February 2022

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Ashni Singh presented nation with ‘voodoo economics’

Feb 02, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Ashni Singh presented nation with ‘voodoo economics’

…says MP Figueira, as he flagged steep rise in food prices By Gary Eleazar Kaieteur News – When Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh,...

PNC/R slams NCN’s “one-sided” coverage of budget debates

Feb 02, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on PNC/R slams NCN’s “one-sided” coverage of budget debates

– complains of airtime-blackout of Opposition MPs Kaieteur News – The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNC/R) has flayed the National Communications Network (NCN) for what it termed its...

‘Food on the Table’ or Constitutional Reform?

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘Food on the Table’ or Constitutional Reform?

Dear Editor, Guyanese have divergent views on constitutional reform. There are those Guyanese who advocate for additional constitutional reform beyond the 2000s amendments that were incorporated into...

Murder of Robb Street granny…Appellate Court reduces trio sentence by 31 years

Feb 02, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Murder of Robb Street granny…Appellate Court reduces trio sentence by 31 years

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Court of Appeal (COA) yesterday upheld the conviction for the trio who brutally murdered 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris at her Robb Street home back in 2011,...

Disappointed NCN axed the Basil Persaud Show

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disappointed NCN axed the Basil Persaud Show

Dear Editor, I am kindly asking for some space to air my disappointment with the management of the National Communications Network Inc (NCN) about the recent axing of the Basil Persaud Show. The show...

Budget 2022 – Technical and Vocational Training

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Budget 2022 – Technical and Vocational Training

Dear Editor, With great respect, whoever wrote the script on the proposed Technical and Vocational Training project, did an injustice to the very busy Minister of Finance. While one applauds the...

A one-man government, looking more like country too

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on A one-man government, looking more like country too

Dear Editor, If any Guyanese needed conformation that the PPP/C Government is a one-man government, they got it recently. It came under the hand of Guyana’s President Ali. It related to the new...

Understanding Inflation

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Understanding Inflation

Dear Editor, I write in reference to Joel Bhagwandin’s missive on the proposed new $2000 bill and inflation (Feb 1) to give greater clarity to the issue. Inflation is the rate of increase in prices...

The Ministry needs honest feedback about its Atlantic Reader Series

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Ministry needs honest feedback about its Atlantic Reader Series

Dear Editor, I looked at the contents of this Atlantic Reader on the Ministry’s online site. The images in the book are a poor example of the demographics of Guyana…they are regurgitated...

50K was the promise

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on 50K was the promise

Dear Editor, The letter writer in his missive on nation’s largest budget stated government promised to increase old age pension to $40k (SN Feb1). As I recall, what was promised on the campaign...

Why are these devastations occurring?

Feb 02, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Why are these devastations occurring?

Kaieteur News -There have been too many fires in too close a span of time. These are not fires of dwelling places, which are bad enough by themselves, nor are they in out-of- the-way areas devouring...

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...

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Iyer’s 102 crushes West Indies

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Shreyas Iyer produced a breathtaking century on his T20I captaincy debut as India dismantled the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of their five-game series at...

The end of the Lula era

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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