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4th oil project will increase country’s overall carbon emissions – Exxon’s Report

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on 4th oil project will increase country’s overall carbon emissions – Exxon’s Report

Kaieteur News – The Yellowtail Project, the fourth to be pursued by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) in the eastern portion of the Stabroek...

PAC meetings stalled due to stressed out Clerks

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on PAC meetings stalled due to stressed out Clerks

Kaieteur News – The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was unable to hold its scheduled meeting yesterday, and will also be unable to meet next Monday since Clerks for the...

Brazilian stabbed to death over gold dispute

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian stabbed to death over gold dispute

Kaieteur News – A Brazilian national who is yet to be identified by the police was on Thursday night, stabbed to death by his drinking partner following a dispute over gold. According to...

Gunmen invade DHL, cart off two safes

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen invade DHL, cart off two safes

Kaieteur News – At least five gunmen have reportedly invaded DHL, a local franchise of an International shipping company, and carted off two safes from the building. The DHL office is located...

EPA announces two October public consultations on 4th ExxonMobil Project

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on EPA announces two October public consultations on 4th ExxonMobil Project

Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that there would be at least two public consultations on ExxonMobil’s fourth project in the Stabroek Block called...

“We are not encouraging re-vaccination”- Dr. Frank Anthony

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on “We are not encouraging re-vaccination”- Dr. Frank Anthony

Kaieteur News – Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony said yesterday that the government is not in support of calls by some countries for persons to be re-vaccinated if they had been vaccinated...

Cops on bail for allegedly raping woman

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Cops on bail for allegedly raping woman

Kaieteur News – Two serving members of the Guyana Police Force were on Thursday, placed on $75,000 bail each after they were charged with rape. The officers, Rellon D’Andrade, 30, of Lot 62...

Oil companies replacing locals with foreigners for driving and cleaning jobs – GAWU

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Oil companies replacing locals with foreigners for driving and cleaning jobs – GAWU

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) recently stated on its website that oil companies and their subcontractors have been replacing locals with foreigners to...

Guyana has enough vaccines to achieve herd immunity – Health Minister

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has enough vaccines to achieve herd immunity – Health Minister

Kaieteur News – Guyana has in stock an adequate number of Covid-19 vaccines to achieve herd immunity, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony said. With the Delta variant of the Coronavirus...

Burial ground from “over 200 years” exposed on Berbice seashore.

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Burial ground from “over 200 years” exposed on Berbice seashore.

Kaieteur News – Police descended to the No.71 beach yesterday afternoon after they were informed that several coffins with apparent human skeletal remains were visible. Regional Commander,...

West Indies like dem frighten de Taliban

Oct 23, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on West Indies like dem frighten de Taliban

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News – De fuss time West Indies lose to Afghanistan was like de upset of de century. De Caribbean bin shock dat dem could fall so easily to minnows. Well de odder...

BIG MAN’S JOB IN LITTLE BOY’S HANDS

Oct 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BIG MAN’S JOB IN LITTLE BOY’S HANDS

Kaieteur News – There is an old saying in Guyana. “You cannot put a little boy to do a big man’s job” What is being exposed each passing day in Guyana, is the total inability of certain...

I insist that the PNC did not have a Rohee and a Luncheon equivalent

Oct 23, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I insist that the PNC did not have a Rohee and a Luncheon equivalent

Kaieteur News – I do not share the views on America by one of its most famous Black faces – Condoleezza Rice – but she did three times tell her hosts, last week on The View, “I am a...

Racially insensitive – our position

Oct 23, 2021 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Racially insensitive – our position

Kaieteur News – Former Ethnic Relations Commissioner (ERC), Pandit Deodat Persaud, had said that what we should do to penalise offending Guyanese and deter them from uttering racially...

Coconut vendor on bail for stealing clothes

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Coconut vendor on bail for stealing clothes

Kaieteur News – Clifton Dowden called ‘Grupa,’ a coconut vendor of Lot 41 North-West Sophia, yesterday passed through court for allegedly stealing $2M in clothes. The 50-year-old defendant...

Superbet employee on bail for simple larceny

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Superbet employee on bail for simple larceny

Kaieteur News – Twenty-six-year-old Nikeda Castello, a Superbet Cashier of Lot 307 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was yesterday charged for allegedly stealing over $300,000 from the company. She...

Guyana, UAE to strengthen cooperation on climate change, food security

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, UAE to strengthen cooperation on climate change, food security

Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance technical assistance and cooperation between Guyana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....

MovieTowne Guyana to transform into spooky, haunted maze for Halloween

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on MovieTowne Guyana to transform into spooky, haunted maze for Halloween

Kaieteur News – MovieTowne Guyana will be transforming its entire Fiesta Plaza into a Haunted Maze surrounding the kids releases Addams Family 2 and Hotel Transylvania 4 for Halloween set for...

Six residents from Region Four are latest COVID-19 fatalities

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Six residents from Region Four are latest COVID-19 fatalities

Kaieteur News – Yesterday, the Ministry of Health reported that six more individuals from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) who contracted the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease have died. As a...

MARAD provides clarification on remodeling of new office

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on MARAD provides clarification on remodeling of new office

Kaieteur News – While it was initially thought that the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) is remodeling a building at its Kingstown Secretariat to house its new office, the department...

Agri. Ministry moves to expand bee removal services to residential spaces

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Agri. Ministry moves to expand bee removal services to residential spaces

– Improving national honey production also on the cards Kaieteur News – The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), an agency under the umbrella of the Ministry of Agriculture,...

Guyana Ambassador to Qatar Accredited

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Ambassador to Qatar Accredited

Kaieteur News – His Excellency Safraaz Ahmad Shadood, Guyana’s Ambassador to Qatar yesterday presented his Letter of Credence to His Excellency, Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi,...

GTT launches Fibre Education Campaign

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on GTT launches Fibre Education Campaign

– Company aims to enhance consumer knowledge on service Kaieteur News – The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) yesterday launched a major fibre education campaign aimed at giving its...

$2.5 B in flood relief grants distributed nationwide

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on $2.5 B in flood relief grants distributed nationwide

Kaieteur News – Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, has thus far distributed $2.5 billion in flood relief cash grants to farmers nationwide, to help cushion the severe impacts of...

UG’s introduces new programme – Masters in Supply Chain Management

Oct 23, 2021 KNews News Comments Off on UG’s introduces new programme – Masters in Supply Chain Management

Kaieteur News – In response to recognition of a skills gap within both the public and private sectors, the University of Guyana’s School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (SEBI) has...