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Gas-to-energy project moves from US$900M to over US$2B

Gas-to-energy project moves from US$900M to over US$2B

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Gas-to-energy project moves from US$900M to over US$2B

…Govt. now says it will approach US Exim Bank for loan …Critics slam initiative as abusive, exploitative, not in keeping with spirit of Constitution Kaieteur News – At a press conference...

High Court Judge stops Schlumberger from operating radioactive storage facility

High Court Judge stops Schlumberger from operating radioactive storage facility

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on High Court Judge stops Schlumberger from operating radioactive storage facility

By Renay Sambach Justice Nareshwar Harnanan on Friday granted an injunction to stop the operation of US based Company, Schlumberger Guyana Inc.’s radioactive storage facility located at Lot 1 Area...

Guyana urged to beef up audit capabilities and introduce strong reporting standards to avoid highway robbery – Int’l Advisory Group

Guyana urged to beef up audit capabilities and introduce strong reporting standards to avoid highway robbery – Int’l Advisory Group

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana urged to beef up audit capabilities and introduce strong reporting standards to avoid highway robbery – Int’l Advisory Group

Kaieteur News – ‘Chatham House’, an independent Policy Institute headquartered in London, is encouraging new oil players like Guyana to invest quickly and heavily in beefing up their...

‘Local content was created for retention of wealth in country not extraction’ – GCCI President

‘Local content was created for retention of wealth in country not extraction’ – GCCI President

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Local content was created for retention of wealth in country not extraction’ – GCCI President

– urges Govt. to plug loopholes in Legislation Kaieteur News – With the first anniversary since the passage of the Local Content Act in the National Assembly approaching, President of the...

CJ rules Akawaio and Arekuna people do not have exclusive rights to Upper Mazaruni lands

CJ rules Akawaio and Arekuna people do not have exclusive rights to Upper Mazaruni lands

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on CJ rules Akawaio and Arekuna people do not have exclusive rights to Upper Mazaruni lands

24-year land rights legal battle… Kaieteur News – Chief Justice (Ag.) Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday ruled in a decades-old Amerindian land rights case – stating that while the Akawaio...

Cops to interview man in State House shooting after surgery – Crime Chief

Cops to interview man in State House shooting after surgery – Crime Chief

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Cops to interview man in State House shooting after surgery – Crime Chief

Kaieteur News – Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, on Friday told Kaieteur News that Investigators will make efforts to interview 25-year-old Bethel Ikenna Chimezie, the Nigerian national who...

Corentyne man crushed to death by tractor

Corentyne man crushed to death by tractor

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man crushed to death by tractor

Kaieteur News – A tractor operator is dead following the toppling of the vehicle he was driving at a Wellington Park rice field, Corentyne, Berbice on Thursday. Dead is 47-year-old Rakesh...

Guyana, EU sign agreement for sustainable trade of legal timber

Guyana, EU sign agreement for sustainable trade of legal timber

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, EU sign agreement for sustainable trade of legal timber

Kaieteur News – Guyana and the European Union (EU) have signed an agreement to ensure the legal trade of timber to EU buyers on Friday at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal,...

PPP removes residency requirement for eligible voters from law-AFC

PPP removes residency requirement for eligible voters from law-AFC

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on PPP removes residency requirement for eligible voters from law-AFC

Kaieteur News – The Alliance for Change (AFC) has sounded an alarm against Government’s removal of residency requirements for eligible voting at elections, calling the move a major blow to...

Govt. to spend $144M from IDB loan to build Justice Centre at Vergenoegen

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to spend $144M from IDB loan to build Justice Centre at Vergenoegen

Kaieteur News – A $144M Hope and Justice Centre at Vergenoegen, Region Three will soon be constructed by the Government of Guyana. The Justice Centre will be funded through a loan received from...

Guyana Association of Real Estate Professional aims to lift real estate standards

Guyana Association of Real Estate Professional aims to lift real estate standards

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Association of Real Estate Professional aims to lift real estate standards

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Association of Real Estate Professionals (GAREP) on Wednesday held their first annual Christmas Social and General Meeting at the Hibiscus Lounge where members of its...

De tentacles of the Government lang

De tentacles of the Government lang

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De tentacles of the Government lang

Kaieteur News – Yuh can run but yuh can’t hide from de Government. Some people does run and and hide from de law. But when de Government after yuh, yuh can run but yuh gan eventually get...

The Government should provide the evidence

The Government should provide the evidence

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Government should provide the evidence

Kaieteur News – The Opposition has opted for a narrative about discrimination and marginalization and the establishment of an apartheid state. This is a not a new narrative; the Opposition has...

Puran Brothers secure $252M contract to construct sanitary landfill facility in Region Two

Puran Brothers secure $252M contract to construct sanitary landfill facility in Region Two

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Puran Brothers secure $252M contract to construct sanitary landfill facility in Region Two

Kaieteur News – Puran Brothers Disposal Inc. on Friday signed a $252M contract with the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development for the construction of a sanitary landfill at...

