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Liza Phase Two to produce 6.6M barrels per month-get green light from local authorities for project development

Liza Phase Two to produce 6.6M barrels per month-get green light from local authorities for project development

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Liza Phase Two to produce 6.6M barrels per month-get green light from local authorities for project development

By Kiana Wilburg ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), has received approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop the second phase of...

U.S. Embassy rebukes National Assembly for honouring “convicted terrorist” Abdul Kadir- Govt. says it’s all a misinterpretation…it is a tradition

U.S. Embassy rebukes National Assembly for honouring “convicted terrorist” Abdul Kadir- Govt. says it’s all a misinterpretation…it is a tradition

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. Embassy rebukes National Assembly for honouring “convicted terrorist” Abdul Kadir- Govt. says it’s all a misinterpretation…it is a tradition

The US Embassy in Georgetown yesterday issued a stinging rebuke of the National Assembly’s motion last Friday, which paid tribute to the late Member of Parliament (MP) Abdul Kadir’s...

Implementation of CSME cannot be a shifting target- CARICOM Secretary-General warns COTED

Implementation of CSME cannot be a shifting target- CARICOM Secretary-General warns COTED

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Implementation of CSME cannot be a shifting target- CARICOM Secretary-General warns COTED

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has called for consistent efforts of Regional Heads for the implementation of recommendations, towards the achieving goals set out under the...

High Court dismisses former Judge’s lawsuit for gratuity, pension and other benefits

High Court dismisses former Judge’s lawsuit for gratuity, pension and other benefits

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on High Court dismisses former Judge’s lawsuit for gratuity, pension and other benefits

In a ruling delivered earlier this month at the High Court in Georgetown, Justice Nareshwar Harnanan has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Judge, Jainarayan Singh, who had claimed he was sacked...

Situation diffused at Guyana Goldfields…CEO, two directors to be replaced in settlement with “dissident” shareholders

Situation diffused at Guyana Goldfields…CEO, two directors to be replaced in settlement with “dissident” shareholders

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Situation diffused at Guyana Goldfields…CEO, two directors to be replaced in settlement with “dissident” shareholders

It appears that growing internal troubles at the country’s biggest gold mining company are nearing a resolution. Yesterday, Guyana Goldfields Inc. announced that it has reached a settlement with a...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative should only go where it is needed and sustainable- IMF Head

China’s Belt and Road Initiative should only go where it is needed and sustainable- IMF Head

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on China’s Belt and Road Initiative should only go where it is needed and sustainable- IMF Head

By Kiana Wilburg While China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has the potential to stimulate infrastructural development, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine...

Review over-generous fiscal concessions, tax exemptions in Exxon’s contract – Goolsarran

Review over-generous fiscal concessions, tax exemptions in Exxon’s contract – Goolsarran

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Review over-generous fiscal concessions, tax exemptions in Exxon’s contract – Goolsarran

Parliament’s honouring of a convicted terrorist, a Cabinet reshuffle, and headlines about Ministers’ conflict of interest have all dominated the front-pages of daily newspapers and public...

Soulja Bai resign he politicians

Soulja Bai resign he politicians

Apr 30, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Soulja Bai resign he politicians

Old people always seh ‘Come see me is not come live wid me.’ Is a smart saying. Dem boys mother use to use it a lot because dem boys always talking how a certain gyal nice and how dem in...

Housing Dept. warns about fake Facebook page of minister

Housing Dept. warns about fake Facebook page of minister

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Dept. warns about fake Facebook page of minister

The Central Housing and Planning Authority is advising the public that there are no arrangements in place with GTT Mobile Money to accept payment for land, housing units or any other services offered...

Man who tries to fool magistrate remanded

Man who tries to fool magistrate remanded

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man who tries to fool magistrate remanded

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after he tried to outsmart the magistrate so that she could grant bail to him on a break and enter charge. Deon Brown claimed that he was arrested for the...

More supplies flown to Venezuelan migrants in Region 1

More supplies flown to Venezuelan migrants in Region 1

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on More supplies flown to Venezuelan migrants in Region 1

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) over the course of three days visited the communities of Black Water, Whitewater, Khan’s Hill, Yarakita and Joshua Landing, in Region 1, to distribute food and...

Over $69M allocated for roads in Vergenoegen, Philadelphia

Over $69M allocated for roads in Vergenoegen, Philadelphia

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Over $69M allocated for roads in Vergenoegen, Philadelphia

Over $69M has been tabled for works on the West Bank Demerara roads after the Government of Guyana, just recently conducted its ministerial outreach initiative in Region Three. Some $20M has been...

Silly semantics

Silly semantics

Apr 30, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Silly semantics

The government’s excuse that there is in place a time-honoured convention which allows the National Assembly to recognize the services of members of Parliament is woeful. A person convicted...

Women and Gender Equality Commission recommends mobile courts for rural, hinterland locations

Women and Gender Equality Commission recommends mobile courts for rural, hinterland locations

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Women and Gender Equality Commission recommends mobile courts for rural, hinterland locations

The Women and Gender Equality Commission has recommended, among other things, the implementation of a system of mobile courts which go to rural and hinterland locations to hear cases – a...

