wheels of a 14-tonne ready-mix cement/ concrete truck ran over him while he was servicing a vehicle at Top Mix...

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Championship final signals glorious return of school cricket in

Aug 25, 2026

MOE/Beharry Secondary School’s Under-19 T20 tournament finals…BEI vs. Annandale Secondary Kaieteur Sports – After more than a decade-long absence from the school system, competitive youth...

WIN cannot break the PPP/C’s political stranglehold unless it first...

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

Aug 23, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

The man from WIN slipped

Aug 25, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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