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A 100-year repayment plan – the best the REO could do

Nov 06, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on A 100-year repayment plan – the best the REO could do

Dear Editor Does it get more bizarre than a contractor, who did not complete projects, being instructed by the REO of the region, to repay the owed sum of six million dollars, at a meagre rate of...

Guyanese Expected a Close Outcome in USA Elections

Nov 06, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Guyanese Expected a Close Outcome in USA Elections

Dear Editor, The outcome of the American election would have been known by Wednesday morning. Guyanese Americans and all Guyanese at home and in the diaspora expected a close outcome. The whole world...

This ONE GUYANA thing is kind of one-sided

Nov 06, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on This ONE GUYANA thing is kind of one-sided

Dear Editor, Guyana may have emerged to prominence from the Jim Jones story, to political squandering, to the Exxon oil exploration. At present, the One Guyana motto is alluring. The rapid growth of...

PNC’s cat wants to watch PPP/C’s milk

Nov 06, 2024 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on PNC’s cat wants to watch PPP/C’s milk

Dear Editor, Will Americans veto Harris and vote for Trump or vice-versa as they go to the polls? Will it be a close call on a race basis? Will it be a gender personality clash? Will it fan a...

Exxon finally returns 20% of Stabroek Block

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon finally returns 20% of Stabroek Block

Kaieteur News- ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) has officially returned 20% of the Stabroek Block to the Government of Guyana (GoG) through a process called relinquishment. In the oil and gas sector,...

WPA joins call for referendum on oil contract before 2025 elections

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on WPA joins call for referendum on oil contract before 2025 elections

Kaieteur News- The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday said that it supports the call for a referendum on the 2016 oil contract with ExxonMobil ahead of the 2025 General and Regional...

Harris vows presidency ‘for all Americans’

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Harris vows presidency ‘for all Americans’

…Trump says ‘ours to lose’ (Reuters) Bri Godfrey, a 66-year-old realtor in Henderson, Nevada, popped out of her car with her labradoodle (named Godfrey) and headed for a wide lawn...

EPA still to determine cause of seepage at Crane

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on EPA still to determine cause of seepage at Crane

…Undertakes to do further sample testing Kaieteur News- After ruling out hydrocarbons in its preliminary testing of samples taken from the seepage of a chemical substance in homes at Crane,...

Region 9 contractor given 100 years to repay $6M to government

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Region 9 contractor given 100 years to repay $6M to government

Kaieteur News- Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were in disbelief on Monday when Karl Singh, the Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region 9, revealed that a private contractor, who...

Food vendor shot dead in Linden

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Food vendor shot dead in Linden

Kaieteur News- First time lucky second time not, this might be the story of a food vendor who was shot dead on Monday at West Watooka Hill Top, Linden, Region Ten. Dead is Nigel Somersall age 56....

‘Shutdown mining activities at Marudi Mountain’

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on ‘Shutdown mining activities at Marudi Mountain’

—South Rupununi group urges after robbery, kidnapping Kaieteur News- The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) in expressing deep concern over the recent robbery and abduction in the Marudi...

$362M contract awarded to renovate, extend North West student’s dormitory

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on $362M contract awarded to renovate, extend North West student’s dormitory

Kaieteur News- The students’ dormitory of the North West Secondary School in Mabaruma, Region One will soon undergo renovation and extension to the sum of $362,385,000. This is according to...

Construction of Day & Night Care Facility not constructed to standard – Audit Office

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Construction of Day & Night Care Facility not constructed to standard – Audit Office

…contractor failed to install lintels on building Kaieteur News- The construction of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Day and Night Care Facility was not done according to...

Applications open for the Noble Marine Cadet Scholarship porgramme

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Applications open for the Noble Marine Cadet Scholarship porgramme

Kaieteur News- El Dorado Offshore (EDO), Noble Corporation and MATPAL Marine Institute have announced the launch of applications for the Noble Marine Cadet Programme. This initiative represents a...

