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More shares sold in “suspiciously awarded” Kaieteur Oil Block

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on More shares sold in “suspiciously awarded” Kaieteur Oil Block

Kaieteur News – Cataleya Energy Limited (CEL), the company that was first awarded the Kaieteur Block in 2015 by former President, Donald Ramotar, has sold one fifth of its 25 percent working...

Oil benefits must pass on to all sectors of society

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil benefits must pass on to all sectors of society

– President Ali in Independence Address Kaieteur News – Guyana today observes its 55th Anniversary as an independent nation, and with its newfound oil wealth, is on the cusp of unprecedented...

UN SG tells world leaders that mineral resources must benefit all people, not just elites

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on UN SG tells world leaders that mineral resources must benefit all people, not just elites

Global Roundtable on Transforming Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development… …calls independent monitoring by civil society “essential” Secretary General of the United Nations...

Cash-strapped GWI spent $30M on 2018 Christmas party, Anniversary retreat

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Cash-strapped GWI spent $30M on 2018 Christmas party, Anniversary retreat

Kaieteur News – The cash-strapped Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) utility company in 2018, under the then leadership of Managing Director, Dr. Richard Van West-Charles, reportedly spent some...

City Council to publish list of beneficiaries of ‘Royston King approved’ leases

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on City Council to publish list of beneficiaries of ‘Royston King approved’ leases

Kaieteur News – Months after a decision was taken to cancel all leases approved by former Town Clerk, Royston King, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced a move to...

Woman scolded daughter, 11, when she complained about relative raping her – Police

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Woman scolded daughter, 11, when she complained about relative raping her – Police

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday reported that a woman had scolded her 11-year-old girl daughter after she complained about being raped by an adult male relative. The...

Samoan PM refuses to concede defeat after 22-year rule

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Samoan PM refuses to concede defeat after 22-year rule

MPs forced to swear in first female PM under tent outside parliament (DW) In dramatic scenes in the Pacific country of Samoa, MPs have convened an ad hoc swearing-in ceremony outside parliament and...

Independence come and gone!

May 26, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Independence come and gone!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem Boys bin remember when de Golden Arrowhead was raised at de National Park and people was so happy dem cry. And dem party all night. But de next day dem...

Why are we poor?

May 26, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why are we poor?

Kaieteur News – People should listen more to Glenn Lall. His is not a rant about the wrongs, which have been committed against Guyana by foreign companies working in cahoots with our leaders....

The psychic make-up of a nation 55 years after Independence

May 26, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The psychic make-up of a nation 55 years after Independence

Kaieteur News – I live directly opposite the massive Caribbean owned supermarket, Massy Mega. I go to Massy Mega almost daily. As I turn north from the Railway Embankment onto the street that...

Guyana at 55

May 26, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyana at 55

Kaieteur News – Today, the country celebrates its 55th Anniversary as an independent nation. Independence itself is a tenuous, patchwork thing. It implies a birth and purity of a nation when it...

Pensioner receives broken knee after being hit by car

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner receives broken knee after being hit by car

Kaieteur News – A pensioner is now hospitalised after being struck down by a motorcar yesterday while attempting to cross the road. According to a police report, the woman, who is identified as...

Taxi-driver robbed, gun-butted by customers in Agricola

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi-driver robbed, gun-butted by customers in Agricola

Kaieteur News – A taxi-driver who thought he was about to conduct his normal pickup and drop off routine in Agricola, was on Monday night robbed and gun-butted by three persons who posed as...

No provision exists for post audit of flaring activities, operator only needs to keep records for three years – Ram

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on No provision exists for post audit of flaring activities, operator only needs to keep records for three years – Ram

ExxonMobil’s modified Permit… Kaieteur News – Following his perusal of the recently modified Environmental Permit on matters of flaring for ExxonMobil’s Liza Phase One operations,...

INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE FROM LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, MR. JOSEPH HARMON, M.P.

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE FROM LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, MR. JOSEPH HARMON, M.P.

Kaieteur News – On the occasion of Guyana’s 55th Anniversary I extend greetings to all Guyanese including those in the Diaspora and our indigenous brothers and sisters who first inhabited...

Independence Day Messages

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Independence Day Messages

Kaieteur News – Today we at Kaieteur News join with the rest of the Nation to celebrate our 55th Independence Anniversary. In doing so we recognise that it was because of our resilience that we...

Seventeen Haitians packed on to return flight yesterday

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Seventeen Haitians packed on to return flight yesterday

– GPF says they failed to satisfy immigration requirements Seventeen out of 61 Haitians who had arrived in Guyana recently, were yesterday packed on a return flight and sent back to their port...

Govt. terminates BK contract for Good Hope Secondary School

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. terminates BK contract for Good Hope Secondary School

Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana has terminated the $800M contract of BK International for the construction of the Good Hope Secondary School. According to a letter signed by Attorney...

Woman remanded who killed husband as he was trying to “put her out”

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Woman remanded who killed husband as he was trying to “put her out”

Kaieteur News – The Cuban National who was arrested for allegedly stabbing her husband to death while he was trying to physically remove her from their home, was yesterday remanded to prison...

Foreigner who assaulted local worker out of the country – Home Affairs Minister

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Foreigner who assaulted local worker out of the country – Home Affairs Minister

Kaieteur News – Home Affairs Minister, Robeson Benn, has informed Kaieteur News that the foreigner, who was caught on camera assaulting a local worker at a mining camp, is currently out of the...

Govt. is no scapegoat for City Council’s failures – President Ali

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. is no scapegoat for City Council’s failures – President Ali

Kaieteur News – President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, has said that while the welfare of the capital city remains paramount, Government will not allow itself to be used as a scapegoat when the Georgetown...

17-year-old among seven persons who died from COVID-19

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 17-year-old among seven persons who died from COVID-19

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that seven more persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have died over a three-day period. Among those...

Minister Dharamlall awarded $10M to contractor to fix two rows of stall roofs – City Mayor

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Dharamlall awarded $10M to contractor to fix two rows of stall roofs – City Mayor

– contractor uses old wood Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall, has reportedly awarded a $10M contract to a contractor to repair two rows of stall roofs in...

Two defendants lead their defence

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Two defendants lead their defence

Money changer and daughter murder PI… Kaieteur News – The two defendants accused of murdering money changer, Aaron Latchman and his daughter, 18-year-old Arianna Latchman, during June 2019,...

Second suspect remanded with murder of 10-year-old

May 26, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Second suspect remanded with murder of 10-year-old

Kaieteur News – The second suspect, who was recently arrested in relation to the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort, was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing in court. The 29-year-old...

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Guyanese boxers shine at T&T National Boxing Championships

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more