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Guyana’s lawless giveaways affect our neighbours too

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Guyana’s lawless giveaways affect our neighbours too

Kaieteur News – Brazil is a regional neighbour hit hard by the sellout, backward behaviour of Guyana’s political leaders. The low standards and returns which Guyana negotiated are pressuring...

Chatham House Expert says gas-to-shore project must be affordable

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Chatham House Expert says gas-to-shore project must be affordable

– Insists it cannot be seen as “end all” By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – In its bid to pursue a gas-to-shore project, the Government of Guyana must first ensure that the venture is...

Exxon caves in to their investors’ call for truer environmental impact report

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon caves in to their investors’ call for truer environmental impact report

Kaieteur News – Oil supermajor ExxonMobil has finally bowed to investors’ pressure to start reporting, on an annual basis, Scope Three emissions, a category of emissions it has evaded...

Vice President Jagdeo defends incentives given to oil companies

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Vice President Jagdeo defends incentives given to oil companies

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, sought to impress on Kaieteur Radio why it is important for oil companies to be granted incentives by the government, in an exchange with...

Gunmen open fire on home of Ponzi Scheme operators

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen open fire on home of Ponzi Scheme operators

Kaieteur News – The home of Ponzi Scheme operators, Yuri Garcia Dominguez and his wife Ateeka Ismael reportedly came under gunfire last night. According to reports, three gunmen turned up at...

Peacemaker knocked out while attempting to part fight

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Peacemaker knocked out while attempting to part fight

Kaieteur News – A 43-year-old man, who was trying to be a peacemaker, was knocked out after he attempted to part a fight between two men. The injured man has been identified as Vindon Nurse,...

Man who burnt wife and children in Bartica house, remanded

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man who burnt wife and children in Bartica house, remanded

Kaieteur News – Kenford Downer, the man who allegedly burnt his wife and children alive last December, yesterday made his first court appearance and was remanded to prison. The defendant, who...

$864M in payment vouchers not presented for audit – AG Report

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $864M in payment vouchers not presented for audit – AG Report

Kaieteur News – According to the 2019 Auditor General’s report, 744 payment vouchers totalling some $864.41 million were not presented to his office to be audited resulting in the limitation...

Passengers hijack taxi at ‘Policeman Corner’

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers hijack taxi at ‘Policeman Corner’

Kaieteur News – A taxi driver on Tuesday had his car hijacked by his passengers at Policeman Corner, La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD). The taxi driver, Bhagwandin Narine, 39, of...

Bandits on the de loose

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bandits on the de loose

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – People getting rob every day. Pick-pocket return. Dem picking yuh pocket in de minibus. Dem putting bag pun yuh leg and den one of dem friend gan create...

The cart is being put before the horse

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The cart is being put before the horse

Kaieteur News – The social media site, OilNow, reported that the Minister of Natural Resources told the National Assembly that the Department of Energy will be converted into a professional...

Guyana in 2020: The Black woman they couldn’t vilify

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana in 2020: The Black woman they couldn’t vilify

Kaieteur News – The envoys of the EU, Canada, UK and USA came in for exceptional abuse from those who supported the five months of attempted rigging in the election last year. From the time...

Union official granted $680,000 bail

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Union official granted $680,000 bail

Bogus oil and gas training… Kaieteur News – The General Secretary of the Guyana Seafarers and General Workers Union (GS&GWU) was yesterday slapped with a total of 17 charges at the...

Region 10 pensioner recorded as 167th COVID-19 fatality

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Region 10 pensioner recorded as 167th COVID-19 fatality

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health reported a new COVID-19 fatality yesterday. The latest fatality is a pensioner from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) who is the country’s 167th...

US-based CDC lends support to Health Ministry’s COVID-19 surveillance unit

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on US-based CDC lends support to Health Ministry’s COVID-19 surveillance unit

– Case trackers to be trained for each region – CMO Kaieteur News – Guyana is set to receive a boost in its capacity to track cases of the deadly Coronavirus/COVID-19 disease. With...

GuyOil workers to receive disputed salary increase

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GuyOil workers to receive disputed salary increase

Kaieteur News – Workers of the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GuyOil) will be receiving their long-disputed salary increases in the second quarter of 2021, according to the President of the...

Govt. to introduce self-testing for HIV

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to introduce self-testing for HIV

Launch of new strategic plan… Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has announced a plan for Guyanese to self-test for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes the...

Police on the hunt for suspect

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police on the hunt for suspect

Clothes vendor’s New Year’s Day murder… Kaieteur News – Police have issued a wanted bulletin for a man who they believed might have killed Paul Anthony Smith, a clothes vendor, on New...

Student in UG bomb threat matter walks free

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Student in UG bomb threat matter walks free

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, almost two years after she was charged for a bomb threat at the University of Guyana (UG), 26-year-old Sheneza Diane Jaffarally of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara...

David dominoes set for Sunday at Bagotstown

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on David dominoes set for Sunday at Bagotstown

Kaieteur News – Shawn David will be hosting his birth anniversary dominoes competition on Sunday at Lil Hole bar, Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara. Entrance fee is $12,000, while $30,000 will be...

Shepherd test positive for COVID-19 Says he has no symptoms

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shepherd test positive for COVID-19 Says he has no symptoms

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – For 26-year-old Guyana and West Indies fast bowling all-rounder Romario Shepherd it came as shock when he was tested positive for the corona virus and was ruled...

Over 29,000 devices verified by GNBS in 2020

Jan 07, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Over 29,000 devices verified by GNBS in 2020

Kaieteur News – Despite being faced with COVID-19 related challenges, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), the national measurement institute, was able to verify a total of 29,675...

RHTYSC completes another successful year despite Covid-19 pandemic

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC completes another successful year despite Covid-19 pandemic

– Surpasses target of 700 activities Kaieteur News – While the Covid-19 pandemic forced the majority of youth and sports organisations to close up their doors, the Rose Hall Town Youth...

Very Quiet 2020 for hockey

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Very Quiet 2020 for hockey

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) national women programme is due to resume shortly with training as the ladies, managed by head coach Philip Fernandes, prepare for a busy 2021...

Line Top, Bachelor’s XI triumph at Success Games

Jan 07, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Line Top, Bachelor’s XI triumph at Success Games

Kaieteur News – Over a three days period, outstanding performances coupled with sportsmanship, harmony and respect were the order of the day. The results from the games have left some wounds,...