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Hasty approval for Exxon’s pipeline may earn Guyana another white elephant project – Int’l Lawyer

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Hasty approval for Exxon’s pipeline may earn Guyana another white elephant project – Int’l Lawyer

Kaieteur News – International Lawyer, Melinda Janki has warned that an approval for ExxonMobil’s pipeline to supply gas to two facilities at the Wales development site that is yet to be...

Jagdeo unsure of final cost for gas-to-energy project, new price to generate electricity

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo unsure of final cost for gas-to-energy project, new price to generate electricity

…hedging success based on estimates Kaieteur News – Recent utterances from Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, regarding the Wales Gas-to- Energy Project has left the nation begging for a...

CCJ sanctions GGMC for ‘unfair’ and ‘unlawful’ doling out of mining lands

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ sanctions GGMC for ‘unfair’ and ‘unlawful’ doling out of mining lands

– Found commission had lied to quarry operator about availability of mines Kaieteur News – An ongoing court battle between the Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission...

Govt. agencies, Oil companies submit unverified data for transparency report

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. agencies, Oil companies submit unverified data for transparency report

Kaieteur News – Guyana has signed on to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global Standard to promote open and accountable management of natural resources but in its...

US$83.3M to fund 34MW of solar power for Essequibo, Berbice and Linden

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on US$83.3M to fund 34MW of solar power for Essequibo, Berbice and Linden

Kaieteur News – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through the Guyana-Norway arrangement, has approved up to US$83.3 million to be used to construct solar plants to supply 34 megawatts...

Private Sector minimum wage now $60K

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Private Sector minimum wage now $60K

– Labour Union says, “We believe it when we see it.” Kaieteur News – Labour unions particularly vocal over the adjustment of the $60,000 national minimum wage (NMW) remain unconvinced...

COVID-19 restrictions into Guyana lifted

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 restrictions into Guyana lifted

Kaieteur News – As of today persons traveling to Guyana will no longer have to produce a negative COVID-19 antigen or PCR test to enter the country. This was announced by the Ministry of Health...

Persons living with HIV, Cancer to get lifetime of public assistance

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Persons living with HIV, Cancer to get lifetime of public assistance

Kaieteur News – All persons in Guyana, who are living with Cancer, HIV/AIDs or any other incurable and untreatable diseases or with permanent disabilities, will now benefit from the...

Foreign Companies trying to beat Local Content law

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Companies trying to beat Local Content law

…may see us ending up in court with a few—Jagdeo Kaieteur News – With US$700M to be made annually through the protections and provisions offered under Guyana’s Local Content Laws,...

De Vee Pee get overrule

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De Vee Pee get overrule

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De President look as if he overrule de Vee Pee. De Vee Pee did claim how de guvament didn’t go ahead with de Commission of Inquiry into de elections because...

Was this an intelligence-gathering operation or impersonation?

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Was this an intelligence-gathering operation or impersonation?

Kaieteur News – The 1985 general and regional elections were the most incompetently rigged elections. The rigging was so inexpert that even the blind could have seen the gross irregularities...

That inevitable wicked omission in defense of Burnham

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on That inevitable wicked omission in defense of Burnham

Kaieteur News – It comes up all the time whenever Burnham’s aficionados write and speak in defense of him. The abominable omission is always there, always in graphic form projecting its ugly...

Glenn Lall’s tax fight

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Glenn Lall’s tax fight

Kaieteur News – A close listening to him confirms a few things. In the matter involving huge tax exemptions granted by the Government of Guyana to Exxon and its partners operating in Guyana’s...

Reversing bus kills Pomeroon pensioner

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Reversing bus kills Pomeroon pensioner

Kaieteur News – A pensioner of Upper Pomeroon, Region Two, was killed on Friday by a bus that was reversing within the Charity Market area. The man was identified as Chooman Lall, 79, better...

GPSU credit union members take Management Committee to court for ignoring petition

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU credit union members take Management Committee to court for ignoring petition

Kaieteur News – Continued infighting at the Guyana Public Service Co-Operative Credit Union (GPSCCU) has seen three of its members taking the body’s Management Committee to court over the...

Private hotel developers should not trump national interest — Dr. Jerry Jailall

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Private hotel developers should not trump national interest — Dr. Jerry Jailall

GRA land transfer saga… Kaieteur News – Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN) advocate, Dr. Jerry Jailall recently reprimanded the PPP/C Government over its decision to transfer prime plots...

224 small businesses benefit from $1B in loans under LCDS initiative

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on 224 small businesses benefit from $1B in loans under LCDS initiative

Kaieteur News – Under the Low-Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) initiative, 224 Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) businesses were able to benefit from almost $1B in loans. This was...

Pomeroon logger feared dead after falling off Charity Wharf

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon logger feared dead after falling off Charity Wharf

Kaieteur News – A 31-year-old logger of Akawini, Lower Pomeroon, Region Two is feared drowned, after he fell off the Charity Wharf on Thursday afternoon. The man was identified only by his last...

Man dies after driving into pothole at Bee Hive, ECD

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies after driving into pothole at Bee Hive, ECD

Kaieteur News – A driver lost his life on Friday after he drove his minibus into a pothole along the Bee Hive Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and lost control. He was identified as Romeo...

LCDS 2030 sets strategic plan to bridge digital divide between Coast, Hinterland

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on LCDS 2030 sets strategic plan to bridge digital divide between Coast, Hinterland

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (2030) has laid out a set of strategic projects which would be used to bridge the digital divide between coastal and hinderland...

We Stand United CC members excel at USA circuit

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on We Stand United CC members excel at USA circuit

The We Stand United Cycle Club (WSUCC) duo Briton John and James Joseph who are both competing in the USA have continued to turn in stellar performances. This past weekend, Saturday to be exact, both...

GFF issues warning ahead of Magnum Mini Championship

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF issues warning ahead of Magnum Mini Championship

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) wishes to inform that it has not sanctioned or given approval for the conduct of the advertised “Unfinished Business” Futsal championship. Consequently, the...

Motorcyclist killed in Linden accident

Jun 18, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist killed in Linden accident

Kaieteur News – A 50-year-old man on Wednesday died after he lost control of a motorcycle while negotiating a turn along the Washer Pond Public Road, Mackenzie, Linden, Region 10. He was...

Unfinished Business wraps up tonight

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Unfinished Business wraps up tonight

Magnum Futsal Mini Championships… The National Park tarmac this evening will be a hive of activity when the Magnum Tonic Wine ‘Unfinished Business’ Futsal Championship kicks off. Back Circle...

2022 Milo Secondary Schools Football Tournament kicks off today

Jun 18, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2022 Milo Secondary Schools Football Tournament kicks off today

The Petra organised Milo under-18 Secondary Schools Football Tournament which was officially launched on Tuesday at the Ministry of Education Ground, kicks off today with the preliminary round...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more