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Housing Minister given $6B but signs $14B in contracts

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Minister given $6B but signs $14B in contracts

…Opposition demands answers in National Assembly for source of $8B overspending Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Housing and Water’s, Central, Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA),...

Govt.,Coalition guilty of hundreds of millions in overpayments

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt.,Coalition guilty of hundreds of millions in overpayments

…also ‘failed to collect’ items paid for with tax dollars—AG Report Finds Kaieteur News – The Report of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts of Guyana taking stock of the Accounts...

18 contractors bid lower than Govt. engineer’s $85M for Ogle Fire Station

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 18 contractors bid lower than Govt. engineer’s $85M for Ogle Fire Station

Kaieteur News – Eighteen of the 21 contractors who submitted bids for the construction of the Ogle Fire Station tendered lower than the government engineer’s estimate of $85 million. The...

EPA can now access satellite images of offshore flaring-Parsram

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA can now access satellite images of offshore flaring-Parsram

Kaieteur News – Acutely aware of the harmful environmental implications associated with flaring, Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Kemraj Parsram has assured that steps have...

Guyanese businesses less competitive than C’bean counterparts – Pres. Ali

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese businesses less competitive than C’bean counterparts – Pres. Ali

Kaieteur News – President Dr. Irfaan Ali, on Monday stated that Guyanese businesses are less competitive than their Caribbean and Latin America counterparts are. He made this statement during...

Nurses, screening officer charged for selling COVID-19 vaccine cards

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Nurses, screening officer charged for selling COVID-19 vaccine cards

—placed on $150,000 bail each Kaieteur News – Two nurses and a screening officer of the Ministry of Health were on Tuesday charged for selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards days after...

EPA waives EIA requirement for hazardous waste treatment facility at Houston

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA waives EIA requirement for hazardous waste treatment facility at Houston

By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has waived an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the hazardous waste treatment facility at Houston, East Bank...

Oil don’t spoil

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Oil don’t spoil

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago bin seh how oil don’t spoil. But it could spill and dem boys seh dat is why dem did never too excited bout de...

RIDDING OURSELVES OF THIS DANGEROUS COMPLEX

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RIDDING OURSELVES OF THIS DANGEROUS COMPLEX

Kaieteur News – Is it that Guyanese have low self-confidence and is that why more than 10 of them would sit in a speeding minibus, placing their lives at risk and not utter a single syllable...

Some people have mental fixations that should be confronted

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Some people have mental fixations that should be confronted

Kaieteur News – Among my beliefs are two unshakeable ones. I firmly believe in the death penalty. I studied too much philosophy to believe there should be respect for the lives of some humans...

Govt. borrowing – a black hole

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Govt. borrowing – a black hole

Kaieteur News – We wrote about this before, but because what the PPP Government is doing has many grave implications for Guyanese we share again today, with what seriously worries many. It is...

Region 10 woman is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Region 10 woman is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health on Tuesday reported that a 69-year-old woman from Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease has died. As...

GECOM deliberations on new CEO deferred to Friday

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM deliberations on new CEO deferred to Friday

Kaieteur News – The seven-member commission of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has deferred deliberations on the appointment of a new Chief Elections Officer (CEO) to Friday. A meeting...

Chuck E. Cheese to get locations in Guyana

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Chuck E. Cheese to get locations in Guyana

Kaieteur News – Chuck E. Cheese, the global family entertainment brand, continues to drive international expansion and has successfully signed development agreements in three new countries...

Wainwright Bethune is new UDFA President

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wainwright Bethune is new UDFA President

Kaieteur News – When the long awaited Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Annual General Meeting and Elections were finally held Sunday the lone slate headed by Wainwright Bethune, was...

PM, Shuman differ on Govt.’s treatment of Amerindians

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on PM, Shuman differ on Govt.’s treatment of Amerindians

Kaieteur News – Prime Minister, Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips on Tuesday said that he is disappointed over the recent comments made by the Deputy Speaker, Lenox Shuman, that the incumbent...

GPHC team records three groundbreaking surgeries

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC team records three groundbreaking surgeries

Kaieteur News – Doctors attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently conducted a ground breaking ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) surgery which was...

RHTYSC Cricket teams and friends hand over $3.7 million home to Sonaroo family

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC Cricket teams and friends hand over $3.7 million home to Sonaroo family

– Florida Guyana Hope, Regal, KSM Investment, Navin Construction and Crab Wood Relief hailed for support Kaieteur News – The twelve cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports...

Govt., Opposition agree to merge 2017 and 2018 audit findings for review

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt., Opposition agree to merge 2017 and 2018 audit findings for review

Kaieteur News – Following hours of debate between the Government and Opposition representatives of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday, a decision was taken to merge the review of...

Over 30 years and counting, Mohamed’s Enterprise supports GFF, K&S football

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 30 years and counting, Mohamed’s Enterprise supports GFF, K&S football

Kaieteur News – According to Proprietor Nazar Mohamed, Mohamed’s Enterprise of Lombard Street, Georgetown has been supporting sport and football, especially the Kashif and Shanghai yearend...

GCB’s Raphael sends condolences to Green’s family on behalf of MSC

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB’s Raphael sends condolences to Green’s family on behalf of MSC

Coach Arthur & Ex Nat F/baller Niles remembers their mentor By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – Guyana’s cricket and football fraternities were plunged into mourning following the death of...

Letter to the Sports Editor

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor

GASA and good governance Dear Mr. Sports Editor, Kaieteur News – The President of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) will be travelling to Abu Dhabi on December 18, 2021 to discuss...

Fisherman Masters victorious in Ultra Shine Auto body workshop softball final

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fisherman Masters victorious in Ultra Shine Auto body workshop softball final

Kaieteur News – Fisherman Masters continued with their winning ways as they defeated Wellman Masters by 18 runs to win the Ultra Shine Auto Body workshop softball tournament which was contested...

Den Amstel FC to hold Extra Ordinary Members Meeting on Dec. 18

Dec 08, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Den Amstel FC to hold Extra Ordinary Members Meeting on Dec. 18

Kaieteur News – The Executive of the Den Amstel Football Club, one of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League members, will convene an Extra Ordinary Members Meeting on Saturday...

Covid-19 could wipe out US$17 trillion in lifetime earnings for students

Dec 08, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Covid-19 could wipe out US$17 trillion in lifetime earnings for students

– World Bank-UNESCO-UNICEF report lays out the magnitude of the education crisis Kaieteur News – WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 6, 2021—This generation of students now risks losing US$17 trillion...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more