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Media operatives being tested for COVID-19

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Media operatives being tested for COVID-19

Due to being in contact with Ministers and other Government officials at various events, media operatives across several outlets are being tested for COVID-19. Reporters, photographers and...

A Good First Step

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The Dr. Irfaan Ali administration has announced a hold on the Payara project pending an expert review. This is a good first step in the right direction, and we commend this decision wholeheartedly....

Payara on hold – awaiting expert review – Pres. Ali

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Payara on hold – awaiting expert review – Pres. Ali

President Irfaan Ali has informed Kaieteur News that his government is in the process of securing an expert to conduct a review of the Payara Field Development Plan (FDP). This means that previous...

Govt. Minister tests positive for COVID-19

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. Minister tests positive for COVID-19

– Cabinet members tested, to work from home until results known Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Todd, has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) resulting in all...

Govt. engages T&T petroleum Expert to help

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. engages T&T petroleum Expert to help

President Irfaan Ali has contacted Trinidadian energy strategist, Anthony Paul, to help Guyana develop its petroleum sector. The President informed Kaieteur News of these developments during a recent...

Four killed in smash-up – five injured

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four killed in smash-up – five injured

Four persons were killed and another five injured late yesterday, in a horrific smash-up involving a Canter and a motor car along the Le Ressouvenir Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD). Dead is...

Exxon says it spent over US$70M on local content for first half but provides no evidence

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon says it spent over US$70M on local content for first half but provides no evidence

– Guyana to foot the bill By Kiana Wilburg American oil giant, ExxonMobil, disclosed yesterday that it has spent over $14 billion on hiring and training Guyanese men and women as well as in the...

Enrico Woolford and Imran Khan given the boot

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Enrico Woolford and Imran Khan given the boot

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state owned National Communication Network (NCN) Enrico Woolford and the Director of the Department of Public Information (DPI) Imran Khan were yesterday sent...

Exxon may need Guyana more than Guyana needs Exxon

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon may need Guyana more than Guyana needs Exxon

– int’l investors Seeking Alpha, a forum of international investors and financial industry experts, has published an article stating that ExxonMobil has bet so much on Guyana that the oil major...

Time to start over with Johnny Walker!

Aug 13, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Time to start over with Johnny Walker!

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys can’t be more happy. Dem boys so happy dem feel fuh dance. Pressie Ir-faan please dem boys heart when he stop ExxonMobil in dem tracks and tell dem dat dem going too fast....

Exxon gets a shock-attack

Aug 13, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Exxon gets a shock-attack

President Irfaan Ali has put on hold the approval of the Payara off-shore oil project until a full review of it is undertaken by technical experts. This decision represents a victory for all Guyana...

Guyana’s Indian High Commissioner donates medicine and medical supplied to St. Kitts

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Indian High Commissioner donates medicine and medical supplied to St. Kitts

Guyana’s Indian High Commissioner Dr. KJ Srinivasa yesterday handed over supplies of life saving medicine and medical supplies to St. Kitts and Nevis yesterday. The supplies were received by St....

‘Samuel Hinds’ accidentally chops accomplice during Apaiqua Landing robbery

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Samuel Hinds’ accidentally chops accomplice during Apaiqua Landing robbery

Three days after Tameshwar Sukram, 31, a miner of 118 Enterprise Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, and Jose Da Silva called “Lago”, 42, a businessman /miner of Apaiqua Landing, Mazaruni River,...

Ranks refuse to take domestic violence report from unmasked woman

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ranks refuse to take domestic violence report from unmasked woman

Two members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Tuesday evening refused to take a report from a woman who showed up at the Sparendaam Police Station, East Coast Demerara, without a mask. Kaieteur...

Forensic Audit to be conducted into $413M Leguan Stelling Contract

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Forensic Audit to be conducted into $413M Leguan Stelling Contract

– Six-month contract to resume after two year hiatus. Almost two years after it was initially awarded, the $413M contract to rehabilitate the Leguan T.H.D. stelling is set to restart soon but...

APA wants new administration to finalize Amerindian land titling initiative

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APA wants new administration to finalize Amerindian land titling initiative

The Amerindian People’s Association (APA) is hoping for the government of Guyana to bring closure to the now seven-year-old Amerindian Land Titling and Demarcation Project In an interview with...

US provides additional funding for GEST Project

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US provides additional funding for GEST Project

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided an additional $500,000 grant for Guyana’s Extractives Sector Transparency Project (GEST). This funding now brings the...

12 Brazilians charged, remanded for illegal entry

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Two weeks after 12 Brazilians were arrested at Rockstone Trail, Linden, for allegedly entering the country illegally, Magistrate Wanda Fortune on Tuesday remanded them to prison after they denied the...

Ganja found stashed under Stabroek Market clock

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja found stashed under Stabroek Market clock

A quantity of suspected marijuana was yesterday found stashed “under the clock” at Stabroek Market during a police raid. The suspected illegal substance was found sometime between 11:30 and...

Lowenfield’s lawyer wants DPP to review private criminal charges, take over prosecution

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield’s lawyer wants DPP to review private criminal charges, take over prosecution

By Renay Sambach Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes has written to the Director of Pubic Prosecution (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, S.C, asking her to take over the prosecution of the private criminal charges...

Wake house shooting leaves keyboard player, organizer wounded

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Wake house shooting leaves keyboard player, organizer wounded

A late-night shooting at a wake on Sunday has left a keyboard player and the organizer nursing gunshot wounds. The shooting occurred sometime after 22:00hrs at a house in Victoria Street,...

Investment firm now applies for Broker Licence

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Investment firm now applies for Broker Licence

– matter engaging regulators An investment firm, led by a former Cuban national and which came under the attention of authorities recently, has now applied for an Investment Broker licence....

Manickchand engages teachers’ college on way forward

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Manickchand engages teachers’ college on way forward

The Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, yesterday met officials of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) to determine the way forward for trainee teachers, in light of the COVID-19...

Learning channel to play a greater role in education delivery

Aug 13, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Learning channel to play a greater role in education delivery

As the Ministry of Education continues its work plan for the effective and efficient delivery of education, the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, on Tuesday, met with the Director of the...

Two ugly developments that will kill inclusive governance

Aug 13, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Two ugly developments that will kill inclusive governance

Two ugly developments have taken place on the same day that will not engender optimism on the part of the PPP leadership in the dialogue on inclusive governance. On the contrary, the atmosphere will...