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Canje Oil block award filled with red flags

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canje Oil block award filled with red flags

– Despite Guyana gets nothing from the US$ billions the oil block is worth, taxpayers owe G$100M pre-contracts costs to owners Kaieteur News – This is the first of a series of articles...

Senegal Govt. was aware of obvious corruption red flags but chose to ignore them – Expert says

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Senegal Govt. was aware of obvious corruption red flags but chose to ignore them – Expert says

How Senegal lost US$ billions on gas fields… Kaieteur News – In 2012, BBC News revealed by way of a Panorama documentary, how the Senegalese government signed away two offshore gas blocks...

Local Content provisions for Payara licence flout petroleum laws – Chris Ram

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content provisions for Payara licence flout petroleum laws – Chris Ram

– PPP/C Govt. has done exactly what Trotman did with Liza Phase One Kaieteur News – Upon doing a preliminary review of the production licence, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic...

Man confesses to rape and murder of Venezuelan cook

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man confesses to rape and murder of Venezuelan cook

– Admits to also raping and killing Bartica woman Kaieteur News – Believed to be a sex predator who stalks his victims before killing them, the prime suspect in the murder and rape of a...

Spelling was not dem boys favourite subject in school

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Spelling was not dem boys favourite subject in school

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De government sharing out masks. Yesterday, one of dem Minister been at one of dem out-of-town markets. Nobody nah bin recognize this Minister at fuss because...

A wider and thorough investigation

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A wider and thorough investigation

Kaieteur News – There was a conspiracy to rig the 2020 General and Regional Elections. This conspiracy emerged after the polls had closed and it was recognized that the APNU+AFC had lost the...

Political Theatre on Oil

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Political Theatre on Oil

Kaieteur News – According to a Global Witness report, the APNU+AFC appears to have undermined serious efforts to reveal the true owners of the Canje and Kaieteur Oil Blocks. This confirms our...

REFLECTIONS ON THE GOLD INDUSTRY

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on REFLECTIONS ON THE GOLD INDUSTRY

CONSUMER CONCERNS By Pat Dial Kaieteur News – Gold and Guyana have been associated for centuries and Sir Walter Raleigh, the great Elizabethan nobleman and explorer named the Guyana area...

Minister Dharamlall instructs staff to contract company founded by son

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Dharamlall instructs staff to contract company founded by son

Kaieteur News – Recently circulated documents show that the Minister responsible for Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall, instructed his staff to hire a company that was...

Lone witness in friend’s murder reappears – Tells police he can’t remember shooter

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lone witness in friend’s murder reappears – Tells police he can’t remember shooter

E’bo mystery shooting… Kaieteur News – As investigations into the “Essequibo mystery shooting” continues, Cordell Grimes, the only witness to the murder of his friend Reeaz Khan has...

GPL to provide improved electricity with US$50M power plant

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPL to provide improved electricity with US$50M power plant

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) is looking to provide improved electricity in Guyana through a 46.5-megawatt (MW) dual firepower plant valued at US$50 million,...

Education Ministry awaiting CXC review before releasing examination data

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry awaiting CXC review before releasing examination data

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Education (MOE) is currently awaiting the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) review of the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) and...

Elderly woman takes COVID-19 death toll to 103

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly woman takes COVID-19 death toll to 103

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has recorded yet another COVID-19 fatality. According to a release from the MOH the 103rd COVID-19 fatality relates to a 61-year-old female who died...

Multiple charges for GDF rank caught on camera beating Cop

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Multiple charges for GDF rank caught on camera beating Cop

Kaieteur News – A lance corporal of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is now facing multiple charges after he was on Friday evening caught on camera brutally assaulting a police officer. Currently...

Potable Water flows for the first time in Esau & Jacob, Mahaicony

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Potable Water flows for the first time in Esau & Jacob, Mahaicony

Kaieteur News – In keeping with a promise to ensure that residents of Esau and Jacob on the Mahaicony River, Region Five have potable water, Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water...

Understanding the potent threat posed by natural disasters to hemispheric security

Oct 11, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Understanding the potent threat posed by natural disasters to hemispheric security

Kaieteur News – (A Review of David Granger’s Human safety and environmental security in the Caribbean Basin.) Security and the environment have been central concerns to David Granger’s...

BLUNTNESS ON INDECENCY!

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BLUNTNESS ON INDECENCY!

In case you haven’t heard, please be informed that as part of our continued effort to channel positive changes in our country, our publisher, Mr. Glenn Lall, has dedicated our page seven to be...

A Tale of Grit and Inspiration

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on A Tale of Grit and Inspiration

Book: Long Walk to Cherry Gardens Author: Andrene Bonner Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Away from Jamaica’s bucolic setting is Olympic Gardens, a rough, urban town, and home to the precocious...

Coronavirus: What you can do to help yourself and help minimize the spread

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: What you can do to help yourself and help minimize the spread

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center As you should be aware, we are having a surge in COVID-19 infections in Region Four and the hinterland...

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, calls it a day

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, calls it a day

After three decades of outstanding service… >>Champion Health Care Provider<<< By Sharmain Grainger Kaieteur News – It is said that in combat, if someone becomes a casualty,...

Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta)

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta)

Interesting Creatures… Kaieteur News – The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), also known as the fire ant or RIFA, is a species of ant native to South America. A member of the genus...

From Burnham to Granger: Aspects of African Guyanese political sociology

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on From Burnham to Granger: Aspects of African Guyanese political sociology

Kaieteur News – If a researcher comes from another planet and follows the writings of people like David Hinds; UG’s Deputy Vice Chancellor, Dr. Melissa Ifill; Dr. Alissa Trotz, Barrington...

Our Frontline Worker of the Week is… Nurse Jirshawatie Binda

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Our Frontline Worker of the Week is… Nurse Jirshawatie Binda

“I felt that teaching was not for me, I wanted more of a challenge and I wanted to make a greater difference in people’s lives and so I felt like I could do that through nursing.” By Malisa...

COVID-19 volunteers, six feet may not be enough, and AGM

Oct 11, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on COVID-19 volunteers, six feet may not be enough, and AGM

>>Encouraging Events, Disturbing Developments<<< By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – Our local news is so weighed down with the troubling and dispiriting that it is, sometimes,...

What is Officer “Discretion”?

Oct 11, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on What is Officer “Discretion”?

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community  By Attorney Gail S. Seeram Kaieteur News – It is common for our office to hear, “I was denied and I don’t understand why I was...