February 2018

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Risks vs. Reward… Oil can increase Guyana’s economic challenges

Feb 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Risks vs. Reward… Oil can increase Guyana’s economic challenges

–World Bank Official By Kiana Wilburg The local oil and gas debates have been fraught with critiques about how citizens will stand to benefit from the sector and how much will be put aside for...

Scores turn out to DemBake Cancer Screening outreach

Feb 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Scores turn out to DemBake Cancer Screening outreach

More than 100 individuals came out on Saturday to take advantage of a free cancer screening outreach. The venue was the Lot G1 Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, Demerara Bakery [DemBake]. The...

GTT frustrates potential customer

Feb 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GTT frustrates potential customer

A pregnant customer of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company is in state of bewilderment over to a lack of urgency and haphazard service offered to her by GTT. The customer is alleging that she...

How can the UG Vice-Chancellor argue so unscholarly?

Feb 14, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

If there is anything the young can see on the landscape of this country that unnerves them is the ubiquitous hypocrisy that is embedded in every corner, space, and aperture in the social existence of...

The principles of the former slaves can help sugar workers…

Feb 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The principles of the former slaves can help sugar workers…

-It’s imperative that sugar workers come together In the year 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act was agreed upon by the British royals. Slaves who worked for years under the harsh hands of their slave...

Mr. Gill’s assessment of the water situation in Region 5 is void of facts

Feb 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Gill’s assessment of the water situation in Region 5 is void of facts

Dear Editor, In response to a letter published in your daily newspapers on Sunday, February 11, 2018 captioned “Stop disrespecting water consumers in Region 5” by Mr. Harry Gill (PPP Member of...

Better Modems, Faster Speeds – GTT begins free modem change in Berbice

Feb 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Better Modems, Faster Speeds – GTT begins free modem change in Berbice

Customers in the New Amsterdam and Rose Hall, Corentyne will soon begin experiencing significantly better online experiences, more stable and stronger internet connections, along with better...

Marriott almost taken over by Republic Bank last year

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 1

-loan payments halved after renegotiations The Marriott Hotel in Kingston, controlled by Government, was on the verge of being taken over by Republic Bank Trinidad last year because of non-payments....

Another court case filed to put ExxonMobil US$18M signing bonus in Consolidated Fund

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 3

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Further litigation to force the transfer of the US$18M signing bonus into the consolidated fund has been brought against the APNU+AFC Government. An application to this...

Ogle Airport misleads lessees, nation on master lease renegotiation

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 1

Ogle Airport Inc. (OAI) is on record as telling Kaieteur News that its Master Lease is currently being reviewed by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission. The intention, OAI says, is to extend the...

$3.2M in posters for Bartica waterfront project raises eyebrows

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $3.2M in posters for Bartica waterfront project raises eyebrows

It was announced last year that major transformative works will be done to improve Bartica, a riverfront community up the Essequibo River that is considered a key gateway to the hinterland. The...

Teen electrocuted by fallen wire

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teen electrocuted by fallen wire

Seventeen-year-old Vevik Bridegmohan of Alliance, Canal #2, West Bank Demerara, was electrocuted on Sunday afternoon when a power line fell on him while he was talking with a friend not too far from...

PM Nagamootoo for heart bypass surgery today

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PM Nagamootoo for heart bypass surgery today

– will miss AFC Exec. Meeting ahead of Cummingsburg Accord review Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is expected to undergo heart bypass surgery today at a medical institution in the United States...

Porter fatally stabbed by ‘drinking buddy’ over alleged relationship

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Porter fatally stabbed by ‘drinking buddy’ over alleged relationship

A 30-year-old porter of Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, is now dead after a drinking session turned sour. According to the police, the victim was accused of having an affair with the wife of the...

Rates increase application… Consumer reps demand GWI financials be examined first

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rates increase application… Consumer reps demand GWI financials be examined first

It was supposed to be a routine application for an across-the-board increase for tariffs by the state-owned Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) to the regulator, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). But it was...

Cop accused of raping Special Constable at city hotel

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 1

Police are investigating one of their own for an alleged rape at a city hotel. According to the police yesterday, they are probing a report of rape committed on an 18-year-old Special Constable. The...

Exxon and GO-Invest panty showing

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Exxon and GO-Invest panty showing

Pizza does always confuse dem boys. It does come in a square box, yet when yuh open de box it round. And when yuh start eating is a triangle. Life and people just like a pizza. Look different, appear...

“Why I have to go through this over and over?”

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “Why I have to go through this over and over?”

– Murder accused “Grey Boy” asks after committed to stand trial Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday complied with the order of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and...

Insurance companies accused of forcing customers to declare political affiliation

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Insurance companies accused of forcing customers to declare political affiliation

-PPP calls for swift action to stop unconstitutional practice The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday said it has noted a new, unconstitutional, imposition where Guyanese applying for...

GBTI contempt trial… Final witness to testify on Feb. 21

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI contempt trial… Final witness to testify on Feb. 21

The trial involving eight high ranking officials of the board of Directors of Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) who are before the court for failing to comply with a production order is...

Ministry collaborates to improve procurement and information systems capacity

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry collaborates to improve procurement and information systems capacity

Deliberate moves have been set in motion by Government to improve the procurement and information systems capacity of the Ministry of Public Health. In this regard, Government has announced that it...

500 miles of roadway by 2025

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 500 miles of roadway by 2025

… With help of public/private partnerships – Minister Patterson Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has promised legislation this year to facilitate Government pursuing...

A country cannot be a democracy without having a heart and soul

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

Government’s petroleum advisor, Dr. Jan Mangal warns that the people should not let politicians decide all by themselves how the oil industry is managed. His words on the involvement of the people...

The audit provisions in Exxon’s contract are too restrictive

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The audit provisions in Exxon’s contract are too restrictive

The Exxon Agreement is one which provides for cost recovery. Exxon’s investment in producing oil will have to be recovered from the sale of oil. Since it is Exxon and its contractors which will be...

10 Barbadian companies exploring opportunities in Guyana

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 10 Barbadian companies exploring opportunities in Guyana

Ten new Barbadian manufacturers and services exporters are exploring trade and market opportunities in Guyana. Those participating in this exploratory mission are all recent graduates of the Barbados...

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(Kaieteur News) – The GFF is moving forward with its plan to increase access to quality football infrastructure as the installation works of football turf for FIFA Arena Mini-Pitch at Retrieve,...

Guyana has mislaid its Independence

Oct 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Yesterday, at the United Nations General Assembly, Guyana abstained from voting for a resolution calling for an end to the American economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba. It was a small act, requiring neither courage nor conviction. Yet it said more about the...

Are We All Ukrainians?

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 19 October, accepting the award of Ukraine’s Order of Merit, I said that my commitment to Ukraine rests on a principle essential to small nations everywhere: sovereignty is the freedom to govern ourselves, preserve our identity and decide our future....

Guyana the unbelievable, the inexplicable

Oct 29, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana is one hell of a country. This country under the PPP Govt must qualify to be in an extremely ugly category of hell. I watch as a citizen is savaged repeatedly, and silence is the only sound that splits the air. Silence, the bleats of fear. Or cheap ambition. ...

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