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The PPP/C’s Grand Payara Betrayal

Oct 02, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on The PPP/C’s Grand Payara Betrayal

Kaieteur News – Payara was a masquerade from the beginning. It was an elaborate dog and pony show. Now that the licence is approved, all the government’s yapping and howling can cease. The...

ExxonMobil awards over US$1B in Payara development contracts

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil awards over US$1B in Payara development contracts

Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil has awarded in excess of US$1B in Payara development contracts already, with the project being approved just two days ago by Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram...

29 companies submit proposals to market Guyana’s oil -14 tainted, 8 are newer applicants

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 29 companies submit proposals to market Guyana’s oil -14 tainted, 8 are newer applicants

By Mikaila Prince Kaieteur News – With hopes of securing the contract to market Guyana’s crude for the next 12 months, 29 companies and commodity traders have submitted their Requests For...

Let all contracts for oil sector be subjected to competitive process – expert

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Let all contracts for oil sector be subjected to competitive process – expert

Keeping corruption at bay… By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – If Guyana wants to ensure that the portion of oil revenue set aside for procurement purposes is not at risk for corruption, then it...

Passengers mandated to do second PCR test once first exceeds 72 hours

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers mandated to do second PCR test once first exceeds 72 hours

Guyana prepares for airport’s re-opening…. Kaieteur News – Guyana is now preparing for the re-opening of its two international airports to commercial flights from October 12th, following a...

Local Content panel to produce first report by November

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content panel to produce first report by November

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Natural Resources said that the Local Content Advisory Panel is expected to produce and submit its first report and recommendations by next month. The panel, chaired...

Men escape with gunshot wounds following ambush at E’bo hotel

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Men escape with gunshot wounds following ambush at E’bo hotel

Kaieteur News – Two men, on Tuesday last, escape with gunshot wounds after they were ambushed by unknown gunmen, at a hotel and bar, located in Aurora Village, Essequibo Coast, Region Three....

Den Amstel man accused of letting brother die in trench, slapped with manslaughter charge

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Den Amstel man accused of letting brother die in trench, slapped with manslaughter charge

Kaieteur News – A 64-year-old construction worker accused of killing his brother was placed on $400,000 bail after slapped with a manslaughter charge. The defendant, O’Neil Jordan called...

Region 4 chalks up two more COVID-19 deaths

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region 4 chalks up two more COVID-19 deaths

Kaieteur News – Region Four has chalked up two more deaths from COVID-19 virus. The total deaths for the country have now moved to 85. According to the Ministry of Health (MOH), the latest...

Adam Harris takes stand in defence of ‘Dem Boys Seh’

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Adam Harris takes stand in defence of ‘Dem Boys Seh’

Kaieteur News libel suit… Kaieteur News – Former Editor- in -Chief of Kaieteur News, Adam Harris, has taken the stand in defence of the contents of a Dem Boys Seh article published in 2014....

Curfew adjusted to 9pm-4am

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Curfew adjusted to 9pm-4am

– airports closure to continue Kaieteur News – Government has adjusted the curfew hours to 9pm to 4am, under the new COVID-19 Emergency Measures.The previous curfew ran from 6pm-6am. The...

Lawlessness is a national pastime

Oct 02, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lawlessness is a national pastime

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – A forty-six (46) year old man is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 victim. Dem boys waiting fuh hear if de authorities can report dat he had underlying conditions. Dem boys...

Transparency is lacking in the government’s response to the pandemic

Oct 02, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Transparency is lacking in the government’s response to the pandemic

Kaieteur News – Yesterday just after midday there were quite a few persons at the Georgetown Seawall. Of the more than 100 persons who were there, only three had on masks and two of those persons...

Government budgets $750M for COVID-19 vaccine procurement

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Government budgets $750M for COVID-19 vaccine procurement

Kaieteur News – The government plans to use $750 million in 2021 for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines to immunize Guyana’s population. The announcement was made by the Senior Minister in...

Hundreds apply for lands following Success stand-off

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds apply for lands following Success stand-off

Kaieteur News – Hundreds of residents from Success, Vryheid’s Lust, and Chateau Margot communities yesterday gathered at a housing drive conducted by the Central Housing and Planning Authority...

Neesa Gopaul appeal case set for October 19th

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopaul appeal case set for October 19th

Kaieteur News – The appeal case in one of the nation’s closely watched murder trial is set for October 19th. Convicted killers, Bibi Shareema Gopaul, and her ex-lover, Jarvis Barry Small, are...

Main Street dubbed ‘Avenue of Hope’ by First Lady

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Main Street dubbed ‘Avenue of Hope’ by First Lady

– as Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off Kaieteur News – To officially usher in Breast Cancer Awareness month, First Lady Arya Ali yesterday made a donation to the Guyana Cancer...

A strange sight

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on A strange sight

Kaieteur News – This funnel cloud was seen by drivers, commuters and residents on the West Demerara area yesterday. A funnel cloud is described as one that comes from condensed water droplets. They...

Night Shelter to have triage unit, active kitchen

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Night Shelter to have triage unit, active kitchen

– to provide mental health and physical wellbeing programme Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will soon add a mental health and physical well-being programme...

Bartica cop under close arrest following a car crash

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica cop under close arrest following a car crash

Kaieteur News – A police constable, 22, was on Tuesday placed under close arrest following his involvement in a car accident at Fifth Street and Third Avenue, Bartica, Region Seven.According to...

DDL, Doobay Medical to donate 1M masks

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on DDL, Doobay Medical to donate 1M masks

Kaieteur News – Drinks giant, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) yesterday pledged a donation of one million ‘N-95’ face masks to the Government and people of Guyana. The donation is being made...

Payara: The Latest In A Long Line Of Leadership Failures

Oct 02, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Payara: The Latest In A Long Line Of Leadership Failures

Kaieteur News – We did say it before in frequent editorials and Front-Page presentations, what was confirmed by Mr. Carroll Muffett, President and CEO of the Center for International Environmental...

Sarabo-Halley, Craig, Patterson: Facing reality

Oct 02, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sarabo-Halley, Craig, Patterson: Facing reality

Kaieteur News – The WPA operating in the only format Guyanese have come to know it by – press conference politics – said that it gave the PNC four names from which to choose two...

Hijacked West Dem taxi found vandalized in Sophia

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hijacked West Dem taxi found vandalized in Sophia

Kaieteur News – A white Toyota Allion, with number plate HD724, which was hijacked last Saturday by two armed passengers, was on Wednesday discovered vandalized and abandoned at ‘A’ Field...

Container truck driver who jumped major road, gets bail for deadly accident

Oct 02, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Container truck driver who jumped major road, gets bail for deadly accident

Kaieteur News – Almost four months after a 23-year-old man was killed in an alleged drag race on Saffon Street, Georgetown, the driver of the container truck that was involved in the accident,...

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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