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Puerto Rico file racketeering lawsuit against Exxon, others for deceiving public on climate-change effects

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Puerto Rico file racketeering lawsuit against Exxon, others for deceiving public on climate-change effects

(The Guardian) – The same racketeering legislation used to bring down mob bosses, motorcycle gangs, football executives and international fraudsters is to be tested against oil and coal...

Teen chopped to death, other man injured as NA man goes berserk

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Teen chopped to death, other man injured as NA man goes berserk

Kaieteur News – On Wednesday morning, a 15-year-old boy was chopped to death and another man narrowly escaped with his life after they were viciously attacked by a man at Timmers Dam,...

Guyana not included in Netherland’s apology over slavery

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana not included in Netherland’s apology over slavery

– CARICOM says apology imperialistic without involvement of victims Kaieteur News – Chairman of Guyana Reparations Commission, Eric Phillips has expressed dismay that Guyana was not...

Shoe vendor stabbed to death on Regent Street

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Shoe vendor stabbed to death on Regent Street

Kaieteur News – A man in his early 20s’ was on Wednesday evening stabbed to death reportedly by a lone attacker while plying his trade on the pavement in front of Pressy Enterprise located...

GRA in last-minute push to clear Christmas barrels

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on GRA in last-minute push to clear Christmas barrels

– Finance Minister inspects operations at city wharves Kaieteur News – Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh on Wednesday visited...

Appeal Court cuts 40-year jail sentence of pastor convicted of raping underage girl

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Appeal Court cuts 40-year jail sentence of pastor convicted of raping underage girl

Kaieteur News – The Court of Appeal has reduced the jail sentence of Pastor Andrew Hannibal who was serving a 40-year jail term for raping an underage girl by 15 years. His jail time reduced...

Carol Joseph on $140k bail for allegedly defrauding MARDS of $6.1M

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Carol Joseph on $140k bail for allegedly defrauding MARDS of $6.1M

Kaieteur News – Former director of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) Rice Milling Complex Limited and a member of the Opposition People’s National Congress (PNC) Carol...

Billions budgeted for health sector not benefiting Guyanese- Opposition

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Billions budgeted for health sector not benefiting Guyanese- Opposition

…as AG report flags undelivered drugs Kaieteur News – As Guyana gears to commence spending another US$97 million loan from the Inter-American Development (IDB) towards the improvement of...

COVID death toll climbs to 1268

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on COVID death toll climbs to 1268

…as elderly Region 2 woman succumbs to disease Kaieteur News – Guyana on Wednesday recorded its 1286th Covid-19 death, when a Region Two woman succumbed to the disease at the Infectious...

More Guyanese to be certified for oil sector with development of new training centre

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on More Guyanese to be certified for oil sector with development of new training centre

Kaieteur News – Guyana is positioning itself for massive gains in local content as the current administration is collaborating with ExxonMobil Corporation’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and...

Retrial ordered for woman sentenced for murder of uncle

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Retrial ordered for woman sentenced for murder of uncle

Kaieteur News – The Court of Appeal on Wednesday set aside the conviction of Vishawantie Ragnauth, who is currently serving 40 years behind bars for the murder of her uncle, and ordered that...

Minibus driver in Zeeburg fatal accident remanded to prison

Dec 22, 2022 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus driver in Zeeburg fatal accident remanded to prison

Kaieteur News – The 35-year-old minibus driver who was involved in the fatal accident at Zeeburg last Saturday, which claimed the life of Gaitree Sewsankar, was on Tuesday charged for causing...

De noisy season deh pon we!

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De noisy season deh pon we!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – This is nat de season fuh ole people! Some of dem already getting nervous about what gan happen on Christmas Eve Night and Ole Year’s Night with de...

West Indies to face Zimbabwe in two Tests in Bulawayo

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies to face Zimbabwe in two Tests in Bulawayo

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Men’s team will start their 2023 international year with two Test matches against Zimbabwe. The visitors will play both matches at the Queens Sports Club...

One Guyana President’s moves to Albion tonight

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on One Guyana President’s moves to Albion tonight

– ‘Rampant’ Region 3 stays unbeaten; Region 7 in back-to-back wins By Rawle Toney Kaieteur News – The Albion Sports Complex – once a host to international cricket – will...

Tennis ace Boris Becker recalls prison loneliness, friends

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tennis ace Boris Becker recalls prison loneliness, friends

BERLIN (AP) — Tennis great Boris Becker tearfully recounted the moment the door of his single-occupancy cell at Britain’s notorious Wandsworth prison closed for the first time, speaking publicly...

Trophy Stall on board as preparations continue for Kennard Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day Horserace meet

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall on board as preparations continue for Kennard Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day Horserace meet

Kaieteur News – Trophy Stall Guyana has joined with other sponsors to help bank roll the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) traditional “Boxing Day “Horse Race meet set for December 26 at...

Former FIFA head Blatter: Failed to protect soccer from interference

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former FIFA head Blatter: Failed to protect soccer from interference

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA, said he had been unable to protect soccer from political and business interference in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit....

Guyanese Lionel D’Andrade wins Amicts 5km in T and T

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Lionel D’Andrade wins Amicts 5km in T and T

Kaieteur News – Guyanese Lionel D’Andrade emerged victorious in the Amicts 5km road race which was contested recently at ST. Mary’s in Trinidad and Tobago. D’Andrade clocked 19...

One is not anti-West because one criticizes the attitudes of the West

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on One is not anti-West because one criticizes the attitudes of the West

Kaieteur News – It is foolish for any minister of any Western government or any diplomat of any Western embassy here in Guyana to think that because a minister or businessman or editor or...

Revisiting 52% profits for Guyana

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Revisiting 52% profits for Guyana

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil’s Alistair Routledge has broadcast to the world that Guyana is receiving 52% combined in profits and royalties from its oil. The world hears that, reads that, and...

Climate change is bogus!

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Climate change is bogus!

Kaieteur News – The Earth is warming but climate change is a hoax. The warming of the Earth’s temperature is not caused by greenhouse gas emissions. There are many small causes which...

President bodyguards need training

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on President bodyguards need training

Dear Editor, As a former bodyguard and closeman with three presidents of Guyana, the late Cheddi and his wife Janet Jagan and Sam Hinds, I was shocked at the incident at State House. This is a...

Slave labour was in part responsible for the rapid development of Europe: reparations must be a priority

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Slave labour was in part responsible for the rapid development of Europe: reparations must be a priority

Dear Editor, At the break of dawn yesterday, the BBC in its global podcast announced that the Government of the Netherlands (Dutch) made a public apology for their role in the slave trade and...

Uproar against Exxon’s billboard justified

Dec 22, 2022 KNews Letters Comments Off on Uproar against Exxon’s billboard justified

Dear Editor, The uproar against Exxon’s billboards is justified. There is no way they can make such a claim with a straight face. Even the expense to decommission a well is yet to be discussed. One...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more