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Guyana Golf Association hands over Check to Cancer Institute

Oct 31, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Golf Association hands over Check to Cancer Institute

As Cancer Awareness month ends, The Guyana Cancer Institute received a check from the Guyana Golf Association (GGA) and Nexgen Golf Academy to help in the fight against a disease that affects so many...

GABF AGM set for December 13 via Zoom

Oct 31, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF AGM set for December 13 via Zoom

In a release to the media, General Secretary of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF); Patrick Haynes, has shared that the Federation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2020 will be held...

Demerara Banks gets US$7M line of credit from IDB for small businesses

Oct 31, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Banks gets US$7M line of credit from IDB for small businesses

Kaieteur News – Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) has received a US$7 million line of credit from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Trade Finance Facilitation Program (TFFP) to fund small and...

Formal Apology for Unacceptable Post Made on Facebook

Oct 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Formal Apology for Unacceptable Post Made on Facebook

To: Justice Claudette Singh SC, CCH Chairperson Guyana Elections Commission 41 High & Cowan Streets, Kingston, Georgetown. Guyana. I, Ryan Williams, am writing this letter to as a formal apology...

JAMES BOND; MISSING IN ACTION!!!

Oct 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on JAMES BOND; MISSING IN ACTION!!!

DEAR EDITOR, Just a brief enquiry… Haven’t heard from the Political Spy Chief, James Bond, since the US million dollar disclosure or is it a “bust”, which is SO STRANGE as he is such an...

Plaudit for Gafoor Indentureship Institute

Oct 31, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Plaudit for Gafoor Indentureship Institute

DEAR EDITOR, The Ameena Gafoor Foundation deserves plaudits for initiating the Indentureship Institute to conduct research on the legacies of indentureship. Finally, there should be a center...

Court brings Exxon’s Liza1 permit in line with the law – reduces 20 +years term to 5 years

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court brings Exxon’s Liza1 permit in line with the law – reduces 20 +years term to 5 years

A win for Guyana… Kaieteur News – A High Court order issued earlier this month has brought ExxonMobil’s Liza I environmental permit in conformity with the law. The order, granted by Justice...

Ramotar gave 2-billion-barrel Kaieteur block away for free without public tender

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar gave 2-billion-barrel Kaieteur block away for free without public tender

Kaieteur News – Former President and Minister of Petroleum, Donald Ramotar, handed the ultra deepwater Kaieteur block to two companies, Ratio Energy Limited (now Cataleya) and Ratio Guyana...

732 in home isolation

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 732 in home isolation

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday announced 24 new COVID-19 cases with 71 recoveries. The new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases to 4,098, according to the...

ExxonMobil increases daily production at Liza Destiny to 105,000 barrels per day

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil increases daily production at Liza Destiny to 105,000 barrels per day

– Continues to release toxic chemicals into airspace via flaring Kaieteur News – Hess Corporation, which holds a 30 percent working interest in the Stabroek Block, was pleased to inform...

‘Big Head’ in plea deal with US prosecutors

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Big Head’ in plea deal with US prosecutors

Kaieteur News – Guyanese embattled hotelier, Shervington ‘Big Head’ Lovell, has asked US prosecutors for a plea deal, according to court documents. On Wednesday, the New York Court,...

Trotman declines to address Canje, Kaieteur block transfers approved by APNU+AFC

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman declines to address Canje, Kaieteur block transfers approved by APNU+AFC

Kaieteur News – On the controversial handling of the Kaieteur and Canje oil block awards, several Ministers who held authority over this subject area are refusing to offer insight into what...

Some people memory shorter than dem temper

Oct 30, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Some people memory shorter than dem temper

Dem Boys Seh… Dem politician tun like de man wah went to de doctor. He tun to de doctor and seh, “Doctor, I have a serious memory loss problem.” The doctor ask him, “How long yuh gat dis...

Guess who is not talking?

Oct 30, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guess who is not talking?

Kaieteur News – Joseph Harmon, the Leader of the Opposition, was a part of the APNU+AFC Coalition government which was in office for five years from May 2015 to August 2020. He therefore should...

Police receive DNA results for murdered West Dem cousins

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police receive DNA results for murdered West Dem cousins

Kaieteur News has been reliably informed that DNA samples taken from Isaiah and Joel Henry have since returned to Guyana. However, the results of those samples have not yet been made public by the...

Tender Board opens 300 bids | October 27, 2020

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Tender Board opens 300 bids | October 27, 2020

Kaieteur News – Following the passage of the emergency $330B budget, the government is now in a rush to expend the remainder of funds on projects before the end of this fiscal year. With this,...

Govt. considers app to track COVID-19 patients, arriving passengers

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. considers app to track COVID-19 patients, arriving passengers

As number of home isolated persons soars… Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) is seeking to use tracking technology to effectively monitor incoming passengers and COVID-19 patients...

Task Force finalizing updated COVID-19 guidelines for November

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Task Force finalizing updated COVID-19 guidelines for November

Kaieteur News – COVID-19 guidelines for November are currently being revised by the National COVID-19 Task Force, and will be issued on Sunday. At the moment, the Task Force is considering...

Three remanded for Sophia execution

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three remanded for Sophia execution

Kaieteur News – Three men were on Tuesday remanded to prison for the execution of a 27-year-old handyman of D’Anrade Street, Newtown Kitty. The three accused are Sitaffa Garraway, 28, called...

E’bo businessman ambushed by bandits while feeding dogs

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo businessman ambushed by bandits while feeding dogs

Kaieteur News – Three bandits, armed with a ‘chopper’, on Wednesday ambushed, beat and robbed a businessman while he was feeding a number of dogs. Thakoor Singh, 55, of Eastern Hogg Island,...

Suspect nabbed in D’Urban Street stabbing death of teen

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect nabbed in D’Urban Street stabbing death of teen

Kaieteur News – The police have arrested a teen in relation to the killing of an 18-year-old who was killed last week during an argument over money. According to Regional Commander, Simon...

James Bond: Licence to sell

Oct 30, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on James Bond: Licence to sell

Kaieteur News – I am not in receipt of evidence that the real life James Bond, has been engaged in or involved in corruption in relation to assets owned by the people of Guyana, so I am going...

Which is the real Axis of Evil?

Oct 30, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Which is the real Axis of Evil?

Kaieteur News – Former United States President, George W. Bush, famously identified Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an “Axis of Evil.” That pejorative has some application, as it fits rather...

ExxonMobil to close aggressive 2020 drilling plans with another well on Stabroek block – Hess COO

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil to close aggressive 2020 drilling plans with another well on Stabroek block – Hess COO

Kaieteur News – Even as ExxonMobil races to execute development plans for the Liza Phase Two and Payara projects on the Stabroek Block in a COVID-19 era, it remains hell-bent on aggressively...

Thief breaks into Courts; nabbed with stolen TV, PS4, phones

Oct 30, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Thief breaks into Courts; nabbed with stolen TV, PS4, phones

Kaieteur News – A 38-year-old man has been arrested after he was found with items stolen from the Courts Guyana Inc.- the New Amsterdam branch. Police in Region Six disclosed that on Wednesday,...