February 12, 2021

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Suriname gets parent companies to take full responsibility of oil spills

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname gets parent companies to take full responsibility of oil spills

– Oil Boss says “Subsidiaries are nothing, you have to get insurance from parent company” By Mikaila Prince Kaieteur News – Suriname leaves no stone unturned when it comes to...

President Ali says nothing about securing better Exxon deal or insurance coverage for Guyana

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on President Ali says nothing about securing better Exxon deal or insurance coverage for Guyana

…in inaugural address to National Assembly By Shikema Dey Kaieteur News – While his inaugural address to Guyana’s National Assembly yesterday lasted approximately one and half hours,...

Govt. makes no headway in disclosing Omai, other mining contracts

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. makes no headway in disclosing Omai, other mining contracts

Six months in office… Kaieteur News – Implementing countries like Guyana, under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), are encouraged to publicly disclose any contracts and...

Pres. Ali to lead consultation on Guyana’s Draft Local Content Policy next Monday

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Pres. Ali to lead consultation on Guyana’s Draft Local Content Policy next Monday

Kaieteur News – President, Irfaan Ali is expected to host next Monday, a stakeholders’ consultation to discuss Guyana’s Local Content Policy and to receive feedback and comments for its...

Woman 21, found electrocuted with live wire in hand

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Woman 21, found electrocuted with live wire in hand

Kaieteur News – A squatter was reportedly found on Wednesday, electrocuted in the front yard of her home at the La Retraite Squatting area, West Bank Demerara (WBD). The woman has since been...

50-year-old businessman drops dead at hotel

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 50-year-old businessman drops dead at hotel

Kaieteur News – A businessman, on Wednesday last, collapsed and died in a hotel on the West Coast of Demerara. Dead is Maurice Watson, 50, of Graham Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara. A...

Guyana will be no pawn or puppet of foreign powers – Pres. Irfaan Ali

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana will be no pawn or puppet of foreign powers – Pres. Irfaan Ali

Kaieteur News – As he unveiled the country’s National Defence Policy, President Irfaan Ali, proclaimed yesterday that Guyana will not be a “pawn or puppet” of any foreign power when it...

Police to take action against family which placed casket in front of station

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police to take action against family which placed casket in front of station

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has stated that firm actions will be taken against the family who on Wednesday placed a casket with a corpse in front of the Sparendaam Police...

Pillow talk!

Feb 12, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Pillow talk!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – If you didn’t fall asleep yesterday listening to Prezzie, den yuh probably had an energy drink. Like de Prezzie bin trying fuh out do Fidel Castro who used...

The PPP is not a pro-poor party

Feb 12, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The PPP is not a pro-poor party

Kaieteur News – The ideological confusion in which the PPP/C finds itself is best captured by the comment that today’s Budget is pro-poor and pro-entrepreneurial. In other words, it is...

This Is Wildness!

Feb 12, 2021 KNEWS Peeping Tom Comments Off on This Is Wildness!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPPC) is many things. But as time has shown, it is also adept at getting its priorities in exactly the wrong order....

Guyana: SOPs and the insane fooling of people

Feb 12, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: SOPs and the insane fooling of people

Kaieteur News – My column of October 7, 2012, looked at the philosophical and psychological meaning of the old movie, “12 Angry Men.” I argued in that column that the human mind is capable...

Exxon faces ratings cut

Feb 12, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Exxon faces ratings cut

Kaieteur News – Limping American oil giant, ExxonMobil, is facing a new challenge from a different source. This is what was covered in an article by Bloomberg on January 26, that was captioned,...

Man disappears in lake during swim with girlfriend

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man disappears in lake during swim with girlfriend

Kaieteur News – A midday swim in the Blue Lake at Kara Kara, Linden, ended in tragedy yesterday for a young couple, after one of them went under and failed to resurface. Feared drowned is Kemo...

Neglect by teachers in pandemic hampering students’ development-Min. Manickchand

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Neglect by teachers in pandemic hampering students’ development-Min. Manickchand

Kaieteur News – Following a number of disappointing reports of teachers not engaging their students during virtual online sessions, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has stated that...

PM to head “One Guyana Commission”

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on PM to head “One Guyana Commission”

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali, disclosed during his inaugural address to the National Assembly yesterday, that the nation can look forward to the launch of a “One Guyana Commission,”...

Ten samples sent to CARPHA to test for new COVID-19 variants cleared

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Ten samples sent to CARPHA to test for new COVID-19 variants cleared

Kaieteur News – The Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, yesterday announced that the 10 samples that were sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) to test for the new variants of...

Wakapoa Residents appeal for improved healthcare

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Wakapoa Residents appeal for improved healthcare

Kaieteur News – The residents of Wakapoa, Lower Pomeroon, are making several applications to the Government of Guyana, for an improved healthcare system within their Indigenous community. Their...

Man accused of killing mother-in-law committed to stand trial

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man accused of killing mother-in-law committed to stand trial

Kaieteur News – A 28-year-old security guard was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder of his mother-in-law, who was killed in May of last year. The Preliminary...

Health Ministry reports two more COVID-19 deaths

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry reports two more COVID-19 deaths

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday reported two new COVID-19 fatalities, an 83-year-old from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and a 90-year-old from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice)....

Government rolls out COVID-19 immunization

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Government rolls out COVID-19 immunization

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health, kick-started its COVID-19 immunization programme yesterday, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) using the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19...

GECOM DCEO election fraud charges to continue indictably

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM DCEO election fraud charges to continue indictably

Kaieteur News – The electoral fraud charges against Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Roxanne Myers, will continue being heard indictably. On...

US Embassy partners with judiciary to boost public confidence in court system

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy partners with judiciary to boost public confidence in court system

Kaieteur Newas – The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown has announced a new partnership with the Judiciary of Guyana, to assist the development of an automated court case management system. According...

Child killer sentenced to life imprisonment

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Child killer sentenced to life imprisonment

Kaieteur News – “I feel pleased that Hillary Edwards is in the law’s hands now,” were the words of Orin Archibald, eldest brother of raped and murdered Sister’s Village, East Bank...

Norway Wealth Fund Dumps Oil Stocks Amid US$10 Billion Loss

Feb 12, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Norway Wealth Fund Dumps Oil Stocks Amid US$10 Billion Loss

(Bloomberg) – Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has sold its entire portfolio of companies focused on oil exploration and production, marking a major step away from fossil fuels for the...

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Stanton Rose keeps Guyana’s AmeriCup qualification hopes alive

Jul 11, 2026

…Guyana to face Bermuda in final match tonight By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – Guyana kept its FIBA AmeriCup Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers campaign on course with an impressive 68-53 victory over...

A Commission of Inquiry is not a fishing expedition

Jul 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Christopher Ram’s latest letter (Kiskadee Watch, July 9th 2026) culminates with what is intended to be its most dramatic flourish: a demand that President Irfaan Ali establish a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to investigate every aspect of his agricultural enterprise. It is...

The Beacon of Freedom Seen Across Oceans: Reflections on 250 Years of...

Jul 05, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Two hundred and fifty years ago, in the sweltering heat of a Philadelphia summer, a small group of men did something without precedent in modern history. They gathered, argued, deliberated, and then signed their names to a declaration that was a...

The Ali farm – from bankroller to blackmailer

Jul 11, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Almost without exception, Guyanese across the board, are familiar about the kind of upstanding citizen and leader that Pres. Ali is. They have a good idea about the quality of his character, the beauties of his activities. Their leader is a winner. ...

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