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ExxonMobil using Guyana’s oil to pay overseas employees

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil using Guyana’s oil to pay overseas employees

…PSA waives need for Ministerial approval Kaieteur News – The oil contract that Guyana entered into with US oil major, ExxonMobil is infamous globally for the favourable fiscal terms it...

Venezuela’s oil minister resigns: Police arrest 6 in corruption sweep

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela’s oil minister resigns: Police arrest 6 in corruption sweep

Reuters – Venezuela’s oil minister Tareck El Aissami said yesterday he will resign and at least six officials were arrested following investigations by police into corruption, including at...

Govt. mum on calls to extend two-week comments period on new model oil contracts

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. mum on calls to extend two-week comments period on new model oil contracts

…as consultation enters second phase Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana (GoG) has so far ignored the calls from both civil society and the Opposition for the review period on the...

7-month-old baby reportedly dies after suffocating at day-care

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on 7-month-old baby reportedly dies after suffocating at day-care

Kaieteur News – A mother is now mourning the death of her 7-month-old daughter, Oriya who reportedly died after falling from a bed and suffocating in a sheet at a day-care. “I was made to...

US Govt. flags claims of police cover-up in Fagundes’ execution

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on US Govt. flags claims of police cover-up in Fagundes’ execution

…cites frequent reports of corruption in 2022 Kaieteur News – The United States Government has flagged the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) failure to investigate claims that some of its...

Gang invasion at Linden school leaves teacher injured

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Gang invasion at Linden school leaves teacher injured

Kaieteur News – Teachers, students and parents of the Harmony Secondary School located at Wismar, Linden (Region 10) staged a protest on Tuesday demanding better security at the school while...

Warning signs are everywhere that Guyana is going nowhere – Local Economists

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Warning signs are everywhere that Guyana is going nowhere – Local Economists

...say billions in oil revenue being wasted on inflated projects …sector hungry for transparent governance By Davina Bagot Kaieteur News – Guyana has often received counsel from...

$900M revolving fund officially launched for forestry sector stakeholders

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on $900M revolving fund officially launched for forestry sector stakeholders

DPI – The $900 million forestry revolving fund for small and medium-sized loggers was launched on Tuesday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. During a ceremony held to commemorate...

FARMSUP donates boat, outboard engine and life jackets to students of Akawini Village

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on FARMSUP donates boat, outboard engine and life jackets to students of Akawini Village

Kaieteur News – Farm Supplies Ltd. (FARMSUP) on Saturday donated a 25 feet wooden boat, with a 60HP Fourstroke Mercury outboard engine and equipped with 40 life jackets to the school children...

10 children to undergo heart surgeries as part of GPHC’s Paediatric Cardiac Programme

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on 10 children to undergo heart surgeries as part of GPHC’s Paediatric Cardiac Programme

Kaieteur News – Ten children will this week undergo open heart surgeries as part of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Paediatric Cardiac Programme which was re-launched on...

Bar Association condemns Judge’s public chastisement of a Senior Counsel over alleged fraud in court case

Mar 22, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bar Association condemns Judge’s public chastisement of a Senior Counsel over alleged fraud in court case

Kaieteur News – The Bar Association of Guyana has added its voice to condemn the recent actions of a sitting judicial officer over his public chastisement of a senior officer of inner bar for...

Duo busted with marijuana in car at Charity

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Duo busted with marijuana in car at Charity

Kaieteur News – Two men are now in custody, after they were nabbed with approximately 30 pounds (lbs.) of imported cannabis in a car at Charity, Essequibo on Monday. According to a report from...

Eight ERC members take oath of office

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Eight ERC members take oath of office

Kaieteur News – Eight members of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) were on Tuesday sworn in by President Irfaan Ali. The members who took the oath of office and received their instruments...

GGMC booted from future oil decision-making processes with new draft PSAs

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC booted from future oil decision-making processes with new draft PSAs

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Government has released two new draft Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) that are to govern the future of oil exploration and development in the country,...

Norton calls for national plan on race relations

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Norton calls for national plan on race relations

– urges strengthening of ERC, collective effort from all sectors Kaieteur News – Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton has called for a more robust fight against all forms of discrimination,...

Poor obstetric performance, infrequent access to prenatal care among common causes for Guyana’s maternal deaths – US report

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Poor obstetric performance, infrequent access to prenatal care among common causes for Guyana’s maternal deaths – US report

Kaieteur News – While concerns have been raised over the number of maternal and prenatal deaths in Guyana, a recently released human rights report from the United States (US) Department of...

Lengthy pre-trial detention among violations hampering proper access to justice in Guyana

Mar 22, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lengthy pre-trial detention among violations hampering proper access to justice in Guyana

– US Human Rights Report Kaieteur News – Alluding to human rights violations in its 2022 report, the US Department of State noted that lengthy pretrial detention continues to be hindrance...

Duo freed of America Street money changer’s murder

Mar 22, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Duo freed of America Street money changer’s murder

Kaieteur News – Kerwin Dos Santos and George Hope, two Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown men, have both been freed of the 2018 murder of America Street money changer Sean Nurse,...

Oil and gas workers to strike against oil companies that ‘bag’ big profits but refuse to give them ‘a fair share of the pie’

Mar 22, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and gas workers to strike against oil companies that ‘bag’ big profits but refuse to give them ‘a fair share of the pie’

Kaieteur News – Oil and gas workers are planning to hit fossil fuel firms with a ‘tsunami’ of strikes, unions have announced. Euro News reported that the mass industrial action will include...

Chinese contractor among 3 firms bidding to upgrade two interior stellings

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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