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One of 13 accused of killing Sophia man, remanded

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on One of 13 accused of killing Sophia man, remanded

Kaieteur News – One of the 13 males accused of killing a Sophia man, who intervened after they attacked and stabbed his younger brother, was yesterday remanded to prison. The accused, Shay...

Pensioner robbed of cash, jewellery

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner robbed of cash, jewellery

Kaieteur News – An 87-year-old woman of Number 67 Village, Corentyne, Berbice was on Sunday robbed of a quantity of cash and jewellery at her home. The police are investigating the alleged...

File sent to DPP, suspect still hospitalised

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on File sent to DPP, suspect still hospitalised

Bartica woman, children burnt alive… Kaieteur News – More than a week after a Bartica woman and her two young daughters were burnt alive, allegedly by the woman’s husband who is also the...

Appeal Court reduces 60-year sentence for 2009 Old Year’s Day murder convict

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal Court reduces 60-year sentence for 2009 Old Year’s Day murder convict

Kaieteur News – The Appeal Court yesterday reduced the 60 years jail sentence for 2009 Old Year’s Day murder convict, Steven Allicock. Allicock called ‘Stevie’ a father of six from...

Forklift crushes Aurora gold-miner’s leg

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Forklift crushes Aurora gold-miner’s leg

Kaieteur News – A gold-miner’s right leg was reportedly crushed on Sunday after he was pinned by a forklift at the Aurora Gold Mines site, Region Seven. The injured miner employed with the...

Security guard remanded for raping, killing Cummings Lodge woman

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard remanded for raping, killing Cummings Lodge woman

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, four days after the motionless body of a Cummings Lodge woman was discovered naked in her Eight Street, South Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara home, the man...

Another Chemical Storage Facility slated for construction

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another Chemical Storage Facility slated for construction

– but no Impact Assessment required by EPA Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is, once again, not requiring an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) be conducted...

GIPEX goes virtual in April 2021

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GIPEX goes virtual in April 2021

Kaieteur News – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guyana International Petroleum Summit and Exhibition (GIPEX) organizers have made a decision to have the third summit conducted on a new-age...

Ministry records 46 new COVID-19 cases

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry records 46 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health reported 46 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 6,171. This was presented in the Ministry’s daily dashboard...

Sink hole!

Dec 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sink hole!

Kaieteur News – This sink hole appeared yesterday at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara. Emergency workers placed cones around the depression, warning drivers to be aware until repairs can be...

Everybody doing their own thing

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Everybody doing their own thing

Kaieteur News – A quick survey of life in Guyana conveys how costly things are for the taxpaying citizens. As official mistakes pileup, the dollars spiral, and the reckoning will come when it...

Endurance Championship 2021 Harper craving silverware

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Endurance Championship 2021 Harper craving silverware

Kaieteur News – The 2021 motor racing season speeds off in just over a month’s time with the first of two Endurance meets set for the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri on January 24. The Guyana...

Peters, Watts crown King and Queen champs

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Peters, Watts crown King and Queen champs

Kaieteur News – Rawl Peters and June Watts were crowned King and Queen Champions respectively when the Twin Towers dominoes competition concluded on Sunday last at Turning Point Sports Club....

The actions of the PNC are irritatingly outdated and worrisome

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The actions of the PNC are irritatingly outdated and worrisome

Dear Editor, I was in a conversation with a staunch APNU/PNCR supporter and from the tone of things that party wants to be a vibrant opposition just like the PPP/C when they were in opposition. Well,...

Violence against women cannot be justified in any way

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Violence against women cannot be justified in any way

Dear Editor, Within the last month, there have been a spate of domestic violence against women and children in Guyana. Recently, for instance, a male set his home on fire, killing his wife and two...

Blunders and mismanagement make Coalition return possible

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Blunders and mismanagement make Coalition return possible

Dear Editor, The ruling PPP finds itself very delicately holding office. It does not take much for it to lose government. In fact, PPP is making many mistakes to embolden the PNC to pursue...

Black faces in the Ali administration are disdained as house servants

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Black faces in the Ali administration are disdained as house servants

Dear Editor, I read the media coverage of President Ali speaking of this country’s unity in the face of its border controversy, and in the glow of the ICJ’s ruling about jurisdiction. On this...

2020 seems to be the year of re-awakening of the Private Sector Commission

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on 2020 seems to be the year of re-awakening of the Private Sector Commission

Dear Editor, In a recent letter to the editor re. the Allicock matter, I focused on the need for us, as a nation, to urgently address the question of a national ethos, as a matter of importance. I...

Guyana’s sole objective was to determine the validity of the 1899 Award

Dec 22, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s sole objective was to determine the validity of the 1899 Award

Dear Editor, Not too long after the World Court ruled on Guyana’s application concerning the ‘legal validity and binding effect of the award regarding the boundary between the colony of British...

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...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more