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Stabroek Block contract allows ExxonMobil to weather storm at Guyana’s expense

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek Block contract allows ExxonMobil to weather storm at Guyana’s expense

By Kiana Wilburg Crisis or not, the Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) will always leave ExxonMobil and its partners with good outcomes all at Guyana’s expense. And the prevailing...

Only credible and transparent counting can produce legitimate results – EU Ambassador

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Only credible and transparent counting can produce legitimate results – EU Ambassador

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union (EU), Fernando Ponz Cantó said that only credible and transparent counting can produce legitimate results. The Ambassador was, at...

Caribbean Airlines grounds int’l flights – as T&T records 40 new cases of COVID-19

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Airlines grounds int’l flights – as T&T records 40 new cases of COVID-19

Under threat but unrelenting, the world has been gradually taking up a battle stance to combat the pernicious impact of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The tactical response, ranging from closure of...

Energy Dept. fails to reveal key details on crude sale to GY-EITI

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Energy Dept. fails to reveal key details on crude sale to GY-EITI

By Kiana Wilburg When it came to the fore that Guyana would be selling three million barrels of its share of oil from the Liza Phase One Project to Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited (SWSTL),...

It is not too late for Guyana – Canadian High Commissioner

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on It is not too late for Guyana – Canadian High Commissioner

Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee has said that it is not too late for Guyana to respect the will of the Guyanese people and produce credible election results. She was, at the time,...

Presidential order on coronavirus not tantamount to ‘jail time’ – Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential order on coronavirus not tantamount to ‘jail time’ – Deputy Chief Medical Officer

Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO), Dr Karen Gordon- Boyle, is seeking to address concerns about the Presidential orders issued recently in wake of the coronavirus cases. According to the DCMO, the...

Guyana needs a fresh start

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana needs a fresh start

General and Regional Elections, held every five years, are divisive and disruptive. They end up in legal challenges, protests and the muddying of Guyana’s international image. They polarize our...

Mingo de Ringo declared BINGO numbers!!!

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Mingo de Ringo declared BINGO numbers!!!

Kaieteur News ain’t playing BINGO. It playing quiz. It offering a free trip to China via first class to whoever can first answer the question: Who is the President-elect of Guyana? Dem gat some...

Power sharing is not a substitute for free and fair elections

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Power sharing is not a substitute for free and fair elections

The late Satnarayan Maraj, the Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha of Trinidad and Tobago, and a close personal friend of former Guyanese President Desmond Hoyte, appeared once on a...

FDA warns against fake COVID-19 test kits

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on FDA warns against fake COVID-19 test kits

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been actively monitoring firms marketing products related to COVID-19 with a special eye for fraudulent coronavirus diagnostic, prevention and...

Fiery disaster averted at Georgetown Prison

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fiery disaster averted at Georgetown Prison

Twenty-six-year- old Odel Roberts a prisoner at the Camp Street Prison, on Friday around 16:30hrs lit a newspaper and a piece of mattress and threw it at an inmate who refused to lend him his cell...

Hijacked car found stripped at Mocha

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hijacked car found stripped at Mocha

Twenty –eight –year-old Kevin Persaud, a taxi driver, of South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown is unable to work after he was robbed of his car and a sum of cash. The incident occurred around 01:30...

WHO using messaging service to share COVID-19 facts

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on WHO using messaging service to share COVID-19 facts

The World Health Organisation has been taking full advantage of modern ways to share facts about the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to billions of people around the world. On Friday, the WHO...

Put politics aside, come together and fight COVID-19 – GTUC urges

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Put politics aside, come together and fight COVID-19 – GTUC urges

The Guyana Trade Union Congress [GTUC] has weighed in on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, calling on citizens and workers to embrace all measures that have been put in place by government, health...

Now we’re alone, with our destiny in our own hands

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Now we’re alone, with our destiny in our own hands

Almost all of significance who came from afar are now gone, returning to the relatively comforting civility of where they belong. Though this was going to happen at some time, they did not have to...

New Amsterdam Municipal Market not closed – Mayor

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam Municipal Market not closed – Mayor

The New Amsterdam Municipal Market has not closed its doors. This publication was able to confirm this after rumours sufaced that the market would be closed for a period of two weeks as part of the...

Manslaughter charge for security guard accused of killing Linden man

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Manslaughter charge for security guard accused of killing Linden man

Two weeks after 24-year-old Akeem Caesar of Wismar, Linden, Region 10, was fatally shot and killed in Mahdia, the accused made his first court appearance before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan. The...

$150,000 bail for man who allegedly shared nude photos of women

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $150,000 bail for man who allegedly shared nude photos of women

Twenty-eight-year-old Todd Brown, a security guard of Wortmanville, Georgetown, was on Friday arraigned before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. He was charged for...

World Water Day… Tap into the requirements of int’l standards for water management and use

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on World Water Day… Tap into the requirements of int’l standards for water management and use

Today March 22, we celebrate World Water Day, which is an annual UN observance that highlights the importance of freshwater and an opportunity to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater...

Protect yourself from COVID-19 (coronavirus)

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on Protect yourself from COVID-19 (coronavirus)

By Pat Dial Over the last month, the Guyanese population had been distracted by election politics and had not been able to turn their attention to two issues of immense national importance. The first...

CCJ issues its first advisory opinion on freedom of movement

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ issues its first advisory opinion on freedom of movement

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday last, provided its first advisory opinion concerning the interpretation and application of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC). The CARICOM Heads...

Don’t wash our hands of the problem

Mar 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t wash our hands of the problem

By Danielle Evanson and Magdy Martinez Soliman BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The most repeated public health advice since the outbreak of the New Coronavirus has been “wash your hands thoroughly...

Has my political life been a complete failure?

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Has my political life been a complete failure?

I am in my late sixties and my life has seen only three dimensions – educational security, marital infrastructure and political praxis. Of the first one, my family never had the resources to enable...

The President on public health

Mar 22, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The President on public health

(A review of David Granger’s Public health is a public good: Risk and response in a small state.) David Granger’s Public health is a public good: Risk and response in a small state, highlights...

Book Review…Treasures of a Nation

Mar 22, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Book Review…Treasures of a Nation

Book: Jamaica’s Gifts to the World (Volume 2) Author: Lloyd Eubank-Green Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Lloyd Eubank-Green’s ‘Jamaica’s Gifts to the World,’ is concisely and punctiliously...

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Guyana Beverage Inc. on board with Petra to host 8th Annual Girls U11 Football Tournament

Poor Power Planning (PPP)

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Planning has long been the PPP/C government’s pride and joy. The PPP/C touts it at rallies,... more