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Guyana could be heading for environmental and economic disaster

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana could be heading for environmental and economic disaster

Gas to shore project… – Int’l lawyer alarmed no EIA done to date Kaieteur News – While the People’s Progressive Party /Civic (PPP/C) administration has continued where its...

Failure of Govts. to punish corrupt party members undermines governance – says Greenidge

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Failure of Govts. to punish corrupt party members undermines governance – says Greenidge

Kaieteur News – The factors which undermine good governance in Guyana are many. But chief among those challenges would be the way corruption is addressed by governments, especially when their...

Canadian oil service companies flock to Guyana

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian oil service companies flock to Guyana

– How Guyana is emerging as the new frontier for N.L.’s oil services sector By Terry Roberts/CBC News – Published on Dec 21, 2020 Kaieteur News – It’s mid-morning at...

Ghana fines oil companies for failing to honour work obligations

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Ghana fines oil companies for failing to honour work obligations

– While Guyana embraces non-compliance Kaieteur News – The Republic of Ghana fines oil companies that fail to deliver on the work obligations committed to in their contracts, in order to...

Director of Atlantic Fuels released on $300,000 bail for falsified invoice

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Director of Atlantic Fuels released on $300,000 bail for falsified invoice

Kaieteur News – The Director of Atlantic Fuels Inc. yesterday appeared before a city magistrate and was placed on $300,000 bail for allegedly falsifying an invoice and declaring it to the...

Drunken driver begs cops for mercy after slamming into cars

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken driver begs cops for mercy after slamming into cars

– Commander plans to name and shame errant drivers By Shervin Belgrave Kaieteur News – A drunken driver was yesterday recorded on camera begging cops for mercy after he slammed into two...

Condom mek out of oil

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Condom mek out of oil

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem boys wan know if de Vee Pee know that oil don’t spoil and how oil nah going out of style. Oil gan deh hay for a long time. De by-products from oil...

Pump, Baby, Pump!

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Pump, Baby, Pump!

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil is no longer the greatest threat to Guyana’s future. Bharrat Jagdeo has now become the greatest obstacle to this country’s long-term prospects. Bharrat Jagdeo is...

Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit

Kaieteur News – The expression of powerful deceit by an African Guyanese leader in 2020 that rippled my soul more than any other was Eusi Kwayana. You have to understand why I singled him out....

CPA to conduct forensic interview with underage mom

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CPA to conduct forensic interview with underage mom

Kaieteur News – The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) will conduct a forensic interview with the 14-year old who reportedly abandoned her baby after giving birth on New Year’s day. The...

21 new COVID-19 cases recorded

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 21 new COVID-19 cases recorded

Kaieteur News – On the fourth day of the New Year, the Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded 21 new COVID-19 cases, taking the number of cases to 6,379. The new cases were discovered in several...

‘Burst head’ for man who tried to beat cop

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Burst head’ for man who tried to beat cop

Kaieteur News – There was a show down yesterday in front of the police outpost located at Stabroek Market, after a man tried to beat a cop. He ended up with a ‘burst head.’ Kaieteur News...

Chinese businessmen robbed at gunpoint

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese businessmen robbed at gunpoint

Kaieteur News – Two Chinese nationals were robbed at gunpoint at Charity, Essequibo Coast last Sunday night. Police have since identified the victims as Steve Sue, 41, and his business partner,...

Man’s decomposing body found in Bartica home

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s decomposing body found in Bartica home

Kaieteur News – Residents of Third Avenue Bartica, Region Seven followed a strong stench on Saturday and discovered a decomposing body of an elderly man lying on a sofa inside his home. The...

Fire destroys Haslingston woman’s home

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Haslingston woman’s home

Kaieteur News – A Haslingston woman lost her home to fire on Saturday. Counting her losses is Ann Eve Knights, 25, of North Haslingston, East Coast Demerara. According to police, the woman’s...

Agri. Minister establishes taskforce to monitor flood prone areas

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Agri. Minister establishes taskforce to monitor flood prone areas

Kaieteur News – With the Hydromet Department of the Ministry of Agriculture recently issuing an advisory alerting fishermen and other persons residing on the Coast of instances of high waves...

GAWU says 60-odd workers fired at Wales – NICIL justifies decision

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU says 60-odd workers fired at Wales – NICIL justifies decision

Kaieteur News – The state-owned holding company – the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) – on December 31, 2020 fired, “without the hint of warning”,...

Fire guts Alexander Village apartment

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fire guts Alexander Village apartment

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Fire Service was yesterday summoned to quell a fire at First Street, Alexander Village, Georgetown. However, despite valiant efforts by fire fighters a small...

WADA 2021 anti-doping code, int’l standards, athletes’ anti-doping rights act now in force

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on WADA 2021 anti-doping code, int’l standards, athletes’ anti-doping rights act now in force

Montreal – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reminds stakeholders that, effective today, the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code (Code); the following International Standards (Standards); and, the...

Local cricket hit hard by Pandemic as GCB could only hold two tournaments in 2020

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local cricket hit hard by Pandemic as GCB could only hold two tournaments in 2020

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – When the covid-19 pandemic hit Guyana in March the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) had only completed their GCB/Rubis U-17 Inter County tournament. It took nine months...

Davion Mars crowned 2020 National Blitz Chess Champion Keron Sandiford is Junior winner

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Davion Mars crowned 2020 National Blitz Chess Champion Keron Sandiford is Junior winner

Kaieteur News – Davion Mars and Keron Sandiford were crowned senior and junior champion respectively when the 2020 National Blitz Chess competition was contested recently at the Guyana National...

Disgruntled police ranks voice concerns after being overlooked for promotions

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Disgruntled police ranks voice concerns after being overlooked for promotions

Kaieteur News – A few Guyana Police Force (GPF) ranks have expressed dissatisfaction with the Force’s recent promotion exercise. This, they claim, is due to the fact that they were overlooked...

1Open letter to President Ali: 20% Withholding Tax is double taxation

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on 1Open letter to President Ali: 20% Withholding Tax is double taxation

Dear Editor, Dear Mr. President, when we work, tax is taken out from our wages. When we put some of our money into a savings account at a bank, and when we earn interest from our savings, the bank...

Caribbean Motor Spares opens Grove branch

Jan 05, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Motor Spares opens Grove branch

Kaieteur News – On Saturday, January 2, 2021, Caribbean Motor Spares opened its second branch at 74 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara. Present at the opening ceremony was Minister within...

CGI’s planned Fitness Assessment and Practice Matches have been tentatively rescheduled

Jan 05, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on CGI’s planned Fitness Assessment and Practice Matches have been tentatively rescheduled

Kaieteur News – The fitness assessment which was scheduled for yester, Monday 4 January 2021 and the three practice matches which were respectively slated to be played on Friday 8 January 2021,...