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Residents bash EPA decision to exempt Trini Company’s cement facility from EIA

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Residents bash EPA decision to exempt Trini Company’s cement facility from EIA

– Fear project poses serious health risks to communities – Expose misleading information in project document By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – The intention of Trinidadian firm,...

Guyana among regional beneficiaries to get COVID-19 testing kits from Japan

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana among regional beneficiaries to get COVID-19 testing kits from Japan

Kaieteur News – Thanks to a bilateral cooperation programme, the Japan-CARICOM Friendship and Cooperation Fund, the CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory (CMML) received twenty-three (23)...

Four companies bid to fix ‘new’ CJIA roof

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Four companies bid to fix ‘new’ CJIA roof

– Ministry estimate is $23.2M Kaieteur News – During the opening of Tenders yesterday, at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), four construction firms bided...

Guyana’s proven reserves climbs to over 10 billion barrels — Exxon

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s proven reserves climbs to over 10 billion barrels — Exxon

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s recoverable oil resources increased to over 10 billion oil equivalent barrels with the newest Cataback-1 well discovery according to the Ministry of Natural...

Women abducted by gunmen in front home, duct taped, robbed

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Women abducted by gunmen in front home, duct taped, robbed

Kaieteur News – A 40-year-old businesswoman and a 21-year-old housewife, who were conversing outside of their Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara (WBD) apartment, were abducted, duct taped, tied...

Man stages own car theft for insurance money

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man stages own car theft for insurance money

Kaieteur News – A 27-year-old businessman has confessed to staging the theft of his car just to collect insurance benefits. The man had lodged a report with police claiming that he had lost his...

Berbice ranchers robbed of food bowl

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice ranchers robbed of food bowl

Kaieteur News – Two Berbice cattle ranchers were beaten and robbed of their haversacks and other items while on duty at Gurman Gate, Corentyne, Berbice yesterday. Kaieteur News learnt that the...

Technician who stopped to urinate, robbed of car, cash at gunpoint

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Technician who stopped to urinate, robbed of car, cash at gunpoint

Kaieteur News – Four armed gunmen on Wednesday robbed a 27-year-old technician of his vehicle, a quantity of cash, and a cellphone when he stopped in Tucville Terrace, East La Penitence,...

Put on yuh mask!

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Put on yuh mask!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Deh gat some people presumptuous in dis country. Dem does put on dem mask jus fuh get in dem store and shop. But when dem inside, dem does either tek it off...

Bikini at a funeral

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Bikini at a funeral

Kaieteur News – Ten years ago, a pastor was so appalled at the attire he witnessed at funerals in Barbados that he indicated to those planning to attend future funerals that it was okay for...

“In the Diaspora” and Moray House: In the house in the gutter

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “In the Diaspora” and Moray House: In the house in the gutter

Kaieteur News – The Stabroek News has a weekly column titled, “In the Diaspora” (ITD). It is edited by Dr. Alissa Trotz, one of the leading figures in an overseas group named Overseas...

COVID-19 billions

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on COVID-19 billions

Kaieteur News – According to the latest media reports as embedded in the 2021 Mid-Year Report, the PPP/C Government has expended over GY$25B on COVID-19 protective and relief measures. It is a...

Labourer with one-foot dies in backdam bee attack.

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer with one-foot dies in backdam bee attack.

Kaieteur News – A 57-year-old labourer of Eversham Village, Corentyne died following a bee attack in the Eversham backdam yesterday. Dead is John Sutherland of Eversham Village, Corentyne,...

MOH procures Oxygen plant for ‘COVID’ Hospital

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on MOH procures Oxygen plant for ‘COVID’ Hospital

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) has procured an oxygen plant for the COVID-19 Hospital, located at Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown. This is according to Minister of Health, Dr....

Chinese national drowns in Essequibo River

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese national drowns in Essequibo River

Kaieteur News – A Chinese national working with a foreign company called Huixin Mining Company, reportedly drowned on Wednesday in the Essequibo River. Police identified him as Sude Tui, age...

Confessed arsonist slapped with two charges

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Confessed arsonist slapped with two charges

Kaieteur News – Clarence Greene, 24, the confessed Brickdam Police Station arsonist, was yesterday remanded by the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where he was brought to face the two charges...

Pregnant women, nursing mothers now required to be vaccinated – Health Minister

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Pregnant women, nursing mothers now required to be vaccinated – Health Minister

Kaieteur News – As part of a comprehensive effort to reduce the number of positive COVID-19 infections among pregnant and breastfeeding women, the Ministry of Health is now requiring that they...

Health Ministry records five more COVD-19 fatalities

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry records five more COVD-19 fatalities

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

Female patient found dead at GPHC

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Female patient found dead at GPHC

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is investigating the death of a female patient, who was discovered hanging in the hospital’s washroom at approximately 11:05hrs....

Aunt who hid electrician’s killers out on bail

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Aunt who hid electrician’s killers out on bail

Kaieteur News – Out on $100,000 station bail is the woman who had allegedly harboured Joshua Denny’s alleged killers from the cops on Friday, October 1. This is according to Crime Chief...

GNBS launches speed guns verification service

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS launches speed guns verification service

Kaieteur News – The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Wednesday, October 06, 2021 launched a new service to verify the speed guns used by Traffic Ranks of the Guyana Police Force...

CH&PA expended more than half $8.8 B budget by mid-2021- Ministry of Finance report

Oct 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA expended more than half $8.8 B budget by mid-2021- Ministry of Finance report

Kaieteur News – During the first half of 2021, Government spent $4.8 billion of the $8.8 billion budgeted for housing development. According to the Ministry of Finance’s 2021 Mid-Year Report,...

Green Machine announce squad for RAN 7s

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Green Machine announce squad for RAN 7s

US$19,000 needed to fulfill budget requirements Kaieteur News – The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) announced at a press conference yesterday at the National Racquet Center, Woolford Avenue,...

Assuria signs up to support ‘Lady Jags’ World Cup Journey

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Assuria signs up to support ‘Lady Jags’ World Cup Journey

Kaieteur News – Leading insurance company Assuria has thrown its support behind the Guyana Football Federation as a sponsor of the Senior Women’s National Team for the forthcoming FIFA...

York United FC signs 20-year-old Guyana international Javier George

Oct 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on York United FC signs 20-year-old Guyana international Javier George

Kaieteur News – York United FC confirmed yesterday the signing of Javier George on a permanent deal through the end of 2021. The 20-year-old midfielder is a native of New Amsterdam, Guyana but...