01 – January – 2021 – Kaieteur News

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Happy New Year!

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Happy New Year!

Kaieteur News – May the Peace and Blessing of our Creator be upon you as we embark on this New Year 2021. We will certainly need it. Our country is in deep problems. Our political leaders have...

Gas-to-shore project, a recipe for bankruptcy – US Financial Expert

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gas-to-shore project, a recipe for bankruptcy – US Financial Expert

Kaieteur News – Considering Guyana’s poor power generation capacity and infrastructural systems, almost all of the nation’s leaders have thrown their support behind ExxonMobil laying the...

Harbour Bridge pays TT Company $9M one year before company registered

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Harbour Bridge pays TT Company $9M one year before company registered

Kaieteur News – The state-owned asphalt plant located at Garden of Eden reportedly paid a Trinidad-based company $9 million for the supply of cold mix asphalt in 2016, roughly a year before the...

Govt. fails to meet EITI deadline for beneficial ownership of Kaieteur, Canje blocks

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. fails to meet EITI deadline for beneficial ownership of Kaieteur, Canje blocks

– continues to keep mining contracts secret Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana has failed to make good on their promise to release the beneficial owners of the Kaieteur and Canje...

Oil contract wording appears to give Exxon sovereignty over Guyana – VP

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil contract wording appears to give Exxon sovereignty over Guyana – VP

Kaieteur News – Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo takes issue with the fact that some of the wording of the Stabroek Block Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) creates the impression that...

Asphalt sold at Garden of Eden Plant goes 10 miles to be weighed – Audit

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Asphalt sold at Garden of Eden Plant goes 10 miles to be weighed – Audit

– Despite scale right next door Kaieteur News – The special team investigating an alleged racket at the state-owned asphalt plant at Garden of Eden made several damning discoveries...

Parliamentary staff to be tested for second time after Speaker’s second COVID-19 diagnosis

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary staff to be tested for second time after Speaker’s second COVID-19 diagnosis

Kaieteur News – Following the Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir’s second diagnosis with COVID-19, parliament staff will have to undergo Polymerase Chain Reaction COVID-19 tests...

El Dorado’s gold buying system is above board – company insists

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on El Dorado’s gold buying system is above board – company insists

Kaieteur News – One of the country’s biggest gold dealers, El Dorado Trading, is insisting that its supply link is not tainted by illegal purchases from Venezuela. The recent reports have...

Anything happen dis year gan be better

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Anything happen dis year gan be better

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – Is a New Year! And dem boys know dat whole day dem email and phone gan be cluttered up with persons wishing dem boys and family a Happy New Year. To tell you...

Democracy under siege

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Democracy under siege

Kaieteur News – The political strongman attracts a special adulation. The more authoritarian and ruthless a leader is, the more he or she is idolized. When we speak about our leaders as being...

The long, long look back

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The long, long look back

Kaieteur News – Today begins a long look back at one of the worst years in both British Guiana and Guyana – 2020. There is an ocean of materials to be covered. I am not going to serialize my...

Wakenaam man committed to stand trial for attempted murder

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam man committed to stand trial for attempted murder

Kaieteur News – A Wakenaam man was on Wednesday committed to stand trial in the Suddie High Court for the attempted murder of 65-year-old Thakur Lokram of Sans Soucie, Wakenaam, Essequibo...

Captured Cuban remanded for brutal murders of girlfriend and her daughter, 11

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Captured Cuban remanded for brutal murders of girlfriend and her daughter, 11

Kaieteur News – Spending the new year behind bars, on remand, will be the Cuban national who reportedly confessed to brutally murdering his girlfriend and her young daughter. Yoel Rodríguez...

One fined, one granted bail, other still to be located

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on One fined, one granted bail, other still to be located

ERC takes legal action against defaulters… Kaieteur News – The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), has finally commenced taking legal action against persons who were found inciting racial...

Taxi driver on $300,000 bail for Durban Street dragging death

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver on $300,000 bail for Durban Street dragging death

Kaieteur News – Kester Lewis, a 29-year-old man who allegedly knocked down and killed an East Coast Demerara (ECD) man on Durban Street, was charged with manslaughter yesterday and placed on...

Detectives believe missing man’s body is buried in shallow grave

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Detectives believe missing man’s body is buried in shallow grave

Blood stains in Kuru Kururu home… Kaieteur News – As new details emerge, police believe that the missing man whose home was found with bloodstains, might be buried in a shallow grave at Kuru...

Government to give one-off $25,000 cash grant to public servants and sugar workers

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Government to give one-off $25,000 cash grant to public servants and sugar workers

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that all workers in the public sector including sugar workers currently employed at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), will receive...

A Grouchy Goodbye to the Year 2020

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A Grouchy Goodbye to the Year 2020

An Editorial Poem Goodbye to the year, 2020 Of anni horribilis, the worst. With trials and tribulations aplenty, We might as well pay tribute in verse. Goodnight to you, President Ali, Of...

RDC employee who accosted estranged wife in front of police station remanded

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on RDC employee who accosted estranged wife in front of police station remanded

– admitted to the National Psychiatric Hospital. Kaieteur News – The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Region 6 employee, who was on Tuesday arrested for threatening his reputed wife with...

Government extends COVID-19 measures to January 31

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Government extends COVID-19 measures to January 31

Kaieteur News – The government has extended the measures in the Official Gazette of COVID-19 measures. The guidelines under the gazette for the month of December were republished meaning that...

Oil and gas sector saw $125.8 billion tax exemption in 2019 – AG report

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and gas sector saw $125.8 billion tax exemption in 2019 – AG report

─ Billions in VAT refunds Kaieteur News – The oil and gas industry received tax exemptions totalling some $125.8 billion for the fiscal year 2019, Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, has revealed...

‘Yankee’ appeals 70 years jail sentence for murder of Parika fuel dealer

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Yankee’ appeals 70 years jail sentence for murder of Parika fuel dealer

Kaieteur News – An appeal has been filed on behalf of Kurt Thomas called ‘Yankee’ or ‘Deportee,’ to overturn the conviction and 70 years jail sentence he received for the April 2016...

KFC throws support behind GFF, K&S, MCYS Bounce Back Football

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on KFC throws support behind GFF, K&S, MCYS Bounce Back Football

Kaieteur News – Beharry’s Restaurant Holdings under its KFC franchise banner gifted an early New Year’s present yesterday to the tournament organizers, Guyana Football Federation, Kashif...

CGI name Squads for practice matches and Fitness Assessment

Jan 01, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on CGI name Squads for practice matches and Fitness Assessment

Kaieteur News – As the Guyana Jaguars prepare to compete in the 2021 CWI Regional Super 50 Tournament, CGI has named two squads to participate in three practice matches to be held at the LBI...

High Court puts temporary hold on year-end Police Service Commission promotions

Jan 01, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on High Court puts temporary hold on year-end Police Service Commission promotions

Kaieteur News – Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire yesterday granted an order which instructs that the current status quo in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) remain until the matter which...