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Jan 17, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Sugar workers have been treated unfairly
Sugar workers have not enjoyed an increase in salaries since 2015. This will be a major factor in their decision about which party they will vote for in the March general and regional elections....Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two buildings in “Big Yard” collapses
Residents of “Big Yard” Tucville, Georgetown, are pleading with Government for assistance as their place of abode came crashing down last night. Luckily, no one was seriously injured. When...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man satisfies ego by beating businessman in front of police
A 28-year-old union worker satisfied his anger by on Wednesday evening by beating a businessman in the presence of police officers. The incident occurred at the popular “Sunset Boulevard Bar”...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CANU intercepts truck with cocaine, ganja stashed in fertiliser
Customs Anti-narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks have detained four people after intercepting a truck with what is suspected to be cocaine and marijuana hidden among fertiliser. A CANU release stated that...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba wrongful dismissal lawsuit set for trial in April
The constitutional writ of summons has been filed in the High Court, on behalf of former Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba, challenging her dismissal as an employee of the Georgetown Mayor and City...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Secondment of Hicken, Karimbaksh an administrate decision – Top Cop
What was thought to be a big shake up in the Guyana Police Force was yesterday deemed an administrative decision by the Commissioner of Police, Leslie James. James was at the time responding to...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers to wear black & white in protest of assault as another beaten on school property
– Union demands proper security for teachers By Shikema Dey “Teachers are said to be the engine that drives the nation and mould present and future generations.” This was the sentiment...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Senior Cop fingered in sexual assault of reporter ‘stood down’ from duties
The Senior police rank accused of sexually assaulting a female reporter has been removed from his office pending administrative action. This revelation was made by Police Commissioner Leslie James...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murder charges for men who allegedly killed wedding house guest
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended murder charges for two men who allegedly killed wedding house guest, Rudendra Persaud. The file was returned to police yesterday and the...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL properties in Linden, Kwakwani undergo $131M renovation, upgrade
Renovations and upgrades to the tune of $131M were completed during the past year on several properties in Linden and Kwakwani belonging to the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU uses GNBA to muzzle – says Jagdeo
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said that the party plans to engage multiple international organisations over what it says are various unfair restrictions imposed upon the party by the Guyana...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $13M piggery taken over by bush
In early 2018 under the Regional Economic Developmental Programme for Region Five, a model farm was launched and subsequently developed months later. The farm was intended to have a piggery, other...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon Trading gives new library, computer centre to Abrams Creek Primary School
Pomeroon Trading, one of Guyana’s leading coconut growing and processing enterprises, recently opened a new library and computer centre at Abrams Creek Primary School. Kaieteur News understands...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Roach hurts Jaguars despite Chanderpaul resistance
Bridgetown, Barbados, CMC – Opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s defiant half-century kept champions Guyana Jaguars afloat after seasoned Test seamer Kemar Roach grabbed four wickets to undermine the...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $20,000 monthly allowance to monitor Guyana’s oil wealth shameful – Opposition Leader
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, finds it absolutely shameful that the government is paying officials from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), a meager $20,000 allowance to ensure...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Namilco Thunderbolt Flour and Tucber Park to clash; Match dedicated to legendary Basil Butcher
BCB/Stag Beer 50-Overs Final The historic Port Mourant Cricket Ground, home to seven Test cricketers will tomorrow play host to the final of the 2019 Berbice Cricket Board/Stag Beer 50-Overs first...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man to serve 19 years for killing murder suspect
Trevor Anthony Amsterdam was yesterday sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for the November 20, 2015 unlawful killing of Jermaine Simon, who police had wanted for questioning in relation to the...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramnarine XI overcome Hansraj XI by 19 runs
Mahase Ramnarine XI defeated Davendra Hansraj XI by 19 runs when the teams collided in a one day/two innings U19 contest on Saturday last at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground. Ramnarine XI batted...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No shortage of surgical gloves at Linden Hospital– CEO (ag)
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE of surgical gloves at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), Upper Demerara/Berbice (Region Ten) acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Michelle Bollers, confirmed Thursday. Bollers...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on LGC Extends Honorary Membership to Dr. K. J. Srinivasa
The Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) Executive Committee presented a Certificate of Honorary Membership to His Excellency, Dr. K. J. Srinivasa, High Commissioner of India, on Wednesday last. The LGC under...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jerry double hands Jawalla U15 2-0 win
A second half double by Anil Jerry guided Jawalla to a 2-1 win over Paruima Combined when the teams collided in an Under-15 football match organised by DC Caesar Fox Secondary played recently at...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Norton Street murder PI… Magistrate briefed on death of witness
Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty was yesterday briefed on the findings of the Guyana Forensic Scientific Laboratory (GFSL) which confirmed the death of Collin Rodney. Rodney was the main witness in...Jan 17, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court hears – defendant’s brother carried police to stolen loot
A teenage boy was yesterday arraigned before Acting Chief Magistrate, Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, days after the defendant’s brother carried a group of policemen...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Global Spare Parts and Auto Sales golf tourney on this weekend
This weekend will see the first of two tournaments to be hosted by Global Spare Parts and Auto Sales at the Lusignan Golf Club in 2020 to celebrate the grand opening of their Georgetown location at...Jan 17, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCC beat Rising Star by seven wickets
Georgetown Cricket Club defeated Rising Star of Essequibo Coast by seven wickets when the teams collided in a 40-over contest on Sunday last at Bourda. Batting first, Rising Star posted 147 all out...Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.
Jun 23, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – Timehri United’s impressive run in the 2026 Elite League Qualifiers came to a somber end on Sunday after they suffered a 2-0 defeat to Camptown Football Club in the...Jun 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...Jun 21, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...Jun 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...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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