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Jagdeo’s Silence

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Jagdeo’s Silence

Kaieteur News – Three things are obvious when we think of promises given by Guyana’s Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo. These three things do not speak well of him either as a leader or as a...

Kaieteur Oil Block red flags warrant investigations

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur Oil Block red flags warrant investigations

…The Fleecing of Guyana series Kaieteur News – The circumstances surrounding the Kaieteur oil block award, made by former President Donald Ramotar, and the subsequent farm-ins, have...

More than 18 countries lost US$ billions in revenue due to poor hydrocarbon accounting systems

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on More than 18 countries lost US$ billions in revenue due to poor hydrocarbon accounting systems

-TT expert urges Guyana to avoid making same mistakes Kaieteur News – Now that Guyana is more than nine months into facilitating lifts of its light, sweet crude being produced in the Liza Phase...

Duo accused of executing key witness in K/News grenade attack walk free

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Duo accused of executing key witness in K/News grenade attack walk free

Kaieteur News – Two men accused of gunning down a man in front of his five-year-old daughter and wife on the East Bank Public Road at Eccles, in middle of the busy traffic early last year, have...

Who is de Man?

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Who is de Man?

De Stabber bin carry a report last week about the preliminary report of the RSS team wah bin come to Guyana fuh investigate dem Henry boys’ deaths. According to de report, a politically-exposed...

A moral gatekeeper of Guyanese politics

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A moral gatekeeper of Guyanese politics

DEAR EDITOR, There is still hope in Guyana for the good and betterment of some Guyanese to redeem themselves from any sense of finality that paints a picture of doom and gloom and, look forward to...

NAMILCO and RHTY&SC continue to carve out empowering relationship

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO and RHTY&SC continue to carve out empowering relationship

In September 2019, the National Milling Company of Guyana. Ltd (NAMILCO) took on the challenge of being the official sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) First Division...

The PNC/R is not interested in democracy

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PNC/R is not interested in democracy

The PNC/R has no moral authority to speak about electoral reform. By that party’s actions between March and August of 2020, it has demonstrated that it has no place within a democratic formation in...

GFF establishes Marketing Committee for FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and Concacaf Gold Cup 2021

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF establishes Marketing Committee for FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and Concacaf Gold Cup 2021

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has appointed a Marketing Committee for the Guyana Senior Men’s National Team’s participation in the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and the Concacaf Gold Cup 2021...

Activist sees house on fire while washing clothes

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Activist sees house on fire while washing clothes

Kaieteur News – Minutes after a resident stepped out of her house yesterday to “wash clothes”, she saw it being engulfed in flames. She managed to alert her family who were inside the...

Mendes bestowed prestigious regional award for contributions

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mendes bestowed prestigious regional award for contributions

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali on Saturday recognised the achievements of Guyanese entrepreneur, Andrew Mendes, who is the recipient of the 2020 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for...

Chalkboards erected in several city wards

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Chalkboards erected in several city wards

Kaieteur News – A team, on Saturday, led by Dr. Marcel Hutson, Chief Education Officer; and comprised of teachers- Leanchor Rowland and Caren Charles; Lisa Liza Ryce-Inspector; Kerwyn Jacobs...

East Bank residents object to planned construction of oil waste treatment plant, storage warehouse

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on East Bank residents object to planned construction of oil waste treatment plant, storage warehouse

– EPA says no impact assessment needed Kaieteur News – Residents living around the environs of Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara, are objecting to the planned construction of an oil...

Judgment in wrongful dismissal of second NBS manager still pending

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Judgment in wrongful dismissal of second NBS manager still pending

…Months after conclusion of case The ruling in the second case filed against the New Building Society (NBS) over the wrongful dismissal of former manager, Kent Vincent, is still pending,...

Guyana‘s COVID-19 cases now over 4,000 – 3,000 recover

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana‘s COVID-19 cases now over 4,000 – 3,000 recover

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has recorded 29 new COVID-19 cases bringing the overall confirmed total to 4,023. According to the daily COVID-19 dashboard, of the new cases,...

Change attitude or be fired – Minister Mustapha tells GuySuCo managers

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Change attitude or be fired – Minister Mustapha tells GuySuCo managers

Kaieteur News – During a recent meeting with several senior managers from the Albion, Rose Hall and Skeldon Estates, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha once again affirmed Government’s...

Report: More than 30,000 Guyanese emigrate annually

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Report: More than 30,000 Guyanese emigrate annually

– political instability, inefficient health and education systems blamed Kaieteur News – According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think-tank based in the...

Civil society in Guyana is sicker than in any other country

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Civil society in Guyana is sicker than in any other country

Let me adumbrate my philosophy about society which I cling to inflexibly. A society’s people must be concerned first and foremost with the existence of the comprehensive package of rights, freedoms...

Region One once again a COVID-19 hotspot

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region One once again a COVID-19 hotspot

Kaieteur News – Region One (Barima-Waini) has once again become a COVID-19 hotspot causing the Ministry of Health (MOH) to ramp up their measures to tackle and manage its spread. A senior...

NICIL, GuySuCo, Lands and Surveys to help identify lands for housing

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL, GuySuCo, Lands and Surveys to help identify lands for housing

Kaieteur News – The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL); Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) and Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) are working with the...

Govt. will only accept high quality work – Edghill

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. will only accept high quality work – Edghill

…Delays on Sheriff/Mandela expansion project Kaieteur News – Public Works Minister, Bishop Juan Edghill, has said Government will only give its approval for high quality works from the...

GuySuCo’s assets held by NICIL to be returned

Oct 26, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo’s assets held by NICIL to be returned

– major management revamp in the works Kaieteur News – Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, told cane farmers at Skeldon, Corentyne, Region Six, that the Guyana Sugar...

Can collusion be conceptualized in a better way?

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can collusion be conceptualized in a better way?

DEAR EDITOR, When it was announced in 2019 that Tullow oil had discovered oil in the Jethro and Joe 1 wells in the Orinduik block in August and September respectively, the public was expecting a...

Deplorable ‘Six head gym’

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deplorable ‘Six head gym’

DEAR EDITOR, I am writing this letter hoping that this matter would reach the right authority to get some attention. I am very disheartened to see the state of the ‘Six Head Gym’ known as ‘The...

Let the discourse of the committed continue

Oct 26, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let the discourse of the committed continue

DEAR EDITOR, I pen this response to Ravi Dev’s letter of October 18 with the hope that the national importance of the exchange, in the media, between Ravi and myself, and the manner of the...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- What if in tabling the 2025 Budget, the Minister with responsibility for Finance did... more