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Why is the APNU+AFC silent on the carting off of our oil blocks?

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Why is the APNU+AFC silent on the carting off of our oil blocks?

(Kaieteur News) The APNU and AFC are adding little value to Guyana’s politics. To the disgust of many, they are focused too much on power and too little on the country’s progress. While the...

US$9 billion Payara project approved for 2024 startup

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on US$9 billion Payara project approved for 2024 startup

By Kemol King Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat yesterday approved ExxonMobil’s third field development in the Stabroek Block, the Payara project. The oil major said, after making its...

No touching oil money until sweeping reforms – President Ali

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No touching oil money until sweeping reforms – President Ali

President Dr. Irfaan Ali does not intend to touch a cent from Guyana’s sovereign wealth fund until a series of reforms are enacted to strengthen the Government’s regulatory infrastructure for the...

Health workers get candid about COVID-19 related struggles

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health workers get candid about COVID-19 related struggles

With just a glimpse of the daily news from around the world, persons can easily deduce that the fight against COVID-19 has not been an easy one, especially for health care professionals. In fact, it...

Winston Brassington faces intense cross-examination in lawsuit over Dem Boys Seh

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Winston Brassington faces intense cross-examination in lawsuit over Dem Boys Seh

Former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington is facing intense cross-examination in yet another defamation trial over the contents of the Dem...

Accept us as a legal government before we speak – President Ali to Harmon

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Accept us as a legal government before we speak – President Ali to Harmon

Before any talks of inclusive governance can commence between the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and the main opposition party – A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For...

Coalition criticizes government’s approach to COVID-19

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition criticizes government’s approach to COVID-19

With the number of COVID-19 deaths climbing each day, the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) yesterday blasted the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government...

Three years jail for man who had sex with COVID-19 infected corpse

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three years jail for man who had sex with COVID-19 infected corpse

The man, who was last Saturday caught having sex with a COVID-19 infected female corpse inside a morgue, will spend the next three years behind bars. Leroy Chacon, 50, of Trainline Port Kaituma,...

Prime suspect in taxi driver’s 2015 murder captured

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Prime suspect in taxi driver’s 2015 murder captured

The prime suspect in the 2015 murder of a Crane taxi driver, Colin Clark, 55, was on Monday last, nabbed in Mahdia, Region Eight. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) had issued a wanted bulletin, back in...

E-Networks launches 5G internet services in Guyana – 20 Mbps for $8,990 monthly

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on E-Networks launches 5G internet services in Guyana – 20 Mbps for $8,990 monthly

As the global pandemic continues to expose the economies of developing countries, there is good news for the Guyana telecoms sector. A locally owned company, E-Networks Inc., has announced the...

Scorpion and frog nah supposed to tie bundle

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Scorpion and frog nah supposed to tie bundle

Dem Boys seh… Dem remember de fable about the scorpion and de frog. It goes like this: A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river. The frog is afraid of being stung, but the scorpion...

Put your personal affairs in order

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Put your personal affairs in order

Different day, same plot. The COVID-19 dashboard provided high numbers for Region Four. Soon after two more deaths were announced. The police are now appearing to be making a greater effort to...

Two additional COVID-19 deaths – as Ministry records 48 new cases

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two additional COVID-19 deaths – as Ministry records 48 new cases

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed that another two persons, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), have died. The new fatalities have taken the total number of local...

Intoxicated man sets Canje house alight

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Intoxicated man sets Canje house alight

A house owned by a Canadian citizen that was occupied by a 28-year-old woman was on Tuesday night set on fire by her intoxicated ex-partner. Reports suggest that Rangita Bhagwandin, the house sitter,...

David Patterson: The oxymoronic political life of a failed politician

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on David Patterson: The oxymoronic political life of a failed politician

Mr. David Patterson did a strange thing a few days ago. He resigned from the elected position of General Secretary (GS) of the AFC because of a violation of an agreed position with the PNC that he,...

Man accuses Corentyne police of “covering up” wounding matter

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man accuses Corentyne police of “covering up” wounding matter

A resident of Clifton Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice is of the belief that ranks attached to the Whim Police Station failed to properly investigate a wounding incident that involved his two sons and...

“Not ruling out competition” – GRFU Boss

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Not ruling out competition” – GRFU Boss

The head of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU); Ryan Dey, during an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport, has noted that his administration will remain optimistic in terms of having some form of...

$25,000 household cash grant distribution starts in Regions One and Nine

Oct 01, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on $25,000 household cash grant distribution starts in Regions One and Nine

Over 8,000 Barima-Waini (Region One) residents were the first to benefit from the $25,000 per household COVID-19 relief cash grant announced by President Irfaan Ali last month. Just one day prior to...

Michael Benjamin reflects on the sport that shaped his life

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Michael Benjamin reflects on the sport that shaped his life

(Continued from yesterday) Benjamin then traveled to Canada in August 1987 to visit his mother and continued training sessions in Toronto under trainer, Peter Wylie. Less than two months after...

BCB seeks government input into the development of practice facilities in Berbice

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB seeks government input into the development of practice facilities in Berbice

– Coaching sessions to restart under strict Covid-19 guidelines The Berbice Cricket Board has kept itself busy over the last six months despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and continues to...

How banks collude with criminals

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on How banks collude with criminals

Last week, the troubling news items came in quick succession. First, Reuters on September 21st revealed, “FinCen documents reportedly show banks moved illicit funds – Buzzfeed ICIJ.” And,...

The PPP Government has shown its commitment to health workers in tangible ways in the COVID-19 fight

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP Government has shown its commitment to health workers in tangible ways in the COVID-19 fight

Dear Editor, The PPP Government has shown its commitment to health workers in tangible ways in the COVID-19 fight. President Irfaan Ali spearheaded the allocation of $150M in Budget 2020 for health...

On the Trump nominee for the US Supreme Court

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on On the Trump nominee for the US Supreme Court

Dear Editor, I learn that the nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Ms. Amy Coney Barrett, is considered a problematic, even terrible, choice. There is the usual and the old, which is about religion....

It is saddening to see the destruction of historical wooden buildings

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is saddening to see the destruction of historical wooden buildings

Dear Editor, Some months ago, I was walking around the city with my camera; it was during the early days of COVID-19. I vividly remembered passing these historical wooden buildings on Quamina Street...

Former Minster Sarabo-Halley should not speak about ‘irresponsibility’

Oct 01, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former Minster Sarabo-Halley should not speak about ‘irresponsibility’

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a statement from the Former Minister of Public Service, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley dated September 30, 2020. The former Minister lamented the Government’s...

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The PPP/C also drank the IMF/ World Bank Cool-Aid

Kaieteur News – The curious thing about politicians is how easily they forget their own past while presenting a revisionist... more