Local insurance fraternity hopes to be more than fronting agencies for ExxonMobil

Local insurance fraternity hopes to be more than fronting agencies for ExxonMobil

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Local insurance fraternity hopes to be more than fronting agencies for ExxonMobil

Kaieteur News – The local insurance and brokerage fraternities are hoping to be more than fronting agencies for U.S oil giant ExxonMobil and its partners. The agencies are hopeful that firms...

Seven firms now bidding to build Guyana’s oil refinery

Seven firms now bidding to build Guyana’s oil refinery

Dec 17, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Seven firms now bidding to build Guyana’s oil refinery

Kaieteur News – The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) has announced that seven firms are competing to construct the country’s oil refinery. Earlier this week,...

President Ali pushes Government support to Ezekiel Newton

President Ali pushes Government support to Ezekiel Newton

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on President Ali pushes Government support to Ezekiel Newton

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur News – Ezekiel Newton is one of Guyana’s budding sprinters, and though racking up an impressive resume on the track, yesterday, the 17-year-old scored the...

Sport Ministry on board GABBFF’s Mr Guyana

Sport Ministry on board GABBFF’s Mr Guyana

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sport Ministry on board GABBFF’s Mr Guyana

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation met with the Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, and the Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC),...

Visiting teams in action against CWSS, Golden Grove today

Visiting teams in action against CWSS, Golden Grove today

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Visiting teams in action against CWSS, Golden Grove today

2022 KFC Goodwill Tournament… Kaieteur News -The second day of the 2022 KFC Goodwill Tournament unfolds today, December 17, at the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) National Training Centre in...

We must always attempt to converse with innocent Guyanese mind

We must always attempt to converse with innocent Guyanese mind

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on We must always attempt to converse with innocent Guyanese mind

Kaieteur News – I have written it on this page several times that people with obscure minds write irrational things but there are innocent minds out there that could accept what is...

If Guyana’s Constitution was violated, people must pay

If Guyana’s Constitution was violated, people must pay

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on If Guyana’s Constitution was violated, people must pay

DEAR EDITOR, If Guyana’s Constitution stipulates one company can only receive 60 oil blocks, how can Exxon get 600? How can this be? Guyana’s Constitution also stipulates one company can own a...

Rich Oil Estate

Rich Oil Estate

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Rich Oil Estate

Kaieteur News – Guyanese could have had a lot to love about John Hess, the CEO of Hess Corporation, a member of the ExxonMobil-led consortium operating in our offshore oilfields. The man is...

Cost Recovery Audit conducted in ethical and professional manner

Cost Recovery Audit conducted in ethical and professional manner

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cost Recovery Audit conducted in ethical and professional manner

DEAR EDITOR, Recently there has been a series of articles in the news concerning the audit of Exxon Mobil’s claimed cost. Most notably, these articles are purported to be based on interviews done...

Why on earth are we proceeding with an uneconomic Gas to Energy Project?

Why on earth are we proceeding with an uneconomic Gas to Energy Project?

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why on earth are we proceeding with an uneconomic Gas to Energy Project?

DEAR EDITOR, The Government has reportedly signed the agreement to build the Wales 300 MW power plant and instructed ExxonMobil to construct a 12-inch pipeline to supply gas to the proposed plant....

A hymn to clean, beautiful Guyana

A hymn to clean, beautiful Guyana

Dec 17, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on A hymn to clean, beautiful Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, To enhance a society, a community and a country, unity must be of priority! To build a nation of greatness and preeminence, unification is the foundation to achieve the desired success....

Hauls from Persaud and Farley highlight MVP Sports Girl’s U11 Football Tourney commencement

Hauls from Persaud and Farley highlight MVP Sports Girl’s U11...

Nov 17, 2024

Kaieteur Sports- The Petra Organisation’s MVP Sports Girl’s Under-11 Football Tournament kicked off in spectacular fashion yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue,...

Windies chase 219 for first win of T20 series against England

Windies chase 219 for first win of T20 series...

Nov 17, 2024

Motie joins Amazon Warriors Squad for GSL

Motie joins Amazon Warriors Squad for GSL

Nov 17, 2024

CWI announces West Indies Test Squad for Home Series against Bangladesh

CWI announces West Indies Test Squad for Home...

Nov 17, 2024

𝗗𝗖𝗕 U𝟭𝟱50-overs ‘Next Generation’ Inter-Association Tournament starts today

𝗗𝗖𝗕 U𝟭𝟱50-overs ‘Next...

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Glasgow sets new scoring record as Golden Jaguars settle Barbados 4-1

Glasgow sets new scoring record as Golden Jaguars...

Nov 16, 2024

The PPP is in the grip of the bourgeoisie

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur news- The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) stands at a crossroads. Once the vanguard... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Excellency Ali soke – he must produce

…Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur news- President Ali has a problem. Credibility. He has declared war (his version)... more