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‘Free oil’ in Exxon contract more generous than taxes, royalty lost – Chris Ram

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Free oil’ in Exxon contract more generous than taxes, royalty lost – Chris Ram

I am not entirely satisfied that these concessions are in fact permitted under the Petroleum Exploration and Production Act but who cares? We fight for political power but nonchalantly give away our...

US$106.4M contract inked for Ogle to Eccles by-pass four-lane road

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on US$106.4M contract inked for Ogle to Eccles by-pass four-lane road

By Alliyah Allicock The long awaited contract for a four-lane road link between Ogle on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) and Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) was signed on Friday. The...

Nigeria was ripped off US$30B by oil companies on taxes and royalties – Audit finds

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Nigeria was ripped off US$30B by oil companies on taxes and royalties – Audit finds

Kaieteur News – A 2019 report by the National Extractive Industries Extractive Initiative (NEITI) in Nigeria had revealed that 77 oil companies operating in the country had attempted to rip off...

Law recognizes rights of Guyanese regardless of how they became citizens — Gerry Gouveia

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Law recognizes rights of Guyanese regardless of how they became citizens — Gerry Gouveia

Kaieteur News – The country’s Local Content Secretariat has not disclosed why it recently denied Trinidadian divested oil and gas support company, Ramps Logistics (Guyana) its local content...

Elections COI parameters to be set on President’s return to Guyana — AG

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Elections COI parameters to be set on President’s return to Guyana — AG

Kaieteur News – As the country awaits the commencement of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2020 General and Regional Elections, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil...

Opposition protests Su revelation while Exxon robs Guyana silently everyday – Civil society members

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition protests Su revelation while Exxon robs Guyana silently everyday – Civil society members

Kaieteur News – While voices in civil society believe that the Opposition must take a stand against corruption in the country, they are equally dissatisfied with the joint parties’ hasty rush...

Prezzie copycatting

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Prezzie copycatting

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Some ah dem foreign leader getting second thoughts about inviting Prezzie to dem country. Dem seh everything de man see, he want copy. He went to Barbados and he...

The Local Content Secretariat has no vetting powers

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Local Content Secretariat has no vetting powers

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is out of order … again. Its latest snafu is contained in a statement, which it issued a few days ago. In that...

Jean-Louis Trintignant is dead, Costa Gavras thankfully is still alive

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Jean-Louis Trintignant is dead, Costa Gavras thankfully is still alive

Kaieteur News – One day in 1971, a friend, Balwant Persaud, who I met when he was in high school (Guyana Oriental College on Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg), and I was a student in the...

What happened to our pride, self-esteem?

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on What happened to our pride, self-esteem?

Kaieteur News – We came across an article in the online edition of the BBC on January 17 that left a strange sensation, and prompted some still stranger sentiments, the more we thought of it....

Police still probing mysterious death of E/bo Hunter

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Police still probing mysterious death of E/bo Hunter

Region Two police are yet to solve the mystery behind the death of an Essequibo Hunter, Bharrat Ramdehol, who was reportedly killed on April 30 last, by a single gunshot wound to the stomach while on...

$622M estimated to re-construct North Ruimveldt Secondary School

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on $622M estimated to re-construct North Ruimveldt Secondary School

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Education is moving ahead with the reconstruction of the North Ruimveldt Secondary School following a fire on June 19, last year which destroyed the entire upper...

Health Ministry records 112 new COVID-19 cases

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry records 112 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health on Friday reported that within the last 24hour period, they have recorded a total of 112 new COVID-19 cases. Additionally, there were two patients...

Mingo and others return to court on July 15

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Mingo and others return to court on July 15

Kaieteur News – On July 15, 2022, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) court case in which several persons were charged criminally for allegedly trying to rig the March 2, 2020 General and...

Guyana among beneficiaries for US$1M grant to tackle domestic violence

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana among beneficiaries for US$1M grant to tackle domestic violence

Kaieteur News – Guyana is among nine countries benefitting from a US$1M grant to help raise awareness for domestic violence. The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday said,...

Extractive Industries especially vulnerable to abuse, illicit enrichment – EITI report

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Extractive Industries especially vulnerable to abuse, illicit enrichment – EITI report

Kaieteur News – The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global watchdog for the governance of oil and gas and mineral resources, in its 2022 Progress Report on Guyana, has...

Chain snatcher gets 2 years

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Chain snatcher gets 2 years

Kaieteur News – Thirty-two-year-old Sherman Ken, of Kaneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was on Friday sentenced to two years imprisonment for assaulting and stealing a woman’s chain....

Standards Bureau destroys shoddy electrical fittings peddled by local businesses

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Standards Bureau destroys shoddy electrical fittings peddled by local businesses

Kaieteur News – Although it was made clear by the previous administration in 2019 that businesses caught selling substandard electrical materials on the local market will face penalties, a few...

Trevon Prince is through to the boys under20 800m final at Jamaica National Trials

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trevon Prince is through to the boys under20 800m final at Jamaica National Trials

Guyana’s Trevon Prince is through to the boys under20 800m finals which is scheduled for today at the National Stadium in Jamaica. Prince is competing at the Jamaica National Trials which is being...

Ramnauth, Deosaran spur Leguan Warriors to victory in OSCL’s tournament

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramnauth, Deosaran spur Leguan Warriors to victory in OSCL’s tournament

Former national youth players Devon Ramnauth and Krishna Deosaran struck a century each last Sunday for Leguan Warriors who defeated Essequibo Coast by 103 runs at Dean Park ground, Scarborough,...

Eight teams to face the axe this weekend – Four battles carded for today

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eight teams to face the axe this weekend – Four battles carded for today

2022 Milo Secondary Schools Football Tournament… As the Petra-organised 2022 Milo Secondary Schools Football Tournament beings to heat up, another four teams will unfortunately find the exit when...

Noel’s unbeaten 72 & spinners spur Windwards to victory

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Noel’s unbeaten 72 & spinners spur Windwards to victory

CG United Women’s Super50 Cup… Leewards finish last again On the back of a wonderful unbeaten 72 from 61 balls decorated with nine boundaries from Carena Noel led the Windward Islands to a...

GFF President’s Cup Master’s Super 8 Over-40 football shifted to Sunday and Monday

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF President’s Cup Master’s Super 8 Over-40 football shifted to Sunday and Monday

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and Alex Bunbury Sports and Academy (ABSAA) will stage the GFF President’s Cup Master’s Super 8 Over-40...

ExxonMobil wants Govt. help to develop clean energy tech — Woods

Jun 25, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil wants Govt. help to develop clean energy tech — Woods

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Darren Woods would like the United States government to help incentivize some of the clean energy innovations his company is...

The struggle for the Buxton Proposal is a struggle for the soul of the country

Jun 25, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on The struggle for the Buxton Proposal is a struggle for the soul of the country

Dear Editor, I refer to the former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan’s letter published in Stabroek News, Monday, June 20, 2022 edition under the caption, ” Pending a study,100,000 of...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

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