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Irfaan Ali sworn in as President, Mark Phillips as PM

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Irfaan Ali sworn in as President, Mark Phillips as PM

…5 months after E-Day · Granger to take “anomalies” to election petition · Gov’t Commissioners walk out of GECOM meeting · Jagdeo commits to talks on governance model; appointed Vice...

President Ali appoints several Cabinet Members

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on President Ali appoints several Cabinet Members

Following his swearing in yesterday as President at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) by the Chancellor of the Judiciary (Acting), Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Irfaan Ali made four key...

Use Payara permit as bargaining chip for better oil deal – Experts tell Guyana

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Use Payara permit as bargaining chip for better oil deal – Experts tell Guyana

“The evidence is clear that the deals signed and practices conducted by the multinationals in their operations in Guyana have not been in keeping with either best industry practice or the best...

Suriname gets almost three times Guyana’s revenue share from oil deal

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname gets almost three times Guyana’s revenue share from oil deal

The Republic of Suriname is lucky to have benefitted from three consecutive oil discoveries made this year by Apache and Total, all within the confines of Block 58 – a concession located near its...

If we don’t invest in our own, we will see a takeover by foreigners – CGX Head

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on If we don’t invest in our own, we will see a takeover by foreigners – CGX Head

There is no doubt that natural resources such as oil and gas play an important role in a country’s development. But without a skilled local workforce to ensure those resources are efficiently...

Bandit, 22, shot dead after Nandy Park robbery

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit, 22, shot dead after Nandy Park robbery

Police are now investigating the death of a 22-year-old man who was shot following a robbery at Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara. The incident occurred just after 8pm last evening. When Kaiet eur News...

Strip club shooting leaves one dead, one critical, three others wounded

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Strip club shooting leaves one dead, one critical, three others wounded

A shooting incident at “Magic City,” a popular strip club located in Garnett Street, Kitty, has left a taxi driver dead, another battling for his life, and three others wounded. The dead man has...

Shepherd found with throat slashed at Crane

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Shepherd found with throat slashed at Crane

The police have launched an investigation into the death of a 21 year- old man, who was found with his throat slashed near a community ball field at Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD). The dead man was...

Soft landing tun crash landing

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soft landing tun crash landing

Things moved like greased lightning yesterday. Gee-Cum call a meeting at 10 am and dem boy bin feel dat dem government-appointed Commissioners may not have turned up. But dem tun up because after de...

Guyana remains without substantive appointment of CJ, Chancellor

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana remains without substantive appointment of CJ, Chancellor

…20 years after constitutional amendment Twenty years after a constitutional amendment was made to allow the two top judicial office holders to be appointed substantively by the President after...

Office for Climate Change, EPA to play key role in monitoring emissions from oil sector

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Office for Climate Change, EPA to play key role in monitoring emissions from oil sector

– OCC Head mulls capacity development for this crucial responsibility By Kiana Wilburg Over the last century, Guyana has experienced significant changes in its climate. Particularly because of...

Agri., mining sectors least affected during pandemic – IDB quarterly report

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Agri., mining sectors least affected during pandemic – IDB quarterly report

Guyana’s agriculture and mining sectors have been least affected by the COVID -19 pandemic. This is according to a quarterly bulletin by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The financial...

Authority’s lackadaisical attitude at border endangering Wapichan communities – SRDC

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Authority’s lackadaisical attitude at border endangering Wapichan communities – SRDC

With Brazil currently among the list of countries recording the highest COVID-19 cases, the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) is worried that the illegal cross border activities at the...

COVID-19 death toll rises to 21 as Guyana records 44 new cases

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 death toll rises to 21 as Guyana records 44 new cases

The Ministry of Public Health disclosed yesterday that another person lost their life to novel Coronavirus. Kaieteur News understands that the 21st COVID-19 related death occurred on July 30 and said...

“Thrown to the sharks!” How two years at Kaieteur News changed me for the better

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on “Thrown to the sharks!” How two years at Kaieteur News changed me for the better

By Kemol King I didn’t even want to be a journalist when I started at Kaieteur News. It was not a prideful career to me. To many, it still isn’t. However, last Tuesday marked two years since I...

Pakaraima Flavours Sundried Tomato Products Enters fourth year

Aug 03, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pakaraima Flavours Sundried Tomato Products Enters fourth year

– Determined to grow even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic Starting a new manufacturing business can be daunting. Starting a new manufacturing business which is vertically integrated and...

Not frivolous or vexatious at all!

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Not frivolous or vexatious at all!

Timothy Jonas’ challenge of the appointment of four Senior Counsel is neither frivolous nor vexatious. It is an important legal challenge which is likely to clarify important legal and...

What happened should never happen again in the world

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What happened should never happen again in the world

I have typed this column exactly five months after the March 2, 2020 elections. Exactly five months after the election there has now been the official swearing in of the winning president, Dr. Irfaan...

We have a nation to build!

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have a nation to build!

DEAR EDITOR, As I survey this Guyanese landscape of ours, every indication is that the curtain is about to come down on the most degrading and draining of elections season ever experienced in this...

Guyana is buzzing with excitement

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is buzzing with excitement

DEAR EDITOR, Finally, Guyana has a reason to rejoice soberly in all sincerity after 153 days of antagonizing and frustrating waiting days. The entire Guyana is buzzing with uncontrollable excitement...

Let us pray for our beloved land

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us pray for our beloved land

Let us pray for peace and progress in our beloved native land. I am seventy one and cynical, but I will gladly shed my cynicism To grasp, however fleetingly it might yet appear, An opportunity to...

The Iron Lady sings and Guyana can breathe again

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Iron Lady sings and Guyana can breathe again

DEAR EDITOR, Warmest congratulations to President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister, Brigadier (retd) Mr. Mark Phillips on their successful election as executive president and prime minister...

Why sell in a market crash? Especially, when the resulting proceeds are inaccessible Govt.

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why sell in a market crash? Especially, when the resulting proceeds are inaccessible Govt.

DEAR EDITOR, The Stabroek Block was described as, “an extraordinary world-class asset” in a recent investor conference call by John Hess. He then goes on to state that, “Nothing competes with...

The deficiencies of the West Indies team manifested themselves during the series

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The deficiencies of the West Indies team manifested themselves during the series

DEAR EDITOR, England came from behind and scored an impressive two- one victory over the West Indies to regain the Wisden Trophy after the West Indies had slaughtered them in the first of three test...

APNU+AFC’S OCEAN VIEW heist – A global poster child for corruption

Aug 03, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC’S OCEAN VIEW heist – A global poster child for corruption

DEAR EDITOR, David Granger, while he was squatting in the Presidency, took a rare time-off from his home last Friday to commission the former Ocean View Hotel as an Infectious Disease Hospital. As he...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more