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Sep 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attorneys Datadin, Jonas – Are they For or Against Renegotiation of the Oil Contract?
DEAR EDITOR, Both distinguished lawyers appeared on the Charles Sugrim Globespan show on Monday night (August 31st), and fielded a question from Dr. Jerry Jailall: “Are you for Renegotiation of the...Sep 02, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on COVID-19 Plan – Control Spread by Trace and Isolate
DEAR EDITOR, We receive statistics everyday about how many new positive cases we have of the COVID-19 virus. As a nation, we are all alarmed and terrified of what will happen next. We are waiting for...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition walkout over Shuman’s selection as Deputy Speaker
Guyana’s main Opposition A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Coalition earlier this morning staged a parliamentary walkout of the National Assembly over the selection...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Manzoor Nadir elected Speaker of the National Assembly, Shuman elected Deputy
– as 12th Sitting of Parliament gets under way Guyana’s 12th sitting of Parliament commenced earlier this morning and saw Manzoor Nadir being elected as the Speaker of the National...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on For every concession given to oil companies, you must get something in return
– University of Houston Instructor University of Houston instructor, Tom Mitro, said that for every concession granted to oil companies during negotiations, it is imperative on the government’s...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s Guyana President claims produced water not harmful, despite no study done
As the government continues its review of the Payara Field Development Plan (FDP), there have been calls from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for ExxonMobil to put systems in place to...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon defies Govt.’s authority but makes Guyana out to be the bully
By Kemol King It is common knowledge that the Payara project, the third of its kind that ExxonMobil intends to develop in the Stabroek Block, has not yet been approved by the Government of Guyana....Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $1.6B Ocean View Hospital… Former AG breaks silence
– says Rambarran does not own property Basil Williams, Guyana’s former Attorney General, has finally dispelled claims made by the supposed owner of the old Ocean View Hotel turned Infectious...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mingo, two others released on bail for election fraud
By Renay Sambach Region Four Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo, and two other GECOM employees were yesterday released on bail after they appeared in court to face multiple election fraud...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Protesters block traffic in several W.C.B. villages
– police rank injured – businesses cut off – mourners forced to walk through protesters to bury dead Intense and violent protest actions by residents from several villages along the...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged Ponzi schemers slapped with 10 additional charges
Four days after alleged Ponzi schemers, Yuri Garcia-Dominguez and his wife, Ateeka Ishmael, were remanded to prison on six fraud charges; the duo was yesterday slapped with 10 additional charges and...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC lodges election petition in the High Court
By Rehanna Ramsay The A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) opposition party has filed an election petition in the Georgetown High Court challenging the results of the...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Prison officer dies in Homestretch Avenue smash-up
By Shervin Belgrave A Chief Prison Officer yesterday died tragically in a vehicular smash-up at Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown. The accident involving a motorcar and a Nissan X-trail SUV resulted in...Sep 01, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Modest Mingo!
Dem Boys Seh… De Rig-adier talk how Mingo is a quiet, peaceful and modest man. He maths nah modest though. De Rig-adier bin seh how he nah gan influence, interfere or intervene in de wuk of GECOM....Sep 01, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Enforcement is the name of the game!
If you continue to do things the same way all the time, you should not expect different results. The COVID-19 measures which will take effect today until the end of September represent a reverting to...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner’s body found floating in canal
The body of a pensioner was on Sunday last fished out of canal in front of his Bella Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara home. The body was identified as that of 66-year-old Hardat Dhaniram....Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EU recommits support to government
Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, on Friday, August 28, 2020, received a courtesy call from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union (EU) to Guyana, H.E. Fernando Ponz...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Disabilities Council members engage Minister Benn
Representatives of the Guyana Council of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) on Friday August 28, 2020) met with Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn. At the meeting, they raised...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry announces placement exams for September 23
The Ministry of Education has announced that it has set a date for the Entrance/Placement examination to be done at the secondary level to facilitate those students who wish to move from one public...Sep 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Shaik Baksh returns as GWI boss
Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-owned Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) has returned to that position. He was sent home in the early days of the Coalition government in 2015. The Ministry of...

Aug 23, 2026
Kaieteur Sports – The stage is set for the most lucrative day in Guyana’s horse racing, today, Sunday August 23 at Rising Sun Turf Club. The weather conditions are immaculate, and 14...Aug 23, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – In the 1970s when I was a young employee of a large, service-oriented private-sector firm in Guyana, I was not yet a confirmed employee and therefore could not wear the prescribed uniform. But I was nevertheless expected to dress in a manner appropriate to the office. One day I...Aug 23, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...Aug 23, 2026
Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – First, they had their arms wrapped around demand. Then the PPP Govt confessed. It did not. They had plans and visions. Only for those to become blurred. It’s the haze of the “unusually hot” weather, stupid. What’s so hard about...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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