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Different governments, same poor leadership

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Different governments, same poor leadership

Two successive governments, one type of political leadership all the time. Nothing changes. When the previous government was in power, it shouted about how many it was going to imprison. Its intended...

Ramotar agreed for Guyana to repay Canje owners one percent royalty – In short, Guyana gets nothing

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar agreed for Guyana to repay Canje owners one percent royalty – In short, Guyana gets nothing

Kaieteur News – There has been much discourse over the industry low two percent royalty Guyana is getting from ExxonMobil’s oil production in the Stabroek Block. However, the deal granted to...

Guyana’s Local Content Policy must create long-term value for generations to come – Expert

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Local Content Policy must create long-term value for generations to come – Expert

Kaieteur News – When looking at the sheer scale of its oil and gas discoveries, it is clear that Guyana has in its hands an enviable amount of wealth. But to ensure that resource benefits its...

Knife bandits rob teen – Celebrate next to her house, threaten family

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Knife bandits rob teen – Celebrate next to her house, threaten family

Kaieteur News – Mere minutes after two knife bandits robbed a teenager of her belongings yesterday, they turned up next door to her home to celebrate the stolen booty. Amena Mohamed, 18, was...

CDC monitoring sinking oil vessel off Venezuela

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CDC monitoring sinking oil vessel off Venezuela

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Civil Defence Commission (CDC) with support from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Authority (CDEMA) is closely monitoring the sinking of an oil tanker off...

Over 100 community health workers were hired without documentation by coalition govt.

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Over 100 community health workers were hired without documentation by coalition govt.

– haven’t been paid for eight months Kaieteur News – In excess of 100 persons were engaged earlier in the year as Region Six community health workers by the David Granger...

Blame it on de rain!

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame it on de rain!

Dem boys seh… Kaieteur News – Now dat de Review Team done it wuk, Aunty Priya tune change. Dem boys did know dat all de braggadocio would have boiled down to gravy. She now saying dat it is...

The Rebel with a Cause

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Rebel with a Cause

Kaieteur News – The following column is being republished, in an edited form, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Janet Jagan, former President of Guyana. We should have been...

COVID-19 testing a priority at Graham’s Hall Primary shelter – CDC Director General

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 testing a priority at Graham’s Hall Primary shelter – CDC Director General

Kaieteur News – (DPI) The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) will be collaborating with the Ministry of Health to ensure squatters being sheltered at the Graham’s Hall Primary School are screened...

IBM split – lessons for Guyana

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on IBM split – lessons for Guyana

Kaieteur News – What we have is not working, no matter how generously viewed, how expansively intellectualized. Guyana, as it stands now, as a country in the regular meaning of what it takes to...

With billions in play, US jails, fines candidates for not reporting campaign donations

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on With billions in play, US jails, fines candidates for not reporting campaign donations

By Kemol King Kaieteur News – In the United States, candidates face serious penalties including fines and jail time if they don’t produce campaign finance reports in a timely manner, or...

Regional Health Services in Region Six undergoing transformation

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Health Services in Region Six undergoing transformation

Kaieteur News – With a new Regional Health Officer in place, improvements in the health services offered in Region Six have been moving fast apace. Briefing the media on what has been taking...

Victoria man found in trench died from drowning

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Victoria man found in trench died from drowning

Post mortem reveals… Kaieteur News – The post mortem (PM) report for Guy Thom, 50, of Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara, whose decomposed body was discovered in a trench on Friday last,...

Trans-Guyana Airways launches commercial flights to Barbados

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trans-Guyana Airways launches commercial flights to Barbados

Kaieteur News – Beginning November 1st, 2020, Trans-Guyana Airways will introduce five weekly flights to Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados, from Eugene F. Correia International...

Men wanted for fraud

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Men wanted for fraud

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday issued wanted bulletins for two men in relation to fraud allegations. James Emanuel Ragnauth, 46, of Lot 187 Para Field, Leonora, West...

Government collaborates with FAO to develop sustainable rural communities

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Government collaborates with FAO to develop sustainable rural communities

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, the Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said that the Ministry “looks forward to continue working with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to develop...

Govt allocating millions for unpaid municipality salaries

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt allocating millions for unpaid municipality salaries

Kaieteur News – The government will allocate $2 million to each municipality to ensure that town council staffers, who have not been paid for months, receive wages and salaries. Minister of...

MOH records 31 new cases of COVID-19

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MOH records 31 new cases of COVID-19

Kaieteur News – There are 31 new COVID-19 cases in Guyana. The Ministry of Health (MOH) dashboard reported yesterday that the new cases have pushed Guyana’s COVID-19 numbers to 3, 796. Of the...

6 top performing E.B.D grade six students receive Lions Club bursary award

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 6 top performing E.B.D grade six students receive Lions Club bursary award

Kaieteur News – The Lions Club of Central Demerara on Sunday awarded six top-performing Grade Six students living on the East Bank of Demerara with bursary awards. The awards were given in the...

Eusi Kwayana: The disgraceful fall of an icon

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Eusi Kwayana: The disgraceful fall of an icon

Kaieteur News – This analysis here is addressed specifically to those, who, in the seventies in the struggle for free and fair elections and the removal of the Burnham dictatorship, loved,...

APNU+AFC Opposition welcomes overseas help on electoral reform

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC Opposition welcomes overseas help on electoral reform

Kaieteur News – The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Opposition is in full support of any international assistance being lent to reform Guyana’s electoral...

GFF establishes Scholarship Committee

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF establishes Scholarship Committee

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has appointed a Scholarship Committee styled the “GUYANA Football Scholarship Committee” that will be responsible for the formulation of...

Salwa Eid Naser: World 400m champion has anti-doping violation charges dismissed

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Salwa Eid Naser: World 400m champion has anti-doping violation charges dismissed

BBCsport – World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser has had her anti-doping violation charges dismissed by the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal. The Bahraini, 22, was provisionally suspended in...

Driver who hit down KN staffers caught – Begs to compensate them with $10,000

Oct 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Driver who hit down KN staffers caught – Begs to compensate them with $10,000

Kaieteur News – Cops yesterday caught the driver who fled after he struck down two Kaieteur News’ staffers along the Houston East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road, on October 13, with his...

East Coast Cricket teams call for transparency in Cricket Administration

Oct 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Coast Cricket teams call for transparency in Cricket Administration

Kaieteur News – We have noticed the recent rambling by an ECCB official in the public domain in his quest for the holding of the DCB and GCB elections. As a result, we are obligated to respond,...