Father laments police’s lax response to missing teen report

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Father laments police’s lax response to missing teen report

Kaieteur News- The father of a missing 17-year-old girl is complaining about what he considers to be a lax response by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in Bartica, Region Seven to a missing...

Man remanded for throwing hot oil on brother, injuring two others

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Man remanded for throwing hot oil on brother, injuring two others

Kaieteur News- A 30-year-old labourer was remanded to prison on Wednesday last, when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court to answer a charge which states he inflicted grievous bodily harm...

Cultural icon ‘Dave Martin’ honoured as Caribbean legend whose songs transcend generations

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Cultural icon ‘Dave Martin’ honoured as Caribbean legend whose songs transcend generations

Kaieteur News- The Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) was illuminated on Saturday as individuals from all walks of life gathered to honour Guyanese cultural icon ‘Dave Martins’ who had given...

Guyana, Suriname could supply 12 million tonnes of LNG annually in the 2030s, report says

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana, Suriname could supply 12 million tonnes of LNG annually in the 2030s, report says

(Reuters) -Guyana and Suriname could supply 12 million metric tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually at a competitive price by the next decade, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie on Monday....

Ogle Airport to be expanded to meet growing demand

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Ogle Airport to be expanded to meet growing demand

Kaieteur News-The government plans to expand the facilities at the Eugene F Correia International Airport (Ogle Airport) to accommodate the massive development underway in Guyana’s aviation and...

Police burn $27M worth of ganja

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Police burn $27M worth of ganja

Kaieteur News- Police Ranks in Regional Division #10 conducted a ‘Narcotics Eradication Exercise’ at Kimbia, Upper Berbice River, where two cannabis farms with an estimated overall total...

Exxon to continue geotechnical survey operations until year-end

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Exxon to continue geotechnical survey operations until year-end

Kaieteur News- ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) will continue its geotechnical surveying operations within the Stabroek block. The firm is scheduled to conclude these operations on December 31, 2024...

Foreign companies finding new ways to cheat Local Content Law

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Foreign companies finding new ways to cheat Local Content Law

Kaieteur News- Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat has disclosed that foreign companies operating in the oil and gas sector continue to find new ways to sidestep Guyana’s Local Content...

Govt. approves Japanese shipbuilder’s Local Content Master Plan

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. approves Japanese shipbuilder’s Local Content Master Plan

Kaieteur News- The Government of Guyana (GoG) through the Ministry of Natural Resources has approved Japanese shipbuilder, MODEC’s Local Content Master Plan. This announcement was made on Monday by...

11-yr-old boy charged for killing Sophia teen

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on 11-yr-old boy charged for killing Sophia teen

Kaieteur News- An 11-year-old boy was on Monday remanded to the Juvenile Holding Center for the fatal stabbing of his 13-year-old friend, Kareem Durant of ‘D’ Field Sophia, Georgetown. The boy...

Brazilian man transferred over $1M to kidnappers for his life

Nov 05, 2024 KNEWS News Comments Off on Brazilian man transferred over $1M to kidnappers for his life

Robbery/abduction at Rupununi… Kaieteur News- As investigations continue into Saturday’s robbery/kidnapping at Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine, one victim, a Brazilian national told police...

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Warriors secure win over Knight Riders

Sep 13, 2026

The Guyana Amazon Warriors kept their playoff hopes alive with a 25 run win over the Trinbago Knight Riders in the 2026 Limacol WCPL. Runs for Shermaine Campbell and wickets from Shabnim Ismail and...

The other side of Linden’s electricity crisis

Sep 13, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I am not surprised that electricity demand in Linden has surged by more than 135 per cent from its 2005 level. In fact, given the price at which electricity is supplied there, it would be surprising if demand had not surged. The figures tell the story. Electricity consumption...

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...

Jagdeo on breaches Part 2

Sep 13, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Never knew Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo to be sneaky. Sloppy, hostility personified and sleeker than mercury, he can be. But not sneaky, not he. Hence, I weigh why he waited until Pres. Ali’s back was turned to show his face at the Arthur Chung Convention Center...

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