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ExxonMobil wants to extend hold on Stabroek Block due to COVID – 19

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil wants to extend hold on Stabroek Block due to COVID – 19

– Sends application to Govt. for consideration –Hess Chief Operating Officer reveals By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Given that the life of the Stabroek Block’s exploration licence...

Couple killed in East Bank smash-up

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Couple killed in East Bank smash-up

Kaieteur News – A young couple died in a horrific road crash at Caledonia, on the East Bank Demerara Public Road. Dead are Nicholas Valcin and Olisa Sanderson-Valcin. According to information...

Minimum wage worker to get $4,900 increase in oil-rich Guyana

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minimum wage worker to get $4,900 increase in oil-rich Guyana

Kaieteur News – In a country with one of the world’s largest oil reserves, the Irfaan Ali Government on Thursday announced a mere seven percent, across-the-board salary increase for public...

Gov’t dismantles public procurement system replaces it with Jagdeo

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t dismantles public procurement system replaces it with Jagdeo

– says Opposition Leader Kaieteur News – Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon has accused the People Progressive Party (PPP) of dismantling the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) and...

Police losing investigators to private sector – GPF Crime Chief

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Police losing investigators to private sector – GPF Crime Chief

Kaieteur News – Police have complained that they are losing a number of their investigators to private security firms. Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum speaking at a forum on Monday lamented the...

Exxon will likely to leave subsea equipment on seabed after production – ERM consultant

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon will likely to leave subsea equipment on seabed after production – ERM consultant

By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News – At the end of the economic life of Guyana’s fourth oil field, ExxonMobil will likely leave its subsea equipment on Guyana’s seabed. This is according to...

T&T secures US$15M signing bonus, other financial benefits on new gas deal

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on T&T secures US$15M signing bonus, other financial benefits on new gas deal

By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Following several rounds of negotiations with Dutch multinational Shell, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago has locked up a crucial gas deal that will see...

De back pay tun back pain!

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De back pay tun back pain!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De shaart man story long. He had to list all dem ting wah de guvament doing before he announce de seven percent increase. Dem wah bin hoping fuh double digit...

Boat done gone a falls

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Boat done gone a falls

Kaieteur News – The President and Vice President must explain to this nation how it is they propose to undertake the post-2017 expenses and credits of ExxonMobil and its partners when the time...

In the diaspora, in the diaschisma, in the diathesis

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on In the diaspora, in the diaschisma, in the diathesis

Kaieteur News – When the March 2020 election rigging continued way into April and the months began to go by with no GECOM declaration, I condemned several civil society groups and several...

Our indigenous peoples will be used again

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Our indigenous peoples will be used again

Kaieteur News – Government leaders have been spreading the word of all the lovely things they have in mind, relative to Climate Change, and of Guyana’s readiness to do its part on a basis...

Puerto Rican company submits billion-dollar bid to install solar grid

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Puerto Rican company submits billion-dollar bid to install solar grid

Kaieteur News – Puerto Rico headquartered company CH4 Systems Inc has submitted a bid of just over a billion dollar to install solar photovoltaic mini-grid systems for the hinterland regions....

Govt. to spend $20M to repair 235 fire hydrants in Georgetown

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to spend $20M to repair 235 fire hydrants in Georgetown

Kaieteur News – Chief Fire Officer, Kalamodeen Edoo said that some 235 out of the over 600 fire hydrants around Georgetown are currently inoperable and a sum of $20M is what is required to fix...

Citizens taking law into their own hands at alarming rate — Police

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Citizens taking law into their own hands at alarming rate — Police

Kaieteur News – From 2017 to 2021, there were 638 murders recorded in the country and according to a statistical report from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), 349 out of that number were that of a...

CORRECTION AND APOLOGY

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on CORRECTION AND APOLOGY

Kaieteur News – wishes to apologise for an erroneous headline and contents of an article published in one of its November publications. The caption which read, “Accused to face trial after 14...

Court will hear arguments in case challenging COVID-19 measures in January

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Court will hear arguments in case challenging COVID-19 measures in January

Kaieteur News – The trial in the matter filed by three trade unions challenging Government’s COVID-19 Emergency Measures will commence on January 20, 2022.Chief Justice Roxane George-...

Guyana worse off with Chinese than under colonial rule – Ram

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana worse off with Chinese than under colonial rule – Ram

…says this form of colonialism is more ruthless; without conscience Kaieteur News – Amid concerns about Chinese’s growing influence in Guyana, Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-Law...

Guyana’s Moore wins NJCAA women’s athlete of the year award

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Moore wins NJCAA women’s athlete of the year award

Kaieteur News – Overseas based student-athlete, Aaliyah Moore has been recognised as the NJCAA Division one women’s Atlantic Region Cross Country Athlete of the year. This is the first time...

LanLam Classic/David’s Voice Monetary Scholarship

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on LanLam Classic/David’s Voice Monetary Scholarship

…Cyclists, Clivecia Spencer and Mario Washington are this years’ beneficiaries Kaieteur News – The LonLam Classic Organisation, a Linden based entity which invests in ‘Passion’ and...

Five remanded to prison for the murder of West Coast Berbice man

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Five remanded to prison for the murder of West Coast Berbice man

Kaieteur News – Five men appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court for the murder of a 61-year-old man from Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice.Brian Evans, 22, of No.11 Village, WCB,...

ITTF 2021 Panam Championships Guyana beat Barbados but out of team C/Ship

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on ITTF 2021 Panam Championships Guyana beat Barbados but out of team C/Ship

Kaieteur News – Guyana men’s team gave the country much to cheer about after defeating Barbados 3-2 in the team Championships following their first group game loss to Ecuador in the...

Heyliger helps Canada advance to T20 WC qualifiers

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Heyliger helps Canada advance to T20 WC qualifiers

By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Canada produced a dominant performance in the ICC Americas T20 qualifiers in Antigua with their only defeat coming at the hands of group winners the USA. The US...

Greenidge says leaked privileged information a breach of national security

Nov 19, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge says leaked privileged information a breach of national security

….as Todd exposes unfamiliarity with Foreign Affairs Ministry Kaieteur News – Advisor on Borders, Carl Greenidge has condemned the releasing of a letter he wrote to Head of State, saying it...

GSCL Inc thanks stakeholders for successful PM T20 Cup 5

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc thanks stakeholders for successful PM T20 Cup 5

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc has expressed gratitude to its sponsors and other stakeholders for the successful staging of the Prime Minister’s T20 Cup 5...

Sex for prisoners is a human right

Nov 19, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sex for prisoners is a human right

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – When I was a member of the National Commission of Law and Order (NCLO), I had raised the question about conjugal visits for prisoners to the then Commissioner of...

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Crowds, chaos and complaints

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The folly of the cash grant distribution is a textbook case of what happens when a government,... more