‘Strip Club’ owner finally appears in court, remanded on TIP charges

‘Strip Club’ owner finally appears in court, remanded on TIP charges

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Strip Club’ owner finally appears in court, remanded on TIP charges

The owner of the Diamond Hotel and Night Club, located at George and Princes Streets, Georgetown, has finally made his way to the courts after evading the police for almost two months on two charges...

No bail for cocaine-in-pepper sauce suspects

No bail for cocaine-in-pepper sauce suspects

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for cocaine-in-pepper sauce suspects

Forty-three year-old Ramaeo Chandrabhan called ‘Chan’ and 30-year-old Andrew Yong were yesterday brought before the court where they were slapped with a charge of trafficking a little over 237...

Fisherman on trial for attempting to kill reputed wife

Fisherman on trial for attempting to kill reputed wife

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman on trial for attempting to kill reputed wife

A 34-year-old Corentyne fisherman who is charged with attempting to kill his wife is on trial before Justice Jo Ann Barlow and a mixed jury in the Berbice High Court. Ian Saraswati of Lot 91 Bush Lot...

Guyanese charged in BVI with conspiracy to impersonate, granted $60K bail

Guyanese charged in BVI with conspiracy to impersonate, granted $60K bail

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese charged in BVI with conspiracy to impersonate, granted $60K bail

BVI (BVI News) – A Guyanese woman has been granted $60,000 bail with strict conditions including a curfew after she allegedly solicited a man to obtain an HIV test in her name. Charged with...

“More rigorous” measures to improve Health Ministry’s procurement process

“More rigorous” measures to improve Health Ministry’s procurement process

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “More rigorous” measures to improve Health Ministry’s procurement process

In order to ensure that its existing procurement process is much fairer, more competitive and unquestionably more transparent, the Ministry of Public Health has put in place measures which it...

Ramnauth, Thorne among surprise omissions from Inter County U19 tourney

Ramnauth, Thorne among surprise omissions from Inter County U19 tourney

Apr 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramnauth, Thorne among surprise omissions from Inter County U19 tourney

By Zaheer Mohamed Age group tournaments are often the cornerstone for the elevation for many young cricketers. And with the Hand-in-Hand Inter-County U19 three-day tournament starting today where...

Special Education Needs symposium held for Region Three parents

Special Education Needs symposium held for Region Three parents

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Special Education Needs symposium held for Region Three parents

Parents of children with special education needs and disability within Region Three benefitted from a symposium yesterday at the Department of Education’s office in Vreed-en-Hoop. National Special...

Transcend Entertainment to host $1million Tapeball tourney

Transcend Entertainment to host $1million Tapeball tourney

Apr 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Transcend Entertainment to host $1million Tapeball tourney

Over 20 teams have already signaled their interest to compete in the third annual edition of the Transcend Entertainment seven-a-side Independence Tapeball cricket festival on May 5-6, at the...

MYO thump MSC by 267 runs in GCA Toucan U15 tourney

MYO thump MSC by 267 runs in GCA Toucan U15 tourney

Apr 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on MYO thump MSC by 267 runs in GCA Toucan U15 tourney

Host Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) thumped Malteenoes Sports Club by 267 runs when the Georgetown Cricket Association Toucan Under-15 100 overs tournament continued on Sunday last. Led by half...

Allicock and Adams win Al Sport Double Wicket Windball Cricket

Allicock and Adams win Al Sport Double Wicket Windball Cricket

Apr 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Allicock and Adams win Al Sport Double Wicket Windball Cricket

The pair of Carlisa Allicock and Easter Adams won the AL Sport & Tour Promotions – NSC Easter Holiday Sc hoolgirls Double Wicket Windball Cricket competition played at the National Gymnasium....

Cabinet to receive Guyana’s first EITI Report this week

Cabinet to receive Guyana’s first EITI Report this week

Apr 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet to receive Guyana’s first EITI Report this week

Guyana’s inaugural report since becoming a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will be presented to Cabinet this week. According to a statement released by the...

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life...

Nov 21, 2024

Kaieteur Sports – The D-Up Basketball Academy is gearing up to wrap its first-of-its-kind, two-month youth basketball camp, which tipped off in September at the Tuschen Primary School (TPS)...

Campbell Eyes Eighth Men’s Physique Title in Final Amateur Outing

Campbell Eyes Eighth Men’s Physique Title in...

Nov 21, 2024

Alphonso, Fung-a-Fat, Munroe among top performers as Stena Drilling Junior Skill Level Tournament concludes

Alphonso, Fung-a-Fat, Munroe among top performers...

Nov 20, 2024

Guyana’s finest Physiques to battle for Glory at Mr. Guyana National Seniors Championship

Guyana’s finest Physiques to battle for Glory...

Nov 20, 2024

CWI names West Indies Test Squad for home series against Bangladesh

CWI names West Indies Test Squad for home series...

Nov 20, 2024

Georgetown romp to 292-run win over Select XI

Georgetown romp to 292-run win over Select XI

Nov 20, 2024

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Exxon contract can be changed

…Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- The sacred U.S. Constitution in its original form was and is a compact with... more