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Separate agreement almost complete to ensure accountable measuring of Guyana’s oil-Govt. Advisor says document will be made public

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Separate agreement almost complete to ensure accountable measuring of Guyana’s oil-Govt. Advisor says document will be made public

By Kiana Wilburg Guyana’s contracts with some of the world’s major oil operators are utterly silent on how the extracted oil will be measured to ensure accuracy. It appears, however, that all...

American Airlines to start selling tickets for NY route from Monday

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on American Airlines to start selling tickets for NY route from Monday

American Airlines is to start selling tickets for the New York route from Monday, the Guyana Tourism Authority said yesterday. The flights from JFK Airport to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport...

Exxon’s Liza Phase 2 to cost US$6B

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s Liza Phase 2 to cost US$6B

Texas-headquartered ExxonMobil yesterday said that it is steaming ahead with its Guyana operations, pumping US$6B into the second phase of the Liza development. The decision followed recent...

Ramjattan to challenge Nagamootoo for PM post

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan to challenge Nagamootoo for PM post

Moses Nagamootoo, Guyana’s current Prime Minister, was nominated to serve in that post by the Alliance for Change, after an agreement laid out in the Cummingsburg Accord saw to it that the AFC...

Terminations, transfers to follow SOCU audit report

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Terminations, transfers to follow SOCU audit report

There will be disciplinary action taken to remedy the issues laid out in the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) audit report, according to Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan. That will...

Container congestion:

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Container congestion:

This was the scene in front of Kaieteur News, Saffon Street, yesterday. Several container trucks, with rice and other exports, were parked waiting their turn to be processed at the container scanning...

Fraud Company owned by former SOCU advisor, Sam Sittlington, winds up

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fraud Company owned by former SOCU advisor, Sam Sittlington, winds up

A company that was set up by Dr. Sam Sittlington, former advisor of the police’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), has been wou nd up. According to the Official Gazette of Guyana, dated...

$Woman suffers fractured jaw, looses tooth at hands of ‘child father’$

Woman suffers fractured jaw, looses tooth at hands of ‘child father’

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Woman suffers fractured jaw, looses tooth at hands of ‘child father’

Twenty year-old Narmilla Sookwah of Timehri is now nursing a fractured jaw, and lost a tooth after an alleged severe beating at the hands of her obsessed ‘child father’ (name given). The still...

CGX, Frontera Energy get Govt.’s approval for Strategic Joint Venture

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CGX, Frontera Energy get Govt.’s approval for Strategic Joint Venture

By Kiana Wilburg Head of the Energy Department, Dr. Mark Bynoe, announced yesterday that the Government has granted approval for the Strategic Joint Venture between CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera...

Poor road conditions blamed as log exports fall

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Poor road conditions blamed as log exports fall

Poor road conditions have been badly affecting forestry activities with exports affected in the first quarter. According to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) yesterday, the latest figures show...

Rigid Oil Spill Response Plan tied to Liza Phase Two Permit

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rigid Oil Spill Response Plan tied to Liza Phase Two Permit

By Kiana Wilburg The approval that was granted by the relevant authorities for ExxonMobil and its partners to move ahead with the Liza Phase Two Development was tied to a number of conditions,...

Shooting death of Parika shopkeeper…Cops grill teenage friend, two others

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Shooting death of Parika shopkeeper…Cops grill teenage friend, two others

Police are questioning a 17-year-old and two other youths as they seek a motive for Tuesday’s shooting death of 46-year-old shopkeeper Somdat Ramgobin. The teen is a friend of Ramgobin’s, while...

Guyanese man sentenced for killing pregnant Trinidadian wife in Canada

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man sentenced for killing pregnant Trinidadian wife in Canada

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) — The Guyanese man who stabbed to death his nine-month pregnant Trinidadian wife, at their home in Pickering, Canada back in 2017, has been sentenced to life in prison,...

What would have happened…?

May 04, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What would have happened…?

Yesterday, the government celebrated Portuguese Arrival Day. The observance is a plus for the government and shows that it is far more responsive than the PPP to the sensitivities of minority ethnic...

Kaieteur News Cartoon May 5 2019

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Local businesses must raise standards to participate in oil sector – Business Minister

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local businesses must raise standards to participate in oil sector – Business Minister

Newly appointed Minister of Business, Hemraj Rajkumar, participated in his first press conference yesterday, since assuming that post. The AFC member was asked about his vision for the business...

Conflict of interest issues…President was right to move Patterson-Yearwood in public interest, but Hughes did nothing damaging – AFC Chairman

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Conflict of interest issues…President was right to move Patterson-Yearwood in public interest, but Hughes did nothing damaging – AFC Chairman

Minister of Public Security and Alliance For Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, has indicated that he stands with the decision of President David Granger to reassign Minister Valerie...

One dead, another hospitalised after boat mishap in Suriname waters

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on One dead, another hospitalised after boat mishap in Suriname waters

A fisherman of Number 77 Housing Scheme is now dead while another is hospitalized at the Skeldon Hospital with injuries to his ribs, after the fishing vessel they were in capsized in Suriname...

Entities collaborate for sustainable tourism development through education

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Entities collaborate for sustainable tourism development through education

Three entities have forged a partnership which will help to advance sustainable tourism development through education. The Ministry of Education, the Guyana Tourism Authority [GTA] and The...

Suspect held for murder of Albouystown businesswoman-victim suffered compression injuries to the neck, blunt trauma to the head

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect held for murder of Albouystown businesswoman-victim suffered compression injuries to the neck, blunt trauma to the head

Police have detained a suspect in the murder of Albouystown shopkeeper Nalinie Persaud, who was slain in her James Street home on Thursday. Kaieteur News understands that the 44-year-old man, who has...

Decomposed body of pensioner found at Port Mourant

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body of pensioner found at Port Mourant

The partly decomposed body of a pensioner, aged 60, was found under a bridge at Dispensary Dam, Port Mourant on Thursday. Dead is Diwanti Lakeraj called ‘Christmas’ of Lot 66 Freeyard,...

Ram Jattan cry fuh he calf

May 04, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ram Jattan cry fuh he calf

People always seh when you own bug bite you is a proper bite you does get. Anodda thing dem boys seh is dat when people run from de jumbie, dem does butt up wid de coffin. Moses and Ram Jattan run...

Pensioner found dead in C’tyne home with stab wounds- three persons in custody

May 04, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner found dead in C’tyne home with stab wounds- three persons in custody

A Springlands, Corentyne pensioner was discovered with five stab wounds about his body yesterday morning in his house. Godfrey Branch, 73, an overseas-based Guyanese, former employee of the National...

BCB/GNNL/RHTYSC100 Balls Tournament Dukestown CC and No. 72 All Stars CC to clash in final tomorrow- Ramdass blasts century in Semifinals

May 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/GNNL/RHTYSC100 Balls Tournament Dukestown CC and No. 72 All Stars CC to clash in final tomorrow- Ramdass blasts century in Semifinals

The No. 72 Cut and Load Ground in the Upper Corentyne area would be a hive of activity as the Berbice Cricket Board host the final of the Guy ana National Newspapers Ltd/Rose Hall Town Youth &...

Our Sports Organization heads still don’t understand budgeting

May 04, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Our Sports Organization heads still don’t understand budgeting

Dear Mr. Editor, After reading the Kaieteur News Paper of the reason for the hosting of the 2021 Carifta Games in Guyana, I was left in shock at what was said. First of all, I have no problem...

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EBDCA/D&R Construction 40-Over Cricket Competition continues

Land, taxes and penalties

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more