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Who will benefit from our oil?

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Who will benefit from our oil?

…From the publisher’s desk In July 2019, Kaieteur News conducted an extensive review of 130 oil contracts to better understand the extent to which the Guyana-ExxonMobil deal is fraught with...

ExxonMobil says it put Payara FPSO on hold

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil says it put Payara FPSO on hold

ExxonMobil now claims that it has put on hold, the Payara project Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, called Prosperity. Work had recently started on the construction of the...

ExxonMobil slapped with another lawsuit for climate change deception

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil slapped with another lawsuit for climate change deception

By Kiana Wilburg The City of Charleston, South Carolina (SC), has slapped ExxonMobil and 23 other fossil fuel giants for their deception on climate change, the contributions of their operations to...

Murdered Berbice teens laid to rest

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered Berbice teens laid to rest

The murdered Berbice teens Joel, 19, and Isaiah Henry, 16, were yesterday laid to rest in a memorable, grand and primarily peaceful manner. A little over a week ago Guyana was rocked by the news that...

Attorney for five persons that were arrested and released says police on “fishing expedition”

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney for five persons that were arrested and released says police on “fishing expedition”

…Brutal slaying of the Henry boys While, the Guyana Police Force has gone silent on the status of the investigation into the brutal slaying of 16-year-old Isaiah Henry and his cousin...

Bandit shoots man in retaliation after stumbling over fan

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shoots man in retaliation after stumbling over fan

A bandit yesterday startled a family of four in their bedroom and shot the husband before escaping with cash and valuables. Wounded is Hardeo Seeram, 35, of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara. The...

Housing Ministry to reintroduce Turnkey home project

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Ministry to reintroduce Turnkey home project

The Ministry of Housing and Water will embark on reintroducing the Turnkey Home Project that will see low-income families benefiting significantly. This was announced by the Minister within the...

Boat crash leaves miner dead, passenger injured

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Boat crash leaves miner dead, passenger injured

A boat crash on Saturday last has left a miner dead and another passenger seriously injured. Dead is Kary Henry, 39, of Jawalla Village Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven. The incident took place at around...

Ministry of Health releases guidelines for disposing bodies

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Health releases guidelines for disposing bodies

…Guyana gets 56th COVID-19 death The Ministry of Health (MOH) has recorded the country’s 56th COVID -19 fatality. The latest death is an 83 -year-old woman from Region 4 (Demerara-Mahaica)...

Four arrested for Bath businessman’s murder

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four arrested for Bath businessman’s murder

Sources close to the investigations of the murder of Experiment, Bath Settlement West Coast Berbice businessman, Mohomed ‘Raymond’ Haniff disclosed that four persons were arrested in connection...

Tailor shot in the foot during suspected armed robbery

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Tailor shot in the foot during suspected armed robbery

A tailor from Onderneeming Sandpit on the Essequibo Coast was shot in the foot Saturday night during an attempted armed robbery. Based on information reaching Kaieteur News, the 39-year-old man,...

Stagnant infrastructural projects to be completed with “speed and diligence” – Edghill

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stagnant infrastructural projects to be completed with “speed and diligence” – Edghill

With $34.4 billion budgeted for the Public Works Ministry for 2020, the new People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration plans to complete a number of transformational projects that were...

De country getting sell out

Sep 14, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De country getting sell out

We leaders selling out we country, piece by piece. And when you stand up and talk about it, you getting lawsuit. Wan day we gan wake up and de Canadians gan own all we gold fields; de Chinese gan be...

Stray bullet grazes mans head at barbecue

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Stray bullet grazes mans head at barbecue

A graphic designer last night had his head grazed by a stray bullet while in attendance at a private barbecue at Meadow Bank Gardens, Georgetown. The graphic designer was identified as David Grant,...

GFF to invest $20M in first female friendly facilities

Sep 14, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF to invest $20M in first female friendly facilities

– Ann’s Grove and New Amsterdam to be first By Franklin Wilson According to President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Wayne Forde, plans are moving ahead nicely with regards to a...

Daring to Believe in Guyanese Ability: The Story of IAST

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Daring to Believe in Guyanese Ability: The Story of IAST

Guyana is a country with no shortage of experts – a conversation in a minibus, at the street corner, or in the line at Church’s Chicken or Qik Serv Banks outlets, is certain to unearth at least...

$25M for drilling of new well in Port Kaituma

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $25M for drilling of new well in Port Kaituma

– jobs to be provided for residents The Ministry of Housing and Water, has budgeted a total of $25M for the drilling of a new potable water well and the installation of a new water supply...

Ramsammy promises to push decriminalization of suicide, support for mental health initiatives

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ramsammy promises to push decriminalization of suicide, support for mental health initiatives

Former Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has promised to push for the decriminalization of suicide as part of efforts to tackle the mental health issues under the new dispensation. During a...

Religious leaders promote peace in National Day of Prayer

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Religious leaders promote peace in National Day of Prayer

Religious leaders from around the country yesterday joined to offer messages of peace and to promote harmony as they observed a National Day of Prayer. On Friday, the Minister of Human Services and...

Supenaam woman killed by jealous ex-lover died of multiple incision wounds

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Supenaam woman killed by jealous ex-lover died of multiple incision wounds

…suspect still in custody Lunisa Peters, the twenty-four years old woman who was stabbed by her ex-lover last Friday, died as a result of multiple incision wounds. This was revealed by the...

Political and economic power is at the heart of race relations

Sep 14, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Political and economic power is at the heart of race relations

Sometimes when individuals have a captive audience, they talk as if peoples’ memories are short. Yesterday, one man demanded that race relations be put on the national agenda. He should be reminded...

I have a purpose at the ERC, I will not resign – ERC Commissioner Roshan Khan

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on I have a purpose at the ERC, I will not resign – ERC Commissioner Roshan Khan

Commissioner of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Roshan Khan, who recently came under fire for making racially insensitive comments on social media, has dismissed calls for his resignation...

People without a moral compass are unfit humans

Sep 14, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on People without a moral compass are unfit humans

For any human so stupid, so ignorant, so mentally empty to say that Dr. Vincent Adams is finely qualified and should remain as head of the EPA while idiotically ignoring what Adams has done...

Over $10M in equipment destroyed in Troy Resources warehouse fire

Sep 14, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Over $10M in equipment destroyed in Troy Resources warehouse fire

More than $10M in mining equipment went up in flames after fire ravaged a warehouse at the Troy Resources mining site in Region 7. Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the fire started at around...

We must be prudent and err on the side of caution

Sep 14, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must be prudent and err on the side of caution

DEAR EDITOR, The recent split in the Venezuelan political opposition has opened a possible window of opportunity for Guyana to explore if their intentions on Essequibo are aligned with ours. Somewhat...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more