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Liza Phase One cost now stands at US$3.5 Billion

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Liza Phase One cost now stands at US$3.5 Billion

The development cost for the Liza Phase One Project in the Stabroek block was initially projected to be US$4.4B but that has been revised downwards to US3.5B says Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...

Guyana producing “approx. 75,000 barrels” of oil per day – To reach full capacity in the coming months

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana producing “approx. 75,000 barrels” of oil per day – To reach full capacity in the coming months

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hess Corporation, John Hess, revealed yesterday that the Liza Phase One production continues to ramp up with current gross production pegged at approximately 75,000...

Opposition calls for probe into several 2020 multi-million$ state contracts

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition calls for probe into several 2020 multi-million$ state contracts

The Opposition has written the police asking them to probe several contracts which appeared to have been illegally signed this year. From all indications, the contracts were catered for in the 2019...

Fire destroys section of GPHC Psychiatric Ward – Allegedly started by mentally-ill patient

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys section of GPHC Psychiatric Ward – Allegedly started by mentally-ill patient

By Shikema Dey A major disaster was yesterday averted at the Psychiatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital after fire fighters managed to contain a blaze that was said to have been started by a...

E-Networks lands fibre optic cable

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on E-Networks lands fibre optic cable

There is a major development now for Guyana with news yesterday that cable television operator, E-Networks, has landed its own submarine fibre optic cable. The cable will be used by the company to...

Hess puts up US$450M for exploration and appraisal wells on Stabroek, Kaieteur Blocks

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hess puts up US$450M for exploration and appraisal wells on Stabroek, Kaieteur Blocks

Hess Corporation, one of the Stabroek Block partners alongside ExxonMobil and CBNOOC/NEXEN, has put forward a US$3 billion exploration and production capital budget for 2020. According to the...

Captured ‘house jumpers’ land in hospital with head injuries

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Captured ‘house jumpers’ land in hospital with head injuries

Two burglars came face-to-face with karma Tuesday night after robbing an elderly woman of her belongings. Mere moments after, the thieves were captured by the woman’s grandchildren, who beat them,...

UN’s human rights review of Guyana… US concerned about ‘misapplication’ of Constitution and certain court rulings

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UN’s human rights review of Guyana… US concerned about ‘misapplication’ of Constitution and certain court rulings

The United States has expressed concerns to the United Nations Human Rights Council for Guyana’s handling of a number of court rulings that stemmed from the December 21st, 2018 no-confidence...

Coronavirus ain’t got nutten to do wid Corona Beer

Jan 30, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus ain’t got nutten to do wid Corona Beer

De whole world focusing on this thing people call coronavirus. This is a virus that killing people in China. De thing even reach odda countries like Sweden and de United States. Dem boys see video...

Give the people free electricity!

Jan 30, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Give the people free electricity!

What is the matter with Jan Mangal, the former Petroleum Adviser to President David Granger? Jan Mangal has asked the government to publish the economic model for the Stabroek Block projects. What...

Guyana launches project to create economic opportunities from organic waste

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana launches project to create economic opportunities from organic waste

Guyana is among six Caribbean territories that are benefiting from a waste management pilot project designed to create economic opportunities from organic waste. The Guyana leg is a partnership...

Bangladesh Nationals jailed for illegal entry

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bangladesh Nationals jailed for illegal entry

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday sentenced three Bangladesh nationals to spend the next three months in jail after they admitted to entering Guyana illegally. The defendants, Jackel Chowdhurg,...

Three wanted by police for rape, one for fraud

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three wanted by police for rape, one for fraud

The following persons are wanted by the Guyana Police Force in connection with the following offences shown against their names. Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the suspects...

Teen dies while preparing for school

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen dies while preparing for school

A Mahaica, East Coast Demerara teen reportedly collapsed and died Tuesday morning while preparing for school. Relatives have identified the victim as 15-year-old Triston Assaye, a fourth form student...

20 Broad St. families relocated

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 20 Broad St. families relocated

Twenty families who were squatting on a property at Broad and Lombard Streets have been relocated by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to the New Housing Scheme at Prospect, East...

Dialysis centre commissioned in Region Six

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dialysis centre commissioned in Region Six

A new $6.3Million Regional Dialysis Centre was officially commissioned on Saturday in Berbice at the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital. The centre, which is equipped with eight dialysis machines and...

RUSAL to reinstate laid-off workers “if Berbice River unblocked”

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on RUSAL to reinstate laid-off workers “if Berbice River unblocked”

– Union stands ground on demands As tensions between RUSAL and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU) continue, the Labour Department within the Ministry of Social Protection has...

Guyana ready for Category 1 status, but independent airline must apply

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana ready for Category 1 status, but independent airline must apply

– ICAO audit places Guyana 4th in region for safety International regulators have given Guyana thumbs up during a recent safety audit. The way is now paved for Guyana to apply to the US...

Union leaders praise NICIL for firm action in garnering payment from Bosai

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Union leaders praise NICIL for firm action in garnering payment from Bosai

Two prominent union Leaders have praised NICIL for its role in being able to extract a three million US dollars dividend payment from Bosai Guyana. This comes some weeks after Bosai’s General...

E-Networks’ West Dem. branch robbed by ‘customers’

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on E-Networks’ West Dem. branch robbed by ‘customers’

Three young women are left traumatized after two gun-toting bandits who posed as customers stormed their place of employment on Tuesday in broad daylight and made good their escape with cash and...

Man accused of raping girl, 12, granted bail

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man accused of raping girl, 12, granted bail

Forty-nine year-old Orlando Fraser, who is alleged to have raped a 12-year-old girl in June last year, was yesterday granted bail, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the...

Berbice man missing since Saturday found dead

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man missing since Saturday found dead

A 29-year-old man of Ogelton Dam, Mount Sinai, New Amsterdam was found dead in the Republic Canal on Monday, two days after he had gone missing. Dead is Cleon Outar, a Labourer, who went out with his...

Ex-employees charged for stealing over $7M from Royal Castle

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-employees charged for stealing over $7M from Royal Castle

Two women were yesterday taken before the court after they were charged for stealing cash totalling more than seven million, from Royal Castle Inc. Thirty-four-year-old Latisha Warding of East Coast...

Two suspects in fake assault rifle find remanded for Vriesland robbery

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two suspects in fake assault rifle find remanded for Vriesland robbery

Two of the suspects that were held for a spate of robberies on the West Bank and West Coast of Demerara were remanded yesterday in connection with one of the attacks. Gavin Douglas, 24, of Lot 23 La...

Jury acquits man accused of engaging in sexual activity with girl, 6

Jan 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Jury acquits man accused of engaging in sexual activity with girl, 6

A jury yesterday returned a unanimous not guilty verdict in the case of 49-year-old Sean Bacchus vs the State. Bacchus was indicted for one count of engaging in sexual activity with a six-year-old...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more