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Your Silence Gives Consent

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Your Silence Gives Consent

Kaieteur News – You would quarrel for an extra $40 on your bus fare. You would curse for an extra $4000 on your GPL bill? Why are you silent on the billions of US dollars in bills being thrown...

The PPP/C has damaged generations

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on The PPP/C has damaged generations

Kaieteur News – What the PPP/C has done with the Canje and Kaieteur oil blocks represents the country’s greatest crime. It is far bigger and more notorious in scope than Jim Jones’ mass...

No signing bonus from Canje owners

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No signing bonus from Canje owners

Horrifying provisions of Canje block agreement… Kaieteur News – Mid-Atlantic Oil & Gas Inc., the company awarded the Canje block by former President Donald Ramotar weeks before the 2015...

Omai gold mine returns to Guyana

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Omai gold mine returns to Guyana

Kaieteur News – Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, revealed last week that Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML) has signaled their intentions to return to Guyana. In adding to this,...

Govt. seeking to tap Qatar oil money for housing programme

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. seeking to tap Qatar oil money for housing programme

Kaieteur News – The government of Guyana is seeking to tap into Qatar’s oil money to expand its housing development projects. President Irfaan Ali recently announced that he engaged with the...

Ten days after losing monopoly GTT increases speed for customers for free – industry stakeholders

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ten days after losing monopoly GTT increases speed for customers for free – industry stakeholders

– Proves once again it has been short changing Guyanese Kaieteur News – For 30 years, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph, which is 80 percent owned by US-based Atlantic Tele-Networks...

Economic growth dependent on CJIA reopening

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Economic growth dependent on CJIA reopening

Kaieteur News – Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill expressed that “reopening the airport will indeed result in an economic growth shift for the entire country,” as it continues...

Senegal gas fields giveaway vs. Guyana Canje Block

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Senegal gas fields giveaway vs. Guyana Canje Block

Kaieteur News – Last week, Kaieteur News published a series of stories which exposed the damning giveaway of two prime gas fields offshore Senegal. The sequence of events and inherent red flags...

De Land Of Many Squatters

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De Land Of Many Squatters

Kaieteur News – Dem Boys Seh… Guyana is the de land of squatting. From since dem boys know themselves, people bin squatting pun public lands and property. And even though dem know what...

Super-spreaders!

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Super-spreaders!

Kaieteur News – Testing done early and on a mass scale can make a difference in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. It can also reduce and eventually eliminate deaths all together. Do you...

Nothing Stays Hidden

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Nothing Stays Hidden

Kaieteur News – This editorial was first published a month ago. Considering the revelations made in this paper’s reporting on the Canje Block over the past week, and the reporting to come in...

Three young women hoping to educate and empower with “Balancing the Bars”

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Three young women hoping to educate and empower with “Balancing the Bars”

By Sueann Wickham Kaieteur News – Over the past few weeks, a local podcast hosted by three powerful young women has been making waves on Guyanese social media. Balancing the BARS is an...

Uncle of toddler who died after drinking ‘Molly’-laced milk released on bail

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Uncle of toddler who died after drinking ‘Molly’-laced milk released on bail

Kaieteur News – Kaieteur News has learnt that the uncle of a toddler who died weeks after drinking molly-laced milk was arrested on October 7th and later released as the probe into the...

EML to facilitate airport COVID-19 tests

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on EML to facilitate airport COVID-19 tests

Kaieteur News – In a release issued yesterday, the Eureka Medical Laboratories (EML) said that it is partnering with the Ministry of Health and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) to...

38 new COVID-19 cases recorded

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on 38 new COVID-19 cases recorded

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health’s daily dashboard update indicates that 38 new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 3,710. According to...

GNBS Celebrates National Quality Week, 2020

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on GNBS Celebrates National Quality Week, 2020

STANDARDS IN FOCUS Kaieteur News – The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) designated October 12 to 16, 2020 as National Quality Week, and as usual, rolled out daily activities to...

Taxi driver caught with ganja in car trunk granted bail

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver caught with ganja in car trunk granted bail

Kaieteur News – A taxi driver who was caught at a police road block on Tuesday with over 15 kilograms of marijuana was granted $75,000 bail on Friday for the alleged trafficking of narcotics....

France gives Guyana US$200,000 in emergency aid for Indigenous communities

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on France gives Guyana US$200,000 in emergency aid for Indigenous communities

Kaieteur News – The French government has given Guyana US$200,000 in emergency aid for Indigenous communities in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The French government stated that the...

Suspected “Sindicato” gang members arrested in Port Kaituma hotel

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected “Sindicato” gang members arrested in Port Kaituma hotel

Kaieteur News – Four Venezuelan nationals suspected to be members of the notorious Sindicato gang were on Friday arrested along with two Guyanese during a police search at a hotel located at...

Squatting must be extirpated

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on Squatting must be extirpated

CONSUMER CONCERNS By Pat Dial Squatting is one of the worst social ills which has afflicted Guyana since Independence. Squatting, until the 1950’s, was a comparatively rare occurrence and...

Book Review… Covid-19: The Resilient Foe

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Book Review…, News Comments Off on Book Review… Covid-19: The Resilient Foe

Book: Oriental Ghost: Tales of the Coronavirus Author: Canute B. White Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD With a second wave of the Covid-19 virus upon a nervous world, Canute B. White’s ‘Oriental...

Coronavirus: Can we continue at this rate until a vaccine is available?

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Coronavirus: Can we continue at this rate until a vaccine is available?

By Dr. ZulfikarBux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center Kaieteur News – The world is currently experiencing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some...

Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, calls it a day

Oct 18, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, calls it a day

After three decades of outstanding service… >>Champion Health Care Provider<<< By Sharmain Grainger Kaieteur News – It is said that in combat, if someone becomes a casualty,...

Interesting Creatures… The Coypu

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Interesting Creatures in Guyana, News Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Coypu

Kaieteur News – The Coypu (from the Mapudungun, koypu) or (Myocastor coypus), also known as the river rat and nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semi-aquatic rodent and the only member of the...

In Bharrat Jagdeo’s presidency, it was born; it still is not alive

Oct 18, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on In Bharrat Jagdeo’s presidency, it was born; it still is not alive

Kaieteur News – A married couple met me as I was coming out the door of the Giftland supermarket last Friday. They said they received an email from the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) about updating...