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Exxon’s promises false, laughable; hold back Payara permit – Int’l Lawyer urges

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon’s promises false, laughable; hold back Payara permit – Int’l Lawyer urges

International Lawyer Melinda Janki is of the view that Guyana should hold back on approving the Payara Field Development Plan (FDP), as its promises of wealth for the Guyanese people are false and...

CCJ demands millions $$ in costs from AG, Harmon and others in election case

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ demands millions $$ in costs from AG, Harmon and others in election case

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ordered that costs be awarded to newly elected President, Irfaan Ali, and Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, for the recently concluded election case. According...

Garbage collector crushed to death, two pinned in truck

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Garbage collector crushed to death, two pinned in truck

By Shervin Belgrave A garbage collector was yesterday crushed to death after a canter crashed into the rear end of a parked Puran Brothers waste disposal truck. The horrific accident occurred at...

COI into Ocean View Hospital needed – Dr. Leslie Ramsammy,

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COI into Ocean View Hospital needed – Dr. Leslie Ramsammy,

Former PPP Health Minister, Former Health Minister under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, is of the view that the $1.6B Ocean View Infectious Diseases Hospital...

Ex -army officer sentenced to life for killing reputed wife

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ex -army officer sentenced to life for killing reputed wife

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Captain, Orwain Sandy, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the unlawful killing of his reputed wife, Reona Payne. The ex-army official is expected to serve...

Ganesh Mahipaul given 72 hours to vacate Govt. house

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ganesh Mahipaul given 72 hours to vacate Govt. house

Ganesh Mahipaul, Guyana Chronicle’s new General Manager (GM) and Region Three Information Officer for the A Partnership For National Unity +Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), has been given 72 hours...

Nagamootoo hands over keys to official residence

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo hands over keys to official residence

Significant to the transitional phase of the new People’s Progressive Party/Civic government, former Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, on Monday handed over the keys to the official residence of...

Joinder list still undecided on particulars of single parliamentary seat

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Joinder list still undecided on particulars of single parliamentary seat

The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), A New and United Guyana (ANUG) and The New Movement (TNM) are still undecided on the particulars of the single parliamentary seat it won after the March 2,...

Gold price climbs to $2,000 per ounce

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Gold price climbs to $2,000 per ounce

Gold’s mega rally took another upturn on Tuesday as it surpassed another major hurdle at $2,000 per ounce. Spot gold advanced 1.4% to $2,004.97 per ounce by 3:20 p.m. EDT, after reaching an...

A woman incriminate she self with a live Facebook video

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A woman incriminate she self with a live Facebook video

Dem Boys Seh… Dem boys had to laugh when dem read about de man wah get 72 hours notice fuh move out of de government house wah he living in. De man claim how public service rules entitle him to...

Treatment is vital in combating the pandemic

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Treatment is vital in combating the pandemic

I have seen a video of someone who tested positive for the coronavirus and became severely ill. This person, prior to his infection, was robust and appeared in the peach of health. What the virus did...

Transition and witch-hunting

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Transition and witch-hunting

With every change of government, even in the least contentious of political environments, there is the expectation that some people useful to the outgoing political administration would have no place...

JFAP leader calls for unity in congratulatory message to President Ali

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on JFAP leader calls for unity in congratulatory message to President Ali

Leader of the Justice For All Party (JFAP), Chandranarine Sharma, yesterday extended well wishes to the newly elected President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, President Dr. Irfaan Ali,...

Early morning fire destroys section of Chase Academy

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Early morning fire destroys section of Chase Academy

A section of Chase Academy, a privately owned secondary school located on Parade Street, Kingston, Georgetown was yesterday destroyed by fire. Apart from damage to the building “all school...

Broomes, bodyguard charged for assault, discharging firearm

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Broomes, bodyguard charged for assault, discharging firearm

Former Youth Affairs Minister within the Ministry of the Presidency, Simona Broomes, and her bodyguard were yesterday charged for assault and discharging a firearm, respectively. Broomes was released...

Lethem doctor tests positive for COVID-19

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem doctor tests positive for COVID-19

A 28-year-old doctor attached to the Lethem Regional Hospital is among the 38 persons who have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus in the Rupununi Region. Dr. Narash Torres, formally of Wowetta...

Guyana supports US for IDB Presidency

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana supports US for IDB Presidency

The Government of Guyana yesterday announced that it is supporting the candidacy of Mauricio Claver-Carone who has been nominated by the United States of America (US) for the post of President of the...

Two seriously injured in separate incidents

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two seriously injured in separate incidents

Two persons are currently hospitalized after they were attacked at two separate locations in Berbice. Kaieteur News was informed that 29-year-old Rena Harrypaul, a male of Lot 107 Alness Village,...

Procurement officials receive training on compliance, performance

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement officials receive training on compliance, performance

Contracted by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), INPRI Jamaica Ltd recently delivered a three-day virtual instructor-led training for staff of the Operations Department of the Commission and...

Mutual interest

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mutual interest

On Monday, the day after he was sworn in, President Irfaan Ali, along with Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, met with members of the Diplomatic Community where “areas of mutual interest” were...

Three dead, two injured in Corentyne smash-up

Aug 05, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three dead, two injured in Corentyne smash-up

– drivers in police custody Three persons, including a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank, were killed while two others, including a member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), were injured in an...

Why did they drag it out for five months?

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why did they drag it out for five months?

As the analysts get down to examining the strategies behind the election rigging by the PNC and AFC, the question will inevitably arise as to why they conceded after five months; why until five...

Allicock is Guyana’s best chance of an Olympic Medal

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Allicock is Guyana’s best chance of an Olympic Medal

From ‘Ghetto’ to Glory… By Sean Devers Caribbean Bantamweight Boxing Champion and 2021 Olympic hopeful 21-year-old Keevin Allicock grew up in the heart of the ‘Ghetto’ in Albouystown...

Democracy survives in Guyana

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Democracy survives in Guyana

Dear Editor, We refer to the article in Kaieteur News August 3rd, 2020 “What Happened Should Never Happen Again in the World” by Freddie Kissoon. The views expressed are fully endorsed by every...

Now is a good time to privatize the state media

Aug 05, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Now is a good time to privatize the state media

Dear Editor, Now would be a good time to privatise State Media (Guyana Chronicle and NCN). The government of President Irfaan Ali does not need its own media outfit to tell them they looking good or...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more