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CONSUMER CONCERNS: MEN on MISSION (MoM) ADDRESSES THE MALE GENDER CRISIS

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS: MEN on MISSION (MoM) ADDRESSES THE MALE GENDER CRISIS

By: PAT DIAL Kaieteur News – In the Western World as well as the Islamic World, during the 19th and 20th centuries, society became increasingly conscious of the oppression and discrimination...

Court Journal: Extradition

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Court Journal: Extradition

By: Renay Sambach Kaieteur News –The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has vowed to use all legal avenues to get the couple reportedly involved in the murder of Police Constable Quincy Lewis,...

Cartoon – 30 April, 2023

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – 30 April, 2023

GNBS IN FOCUS: CONSTRUCTING SAFE ACCESS SCAFFOLDS USING THE NATIONAL STANDARD

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, GNBS, News Comments Off on GNBS IN FOCUS: CONSTRUCTING SAFE ACCESS SCAFFOLDS USING THE NATIONAL STANDARD

Kaieteur News – The landscape in Guyana is quickly changing with the construction of many high-rise buildings, even as the housing sector continues to rapidly expand. These developments expose...

Health Facts: Signs you are in danger of a heart attack or stroke

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Health Facts, News Comments Off on Health Facts: Signs you are in danger of a heart attack or stroke

By: Rehanna Ramsay Kaieteur News – Strokes and heart attacks are always an emergency. But do you know the signs of stroke and heart attack? Knowledge is power. You can save a life by learning...

Interesting Creatures: DNA sequencing to identify undiscovered rabbits found in Region nine

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures:, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures: DNA sequencing to identify undiscovered rabbits found in Region nine

By Shervin Belgrave Kaieteur News – DNA sequencing is being used to identify a species of wild rabbits that mysteriously showed up some decades ago in farmlands of the Wapishana people at...

What future, Venezuela?

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on What future, Venezuela?

(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University...

National Library launches Storytime in the Park

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on National Library launches Storytime in the Park

– Read Guyana Challenge to be launched in May Kaieteur News – On Saturday, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand was the guest reader at the Juvenile Department of the National Library...

The Detective: How Shonette Dover’s killer escaped by fooling a nation?

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, News, The Detective Comments Off on The Detective: How Shonette Dover’s killer escaped by fooling a nation?

By: Shervin Belgrave Kaieteur News – Today marks exactly two years after Shonette Dover’s 15-year-old relative led detectives to dig up her decomposing body from a shallow grave in her...

Marriott Hotel – Walking back sale, or walking over Guyanese?

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Marriott Hotel – Walking back sale, or walking over Guyanese?

Kaieteur News – It seems that the Marriott Hotel has a charmed life. In the Guyanese version of its existence, the Marriott has been visited by a peculiar set of developments that raises...

The market place debases culture

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The market place debases culture

Kaieteur News – A few personalities involved in what has been described as Guyana’s cultural industry, have complained, publicly, about not being accorded recognition by their country. But...

Chief Administrative Officers in Ministries should not be party hacks

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Chief Administrative Officers in Ministries should not be party hacks

Dear Editor, Monday, May 1, we celebrate May Day or if we prefer Labour Day at the beginning of Critchlow Week in honor of Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, the Father of Trade Unionism in the British...

There has been a steady decline at and with the Guyana Local Government Officers Union

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on There has been a steady decline at and with the Guyana Local Government Officers Union

Dear Editor, The trade union movement in Guyana which was founded by the late Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow in 1919 was once a powerful force in our country. However, today a number of trade unions in...

We need to question our leaders more about the oil sector

Apr 30, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to question our leaders more about the oil sector

Dear Editor, I am not an economist so forgive my lack of understanding. That is why I am writing to the press to seek some answers. I got the impression that based on some figure; I think 60 USD a...

Govt. grants Exxon production licence for 5th oil project

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. grants Exxon production licence for 5th oil project

Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on Friday announced the approval of the Uaru Field Development Plan (FDP) and the issuance of the Uaru...

Current generators will not be shelved for gas plant – VP Jagdeo

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Current generators will not be shelved for gas plant – VP Jagdeo

…says facilities will function as backup supply, augment future demand Kaieteur News – Key spokesman on national energy issues, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has clarified that the investment...

Guyana’s oil helped Exxon secure highest first-quarter profits in 24 years – US$11.4B

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s oil helped Exxon secure highest first-quarter profits in 24 years – US$11.4B

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil Corporation’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Darren Woods disclosed yesterday that the American oil giant secured a record breaking first quarter...

Stabroek Block partners now racing towards year-end approval for 6th oil project

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek Block partners now racing towards year-end approval for 6th oil project

Kaieteur News – After receiving the relevant government approvals this week for its fifth project at the Uaru field in the Stabroek Block, ExxonMobil and its partners now have their eyes fixed...

Venezuelan woman jailed for trafficking in persons, operating brothel in Bartica

Apr 29, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Venezuelan woman jailed for trafficking in persons, operating brothel in Bartica

Kaieteur News – A Venezuelan woman was on Wednesday sentenced to six months in prison for trafficking in persons and operating a brothel in the mining town of Bartica. The woman was identified...

$60.5 million in contracts signed to rehabilitate Karaudarnau & Maruranau primary schools in Reg. 9

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on $60.5 million in contracts signed to rehabilitate Karaudarnau & Maruranau primary schools in Reg. 9

Kaieteur News – To ensure students are properly and comfortably accommodated to be taught, the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Nine on Thursday signed two contracts valued $60M to...

Full Court allows Granger’s appeal against judge’s decision on pre-trial review in $2.6B libel case

Apr 29, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Full Court allows Granger’s appeal against judge’s decision on pre-trial review in $2.6B libel case

Kaieteur News – The Full Court on Thursday allowed former President David Granger’s appeal against the decision by High Court Judge Navindra Singh to waive a pre-trial review (PTR). In 2021,...

Former Chief-of-Staff passes on the mantle

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Former Chief-of-Staff passes on the mantle

…Charges Force to remain non-partisan, serve with distinction Kaieteur News – Brigadier Godfrey Bess officially handed the reins of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to Brigadier Omar Khan...

Capping stack to plug leaking oil well can take up to nine days to reach site

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Capping stack to plug leaking oil well can take up to nine days to reach site

Kaieteur News – On November 9 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its fourth Permit to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) – ExxonMobil Guyana- to...

Diamond, Tuschen residents to benefit from recreational parks

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond, Tuschen residents to benefit from recreational parks

DPI – The Government of Guyana, through the Office of the First Lady, will be establishing a Multipurpose Recreational Park in Tuschen, Region Three, and another in Diamond/Grove, Region Four....

E-payment bill to be laid in National Assembly soon

Apr 29, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on E-payment bill to be laid in National Assembly soon

DPI – The Electronic Communications and Transaction Bill will be tabled at the next sitting of the National Assembly, as part of its continued implementation of legislation to reflect Guyana’s...