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Exxon faces SEC probe for allegedly inflating value of oil asset

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon faces SEC probe for allegedly inflating value of oil asset

Kaieteur News – While the media in Guyana kicks up a storm about the country’s sloth to audit billions of dollars in costs submitted by ExxonMobil for its operations here, a Wall Street...

Fight erupts in chute as three remanded for Henry boys murder

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fight erupts in chute as three remanded for Henry boys murder

Kaieteur News – A fight yesterday erupted in the chute of the Georgetown Magistrates Court, between the three suspects who were remanded to prison for the gruesome murder of the Henry boys. The...

Law must mandate minimum participation of locals – US Oil Analyst

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Law must mandate minimum participation of locals – US Oil Analyst

Kaieteur News – With aim of ensuring that citizens benefit to the maximum extent possible from the lucrative oil and gas sector, Guyana’s laws should mandate a minimum target for the...

Govt. hiring lobbyist to do what Foreign Affairs Ministry could have done – Harmon

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. hiring lobbyist to do what Foreign Affairs Ministry could have done – Harmon

Kaieteur News – While the subject of oil and gas was notably absent from his first media conference for 2021, Opposition leader, Joseph Harmon criticized the governing People’s Progressive...

Exxon to bill Guyana for another unsuccessful well

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon to bill Guyana for another unsuccessful well

Kaieteur News – Hitting its second unsuccessful well within the space of just two months is ExxonMobil. This follows after the US oil giant announced yesterday that drilling at its Hassa-1 well...

Int’l court defers Guyana/Venezuela border case to January 25

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l court defers Guyana/Venezuela border case to January 25

Kaieteur News – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has deferred its Case Management Conference (CMC) for Guyana/Venezuela Border case to January 25, 2021. The CMC hearing for the 1899...

Cops enforcing COVID-19 measures selectively – Harmon

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Cops enforcing COVID-19 measures selectively – Harmon

Kaieteur News – Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon, was keen to register yesterday, his discontentment with the selective implementation of the regulations under the Official Gazette of...

Trump imposes sanctions on Chinese Stabroek Block partner

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Trump imposes sanctions on Chinese Stabroek Block partner

Kaieteur News – Just one week away from his removal from office, United States President Donald Trump has imposed another set of fresh sanctions on some Chinese officials and firms, including...

Cricket can’t play pun football ground

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cricket can’t play pun football ground

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh how de government nah want de Cricket Board fuh go to de Stadium. So dem boys hope that when cricket come, dat dem same government people nah gan deh phoning dem...

The President should have a chat with young Ramson

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The President should have a chat with young Ramson

Kaieteur News – The President of Guyana, Dr. Irfaan Ali, should carefully consider the continued involvement of Mr. Charles Ramson Jnr. as the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport. The decision...

When demented minds turned a drug-related murder into political savageness

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on When demented minds turned a drug-related murder into political savageness

Kaieteur News – I repeat the following words that I wrote in my column, “Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit,” of Tuesday, January 5, 2020, “The greatest irony in philosophy is that...

Wales’ gas-to-shore project

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Wales’ gas-to-shore project

Kaieteur News – It seems that the PPP government refuses to learn. It seems bent on repeating the costly errors of recent history. This time, the undertaking of choice is the expensive gas to...

Fallen tree kills cook at Neesano Backdam, NWD

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fallen tree kills cook at Neesano Backdam, NWD

Kaieteur News – A cook was on Wednesday killed after a tree fell on her at Neesano Backdam, North West District. The dead woman, who was a mother of two, has been identified as Domelley Cyrus,...

Enrico Woolford sues NCN for close to $8M in gratuity, other benefits

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Enrico Woolford sues NCN for close to $8M in gratuity, other benefits

Kaieteur News – Veteran Journalist and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Communications Network (NCN), Enrico Woolford, who was fired shortly after the People’s Progressive...

60 new infections added to COVID-19 case toll

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 60 new infections added to COVID-19 case toll

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 60 new infections have been added to the country’s COVID-19 case toll. Its daily dashboard update shows the number of confirmed...

Haslington man nabbed with gun and ammo

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Haslington man nabbed with gun and ammo

Kaieteur News – A 26-year-old man of Haslington, East Coast Demerara, was on Thursday nabbed with an illegal firearm and ammunitions in his possession at Tiger Creek, Puruni Road. Reports are...

Hururu man jailed for ganja possession

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Hururu man jailed for ganja possession

Kaieteur News – A 25-year-old man of Hururu Mission, Upper Berbice River, was on Thursday sentenced to two years in prison for the possession of 1,040 grams of cannabis for the purpose of...

Indigenous Affairs Ministry failed to recover $8.5M overpaid to contractor- AG report

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Indigenous Affairs Ministry failed to recover $8.5M overpaid to contractor- AG report

Kaieteur News – t has been revealed in the 2019 Auditor General’s Report that the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs (now Ministry of Amerindian Affairs) failed to collect $8.597 million...

Wiltshire Dominoes tourney commences today at Turning Point

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire Dominoes tourney commences today at Turning Point

Kaieteur News – Some of the city’s top dominoes teams will go into action today when Senior Organising Secretary of the Guyana Dominoes League Mark Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes...

NOTICE

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on NOTICE

A driver’s licence belonging to Leonard Westford of 168 Prospect Housing Scheme, EBD has been found. Please call Travis on 610-7829 to uplift.

GABF distances itself from Halendino Sports Initiative

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF distances itself from Halendino Sports Initiative

Kaieteur News – In response to the article published in Kaieteur News – Sports 14 January 2021, titled “Halendino Sports to host trials”, the Guyana Basketball Federation (GABF) has...

BCB President commits to taking Upper Corentyne cricket to another level

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB President commits to taking Upper Corentyne cricket to another level

Urges teams to follow covid 19 guidelines when season restarts shortly Kaieteur News – The President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Hilbert Foster and Public Relations Officer on Wednesday...

Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform in place

Jan 16, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform in place

The Parliamentary Constitutional Reform Committee has been installed with Legal Affairs Minister and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall as the Chairman. The Committee has a mandate to continually review...

Made by Americans but not for all Americans

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Made by Americans but not for all Americans

DEAR EDITOR, The impeachment of a sitting president is politically equivalent to a criminal indictment. The constitutional mechanism for the impeachment of a federal officer, including presidents,...

Global Witness reveals its true intent in withdrawing controversial report

Jan 16, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Global Witness reveals its true intent in withdrawing controversial report

DEAR EDITOR, In a remarkable twist, Global Witness, which says it “works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses...