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New $360M Practical Instruction Department commissioned in Bartica

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on New $360M Practical Instruction Department commissioned in Bartica

Kaieteur News – Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Wednesday commissioned a $360 million Practical Instruction Department (PID) at the Bartica Secondary School, Region Seven. This...

Suriname-Guyana chamber calls for rapid implementation of key infrastructure projects

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Suriname-Guyana chamber calls for rapid implementation of key infrastructure projects

Kaieteur News – As Guyana approaches General and Regional Elections, the Suriname-Guyana Chamber of Commerce (SGCC) strongly encourages all political parties to prioritise the completion of two...

Govt. signs $1.5B in contracts for roads, bridges in Region 8

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. signs $1.5B in contracts for roads, bridges in Region 8

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works on Wednesday signed a total of 110 contracts valued at $1.5 billion to execute a number of infrastructural works across communities in Region Eight....

Digicel launches $12M “PUNCH & WIN” Summer promotion

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Digicel launches $12M “PUNCH & WIN” Summer promotion

Kaieteur News – Digicel Guyana on Wednesday announced the launch of its highly anticipated summer promotion “Punch & Win,” offering customers the opportunity to win from a prize...

Discussions ongoing with private universities to provide services at rate Govt. is paying UG – Pres. Ali

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Discussions ongoing with private universities to provide services at rate Govt. is paying UG – Pres. Ali

Kaieteur News – On Wednesday, President Irfaan Ali announced that the government is currently in discussions with several private universities for them to provide services at the same rate the...

Police nab man wanted for causing death by dangerous driving

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Police nab man wanted for causing death by dangerous driving

Kaieteur News – A 32-year-old Corentyne man who was on the run for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving back in March of this year was arrested on Tuesday. According to a statement...

Immunization in the Americas shows progress

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Immunization in the Americas shows progress

…but over 1.4 million children missed routine vaccines in 2024 Kaieteur News – Childhood immunization in the Americas has shown encouraging signs of recovery in 2024, but significant gaps...

Nomination Day in Guyana

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Nomination Day in Guyana

Kaieteur News – Nomination Day last Monday brought out the party faithful. They sang, danced and waved their flags through the streets of Georgetown and they wended their way to the Umana Yana...

Of all the ironies

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Of all the ironies

Hard Truths by GHK Lall Kaieteur News – What is unfolding in Guyana promises the revolutionary, a word rarely used. I see irony also. What may turn out to be catalytic and cathartic emerge from...

Standardising Energy Contracts: A Legal Imperative for Guyana’s Energy Future

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Standardising Energy Contracts: A Legal Imperative for Guyana’s Energy Future

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Ten years after its first oil discovery, Guyana’s energy sector stands at a pivotal crossroads. With world-class oil reserves under active development and a...

Disband CWI and replace it with an interim management committee

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Disband CWI and replace it with an interim management committee

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – At the conclusion of the England vs. West Indies T20 match at Hampshire in June, a number of deeply distressed English spectators enquired of me if WI cricket would...

PNC Education Policy Nothing to be Proud of

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Letters 2

Dear Editor Kaieteur News – In the Stabroek News of July 15, 2025 I read a letter from Mr. or Ms. A Dey in which he/she lauded the 1976 announcement of “free tertiary education.” Whoever A....

Kitty rally shows PPP’s diversity

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Kitty rally shows PPP’s diversity

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – The recent PPP/C rally in Kitty has demonstrated without any shadow of doubt that the PPP is the largest and most ethnically diverse political party in Guyana. From...

Wild, ridiculous claims of harassment

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Wild, ridiculous claims of harassment

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Too many people are going over the top with wild and ridiculous claims in this election season. The latest is from a letter writer who accuses the PPPC of lack of...

China’s Metros and high-speed trains

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on China’s Metros and high-speed trains

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Can you imagine travelling from home to office and back daily in a public transportation system that provides air-conditioned comfort, in comfortable seating and...

The blackout problem

Jul 17, 2025 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on The blackout problem

Kaieteur News – Yesterday former Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson reminded us that “after spending tens of billions of taxpayers’ money; 27 second-hand generators; two...

“Teachers feel betrayed after Mark Lyte joins PPP” – GTU President says

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on “Teachers feel betrayed after Mark Lyte joins PPP” – GTU President says

Kaieteur News – President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Coretta McDonald, has described former president, Dr. Mark Lyte’s decision to appear on the People’s Progressive Party/Civic...

More than 90 wounded by Israeli gunfire at aid centre

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on More than 90 wounded by Israeli gunfire at aid centre

(AL-JAZEERA) At least 30 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli fire at an aid centre north of Rafah, in southern Gaza, in the latest attack on starving people desperate for food. According to the...

CJ rules Hicken’s appointment as Top Cop after age 55 legal

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on CJ rules Hicken’s appointment as Top Cop after age 55 legal

Kaieteur News – The high court has ruled that the appointment of Clifton Hicken as top cop past the retirement age of 55 is legal. The decision was handed down by Chief Justice (ag), Roxane...

Govt. ramps up marine patrols in Guyana’s EEZ

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. ramps up marine patrols in Guyana’s EEZ

Kaieteur News – Head of Guyana’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), Colonel Sheldon Howell on Tuesday said that there has been increased maritime patrols in Guyana’s...

New $790M ‘Arau’ tug commissioned

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on New $790M ‘Arau’ tug commissioned

Kaieteur News – The $790 million motor tug ‘Arau’ was on Tuesday commissioned at the Kingston Goods Warf. Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill commissioned the new motor tug which is the...

Robbery suspect shot dead by police

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News 1

Kaieteur News – A 26-year-old man suspected of robbing 38-year-old Chinese businessman Long Xing, of Mackenzie Linden, was allegedly shot dead on Monday evening by police. Dead is Shamar Prince...

Is wah kinda voice yuh vote got?

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is wah kinda voice yuh vote got?

Kaieteur News – Dem always seh, “Yuh vote is yuh voice.” Well leh we tell y’all, if da is true, then nuff Guyanese voting in sign language, because after elections done count, dem can’t...

Momentum continues at Omai gold project – company says

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Momentum continues at Omai gold project – company says

Kaieteur News – Canadian firm, Omai Gold Mines says it has maintained strong momentum through the first half of 2025, with steady progress in resource drilling, permitting, and investor...

West Indies seek advice from Lloyd, Richards and Lara after historic collapse

Jul 16, 2025 KNEWS Sports 1

(Reuters) – Cricket West Indies will call upon batting royalty Clive Lloyd, Vivian Richards and Brian Lara to help dissect their humiliating 3-0 series whitewash by Australia, which culminated...

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Hridoy ensures draw in Sylhet; WI beat Bangladesh 1-0 in series

Nov 09, 2026

Cricinfo – With an 82 in the fourth innings, Towhid Hridoy ensured Bangladesh completed a hard-fought draw against West Indies in the Sylhet Test. The visitors clinched the series 1-0 on...

What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There are moments in the political life of every nation when the character of its people is tested by whether they have the courage to condemn wrongdoing when it is committed against those with whom they disagree. It is easy to champion justice when the victim belongs to your...

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...

Light and darkness, lips to life

Nov 09, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The light that shines over Guyana must be at its dazzling purest. Not a speck of darkness on the horizon. Not a stray dark spot in the cupboard or under the carpet. When light is at its brightest, what chance for darkness to show its face, to linger? On the occasion of...

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