September 2020

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Guyana to get more crumbs as Exxon makes 18th discovery

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to get more crumbs as Exxon makes 18th discovery

US multi-national, ExxonMobil, announced yesterday that it made its 18th discovery offshore Guyana at the Redtail-1 well in the Stabroek Block. The exploration and production giant said this will add...

Guyana rapidly approving US$B in oil developments

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana rapidly approving US$B in oil developments

– but audits pre-contract costs at a sloth’s pace By Kemol King Despite its under-prepared capacity to efficiently scrutinize costs claimed by oil companies, Guyana has started to rapidly...

Relatives, friends of murdered Corentyne carpenter block road and burn debris in protest

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives, friends of murdered Corentyne carpenter block road and burn debris in protest

– file on case sent to DPP for advice Relatives and friends of Orlando Jones, the carpenter killed on Saturday night, yesterday took to the Number 1 Village, Corentyne, Berbice public road...

St. Rose’s School Board says contractor abandoned $352M project

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on St. Rose’s School Board says contractor abandoned $352M project

By Mikaila Prince The complete construction of a state-of-the-art building to house St. Rose’s High School (SRHS), which attracted a price tag of $352M, has been further delayed. The disclosure was...

Two houses flattened by fire

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two houses flattened by fire

Berbice protests… Two homes were late last evening gutted by fire at two separate points in Berbice as the protest actions over the brutal slaying of West Coast Berbice teens Isaiah and Joel Henry...

Eye to eye can lead to juk eye

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Eye to eye can lead to juk eye

People running helter skelter shouting, “Hess strike oil. Is 18 oil fields now, 18 oil fields!” What Hess should be telling the people is what dem giving we the Guyanese people. What...

The politicization and criminalization of the protests

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The politicization and criminalization of the protests

The protests which are taking place in West Coast Berbice began as an expression of outrage and pain over the killing of two teenagers. The PNC/R has affectively politicized these protests resulting...

APNU Chair, Region Two Charged for Cyber-bullying

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU Chair, Region Two Charged for Cyber-bullying

Chairman of the A Partnership for National Unity (ANPU) in Region Two, Prince Holder appeared in the Anna Regina Magistrates Court yesterday, where he was charged for Cyber-bullying. Holder was...

Newspapers among other goods and services cannot reach Berbice due to protest

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Newspapers among other goods and services cannot reach Berbice due to protest

The ongoing Berbice protests over the gruesome murder of two teenage boys of Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), have disrupted the livelihood of hundreds. It has stalled the movement of...

SOCU now involved; six under radar for money laundering

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on SOCU now involved; six under radar for money laundering

Ponzi scheme investigation… The Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) is reportedly now involved in the investigations of a alleged multi-billion Ponzi scheme that has landed a couple in jail facing...

Cuffy Square protestors demand justice for slain West Coast Berbice cousins

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cuffy Square protestors demand justice for slain West Coast Berbice cousins

“No Justice! No Peace!” With bent knees and pumped right fists, hundreds of protestors gathered yesterday at Square of the Revolution dubbed “Cuffy Square” imploring for justice over the...

ExxonMobil facing $66B shortfall, must cut staff and projects

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil facing $66B shortfall, must cut staff and projects

Houston (Straitstimes.com)- Ill-timed bets on rising demand have ExxonMobil facing a shortfall of about US$48 billion (S$65.7 billion) until the end of next year, according to a Reuters tally and...

Yog Mahadeo appointed as Head of Chronicle Board

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Yog Mahadeo appointed as Head of Chronicle Board

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), and co-host of the highly successful ‘Room 592’, Dr. Yog Mahadeo, has been appointed as the new Chairman of the...

Mining association told that sector will not be neglected for oil and gas

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mining association told that sector will not be neglected for oil and gas

President Irfaan Ali yesterday assured members of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) of his Government’s commitment to ensuring the sector is strengthened and advanced. The Head...

Lawyers file defence in case to quash Senior Counsel appointments

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyers file defence in case to quash Senior Counsel appointments

Two attorneys have filed affidavits in defence to the case challenging their appointments as Senior Counsel by former President David Granger. The case against the appointments was filed by A New and...

GPHC records first successful abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC records first successful abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has successfully conducted its first Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) surgery. The surgery was conducted on a female patient of GPHC on August 27,...

GHRA wants UN’s forensic intervention

Sep 09, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GHRA wants UN’s forensic intervention

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has joined in expressing its horror and revulsion being felt across the society at the murders last Saturday of Isaiah Henry, 16, and Joel Henry, 19 in West...

Ponzi Schemes and Schemers

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Ponzi Schemes and Schemers

It is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Dig a hole to fill a hole. And yet every time, smart people are made into suckers again and again, in a recurrence of the theme of no learning. Having made...

Trinidad pulls out of hosting 2021 Panam hockey tourney

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trinidad pulls out of hosting 2021 Panam hockey tourney

GHB hoping to have regular Int’l tourneys in the future By Calvin Chapman Last Friday, the Trinidad & Tobago Hockey Board (TTHB), informed the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) that they...

Wellman Masters honour batsman Ruplall

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wellman Masters honour batsman Ruplall

Despite a halt to softball cricket due to the COVID 19 pandemic, city side Wellman Masters have recognise the performance of middle order batsman Lloyd Ruplall. Ruplall who celebrated his 50th birth...

The main opposition party is not the enemy

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The main opposition party is not the enemy

DEAR EDITOR, As I read this article, I hope that members of the government preferably keep a steady eye on the big picture and key priorities. By no means is the main opposition party the enemy. They...

Lusignan Golf Club calls for calm

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Letters, Sports Comments Off on Lusignan Golf Club calls for calm

Letter to the Sports Editor Dear Sports Editor, In response to further developments that have befallen the Upper East Coast and West Coast Berbice villages, we the Lusignan Golf Club would like to...

The Vincent Adams controversy continues to expose hypocritical minds

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Vincent Adams controversy continues to expose hypocritical minds

In many powerful countries in the world, a person can lose his/her important job through the brief mention of a derogatory word in relation to homosexuality or race. It has happened literally...

Crimes given a political twist and flavour

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crimes given a political twist and flavour

DEAR EDITOR, In April 2019, the former Minister of Public Security met with residents and was adamant that the high rate of murder is as a result of ‘interpersonal rate of violence, alcohol abuse,...

Would the cousins want this?

Sep 09, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Would the cousins want this?

DEAR EDITOR, Of course people have a right to express their hurt, anger and anguish. That is non-negotiable. But to do so in the name of protests where peoples’ rights are trampled upon,...

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The end of the Lula era

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

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(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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