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Huge wage disparity allowing foreign companies to cheat Local content provisions – Chris Ram

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Huge wage disparity allowing foreign companies to cheat Local content provisions – Chris Ram

Kaieteur News – The Local Content Act of 2021 was passed to increase the benefits of Guyanese from the burgeoning petroleum sector, but with foreigners being paid salaries significantly greater...

Trinidadian judge approves seizure of Venezuela’s gas proceeds to clear debt with US oil company

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trinidadian judge approves seizure of Venezuela’s gas proceeds to clear debt with US oil company

Kaieteur News – United States oil company, ConocoPhillips on Friday got a Trinidad court to approve the seizing of payments from the Caribbean country to Venezuela’s state oil company for a...

Generator fire partially destroys DDL’s power plant

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Generator fire partially destroys DDL’s power plant

Kaieteur News – The Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) power plant located at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was partially destroyed by fire on Friday. The fire reportedly started between...

Lone gunman storms Chinese restaurant at Essequibo, escapes with $500,000

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Lone gunman storms Chinese restaurant at Essequibo, escapes with $500,000

Kaieteur News – A lone, masked gunman stormed into Chinese Restaurant at Lima, Essequibo Coast, Region Two on Thursday night and robbed the owners and customers. The heinous crime was recorded...

Alleged ‘wife beater’ nabbed after a month on the run

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Alleged ‘wife beater’ nabbed after a month on the run

Kaieteur News – A man accused of brutally assaulting his wife was on Friday caught by police while hiding in the Albion Berbice, Region Six backlands. Police said that the suspect, Edwin...

Woman told pregnancy terminated in 6th week now in third trimester

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Woman told pregnancy terminated in 6th week now in third trimester

Kaieteur News – A young woman’s decision to listen to her father’s advice to not perform a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to remove her six-week-old fetus has proven to be a...

Everybody got a plan in Guyana.

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Everybody got a plan in Guyana.

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem politicians got a plan fuh fix de country. Dem businessmen got a plan fuh mek more money. De vendors got a plan fuh sell more bad apples on de street....

New political entrant, old political weapon

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on New political entrant, old political weapon

Editorial… Kaieteur News – The so-called announcement brought a sequence of curses. The mention of a possible political entrant into the field for the 2025 elections, only a suggestion...

GEA to procure 130 solar street lamps

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on GEA to procure 130 solar street lamps

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) is in the process of acquiring 130 stand-alone solar street lamps for various communities across the country. This is according to the opening of...

AFC wants Culture Minister to resign after failing to address racial issue involving Art School Administrator

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on AFC wants Culture Minister to resign after failing to address racial issue involving Art School Administrator

Kaieteur News – Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Nigel Hughes on Friday called for the immediate resignation of Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson over his mistreatment...

First Lady gets Global Female Impact Leadership Award

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on First Lady gets Global Female Impact Leadership Award

Kaieteur News – First Lady Arya Ali was conferred with the Global Female Impact Leadership Award from the Centre for Economic and Leadership Development during the Global Power Women Conference...

‘Regional collaboration is vital for tackling hunger and malnutrition’ – Agri. Minister

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Regional collaboration is vital for tackling hunger and malnutrition’ – Agri. Minister

Kaieteur News – Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha on Thursday emphasised that regional collaboration is essential to addressing hunger and malnutrition within the country. The...

FAO leads new initiative, reinforces commitment to gender equality in agrifood systems

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on FAO leads new initiative, reinforces commitment to gender equality in agrifood systems

Kaieteur News – Correcting the gender gap in agrifood systems would dramatically reduce the worldwide hunger rate, raise the incomes of hundreds of millions of people and add US$1 trillion to...

Rights and responsibilities, imbalance and virulence

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Rights and responsibilities, imbalance and virulence

Hard Truths by GHK Lall… Kaieteur News – The only standard placed on me with these writings is that I keep them simple. To that I add humility and honesty. And to those, there must be...

Environmentalism with a dollar sign

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Environmentalism with a dollar sign

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali’s announcement of plans to convene a Global Biodiversity Alliance strikes as both opportunistic and vulgar. While the preservation of the environment is a...

Thief with two convictions gets one year in jail

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Thief with two convictions gets one year in jail

Kaieteur News – A 35-year-old man was sentenced to one year in prison on Friday after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to charges of simple larceny and...

Trio granted bail for assaulting man at CPL match

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Trio granted bail for assaulting man at CPL match

Kaieteur News – Former policeman, Sereste Brittlebank and two other men 29-year-old Keron Williams and 31-year-old Trevon Williams, both from Annadale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) were on Friday...

Olympic Kremlin set to race at Mouttet Mile in Jamaica

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Olympic Kremlin set to race at Mouttet Mile in Jamaica

– Slingerz Stables owner excited Kaieteur Sports – Olympic Kremlin, a standout from the renowned Slingerz Stable, is set to make history as the first horse from Guyana to compete in the...

Two marijuana traffickers jailed, fined $4.2M each

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Two marijuana traffickers jailed, fined $4.2M each

Kaieteur News – Two men were on Friday sentenced to a total of seven years six months in prison for trafficking over four kilograms of cannabis and fined $4.2M each. The men, Anthony Sugrim and...

Warriors, Kings set for epic showdown at Providence today

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Warriors, Kings set for epic showdown at Providence today

2024 Caribbean Premier League…GAW vs. SLK Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Amazon Warriors will face the number one ranked St. Lucia Kings in a high stakes battle, as one of the more...

Excitement builds as Round 2 of Courts Optical Pee Wee U-11 Football kicks off

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Excitement builds as Round 2 of Courts Optical Pee Wee U-11 Football kicks off

– 14 exciting clashes set for today’s action Kaieteur Sports – The second round of the Courts Optical Pee Wee Under-11 Schools Football Tournament, organised by the Petra Organisation,...

Vagrant found dead on Alexander Street

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Vagrant found dead on Alexander Street

Kaieteur News – An unidentified vagrant was found dead on Alexander Street, Georgetown on Friday. Police said the man’s body was found around 06: 10 hrs and he appears to be of East Indian...

Yolander Persaud elected as FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Chair

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Yolander Persaud elected as FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Chair

Kaieteur Sports – Guyanese Attorney-at-Law and Director of the Guyana Chess Federation, Yolander Persaud, was elected as the Chairwoman of the FIDE (International Chess Federation) Ethics and...

Guyana’s economic trajectory is on the upswing

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s economic trajectory is on the upswing

Dear Editor, Mr. Eric Phillips in a letter published on 9/8/‘24 edition of S/N headlined ‘The next election will be critical if we are to forge ahead as a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation’...

Rights of the Child Commission needs to do more advocacy against drugs and cultural imperialism

Sep 28, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Rights of the Child Commission needs to do more advocacy against drugs and cultural imperialism

Dear Editor, I noticed the news item where the Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) presented a report for 2019-2020. The question arises why weren’t they presenting the 2023 report. Why are they...