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Local business complains of uneven playing field on taxes

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local business complains of uneven playing field on taxes

Public consultation on local content policy: By Kemol King Kaieteur News – Tax administration in the local oil industry has been a sore point for years, mainly because a blanket waiver on all...

VP tells oil companies to rent, not purchase local properties

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on VP tells oil companies to rent, not purchase local properties

Kaieteur News – Instead of purchasing Guyanese property, Vice President (VP), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, wants oil companies operating in Guyana to rent them. During yesterday’s Draft Local Content...

Drifting boat with bodies found offshore Guyana

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Drifting boat with bodies found offshore Guyana

Kaieteur News – A boat, with decomposing bodies was found drifting off shore Guyana in the Atlantic Ocean. According to information Kaieteur News received yesterday, a supply vessel made the...

Local Content Policy to govern all sectors – Pres. Irfaan Ali

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy to govern all sectors – Pres. Irfaan Ali

Kaieteur News – President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, opened national consultations on the Local Content Policy yesterday, at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), during which he said that though...

AG goes after BK for millions owed in rent for Water Street Bond

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on AG goes after BK for millions owed in rent for Water Street Bond

Kaieteur News – Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Anil Nandlall, S.C., has moved to court to collect on outstanding arrears in rental for a Water Street, Kingston Georgetown bond...

Guyana and Suriname should partner to bring gas to shore – Suriname Oil Boss

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana and Suriname should partner to bring gas to shore – Suriname Oil Boss

Kaieteur News – Rudolf Elias, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of Suriname’s state oil company Staatsolie, has posited that Guyana and Suriname should work together...

Local operator defends right to hold two fishing licences

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local operator defends right to hold two fishing licences

As public debate continues… Kaieteur News – Citing the need for equal opportunities in the local fisheries sector, La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara businessman, Rampersaud Sookdeo, has...

US CDC lists Guyana as ‘high risk’ for COVID-19 transmission

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on US CDC lists Guyana as ‘high risk’ for COVID-19 transmission

By Sueann Wickham Kaieteur News – Guyana has been listed among the countries with Level Four COVID-19 transmission by the United States’ Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In...

We want to be de boss not de worker!

Feb 16, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We want to be de boss not de worker!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem boys nah understand why de Vee Pee keep harping about de total deposits in de banking system and how it cannot match de US$20B wah dem oil companies...

Jagdeo is waiting to welcome a ship that has already sailed

Feb 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo is waiting to welcome a ship that has already sailed

Kaieteur News – Jagdeo’s logic is twisted. Instead of making an argument that oil revenues will never be sufficient to allow Guyanese to not have to work, he should be asking himself why this...

No government is going to listen if you aren’t an example

Feb 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on No government is going to listen if you aren’t an example

Kaieteur News – There isn’t anything in this country that surprises me. Because of that attitude I just laugh at civil society in Guyana. Civil society has been reduced to clownish...

Dr. Vincent Adams on fire

Feb 16, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Dr. Vincent Adams on fire

Kaieteur News – It is no surprise that groups of powerful people have so many problems with Dr. Vincent Adams, former head of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after a...

Orientation held for domestic violence hotline operators

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Orientation held for domestic violence hotline operators

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Monday, hosted an orientation exercise for 17 domestic violence hotline operators. The operators will be manning the 914...

COVID vaccine response ‘tremendously good’ – Min Anthony

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on COVID vaccine response ‘tremendously good’ – Min Anthony

─ no adverse effects recorded Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Frank Anthony, is pleased with the response from health workers as it relates to the COVID-19 immunisation...

More than $70M budgeted to expand coconut industry

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on More than $70M budgeted to expand coconut industry

Kaieteur News – The Government has proposed an allocation of over $70 million in the 2021 National Budget to advance and further expand services provided at the Hope Coconut Industries Limited...

Body of miner found in mining pit area

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Body of miner found in mining pit area

Kaieteur News – The body of a young miner was yesterday discovered near a mining pit area, in Puruni, Region Seven. He has been identified as Manley Jacob of Sand Creek Village, South Rupununi,...

TOPCO launches range of one litre juices and juice drinks

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on TOPCO launches range of one litre juices and juice drinks

– DDL Group invests G$4B in new Tetra Pak plant – Local farmers to see increased demand for fresh fruits Kaieteur News – Tropical Orchard Products Company Limited (TOPCO), a...

2021 Budget will enhance well-being of all Guyanese – FITUG

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 2021 Budget will enhance well-being of all Guyanese – FITUG

– encourages business community to pass savings to consumers Kaieteur News – The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) having considered the 2021 National Budget is...

Arrests to be made following ‘shooting in air’ during party – Police Commander

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Arrests to be made following ‘shooting in air’ during party – Police Commander

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) ‘C’ Division is currently investigating a video that was posted on social media, which shows partygoers firing several rounds of gunshots in...

Teen hospitalized after ATV topples in Arakaka trail

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Teen hospitalized after ATV topples in Arakaka trail

Kaieteur News – A 19-year-old shopkeeper of Arakaka Compound, North West District, had to be air dashed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), due to the injuries he sustained...

GDF ranks under investigation for rape of girl, 15

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GDF ranks under investigation for rape of girl, 15

Kaieteur News – Five ranks from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a location in Mabaruma, North West District (NWD), Region One. According to...

Prosecution closes case for men accused of attempting to rob Republic Bank

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecution closes case for men accused of attempting to rob Republic Bank

Kaieteur News – Five years after the incident, the trial for the four men who are accused of attempting to rob Republic Bank, is finally coming to an end. The four men implicated in the botched...

David Patterson, Rawlston Adams denies defrauding Harbour Bridge of over $160M

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on David Patterson, Rawlston Adams denies defrauding Harbour Bridge of over $160M

Kaieteur News – Former Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, and Former General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC), Rawlston Adams, yesterday denied a...

$1B allocation for online scholarships

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $1B allocation for online scholarships

Kaieteur News – The Irfaan Ali administration is aiming to provide a large number of online scholarships through an allocation of $1 billion in this year’s National Budget. The revelation was...

Police investigate sudden death of toddler

Feb 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police investigate sudden death of toddler

Kaieteur News – Police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a toddler in Mabaruma, Region One. The child was pronounced dead around 00:00hrs Sunday by...

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Renuka, Mandhana consign West Indies to record loss

Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more