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Exxon going deeper into Stabroek Block to tap multi-billion barrel potential

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon going deeper into Stabroek Block to tap multi-billion barrel potential

Kaieteur News – For 2022, ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) will be drilling deeper into several areas in the Stabroek Block to hopefully tap...

Govt. has no clear plan to spend $126B of oil money

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. has no clear plan to spend $126B of oil money

– Opposition MP says $89B vulnerable to being lost to corruption Kaieteur News – Opposition Member of Parliament (MP), Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday kicked off the Budget Debates for 2022...

$126B oil money in oil Budget is illegal — Analysts

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $126B oil money in oil Budget is illegal — Analysts

Kaieteur News – The legality of the use of the Natural Resource Fund continues to be a source of contention as highlighted in this year’s focus on the Annual Budget Estimates by eminent...

CGX, Frontera land major oil discovery at Kawa-1 well in Corentyne Block

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on CGX, Frontera land major oil discovery at Kawa-1 well in Corentyne Block

– Moving to drill next well in 2022 second quarter Kaieteur News – Canadian oil explorers, CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corporation, disclosed on Monday that a discovery was made...

$76M to rebuild Ogle Fire Station

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $76M to rebuild Ogle Fire Station

Kaieteur News – Following competitive bidding for the contract to re-construct the Ogle Fire Station, a project which was estimated to cost some $85 million, Singh and Sons Construction has...

Cops thwart burglar’s plan to rob WBD post office

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Cops thwart burglar’s plan to rob WBD post office

Kaieteur News – Quick response by Region Three police ranks on Monday thwarted a burglar’s plan to rob the Bagotville Post Office located on the West Bank of Demerara (WBD). According to...

Doctor being investigated for GPHC fire, terminated over sexual harassment

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Doctor being investigated for GPHC fire, terminated over sexual harassment

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has fired one of its doctors after he was found guilty of sexual harassment. Confirming this yesterday was the hospital’s Public...

Oil money dominates day one of Budget debates

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Oil money dominates day one of Budget debates

– Govt. tells Opposition: “none of you will get a chance to touch that money” Kaieteur News – The Budget Debates over the Estimates for the national expenditure this year kicked off...

Oil don’t spoil but royalty does done

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Oil don’t spoil but royalty does done

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Oil, oil everywhere and still we paying over G$200 per litre fuh gasoline and even more dan dat fuh lil cooking oil. Cooking oil now mo expensive dan gasoline....

Guyana came close to becoming a pariah state

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana came close to becoming a pariah state

Kaieteur News – The attempt to rig the 2020 general and regional elections inflicted the greatest harm to Guyana’s regional and international reputation. Those who participated in the...

AFC, Stabroek News and my advice to Aubrey Norton

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on AFC, Stabroek News and my advice to Aubrey Norton

Kaieteur News – I once had a disagreement with one of my closest friends, the late Colin Smith, who at the time was the editor of the Catholic Standard. Then Home Affairs Minister, Ronald...

A fishy budget proposal

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A fishy budget proposal

Kaieteur News – We have to give it to the Guyana Government for its chronic slickness. When its leaders want to dodge reality and its related responsibilities, they pull out all the stops to...

Woman gets 2 years for stealing $1.2M from employer

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Woman gets 2 years for stealing $1.2M from employer

Kaieteur News – Twenty-four-year-old Reshma Deoroop of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara was on Monday sentenced to two years imprisonment for stealing $1.2 million from her employer. Deoroop made...

UNICEF, World Bank laud Education Ministry’s Atlantic Reader Series

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on UNICEF, World Bank laud Education Ministry’s Atlantic Reader Series

Kaieteur News – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank have commended the Ministry of Education under the leadership of Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, for...

2 seniors are country’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on 2 seniors are country’s latest COVID-19 fatalities

– 86 new infections recorded Kaieteur News – A 79-year-old man from Region Four and an 86-year-old man from Region Three, who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, have...

Alleged swindler reaches settlement with former employer

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged swindler reaches settlement with former employer

Kaieteur News – Twenty-three-year-old Darrell LaFargue of 95 Block ‘F’ North Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who was charged for allegedly swindling over $1 million from his former employer –...

Demolition of North Ruimveldt Secondary School to cost $13M

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Demolition of North Ruimveldt Secondary School to cost $13M

Kaieteur News – The contract to demolish the North Ruimveldt Secondary School has been awarded to A. Ograsein and Sons to the tune of $13,070,031. This is according to the National Procurement...

Guyana Food Safety Authority

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Food Safety Authority

…promoting food safety through standards Kaieteur News – Food safety is important as it helps to protect consumers from the risk of food borne illnesses. It also helps to prevent consumers...

Volleyball Federation not surprised at budget allocation for Sports, lauds Government

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Volleyball Federation not surprised at budget allocation for Sports, lauds Government

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) is not surprised at the results/input of the Sports Budget of 2.2 billion, it stated in a media release. As a matter of fact, the past...

Guyana Badminton Association commends government on budget 2022

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Badminton Association commends government on budget 2022

Kaieteur News –The Guyana Badminton Association has joined the list of sports organisations that has commended the Government of Guyana on the significant allocation for sport in the 2022...

Speaker strikes down motion to sanction 22 Govt. MPs

Feb 01, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker strikes down motion to sanction 22 Govt. MPs

Kaieteur News – A motion filed by A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Harmon, is seeking to have 22 members of the government...

Calendar finishes third in Master of the Guianas Chess tourney

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Calendar finishes third in Master of the Guianas Chess tourney

Kaieteur News – Guyanese chess players held their own in the first edition of Master of the Guianas, an online tournament, hosted by Suriname based Athena Chess on January 22nd, 2022. MTV’s...

Desmond Haynes’ vision for CWI must be celebrated

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Desmond Haynes’ vision for CWI must be celebrated

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – Because Cricket West Indies (CWI) has been under attack for such a long time, one cannot help but give credit to Cricket West Indies’ new chief of selectors, Mr....

CWI continue to use the selection yardstick of ‘different strokes for different folks’

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on CWI continue to use the selection yardstick of ‘different strokes for different folks’

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – West Indies cricket coach, Simmons makes it seem like it was either Powell or Smith but in reality, the victimisation is in the context of the ever failing Bravo...

Not a Poor People Budget

Feb 01, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not a Poor People Budget

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News – The government has delivered the largest budget in the country’s history. The budget allocates huge amounts of money to various sectors. But it is short on...

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Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more