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Taking our oranges and giving us peanuts

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Taking our oranges and giving us peanuts

Imagine your stepfather sold out a large farm which your real father left for you. He sold it to his friend Robert who lives in Canada. Once a year, Robert sends over a few oranges. Your family is so...

Canje owner sold 87.5% of block; Guyana got no capital gains tax

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Canje owner sold 87.5% of block; Guyana got no capital gains tax

– Contract signed by Ramotar Kaieteur News – The owner of the Canje Block, Mid-Atlantic Oil & Gas Inc. has benefitted from its sale of 87.5 percent of Stabroek Block ownership, but...

Establish strong criteria for oil blocks to keep ‘bad’ companies at bay – Chatham House

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Establish strong criteria for oil blocks to keep ‘bad’ companies at bay – Chatham House

“It’s not just well-established companies which should be attracted, but those with records of opacity, negligence, theft or other damaging activities which should be actively kept out....

Chief Justice to hear full trial for elections petition

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice to hear full trial for elections petition

– To hear preliminary issues on November 24 Kaieteur News – Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire is expected to full trial of the two election petitions filed by the main...

Health Ministry orders 20,000 antigen tests for hinterlands

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry orders 20,000 antigen tests for hinterlands

– to produce COVID-19 results within minutes Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health has placed an order for 20,000 antigen tests which will be sent to selected hinterland regions to...

Argument over cash leaves teen death

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Argument over cash leaves teen death

Kaieteur News – A disagreement over money owed has left Adrian Purlette, 18, dead, after he was on Wednesday stabbed to death by three men. According information received by this media house,...

Ministry mulls turn system for Stabroek park bus drivers

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry mulls turn system for Stabroek park bus drivers

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Home Affairs Minister is moving to develop a rotation system for bus drivers at the Stabroek area. The initiative falls under efforts by the Ministry to ease...

Bus tunin’ UFO

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bus tunin’ UFO

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Dem gan place sanitation tent near dem bus parks. Dem ah put am deh fuh people fuh wash dem hand before dem join de bus. Dem boys wan tell dem dat some of dem...

One law for me and one law for you

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on One law for me and one law for you

Kaieteur News – The media has a duty to cover and to report matters of public interest. But the media must do so within the confines of the law. At present, there are regulations governing the...

Taking advantage of the situation

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Taking advantage of the situation

Kaieteur News – Everyone who listened to reggae music in the early 1990s would remember the haunting, soulful voice of Garnett Silk, the Jamaican phenomenon who was set to be the new reigning...

NPTAB opens over 700 bids (Con’t)

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NPTAB opens over 700 bids (Con’t)

Kaieteur News – Following the passage of the emergency $330B budget, government is now in a rush to expend the remainder of funds on projects before the end of this fiscal year. As such, the...

NPTAB opens bids for 65 projects

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on NPTAB opens bids for 65 projects

Kaieteur News – Following the passage of the emergency $330B budget, the government is now in a rush to expend the remainder of funds on projects before the end of this fiscal year. With this,...

MOH records 26 new COVID-19 cases

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on MOH records 26 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health recorded 27 new COVID-19 cases yesterday. Of the cases, twenty-one new cases were recorded in Region Four, four in Region Three while one new case each...

APA collaborates with Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on the development of Indigenous People

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on APA collaborates with Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on the development of Indigenous People

Kaieteur News – On Wednesday, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) met with the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to discuss ways in which the organisation can further support the development...

West Coast Demerara grocery, house burglarized

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on West Coast Demerara grocery, house burglarized

Kaieteur News – A grocery store and a man’s home were burglarized mere hours apart on the West Coast Demerara this week. According to a police report, the grocery store located at Lot 14 Anna...

Volda Lawrence a no-show at CID

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Volda Lawrence a no-show at CID

Kaieteur News – The Chairperson for the People’s National Congress (PNC) and Former Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, yesterday failed to present herself at the Criminal Investigation...

Two of three prison escapees recaptured

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Two of three prison escapees recaptured

Kaieteur News – Two of the three murder suspects that recently escaped from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, were yesterday recaptured and placed back in custody where they are...

Shepherd plans to make full use of unexpected opportunity; replaces injured Bravo for NZ Tour

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shepherd plans to make full use of unexpected opportunity; replaces injured Bravo for NZ Tour

Guyanese Fast bowling all-rounder Romario Shepherd has been selected to replace Trinidadian Dwayne Bravo for to West Indies Tour of New Zealand which begins on November 27 with a T20 contest. The...

Minimal to no risk of oil spill from vessel – CDC

Oct 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Minimal to no risk of oil spill from vessel – CDC

Kaieteur News – There is a minimal to no risk of an oil spill from the Nabarima Floating Storing and Offloading (FSO) vessel, which was reported to be listing off of the Venezuelan coast since...

BCB starts planning for historic Semi- Professional Tournament in 2021

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB starts planning for historic Semi- Professional Tournament in 2021

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) earlier this year had unveiled plans to host a historic Semi-Professional Tournament. Sadly, the BCB was forced to temporarily shelve those plans due to the ongoing...

Aliann Pompey elected as EXCO member of World Oympians Association

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Aliann Pompey elected as EXCO member of World Oympians Association

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s four-time Olympian; Aliann Pompey, was yesterday elected as an Executive Committee Member of the World Olympians Association with responsibility for female...

Guyana is under the test of time and the patience of tolerance

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is under the test of time and the patience of tolerance

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana’s nightmare continues with criminal characters and elements pervading their professions in a most diabolical manner, unravelling the fragile protection that is offered in...

Banking officials and politicians in Guyana are high-risk fools

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Banking officials and politicians in Guyana are high-risk fools

Kaieteur News – What you are about to read from my pen here is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I swear on my parents’ grave the words here are the truth. Here is the...

Vintage professionalism, compassion and kindness

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vintage professionalism, compassion and kindness

DEAR EDITOR, My family and I had an interesting experience last week Sunday. This was in response to a medical emergency in Queen Street, Kitty. Arrived promptly, was the ambulance with a crew of...

Do Guyanese American votes matter?

Oct 23, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do Guyanese American votes matter?

DEAR EDITOR, The US Presidential and Congressional elections are on November 3, a week from Tuesday. In addition to national elections, there are state contests for Governors, state and local...

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CWI inducts first West Indies Men’s Academy Cohort to be based in Antigua & Barbuda full-time

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