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ExxonMobil proposes another energy plant to take off massive amounts of gas from 4th & 5th projects

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil proposes another energy plant to take off massive amounts of gas from 4th & 5th projects

Kaieteur News – In light of the significant quantities of gas that will be produced from ExxonMobil Corporation’s Yellowtail and Uaru Projects in the Stabroek Block, the oil giant has floated...

Opposition goes to Parliament for true cost, terms and conditions for gas-to-energy project

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition goes to Parliament for true cost, terms and conditions for gas-to-energy project

Kaieteur News – Former Health Minister and Opposition Member of Parliament, Volda Lawrence has tabled several questions in the National Assembly to ascertain the financing arrangements in place...

Over one million barrels of toxic waste to be dumped overboard daily at 5th project – Exxon study reveals

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Over one million barrels of toxic waste to be dumped overboard daily at 5th project – Exxon study reveals

Kaieteur News – United States (U.S.) oil giant, ExxonMobil plans to dump more than a million barrels of toxic, oily chemicals overboard daily during the life of the Uaru project, estimated at...

President Ali receives India’s highest overseas award

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on President Ali receives India’s highest overseas award

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali was on Tuesday conferred with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) for the year 2023, by President of India, Honourable Droupadi Murmu. The award...

GRA staff arrested for selling fake driver’s licence document

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on GRA staff arrested for selling fake driver’s licence document

Kaieteur News – A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) employee was last week arrested for selling fake documentation to a 35-year-old labourer of Bush Lot, Essequibo Coast, Region Two. The...

Indigenous communities want control of their share of carbon credit revenue – Allicock

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Indigenous communities want control of their share of carbon credit revenue – Allicock

By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – Former Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Sydney Allicock is arguing the need for Indigenous communities to be in control of their share of revenue earned...

IDB approves US$100M funding for Diamond/Grove to Timehri road project

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on IDB approves US$100M funding for Diamond/Grove to Timehri road project

Kaieteur News – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved US$100M to begin the Diamond/Grove to Timehri road project, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill has announced. The...

Four Kuwaiti firms submit bids to redesign Belfield to Rosignol roads

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Four Kuwaiti firms submit bids to redesign Belfield to Rosignol roads

Kaieteur News – Four Kuwaiti firms, in joint venture with local companies, have submitted bids to redesign the road network between Belfield, East Coast of Demerara (ECD) to Rosignol in Region...

CARICOM mounts Election Observation Mission to Antigua and Barbuda

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM mounts Election Observation Mission to Antigua and Barbuda

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General has appointed Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer of the Elections and Boundaries Department of Belize to head the...

Region 4 man is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Region 4 man is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality

Kaieteur News – The Health Ministry on Tuesday reported that a 65-year-old man from Region Four, who contracted the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), died on Sunday while receiving treatment at a...

National Registration Act amendments allow for registration transactions to be done continuously

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on National Registration Act amendments allow for registration transactions to be done continuously

Kaieteur News – The National Registration (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2022, which was assented to on December 13, 2022, has paved the way for registration transactions to be facilitated on a...

Guyanese swimmer on vacation in U.S. killed in accident

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese swimmer on vacation in U.S. killed in accident

Kaieteur News – A local swimmer was on Monday killed in a road accident while on vacation in the United States (US). The dead man was identified as Robert Taylor, 34, a member of the Silver...

Guyanese workers accuse Halliburton of flouting Local Content Law

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese workers accuse Halliburton of flouting Local Content Law

… Secretariat urges them to come forward with complaints Kaieteur News – Guyanese making claims against alleged non-compliant local content oil and gas companies must make reports to the...

Families of persons injured in Canje accident seeking justice

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Families of persons injured in Canje accident seeking justice

By Malisa Playter-Harry …as drunken firewoman charged with DUI, placed on bail Kaieteur News – For 32-year-old Sharon McDonald, the challenges of being a single mother are mountainous but her...

Increase in criminal cases before the High Court warrants more Judges- DPP

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Increase in criminal cases before the High Court warrants more Judges- DPP

Kaieteur News – The increase in the number of criminal cases before the High Court highlights the need for more judges, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC. said...

Commonwealth Secretariat issues new guide to help governments manage high cost to restore ocean floor

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Commonwealth Secretariat issues new guide to help governments manage high cost to restore ocean floor

– cautions oil and gas assets could become uneconomic sooner than expected, resulting in “stranded assets” Kaieteur News – The Commonwealth Secretariat has released a new practical...

Magistrate grants prosecutor’s application to amend electoral fraud charge

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Magistrate grants prosecutor’s application to amend electoral fraud charge

…denies defence motion for matters to proceed in the High Court Kaieteur News – Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on Monday granted an application made by the prosecutor in the electoral fraud...

Trio remanded for stealing weapons from security firm

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trio remanded for stealing weapons from security firm

Kaieteur News – Three men, including a security guard, were on Tuesday remanded to prison for allegedly stealing 11 weapons from Radar Security and Supplies Company. The defendants, 34-year-old...

Roxanne Myers’ lawyer gets permission to cross-examine witnesses at Elections COI

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Roxanne Myers’ lawyer gets permission to cross-examine witnesses at Elections COI

Kaieteur News – Former Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers’ lawyer will be given an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March...

Second driver charged with causing death of Lusignan pedestrian

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Second driver charged with causing death of Lusignan pedestrian

…placed on $100,000 bail Kaieteur News – The second driver involved in the death of Prahalad Sawh, the pedestrian who was killed in a hit and run accident on the Lusignan Public Road, East...

Guyana’s attendance at IBA Golden Belt Series in Morocco in limbo

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s attendance at IBA Golden Belt Series in Morocco in limbo

By Rawle Toney Kaieteur News – Guyana’s participation at the International Boxing Association (IBA) IBA World Boxing Tour Golden Belt Series Tournament in Morocco hangs in a balance according...

Watchdog institutions in Guyana getting weaker as country gets richer – Opposition

Jan 11, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Watchdog institutions in Guyana getting weaker as country gets richer – Opposition

…Exxon’s 3rd oil project will push country pass T&T with higher GDP per capita Kaieteur News – Guyana’s third oil project which is set for commissioning this year will give the...

OP:ED – Not so fast Prime Minister

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on OP:ED – Not so fast Prime Minister

By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – I confess to good feelings for the Hon. Prime Minister of Guyana, Mark Phillips. I recognise his heroic efforts to weave magic where there is mysticism and...

Danns lands Head Coach job at Macclesfield Town FC

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Danns lands Head Coach job at Macclesfield Town FC

Kaieteur News – Golden Jaguars midfield maestro, Neil Danns, has been appointed Head Coach of Macclesfield Town Football Club, a team which competes in the Northern Premier League on the...

Golf students shine as brightly as the sun

Jan 11, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golf students shine as brightly as the sun

Kaieteur News – The sun came out in its glory as 57 students from Rosignol Secondary School came to the Nexgen Golf Academy yesterday in preparation for their SBA for CSEC PE golf this year. ...

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Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more