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ExxonMobil hands Guyana US$460M bill covering pre-discovery operations

Jan 28, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on ExxonMobil hands Guyana US$460M bill covering pre-discovery operations

Guyana is now hurrying to put measures in place to monitor and assess cost recovery claims. However, it has already tied itself to the repayment of US $460,237,918M. This is according to the 2016...

Sugar talks lead to bitter internal fallout in PPP

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar talks lead to bitter internal fallout in PPP

Komal Chand prepared to back workers over party affiliation President of the Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand, said yesterday that he will continue to place the needs...

GRA drops hammer on questionable vehicle auctions

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GRA drops hammer on questionable vehicle auctions

-yanks licences of several private Customs warehouses The frauds at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) over the years have been many with all kinds of schemes discovered. As a result, the state would...

Govt. secure mediocre Local Content provisions in contract with ExxonMobil

Jan 28, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Govt. secure mediocre Local Content provisions in contract with ExxonMobil

-Chartered Accountant highlights numerous flaws For several months, members of the private sector community and even various commentators have issued calls for there to be proper Local Content...

Incestuous relations highlighted at Eugene F. Correia Airport

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Incestuous relations highlighted at Eugene F. Correia Airport

…as Correia Mining Company land special lease One of the original investors of Ogle Airport Inc, (OAI) Michael Correia, has been able to lease for himself a sizeable plot of land at the Eugene F....

Jagdeo is de centre of everything

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo is de centre of everything

Every living thing that can breathe and smell love sugar. You put down sugar, ants, bees even li’l children does push dem tongue in it. Sugar mek Jagdeo, that scamp, learn to thief. He mamma use to...

Patriotic entrepreneur, Allison Butters-Grant, is a ‘Special Person’

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Special Person Comments Off on Patriotic entrepreneur, Allison Butters-Grant, is a ‘Special Person’

By Sharmain Grainger “We were always big on quality and not so much quantity. If your product is not up to a certain quality and following certain standards, the quantity wouldn’t matter because...

Opposition dares Granger to set up CoI into crime wave murders

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition dares Granger to set up CoI into crime wave murders

-Seeking to help craft terms of reference Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday dared President David Granger to fulfill the promise made to set up a commission of inquiry (CoI) into the spate...

President, ministers tour Timehri airport project

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on President, ministers tour Timehri airport project

President David Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and several Government officials yesterday toured the ongoing works at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The president and his team were...

GBTI names director as new chief

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI names director as new chief

The Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry (GBTI) has named Richard Isava, a director, as its new chief. Isava, who heads up the Guyana Americas Merchant Bank Inc, a sister company of the bank, was...

Transfer pricing: Companies illegally hide profits

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Transfer pricing: Companies illegally hide profits

The tax authority is warning companies about using ingenious ways to hide profits. The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is looking at the issue. On Thursday it admitted that it has far-reaching...

Michael Parris should be Guyana’s 2020 Olympics flag bearer .

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Michael Parris should be Guyana’s 2020 Olympics flag bearer .

Dear Editor, For as long as I can recall, I have always followed Sports Internationally via television broadcast, newspapers, magazines, videos etc. and I will admit, it’s the Olympic Games...

Send them packing

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Send them packing

Dear Editor, My reference is your report “Minister chides M&CC over Bel Air Park playfield takeover”, to which I say hooray! The Minister has very finely stepped forward. I have in the past...

We need better conditions for teachers in riverine communities

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need better conditions for teachers in riverine communities

Dear Editor, As a member of the Saxacalli Primary School P.T.A, I was shocked when I learnt that our headmaster was required to pay ten percent of his salary as rent for the teacher’s house he is...

Unfair treatment of the Rupununi Mining Association

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unfair treatment of the Rupununi Mining Association

Dear Editor, Due to the ongoing dispute between the small miners of Rupununi Mining District 6 and Romanex Guyana Exploration Ltd., the small miners have merged to form the Rupununi Mining...

The morbid one is Freddie, not the PPP/C nor Jagdeo

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The morbid one is Freddie, not the PPP/C nor Jagdeo

Dear Editor, Let me acknowledge publicly that I read the “Freddie Kissoon Column” whenever it is at hand (so too – “Peeping Tom”, “Ian on Sunday”, “Future Notes”, “So it Go”,...

Misplaced priorities at West Berbice Secondary

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Misplaced priorities at West Berbice Secondary

Dear Editor, Recently the media reported that five students of a West Berbice Secondary School were suspended since November, and not allowed to submit their School Based Assessments (SBA) for the...

Government should consider ‘privatization’ of public hospitals

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government should consider ‘privatization’ of public hospitals

Dear Editor, This week I had the misfortune of being forced to use the services (so-called but quite absent!) of the Skeldon Public Hospital which resonated with other negative reports of poor,...

The current processes at GGMC do not work for the small miners

Jan 28, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The current processes at GGMC do not work for the small miners

Dear Editor, We would like to respond to yesterday’s article in the Kaieteur News highlighting some processes at the GGMC. We know that the Minister through her over 20 years’ experience...

Magistrate to comply with directions of DPP and commit “Grey Boy” for murder

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News 1

-pending the hearing and determination Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman was on Thursday told by Justice Dawn Gregory an appeal judge that she will have to comply with the ordered of the Direction...

Nonperforming loans and the decline of lending by banks

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Nonperforming loans and the decline of lending by banks

One of the core functions of a bank is to provide loans so that companies can make worthwhile investments that would lead to job creation. On a much smaller scale, loans to individuals can assist...

Two injured in Bagotville crash

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two injured in Bagotville crash

Police are investigating an accident which left several persons nursing injuries along the Bagotville West Bank Demerara, (WBD) Public Road last evening. Information reaching this newspaper is that a...

Social organisation proves to Special Needs Children it cares..

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Social organisation proves to Special Needs Children it cares..

Living up to its name, the “Caring For Others Organization” demonstrated tangibly, on Wednesday, how much they do care about the children of the Linden Special Needs School. APNU member of...

CONSUMER CONCERNS….PAT DIAL RENEWAL OF LE REPENTIR CEMETERY

Jan 28, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS….PAT DIAL RENEWAL OF LE REPENTIR CEMETERY

Last week, the Georgetown City Council discussed the fencing of Le Repentir Cemetery. The cemetery was first used in the early 19th century and was one of the large blocks of land owned by Pierre...

Essequibians claim Exxon’s answers inadequate

Jan 28, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Essequibians claim Exxon’s answers inadequate

As ExxonMobil looms closer to extracting oil from Guyana’s territorial waters, Guyanese are now thirsting for answers–primarily as to what the oil industry can mean for them. Even with Exxon...

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Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more