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EPA replaces new guidelines with outdated model 6 days before asking ExxonMobil to do EIA for US$900M gas-to-energy project

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA replaces new guidelines with outdated model 6 days before asking ExxonMobil to do EIA for US$900M gas-to-energy project

Kaieteur News – On June 22, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it had taken the decision to withdraw the Revised Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines...

Guyanese oil and gas workers complain of mistreatment – GAWU

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese oil and gas workers complain of mistreatment – GAWU

Kaieteur News – In a statement to the media yesterday, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) disclosed that it is in receipt of numerous complaints from Guyanese who say they...

Lowenfield takes court action to prevent Govt. commissioners from participating in his dismissal

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Lowenfield takes court action to prevent Govt. commissioners from participating in his dismissal

Kaieteur News – Embattled Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, has filed an application in the High Court seeking several actions, one of which...

Man who crushed goldsmith to death charged, placed on $500,000 bail

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man who crushed goldsmith to death charged, placed on $500,000 bail

Kaieteur News – Thirty-four year-old Tillackram Dindial, a truck driver of Lot 21 Hope West, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on Monday after he ran over a goldsmith with his truck. He...

Man in custody for raping 16-year-old

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man in custody for raping 16-year-old

Kaieteur News – A 21-year-old man was on Thursday taken into police custody after it was alleged that he raped a 16-year-old girl sometime in August last year. Kaieteur News learnt that the...

Police officer committed to stand trial for rape of minor

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police officer committed to stand trial for rape of minor

Kaieteur News – A police officer, Michael Kendall, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the alleged rape of a minor. Kendall was committed to the High Court using the...

Drap to spat!

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Drap to spat!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Guyanese nah easy! Dem does do things in dem country wah dem nah risk overseas. De authorities establish bus staps on most of de bus routes in de city. But...

Granger may be old but he is not cold!

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Granger may be old but he is not cold!

Kaieteur News – The reasons why many persons are leaving the PNC/R have nothing to do with the party’s leadership. Those who are leaving, however, may genuinely believe that one of the...

The story of how Gregory Smith came into Walter Rodney’s life

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The story of how Gregory Smith came into Walter Rodney’s life

Kaieteur News – When the circumstances of Walter Rodney’s assassination became clarified, immediately after his death, Caribbean intellectual giant, CLR James, later wrote that what Rodney...

Haiti – a different kind of attempted overthrow

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Haiti – a different kind of attempted overthrow

Kaieteur News – The last thing that struggling Haiti needed to occur was this bloody assassination of its unsteady and under siege President, Jovenel Moise. We say bloody because it was a...

South Korea helps GRA with Customs Administration Modernisation Project

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on South Korea helps GRA with Customs Administration Modernisation Project

Kaieteur News – In keeping with an aid agreement between Korea Customs Service (KCS) – a tax organization in South Korea under the Ministry of Economy and Finance – and the Guyana...

CDB President visits Guyana

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CDB President visits Guyana

Kaieteur News – Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance in the Office of the President, Dr. Ashni K. Singh, warmly welcomed newly-appointed President of the Caribbean Development Bank...

Health Ministry records 3 more COVID-19 deaths

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry records 3 more COVID-19 deaths

– 1 child remains in ICU Kaieteur News – Yesterday the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported that another three persons who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease have...

DJ on bail for playing loud music

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on DJ on bail for playing loud music

Kaieteur News – Popular Disc Jockey (DJ), Tony Bowen called “Mix Master Tony,” was yesterday placed on $10,000 bail when he appeared before a City Magistrate for allegedly playing loud...

Driver who caused death of Venezuelan woman in Stewartville accident gets $880,000 bail

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Driver who caused death of Venezuelan woman in Stewartville accident gets $880,000 bail

Kaieteur News – Thirty-three-year-old Anthony Ralph, the driver of the motor car that was involved in the horrific accident at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara (WCD), last month, which claimed...

Children urged to participate in exciting new ‘Expressive Visual Arts’ competition

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Children urged to participate in exciting new ‘Expressive Visual Arts’ competition

Kaieteur News – Children between the ages of seven and 12 years old will have the opportunity to partake in a fun initiative called the ‘Expressive Visual Arts’ competition that will be...

McCoy, Walsh Jr. and Russell hand West Indies series lead

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on McCoy, Walsh Jr. and Russell hand West Indies series lead

CG Insurance T20I… Kaieteur News – The West Indies fought back to acquire an 18-run victory in opening game of the five match T20I series against Australia last night at the Daren Sammy...

GGA & Nexgen Golf Academy Programme deemed a success Another set for August

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GGA & Nexgen Golf Academy Programme deemed a success Another set for August

Kaieteur News – With 60 players from ages 4-17 enrolled in the Guyana Golf Association and Nexgen Golf Academy programme, parents and children are calling for another such camp and the demand...

Nabaclis WUA gets tractor-driven pump

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Nabaclis WUA gets tractor-driven pump

– As Ministry works to resuscitate agriculture production Kaieteur News – Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, recently handed over a tractor-driven pump to the Nabaclis Water Users...

Matthews and Mohammed magic give West Indies 2-0 lead over Pakistan

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Matthews and Mohammed magic give West Indies 2-0 lead over Pakistan

Kaieteur News – Another clinical performance from West Indies Women’s saw them dominate Pakistan Women as they easily won the second CG Insurance One-Day International, yesterday. The home...

Over $340 million in contracts inked as Agri. Ministry moves forward with 2021 work programme

Jul 10, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Over $340 million in contracts inked as Agri. Ministry moves forward with 2021 work programme

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Agriculture on July 7 hosted a contract signing, as it advances the execution of its 2021 work programme. The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) inked three...

Boxing team off to Mexico for AMBC Youth Qualifiers Jackman and Inverary misses flight

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing team off to Mexico for AMBC Youth Qualifiers Jackman and Inverary misses flight

Kaieteur News – A five-member team consisting of Coach Terrence Poole, Travis Inverary, Alesha Jackman, Wayne Castello and Patrick Harvey were scheduled to leave the shores of the ‘Land of...

New political realities in Guyana

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on New political realities in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – Within recent times, we have witnessed not exactly an exodus but a noticeable movement of individuals away from the APNU+AFC Coalition. And while there may be...

Wave energy is on the horizon

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wave energy is on the horizon

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – The USA recently announced that its Department of Energy will be investing US$27M to develop wave energy technology and make it more commercially viable. The UK is...

Mismanaged and special

Jul 10, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mismanaged and special

DEAR EDITOR, Kaieteur News – I read, with great amusement a letter by Juan Edghill, in which he claimed that “the PPP/C Government inherited a failed, mismanaged, non-implementing project...