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GABBFF/Fitness Express ‘Resilience’ Virtual competition… Darius Ramsammy takes overall & lightweight accolades; Sinclair (heavyweight), Caldera (Physique) and Rosanna Fung (Miss Bikini)

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABBFF/Fitness Express ‘Resilience’ Virtual competition… Darius Ramsammy takes overall & lightweight accolades; Sinclair (heavyweight), Caldera (Physique) and Rosanna Fung (Miss Bikini)

Kaieteur News – By Franklin Wilson Despite the threat of covid-19 which tremendously scaled down the Guyana Amateur Body Building and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) ability to host competitions...

GCF Speed Sundays Time Trials – Berbice Leg…Briton John (open), Aaron Newton (junior) and Alex Mendes (vets) are overall winners

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF Speed Sundays Time Trials – Berbice Leg…Briton John (open), Aaron Newton (junior) and Alex Mendes (vets) are overall winners

Kaieteur News – Briton John rode to the overall champion prize when he won the third and final leg of three of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Speed Sunday Time Trial series which concluded...

GFF launches first Development Fund for members, Professional League plans and Club Charter at delayed 2020 Ordinary Congress

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF launches first Development Fund for members, Professional League plans and Club Charter at delayed 2020 Ordinary Congress

Kaieteur News – The establishment of a comprehensive financial assistance plan for its members, the launch in 2021 of a professional league, and the implementation of a club charter to...

Pele FC Alumni brings Christmas cheer to past and present players

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pele FC Alumni brings Christmas cheer to past and present players

Kaieteur News – Whilst the covid-19 pandemic continues to put a hold on many activities here and the world over, the Pele FC Alumni has once again teamed up with the local chapter, Pele...

Silvas to conduct Referee and Judges seminar

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Silvas to conduct Referee and Judges seminar

Kaieteur News – Guyana has turned to Chairman of the AIBA Referee and Judges Commission Ray Silvas to conduct training seminars whenever this country holds major international boxing...

New Canadian envoy to Guyana is Mark Berman

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New Canadian envoy to Guyana is Mark Berman

Kaieteur News – Mark Berman has been named as the replacement for Lilian Chatterjee as the High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana and Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Global...

Repairs commence on damaged 69KV submarine cable

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Repairs commence on damaged 69KV submarine cable

Kaieteur News – According to the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), repair commenced yesterday on their 69KV submarine cable 69 Kilovolts (kV) submarine cable link between the Vreed-en-Hoop (VEH)...

79-year-old Region Four man recorded as latest COVID-19 fatality

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 79-year-old Region Four man recorded as latest COVID-19 fatality

Kaieteur News – A 79-year-old Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) man was recorded as Guyana’s 155th COVID-19 fatality yesterday. This was announced by the Health Ministry in a press release,...

Five homeless after two story building goes up in flames

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Five homeless after two story building goes up in flames

Five persons are now homeless after the dwelling house, which they were living in went up in flames yesterday around 4:30 hrs. Doreen Thom, 84 years, a pensioner of Lot 3-18 King Street, New...

Pedal cyclist dies following accident with minibus driver

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pedal cyclist dies following accident with minibus driver

Kaieteur News – A 39-year-old man is now dead after he was struck down on the Springlands Public Road by a minibus registered to a resident of Nigg Village, Corentyne, Berbice. Dead is...

One feared dead, two rescued during trip to set fish hooks

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on One feared dead, two rescued during trip to set fish hooks

Kaieteur News – Two teens were rescued yesterday, but a third disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean while returning to shore from a fishing expedition off the West Coast of Demerara (WCD). Feared...

Motorcyclist hospitalised in serious condition after crashing into motorcar

Dec 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist hospitalised in serious condition after crashing into motorcar

Kaieteur News – The rider of a motorcycle is currently hospitalized in serious condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital following an accident with a motorcar on the Chesney Public Road...

Can politics ever be fair and honest?

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Can politics ever be fair and honest?

Kaieteur News – Guyanese have long become disenchanted with politics. Given the incessant intrigue and divisiveness of local politics, it may have been assumed that students would be very much...

