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1,793 impacted by recent flooding – CDC assessment report

Dec 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 1,793 impacted by recent flooding – CDC assessment report

Kaieteur News – The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has reported that 1,793 homes assessed were impacted by the recent flooding caused by heavy rainfall and high tides. According to the CDC,...

Audit launched after $250M SLED budget could not be accounted for

Dec 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Audit launched after $250M SLED budget could not be accounted for

Kaieteur News – The Audit Office has launched a special probe into the Sustainable Livelihood Entrepreneurial Development (SLED) Programme after the Social Protection Ministry was unable to...

Why was there an attempt to rig the elections?

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why was there an attempt to rig the elections?

Kaieteur News – The year 2020 will be remembered for the attempt to rig Guyana’s elections of 2nd March 2020. The Head of the Observer Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS)...

The nation of Guyana and its internal enemies

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The nation of Guyana and its internal enemies

Kaieteur News – Henry Jeffrey, infamous for switching political sides in Guyana, and even more unpalatable for propagandizing that the 2020 electoral roll was bloated thus you cannot have a...

Drastic measures must be undertaken to end racketeering

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Drastic measures must be undertaken to end racketeering

DEAR EDITOR, The Auditor General has reported countless cases of neglect or complete lack of accountability in state expenditures. Some border on fraud especially when there are no receipts to...

Two more COVID-19 deaths recorded

Dec 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two more COVID-19 deaths recorded

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported two more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the national death toll to 164. In their release, they stated that those deceased are; a 53-year-old male and a...

Speeding car hits man, upturning with passengers inside

Dec 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding car hits man, upturning with passengers inside

Kaieteur News – A speeding car ended up hitting a man who was sitting on the pavement and as a result, it upturned with the passengers seated inside on Saturday at LBI Public Road. According to...

Reparation for slavery

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reparation for slavery

DEAR EDITOR, Should all Grant’s received by Guyana from the UK and EU be paid into a Reparation for Slavery Fund so that the descendant of those enslaved benefit?As many of us know, slavery was a...

Anything but Sugar!

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anything but Sugar!

DEAR EDITOR, It is more than disappointing to see the current administration persisting with sugar, an industry that produced nothing but suffering to our ancestors, and to this day still creates an...

A time to remember

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A time to remember

DEAR EDITOR, It has been a memorable year, and not for inspiring reasons. As I ponder Guyanese visions and practices, there will be no comment on what went wrong, only where we are poised to launch...

Kwanzaa -another year-end event

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kwanzaa -another year-end event

DEAR EDITOR, Kwanzaa tends to get lumped together with Hanukkah and Christmas as “the winter holidays” but it is not a religious holiday but a cultural one, You can celebrate Kwanzaa whether...

We salute you the great people of Guyana

Dec 28, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We salute you the great people of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, There could have been a million Charandasses yet the elections would have been cheated and the PNC led Coalition would still be in power, this is my summation of the whole affair in a...

Training in public relations needed

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Training in public relations needed

DEAR EDITOR, On Thursday 17th December, 2020 at about 7:30pm I drove into a Rubis gas station to purchase a bottle of cooking gas. I paid for the gas with a $5000 note, when the employee proceeded to...

Guyana can plunge itself into more debt even with oil money – IDB Quarterly Report

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana can plunge itself into more debt even with oil money – IDB Quarterly Report

Kaieteur News – With Guyana poised to receive a fair bit of revenue from the sale of its oil resources, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is cautioning the authorities of the day to...

Op-Ed: Guyana’s political opposition is asleep at the wheel on oil

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Op-Ed: Guyana’s political opposition is asleep at the wheel on oil

“Sadly, our political opposition for the last four months has demonstrated that not only is it solely dependent on the media to spoon-feed it with the issues of the day, but it also appears to...

ExxonMobil continues to tout unverified local content figures

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil continues to tout unverified local content figures

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil Guyana has yet again made unverified claims using block figures in its local content public relations campaign. In celebrating its one year anniversary producing oil...

Gas injection equipment finally fixed – says Exxon

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gas injection equipment finally fixed – says Exxon

Kaieteur News – As production at the Liza Destiny Floating Production and Offloading (FPSO) vessel reaches full capacity of 120,000 barrels of oil per day, ExxonMobil claimed that it has...

Local oil services company planning Region 3 cement plant

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local oil services company planning Region 3 cement plant

Kaieteur News – Guyanese-owned logistics company, VAS Energy INC. is positioning itself to benefit from Guyana’s ever expanding economy with plans to begin construction of a state-of-the-art...

PSC wants charged GECOM officials removed before LGEs

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PSC wants charged GECOM officials removed before LGEs

Kaieteur News – With Local Government Elections (LGE) due in the coming year, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has called on those compromised Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) officials...

Cops caught 6 drunk drivers in surprise road operation

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops caught 6 drunk drivers in surprise road operation

Kaieteur News – Six drunk drivers were caught on Saturday, in a surprise road operation conducted along the West Coast and West Bank Demerara (WCD, WBD) by a team of Region Three police ranks....

Home destroyed in Eccles blaze

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Home destroyed in Eccles blaze

Kaieteur News – Mere days before Christmas, a family of four was yesterday forced to watch their Eccles East Bank Demerara (EBD) home destroyed by fire. Just before 09:00Hrs residents of the...

New discrete medication distribution system for HIV patients

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New discrete medication distribution system for HIV patients

Kaieteur News – A discrete system for receipt of medicine has been implemented by the National Care and Treatment Centre (NCTC) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients. This was stated...

Wonders never cease to happen!

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Wonders never cease to happen!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De first anniversary of oil production come and gone without a fuss. Dem oil company did promise de people dat it would produce on average of 120,000 barrels per...

Council will not accept liability for persons who endanger themselves at hazardous Stabroek wharf – City Engineer

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Council will not accept liability for persons who endanger themselves at hazardous Stabroek wharf – City Engineer

By Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – In wake of reports that persons have taken up residence within the increasingly dilapidated and hazardous Stabroek Market Wharf, Georgetown Council City...

Locals excited about new golfing community

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Locals excited about new golfing community

Kaieteur News- Several golf enthusiasts have expressed their delight about the new golfing community that will be built at Maraiko Bay Resorts in Mahaica, East Coast Demerara following a trip to the...

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Matthews’ scorching 82*, bowlers sink Irish by 8 wickets

May 29, 2026

2026 Women’s T20 Tri-Series in Ireland…West Indies vs. Ireland Kaieteur Sports – Windies women’s skipper Hayley Matthews nailed a match-winning half-century to hurt the home team...

Rewarding lawlessness

May 29, 2026

Peeping Tom… (Kaieteur News) – There are times when a problem in Guyana goes on for so long that people begin to believe it cannot be fixed. We shrug our shoulders, mutter a few bad words under our breath, and accept misery as part of daily life. Traffic, especially, has become one of...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

WIN still fighting

May 29, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The Leader of the Opposition, the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) chief, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed has his back against a wall. He’s still fighting. The wall is unyielding, barbed with hostility. He’s carrying the fight to the PPP Govt. Pres Ali,...

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