April 2021

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Teams in New Amsterdam/Canje to contest BCB/J Supermarket 40-overs tourney

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams in New Amsterdam/Canje to contest BCB/J Supermarket 40-overs tourney

Kaieteur News – The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Wednesday last unveiled another tournament as it continues to prepare for another restart to the 2021 season. The Board had placed a hold on...

Pomeroon XI overcome Essequibo Coast XI in U19 fixture

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pomeroon XI overcome Essequibo Coast XI in U19 fixture

Kaieteur News – Host Pomeroon XI overcome Essequibo Coast XI via net run rate after rain halted play when the teams collided in an U19 40-over fixture on Sunday last. Essequibo Coast XI elected...

Opposition briefed on ExxonMobil’s gas compressor problems

Apr 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition briefed on ExxonMobil’s gas compressor problems

…wants issues resolved urgently to return to optimum production Kaieteur News – A team of Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs), led by Joseph Harmon, yesterday met with President of...

Guyana lost before the first whistle

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana lost before the first whistle

By Calvin Chapman Kaieteur News – Last week was significant for local basketball as the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) for the first time in history had their senior men’s team...

Let’s all support the hardworking crime fighting ranks

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s all support the hardworking crime fighting ranks

DEAR EDITOR, It is important for us as Guyanese to give credit where credit is due. As I reflect on the tenure of the APNU+AFC, one thing is clear: the coalition failed miserably at addressing crime...

Whatever happened to accountability and transparency?

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Whatever happened to accountability and transparency?

DEAR EDITOR, First the incredulous query was: why did they go to the media? Now the company will not negotiate with the union in the media. Is the media the scapegoat when officials are cornered?...

Discussing the ‘principle of fairness’

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Discussing the ‘principle of fairness’

DEAR EDITOR, I take the opportunity to comment on Eusi Kwayana’s letter of 18 April, in which he discusses the ‘principle of fairness.’ The contents of Kwayana’s letter are fundamentally...

Cost of living is manageable now

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cost of living is manageable now

DEAR EDITOR, I do not profess to have an Economics Degree, but I am well read and capable of distinguishing facts from fictitious and suspect writing. Recently, I came across a piece which I read...

We must sit and talk in a civilised manner

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must sit and talk in a civilised manner

DEAR EDITOR, After the horrors, trauma and tribulations of slavery and indentureship, except for brief moments, we have failed to make optimum use of our enormous natural resources. We recite the...

Ongoing conflicts of interest

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ongoing conflicts of interest

DEAR EDITOR, This has reference to the scandal relating to former GuyOil General Manager, Mr. Trevor Bassoo, (KN Apr. 21 and 22). Was Mr. Bassoo involved in wrongdoings or was it a few others on the...

GuySuCo already in deep trouble

Apr 23, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo already in deep trouble

DEAR EDITOR, Why am I not surprised by the caption on the front page of a popular newspaper which reads, ‘Top-heavy GuySuCo Management can discourage workers’? This leech-like growth has been...

Natural gas electricity plants now less competitive than renewables

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Natural gas electricity plants now less competitive than renewables

…power companies saddled with billions in assets they can’t sell—Bloomberg Report “If you find out somebody who is ready to offer a good price for our gas plants in Spain, then we are ready...

Fixing Liza Destiny’s gas compressor woes could last three months

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fixing Liza Destiny’s gas compressor woes could last three months

– In the meantime, daily production ramped up by 80,000 barrels Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil Guyana disclosed yesterday that it has finally removed the discharge silencer, a component of...

Charlestown man executed on Drysdale Street

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Charlestown man executed on Drysdale Street

– reportedly begged for life before being riddled with bullets Kaieteur News – An elderly woman was last night disturbed from her rest by the sound of gunshots. A short while later she...

Health Minister advises against use of alcohol 24hrs. before and after COVID-19 jab

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister advises against use of alcohol 24hrs. before and after COVID-19 jab

Kaieteur News – Out of an abundance of caution, the Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, is advising against the use of alcohol 24 hours before one is to take a COVID-19 vaccine and 24 hours...

Trevor Benn charged for selling State land for four times less than initial value

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Trevor Benn charged for selling State land for four times less than initial value

Kaieteur News – Former Head of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), Trevor Benn, yesterday made another court appearance after he was charged for misconducting himself in public...

Govt. unable to pronounce on end to blackouts – AG Nandlall

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. unable to pronounce on end to blackouts – AG Nandlall

Kaieteur News – Government is at present unable to pronounce on when the recent spate of blackouts plaguing the country would end, but the phenomenon is, in part, behind the push for a...

Boat operator gets 75 years for murder of Brazilian miner

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Boat operator gets 75 years for murder of Brazilian miner

Kaieteur News – Oneal Griffith, a boat operator from Linden, Region 10, was yesterday sentenced to 75 years in prison for the murder of Brazilian miner, Braz Alves Dos Santos. The sentence was...

Guyana significantly overwhelmed by challenge of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana significantly overwhelmed by challenge of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – The absence of key resources to do proper monitoring of the nation’s sea space as well as to collect data from fishermen has left Guyana unable to tackle the...

Bandits use glass-cutter to steal cash, laptop from car

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits use glass-cutter to steal cash, laptop from car

Kaieteur News – Bandits reportedly used a glass-cutter to gain access to a teacher’s car from which they stole over $200,000 in cash, a laptop and documents. The incident reportedly...

Fishing competition to be held soon!

Apr 22, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Fishing competition to be held soon!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – A competition planning and it gan be held soon. Dem boys hearing how it gonna become a fishy affair with plenty of rank and stickiness. De event, dem boys...

Dictators snatch your freedom

Apr 22, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Dictators snatch your freedom

Kaieteur News – In 1978, a movie was released by United Artistes. The Wild Geese was not a spectacular box office hit but given that it was a form of action movie, it did reasonably well to...

Mahadai Das, Heidegger, the AFC’s young Turks and the Übermensch

Apr 22, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mahadai Das, Heidegger, the AFC’s young Turks and the Übermensch

Kaieteur News – The richest and most absorbing philosophy book – “Being and Time” – that has been written was done in 1928 by a German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, who had a...

Why an Integrity Commission?

Apr 22, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Why an Integrity Commission?

Kaieteur News – Do we need an Integrity Commission? The one that we have, is it functioning as an Integrity Commission should? If it does, then how can it be improved? If it doesn’t fulfill...

Police investigating North Road shooting incident

Apr 22, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police investigating North Road shooting incident

Kaieteur News – Detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred yesterday on North Road in the vicinity of Carmax Auto Spares. So far, investigators have detained one individual for...

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APOLOGY AND RETRACTION TO MR. DEVINDRA KISSOON

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(Kaieteur News) – On April 29, 2026, I published in Kaieteur News, as part of The GHK Lall Column, a piece entitled “A special kind of lawyering, and at its best” (the “Column”). Mr. Kissoon has never acted for the Government on the Gas-to-Energy Project. He has never received any...

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