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Foreign companies will have to exit sectors reserved for locals when local content law is passed

May 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign companies will have to exit sectors reserved for locals when local content law is passed

…but unable to give timeline for legislation — VP Bharrat Jagdeo “…they would have to do something else, if they are here and this is for Local Content and you are not a local, you would...

Landmark Climate Change case…Applicants tell court Exxon’s oil projects would emit billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases

May 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Landmark Climate Change case…Applicants tell court Exxon’s oil projects would emit billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases

Kaieteur News – Convinced that ExxonMobil’s Stabroek Block operations will lead to the emission of tonnes of greenhouse gases in the billions, two Guyanese have filed a landmark case in the...

How Guyana gets ROYALTY from Foreign Companies (A simple explanation)

May 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on How Guyana gets ROYALTY from Foreign Companies (A simple explanation)

By Glenn Lall Kaieteur News – Royalty is the meat of our product, of anybody’s product; this is the heart of the business. This is where you have to really benefit from the thing you own,...

Troy Resources gets more gold lands

May 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Troy Resources gets more gold lands

…tells shareholders claim has high prospect for large-scale discovery Kaieteur News – Having mined out its Hicks Four and Spearpoint mining pits, Australian based Troy Resources Limited, has...

Unyielding in his efforts for nationalism…Veteran politician and former G/T Mayor, Hamilton Green, is a ‘Special Person’

May 23, 2021 KNews Special Person Comments Off on Unyielding in his efforts for nationalism…Veteran politician and former G/T Mayor, Hamilton Green, is a ‘Special Person’

“It is for the young people to raise their voices against any form of governance which doesn’t have the best interest of the people at heart or I fear our country is headed right back to...

‘Hair by Tamara’ for that classy look

May 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hair by Tamara’ for that classy look

>>>Young Entrepreneur on the Move<<< “Young entrepreneurs play a major role in society by being creative enough to come up with new business ideas that would benefit themselves...

Our Frontline Worker of the week is…Nurse Sherilyn Marks

May 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Our Frontline Worker of the week is…Nurse Sherilyn Marks

By Malisa Playter Harry Kaieteur News – Guyana is currently on course to achieving herd immunity against COVID-19. Since the introduction of the vaccination programme a few months ago, health...

Minister Vindhya Persaud

May 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Minister Vindhya Persaud

>>>Encouraging Events, Disturbing Developments<<< By GHK Lall Kaieteur News – It is difficult to come across what is genuinely positive from politicians that benefits ordinary...

Jagdeo talking nonsense!

May 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Jagdeo talking nonsense!

Kaieteur News – Even if the evidence stared Bharrat Jagdeo in the face, he would not recognise it. Politicians often bind themselves to positions which blind them from accepting anything that...

Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as COVID-19

May 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as COVID-19

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – Vaccine refusal is fast becoming as dangerous to human health and to economies as the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, even before the novel coronavirus was...

Polistes carnifex

May 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Polistes carnifex

Kaieteur News – Polistes carnifex is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes, known for its extremely painful and potent sting. The wasp is native to Central and South...

Work to create partnerships not sensational headlines

May 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Work to create partnerships not sensational headlines

Dear Editor, As a former Minister for Mines and Minerals (1992 to 2011), I write in response to that startling front page, headline in Kaieteur News of Tuesday May 18th, “Chinese company pays...

Diaspora done differently

May 21, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Diaspora done differently

DEAR EDITOR, I noticed that the diaspora is back in the news. In view of it’s on again and off again presence in the priorities of this country’s politicians, I categorise like elections...

Oil and Gas Energy Chamber to boycott GIPEX 2021 – says it is an “anti-local content activity”

May 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and Gas Energy Chamber to boycott GIPEX 2021 – says it is an “anti-local content activity”

Kaieteur News– President of the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC), Mr. Manniram Prashad, is calling for industry stakeholders to boycott the upcoming Guyana International Petroleum...

Agri. Ministry inks close to $1 billion in contracts

May 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Agri. Ministry inks close to $1 billion in contracts

Kaieteur News- The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday inked several contracts for the execution of works across the country and the supply of several pieces of machinery, which are intended to improve...

Man killed trying to ‘put out’ wife

May 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man killed trying to ‘put out’ wife

Kaieteur News -A Cuban woman was yesterday morning taken into police custody after she reportedly stabbed her husband to death while he was trying to physically remove her from their home. Police...

GKC and the ‘Moses’ Karate Family from Wowetta, Rupununi sets the pace

May 20, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GKC and the ‘Moses’ Karate Family from Wowetta, Rupununi sets the pace

Kaieteur News– The Guyana Karate College (GKC), under the leadership of the legendary Guyanese Karate Master, Frank Woon-A-Tai, M.S., 9th dan, has only one more year to prepare the five-member...

Daniels Coaching Education programme continues on Saturday

May 20, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Daniels Coaching Education programme continues on Saturday

Kaieteur News-With the aim of producing international cricketers, Team Daniels coaching education programme will continue on Saturday in South Essequibo. Male and female cricketers are urged to...

MCY&S/GCF Independence Three-Stage winners and top performers receive prizes Focus now switches to start of National Championships from this weekend

May 20, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on MCY&S/GCF Independence Three-Stage winners and top performers receive prizes Focus now switches to start of National Championships from this weekend

By Franklin Wilson Kaieteur News- The respective category winners, all first timers in this event and other top performers from last weekend’s Indep endence three-stage cycle road race sponsored by...

Pensioner appeals for assistance

May 20, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pensioner appeals for assistance

DEAR EDITOR, I am a pensioner of 65 years and would like the General Manager of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to look into my old age claim, which I applied for over two months ago. I took some...

GUYSUCO not handling COVID-19 right

May 20, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on GUYSUCO not handling COVID-19 right

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me a space in your newspaper to highlight a few issues that are happening at the training centre managed by GUYSUCO. To my understanding, the centre now trains soldiers from the...

PNC must begin to work on winning next elections

May 20, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on PNC must begin to work on winning next elections

DEAR EDITOR, Mr. Joseph Harmon is not a very experienced Parliamentarian or Leader of the Opposition. This fact reverberates in parliament and among PNC supporters, who are becoming discontented and...

Foreign pressure saved Guyana’s democracy

May 20, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Foreign pressure saved Guyana’s democracy

DEAR EDITOR, Does PNC Leader, David Granger, realise how preposterous he sounds when he was reported as saying in SN on May 16, that foreign intervention made the 2020 elections “toxic?” No...

Diaspora Unit should comprise staff of unquestioned integrity and experience

May 20, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Diaspora Unit should comprise staff of unquestioned integrity and experience

DEAR EDITOR, I agree with the advice proffered by veteran commentator, Dr. Vishnu Bisram, of the need for a formal diaspora engagement policy (KN May 17). Dr. Bisram related the work of Mr. Ashook...

Responsiveness and drive by government is refreshing

May 20, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responsiveness and drive by government is refreshing

Dear Editor, The rainy season is upon us and as it has happened in previous years, flooding usually follows right after due to blocked canals and drains in my community. I’m a resident of...

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‘Need For Speed’ meet and greet set for West Central Mall this...

Jun 04, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

Jun 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

God’s gift to Guyanese

Jun 04, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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