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The Oil Giveaway Graveyard

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on The Oil Giveaway Graveyard

In excess of one hundred billion American dollars of our oil wealth were given away by PPP leaders, with the Coalition and civil society silently consenting. THIS WAS ON THE CANJE OIL BLOCK ALONE. To...

Canje block owners sold shares 6 weeks after receiving block

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canje block owners sold shares 6 weeks after receiving block

Kaieteur News – It is unclear whether the first recipient of the Canje oil block, Mid-Atlantic Oil & Gas, ever intended to do the work it committed to doing under the agreement with...

Quick buying and selling of offshore concessions a major red flag…should be wakeup call for all nations – Oil Expert

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Quick buying and selling of offshore concessions a major red flag…should be wakeup call for all nations – Oil Expert

– The Senegal gas blocks giveaway Kaieteur News – As oil producing nations like Guyana embark on efforts to build the capacity to effectively manage its petroleum sector, particularly in...

Minister Dharamlall halts process to hire company founded by son

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Dharamlall halts process to hire company founded by son

– Local Govt. Permanent Secretary sacked Kaieteur News – The Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall, has halted a procurement order for portrait posters....

Guyana steams ahead with Corentyne River bridge

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana steams ahead with Corentyne River bridge

– site marked; formal agreement expected to be signed next month in Suriname Kaieteur News – Two months after the Heads of State of Guyana and Suriname committed to the construction of a...

Mother, 26, dies after bike smashes into Corentyne steel rail

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mother, 26, dies after bike smashes into Corentyne steel rail

Kaieteur News – A Belvedere Village, Berbice woman is dead after a horrific crash at Seawell. According to the police, at just around 10:45am yesterday, a motorcycle bearing license plate...

Applications pouring in for telecoms sector – Vice President

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Applications pouring in for telecoms sector – Vice President

Companies have begun expressing interest in providing various telecommunications services to Guyanese, mere days after the Government announced the liberalisation of the sector. Vice President, Dr....

Notorious wanted man shot, after found hiding under bed

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Notorious wanted man shot, after found hiding under bed

Kaieteur News – Labeled as a high profile convict who cheated death on many occasions, a former Buxton gang member, Randy Joseph, 36, was yesterday shot by cops during his arrest for multiple...

The truth is on its way

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on The truth is on its way

De truth about yuh oil blocks is on its way. And yuh know dem boys does only talk de truth, de whole truth and nuttin bout the truth. Who vex, vex! Imagine yuh Mooma and yuh Poopa leff two properties...

LOCAL CONTENT 101

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on LOCAL CONTENT 101

Kaieteur News – Dear Guyanese leaders, today we offer a simple but very much needed tutorial in local content. As seen in the photograph, a number of these items, which are being imported by...

Guyanese artist, Frank Bowling, awarded Knighthood in Queen’s birthday honours

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese artist, Frank Bowling, awarded Knighthood in Queen’s birthday honours

Kaieteur News – Guyana-born artist, Frank Bowling has been given the honour of Knight Bachelor, conferred upon him in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty the Queen. The Birthday...

Guyana seeks technical expertise from India to revitalize sugar industry

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana seeks technical expertise from India to revitalize sugar industry

Kaieteur News – High Commissioner of India, Dr. K. J. Srinivasa, along with the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, Region Six Vice Chairman, Zamal Armogan, and other officials, visited...

New log policy to allow sawmillers to export logs from today

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New log policy to allow sawmillers to export logs from today

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has announced a new log policy which states that sawmillers, as well as concession holders and timber dealers, will be allowed to export...

Omai Gold Mines revs up for re-entry into extractive sector

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Omai Gold Mines revs up for re-entry into extractive sector

– looks at US$1B investments; 1,000 jobs Kaieteur News – Omai Gold Mines Corp. (TSX Venture: OMG) has announced that it will soon begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Once the...

What is in it for you?

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What is in it for you?

There are individuals who believe that they are God’s gift to Guyanese. They feel that they are the smartest thing ever to come out of this country. They speak with the conviction of prophets while...

Give us a chance…we have already delivered much – President engaged E’bo

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Give us a chance…we have already delivered much – President engaged E’bo

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali yesterday continued his community engagements across the country, visiting several areas along the Essequibo, including Leguan, Wakenaam and Suddie. The...

Abandoned Tuschen building to be remodeled as training centre

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Abandoned Tuschen building to be remodeled as training centre

Kaieteur News – The Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Board of Industry and Training (BIT), Richard Maughn, have plans to turn an abandoned call...

Volda Lawrence to report to CID today

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Volda Lawrence to report to CID today

Kaieteur News – In response to a statement by the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+ AFC) coalition, on the request for the People’s National Congress Chairperson...

Region 4 woman, 40, dies; death toll now at 104

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region 4 woman, 40, dies; death toll now at 104

Kaieteur News – A 40-year-old Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) resident was announced as the latest COVID-19 fatality by the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday. It has taken Guyana’s COVID-19...

Bartender shot in thigh during Sophia gambling dispute

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bartender shot in thigh during Sophia gambling dispute

Kaieteur News – A bartender was yesterday shot to his upper left thigh by a man during a gambling dispute at ‘B’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown. The victim has been identified as Julian...

The Almond Tree Farmer’s Market: Paving the way for eco-friendly produce

Oct 12, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on The Almond Tree Farmer’s Market: Paving the way for eco-friendly produce

Kaieteur News – The Almond Tree Farmer’s Market is a market place developed to create a lively community space for the commerce of homegrown, organic, recycled, repurposed, eco-friendly and...

Claudette Lansbury Singh: “Murder She Wrote”

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Claudette Lansbury Singh: “Murder She Wrote”

The drama of the wild, comical yet brutal attempts to rig the March 2020 election has taken an interesting turn with the arrest of Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Roxanne Myers. Ms. Myers, it is...

Guyana should have capitalized on striking a better deal with Exxon’s PSA

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana should have capitalized on striking a better deal with Exxon’s PSA

DEAR EDITOR, In 2015, the same year Guyana discovered crude oil in commercial quantities, Norway’s largest oil company then Statoil (name change to Equinor) having invested billions of dollars...

From militarized to politicized

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on From militarized to politicized

DEAR EDITOR, First there was the claim the public service was being militarized now the call it is being politicized. Will the public service ever be professionalized? Shamshun Mohamed

Dodging the issue of modernizing outdated libel laws

Oct 12, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dodging the issue of modernizing outdated libel laws

DEAR EDITOR, It was dismaying to read the article, (KN “Protection of Reputation Vs Suppression of facts”) as presented on the 9th. These laws as written, are unbelievably archaic. What...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more