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Jagdeo as Opposition Leader secretly agreed with Coalition Govt to waive taxes to ExxonM

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Jagdeo as Opposition Leader secretly agreed with Coalition Govt to waive taxes to ExxonM

—-Raphael Trotman reveals Kaieteur News- The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has always stoned the APNU/AFC Coalition for signing onto the lopsided oil contract, often using this to its...

Exxon to submit full plan for 7th project – Routledge

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Exxon to submit full plan for 7th project – Routledge

Kaieteur News- Some time this year, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) is expected to make a full submission of its Field Development Plan (FDP) for the seventh project – the Hammerhead...

Israel kills Palestinian journalist in Gaza

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Israel kills Palestinian journalist in Gaza

‘I refuse a cheap death’ (AL JAZEERA) A Palestinian writer, poet and journalist has been killed in an Israeli air attack in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, according to his family, taking...

US$15M spent on CJIA expansion since 2020 – Min. Edghill

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on US$15M spent on CJIA expansion since 2020 – Min. Edghill

…delayed projects to be completed by June Kaieteur News- In addition to the US$150 million (GY $31 Billion) that was spent for the modernisation of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) –...

$880M contract signed for new Charity wharf

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on $880M contract signed for new Charity wharf

Kaieteur News- The Ministry of Public Works, on Saturday, disclosed that Charity in Region Two will soon get a new, modern wharf which will cost $880 million. This disclosure was made during the...

$E/bo motorcyclist fractures hip, rib cage after crash with GPL pole$

E/bo motorcyclist fractures hip, rib cage after crash with GPL pole

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on E/bo motorcyclist fractures hip, rib cage after crash with GPL pole

Kaieteur News- An Essequibo man is hospitalised with a fractured hip and rib cage after his motorcycle slammed into a Guyana Power Light (GPL) pole during the wee hours of Sunday. The accident took...

PNCR renews calls for GECOM to implement biometrics for next elections

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on PNCR renews calls for GECOM to implement biometrics for next elections

Kaieteur News- The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has renewed its calls for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to put in place biometrics systems for this year’s general and...

Gov’t invested over $4 billion in maintaining landfill sites—Minister Parag

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Gov’t invested over $4 billion in maintaining landfill sites—Minister Parag

Kaieteur News- The Government of Guyana has invested over $4 billion in maintaining landfill sites over a period of four years. This was revealed by Minister of Local Government, Sonia Parag, during...

Installation activities for Exxon’s 4th oil project to be completed in June

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Installation activities for Exxon’s 4th oil project to be completed in June

Kaieteur News- ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) is presently conducting installation activities in the Yellowtail field within the Stabroek Block to prepare for the start-up of oil production later...

FAO Food Price Index dips during the month of December

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on FAO Food Price Index dips during the month of December

Kaieteur News- The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined in December compared to the previous month, led down by a drop in international sugar quotations, the Food and Agriculture...

Pres. Ali visits hydroponics farm at Friendship

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Pres. Ali visits hydroponics farm at Friendship

Kaieteur News- President Dr. Irfaan Ali, last Friday, visited the CV (Craig Vegetables) Hydroponics Farm in Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara. During the visit, the President received an update...

Motorcyclist dies after crash at Houston

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Motorcyclist dies after crash at Houston

Kaieteur News: A 55-year-old motorcyclist died on the spot after he crashed into a “metal guard rail” on Sunday, along the public road at Houston, East Bank Demerara. Police identified the man as...

New Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge to be completed ahead of schedule—project manager

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on New Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge to be completed ahead of schedule—project manager

Kaieteur News- President Irfaan Ali, on Sunday, commended the construction team working on the new Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge and the in-house engineer Patrick Thompson informed him that the project...

OP:ED: Accelerating progress on the SDGs for a brighter and sustainable future in the Caribbean

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on OP:ED: Accelerating progress on the SDGs for a brighter and sustainable future in the Caribbean

Dr. Richard Amenyah Kaieteur News- Five years remain to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by world leaders in 2015, to foster peace and prosperity for both...

Over 800 house lots to be regularised in Linden-Minister Croal

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media News Comments Off on Over 800 house lots to be regularised in Linden-Minister Croal

Kaieteur News- Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, told Lindeners on Sunday during a government visit to Victory Valley that over 800 house lots in 11 areas will be regularised in the coming...

Guyanese MMA star Harris set for octagon return on January 11

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Sports Comments Off on Guyanese MMA star Harris set for octagon return on January 11

Kaieteur Sports- Guyanese Mixed Martial Arts international star fighter, Carlston Harris is set for a return to the Octagon this coming Saturday against Argentina’s Santiago Ponzinibbio. Having...

GCF Calls Urgent Extraordinary General Meeting to Resolve Leadership Crisis

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Sports Comments Off on GCF Calls Urgent Extraordinary General Meeting to Resolve Leadership Crisis

Kaieteur Sports- The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) has announced an urgent extraordinary general meeting to address a critical leadership crisis that has left the organisation without a quorum at...

Mashramani Street Football Championships to kick off on February 1

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Sports Comments Off on Mashramani Street Football Championships to kick off on February 1

Kaieteur Sports- The Seventh Annual Mashramani Street Football Championship is exepected to kick off on February 1 with 32 teams vying for the coveted top prize in one of the country’s premier...

Boxing not currently on the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Sports Comments Off on Boxing not currently on the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Kaieteur Sports-I have just returned from the World Boxing Council’s (WBC) enormous convention in Hamburg, Germany. It is an annual event at which the WBC’s Board of Governor reviews its ratings...

Finding better qualified Guyana Cricket Board President Options

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Sports Comments Off on Finding better qualified Guyana Cricket Board President Options

Kaieteur Sports- The failing current GCB and its cohorts are asking what part of the Wehby report will help change the fortunes of West Indies cricket on the field of play. Guyana’s cricket public...

Expensive to die, expensive to tie the knot

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Expensive to die, expensive to tie the knot

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- Dem boys seh it now cheaper to live than to dead. Back in de day, you used to gat a lil wake, some dominoes, and two flask of black tea with dry biscuit and butter,...

Jagdeo is a liability to Irfaan Ali

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo is a liability to Irfaan Ali

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Bharrat Jagdeo has long represented an unsettling paradox in Guyana’s politics. He is a former President whose shadow looms larger than his office once did,...

PPP at 75: power to the plutocracy, kleptocracy

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on PPP at 75: power to the plutocracy, kleptocracy

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- Guyanese are eyewitnesses to the slow reality of that grimmest of sayings from either Sophocles or Shakespeare: “Once a man, twice a child.” What...

Collusion on tax waivers

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Editorial, News Comments Off on Collusion on tax waivers

Editorial… Kaieteur News- Chartered Accountant, Christopher Ram recently revisited the lopsided oil contract the Coalition Guyana signed with ExxonMobil and, not for the first time, he...

‘Jimmy Carter: the Guyana disappointment’

Jan 06, 2025 Shervin Media Letters Comments Off on ‘Jimmy Carter: the Guyana disappointment’

Dear Editor, Guyana must have been a huge disappointment to the late President Jimmy Carter, who left the country in 2004 with the following parting words: “Jagdeo is an intelligent and capable...

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Are we better off today than we were before first oil?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-If you had asked me ten years ago what I wanted for Guyana, I would have said a few things:... more