October 2021

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What is needed to stem the coming tide?

Oct 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is needed to stem the coming tide?

Dear Editor, Guyana may be a good candidate for a new administrative capital. Fire risk, flooding and traffic – a well-known triple-threat in the Georgetown area is costing us dearly. This...

Fire Prevention Week off to a disastrous start

Oct 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fire Prevention Week off to a disastrous start

– Two fires recorded over the weekend Kaieteur News – Fire Prevention Week 2021 is off to a disastrous start as the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) recorded two fires over the weekend. One of...

38 receive mining blocks through lottery in Port Kaituma

Oct 04, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 38 receive mining blocks through lottery in Port Kaituma

Kaieteur News – Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, on Saturday oversaw a lottery exercise in which 38 miners received medium scale mining blocks in the North West District. According...

DISCONTENTMENT WITH LOCAL CONTENT

Oct 04, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on DISCONTENTMENT WITH LOCAL CONTENT

Dear Editor, Discontentment seems to be growing in private sector and other influential circles over the pace with which Local Content Legislation/Policy formulation and implementation are moving. It...

Leadership reform – most important one needed

Oct 04, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Leadership reform – most important one needed

Kaieteur News – We talk a lot about numerous reform programmes in this country. But of one kind of reform, Guyanese powers and Guyanese citizens do not speak of at all, but tiptoe around...

Unbelievable tax giveaways to oil companies reduces Guyana take from 12.5 to 9% – International Financial Expert, Tom Sanzillo

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Unbelievable tax giveaways to oil companies reduces Guyana take from 12.5 to 9% – International Financial Expert, Tom Sanzillo

Kaieteur News – The unbelievably exorbitant tax giveaways in the 2016 Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) have more detrimental effects on Guyana’s actual take than what meets...

Guyana used ExxonMobil’s choice instead of independent firms to review Liza project –Industry source reveals

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana used ExxonMobil’s choice instead of independent firms to review Liza project –Industry source reveals

Kaieteur News – If Guyana had the right experts in its corner, is it possible that it could have known even before oil production commenced in 2019 that ExxonMobil would have had cause to burn...

Motor bike bandits killed after pulling gun on cops

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Motor bike bandits killed after pulling gun on cops

Kaieteur News – The two suspects in the murder of the 19-year-old electrician, Joshua Denny, were shot dead yesterday by police ranks during a stakeout operation along the University of Guyana...

Senior cop arrested with drugs, ammo after driving away from two road blocks

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Senior cop arrested with drugs, ammo after driving away from two road blocks

Kaieteur News – Deputy Superintendent (DySP), Dexter Brown was on Friday arrested after driving away from two police roadblocks. DySP Brown first drove away from a roadblock along the East...

Fire flattens Brickdam Police Station

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fire flattens Brickdam Police Station

– Vehicles, records, equipment destroyed They recalled him pleading with fire fighters to assist him. “He tell them ‘Please wet meh vehicle, nuh, suh I could bring it out’”. Kaieteur...

Guyana can also impose sanctions

Oct 03, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana can also impose sanctions

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Nuff people who bin tek Sputnik V vaccine now vex. Dem hear how America nah accepting dat as yet fuh go in de country. And so dem seh de Americans put...

The Minister should withdraw this statement

Oct 03, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Minister should withdraw this statement

Kaieteur News – The Minister of Finance made an absolutely bizarre statement during a ceremony to launch a project which will provide electricity to 30,000 hinterland homes. The statement made...

The David Patterson email, civil society and Shakespeare

Oct 03, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The David Patterson email, civil society and Shakespeare

Kaieteur News – Civil society now has a few appointees on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). If William Shakespeare had to do a play on Guyana, it would arguably be the...

With right balance, Guyana can be the region’s breadbasket again

Oct 03, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on With right balance, Guyana can be the region’s breadbasket again

Kaieteur News – For once, the thinking and word were not on oil, but on something else, that which could mean much for Guyana, regardless of what comes. This was what we carried on Wednesday:...