The sickening admission/confession of Raphael Trotman

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The sickening admission/confession of Raphael Trotman

Kaieteur News – It has been four months since leaders of the PNC and the AFC that ran an undemocratic, corrupt, racially-driven post 2015 dispensation lost power. Since August 2 when these...

Sick COVID-19 developments from all around

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sick COVID-19 developments from all around

DEAR EDITOR, This COVID-19 pandemic is making people do all kinds of strange things, playing many tricks. I share a couple eye catching developments from around the world, to emphasize the lengths...

Govt. should consider work projects

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. should consider work projects

DEAR EDITOR, As I travelled around conversing with the business community, there is unanimity that every business has been severely impacted by the five months election dispute and the pandemic, some...

Improving the international community’s perception of Guyana

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improving the international community’s perception of Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, The recent cocaine seizures, the requests for debt forgiveness in the recent past, the excessive spending in the national budget and the elections turmoil of 2020 are all key factors in...

Let us continue to respect our Symbols of Nationhood

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us continue to respect our Symbols of Nationhood

DEAR EDITOR, It was with great pleasure that I recently saw a report and pictures in the print media in relation to the historic signing of the Open – Air Services Agreement between Guyana and...

Guyana in the jaws of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana in the jaws of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

DEAR EDITOR, In his new book, A Promised Land, former President Barrack Obama writes about the penchant of his administration in its second year of office for using obtuse verbiage like “excessive...

The history behind vaccines and Black hesitancy

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The history behind vaccines and Black hesitancy

DEAR EDITOR, Blacks must contemplate the call to vaccinate as the history of medical racism is legitimate. Hospitals across the country are filling up again, not specifically with the demographic...

They’ve all drunk the ‘Kool-Aid’; it just hasn’t killed them yet

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on They’ve all drunk the ‘Kool-Aid’; it just hasn’t killed them yet

DEAR EDITOR, Finally, our dearly beloved Guyana, this land of entertained infidels and encouraged promiscuity, famous for much and infamous for many, her name was eventually implicitly and explicitly...

Returning to Shared Governance

Dec 14, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Returning to Shared Governance

Kaieteur News – With elections resolved and the various players settling into their respective roles, there is not silence on one issue, that of shared governance. In the height of the...

Trotman had told Parliamentary sub-committee in 2018 it was PPP that negotiated lopsided Orinduik Block deal

Dec 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman had told Parliamentary sub-committee in 2018 it was PPP that negotiated lopsided Orinduik Block deal

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – When Kaieteur News had exposed in March 2018 that the agreement for the Orinduik Block allows UK exploration conglomerate, Tullow Oil and its partners to...

Childcare Agency launches probe into alleged rape of 7-year-old girl

Dec 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Childcare Agency launches probe into alleged rape of 7-year-old girl

Kaieteur News – The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) has launched an investigation into the matter surrounding a seven-year-old girl who was allegedly rape by two teenaged suspects. During...

18-year-old in custody over alleged Bartica child rape

Dec 07, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 18-year-old in custody over alleged Bartica child rape

Kaieteur News – An 18-year-old man is now the second suspect arrested in relation to the alleged rape of the seven-year-old Bartica girl who was on Friday discovered sexually assaulted and...

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GBF secures certified Hardwood Court in major boost for basketball...

Jun 17, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – As Guyana prepares to host the FIBA AmeriCup 2029 Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers from July 8-12 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has made a...

No right to a firearm permit exists

Jun 17, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, there was a man who contended, “I need a firearm licence because I have a lot of money.” The then relevant officer replied, “Then you can afford security—next application, please.” The man had been so confident he would get a firearm licence...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

Jun 14, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

Carolyn Rodrigues – Birkett for UN Sec Gen. – I endorse

Jun 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Way to go, Excellency Ali. Excellency Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is Guyana’s nominee for the prestigious and demanding role of United Nations Secretary General. Why not? Since everybody globally have their eyes on a wedge of Guyana’s riches,...

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