February 17, 2019

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Exxon’s subsidiary has insufficient assets to cover spills …No Permit until this is fixed-EPA

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s subsidiary has insufficient assets to cover spills …No Permit until this is fixed-EPA

By Kiana Wilburg Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, is not convinced that ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has the...

Background checks on all oil companies will feature in next licensing round -Dr. Bynoe assures

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Background checks on all oil companies will feature in next licensing round -Dr. Bynoe assures

By Kiana Wilburg When the Energy Department initiates another licensing round for offshore blocks next year, background checks will be done on all competing companies. This assurance was given by...

Rusal orders kitchen to stop cooking for workers

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rusal orders kitchen to stop cooking for workers

-key meeting tomorrow to find solutions to stalemate Bauxite workers of Rusal, in Upper Berbice, Region Ten, are digging in their heels, and refusing to budge in the second day of standoff against...

Public Service College faces a diversity problem -Senior Director, Lawrence Paul

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Service College faces a diversity problem -Senior Director, Lawrence Paul

In 2015, the Coalition Government entered office, and announced that one of its priorities would be the restructuring of the public service. For years, the public service has been criticised for poor...

Minister takes control of Local Authorities as Commission shuts doors

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minister takes control of Local Authorities as Commission shuts doors

The State, more particularly the Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, will have control over the local authorities given that the Local Government Commission, (LGC) effectively shut its doors,...

No dual citizens will return to parliament – Jagdeo

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No dual citizens will return to parliament – Jagdeo

“We will uphold the law,” said Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, when asked about the dual citizens who are currently parliamentarians. The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has three Members...

WPA threatens to leave Coalition if it isn’t restructured

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on WPA threatens to leave Coalition if it isn’t restructured

The Working People’s Alliance Overseas chapter will leave the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) coalition if there isn’t a new agreement for the party’s machinations, moving forward. The...

Exxon pull a three card trick pun Soulja Bai and Guyana

Feb 17, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Exxon pull a three card trick pun Soulja Bai and Guyana

Guyana full of confidence tricksters and foreigners come and join de numbers. Exxon is one of dem. De people shouldn’t watch Exxon wid two eyes. You got to watch dem wid de two eyes wha de Creatah...

Minibus operators’ code of conduct officially launched

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus operators’ code of conduct officially launched

With the objective to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of public transportation in Guyana, the Ministry of Business, the Guyana Police Force, Guyana National Road Safety Council and the...

Shippers appealing $3.8M fine each, in haulage fee case

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Shippers appealing $3.8M fine each, in haulage fee case

The Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) says it is moving to appeal a recent decision by a regulator slap members with a multi-million-dollar fine. The fines pertains to what the Competition and...

‘Guyana must be a Paradise’ – Mighty Believer wins Calypso Monarch

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Guyana must be a Paradise’ – Mighty Believer wins Calypso Monarch

Friday night saw a string of talented performers at the National Park Tarmac, which was almost filled to capacity. A total of 11 finalists performed their own composed and written songs. But the...

First Lady participates in third annual children’s cancer awareness walk

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on First Lady participates in third annual children’s cancer awareness walk

First Lady Mrs. Sandra Granger, participated in the third annual children’s cancer awareness walk, organized by the Giving Hope Foundation. The walk was held, yesterday, in observance of...

Magistrate dismisses charge against robbery accused after cop fails to show up in court

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate dismisses charge against robbery accused after cop fails to show up in court

A City Magistrate on Friday was forced to dismiss a case against a former prison escapee charged for robbery with violence after one of the witnesses, a police rank, failed to show up in court to...

Children’s Mashramani Parade – Rediscovering El Dorado

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Children’s Mashramani Parade – Rediscovering El Dorado

Forty-seven schools from across the country danced their way to the National Park to convince the judges that they deserve to win the Ministry of Education’s Children’s Costume and Float Parade...

Appeal Court to hear stay request of rulings in No-Confidence Motion cases Wednesday

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal Court to hear stay request of rulings in No-Confidence Motion cases Wednesday

On Wednesday, February 20, Appeal Court Judge Rishi Persaud will commence hearing applications for interim stays of the rulings handed down by the Chief Justice in relation to three matters...

No-confidence motion and related matters… Be prepared for the implications of the example being set – Ramson tells Government

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No-confidence motion and related matters… Be prepared for the implications of the example being set – Ramson tells Government

Attorney-at-law, Charles Ramson, is reminding the government of the old adage, “You cannot have your cake and eat it too.” He said that the very positions that Government members are holding on...

Kuru Kururu residents take stand against domestic violence

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kururu residents take stand against domestic violence

First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, yesterday, commended the Kuru Kururu community for mobilising to take action against domestic violence, after they noted an increase in abusive behaviours over the...

‘A child is so innocent’: Candlelight vigil held for killed 11-year-old girl

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘A child is so innocent’: Candlelight vigil held for killed 11-year-old girl

Community members left grief-stricken by the death of an 11-year-old Brampton, Ontario girl gathered at a park near the child’s school to light candles, lay flowers and show support for the...

Reliance boy drowns on Valentine’s Day

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Reliance boy drowns on Valentine’s Day

Last Valentine’s Day turned bitter for an Essequibo couple after the body of their two-year-old son, Ricardo Jaigobin, was fished out of a trench just outside their Reliance home. Based on reports,...

Kaieteur News Cartoon Feb. 17 2019-1

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Bandits break in Kaneville home, drives off with car

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits break in Kaneville home, drives off with car

Early Friday morning, two bandits broke into a Third Street, Kaneville, East Bank Demerara home and drove away with a red old model Raum bearing registration number PLL 9901 after holding one of the...

Man allegedly stabs girlfriend during argument

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man allegedly stabs girlfriend during argument

Eon Layne was on Friday arraigned before a city magistrate and was granted bail for a charge in which he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend during an argument they had. Layne denied the charge, which...

Tender out for Lethem Airport

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tender out for Lethem Airport

Lethem has been earmarked as the next major transport hub in the country, and according to Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, the money has already bee n allocated for the...

Two answer to violent robbery charges

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Two answer to violent robbery charges

Eon Vyphuis and Marlon Goodridge found themselves before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Friday to answer to their individual charges of robbery with violence....

Major Companies Sponsor Mashramani Celebrations

Feb 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Major Companies Sponsor Mashramani Celebrations

The Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport through the Central Mashramani Committee hosted a handing over ceremony of sponsorships on Friday. The activity was yesterday’s Children...

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GBF names boys’ and girls’ teams for Inter-Guiana Games...

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) has named its boys’ and girls’ teams for the basketball competition at the 2026 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), scheduled for October 23–25...

The politics of a box of cook-up

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – During the PNC era, a gentleman who had been persuaded to participate in one of the many marches organised by the government received a box of food at the end of the proceedings. He opened it. Inside was cook-up rice and a generous piece of chicken. There was only one small...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

The Great Game: right around here

Oct 21, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana now has more than oil in its hands. Guyana has a strain of this century’s Great Game now hanging over its head. It’s not the Great Game played out by Britain and Imperial Russia almost 200 years ago for dominance in Central Asia. Wish it was that distant, and...

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