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Nation without monthly oil production reports – Ram

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – Thirteen months into oil production, the nation should be receiving monthly updates on the status of oil production in the Stabroek Block, and other details. ExxonMobil is...

Former Ministers Patterson and Ferguson received over $6.7M in gifts from Harbour Bridge, other agencies

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

– included bed, iPads, computers and jewellery Kaieteur News had reported that former Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson, had received from the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation...

Patterson should be removed as PAC Chair immediately – Edghill

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – In light of former Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson’s involvement in the multi-million dollar gift-buying scandal, Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill, has...

Courtney Benn sued for over $400M for breaching St. Rose’s High School contract

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, has brought litigation on behalf of the State against Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited, suing the...

Organ Donor Transplant Bill to be ready early May 2021 – AG Chambers

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall S.C., has met with members of the Guyana Medical Council and Dr. Kishore Persaud, the Head of Department, Multi-Organ Transplant and...

Biden’s Govt. would be more amenable to review of Stabroek block deal

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

– Guyana’s Fmr. Petroleum Advisor Kaieteur News – With the swearing in of the United States President, Joe Biden, and Vice President, Kamala Harris, expectations are that there will be...

Bogus CANU officer deteined for trying to arrest man

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – A man posing as a Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) rank was arrested yesterday after he was caught trying to arrest a man for narcotics. While police have not officially...

Oil sector to endure another year in the doldrums x

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

– Guyana’s Fmr. Petroleum Advisor By Kiana Wilburg Kaieteur News – In spite of the unprecedented economic peril that was brought upon the oil industry with the COVID-19 pandemic, there...

Frank talking slow while de virus moving fast!

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists 0

Dem boys seh… Kaieteur News – People dying like rice in America and de UK. In Uncle Sam, two people falling dead every minute from COVID and in de UK, a person dying every minute. Is like...

Cash-cow for cronies or a money spinner for citizens?

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 0

Kaieteur News – Today, I examine the criticisms that the gas-to-shore (GTS) project lacks transparency. The fact that information about the project is absent does not mean that it is not...

The big, big lie of 2020 is about to become the truth of 2021

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0

Kaieteur News – I had many friends among the African-Guyanese race when I was a radical activist in the era of the presidencies of Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar. Many of those friends were...

Govt. yet to receive $72M worth of mobile scales that were procured in 2016

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

– Public Works’ PS says supplier unreachable Kaieteur News – Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), during a meeting, were on Tuesday told that three mobile scales costing some...

COVID-19 cases surpass 7,000

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – Guyana has surpassed 7,000 COVID-19 cases. This development was made public by the Ministry of Health which announced yesterday that there were 65 new cases of the virus. The...

Father of two killed in two-car collision in Berbice

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – A father of two is now dead and several others injured after the cars, which they were in collided on the No. 23 Public Road, West Coast Berbice. Dead is 29-year-old Andre...

76 medical professionals set to graduate from GPHC’s post grad. progs.

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Despite COVID-19 restrictions… Kaieteur News – Despite the challenges of operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, 76 medical professionals have successfully completed post-graduate programmes...

Boxing Day accident at LBI… Drunk driver gets three charges

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – A 47-year-old man, who struck down Akeem Fernandes, 25, with his motor car last Boxing Day while intoxicated, was yesterday slapped with three charges when he appeared at the...

Installation of drainage pumps for flood prone areas to be completed by next month – Agri. Minister

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – Drainage pumps procured last year through a US$4M Line of Credit from India are currently in the final stages of installation. This is according to information released by the...

Effects of school closure for another year can last for generations – UNICEF’s Executive Director

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – If schools are closed for another year, the effects will be felt for generations to come according to the Executive Director of the United Nations International Children’s...

Linden woman fined for calling another a “crass”

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – A woman was on Tuesday fined after she pleaded guilty to telling another woman “she is a f*&@king crass.” The woman, Michelle Daniels, 47, of Wisroc Housing Scheme,...

Singh’s XI beat Johnson’s XI by 6 wickets Coach Crandon disappointed with batsmen

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Sports 0

Kaieteur News – On a slow spin-friendly LBI track, left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie befuddled a Leon Johnson’s XI batting line which raised concerns as they head into next month’s Regional...

Former AG claims bias, wants Judge to recuse self from hearing libel case filed by Nandlall

Jan 21, 2021 KNews News 0

Kaieteur News – An application has been filed in the High Court by former Attorney General, Basil Williams, S.C., for Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to be recused from a libel case brought...

Aliann Pompey Invitational returns on June 19

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Sports 0

Kaieteur News – Five months remain before the National Track and Field Center (NTFC) becomes a hive of activity for the 2021 edition of the Aliann Pompey Invitational (API) and the organisers...

Pharmacy of the world

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Editorial 0

Kaieteur News – Many Guyanese are worried about when this country will get its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. It does not matter which firm the shipment comes from, be it Pfizer or...

Gold is Money claim Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes title

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Sports 0

Kaieteur News – Gold is Money were crowned champions of the Mark Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes competition which culminated on Sunday last at Turning Point. Golf is Money took an early...

The 1980 Guyana Constitution lacks the very ingredients of constitutional morality

Jan 21, 2021 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your Editorial, titled, “Constitutional Reform, Again” dated January 20, 2021, which was read with interest. Of note, I wish to refer to my article in your...

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The big, big lie of 2020 is about to become the truth of 2021

Kaieteur News – I had many friends among the African-Guyanese race when I was a radical activist in the era of the... more

Cash-cow for cronies or a money spinner for citizens?

Kaieteur News – Today, I examine the criticisms that the gas-to-shore (GTS) project lacks transparency. The fact that... more