STATEMENT ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE ARBITRAL AWARD OF

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on STATEMENT ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE ARBITRAL AWARD OF

OCTOBER 3, 1899 Kaieteur News – [Today marks the 122nd anniversary of the 1899 Tribunal Award which demarcated the boundary between Guyana and its Western neighbor, Venezuela. Below is a...

Despite rise in COVID-19 cases, emergency measures approves reopening for Brazil/Guyana border

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Despite rise in COVID-19 cases, emergency measures approves reopening for Brazil/Guyana border

Kaieteur News – Despite a rapid rise of COVID-19 cases, the new national emergency COVID-19 measures have approved the reopening of the Brazil/Guyana border crossing in Lethem. This is...

Port Kaituma residents to get improved water service after contract signed with GWI, NDC

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Port Kaituma residents to get improved water service after contract signed with GWI, NDC

Kaieteur News – Hundreds of Port Kaituma residents in the Matarkai sub-district of Region One are set to benefit from improved water service. This is due to the inking of a contract between the...

Six arrested during Pomeroon River drug bust

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Six arrested during Pomeroon River drug bust

Kaieteur News – An operation conducted over a two-week period by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents along with Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard (GDFCG) ranks led to the seizure of...

Hicken “pulls up” rank for driving pick-up recklessly

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Hicken “pulls up” rank for driving pick-up recklessly

Kaieteur News – Amidst the rush, yesterday, to save records and equipment from the burning Brickdam Police Station, Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifton Hickens “pulled-up” a rank for...

Predo Baby launches ‘’Million Dollar Baby Promotion’’

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Predo Baby launches ‘’Million Dollar Baby Promotion’’

Kaieteur News – Predo Baby Diapers is thrilled to announce our Million Dollar Baby Promotion. With Christmas just three (3) months away, this exciting promotion earns you the chance to WIN a...

GYSBI looking to increase local content

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GYSBI looking to increase local content

– To hire 150 locals at upcoming Career Fairs Kaieteur News – To keep up with Guyana’s rapidly expanding oil and gas sector and the growing labour demands, the Guyana Shore Base Inc....

GNBS – PROMOTING GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE AND STANDARDS AS PART OF AGRICULTURE MONTH

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS – PROMOTING GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE AND STANDARDS AS PART OF AGRICULTURE MONTH

GNBS IN FOCUS… Kaieteur News – Basic conditions and activities are necessary to maintain a hygienic environment throughout the food chain; from cultivation to the provision of safe...

Coronavirus: This is how you prevent yourself from dying from COVID-19

Oct 03, 2021 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: This is how you prevent yourself from dying from COVID-19

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center Kaieteur News – Ever so often, as the data changes, I would do updates on options that decrease one’s...

The Guyana Cancer Foundation helps to inspire hope for the terminally ill

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on The Guyana Cancer Foundation helps to inspire hope for the terminally ill

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Cancer Foundation (GCF) has for over 16 years provided, supported and helped inspire hope in those affected by cancer through early detection, education and...

Matters before the court involving GPF ranks

Oct 03, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Matters before the court involving GPF ranks

The Court Journal… By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News – A total of 29 ranks are presently before the court on various criminal charges and this has been confirmed by Commissioner of Police...

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GOA rewards S/A Youth Games medallists with ‘Cash Grants’ to...

Apr 28, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Olympic Association has rewarded the nation’s medal-winning athletes from the recently concluded South American Youth Games with cash grants, reaffirming its...

Glenn Lall has opened the eyes of the nation to an injustice

Apr 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil effectively allows the company to de-risk its investment after discovery while shifting the financial burden onto the country—deserves serious and sober scrutiny. This is why poorly structured contracts can...

Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

Apr 19, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

PPP’s fetid breath: democracy’s death

Apr 28, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It has been a war. The PPP’s relentless efforts at dismantling and destroying democracy in Guyana. Institutions and organs, architecture and machinery, weakened brick by brick, until they are either shadows of themselves, or collapse under the weight of accumulated rot. ...

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