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Hot & Spicy Creole Corner the sole location for tickets

May 19, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hot & Spicy Creole Corner the sole location for tickets

Return of the Scorpio’ Pro/Am Int’l C/ships… Kaieteur Sports – With less than three days remaining before the eagerly anticipated ‘Return of the Scorpio’ Pro/Am Card at the National...

Rosignol and Ithaca record contrasting wins

May 19, 2023 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rosignol and Ithaca record contrasting wins

GFF/NAMILCO U-17 Football Competition Berbice… Kaieteur Sports – Play in the ongoing GFF/National Milling Company (NAMILCO) U17 Football Competition continued over the weekend with in the...

ExxonMobil’s world being shaken

May 19, 2023 KNews Editorial Comments Off on ExxonMobil’s world being shaken

Kaieteur News – The exciting world of ExxonMobil has had some more excitement recently. More excitement than it bargained for, more than it is willing to handle. But face and deal with it...

Why was the latest bidding round selective?

May 19, 2023 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why was the latest bidding round selective?

Kaieteur News – Information has to come to hand that three members of the People’s Progressive Party are likely to soon undertake a protest walk, patterned after that undertaken recently by...

De facto president Jagdeo has the entire PPP Govt in a vise

May 19, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on De facto president Jagdeo has the entire PPP Govt in a vise

Dear Editor, It seems that governance in Guyana is buried in convolutions bordering on bizarre to comical because any elected government has the foremost obligation to protect its citizens, the...

We urge all citizens to answer SOKA’s call for solidarity with the Haitian people

May 19, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on We urge all citizens to answer SOKA’s call for solidarity with the Haitian people

Dear Editor, Yesterday May 18th, the Department of Language and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of Guyana observed Haiti Flag and Universities Day. This...

Substandard recreation parks

May 19, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Substandard recreation parks

Dear Editor, Substandard, hurry-work and doing the bare minimum are legacies of PPP/C governments. In his usual fanfare style of having school students lined up to greet, the President and his family...

Largest Independence celebrations planned for Friday on the Corentyne

May 19, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Largest Independence celebrations planned for Friday on the Corentyne

Dear Editor, On Friday May 26, 2023, the Macedonia Joppa Voluntary Committee (MJVC), a non-profitable organization on the Corentyne will mark Guyana’s 57thIndependence Anniversary with the largest...

Once Capital Costs are recovered by Exxon, the flow of oil money will accelerate!

May 19, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on Once Capital Costs are recovered by Exxon, the flow of oil money will accelerate!

Dear Editor, While some of us are engaged in various aspects of the Exxon contract, such as championing the need for adequate insurance/assurance coverage, environmental concerns, and the...

It’s unheard of to conduct a free and fair election, without revealing the voters’ list

May 19, 2023 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s unheard of to conduct a free and fair election, without revealing the voters’ list

Dear Editor, Mr. Enrico Woolford has offered a response to my letter on the subject of the recent Guyana Press Association elections in which he writes that Kit Nascimento “has decided to go into...

Justice Kissoon’s landmark ruling plunges ExxonMobil’s stock price by nearly 12 %

May 18, 2023 KNews Court Stories, ExxonMobil, Features / Columnists, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on Justice Kissoon’s landmark ruling plunges ExxonMobil’s stock price by nearly 12 %

…Int’l lawyers monitoring case for precedent in ongoing insurance matters Kaieteur News – A comprehensive analysis published yesterday by British daily newspaper, The Guardian, noted...

Professor Hunte: Exxon 5th project will produce oil at third highest cost compared to other countries

May 18, 2023 KNews ExxonMobil, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on Professor Hunte: Exxon 5th project will produce oil at third highest cost compared to other countries

…says Gov’t must explain acceptance of poor evaluation, as oil could be depleted in less than half the time company claims Kaieteur News – The cost of oil production at ExxonMobil...

Report: Nigeria needs US$12 billion to clean up decades-old oil spills

May 18, 2023 KNews News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on Report: Nigeria needs US$12 billion to clean up decades-old oil spills

Reuters – Nigeria needs $12 billion to clean up decades-old oil spills in southern Bayelsa state over a 12-year period, a new report said on Tuesday, and singled out Shell (SHEL.L) and Eni...

