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Guyanese and the First Presidential debate of 2024

Jul 01, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Guyanese and the First Presidential debate of 2024

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Guyanese Americans watched the Presidential debate last Thursday evening. Guyanese Americans are divided between the Republican Trump and Democrat Biden, perhaps...

Is the US Government testing the Guyana Government

Jul 01, 2024 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on Is the US Government testing the Guyana Government

Kaieteur News – In communications between countries, there are protocols and procedures to follow. Things, such as requests for information, must go through specific channels. On the...

Jewellers, goldsmiths urged to buy gold from the Gold Board

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Jewellers, goldsmiths urged to buy gold from the Gold Board

Kaieteur News – Licensed jewellers, goldsmiths and gold buyers were on Tuesday urged to purchase gold from the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) and to comply with the rules and regulations that govern...

UN rights chief warns situation in Gaza ‘dramatically deteriorating’

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on UN rights chief warns situation in Gaza ‘dramatically deteriorating’

(ALJAZEERA) The top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the “unconscionable death and suffering” in the Gaza...

Labourer on $120,000 bail for alleged rape

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Labourer on $120,000 bail for alleged rape

Kaieteur News – A 21-year-old labourer from Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was on Tuesday granted $120,000 bail when he appeared at the Vigilance Magistrates’ Court where the charge of...

Government of Guyana pumps $7M into AP Invitational

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Government of Guyana pumps $7M into AP Invitational

– International Athletics Championships set for Saturday as Pompey gives Gov’t gold medal for support Kaieteur Sports – The Government of Guyana, through the Ministry of Culture,...

Dominic Tyrell claims Deadlift bronze; place 6th overall on debut

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Dominic Tyrell claims Deadlift bronze; place 6th overall on debut

World Classic Open Powerlifting Championships… Kaieteur Sports – A fantastic performance by France based Guyanese strongman, Dominic Tyrell saw him claiming the bronze medal in the...

Old rivals meet under lights, as Super Eights get underway

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Old rivals meet under lights, as Super Eights get underway

2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Super Eights Group 2- West Indies vs. England Kaieteur Sports – West Indies and England will continue their historic rivalry when the two sides meet tonight as...

GFF hosts inaugural student referee training

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on GFF hosts inaugural student referee training

Blue Water Shipping Under-15 Girls’ National Secondary School Championship Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Referees Department held its inaugural student referee...

Father of three remanded for armed robbery and larceny

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Father of three remanded for armed robbery and larceny

Kaieteur News – A 39-year-old man was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being charged with larceny and Robbery Under Arms (RUA) when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It is...

Magistrate rules that CCTV footage admissible in Ian Mekdeci fatal accident case

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Magistrate rules that CCTV footage admissible in Ian Mekdeci fatal accident case

Kaieteur News – Senior Magistrate Leron Daly on Tuesday ruled that CCTV footage is admissible as evidence in the Ian Mekdeci case. Mekdeci, a former national squash player was killed in an...

Thousands to benefit as Govt. launches eye testing, spectacles programme

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Thousands to benefit as Govt. launches eye testing, spectacles programme

Kaieteur News – The government has officially launched its eye-testing and spectacles programme which will benefit thousands of vulnerable individuals on Tuesday at the Arthur Chung Conference...

Miner remanded for 2021 murder of workmate

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Miner remanded for 2021 murder of workmate

Kaieteur News – A 27-year-old gold miner was on Tuesday remanded to prison for the murder of his workmate on November 7, 2021 at Big Creek Landing Region one, North West District (NWD). It was...

Exxon case against activist investor over proxy filing

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon case against activist investor over proxy filing

(Reuters) A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit Exxon Mobil had filed against activist group Arjuna Capital after the group had agreed not to pursue future proxy filings at the company’s...

Security Guard remanded for armed robberies

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Security Guard remanded for armed robberies

Kaieteur News – A 19-year-old security guard was on Tuesday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to two counts of robbery under arms. The...

Natural Resources Min. enhances safety measures following recent mining accidents

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Natural Resources Min. enhances safety measures following recent mining accidents

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Natural Resources (MoNR) and the Guyana & Mines Commission (GGMC) on Tuesday said that safety measures have been enhanced to ensure the reduction of mining...

Five arrested in connection with death of Stanleytown man

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Five arrested in connection with death of Stanleytown man

Kaieteur News – Police have arrested five persons in connection with the death of a 28-year-old man, who was on Monday found motionless at the side of the road in Heathburn Village, East Bank...

Woman on $100k bail for assaulting another with hockey stick

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Woman on $100k bail for assaulting another with hockey stick

Kaieteur News – A 32-year-old woman was on Tuesday granted $100,000 bail for inflicting grievous bodily harm on another woman when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel...

Four contractors bid to construct Phillipai Secondary

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Four contractors bid to construct Phillipai Secondary

Kaieteur News – Four contractors have submitted bids to construct the Phillipai Secondary School in Region Seven. At the opening of tenders on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender...

MARAD to procure new hydrographic survey vessel

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on MARAD to procure new hydrographic survey vessel

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works, Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) is preparing to procure a new hydrographic Survey vessel . At a recent opening of tenders at the...

Where have all the friends of the Mohameds gone?

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Where have all the friends of the Mohameds gone?

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – What follows is going to cause raised eyebrows, even some rocking back on the heels. Regardless, it is identical to the public stance I took for one Bharrat...

The PNCR enters this Congress will determine the way the Party emerges from it

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on The PNCR enters this Congress will determine the way the Party emerges from it

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Sometimes it is hard to accept failure when you have so much invested in an organisation or a person. I have witnessed this type of denial on many occasions and...

Corrupt officials should be punished

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Corrupt officials should be punished

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Corruption involving government officials has been in the news over the last week because of American sanctions. But lower-level workers of the state are (have been...

We cannot wait on OFAC to tell us that millions of US dollars were not collected

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on We cannot wait on OFAC to tell us that millions of US dollars were not collected

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – One of the most valuable non-renewable resources that Guyana has, apart from oil, is gold. The price for an ounce of gold on the World Market (June 16, 2024) is...

Time to cash in on the coconut industry

Jun 19, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Time to cash in on the coconut industry

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – No doubt about it. The coconut culture runs deep across the Caribbean and South America. From coconut water to coconut milk and coconut cream and other by-products,...

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Warrior Nation set to come alive tonight, as Kingsmen face unbeaten...

Sep 04, 2026

2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. JK at Providence By Clifton Ross (Kaieteur News) – The undefeated Guyana Amazon Warriors are finally back on home soil after weeks on the road. Still, they will...

Bread, circuses and the price of silence

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

From gunboat and Ping-Pong diplomacy to gangster diplomacy

Sep 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was U.S. President James Munroe and his stellar vision: Manifest Destiny. Then came Presidents Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor, among others. Men of military acclaim; generals who laid claim to personal heraldry. Native American Indian tribes chased from their...

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