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Guyana yet to implement over 100 safeguards to prevent corruption, revenue leakage in oil sector

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana yet to implement over 100 safeguards to prevent corruption, revenue leakage in oil sector

Kaieteur News – Approximately six years ago, agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)...

EPA seen as breaking law by accepting ‘flawed’ application for new Demerara River bridge

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on EPA seen as breaking law by accepting ‘flawed’ application for new Demerara River bridge

Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) breached the EPA Act of 1996 by glossing over the design requirement, as mandated in Section 11 (1) (i), when it accepted an...

Nigerians waited 30 years for oil spill compensation

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Nigerians waited 30 years for oil spill compensation

Kaieteur News – Oil spill disasters are costly and the effects they have on the marine ecosystem are quite worrying. It is in this vain that a proper oil insurance policy is needed for oil...

US inquiry exposes Exxon, other oil companies’ role in downplaying climate change

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on US inquiry exposes Exxon, other oil companies’ role in downplaying climate change

Kaieteur News – An expanded inquiry by United States lawmakers into the role played by big oil companies to dissuade citizens from believing in climate change is not only proving that...

Police mum on alleged racial, physical abuse of female cop by attorney

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Police mum on alleged racial, physical abuse of female cop by attorney

Kaieteur News – More than a week after an attorney allegedly abused a female police rank, physically and racially, the Guyana Police Force has remained silent on the matter despite several...

Cop among three killed in road accidents

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Cop among three killed in road accidents

Kaieteur News – A 34-year old police sergeant is among three persons killed just hours apart in three separate road accidents that occurred across the coast late Saturday and early Sunday. Dead...

De villagers know best

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De villagers know best

Kaieteur News – De guvament putting de cart before de horse. Prezzie went to Pakuri Village and tell dem people how de guvament gan bring together de community and de private sector fuh have a...

‘Pay workers decent wages and gratuity will not look like gold mines’

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Pay workers decent wages and gratuity will not look like gold mines’

– Witter tells labour minister Kaieteur News – President of the General Workers Union (GWU), Norris Witter is adamant that the government must pay citizens decent wages rather than...

Without proper governance and oversight, Guyana still faces risk of failing with oil

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Without proper governance and oversight, Guyana still faces risk of failing with oil

…Trinidad and Tobago is perfect example of this – TT Expert warns Kaieteur News – Even though it is crucial for the governments of oil-producing states to ensure maximum participation...

‘Jagdeo’s position on T&T unfortunate’ – Gaskin says Guyana could face worse outcome

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Jagdeo’s position on T&T unfortunate’ – Gaskin says Guyana could face worse outcome

By Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – While Vice President (VP), Bharrat Jagdeo continues to stand by his statement that the economy of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is falling apart, economist and...

‘Pay us to keep our forest intact’ – AG tells Climate Change Forum in Indonesia

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Pay us to keep our forest intact’ – AG tells Climate Change Forum in Indonesia

Kaieteur News – Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, SC Anil Nandlall has emphasized the need for forest rich countries like Guyana to be provided with incentives to keep their...

GMR&SC Quarter Mile Return… Fans satisfied with action

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC Quarter Mile Return… Fans satisfied with action

Kaieteur News – Fans returned to the South Dakota Drag Strip yesterday in their numbers for the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) Quarter Mile Return drag race meet that had...

GCA’s Noble House Sea Foods 2-day second division cricket… Everest to battle DCC in Final

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s Noble House Sea Foods 2-day second division cricket… Everest to battle DCC in Final

Kaieteur News By Sean Devers By virtue of gaining first innings points in their drawn semi-finals yesterday at DCC and GCC grounds respectively, Everest and DCC have advanced to the final of the...

MMZ USA Guyana tour… Renne’s ton helps visitors to first of two wins on Saturday

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on MMZ USA Guyana tour… Renne’s ton helps visitors to first of two wins on Saturday

Kaieteur News – A magnificent century from Renaldo Renne spearheaded the visiting MMZ of New York to a commanding five-wicket victory against Enmore on Saturday morning at Enmore ground on the...

Janet Jagan Memorial School Girls Windball cricket tourney underway

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Janet Jagan Memorial School Girls Windball cricket tourney underway

Kaieteur News – Play in the Ministry of Culture Youth & Sport/ National Sports Commission 2022 Windball Cricket Season opening Janet Jagan Memorial School Girls championship got underway on...

BCB expresses shock and disgust at GCB press statement

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB expresses shock and disgust at GCB press statement

Kaieteur News – “The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has noted with shock and disgust a press release from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) which has left us totally speechless,” a release from...

Large-scale poultry project earmarked for Pakuri – President Ali

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Large-scale poultry project earmarked for Pakuri – President Ali

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced that as part of his Government’s economic development programme, a large-scale poultry hatchery and egg production project has...

Increased allocation to road safety council to curb road fatalities

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Increased allocation to road safety council to curb road fatalities

Kaieteur News – Government, in its effort to curb road accidents, has increased the financial resources given to the Guyana National Road Safety Council from $3 million to over $11 million. In...

86 youths graduate from BIT skills training programme

Mar 28, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on 86 youths graduate from BIT skills training programme

Kaieteur News – Some 86 young persons from Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) graduated on Friday last from the Board of Industrial Training’s (BIT) National Training Project for Youth Empowerment...

Jagdeo is ill-informed about Trinidad and Tobago’s economy

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo is ill-informed about Trinidad and Tobago’s economy

Kaieteur News – Second Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo’s comments about the economy of Trinidad and Tobago falling apart and not likely to see the light of day in the future were undiplomatic,...

The missing link in the PNC’s dialogue with Ms. Feinstein

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The missing link in the PNC’s dialogue with Ms. Feinstein

Kaieteur News – Ms. Barbara Feinstein from the US Department of State came to Guyana and had dialogue with the PNC. Mr. Aubrey Norton, the PNC leader was once a foreign service officer. He...

The Right to Pollute according to the EPA?

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Right to Pollute according to the EPA?

Dear Editor, Recent letters by Ryhaan Shah, Yog Mahadeo and Malcolm Harripaul have raised the issue of noise pollution and the role of the EPA in Guyana. My recent experience with a wash-bay that...

Jagdeo right on T&T falling apart

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo right on T&T falling apart

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Jagdeo’s ‘falling apart’ statement” (March 25 and 26) about Trinidad and Tobago. The Vice President is right. The T&T economy has not been doing very...

NRF Board – The Vice President’s defence

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on NRF Board – The Vice President’s defence

Dear Editor, It is strange the lengths to which powerful men would go to rationalise the irrational, to stand up for what makes for little sense, since it is so-self-serving. This was the case...

Local content and extended family

Mar 28, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Local content and extended family

Dear Editor, I agree that priority should and must be given to our fellow Guyanese, but we must not turn our backs on those who have a shared history with us. Our friends from Trinidad & Tobago...

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West Indies ride on Greaves’ 115 to exert dominance over Bangladesh

Jagdeo’s idea of transparency

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Transparency, as conceived by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, seems to be a peculiar exercise... more