Bandit rips off school boy’s pants to get cell phone

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit rips off school boy’s pants to get cell phone

Kaieteur News – A lone bandit on a motorbike on Wednesday afternoon, at Last Bridge, Ondeneeming, La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD), ripped off a school boy’s pants just to...

Frequent blackouts, political crisis, major obstacles to doing business in Guyana – IDB report

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Frequent blackouts, political crisis, major obstacles to doing business in Guyana – IDB report

Kaieteur News – The unstable political climate and unreliable power supply are seen as the major obstacles to doing business in Guyana, the Inter-American Development Bank said in its Caribbean...

Linden woman jailed 8 years for raping young girl

May 18, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Linden woman jailed 8 years for raping young girl

Kaieteur News – Twenty-year-old Gabriella Allen called ‘Gabby’ a former day-care employee of Lot 26 Buck Hill, Wismar Linden, was on Monday jailed eight years for raping a young girl. Allen...

$CXC probes leak of Math Paper 2$

CXC probes leak of Math Paper 2

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on CXC probes leak of Math Paper 2

Kaieteur News – The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) said it is aware of the concerns that the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC®) Math Paper 02 which was written on...

$423M in contracts signed for works in ECD villages

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on $423M in contracts signed for works in ECD villages

Kaieteur News – Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Hon. Deodat Indar, on Tuesday oversaw the signing of a number of contracts worth $423 million for projects in villages on the East...

E-market platform launched to improve ICT business processes

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on E-market platform launched to improve ICT business processes

Kaieteur News – In the midst of a global shift in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), companies need to generate innovative and more efficient ways of streamlining their processes...

No feasibility study for use of excess gas in Liza required – Exxon

May 18, 2023 KNews ExxonMobil, News, Oil & Gas Comments Off on No feasibility study for use of excess gas in Liza required – Exxon

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil Guyana- Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL)- has responded to comments made, that it violated the sanctity of contract principle, by not conducting...

Education Minister visits NGSA marking centre

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister visits NGSA marking centre

Kaieteur News – On Tuesday, the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand visited the marking centre for the recently concluded National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) which was conducted and is...

Essequibo man jailed for stealing from his father

May 18, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Essequibo man jailed for stealing from his father

Kaieteur News – A labourer of Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, Region Two was on Tuesday jailed for two years for stealing from his 72-year-old father. The labourer, 40-year-old, Tulsiram Persaud...

Guyana opens embassy in Qatar

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana opens embassy in Qatar

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s embassy in Qatar was on Tuesday officially opened by President Irfaan Ali, who noted that the move would help both countries embark on a journey of enhanced bilateral...

Handyman jailed for breaking into businesswoman’s property

May 18, 2023 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Handyman jailed for breaking into businesswoman’s property

Kaieteur News – A Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara handyman was on Tuesday jailed for eight months after breaking into a woman’s home. He was identified as Bryan Jack better known as...

Over 18% of Guyanese suffers from high blood pressure

May 18, 2023 KNews News Comments Off on Over 18% of Guyanese suffers from high blood pressure

…health minister urges lifestyle change, regular check-up Kaieteur News – A 2016 survey showed that 18.4% of Guyanese were found to have high blood pressure, but were not on medication,...

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GDF, Slingerz stay perfect in GFF Elite League

Sep 15, 2026

…Western Tigers, Fruta Conquerors pick up first win By Rawle Toney (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League is beginning to take shape, and while the season is still...

Resource sovereignty without institutional competence is an illusion

Sep 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In his column, entitled, “Sovereignty in the Age of Oil” Chris Ram, in making the argument that storage, a refinery and even a national oil company could improve energy security without giving Guyana effective control over production, technology, capital, markets or the...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Minister Persaud pointing the way

Sep 15, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – I have always seen Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindya Persaud, as different from her cabinet colleagues. Slightly different only. I take whatever the territory gives. Give thanks. Small starts lead to large developments....

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