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Guyana has the power to ease Exxon knees off our necks

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has the power to ease Exxon knees off our necks

Imagine Exxon get all our oil in the Stabroek block fuh free due to the contract signed by these morons. And because we ask them to respect our laws and the environment, them threaten to take them...

APNU+AFC approved Liza Phase One permit same day it received Exxon’s 1,500-page environmental impact assessment

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC approved Liza Phase One permit same day it received Exxon’s 1,500-page environmental impact assessment

By Kiana Wilburg One year after rushing to sign the lopsided Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil, the APNU+AFC administration allowed the company’s Liza Phase One...

Trotman silent as Ramjattan challenges PPP’s management of oil sector

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman silent as Ramjattan challenges PPP’s management of oil sector

By Kemol King After years of silence in public office on the controversies surrounding ExxonMobil’s operations, Alliance for Change (AFC) Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan has finally broken his silence,...

CJ extends Mingo‘s time in police custody

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CJ extends Mingo‘s time in police custody

– Lawyer withdraws case for his release Chief Justice (ag) Rishi Persaud has granted an extension for the Guyana Police Force to further hold District Four Returning, Clairmont Mingo, who was...

Guyana will not tolerate Exxon’s arrogance and disrespect – Ram

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana will not tolerate Exxon’s arrogance and disrespect – Ram

By Kiana Wilburg Chartered accountant, attorney and anticorruption advocate, Christopher Ram, is of the firm conviction that the President of ExxonMobil, Alistair Routledge, was totally out of place...

EPA sued for breaking law to grant permits to oil company

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA sued for breaking law to grant permits to oil company

– issued 24-year permit when law only allows for five The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued over a decision to issue environmental permits to Esso Exploration and Production...

US$1.4B Mahaica oceanfront golf club development unveiled

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US$1.4B Mahaica oceanfront golf club development unveiled

Construction and Investment Management Group (CIMGRO) – headed by two of the nation’s leading businessmen, Ragindra Persaud, of Nand Persaud and Company, and Sudama Ramalingum- New Trend Auto –...

Guyana records three COVID-19 deaths, 40 new cases

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records three COVID-19 deaths, 40 new cases

Three new COVID-19 deaths were added to the Ministry of Health’s daily COVID-19 dashboard but no details were provided in regards to who they are and where they are from. Forty new COVID-19 cases...

Rice farmer, others remanded for allegedly killing Canadian citizen

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rice farmer, others remanded for allegedly killing Canadian citizen

The alleged mastermind and the two other suspects in the gruesome killing of Canadian citizen, Nicholas Jaipaul, yesterday made their first court appearance and were remanded to prison until October...

AFC rocked by resignation of Berbice stalwart, Gobin Harbhajan

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on AFC rocked by resignation of Berbice stalwart, Gobin Harbhajan

One of Berbice’s most well known faces of the Alliance For Change (AFC), the smaller faction of the Coalition, which was defeated in the recent elections, has resigned. Yesterday, Gobin Harbhajan,...

Tabby is wan independent woman

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Tabby is wan independent woman

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys remember de time when a certain man was selected fuh represent de Pee N- Cee in parliament. De man was from a Pee Pee Pee stronghold and when he name appear in de gazette,...

The attempt at elections’ rigging must not go unpunished

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The attempt at elections’ rigging must not go unpunished

The PNC/R is politically bent and broken. It did irreparable damage to its political credibility and will find it next to impossible to rebound from the attempts to rig an election in the 21st...

Avoiding the Coastal Public Infrastructure Sinkhole

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Avoiding the Coastal Public Infrastructure Sinkhole

Over the next few months, hopefully Guyana’s political leadership is going to find the courage and consistency to review and renegotiate the disastrous contract with Exxon. The pushback the company...

Minister Manickhand holds virtual consultation on NGSA 2021

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Manickhand holds virtual consultation on NGSA 2021

– Engages with teachers and stakeholders Yesterday the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand met with Grades Five and Six teachers as well as Regional Education Officers and educational...

Guyana’s first drug treatment court underway

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s first drug treatment court underway

Guyana will soon be the beneficiary of a specialized Juvenile Drug Treatment Court which will seek to provide rehabilitative services to petty offenders, rather than have them incarcerated. Under the...

UN, Human Services Ministry to partner on gender based programmes

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on UN, Human Services Ministry to partner on gender based programmes

UN Resident Coordinator, Mikiko Tanaka and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Liaison Officer, Adler Bynoe yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr....

Miner dies after suffering from vomiting, diarrhea

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Miner dies after suffering from vomiting, diarrhea

Police are investigating the death of a miner who fell ill on Monday suffering from vomiting and diarrhea at Hymacururu Backdam, North-West District. The man has been identified as Roy Conyers, 46,...

NIS resumes service at Lethem office

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NIS resumes service at Lethem office

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday announced that it is pleased to announce that the services at the Lethem Local Office will resume on Monday, August 31, 2020. “NIS wishes to thank our...

Cabinet approves $29M for emergency works to access dams in Regions 2, 3, 5 & 6

Aug 29, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $29M for emergency works to access dams in Regions 2, 3, 5 & 6

– over 1800 rice and other crops farmers set to benefit Following a decision taken by cabinet on Thursday last, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) will soon receive in excess...

Fedex Express returns as the official courier of the Hero Caribbean Premier League

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fedex Express returns as the official courier of the Hero Caribbean Premier League

Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is delighted to announce that FedEx Express has returned as the Official Courier and Express Delivery service of its cricket...

Election 2020: The remains of the day

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Election 2020: The remains of the day

During the past five months of unprecedented social uncertainties that threatened the very future of this country, my columns were devoted to exposing election rigging, praising those who were...

Asif Ali breaches code of conduct with bat swung in direction of Kemo Paul

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Asif Ali breaches code of conduct with bat swung in direction of Kemo Paul

Action continues today… CPL – Jamaica Tallawahs batsman Asif Ali has been found guilty of breaching the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Code of Conduct. During the Tallawahs’ match...

I know nothing of the particulars of the allegations forming the case against the former Minister of Housing

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on I know nothing of the particulars of the allegations forming the case against the former Minister of Housing

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the news published everywhere that His Excellency Dr. Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana, has been adjudged to be immune from the prosecution of certain charges levied against...

Does Exxon have the decency to play fair and square?

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does Exxon have the decency to play fair and square?

Good day to ExxonMobil’s Country Manager, Alistair Routledge, As you wake up to the land of many waters, enriched with a colourful multi-culture that reflects the flamboyancy of diversified but...

Sharing hope with ANUG

Aug 29, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sharing hope with ANUG

DEAR EDITOR, In Stabroek News of Friday 21st June, 2019, the new political party ‘A New and United Guyana (ANUG)’ was reported to have set out its vision for the future governance of the country...

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