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The mobile option

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The mobile option

Dear Editor, It is great to see the enthusiasm in the media around the prospects of having a cleaner energy source that will last a number of decades. We must remember that as the current natural gas...

Minister Teixeira misrepresented happenings in the PAC

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Teixeira misrepresented happenings in the PAC

Dear Editor, I take this opportunity to respond to the senior Minister of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Gail Teixeira, member of the Public Accounts Committee of Guyana. The Hon. Member...

The lawlessness on Palmer’s Street, La Grange is incredible

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on The lawlessness on Palmer’s Street, La Grange is incredible

Dear Editor, The lawlessness on Palmer’s Street, La Grange is beyond anything we have ever seen. The street, on the surface, appears to be a peaceful, multi-ethnic and multicultural settlement, but...

A Belgian company has energy solutions for rural, low-income communities

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Belgian company has energy solutions for rural, low-income communities

Dear Editor, The government, in partnership with the IsDB, recently placed an advert in the paper for hydropower design and construction services. Upon seeing this, I started to reel. In my letter to...

Guyana does not have iron ore, I see prospect of Local Content corruption

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana does not have iron ore, I see prospect of Local Content corruption

Dear Editor, When I read a schedule contained in the Draft Local Content Legislation 2021 about Guyana providing 100% of the steel for offshore oil projects within the next ten years I was confused....

Lessons from Mexico’s Oil and Gas industry…possibilities for Guyana

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lessons from Mexico’s Oil and Gas industry…possibilities for Guyana

Dear Editor, Even as we think of the possibilities for Guyana as a new oil and gas producing and exporting country and what governance structures would be best to ensure that all Guyanese benefit...

Education Ministry responds to Swani Aksharananda

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Education Ministry responds to Swani Aksharananda

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education wishes to respond to a letter published in the Tuesday, October 19, 2021 edition of the Kaieteur News, the Stabroek News and the Guyana Times newspapers written...

Smiling during a funeral tribute is how politicians ridicule themselves

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Smiling during a funeral tribute is how politicians ridicule themselves

Dear Editor, Dr. David Hinds in one of his recent broadcasts said that ridiculing politicians by showing they do not speak the Queen’s English, or showing that they do not have the refinement...

Our number 1 enemy is the coronavirus

Oct 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our number 1 enemy is the coronavirus

Dear Editor, Throughout my 80 plus years on this planet, I have never seen so much sickness, disease, stress, and premature death worldwide, all because of a simple virus, known as the Coronavirus....

ExxonMobil eight months late in relinquishing 45% of Kaieteur Block

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil eight months late in relinquishing 45% of Kaieteur Block

– But racing ahead with 12-well campaign Kaieteur News – When one considers amendments which were made to the Petroleum Agreement for the Kaieteur Block, it is clear that ExxonMobil is...

Local Content Boost…Guyana, UAE to partner on US$5M concrete manufacturing technology

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Boost…Guyana, UAE to partner on US$5M concrete manufacturing technology

Kaieteur News – Smart City Clearing Company Ltd was pleased to announce yesterday that it has facilitated the first Manufacturing International Joint Venture partnership and Investment between...

ExxonMobil now looking for locals to provide residential apartments, townhouses

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil now looking for locals to provide residential apartments, townhouses

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) disclosed via a notice in the daily newspapers yesterday that it plans to put in place,...

Man who killed teen for gold chain to be slapped with more murder charges

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man who killed teen for gold chain to be slapped with more murder charges

Kaieteur News – Kapildeo Jangadin, 24, who confessed to killing a teen for his gold chain on Friday, last is expected to be slapped with additional murder charges today at the Vigilance...

“We have attractive incentives, come do business with us” – President tells Dubai World Expo

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on “We have attractive incentives, come do business with us” – President tells Dubai World Expo

Kaieteur News – President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, during his address yesterday at World Expo 2020, one of the oldest and biggest events on the planet, boasted that Guyana has attractive incentives...

$1.6B expended to improve water distribution system – Mid-year Report

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $1.6B expended to improve water distribution system – Mid-year Report

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Housing and Water had expended $1.6 billion, of the $4 billion allocated to it, in the first half of 2021, for improvements to access quality potable water...

Cooperate fuss and complain later!

Oct 20, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cooperate fuss and complain later!

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De police get dem wuk fuh do. But some people nah want dem do dem wuk in peace. If mo people cooperate with de police we gan gat less problems in dis country....

Remembering Granny on her birthday!

Oct 20, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Remembering Granny on her birthday!

Kaieteur News – On International Women’s Day 2011, Guyana received one of its greatest honours ever with the naming of Mrs. Janet Jagan as one of history’s most rebellious women. Never in...

I’m fed up with things that do not make sense in Guyana

Oct 20, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I’m fed up with things that do not make sense in Guyana

Kaieteur News – I live on the Railway Embankment but you can say also on UG Road. This is because there is no direct access to the Railway Embankment. I have to use UG Road to go onto the...

Money on security

Oct 20, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Money on security

Kaieteur News – According to the figures released in the Mid-year Report, and as it refers to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the sum of GY$16.1B was spent on security for the first half of 2021....

PAC chair shuts down motion to reduce meetings

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on PAC chair shuts down motion to reduce meetings

– says efforts must be geared towards clearing backlog Kaieteur News – Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Jermaine Figueira, on Monday shut down a motion by Minister of...

Overheated generator causes fire on vessel at Gafoors wharf

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Overheated generator causes fire on vessel at Gafoors wharf

Kaieteur News – A vessel used for aggregate transport was on fire due to an overheated generator which was in the forepeak of the ship. The fire occurred yesterday around 03:31hrs at the...

Man critical after hit-and-run accident

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man critical after hit-and-run accident

Kaieteur News – Trevor Albert, a 49-year-old man, who resides at Lot 6 Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara is now nursing injuries sustained from a hit-and-run accident in his village, sometime...

Three jailed for Coldigen Gas Station robbery

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Three jailed for Coldigen Gas Station robbery

Kaieteur News – Three men were on Monday sentenced to 72 months imprisonment each for the robbery under arms committed, back in September, on several persons at Chico Ramos Gas Station,...

Minibus driver serving 25 years for raping schoolgirl moves to appeal

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus driver serving 25 years for raping schoolgirl moves to appeal

Kaieteur News – Minibus driver, Inteaz Mohammed, who was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison for the rape of a schoolgirl has moved to the Court of Appeal to have the conviction and sentence...

Decomposed body found in trench at Craig

Oct 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found in trench at Craig

Kaieteur News – The decomposed body of an unidentified man was on Monday afternoon discovered floating in a trench just off the Good Success Dam located in Craig, East Bank Demerara.The man’s...

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The Kara Kara conundrum

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The Linden Town Council does not possess an untouchable constitutional right to administer its affairs. The Constitution does not confer upon the Linden Town Council an unfettered right to govern Linden in whatever manner it chooses. It establishes local government within 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...

Exxon upping the amps – profits

Sep 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – It is fascinating to watch Exxon on the move. Its people taking the floor, speaking with power and supreme confidence. What’s good news for Exxon’s investors is bad news for Guyanese. Follow Exxon’s sequence. It moved quickly. Burst the halo and bubble surrounding...

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