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Athletics 2020 review

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Athletics 2020 review

Kaieteur News – Sport was dormant for nine months (March 2020 – November 2020) due to the regulations that were put in place for fighting the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and although many...

“All Guyana can be very, very proud of Bounce Back Football Classic final broadcast”- Veteran Broadcaster, Ron Robinson

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on “All Guyana can be very, very proud of Bounce Back Football Classic final broadcast”- Veteran Broadcaster, Ron Robinson

Kaieteur News – By Franklin Wilson Blessed with an ear and eyes for quality having been in the business for over half a century, veteran Broadcaster Ron Robinson has commended the principals...

BCB donates to BRCA, BHS, UCCA and Line Path CC – Sinclair to sponsor BCB Cricket Tournament

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB donates to BRCA, BHS, UCCA and Line Path CC – Sinclair to sponsor BCB Cricket Tournament

Kaieteur News – The Berbice Cricket Board last week with the support of former Berbice, Guyana and West Indies opener Clayton Lambert continues to assist cricket organisations in the Ancient...

BCB launches Year of Investment with massive Clayton Lambert Gears Project – BCB President fulfills promise to youth cricketer from Upper Corentyne

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB launches Year of Investment with massive Clayton Lambert Gears Project – BCB President fulfills promise to youth cricketer from Upper Corentyne

Kaieteur News – The Berbice Cricket Board under the Patronage of Minister Vickram Bharrat on Saturday last launched its activities for 2021 under the theme “Year of Investment” by hosting...

Teachers’ apartment broken into twice in three months – Ministries to refund losses by tomorrow

Jan 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers’ apartment broken into twice in three months – Ministries to refund losses by tomorrow

Kaieteur News- Two teachers who work in Port Kaituma, Region One are now counting their losses for the second time after the apartment they are stay in, was broken into while they were away during...

Persons can still join the national conversation on how to improve ethnic relations in Guyana – ERC

Jan 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Persons can still join the national conversation on how to improve ethnic relations in Guyana – ERC

Kaieteur News- The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is now allowing persons who missed the national conversation on how we can improve ethnic relations in Guyana, to share a short video with their...

Seven new COVID-19 infections recorded

Jan 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Seven new COVID-19 infections recorded

Kaieteur News-The Ministry of Health yesterday announced seven new infections of the novel Coronavirus adding to the case toll that is now 6,358. This was revealed in their daily dashboard update....

Statistics Bureau starting quarterly Labour Force Survey this week

Jan 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Statistics Bureau starting quarterly Labour Force Survey this week

Kaieteur News – The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by the Bureau of Statistics will begin this Thursday January 7. The survey which serves to measure Guyana’s labour market was...

Despite significant delays in works, Public Infrastructure Ministry still extended contract time for Hunter Street project

Jan 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Despite significant delays in works, Public Infrastructure Ministry still extended contract time for Hunter Street project

Kaieteur News-The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MOPI) under the previous administration had on three separate occasions, extended the contract time for an $86M Hunter Street project, despite...

CONFUSION LIES AHEAD

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CONFUSION LIES AHEAD

Kaieteur News- Guyana has announced a 20-person team to coordinate the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. But in typical fashion, the government remains tight-lipped about the names of the persons who are to...

Is another Skeldon in the making at Wales?

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is another Skeldon in the making at Wales?

DEAR EDITOR, I read with trepidation and fear of your report of Bharrat Jagdeo’s announcement that Wales Estate will be converted into an onshore base for gas and oil — shore to base gas line...

My take on the President’s New Year’s address

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on My take on the President’s New Year’s address

DEAR EDITOR, It was a night when all the signs favoured a listening Guyanese nation; I say so even though I didn’t share in the grand moment. Guyanese received a message from their president, in...

Freddie Kissoon’s inaccuracy

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon’s inaccuracy

DEAR EDITOR, The consistent diet of inaccuracies and erroneous and even malicious information in Freddie Kissoon’s daily column, in Kaieteur News, has motivated the penning of the suggestion, to...

Adding to the GuySuCo top heavy management debate

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Adding to the GuySuCo top heavy management debate

DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to EB John’s letter “Keeping the Sugar Industry Functioning” (Jan 1). I am in agreement but we disagree on presence of corruption and top heavy management. Mr....

The path to cooperation

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The path to cooperation

DEAR EDITOR, His Excellency’s New Year’s Address to the Nation to usher in the New Year is a great start to rebuilding the spirit of cooperation within our Nation. Under his leadership the PPP/C...

Hope for 2021 after a challenging 2020

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hope for 2021 after a challenging 2020

DEAR EDITOR, For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 21st year in the 21st century will be...

An insider’s perspective on corruption in prison

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on An insider’s perspective on corruption in prison

DEAR EDITOR, Prison is a business, at Lusignan Prison which is located at Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara after the golf course is a person’s worse nightmare. It has a pig farm, vegetable...

2021

Jan 04, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on 2021

Kaieteur News – Last year was supposed to be transformational one for several reasons, not the least of which would have been our first revenues from our newly established oil and gas sector....

Guyana’s ‘lawless’ giveaways force Brazil to bend over backwards to keep oil companies

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s ‘lawless’ giveaways force Brazil to bend over backwards to keep oil companies

Kaieteur News – Competition for investors in the petroleum industry has grown stiff in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the genesis of the global energy transition. With this shift,...

Jagdeo single-handedly dictates Guyana’s depletion policy to be “drill baby drill!”

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo single-handedly dictates Guyana’s depletion policy to be “drill baby drill!”

In absence of nation-wide consultation… By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – When the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) assumed office about five months ago, Kaieteur News had published...

Guyana cannot take another five years to get ready for oil

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana cannot take another five years to get ready for oil

– IDB Country Manager By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Considering ExxonMobil’s plan to have five oil projects working concurrently in the Stabroek Block by 2026, it is clear that...

Other employees received gifts worth $10K while GM got $900K bracelet

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Other employees received gifts worth $10K while GM got $900K bracelet

Int’l Men’s Day celebration at Harbour Bridge… Kaieteur News – While the General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), Rawlston Adams, presented himself with a bracelet worth a...

Bandit shoots accomplice in chest while escaping with loot

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shoots accomplice in chest while escaping with loot

Kaieteur News – Kaieteur News has been informed by police that a bandit mistakenly shot his accomplice in the chest yesterday, while escaping with their loot from a cellphone store located on...

Contract workers accounted for 75% of employment cost at Granger’s ministry for 2019

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Contract workers accounted for 75% of employment cost at Granger’s ministry for 2019

– Auditor General’s report Former President David Granger had employed a total of 471 contract workers for 2019 with their payments accounting for a whopping 75% of employment cost for that year...

Guyana’s oil revenues fell 38 percent below expectations in 2020

Jan 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s oil revenues fell 38 percent below expectations in 2020

By Kemol King Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), is notoriously lax in the...