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Stabroek Block operators deploy six drill ships to define more oil wells

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek Block operators deploy six drill ships to define more oil wells

“Drill baby, baby drill!!!” – As latest discoveries projected to hold half a billion barrels of resources Kaieteur News – Hess Corporation on Wednesday disclosed during its fourth...

Genset explodes at Anna Regina power plant

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Genset explodes at Anna Regina power plant

Kaieteur News – Disaster struck at the Anna Regina Power Plant on Wednesday when one of the five caterpillar sets rented by the Guyana Power and Light [GPL], burst into flames. Reports are that...

De oil business totally one-sided

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De oil business totally one-sided

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Imagine one ah dem oil company mekking decision bout how much money dem gan invest in Guyana. And dem nah talk as yet to de Guyanese people who is dem 50/50...

PARENTS ARE NEGLECTING THEIR KIDS

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PARENTS ARE NEGLECTING THEIR KIDS

Kaieteur News – There were about four or five kids walking aimlessly on the street. As I passed one of them, he suddenly contorted his face, trying to appear frightening and let out a...

Burnham and Kwayana: Iconoclastic notes on racism

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Burnham and Kwayana: Iconoclastic notes on racism

Kaieteur News – I cannot damage my education by being propagandistic about Forbes Burnham. Over 34 years of publishing newspaper columns, I would think there are dozens and dozens of columns of...

Money crazy

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Money crazy

Kaieteur News – It is not even weekly or daily for Guyanese to be furnished more and more proofs of the underhanded and unilateral objectives of the PPP/C Government. It seems that the evidence...

COVID-19 claims lives of six more persons

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 claims lives of six more persons

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported that six more persons, who tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have died. As a result of this, the...

Berbice man shot, wife robbed

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man shot, wife robbed

Kaieteur News – Police are investigating an alleged robbery under arms and shooting committed on a man and his wife from Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice. Injured and hospitalised with...

Govt. allocates $20.8B for US$900M Gas-to-Energy Project, solar farms

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. allocates $20.8B for US$900M Gas-to-Energy Project, solar farms

Kaieteur News – With the aim of advancing the transition to cleaner sources of energy, Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh disclosed during the reading of budget 2022 yesterday that government...

$6.8B injected into Covid-19 fight

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $6.8B injected into Covid-19 fight

– six new regional hospitals to be constructed By Aaliyah Allicock Kaieteur News – Amid a surge in Covid-19 infections and deaths here, the Guyana Government has allocated some $6.8B to...

Guyana to achieve world’s highest GDP in 2022 –Finance Minister

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to achieve world’s highest GDP in 2022 –Finance Minister

Kaieteur News – Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh disclosed during his $552.9B budget presentation for 2022 that Guyana is forecast to achieve a Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 47.5...

$420.5M set aside to train 1000 Guyanese for oil sector

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $420.5M set aside to train 1000 Guyanese for oil sector

Budget 2022… – $260M to build training facility Kaieteur News – In order to ensure this country has a pool of Guyanese equipped to take up jobs in the oil and gas industry, budget 2022...

Guyana projected to earn over US$950M from oil sector in 2022

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana projected to earn over US$950M from oil sector in 2022

Kaieteur News – With two oil ships on schedule to be working simultaneously this year in the Stabroek Block, Guyana’s oil sector is expected to rake in over US$950M for 2022. This is outlined...

Sugar, rice, other crops’ suffer blows- Ashni Singh

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar, rice, other crops’ suffer blows- Ashni Singh

By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – The Senior Minister in the office of the President, with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh on Wednesday reported to the National Assembly, during his...

Govt adds $3000 to Old Age Pension

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt adds $3000 to Old Age Pension

Kaieteur News – The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government has announced a $3,000 increase to the monthly Old Age Pension which will see the allocation moving from $25,000 to $28,000....

Oil drives up export earnings to US$4.3B

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Oil drives up export earnings to US$4.3B

Kaieteur News – Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh disclosed yesterday during his reading of Budget 2022 that at the end of 2021, total export earnings amounted to...

EPA promises greater focus on enhanced monitoring capabilities for 2022

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on EPA promises greater focus on enhanced monitoring capabilities for 2022

…to acquire modern equipment to measure environmental change Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which has as its mandate, sound environmental management for the good of...

Ex Guy U-19 &E’bo player is Guyana’s Asst Coach

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ex Guy U-19 &E’bo player is Guyana’s Asst Coach

Kaieteur News – Thirty-three year-old former Essequibo fast bowling all-rounder Ryan Hercules will be the Assistant Coach for the newly renamed Guyana Harpy Eagles team travels to Trinidad for...

Harpy Eagles final 4-day trial game

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Harpy Eagles final 4-day trial game

Persaud hits 62 on opening at Providence By Sean Devers Kaieteur News – In a game which started 30 minutes in sunshine before the entire post lunch was lost due rain yesterday at Providence,...

Opposition bemoans lack of public consultation on Organ transplant bill

Jan 27, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition bemoans lack of public consultation on Organ transplant bill

Kaieteur News – The main opposition has warned about the drawbacks of the recent passage of the Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Bill, although stating that it represents a good start in the...

Golden Jaguars in Suriname to prepare for tri-nation tournament

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars in Suriname to prepare for tri-nation tournament

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Senior Men’s National Team have hit the ground running in Suriname as preparations intensified on Tuesday ahead of a friendly tri-nation tournament with the host...

‘Cricket gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana’

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Cricket gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana’

Nat U-17 All-Rounder Balgobin latest to benefit Kaieteur News – Nineteen-year-old National Youth cricketer Chetram Balgobin is the latest youth to benefit from “Cricket gear for young and...

Govt. should ease the burden off the backs of low-income earners

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. should ease the burden off the backs of low-income earners

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – The Alliance For Change finds the recent statement by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo intimating that Guyanese are better off today than they were under the coalition...

Perhaps this attempt at invisibilising is a slip

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Perhaps this attempt at invisibilising is a slip

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – The letter “Bolsonaro persona non grata…” is interesting for several reasons, some of which have been ventilated. I wish to add by noting that the...

I condemn all forms of racial injustice, not just Brazil’s

Jan 27, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on I condemn all forms of racial injustice, not just Brazil’s

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Mr. Eric Moseley queried whether I (and Mr. Kit Nascmiento) have no feeling for “groups being slaughtered and sidelined … by Bolsonaro regime” (his words, not...