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Training in public relations needed

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Training in public relations needed

DEAR EDITOR, On Thursday 17th December, 2020 at about 7:30pm I drove into a Rubis gas station to purchase a bottle of cooking gas. I paid for the gas with a $5000 note, when the employee proceeded to...

Guyana can plunge itself into more debt even with oil money – IDB Quarterly Report

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana can plunge itself into more debt even with oil money – IDB Quarterly Report

Kaieteur News – With Guyana poised to receive a fair bit of revenue from the sale of its oil resources, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is cautioning the authorities of the day to...

Op-Ed: Guyana’s political opposition is asleep at the wheel on oil

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Op-Ed: Guyana’s political opposition is asleep at the wheel on oil

“Sadly, our political opposition for the last four months has demonstrated that not only is it solely dependent on the media to spoon-feed it with the issues of the day, but it also appears to...

ExxonMobil continues to tout unverified local content figures

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil continues to tout unverified local content figures

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil Guyana has yet again made unverified claims using block figures in its local content public relations campaign. In celebrating its one year anniversary producing oil...

Gas injection equipment finally fixed – says Exxon

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gas injection equipment finally fixed – says Exxon

Kaieteur News – As production at the Liza Destiny Floating Production and Offloading (FPSO) vessel reaches full capacity of 120,000 barrels of oil per day, ExxonMobil claimed that it has...

Local oil services company planning Region 3 cement plant

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local oil services company planning Region 3 cement plant

Kaieteur News – Guyanese-owned logistics company, VAS Energy INC. is positioning itself to benefit from Guyana’s ever expanding economy with plans to begin construction of a state-of-the-art...

PSC wants charged GECOM officials removed before LGEs

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PSC wants charged GECOM officials removed before LGEs

Kaieteur News – With Local Government Elections (LGE) due in the coming year, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has called on those compromised Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) officials...

Cops caught 6 drunk drivers in surprise road operation

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cops caught 6 drunk drivers in surprise road operation

Kaieteur News – Six drunk drivers were caught on Saturday, in a surprise road operation conducted along the West Coast and West Bank Demerara (WCD, WBD) by a team of Region Three police ranks....

Home destroyed in Eccles blaze

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Home destroyed in Eccles blaze

Kaieteur News – Mere days before Christmas, a family of four was yesterday forced to watch their Eccles East Bank Demerara (EBD) home destroyed by fire. Just before 09:00Hrs residents of the...

New discrete medication distribution system for HIV patients

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New discrete medication distribution system for HIV patients

Kaieteur News – A discrete system for receipt of medicine has been implemented by the National Care and Treatment Centre (NCTC) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients. This was stated...

Wonders never cease to happen!

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Wonders never cease to happen!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De first anniversary of oil production come and gone without a fuss. Dem oil company did promise de people dat it would produce on average of 120,000 barrels per...

Council will not accept liability for persons who endanger themselves at hazardous Stabroek wharf – City Engineer

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Council will not accept liability for persons who endanger themselves at hazardous Stabroek wharf – City Engineer

By Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – In wake of reports that persons have taken up residence within the increasingly dilapidated and hazardous Stabroek Market Wharf, Georgetown Council City...

Locals excited about new golfing community

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Locals excited about new golfing community

Kaieteur News- Several golf enthusiasts have expressed their delight about the new golfing community that will be built at Maraiko Bay Resorts in Mahaica, East Coast Demerara following a trip to the...

EBFA/Ralph Green U-11 League to be bigger and better in 2021

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA/Ralph Green U-11 League to be bigger and better in 2021

Kaieteur News– Sponsor of the annual East Bank Football Association / Ralph Green Under-11 League, USA based Ralph Green, has informed that the fifth edition of the tournament which should have...

Journalist allegedly robbed and beaten

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Journalist allegedly robbed and beaten

Kaieteur News – A 54-year-old journalist was allegedly beaten and robbed of his belongings on Sunday night. The man was identified as Michael Benjamin of Parafaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara,...

Riverview business woman, family severely beaten and robbed

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Riverview business woman, family severely beaten and robbed

Kaieteur News – On Saturday, two bandits one armed with a knife and the other with a handgun inflicted a beating on a businesswoman and her family before escaping with their valuables....

Help most definitely needed

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Help most definitely needed

DEAR EDITOR, Like so many things that have to be touched by Guyanese political leaders, once that happens, then matters become garbled and murky. Yet even through the careful dissembling, something...

Magistrate Leron Daly should be disciplined

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Magistrate Leron Daly should be disciplined

Kaieteur News – On Friday last, Justice Priya Beharry granted bail to a person given three years of imprisonment by Magistrate Leron Daly. I cannot discuss the trial because there is an appeal....

Mocha/Arcadia hosts successful market day event

Dec 21, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mocha/Arcadia hosts successful market day event

Kaieteur News – Farming has long been a common feature in Mocha/Aracadia, a predominately Afro-Guyanese community located on the East Bank of Demerara, seven miles from Georgetown. In recent...

Is GECOM guilty of gross dereliction of duty for not taking disciplinary action?

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is GECOM guilty of gross dereliction of duty for not taking disciplinary action?

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana’s Labour laws provide for summary dismissal from employment by the employer for good and sufficient cause relating to an employee’s conduct and performance on the job. Under...

The moral majority was missing in action

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The moral majority was missing in action

Kaieteur News – People are asking, “Where was the moral majority when the attempt at rigging the elections was taking place?” Where were all the God-fearing, sanctimonious and...

Let the debate on partition be free and harmonious

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let the debate on partition be free and harmonious

DEAR EDITOR, Kindly allow me to respectfully respond to Freddie Kissoon’s column of 12-18-20 titled “an AFC parliamentarian openly called for ethnic partition”. Freddie Kissoon...

A response to GHK Lall

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A response to GHK Lall

DEAR EDITOR, Seasons Greetings to you and all Kaieteur staffers! Reference is made to GHK Lall’s December 20, 2020, epistle in your august newsprint. Whilst Mr. Lall waxed lyrical, on two perceived...

Guyana, Africa, Caribbean watch and wait for vaccine

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana, Africa, Caribbean watch and wait for vaccine

DEAR EDITOR, How and when will Guyana and other poor developing countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Asia get the vaccine to combat (slow down) the Covid-19 virus? They watch and...

Time for new and younger leadership in the PNC

Dec 21, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for new and younger leadership in the PNC

DEAR EDITOR, Immediately after the five agonizing and harrowing months when a combative warfare was waged by members of APNU+AFC to remain in office through rigged elections, the former Minister of...

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more