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EPA demands no studies for five projects dealing with hazardous oil & gas chemicals

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA demands no studies for five projects dealing with hazardous oil & gas chemicals

– Agency lacks capacity to do testing By Shikema Dey Kaieteur News – An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) can be defined as a critical tool used to identify the environmental, social...

Coalition MP collected $5.7M for construction of pig pen using unregistered association

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition MP collected $5.7M for construction of pig pen using unregistered association

Kaieteur News – It has been revealed that Jermaine Figueira, an A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Member of Parliament (MP), collected $5.7M to construct and...

Govt to receive 2020 Liza One operating costs from ExxonMobil

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt to receive 2020 Liza One operating costs from ExxonMobil

– Has two years to audit By Kemol King Kaieteur News – With over US$6 billion in unaudited bills from oil supermajor ExxonMobil, the company’s local subsidiary, Esso Exploration and...

Fishermen can be frontline of monitoring effects of oil operations – Dr. Janette Bulkan

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Fishermen can be frontline of monitoring effects of oil operations – Dr. Janette Bulkan

Kaieteur News – University of British Colombia (UBC) Professor, Dr. Janette Bulkan, recently posited that Guyana’s fisherman can be the frontline in the monitoring of the country’s inshore...

Female guard dodges cutlass to escape bandits

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Female guard dodges cutlass to escape bandits

Kaieteur News – A female security guard is counting her blessings after she was able to dodge a cutlass yielding bandit and escape to safety on Tuesday morning last while on her way to work....

Guyana urgently needs Oil & Gas monitoring unit – Dr. Adams

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana urgently needs Oil & Gas monitoring unit – Dr. Adams

Kaieteur News – It is critical for Guyana, a novel oil producing nation, to have adequate capacity to monitor the exploration, development and production oil by ExxonMobil so as to ensure what...

Man survives three bullets in execution attempt

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Man survives three bullets in execution attempt

Kaieteur News – A labourer, 22, yesterday, survived three bullets in an execution attempt at Barbie Dam, East La Penitence, Georgetown. Osafo Johnson, a resident of East La Penitence, was...

Venezuelan Navy detains Guyanese fishing vessels

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan Navy detains Guyanese fishing vessels

Kaieteur News – Two Guyanese fishing vessels, along with its respective crews are currently detained on Venezuelan soil. The vessels, Lady Nayera and the Sea Wolf, according to the Ministry of...

Detector operator shot in legs by drunk man

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Detector operator shot in legs by drunk man

Kaieteur News – A detector operator, 24, was on Thursday last shot to his legs reportedly by a drunk man at Five Star Landing, North West District, Region One. The man who has since been...

De new generation nat going backwards

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De new generation nat going backwards

Dem boys Seh… Kaieteur News – When yuh support rigging, yuh does find yuhself having to lie pon top of more lies. Yuh entire life does end up becoming one lie after de other. This is wuh...

Farewell to Larry King! Welcome to the new breed of broadcasters!

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Farewell to Larry King! Welcome to the new breed of broadcasters!

Kaieteur News – A new era of broadcasting has emerged but will a new breed of broadcasters arise. There is now a multiplicity of radio stations, following the liberalisation of radio first by...

Jimmy James, Roxanne Myers and the absurd existence of Guyana

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Jimmy James, Roxanne Myers and the absurd existence of Guyana

Kaieteur News – Once again, I lament the horrible levels of mediocrity in Guyanese journalism. I do not believe you have to go to journalism school to know the basics. The fundamentals of any...

Is there a looming oil war?

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Is there a looming oil war?

Kaieteur News – Is there an oil or resource war on the horizon? We would not make a joke about something like that, and have never been more serious. This was the question tabled by...

Two new COVID-19 fatalities added to country’s death toll

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Two new COVID-19 fatalities added to country’s death toll

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health reported two new COVID-19 fatalities yesterday, a 78-year-old male from Region Six (East Berbice- Corentyne) and a 60-year-old male from Region Four...

Bids open for institutional strengthening for probation services

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Bids open for institutional strengthening for probation services

Kaieteur News – The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), on Tuesday, opened ¬¬¬¬-bids for five government ministry at their Ministry of Finance (MoF) office on Main...

Govt. launches programme to help unregistered businesses transition to formal economy

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. launches programme to help unregistered businesses transition to formal economy

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Labour is aiming at transitioning businesses from the informal economy to the formal economy by means of conducting one stop shops in the various regions of the...

Motorcyclist killed in Linden accident

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist killed in Linden accident

Kaieteur News – The family of Adriel Drakes, 26, of Blue Berry Hill, Wismar has been thrown into a state of mourning after he was killed in an accident in Linden on Saturday afternoon....

Porter injured after being pinned by truck on Mazaruni trail

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Porter injured after being pinned by truck on Mazaruni trail

Kaieteur News – A porter, 40, is now hospitalised after being pinned by a truck last Saturday along the Toraturu Trail, Mazaruni, Region Seven. The porter, Odit Narine Persaud of Essequibo, was...

Gov’t. approaches IICA for assistance to recover $1.9B Panama owes rice millers

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t. approaches IICA for assistance to recover $1.9B Panama owes rice millers

Kaieteur News – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) has been invited to assist Guyana in obtaining from Panama, $1.9B it owes to Guyanese rice millers. This was...

Minister of MCYS continues meaningful community engagement with visit to Reg 3

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Minister of MCYS continues meaningful community engagement with visit to Reg 3

Selected grounds across Guyana to be converted to Leisure and Recreational Parks Despite the ongoing challenges being presented by covid-19, Minister of Culture Youth and Sport (MCYS) Charles Ramson...

Cricket Development Programme 2021 RHTYSC Cricket teams donate to BCB and UCCA

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket Development Programme 2021 RHTYSC Cricket teams donate to BCB and UCCA

Kaieteur News – “We have a belief that the more you share your blessings, the more God would bless you. Over the last twenty-five, we have worked beyond the call of duty to assist our fellow...

Superbet employee robbed of $162,700 while closing shop

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Superbet employee robbed of $162,700 while closing shop

Kaieteur News – A Superbet employee was on Saturday robbed of $162,700 while she was closing up her shop. The victim has been identified as Shakule Khan, 29, of Belle West, West Bank Demerara....

ExxonMobil has transformed itself from a stock market leader to a laggard

Jan 25, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil has transformed itself from a stock market leader to a laggard

By Tom Sanzillo and Clark Williams-Derry IEEFA: By virtually every measure, the global oil and gas industry had a dreadful 2020. Demand slumped; prices sagged; stockpiles swelled; profits evaporated;...

Works underway at South Dakota Circuit until January 26

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Sports Comments Off on Works underway at South Dakota Circuit until January 26

Kaieteur News – The South Dakota circuit is reportedly closed until January 26 according to president of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC), Rameez Mohamed. Last week, the...

Remarks that cannot be taken lightly

Jan 25, 2021 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remarks that cannot be taken lightly

DEAR EDITOR, Response is made, to Frederick Kissoon’s article in his January 19 column, where he accused me in my capacity as General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) for...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more