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U.S. eager to help Guyana with oil spill plan but, silent on absence of full coverage insurance from oil companies

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. eager to help Guyana with oil spill plan but, silent on absence of full coverage insurance from oil companies

Kaieteur News- The US Embassy here recently announced that the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the Guyana Civil Defence Commission (CDC) commenced a six-month series of joint activities designed...

Court challenge to ‘tax-free ride’ in Exxon deal could level playing field for Guyanese – Ram

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Court challenge to ‘tax-free ride’ in Exxon deal could level playing field for Guyanese – Ram

Kaieteur News- The recent legal challenge filed by Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall via his lawyer, Mr. Mohamed Ali, against the extraordinary tax-free ride given to the affiliated companies and...

‘Don’t waste oil money on projects that provide kickbacks for the PPP boys – AFC

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Don’t waste oil money on projects that provide kickbacks for the PPP boys – AFC

Kaieteur News- The Alliance For Change has warned the government not to throw oil money behind projects that will provide kickbacks for its friends and cronies, but rather immediately abolish fees at...

$350M estimated to fix Hubu deteriorating road

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $350M estimated to fix Hubu deteriorating road

Kaieteur News- The Hubu Main Access Road, which is located in Region Three, will soon be fixed after being in a deplorable condition for some time. In an ‘Invitation for Bids’ published in...

Woman doused with corrosive substance on Norton St.

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Woman doused with corrosive substance on Norton St.

Kaieteur News- A 24-year-old woman was doused with a corrosive substance by two other women during a confrontation at the corner of Norton and John Streets, Georgetown last Friday night. In a...

Four die from COVID-19 as new cases surge

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Four die from COVID-19 as new cases surge

Kaieteur News- The Ministry of Health on Sunday reported that four more persons, who contracted COVID-19, have died. As a result of this, the country’s COVID-19 death toll has moved to 1,134....

Opposition submits no-confidence motion against House Speaker

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition submits no-confidence motion against House Speaker

Kaieteur News- The APNU+AFC Opposition said it has submitted a motion of no-confidence against the Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir and also one for Government MPs to be sanctioned....

Govt. banking on Local Content Act to recover losses from ‘lopsided’ Exxon deal

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. banking on Local Content Act to recover losses from ‘lopsided’ Exxon deal

Kaieteur News- The Government of Guyana (GOG) is banking on the recently passed Local Content Law, to recover losses from the ‘lopsided’ Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), which Guyana signed...

Jagdeo evades questions on pay hike, wage negotiations for public servants

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo evades questions on pay hike, wage negotiations for public servants

Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo last week evaded questions on whether his government will negotiate with the trade unions before awarding pay increases. Last year, the government was...

Belly Wuk is nat emergency

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Belly Wuk is nat emergency

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De Georgetown Hospital does treat patients. But dem does also test yuh patience. Anybody wah ever had reason fuh go to the Emergency Unit will know wat dem boys...

Promotions

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Promotions

Kaieteur News – I met a young public servant a few days ago. We began to chat and I asked him how long he started working in the service. He said that he was there for the past four years. I...

International Education Day 2022

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on International Education Day 2022

Kaieteur News – International Education Day 2022 is being observed today, January 24. A look at the statistics involving Guyana’s topflight students would give the impression that we have...

Murder convict who escaped from Lusignan Prison recaptured

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Murder convict who escaped from Lusignan Prison recaptured

Kaieteur News- Seven months after escaping from the Lusignan Prison, murder convict, Shazam Khalil was on Saturday evening recaptured in Blairmont, Berbice. According to reports, ranks acting on...

GDF Colonel graduates from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on GDF Colonel graduates from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Kaieteur News- The U.S. Embassy here has congratulated Colonel Raul Jerrick, of the Guyana Defence Force, who was successfully awarded a Master of Arts in Security Studies, with an emphasis on...

Two held as police seize guns, ammo

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Two held as police seize guns, ammo

Kaieteur News- Two men were on Sunday arrested in separate police operations in Georgetown and on the East Bank Demerara during which two guns as well as ammunition were found. In a release, police...

2022: The year that Guyana will see the unbelievable

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 2022: The year that Guyana will see the unbelievable

Kaieteur News– Just to inform readers, I am still to produce part 4 of the review of 2021 and will publish it but so many things got in the way. I once wrote that life in Guyana is so curiously...

Engineer estimates $24M for two pickups

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Engineer estimates $24M for two pickups

Kaieteur News– The supply, delivery and testing of two new 4×4 Double Cap pickups for the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary/ Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA), according to an engineer’s...

Court challenge to tax-free ride in Exxon deal could level playing field for Guyanese – Ram

Jan 24, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Court challenge to tax-free ride in Exxon deal could level playing field for Guyanese – Ram

Kaieteur News – The recent legal challenge filed by Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall via his lawyer, Mr. Mohamed Ali, against the extraordinary tax-free ride given to the affiliated...

Butts’ X1 beat Barry’s in GCA U-15 Trials at DCC

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Butts’ X1 beat Barry’s in GCA U-15 Trials at DCC

By Sean Devers In glorious sunshine yesterday at the refurbished DCC ground in Queenstown, Clyde Butts’ X1 beat Neil Barry’s X1 by six wickets in the first GCA’s U-15 Trial match as...

GuySuCo mourns the loss of Dr. Yesu Persaud

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo mourns the loss of Dr. Yesu Persaud

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation mourns the loss of Dr. Yesu Persaud, CCH, who was the former Vice Chairman of the entity since its incorporation on May 21, 1976 when the Government of...

YESU PERSAUD: AN EXEMPLARY LIFE WELL LIVED

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on YESU PERSAUD: AN EXEMPLARY LIFE WELL LIVED

Dear Editor, It was the late sixties. Guyana had just achieved political independence in 1966. Guyanese celebrated the idea that they can now determine their own system of government; choose how they...

Cronyism sinking the country

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cronyism sinking the country

Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that a State official is renovating a government owned mansion, not at his own cost, with the most expensive amenities and accessories that money can buy....

Region Three ramps up COVID-19 enforcement amid surge, deaths

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region Three ramps up COVID-19 enforcement amid surge, deaths

Dear Editor, The Region Three COVID-19 Task Force along with stakeholder agencies will join the Guyana Police Force from today (January 24, 2022) in ramping up enforcement of all breaches of the...

GECOM must put its house in order

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM must put its house in order

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission is moving too slowly in putting its house in order. As the sole institution mandated to carry out elections in Guyana, we expect that matters there ought...

“Terror Grips The Land”

Jan 24, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on “Terror Grips The Land”

Dear Editor, I have penned this poem in commemoration of the Lusignan Massacre: By Nikhil Sankar “Cries of anguish grip the air, Sinister shadows dance across the land, The calm and quiet of 2a.m....

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more