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That $10.5M rented tent

Sep 28, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on That $10.5M rented tent

Since we spent S10.5M rental for a single tent we should do something special with it. For something that is more expensive than the finest silk, we should wrap the people responsible for such an...

PPP/C Govt. doing its utmost to keep Guyana a “banana republic”

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C Govt. doing its utmost to keep Guyana a “banana republic”

…Approval for Payara ‘A country which has no self-respect and accepts crumbs for its Crown Jewels’ – Dr. Jan Mangal Upon noting the fact that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP/C)...

More oversight needed for oil companies’ suppliers due to high incidence of corruption – NRGI

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on More oversight needed for oil companies’ suppliers due to high incidence of corruption – NRGI

Corruption is endemic in the petroleum sector, not just among license/rights holders but among their partnering sub-contractors and suppliers. That’s why the Natural Resource Governance Institute...

4% additional funds will get more value for CJIA than US$150M already spent – Juan Edghill

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 4% additional funds will get more value for CJIA than US$150M already spent – Juan Edghill

Six point five million U.S dollars ($6.5M), or 4% of the US $150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion, will see the project getting more value for money in executing additional works...

Guyana to get additional funding for COVID-19 from the Global Fund

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to get additional funding for COVID-19 from the Global Fund

The Government of Guyana is expected to benefit from the sum of US$357,894 in additional financial assistance, as part of the Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM). These funds will go...

Govt. awards contract for permanent works at Mahaicony sea defense

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. awards contract for permanent works at Mahaicony sea defense

– Old breaches sealed Government has completed the remedial works to the more than 100-meters of breached sea defense at Content, Mahaicony and has reportedly already awarded contracts to...

Bandits abandon motorcycle after shooting businessman in neck

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits abandon motorcycle after shooting businessman in neck

Two armed bandits were yesterday forced to run and leave their XR Honda motorcycle behind following a shootout with a businessman they shot in the neck. Hospitalized and nursing a gunshot wound to...

President Ali says conditions of frontline workers being “exploited”

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on President Ali says conditions of frontline workers being “exploited”

When asked to comment on the recent protests conducted by frontline workers for improved wages, risk allowances and better protective gear, President Irfaan Ali told the press that he believes that...

Youth population mostly affected by 42% increase in road deaths

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Youth population mostly affected by 42% increase in road deaths

The increase in road fatalities this year has mostly affected our youth population. For the period January 1, 2020, to September 25, 2020, Guyana recorded a 42% increase in deaths from 37% increase...

Dem students ask fuh Mingo and dem get BINGO

Sep 28, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem students ask fuh Mingo and dem get BINGO

Dem politicans is just like de Mafia: same business, different family. Is five years fuh one set and five years fuh de other set. Dat is also how we end up with de problem wit de oil blocks. Dem boys...

The Natural Resource Governance Institute has named 12 major corruption red flags to look out for in the oil industry, and Guyana has ticked every box

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The Natural Resource Governance Institute has named 12 major corruption red flags to look out for in the oil industry, and Guyana has ticked every box

Red Flag #1 – The government allows a seemingly unqualified company to compete for, or win an award Red Flag #2 – A competing or winning company shows signs of having a Politically Exposed Person...

Young Henrietta Village, Essequibo man dies in fatal accident

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Young Henrietta Village, Essequibo man dies in fatal accident

A 21-year-old resident of Henrietta Village, Essequibo Coast, is the country’s latest road fatality, bringing this year’s total to 119 road deaths, a 42 percent increase compared to the same...

Mining violations in the Region Seven

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mining violations in the Region Seven

The following are photos sent by concerned persons to Kaieteur News. They are asking Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, to intervene and to launch an investigation as the rivers are...

Two more COVID-19 related deaths; more than a 1,000 in isolation

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two more COVID-19 related deaths; more than a 1,000 in isolation

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has recorded another two deaths of persons who were infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 78. According...

D&I, deplorable roads, diminishing markets raised by East Bank Berbice residents during Agri. Minister visit

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on D&I, deplorable roads, diminishing markets raised by East Bank Berbice residents during Agri. Minister visit

On Saturday the Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha together with his technical team from several agriculture development agencies visited the areas of Plegt Anker, Edinburgh and Lochaber (West...

$Eighty-five-year-old survives with fractured hip in car accident$

Eighty-five-year-old survives with fractured hip in car accident

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Eighty-five-year-old survives with fractured hip in car accident

An eighty-five-year old woman, on Saturday last sustained a fractured hip and left arm after she survived a car accident along the La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road. Currently...

Why did these women have to die?

Sep 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why did these women have to die?

There is a trend in the reporting of the COVID-19 statistics. This is illustrated by what happened on Saturday. The COVID-19 dashboard reported a mere 16 new cases on Saturday. Most persons would...

ECCC VP (ag) Gainda calls for amicable solution to cricket on the East Coast prior to DCB elections

Sep 28, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECCC VP (ag) Gainda calls for amicable solution to cricket on the East Coast prior to DCB elections

Vice President (ag) of the East Coast Cricket Committee Lalta Gainda said elections must be held on the East Coast of Demerara before any election is being staged at the Demerara Cricket Board level....

Govt. to implement policies to strengthen Tourism – President Ali

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to implement policies to strengthen Tourism – President Ali

The new People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration is working towards the implementation of policies to strengthen and grow the workforce in the Tourism sector. President Irfaan Ali in...

Esau and Jacob community Mahaicony gets potable water for the first time

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Esau and Jacob community Mahaicony gets potable water for the first time

In keeping with its mandate to deliver potable water to unserved communities, the Guyana Water Incorporated has delivered an additional fifteen households within Esau and Jacob district in Mahaicony,...

COVID-19 relief cash grant distribution begins in Region One and Nine

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 relief cash grant distribution begins in Region One and Nine

Following the passing of the 2020 National Budget, it has been announced by President Irfaan Ali that cash grants are now being disbursed to residents of Regions One (Barima-Waini) and Region Nine...

Matt’s Record Bar: A piece of Guyana dies

Sep 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Matt’s Record Bar: A piece of Guyana dies

One of the most soulful journeys you can make while driving is to go long distances to your destination with your wife (or husband) next to you and the music of Yanni playing in your CD drive. It is...

18 hectares of cultivation lands at Rose Hall Estate cleared for crop preparation

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 18 hectares of cultivation lands at Rose Hall Estate cleared for crop preparation

– 109 persons hired in two weeks with 490 registered to be employed Preparatory work on the sugar lands of the Rose Hall Estate in East Canje, Berbice have commenced with a considerable amount...

Future Guyana

Sep 28, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Future Guyana

Ana Correia is a Sustainable Development Master student who is interested in changing the way Guyanese think about and engage with the future. Her work on transformational change coupled with deep...

We have been placed under the sword of Damocles by successive regimes

Sep 28, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on We have been placed under the sword of Damocles by successive regimes

DEAR EDITOR, I wonder how many Guyanese read the front page comment in KN, Saturday 26th Sept – “ The Ali administration has sold out.” This article is a factual masterpiece that by all...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- What if in tabling the 2025 Budget, the Minister with responsibility for Finance did... more