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Renegotiation MUST be our primary focus

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Renegotiation MUST be our primary focus

ExxonMobil has refused to pay the extremely small fines imposed by Guyana’s environmental watchdog, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Exxon’s blunt refusal and delays in paying these...

It wouldn’t hurt ExxonMobil to pay its own taxes – Foreign Investors

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on It wouldn’t hurt ExxonMobil to pay its own taxes – Foreign Investors

ExxonMobil would have no difficulty paying its fair share of taxes to Guyana. The share it would have to pay is actually quite manageable. That is the view of The Value Portfolio, a column on Seeking...

Advisory Committee being established to address fiscal loopholes in oil deals – Vice President Jagdeo

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Advisory Committee being established to address fiscal loopholes in oil deals – Vice President Jagdeo

By Kiana Wilburg The 2016 Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that Guyana signed with ExxonMobil is fraught with fiscal loopholes. One of these speaks to the absence of ring fencing...

Serious deficiencies exposed in GRA’s system – CANU report

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Serious deficiencies exposed in GRA’s system – CANU report

– rice miller urges tougher controls A major investigation involving the seizure of one and a half tonnes of cocaine by German authorities in a container of rice that came from Guyana, has...

PNCR’s Chair, Volda Lawrence, released on bail for election fraud

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR’s Chair, Volda Lawrence, released on bail for election fraud

– Mingo still to be served Former Health Minister and Chairperson of the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R), Volda Lawrence, was yesterday released on $100,000 bail for a joint private...

Ponzi scheme owners still in custody as cops visit their home

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ponzi scheme owners still in custody as cops visit their home

As investigators continued their probe into an alleged multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme involving Accelerated Capital Inc., its two principals, Yuri Garcia Dominguez and Ateeka Ishmael, remain in...

74 new cases push COVID-19 number to 1,029

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 74 new cases push COVID-19 number to 1,029

The Ministry of Health has announced that there are 74 new cases of COVID-19. The new cases have brought the nation’s total to 1,029. According to the dashboard released by the Ministry of Health...

Police foil robbery plan on mining camp

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police foil robbery plan on mining camp

On Thursday last ranks from Region Seven succeeded in foiling a robbery plan allegedly hatched by the ‘Gangsters’ on a mining camp at Kurupung, Cuyuni-Mazaruni. The ‘Gangsters’ is said to be...

Lands returned to Region Five Farmers after battle with former REO

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lands returned to Region Five Farmers after battle with former REO

Several plots of lands which were taken away from cash crop farmers by former Region Five Regional Executive Officer (REO), Ovid Morrison, have been returned. The lands were returned last Saturday...

ExxonMobil messing with we head

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ExxonMobil messing with we head

Dem Boys Seh… Dem gat a weeder wah does do lil wuk near to weh de boss man of de Waterfall paper does live. De man complain how he weed a man yard three times and he nah get pay yet. He seh he...

What will it take for a lockdown, Frankie?

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What will it take for a lockdown, Frankie?

The Minister of Health must have some inkling of the total number of positive cases that it will take to revert back or to intensity the social restrictions which were first introduced in April of...

High Commissioner of India meets Prime Minister Mark Phillips

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on High Commissioner of India meets Prime Minister Mark Phillips

The High Commissioner of India, H.E. Dr. K. J. Srinivasa (at left) yesterday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister, Mark Phillips. The two discussed various matters of mutual interest. The High...

Govt. reviewing power purchasing agreement Coalition signed with Giftland

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. reviewing power purchasing agreement Coalition signed with Giftland

The new Irfaan Ali administration has started a review of the Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) between the previous A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) government and...

Teen in Bat Creek double homicide hospitalized, yet to appear in court

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Teen in Bat Creek double homicide hospitalized, yet to appear in court

The 15-year-old suspected of killing his 55-year-old brother-in-law and three-year-old nephew in a deadly stabbing spree, is still hospitalized and yet to appear in court. The suspect, who attacked...

Business owners, patrons in Berbice arrested for flouting COVID orders

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Business owners, patrons in Berbice arrested for flouting COVID orders

A total of 32 persons including business owners were yesterday arrested for disregarding the COVID-19 orders set out by the Ministry of Health. Ranks led by a senior officer in Berbice swooped down...

CIOG donates $5M to COVID-19 fight

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CIOG donates $5M to COVID-19 fight

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) has donated $5M to Guyana’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In photo are (from left): Shameena Haniff- Najab, General Manager; Raza Ali,...

New ambulance service launched to serve Oil and Gas industry

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New ambulance service launched to serve Oil and Gas industry

Less than a year ago, the joint venture company, Eureka Atlantic Offshore Medical Services (EAOMS) was established between Eureka Medical Laboratories (EML) and Atlantic Offshore Medical Services...

Govt. approves $350M for cash-strapped Forestry Commission

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. approves $350M for cash-strapped Forestry Commission

The Government of Guyana, through President Irfaan Ali, has approved $350M to support the cash-strapped Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to pay salaries to staff and utility services. According to...

DPP to make decision on way forward for Lowenfield’s criminal charges on Sept. 11

Aug 25, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DPP to make decision on way forward for Lowenfield’s criminal charges on Sept. 11

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, S.C, is expected to make a decision on September 11, 2020, on the way forward for the criminal charges filed against the Chief Elections...

Wishing our hero happy birthday

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wishing our hero happy birthday

Letter to the Sports Editor… Dear Sports Editor, Joseph Stanislaus Solomon AA was born at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, British Guiana on August 24, 1930, the third of four sons and one...

Residents call on Government for sports ground in Aurora

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Residents call on Government for sports ground in Aurora

Letter to the Sports Editor Dear Sports Editor, The people of Aurora and its environs would be sincerely grateful if their government can purchase a portion of land and develop same for the purpose...

National Senior Athletics Championships called off

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on National Senior Athletics Championships called off

By Calvin Chapman Increasing cases of the deadly covid-19 virus has put a damper on the hosting of the Athletics Association of Guyana’s (AAG) National Senior Championships, which has been...

Granger will destroy the PNC before 2021 begins

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Granger will destroy the PNC before 2021 begins

The pattern in politics in any country is for the leader of a losing party to step down. There are of course exceptions. This occurs when the leader is an extraordinary asset to his/her party, has...

GAW tackle Tallawahs, Patriots face Tridents as CPL moves to Queen’s Park

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAW tackle Tallawahs, Patriots face Tridents as CPL moves to Queen’s Park

The teams will be hoping for better performances, especially with the bat as the Caribbean Premier League moves to the Queen’s Park Oval today with two matches. Last year’s finalists the...

Shutting down if not prospering

Aug 25, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Shutting down if not prospering

“We might as well shut down the oil sector if Guyanese don’t share in the prosperity.” So said Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo during an interview on Kaieteur Radio last week. We wholeheartedly...

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Futebol Real Brazil executive Naranda Wislon visits Guyana

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