August 19, 2020

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Now is the time for Unity towards the Common Good

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Now is the time for Unity towards the Common Good

The elections are over. As with any elections, there were winners and there were losers. It is time for our politicians – the victors and the vanquished – to set aside their differences and their...

What Exxon is doing with Payara is what it did to Trotman in 2016 – Chris Ram

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on What Exxon is doing with Payara is what it did to Trotman in 2016 – Chris Ram

Because Trotman fell for Exxon’s ploy in 2016, Guyana is stuck with a very onerous contract, according to Ram; one that the oil major and its partners continue to boast about. Anti-corruption...

Independent third party reviewer urgently needed to keep Exxon in line – Conservationist

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Independent third party reviewer urgently needed to keep Exxon in line – Conservationist

Oil & the Environment… By Kiana Wilburg When one takes into consideration, the nonchalant attitude of ExxonMobil towards doing all that is necessary to protect the environment while exploring...

Sharma’s Justice for All Party says membership in coalition ‘under review’

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sharma’s Justice for All Party says membership in coalition ‘under review’

– Following exclusion from Parliament by Granger By Kemol King The Justice for All Party (JFAP) is actively reconsidering its place in the coalition, General Secretary, Savitree Singh-Sharma...

Mayor wants special audit of City Hall’s 2019 spending

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mayor wants special audit of City Hall’s 2019 spending

– says Council working to realize promise of accountability City Mayor, Ubraj Narine is calling on the Auditor General (AG) to scrutinize the 2019 expenditure of the Georgetown Council, a call...

Canadian citizen missing; grandfather fears he was kidnapped

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian citizen missing; grandfather fears he was kidnapped

A 24-year-old Canadian citizen who was vacationing in Guyana with his grandfather has been reported missing since Sunday. The missing person has been identified as Nicholas Ramkissoon Jaipaul, of...

Toy gun bandit nabbed after Guy-America Housing Scheme robbery

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Toy gun bandit nabbed after Guy-America Housing Scheme robbery

A toy gun bandit was yesterday nabbed by police following a robbery he committed along with two others at Guy-America Housing Scheme, Hill Foot, Linden, Soesdyke Highway. According to police the...

Passenger’s husband kills taxi driver over fare dispute

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Passenger’s husband kills taxi driver over fare dispute

– Wanted bulletin issued for his arrest Police are now seeking information on the whereabouts of a passenger’s husband who allegedly murdered a taxi driver on Saturday last, over a fare...

‘Bad man’ silenced in prison

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Bad man’ silenced in prison

An inmate of the Lusignan prison died, yesterday, after he was beaten and brutally chopped during an altercation with four other prisoners on Monday evening. The dead prisoner, Shawn Peters, 40,...

Ruthless cop shot dog to enter yard

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ruthless cop shot dog to enter yard

– couldn’t wait on pregnant woman to open gate Instead of waiting on a pregnant woman to open her gate, a police officer had shot her dog and entered her yard without explanation. The heinous...

De Ro-Bot get big wuk

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De Ro-Bot get big wuk

Dem Boys Seh… De man wah bin claim in 2011 dat he tekkin a break from politics suddenly resurface. He come back from the Sunshine State. And de sun still shining pun he in GT. De man does change...

The tangled web of nepotism

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The tangled web of nepotism

The PPP/C will worsen a bad situation in the Foreign Service. Its recent engineering of changes with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has compounded and confused responsibilities within the Ministry...

New US sanctions deal ‘lethal blow’ to Huawei

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New US sanctions deal ‘lethal blow’ to Huawei

(CNN) The United States has cut off Huawei’s access to vital, advanced computer chips, striking a deadly blow to the Chinese tech champion. The US Commerce Department on Monday announced fresh...

Politics and Honest Wages

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Politics and Honest Wages

It is a cycle that Guyana goes through, ever so often, the exposure of salaries and perks of the politically favoured employed by the machinery of the state, met either by expressions of righteous...

