August 2021

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Countries vary widely on vaccine mandate implementation

Aug 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Countries vary widely on vaccine mandate implementation

By Allyiah Allicock Kaieteur News – The severity and highly contagious trait of the new strain of the COVID-19 virus, the Delta variant and the goal to achieve herd immunity has prompted many...

GEA to use part of US$21M IDB loan for women’s training programme

Aug 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GEA to use part of US$21M IDB loan for women’s training programme

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) in cooperation with the International Development Bank (IDB) is planning to provide training and development of market-based advisory for women,...

Democracy is not only fuh guvment

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Democracy is not only fuh guvment

Kaieteur News – Is time fuh change some ah dem leaders in we trade unions. Some ah dem nah fit and proper. Some ah dem bin condone de rigging of de elections. If dem support dat on a national...

We will not participate in LGE with Lowenfield, Myers and Mingo at the helm of GECOM – Dharamlall

Aug 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on We will not participate in LGE with Lowenfield, Myers and Mingo at the helm of GECOM – Dharamlall

Kaieteur News – Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall, recently stated that the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) government, will not participate in...

Funding, Coaching, upgrading & managing facilities crucial for Sports Development- GASAs President

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Funding, Coaching, upgrading & managing facilities crucial for Sports Development- GASAs President

Kaieteur News – By Sean Devers Dwayne Scott, who was elected president of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA), last year November, spoke about Guyanas swimmers performance in the...

W.J. Enterprise spot Caribbean Champion, Clarke

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on W.J. Enterprise spot Caribbean Champion, Clarke

Kaieteur News – Reigning Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Champion; Kerwin Clarke, has received more support as he aims to defend his title at the regional Championships that...

Three Region Four residents succumb to COVID-19

Aug 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Three Region Four residents succumb to COVID-19

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported that three more persons, who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this,...

VACCINE RESISTANCE

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VACCINE RESISTANCE

Kaieteur News – Vaccine hesitancy is now being replaced by vaccine resistance. There is a now movement brewing which is demanding respect for an unknown right of not having to take the vaccine....

Forbes Burnham: Granger’s vulgarisation of history

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Forbes Burnham: Granger’s vulgarisation of history

Kaieteur News – Once I have a keyboard, Forbes Burnham’s evil hegemony over the hapless and helpless Guyanese people I will record. Actually, one of the things I would like in life as time...

Man died of heart complications at Vendetta Backdam

Aug 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man died of heart complications at Vendetta Backdam

Kaieteur News – Michael Evans, 53 years old of Lot 296 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice (WCB), was found dead on Thursday at Vendetta Backdam, West Bank Berbice (WBB). According to police...

OP-ED: Government’s incremental transition to mandatory vaccination raises legal concerns

Aug 09, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on OP-ED: Government’s incremental transition to mandatory vaccination raises legal concerns

By Carlos Gonsalves Kaieteur News – As instances of COVID-19 variants continues to surge, multiple countries are beginning to contemplate the institution of mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for...

The Attorney General is popular but he disappoints on oil, local content, and other areas

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Attorney General is popular but he disappoints on oil, local content, and other areas

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a Dr. Vishnu Bisram poll revealing Attorney General Anil Nandlall as the most popular Minister in the government (KN Aug 7). That is not surprising; in my book, the...

The unequal deployment of vaccines is hurting many nations

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The unequal deployment of vaccines is hurting many nations

Dear Editor, Globally, this pandemic has exposed many existing political challenges. Failure to tackle unemployment, the accumulation of debt, and increases in the levels of inequality has and will...

A refusal to vaccinate puts your own life at risk as well as the lives of others

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on A refusal to vaccinate puts your own life at risk as well as the lives of others

Dear Editor, In 2020 I wrote, “any rational examination will lead to the conclusion that we cannot avoid COVID-19 infections and deaths and those most vulnerable should take as many precautions as...

The Sanzillo Report

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Sanzillo Report

Kaieteur News – The Sanzillo Report on the oil outlook for this country promises the hellish for Guyana. What should be a time of reaping and rejoicing for Guyanese, even the lowliest ones,...

It makes no sense to operate a business and not take adequate actions to protect your investment

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on It makes no sense to operate a business and not take adequate actions to protect your investment

Dear Editor, A few years ago, I’d written some letters citing my concerns about the installation of security cameras and their purposes. To date, my personal opinion is that even though many are...

The long-term implications for the oil and gas industry need not be “troubling” at all

Aug 09, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The long-term implications for the oil and gas industry need not be “troubling” at all

Dear Editor, Chatham House Fellow, Dr. Valerie Marcel has opined that Guyana could find itself facing the risks of oil dependence if it goes further into the abyss of fossil fuel development,...

Damning report published about Guyana’s oil earnings

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Damning report published about Guyana’s oil earnings

Kaieteur News – A damning report has emerged about Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil, Hess and CNOOC. Commissioned by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial...

Conservation International Guyana pulls out from US$10M Exxon funding

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Conservation International Guyana pulls out from US$10M Exxon funding

– Move reportedly over concerns about oil companies’ poor environmental practices Kaieteur News has learnt that Conservation International Guyana (CI-Guyana) has recently pulled out from a US...

More than 50% tainted by alarming acts of corruption

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on More than 50% tainted by alarming acts of corruption

…Fifteen companies submit bids to market Guyana’s oil Kaieteur News – Since issuing its Invitation For Bids (IFBs) in July for companies to submit bids to sell Guyana’s oil entitlement...

Exxon to deliberate on ‘Net-zero carbon emissions by 2050’ pledge

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon to deliberate on ‘Net-zero carbon emissions by 2050’ pledge

Kaieteur News – According to International media agency – Reuters, ExxonMobil Corporation is considering a pledge to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2050, according to sources...

Partisan politics responsible for Guyana’s 20-year impasse on judicial appointments of Chancellor, CJ

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Partisan politics responsible for Guyana’s 20-year impasse on judicial appointments of Chancellor, CJ

By Carlos Gonsalves Kaieteur News – A point of continuous embarrassment for Guyana’s judiciary, is that, for the past twenty years Guyana has remained without a substantive Chancellor and...

Crowbar might have killed worker, security guard found dead at mining camp

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Crowbar might have killed worker, security guard found dead at mining camp

Kaieteur News – It might have been a crowbar that was used to murder a security guard and another worker at a watchman’s camp close to their mining site in the Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni...

Evidence links Sophia man to crime – One more arrested

Aug 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Evidence links Sophia man to crime – One more arrested

Multi-million dollar gold heist… Kaieteur News – As investigations continue into a multi-million dollar gold heist which took place on Thursday, police have found evidence at a house located...

Vaccine gat more rights dan you and me

Aug 08, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Vaccine gat more rights dan you and me

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Even after TV come to Guyana, dem cinema bin close down. But even before dis happen dem boys bin stop going to de cinema. Every time dem boys go to de cinema is...

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Sinclair’s Central Retainer Contract reinstated by GCB

Oct 18, 2026

– GCB President commits to supporting Rehabilitation and Reintegration (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has announced the reinstatement of national cricketer Kevin...

The great old-age pension gold rush

Oct 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese aged 65 and over, who have spent decades living comfortably in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, are suddenly discovering that the land of their birth has something more attractive than pepperpot and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). It has an old-age...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

EPA Director, Parsram

Oct 18, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – My good friend, Mr. Khemraj Parsram is at it again. Trying his hand at being a jester. He should stick to his role as Guyana’s EPA Director, which is proving to be more than a handful for him. The man should collect war pay for his heroic efforts to...

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