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Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Toxic campaign trail’ – ERC flagged over 100 racist online breach during elections
(Kaieteur News) – The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has reported 111 social media infractions involving racially discriminatory content during the 2025 elections period. In a report released...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana airspace open amid US pressure on Venezuela
(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s skies remain open and domestic and international flights continue uninterrupted, Director of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Retired Lt. Col. Egbert Field...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on AFC joins Ram in calling for dismissal of Exxon Guyana President
(Kaieteur News) – The Alliance For Change (AFC) has joined calls for the dismissal of ExxonMobil Guyana President, Alistair Routledge over a series of grievous infractions which the party believes...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pregnant woman in Good Hope crash thankful for life, unharmed baby
(Kaieteur News) – Yurajwatie Hussain, the pregnant woman who survived the horrific crash along the Good Hope Public Road on Saturday, which claimed the life of her reputed husband, said medical...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Gold miner jailed for possession of $9M worth of cannabis
(Kaieteur News) – Kevin Waldron, a 26-year-old gold miner of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice was handed a four-year prison sentence for possession of narcotics for the purpose of...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Aurora unrest exposes collapse of trade union power’ — Ramkarran
…warns of looming crisis for Guyanese workers (Kaieteur News) – Former Speaker of the National Assembly and Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has warned that the recent unrest at Aurora Gold...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trump confirms conversation with Venezuela’s Maduro
WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but did not provide details on what the two leaders...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on CARPHA donates Portable PCR instrument to strengthen Guyana’s public health response
(Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) last week handed over a state-of-the-art portable, mobile PCR instrument along with a supply of testing cartridges to the Ministry of...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De meaning of ‘vending’ change
(Kaieteur News) – Dem Boys seh long, long ago when yuh talk ’bout a vendor, yuh mind used to picture a lil tray pon two sticks, or a rice bag spread neat-neat on de ground. Deh man or woman deh...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pres. Ali to unveil “unmatched” 5-year expansion plan
– says nearly US$10B in projects set to reshape Guyana (Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali has announced that the government will soon unveil a sweeping national economic expansion and...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Transboundary animal diseases pose urgent threat to global food security, FAO warns
Rome – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, on Friday urged Member Countries to reinforce global partnerships to prevent and control...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana’s rice industry expanded by 13.9% – half year report
(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s rice industry has expanded by 13.9 per cent in the first half of 2025, according to the half-year report released recently by the Bank of Guyana. This equates to a...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Suriname begins seismic study in shallow waters – Staatsolie
(Kaieteur News) – State owned Surinamese oil company, Staatsolie has announced that the Dutch speaking country has begun a seismic study in shallow waters offshore to ascertain potential oil and...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on No new taxes, just bigger budgets and maybe bigger headaches
(Kaieteur News) – If governments had theme songs, the PPPC would long have released two platinum hits on heavy rotation: “No New Taxes” (remix featuring selective amnesia) and “The Largest...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on The Mohameds – what’s going on, really going on
(Kaieteur News) – I begin with the factual. When the US government wants someone, they don’t stay wanted for long. The US usually gets them, by a variety of means. Some on the table,...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Governing without consultation
Dear Editor, Last month, the Inter-American Development Bank released its Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealing that an estimated 58% of Guyanese live in poverty,...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. eyes major improvements for a cleaner, safer Bourda Market
The government is assessing ways to improve conditions at the Bourda Market, aiming to deliver a cleaner, safer and more comfortable environment for vendors and shoppers. Minister of Local Government...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Profiles of our notable business leaders can inspire future entrepreneurs
Dear Editor, I am currently gathering information for my upcoming publication, Notable Business Leaders of Guyana – A Biographical Dictionary. This work aims to be an important national resource,...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on President Ali’s caution about tempering expectations
Dear Editor, In recent remarks reported by the Department of Public Information (DPI), President Irfaan Ali urged Guyanese to “temper expectations” even as he described the country’s future as...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Urgent need for transparency after oxygen-related drug death at Linden Hospital
Dear Editor, As a resident of Linden, I feel compelled to address a matter that is deeply troubling and painful for our community. In less than six months, two persons have died while in the care of...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Poor delivery of public services mostly affects working class and poor families
Dear Editor, For approximately thirty years, successive People’s Progressive Party (PPP) governments – from Bharrat Jagdeo through Donald Ramotar to the current administration of President Irfaan...Dec 01, 2025 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on World AIDS Day and Adolescents
Dear Editor, Globally, this is a very new World AIDS Day, different from any in the last 22 years. For many, HIV no longer carries the threat of a life-ending disease. Sadly, that is not the case...Nov 30, 2025 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana to take ownership of assets after costs recovered by Total Energies – New PSA
…as Exxon maintains grip on over US$40B in assets already paid for by Guyana By: Davina Bagot (Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s oil has been used to repay ExxonMobil more than US$40B the...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Apr 18, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – From an initial field of 32 schools, the 12th Annual Massy Distribution Schools Under-18 Football Tournament, organised by the Petra Organisation has been trimmed to the final...Apr 18, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – Years ago, I witnessed a scene that has remained with me ever since. A funeral cortège was making its way slowly along a public road, led by the hearse. Scores of vehicles driven by impatient motorists were overtaking the cortège, seemingly oblivious to the need to show...Apr 12, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7th April, 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was relief. By 8th April, that relief was reflected in a sharp fall in oil prices after weeks in which conflict...Apr 18, 2026
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The Commission of Inquiry chaired by Sir Adrian Fulford and probing for answers into the Southport, England tragedy went live with early conclusions on Monday, April 13 Three young girls, all under the age of 10, were knifed to death, six other...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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