SOCU gets new head, Guyana gets new Traffic Chief

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on SOCU gets new head, Guyana gets new Traffic Chief

As major reshuffling continues in the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the Special Organized Crime unit (SOCU) has gotten a new boss and there will be a new Traffic Chief in town. Kaieteur News confirmed...

Two Berbicians test positive for Coronavirus

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two Berbicians test positive for Coronavirus

Residents in Region Six have gone about their daily lives with the notion that the region is COVID free but up until yesterday, multiple sources within Region 6 confirmed with Kaieteur News that two...

GPL looking to buy 25 megawatts to stop blackouts

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPL looking to buy 25 megawatts to stop blackouts

By Shikema Dey The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has announced that they will be issuing Expressions of Interest (EOI) to source an additional 25 megawatts of electricity from private entities in...

Region Three Commander walks in on bar gathering

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three Commander walks in on bar gathering

– Everyone to be prosecuted Days after Region Three Commander, Errol Watts, assured Kaieteur News that his ranks will ensure that the imposed COVID-19 restrictions are followed by all, he...

December to Remember” with Predo Baby Diaper.

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on December to Remember” with Predo Baby Diaper.

Win Big this Christmas with Predo Baby Diaper where a lucky customer will win a 2016 Axio Car. From their first hug to their first steps, to training pants (pullup style), Predo Diaper has got you...

Miner, 32, is 25th COVID-19 death

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner, 32, is 25th COVID-19 death

A 32-year-old miner has been recorded as Guyana‘s 25th COVID-19 related death. The Ministry of Health, in a media release yesterday, stated that the patient was a resident of Region One but at the...

Trophy Stall supports West Side dominoes tourney

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall supports West Side dominoes tourney

As part of its corporate responsibility, Trophy Stall has once again thrown its backing behind sporting activities as the entity has supported the West Side dominoes competition which is set to be...

Ithaca man killed by son died from a stab wound to the liver

Aug 19, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ithaca man killed by son died from a stab wound to the liver

– post mortem report A post mortem conducted on the body of 40-year-old Collis Joseph of Lot 114 Ithaca Village, West Coast Berbice revealed that he died from a stab wound to his liver. On...

Back to cronyism and broken oil promise?

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Back to cronyism and broken oil promise?

DEAR EDITOR, Guyanese are upset with the apparent broken promise of renegotiating the oil contract. The honeymoon is over with disastrous appointments and the handling of oil contract. There were a...

Narine is too good with bat and ball

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Narine is too good with bat and ball

CPL – Sunil Narine’s whirlwind 50 and miserly 2/19 saw Trinbago Knight Riders kick off the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 in style, easing past Guyana Amazon Warriors in the...

Public Service Salaries

Aug 19, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public Service Salaries

DEAR EDITOR, One observes the relatively uninformed alarums raised about individual public officers’ salaries (and benefits), outside of the context of those approved by Parliament, and...

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West Indies, New Zealand meet in Sobers’ country to celebrate...

Jul 19, 2026

(Cricinfo) – The statue of Sir Garry Sobers at Kensington Oval stands 12 feet tall. His memory casts a much longer shadow, especially now that he is gone. Tributes have flown in from all over...

A critique of an argument never made

Jul 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Terence Yhip is perfectly entitled to disagree with my understanding of the Resource Curse. Serious questions of political economy have never advanced through unanimity. What he is not entitled to do, however, is attribute arguments to me that I never made and then proceed to...

Transparency, sovereignty, and the challenge of power

Jul 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected, but the proposed terms exceed its legal, financial and institutional capacity? That question...

Earthquakes after earthquakes

Jul 19, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall… (Kaieteur News) – Venezuela had one earthquake, then more. Death and destruction on a wide scale. I shrink from forces larger than life, bigger than man. Guyanese were in the middle of one earthquake, when another crashed down on their heads. Seems like...

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