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Budget ceiling – the latest confirmed how things will be

Jan 30, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Budget ceiling – the latest confirmed how things will be

DEAR EDITOR, Guyanese should never be amazed at the audacity and arrogance of the current PPP government; I have been there for the longest time. Those two recent Orders placed before the House of...

More FDPs mean more tombstones in economic graveyard

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on More FDPs mean more tombstones in economic graveyard

Kaieteur News – The costs associated with each new Field Development Plan (FDP) keep increasing steeply by billions of dollars. Liza-1, Liza-2, and Payara-3 have saddled Guyana with a US$18B in...

Venezuela ramps up naval activity in Guyana’s waters since Maduro’s decree

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela ramps up naval activity in Guyana’s waters since Maduro’s decree

Kaieteur News – Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, informed the National Assembly yesterday that Venezuela has ramped up its naval activity in Guyana’s...

Exxon to accelerate search for more oil with 12-15 wells this year

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon to accelerate search for more oil with 12-15 wells this year

– Two drill ships already lined up for March, April Kaieteur News – COVID-19 pandemic or not, US oil titan ExxonMobil intends to pursue an accelerated search for oil offshore Guyana in...

Govt. to raise overall public debt ceiling

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to raise overall public debt ceiling

– domestic by 233.3%, external by 65% Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government has tabled two Orders at the National Assembly in a bid to raise the country’s...

Raising public debt ceiling spells danger for future and current generations – Ex-Finance Minister

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Raising public debt ceiling spells danger for future and current generations – Ex-Finance Minister

Kaieteur News – Following the tabling of two orders yesterday in the National Assembly by Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh to raise the debt ceiling for domestic...

Man admits to killing sleeping vagrant with brick

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man admits to killing sleeping vagrant with brick

Kaieteur News – The suspect held for bludgeoning a sleeping vagrant to death on Wednesday has admitted to the heinous act. The vagrant identified only as “Curl up Toe” was slain around...

Out of 180 countries, Guyana ranks #83 on corruption index

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Out of 180 countries, Guyana ranks #83 on corruption index

Kaieteur News – Guyana is still perceived as a highly corrupt nation according to Transparency International in its 2020 Corruption Index Report. Out of 180 nations that were assessed for...

Dem oil company mek Dr. Crime look like a boy scout

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem oil company mek Dr. Crime look like a boy scout

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De oil contract is de Con of de Century. Imagine dem oil company find we oil and behaving like if is dem own. Finders keepers! Dem go to de bank and dem borrow...

If the new variant is in Guyana, God help us!

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on If the new variant is in Guyana, God help us!

Kaieteur News – Civil society and opposition political parties should join and demand the immediate revamping of the government’s COVID-19 response strategy. That plan is not working and it...

It is time the nation outlaw the City Council of Georgetown

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on It is time the nation outlaw the City Council of Georgetown

Kaieteur News – I don’t know if it is true but a Regent Street businessman told me that the City Council has a new requirement for securing compliance. When you are selling a property, City...

Progress on marijuana legislation reform

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Progress on marijuana legislation reform

Kaieteur News – Yesterday’s debate in parliament on proposed marijuana legislation reform, if nothing else, a circus of deliberate cognitive dissonance on the part of the political opposition...

Robb Street granny killers appeal trial to commence in March

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Robb Street granny killers appeal trial to commence in March

Kaieteur News – The case management conference (CMC) for the appeal matter filed by the quartet convicted and sentenced for the execution-style murder of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris...

Govt. moves to Select Committee as Opposition’s marijuana Bill thrown out

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. moves to Select Committee as Opposition’s marijuana Bill thrown out

– counselling, community service proposed – re-offending and prison overcrowding addressed Kaieteur News – A majority vote by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government...

Bogus CANU rank for court today

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bogus CANU rank for court today

Kaieteur News – The bogus Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) rank caught trying to arrest a man for narcotics will face charges today in court. Police called him a CANU impersonator and...

Small, medium scale miners rake in US$808M in export earnings – GGDMA

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Small, medium scale miners rake in US$808M in export earnings – GGDMA

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s small and medium scale miners have accounted for more than 80% of the country’s gold production for 2020, raking in approximately US$808,587,118 in export earnings....

COVID-19 case toll increases with 90 new infections

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 case toll increases with 90 new infections

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health reported a whopping 90 new infections of the COVID-19 virus yesterday, via their daily dashboard update. This is the highest of numbers recorded for the...

Bandit gun-butt, rob church goers

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit gun-butt, rob church goers

Kaieteur News – A bandit on Wednesday night gun-butted a woman and robbed the other, moments after they left church and escaped in a silver-grey Toyota Fielder wagon. According to a police...

Griffith said he was very surprised with covid-19 test result

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Griffith said he was very surprised with covid-19 test result

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Guyana Jaguars opening batsman Trevon Griffith has tested positive for the Covid-19 virus and has been replaced by Essequibian Kemol Savory for the 2021 Regional...

Armed bandits rob Chinese supermarket

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits rob Chinese supermarket

Kaieteur News – Two armed bandits on Wednesday night robbed a Chinese supermarket located at Wales, West Bank Demerara. According to a police report, the owner of the People’s Supermarket,...

The PPP gas project of Wales Estate

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP gas project of Wales Estate

DEAR EDITOR, A month after the announcement of the planned Wales Estate gas to shore project and we still have not seen the promised feasibility study. In spite of repeated calls in all the media for...

GGA /Nexgen GA set to provide more opportunities for youths

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GGA /Nexgen GA set to provide more opportunities for youths

Kaieteur News – Golf was always sport for a certain sector of the population, and until recently it was a sport that not many Guyanese knew was available in their own country but that has all...

New roads could benefit from a broader perspective

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on New roads could benefit from a broader perspective

DEAR EDITOR, The recent discussion on the new roads to reduce congestion is a healthy one. Many have observed a number of concerns in the standards being implemented. It is CRG’s humble opinion...

ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE

Jan 29, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Public Works is hereby informing the general public that from Monday, February 1, 2021, the Annandale Bridge #1 on the Railway Embankment will be closed until...

Captains and Coaches talk up their chances of taking title

Jan 29, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Captains and Coaches talk up their chances of taking title

Kaieteur News – St John’s, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today confirmed a host of top West Indian players who will participate in February’s CG Insurance Super50 Cup, as all...

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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

Let us not be silent witnesses!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more