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Loophole allows US $Bs to be withheld from Guyana to pay oil costs — Sanzillo

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Loophole allows US $Bs to be withheld from Guyana to pay oil costs — Sanzillo

Exxon Contract… Kaieteur News – The Guyana Government failed to protect itself from front-loaded costs in its oil and gas contract signed with ExxonMobil and its partners and as such, receipt...

Guyana loses US$1M daily in rental for 24 supply boats for Exxon

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana loses US$1M daily in rental for 24 supply boats for Exxon

…Pays US$43,000 more per boat, per day than Suriname, T&T Kaieteur News – Guyana in 2016 inked a Production Sharing Agreement with Esso Exploration Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and...

Plane crash lands in swamp at Eccles backlands

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Plane crash lands in swamp at Eccles backlands

– Pilot thanks God for life as passengers escape with minor injuries Kaieteur News – A pilot, Learie Barclay, yesterday thanked God for life after the aircraft he was piloting with a...

Teixeira admonishes accounting officers to stop paying public servants who fail to show up for work

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Teixeira admonishes accounting officers to stop paying public servants who fail to show up for work

Kaieteur News – Minister of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs, Gail Teixeira has admonished accounting officers from the various Ministries to stop paying workers who fail to show up to...

China snatches up 17 struggling UK schools

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on China snatches up 17 struggling UK schools

Kaieteur News – Hundreds of independent schools left in dire financial straits by the coronavirus pandemic are being targeted by Chinese investors, The Mail online UK has revealed. According to...

De lotta company should gat a vaccination jackpot

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De lotta company should gat a vaccination jackpot

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De best way to get people to tek de vaccines is to offer incentive. Dem boys feels dat if de lottery company offer a G$10M prize for all who tek de vaccine,...

The politics of failure

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The politics of failure

Kaieteur News – Cheddi Jagan was an unrepentant socialist. A number of his followers, who later became part the government when democracy was restored in 1992, received ideological training and...

Big verbal clash with David Patterson last Friday evening

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Big verbal clash with David Patterson last Friday evening

Kaieteur News – Ogle airport engineer, Raymond Persaud, and his wife Dawn, are personal friends that prior to the COVID-19 restrictions, my dog and I spent a lot of time with. They live right...

What PPP leaders want for oil, PPP leaders will get

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on What PPP leaders want for oil, PPP leaders will get

Kaieteur News – “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets” was a big song back in 1955, given glamorous treatment by the likes of Carmen McRae and Dinah Shore, but it was torch singer and blues...

GUYANA RECORDS THREE FURTHER DEATHS; 111 NEW INFECTIONS

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANA RECORDS THREE FURTHER DEATHS; 111 NEW INFECTIONS

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MoH) in its daily update yesterday, August 14, on the SARS-CoV-2 virus has announced that we have unfortunately lost three additional persons to the...

A CREATIVE ERA BETWEEN GUYANA AND ITS DIASPORA BEGINS

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on A CREATIVE ERA BETWEEN GUYANA AND ITS DIASPORA BEGINS

By Pat Dial Kaieteur NeAfter World War II, the European Empires, in particular the British and French went through a period of rapid decolonisation leading to the emergence of a large number of new...

SHOPPING BACK TO SCHOOL FOOTWEAR FOR CHILDREN – ARE THEY MEETING THE STANDARDS?

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on SHOPPING BACK TO SCHOOL FOOTWEAR FOR CHILDREN – ARE THEY MEETING THE STANDARDS?

Kaieteur News – Footwear refers to apparels worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment, such as ground textures and temperature....

Emancipation 2021… Ali administration wins high accolades on cohesion commitments

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation 2021… Ali administration wins high accolades on cohesion commitments

…as US Govt. pledges tangible support to local Business Umbrella Body By Gary Eleazar Kaieteur News – Descendants of African slaves brought to the West Indies including Guyana, observe...

This pandemic is at the crossroads; we can control where it goes

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on This pandemic is at the crossroads; we can control where it goes

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center Kaieteur News – The new wave from the Delta variant is shaking the world and it may have reached our...

Coalition MPs and supporters before the court

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition MPs and supporters before the court

The Court Journal… Kaieteur News – Since the change of Government in August 2020, a number of A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition members were...

Shrew opossum

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Shrew opossum

Interesting Creature… Kaieteur News – The family Caenolestidae contains the seven surviving species of the shrew opossum: small, shrew-like marsupials that are confined to the Andes mountains...

Op-Ed: Without diesel power the wheels of industries will grind to a halt

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Op-Ed: Without diesel power the wheels of industries will grind to a halt

By Harold Beharry Kaieteur News – The diesel engine was invented by Dr. Rudolf Diesel in 1897. He was from Germany and a mechanical engineer by profession. The diesel engine is a...

GOAL scholarships, freight reductions, loyalists and their own

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on GOAL scholarships, freight reductions, loyalists and their own

Encouraging Events, Disturbing Developments… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – There were two positive developments, compliments of the PPP Government, which I hail. The first was the newspaper...

Petterson-Griffith to represent the ‘Golden Arrowhead’ at the 2021 World Classic Powerlifting C/ship

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Petterson-Griffith to represent the ‘Golden Arrowhead’ at the 2021 World Classic Powerlifting C/ship

By Franklin Wilson Kaieteur News – It has always been his dream to represent his nation on the biggest stage of a sport he has dominated and excelled in, for 27 year-old Carlos ‘The Show...

Are people in the Caribbean becoming architects of their own destruction?

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Are people in the Caribbean becoming architects of their own destruction?

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The question has to be asked. Are some people in Caribbean countries becoming the architects of their own and the Region’s destruction? There is clearly...

WI Over 50s embarks on its 1st Trilateral series in Canada

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on WI Over 50s embarks on its 1st Trilateral series in Canada

Kaieteur News – Our West Indies masters, which is administered by Cricket West Indies Masters Association (CWIMA), proceed on their first tour outside of the Over 50s World Cup. The very first...

Lam and Primus register wins in FIDE youth world cup

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lam and Primus register wins in FIDE youth world cup

Kaieteur News – Six rounds of the International Chess Federation’s (FIDE) Youth and Cadet World Cup has been completed and the Guyana under-14 team have found it tough to maintain mental...

Retired Nurse, Merlene Johnson, is a ‘Special Person’

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Retired Nurse, Merlene Johnson, is a ‘Special Person’

With over 30 years of selfless service to Guyana’s health care sector… “Over the years as I go about my daily life, people would stop and thank me for the care I extended to either them or a...

18th NAPF/FESUPO Pan-American Regional Powerlifting C/ships

Aug 15, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on 18th NAPF/FESUPO Pan-American Regional Powerlifting C/ships

GAPLF confident Team Guyana will continue tradition of success By Franklin Wilson The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) is quietly confident that the tradition of success at...

‘Savoir Hair’ and ‘Aurascape’ …The ambitious ventures of Samira Duncan

Aug 15, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Savoir Hair’ and ‘Aurascape’ …The ambitious ventures of Samira Duncan

“Regardless of what the government can do for you, it’s a lot more beneficial to learn and try to get your stuff done for yourself, making the right connections and improving for yourself....

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No immigrant should feel safe in America today

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There was a time when an illegal immigrant in America could live in the shadows with some... more