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After doling out billions in contracts without oversight

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on After doling out billions in contracts without oversight

– Govt. now promising rigid ranking system for bidders this year Kaieteur News – Against the background of awarding a slew of mega contracts last year- some to contractors with no track...

Wanted man nabbed by police dressed as a woman

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted man nabbed by police dressed as a woman

Kaieteur News – In his effort to avoid being caught, 30-year-old Shawn Bobb, a labourer, of East La Penitence, Squatting Area Georgetown, disguised himself as a woman and hid away in a house at...

Over 20,000 COVID-19 cases recorded in January

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Over 20,000 COVID-19 cases recorded in January

Kaieteur News – In March 2020, Guyana recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case. At the end of that year, a total of 6,391 confirmed cases were recorded in the country. In this month alone,...

Fish cage or fish cake?

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fish cage or fish cake?

Kaieteur News – Dis whole plan fuh help de fishermen sound fishy. De guvament seh dem planning fuh build fish cage fuh help dem fishermen wah punishing because of low catch. But dem boys nah...

Elderly man severely beaten during fight over land

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly man severely beaten during fight over land

– police arrest two suspects, looking for third Kaieteur News – A dispute over a plot of land at Clifton Settlement, Corentyne led to an elderly man being severely beaten about his body...

Contractor given two weeks to wrap up works on $275M UG road

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor given two weeks to wrap up works on $275M UG road

Kaieteur News – Unhappy about the pace of work on the $275.5 million University of Guyana parallel road being rehabilitated by Yunas Civil and Building Construction, Minster of Public Works,...

Come feel the love at MovieTowne’s ‘Garden of Love’

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Come feel the love at MovieTowne’s ‘Garden of Love’

Kaieteur News – To celebrate the upcoming season of love, MovieTowne Guyana on Saturday launched its ‘Garden of Love.’ From its launch and for the entire month of February, couples can...

Govt. to export 120 pre-fab wooden houses to Ghana this year

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to export 120 pre-fab wooden houses to Ghana this year

Kaieteur News – In a bid to expand the local value chain for wood products, government said this year, it will be exporting pre-fabricated houses to the West African nation, Ghana. The...

Banks DIH records $6.7 billion in after-tax profit for 2021

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH records $6.7 billion in after-tax profit for 2021

Kaieteur News – Local manufacturing company, Banks DIH in its 2021 Annual Report has documented a profit of $6.777 billion, after taxes, representing an increase of $1.506 billion or 28.6...

177 pages remind me of the words Dominic Gaskin uttered in 2016

Jan 31, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 177 pages remind me of the words Dominic Gaskin uttered in 2016

Kaieteur News – I have always argued in private with friends that for some inscrutable reason, David Granger was prepared to fight whatever demands the AFC made on the PNC after they both won...

Venezuelans detained after ganja bust at their home

Jan 31, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelans detained after ganja bust at their home

Kaieteur News – Two Venezuelan men are now in the lockups after police on Saturday last, found 42 kilograms of compressed marijuana at their home located at Johanna Cecelia, Essequibo Coast,...

Given Guyanese lack of capacity…American group and TT firms take over Exxon’s multi-million dollar waste management contracts

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Given Guyanese lack of capacity…American group and TT firms take over Exxon’s multi-million dollar waste management contracts

Kaieteur News – In light of the fact that there is a limited number of Guyanese service providers of hazardous and nonhazardous waste management, Tiger Rentals- a U.S. based energy rental and...

AG flags breaches in procedures at Amerindian Affairs Ministry

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on AG flags breaches in procedures at Amerindian Affairs Ministry

– $22M Land Cruisers purchased for villages still to be handed over Kaieteur News – The Auditor General (AG) in his 2020 report has found several breaches in procedures regarding the...

Article 13 defends Yog Mahadeo against attacks

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Article 13 defends Yog Mahadeo against attacks

– insists new grouping has no political affiliation Kaieteur News – New Civil Society Group, Article 13, has come out against the attacks on one of its founders- Dr. Yog Mahadeo and again...

‘Use meeting with Brazil President to repair credibility on climate issues’ – GHRA tells Guyana Govt.

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Use meeting with Brazil President to repair credibility on climate issues’ – GHRA tells Guyana Govt.

Kaieteur News – Ahead of Friday’s state visit here by Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says the Government of Guyana should use the opportunity at...

Pilot abandons plan to reestablish Guyana Airways

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Pilot abandons plan to reestablish Guyana Airways

– says APNU+AFC, PPP/C frustrated his efforts Kaieteur News – Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Guyana Airways Incorporated, Dr. Colin Abrams has abandoned plans to reestablish the airline...

Family, Skeldon Hospital at odds about death of infant

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Family, Skeldon Hospital at odds about death of infant

– relatives maintain baby dies after receiving injections Kaieteur News – Relatives of a four-month-old infant and the Health Services Department in Region Six are at odds about the death...

1082 new Covi-19 cases recorded on Sunday

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on 1082 new Covi-19 cases recorded on Sunday

—five fully vaccinated persons among nine more deaths Kaieteur News – Guyana recorded 1082 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday and the Ministry of Health also reported nine more deaths with five of...

Policeman Narine sues Rickforde Burke for over $5M in libel damages

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Policeman Narine sues Rickforde Burke for over $5M in libel damages

Kaieteur News – Inspector Prem Narine, has filed legal proceedings against, Rickforde Burke, in his personal capacity and as the President of Caribbean Guyana Institute of Democracy (CGID)...

Fire destroys house at Maida Farm, Berbice

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys house at Maida Farm, Berbice

Kaieteur News – A fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storeyed wood and concrete house at Maida Farm, Corentyne, Berbice, Sunday morning. The fire occurred around 08:45hr. The house is owned...

Cops, cameras to ward off litterbugs – President promises

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Cops, cameras to ward off litterbugs – President promises

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali has promised to install cameras and deploy policemen to safeguard areas that have been cleared of garbage during the two-day cleaning exercise in...

Proposal to end guerrilla warfare in the PNC in 2022

Jan 17, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Proposal to end guerrilla warfare in the PNC in 2022

Kaieteur News – We have arrived at a curious irony. The PNC will be tabling its perspectives on reforming the governance system as the months unfold but it needs to advance solutions on its...

Balram Singh Rai passes on

Jan 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Balram Singh Rai passes on

Kaieteur News – Former Home Affairs Minister of British Guiana, Dr. Balram Singh Rai has passed away in London at the age of 100. Singh Rai passed a few days ago in Oxford on the outskirts of...

MP Duncan arrested, released on $100,000 bail

Jan 14, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on MP Duncan arrested, released on $100,000 bail

– allegedly called GECOM IT manager ‘Jagabat, Trench Crappo’ Kaieteur News – Opposition, Member of Parliament, Sherod Duncan was on Thursday arrested and later released on $100,000...

Cartoon – January 01, 2022

Jan 01, 2022 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – January 01, 2022

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West Ruimveldt Primary reign supreme in Demerara Zone of Future...

Jun 01, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – West Ruimveldt Primary, a consistent face in the Future Warriors Tapeball for Primary Schools tournament, powered by ExxonMobil Guyana, overcame their final-round jitters from...

(Kaieteur News) – There are a great many children each day who are not attending school. When some are asked why they are not at school, they lie by claiming that their parents do not have money to send them to school. The blame is rightly placed on the parents, but for the wrong reasons. It...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

Get something right, please

Jun 01, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, it was a sacred emblem, the National Flag during the Diamond Jubilee Independence celebrations, which showed its opposition to being pushed around and treated like a yoyo. From there things went from a national embarrassment to a national...

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