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Exxon must compensate any nation affected by Payara oil spill

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon must compensate any nation affected by Payara oil spill

Demands of environmental permit… By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – Whether it is Guyana or one of its regional neighbours, ExxonMobil will have to ensure proper compensation for the damage...

Who is inheriting our wealth?

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Who is inheriting our wealth?

Our parents died and left ten properties for us, their seven children. Dickey, the eldest child, was left in charge of the family estate. Six months after the death of our parents, Dickey informed us...

Rape accounts for two thirds of cases in Demerara Supreme Court

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Rape accounts for two thirds of cases in Demerara Supreme Court

Kaieteur News – According a notice printed on Saturday in one of the daily newspapers, there are close to 250 rape cases up for trial at the Demerara Supreme Court. The numbers of rape cases...

Exxon must install meter to record all toxins from flaring

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon must install meter to record all toxins from flaring

Demands of environmental permit… Kaieteur News – Even as it begins major development works for the Payara project in the Stabroek Block, ExxonMobil will be required to have a metering...

Legalizing stolen state assets

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Legalizing stolen state assets

Cunning politicians use crooked middlemen to hold, receive or transfer stolen state assets. For example, politicians would have some of their shady friends establish shell companies, information...

EPA tells oil giant to complete study on re-injecting 100% reservoir water

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EPA tells oil giant to complete study on re-injecting 100% reservoir water

Demands of Environmental Permit… Kaieteur News – Even though it has allowed ExxonMobil to dump into the ocean, produced water from the Payara project, provided that it is treated to...

All oil costs to be audited; only a matter of time – VP

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on All oil costs to be audited; only a matter of time – VP

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, said that all the costs being claimed by ExxonMobil and its Stabroek block partners will have to be audited, and that it’s only a matter of...

Alleged Ponzi schemers halt operations; to start paying investors from October 12th

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged Ponzi schemers halt operations; to start paying investors from October 12th

Kaieteur News – Alleged Ponzi scheme operator, Yuri Garcia-Dominguez, says that all persons who invested with Accelerated Capital Firm Inc. will be repaid from October 12th, 2020. The company...

Dem boys hands consuming more alcohol dan de mouths

Oct 04, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem boys hands consuming more alcohol dan de mouths

Dem boys Seh… Kaieteur News – 2020 is a bad year. It went viral faster dan we thought it would. De Coronavirus changed all our lives this year. Fuh one, people hardly getting de flu in...

The sick should not be held to ransom

Oct 04, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The sick should not be held to ransom

Kaieteur News – The nurses’ protests – which involve being off the job during working hours and sick-outs – are unlawful. They do not fall within the ambit of legitimate industrial...

CDC hands over National Oil Spill Contingency Plan to Prime Minister

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CDC hands over National Oil Spill Contingency Plan to Prime Minister

Kaieteur News – After four years of being constantly amended as well as facing periods of languishing in a draft stage, the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) finally handed over yesterday, the...

Man turns up at hospital with gunshot wound, arrested for Mackenzie home invasion

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Man turns up at hospital with gunshot wound, arrested for Mackenzie home invasion

Kaieteur News – A suspect who was on September 24th arrested at the Linden Hospital Complex with a gunshot wound was remanded to prison on Friday for allegedly invading a home at Mackenzie,...

Hess plugs $1.8B to develop Payara

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Hess plugs $1.8B to develop Payara

Kaieteur News – Hess Corporation announced that it has plugged US$1.8B into the Payara project. The company, which has a 30 percent stake in Guyana’s lucrative Stabroek block, made its...

Jagdeo criticizes coalition for rejecting health worker’s requests for allowances

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo criticizes coalition for rejecting health worker’s requests for allowances

– but fails to commit to same Kaieteur News – Vice President (VP), Bharrat Jagdeo, has criticized the former APNU+AFC regime for repeatedly rejecting public health workers’ requests...

Another Region 4 death as Guyana surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 cases

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Another Region 4 death as Guyana surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – Guyana has surpassed 3,000 COVID-19 cases with another 37 persons testing positive, according to the latest figures. Guyana now has a total of 3,005 confirmed cases and an...

Carpenter dies after slamming into cop’s motorcycle

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Carpenter dies after slamming into cop’s motorcycle

Kaieteur News – “I’ll be back soon”… were the last words heard by the mother of a young carpenter, hours before he died on Thursday, following a collision with his motorcycle number...

Dr. Narine Singh is new Chief Medical Officer

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Narine Singh is new Chief Medical Officer

– Dr. Shamdeo Persaud proceeds on pre-retirement leave Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health has a new Chief Medical Officer. According to officials, Dr. Narine Singh, a long-serving...

Guyana Needs Specialist Police Unit To Address Growing Fraud Crimes

Oct 04, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on Guyana Needs Specialist Police Unit To Address Growing Fraud Crimes

CONSUMER CONCERNS: By Pat Dial Kaieteur News – Some time ago, this column had an offering on foreign frauds enmeshing and robbing Guyanese of millions of dollars. Many of these frauds...

Guyanese Doing Things Right, Government Could Learn

Oct 04, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyanese Doing Things Right, Government Could Learn

Kaieteur News – The news in recent days have had more than its share of things-costly and vital things-that are mishandled, and which have gone wrong with the worst possible results for the...

GPHC sets up permanent triage areas for suspected COVID-19 cases

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC sets up permanent triage areas for suspected COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Georgetown Public Hospital is being proactive in putting all necessary systems in place to effectively respond to the medical needs of citizens while preventing the spread...

CODEX STANDARDS – BENEFICIAL TO THE LOCAL FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SECTORS

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on CODEX STANDARDS – BENEFICIAL TO THE LOCAL FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SECTORS

STANDARDS IN FOCUS: Kaieteur News – The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), which functions as the Codex Contact Point, has been facilitating the development of standards relating to...

Housing is part of every Guyanese citizen’s birthright

Oct 04, 2020 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Housing is part of every Guyanese citizen’s birthright

Kaieteur News – (A Review of David Granger’s A roof over every head: every citizen’s right to proper housing.) David Granger’s A roof over every head: every citizen’s right to proper...

Classical Tales of East Indian Life

Oct 04, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Classical Tales of East Indian Life

Book Review… Book: Chutney Power Author: Willi Chen Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Kaieteur News – Willi Chen has long mesmerized Trinidad and Tobago with his artistry. Decades ago, Chen had...

Coronavirus: After all this time, mask wearing is still the simplest and best lifesaving option

Oct 04, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: After all this time, mask wearing is still the simplest and best lifesaving option

By Dr. Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center I can recall early in the pandemic when I introduced the “everyone wears a mask” campaign, many were...

Finola Ambika Permansingh – a doctor on a mission to provide equitable health care

Oct 04, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Finola Ambika Permansingh – a doctor on a mission to provide equitable health care

By Sharmain Grainger Kaieteur News – With the far-reaching impact of COVID-19, it has long become clear that combatting this disease requires more than just...

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TOTALTEC to open hospitality complex in Houston

Kaieteur News – TOTALTEC Inc., a provider of services to the energy and construction sectors here on Monday announced... more