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Give Guyanese a chance!

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Give Guyanese a chance!

Kaieteur News – A fourth group has returned prime lands in Ogle to NICIL. We commend all four groups and the people behind them for doing the right thing, the honourable thing. We recognize and...

ExxonMobil made to adhere to int’l best practices on decommissioning for Stabroek Block

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil made to adhere to int’l best practices on decommissioning for Stabroek Block

Payara Licence… Kaieteur News – When the life of an oil project nears its end, the operator engages in a process called decommissioning. This calls for the plugging of wells along with the...

Church of England dumps Exxon’s stocks over poor climate record

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Church of England dumps Exxon’s stocks over poor climate record

Kaieteur News – The Church of England, one of ExxonMobil’s investors, has dumped all its stocks in the company over its poor record on climate change. A spokesperson is quoted as saying the...

GECOM’s DCEO released on $300,000 bail – Lowenfield’s trial to start in November

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM’s DCEO released on $300,000 bail – Lowenfield’s trial to start in November

By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News – Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Roxanne Myers, was yesterday released on $300,000, bail for two charges in relation to her actions during the March 2, 2020,...

Claudette Singh accused of facilitating abuse of GECOM staffers’ rights

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Claudette Singh accused of facilitating abuse of GECOM staffers’ rights

By Renay Sambach Kaieteur News – The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Rt’d) Claudette Singh, is accused of facilitating the abuse of the rights of GECOM...

Harmon continues to claim ignorance on award of Kaieteur, Canje Blocks

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon continues to claim ignorance on award of Kaieteur, Canje Blocks

Kaieteur News – Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon, continues to claim ignorance when Kaieteur News questioned him about the giveaway of two lucrative oil blocks in the weeks leading up to...

Customer sets Caricom Auto Sales’ storage facility alight

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Customer sets Caricom Auto Sales’ storage facility alight

Kaieteur News – The storage facility of the Lusignan, East Coast of Demerara Caricom Auto Sales was destroyed by a fire yesterday around 14:00 hours. The fire has since been deemed an act of...

Liberalisation of Telecoms Sector creates a level playing field – President Irfaan Ali

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Liberalisation of Telecoms Sector creates a level playing field – President Irfaan Ali

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali has said that benefits from the recently liberalised telecommunications sector in Guyana will have far-reaching impacts. The Head of State made this...

G$17M testing machine to significantly reduce waiting time for results – Health officials

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on G$17M testing machine to significantly reduce waiting time for results – Health officials

COVID-19 test results will now be available within two to three hours. This development comes on the heels of a donation of a new testing machine and testing kits from the Government of China. Senior...

Collision at Chateau Margot leaves two dead

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Collision at Chateau Margot leaves two dead

Kaieteur News – Two East Coast Demerara (ECD) men are now dead following a collision on the Chateau Margot Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The accident occurred at around 06:45hrs...

Silence is not always golden

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Silence is not always golden

Dem Boys Seh… If you see when somebody gets rob and de police come and ask you if you see the person who committed the act, do you have a right to say that you reserve the right to be silent? Dem...

Transparency is needed to stem the spread of COVID-19

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Transparency is needed to stem the spread of COVID-19

Kaieteur News – There were four COVID-19 deaths yesterday, including a 28 year-old man. We will have to wait and see whether the explanation was that he had underlying conditions. In the early...

Online entities to benefit from Govt. ads too

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Online entities to benefit from Govt. ads too

End to use of selective media houses… Kaieteur News – With the aim of ensuring wide coverage, Minister of Public Affairs, Kwame McCoy, revealed that online entities have now been added to the...

PPP/C stacking public service with loyalists – Harmon

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C stacking public service with loyalists – Harmon

Kaieteur News – Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon, is of the belief that the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) is stacking the public service with its loyalists. The Opposition...

Retrofitted containers to be technologically equipped to conduct criminal trials for prisoners – AG

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Retrofitted containers to be technologically equipped to conduct criminal trials for prisoners – AG

In wake of COVID-19… Kaieteur News – A collaborative agreement between the Judiciary and the executive arms of the government will see the implementation of several measures to deal with...

Court Superintendent’s Office commissioned in Berbice – as Govt. sets sight on modernized criminal justice system

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Court Superintendent’s Office commissioned in Berbice – as Govt. sets sight on modernized criminal justice system

By Malisa Playter-Harry Kaieteur News – As the world continues to evolve, Guyana is aiming to create a more modernized criminal justice system. In this regard, a brand-new edifice was...

COVID-19 death toll now at 102

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on COVID-19 death toll now at 102

Kaieteur News – With four new fatalities recorded, Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll yesterday climbed to 102. Early in the day the Ministry of Health announced that there were two deaths and...

Mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability and a major contributor to NCDs – CARPHA

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability and a major contributor to NCDs – CARPHA

Kaieteur News – In the Caribbean and worldwide, mental health disorders are now recognised as the fifth major non-communicable disease (NCD) and a major threat to health and economic...

PAHO, IOM sign agreement to improve health of 70 million migrants in the Americas

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PAHO, IOM sign agreement to improve health of 70 million migrants in the Americas

Kaieteur News – More than 70 million migrants living across international borders in the Region of the Americas are set to benefit from a joint agreement signed yesterday by Carissa F. Etienne,...

GAPLF cancels all events for 2020

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAPLF cancels all events for 2020

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation has issued a release notifying its members and the public that no event would be held for 2020. Following is the full text of that release. “Due to the...

D’Urban Park Lion’s Club donates canes in observance of World Sight Day

Oct 10, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on D’Urban Park Lion’s Club donates canes in observance of World Sight Day

Kaieteur News – There are currently 14,000 persons in Guyana who are visually impaired and almost 3,000 who are blind. In fact, according to Dr. Arlene Bobb-Semple, an ophthalmologist attached...

National basketball player calls for more competition in Linden

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on National basketball player calls for more competition in Linden

By Calvin Chapman Guyana and Victory Valley Royals’ Power Forward, Harold Adams who was part of the historic Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) senior men’s team that won the nation’s...

AFC in 2020: Does life have meaning?

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on AFC in 2020: Does life have meaning?

Kaieteur News – In the life of every human, dead and living, they once experienced a moment in which they listened to a song, read the headline in the newspaper about a prominent place, heard...

Champion of Champions dominoes commences today

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Champion of Champions dominoes commences today

Under strict Covid-19 guidelines, the Champion of Champions Dominoes competition commences today at R and R Domino Club, 76 Meadowbrook Gardens at 13:30hrs. Senior Organising Secretary of the Guyana...

Those deleted social media posts

Oct 10, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Those deleted social media posts

Kaieteur News – There is this practice that is extremely dangerous in which the reckless and malicious engage and get away with every time. Calculating people, so-called popular participants in...

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Linden youth dies as tire explodes at vulcanizing shop

Kaieteur News – A 20-year-old mechanic from the mining town of Linden died on Tuesday after a tire exploded and struck... more