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Army pays $298M in electricity bills, register accounts for only $180M

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Army pays $298M in electricity bills, register accounts for only $180M

…Auditor General unable to verify unaccounted millions Kaieteur News – The Auditor General’s Report for 2020 has highlighted a number of glaring deficiencies in the processes used by...

Govt. discards bids received for gas-to-shore project

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. discards bids received for gas-to-shore project

…says not obligated to accept any offer, reserves right to negotiate with private partner Kaieteur News – The Guyana Government has not only discarded the first set of proposals it received...

‘PPP sees oil as one way to get rich quick’

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘PPP sees oil as one way to get rich quick’

– Norton warns of vigorous response to corrupt intentions Kaieteur News – New Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton said that the discovery of oil presents an...

Suriname does continuous reviews of companies’ oil spill response plans

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname does continuous reviews of companies’ oil spill response plans

– This way, they know we are not sleeping at the wheel –Former Staatsolie Boss By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – While Suriname has made it a practice to ensure oil companies have...

Local Content Bill 2021 Series Pt 4

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Bill 2021 Series Pt 4

Local Content Bill 2021 Series Part 4… By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Once the PPP/C Government’s Local Content Bill 2021 is passed, shell companies and schemers of the industry will find...

Overseer resigns after refusing to sign off unverified works

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Overseer resigns after refusing to sign off unverified works

Kaieteur News – An Overseer attached to the Unity/ Vereeniging/ Mahaica Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has resigned after refusing to sign off on unverified drainage work in his...

Chinese company among 12 contractors to build $13.3B Eccles to Diamond 4-lane road

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese company among 12 contractors to build $13.3B Eccles to Diamond 4-lane road

Kaieteur News – Controversial Chinese firm, China Railway First Group Company Limited (CRFG) who was debarred by the World Bank in 2019 for fraudulent practices is among 12 contractors awarded...

Govt. Ministers hammered for attacking judiciary

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. Ministers hammered for attacking judiciary

…Government Minister, Nigel Dharamlall was roundly condemned for his attacks on the judiciary as he called for the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justice Dawn Gregory to...

Local Content is a sham

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Local Content is a sham

Kaieteur News – The proposed Local Content Law is too little too late. It has come years too late and will not derive any substantial benefits for local firms, since most of the major contracts...

The president, the banks and the little, silly dictators

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The president, the banks and the little, silly dictators

Kaieteur News – Tell me what purpose life is in a country when a group of three or four persons form an organisation and tells a democratically elected government we want you to employ this...

Financial violations

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Financial violations

Kaieteur News – The words of Guyana’s Auditor General give off a tired, distraught sound. Still, the Audit Office reports, regarding what is going on in this country, under government after...

Govt. hides true value of gifts, billions, received in 2020 – Audit Report

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. hides true value of gifts, billions, received in 2020 – Audit Report

Kaieteur News – Auditor General (AG), Deodat Sharma, has highlighted a troubling trend in the accounting system for Government, where the true value for gifts received is not recorded....

Region 4 woman is country’s latest COVID-19 fatality

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Region 4 woman is country’s latest COVID-19 fatality

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health has reported that a 69-year-old woman from Region Four who contracted COVID-19 has died. As a result of this, the country’s COVID-19 death toll has now...

22% of police probes in Georgetown ended with criminal charges

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 22% of police probes in Georgetown ended with criminal charges

Kaieteur News – From January this year to date, at least 22% of all police probes have ended with criminal charges being laid against the suspects. This was disclosed on Wednesday by Commander...

Joint Services ranks to get extra month’s pay as bonus

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Joint Services ranks to get extra month’s pay as bonus

Kaieteur News – Members of the Joint Services will receive an extra month’s salary as their Christmas bonus, President Irfaan Ali announced on Wednesday. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed...

PPP trying to muzzle individuals and institutions that stand against it- WPA says

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on PPP trying to muzzle individuals and institutions that stand against it- WPA says

Kaieteur News – The Working People’s Alliance said that the call for the defrocking of the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummimgs-Edwards, and another judge by government Minister,...

Privately-owned Berbice Bridge workers get 27 percent

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Privately-owned Berbice Bridge workers get 27 percent

– while gov’t owned DHB get 7 percent Kaieteur News – A seven percent increase has been granted for the employees of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), while a five to 27 percent has...

Man busted with $13M worth of cocaine on Drury Lane

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man busted with $13M worth of cocaine on Drury Lane

Kaieteur News – The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has unearthed 2.374 kilograms of cocaine, worth more than $13 million, during a drug operation on Monday at Austin Street, Campbellville,...

FK Sports opens on Garnett Street

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on FK Sports opens on Garnett Street

Kaieteur News – UK-based sporting goods supplier, FK Sports, has turned to the Guyanese market and opened a branch store on Garnett Street at the Hilton mini-mall, with the aim of stocking...

Sir Gas Station supports Boxing Day softball tourney in Bartica

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sir Gas Station supports Boxing Day softball tourney in Bartica

Kaieteur News – NwSir Gas Station has supported the Dukhchand Tours T10 softball competition which will be played on December 26 and 27 at the Bartica Community Centre ground. The competition...

2021 US Jnr Open Squash C/Ships

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2021 US Jnr Open Squash C/Ships

Guyanese played great Squash, more International exposure needed for players By Sean Devers KAIETEUR News – Team Guyana was represented by Shomari Wilshire, Samuel Ince-Carvalhal, Mohryan...

GFF, KS inaugural Futsal KO tournament (Round of 16)

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF, KS inaugural Futsal KO tournament (Round of 16)

Back Circle, Leopold Street, Renegades & Bent Street win By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – The round of 16 in the Guyana Football Federation and Kashif and Shanghai’s inaugural 5-a-side...

GAWU gets clearance to represent Guyana Gold Board workers

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU gets clearance to represent Guyana Gold Board workers

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has been selected by workers of the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) to represent their rights. Kaieteur News – Following the Union’s...

Under stewardship of Ramjattan: Prison Service buys millions in riot gear, all left in containers—Audit Report Finds

Dec 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Under stewardship of Ramjattan: Prison Service buys millions in riot gear, all left in containers—Audit Report Finds

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) in 2019 spent millions of dollars to purchase a range of equipment including riot gear, but at the time of auditing the books for that Budget...

BACIF and GFF solder partnership

Dec 23, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on BACIF and GFF solder partnership

12 footballers to benefit from apprenticeship Kaieteur News – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and Brass Aluminum and Cast Iron Foundry (BACIF) Limited renewed their partnership with the...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

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