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State Assets Recovery Bill ready for consultations

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on State Assets Recovery Bill ready for consultations

-Will be empowered to recover stolen assets hidden any part of the world – Makes provisions for establishment of Recovery of State Assets fund By Kiana Wilburg After months of preparation, the...

Gold declarations likely to spike beyond 600,000 oz this year – Trotman

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gold declarations likely to spike beyond 600,000 oz this year – Trotman

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman, when he appeared before the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Natural Resources, told committee members that gold declarations for...

Exxon Mobil seeking to drill third well – Country Manager

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon Mobil seeking to drill third well – Country Manager

– Associated natural gas to be stored until viable purpose is identified Jeff Simons, the Country Manager for Exxon Mobil, yesterday told the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Natural...

Focus on advocating for better education, infrastructure – Harmon tells Jagdeo

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Focus on advocating for better education, infrastructure – Harmon tells Jagdeo

…don’t separate communities along racial lines Following statements by Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo in Queens, New York, of an “assault on people of Indian origin”, Minister of...

Blackbush triple murder victims laid to rest

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Blackbush triple murder victims laid to rest

As detectives continue to investigate the brutal shooting to death of two men and a teenage boy in the Blackbush Polder area, the victims were yesterday laid to rest. The funeral attracted a large...

Jagdeo like trouble

Jul 28, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo like trouble

Dem have a saying. Duck got water to bathe; fowl want it to drink. Dem boys got a country and while people doesn’t always get along wid each other at least dem learn to live together. But dem...

President Granger meets with National Defence University team

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger meets with National Defence University team

President David Granger met with a visiting Capstone team of students from the United States’ National Defence University’s General and Flag Officer Course, yesterday, at the Ministry of...

APNU+AFC practising systemic racial, political discrimination —Gail Teixiera

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC practising systemic racial, political discrimination —Gail Teixiera

In wake of the recent remarks by former President and Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, that the APNU-AFC government is maliciously targeting Indo-Guyanese, member of the...

GPL upgrade contract… Track record must be considered before evaluators pick contractors – Harmon

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPL upgrade contract… Track record must be considered before evaluators pick contractors – Harmon

Minister of State Joseph Harmon is of the view that a contractor’s track record must be an important consideration when evaluations are done. There are contractors performing substandard works...

Supenaam Stelling suffers ‘major damage’ boat collision

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Supenaam Stelling suffers ‘major damage’ boat collision

Members of the Transport and Harbours Department were on Wednesday conducting a technical assessment on the Good Hope/Supenaam Ferry Stelling which suffered “major damage” Tuesday night....

New air service to operate between Suriname, Guyana and Barbados

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New air service to operate between Suriname, Guyana and Barbados

Guyanese in Suriname and those who wish to visit Barbados now have an additional option in airline travel. “Fly All Ways”, a Suriname airline, has been granted approval by the Government of...

Venezuelans entering Guyana must observe legal process – Foreign Affairs Minister

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News 1

Responding to questions about provisions for Venezuelans seeking refuge in Guyana amidst that country’s growing economic crisis, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, said yesterday that...

Drop in Centre fire… Poor management, lack of policies led to deaths – Harmon

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Drop in Centre fire… Poor management, lack of policies led to deaths – Harmon

Preliminary findings into the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the fire that killed two young brothers at the Hadfield Street Drop In Centre, have revealed that there was a lack of fire prevention...

Emancipation activities planned for New Amsterdam

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation activities planned for New Amsterdam

As Emancipation Day draws nearer, a number of activities have been planned by various groups and organisations throughout Guyana. One such activity is planned for Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, where...

Boat engine stolen from health boat

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Boat engine stolen from health boat

The police are conducting their investigations into a report of an engine that was stolen from a boat which is used to transport high risk cases out of Mashabo, an Amerindian community situated some...

Mason refused bail for drug trafficking

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mason refused bail for drug trafficking

A 32-year-old mason was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, after he denied a drug trafficking charge, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Lennox...

Caroline Marline Benn dies at 102

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Caroline Marline Benn dies at 102

Caroline Marline Benn, of Nurney Village, Corentyne, the woman who celebrated her 100th birthday at a gala celebration on August 16, back in 2014, has died. The woman passed away peacefully at her...

NPG Packaging & Plastic Inc sponsor 20/20 cricket competition in Upper Corentyne $100,000 & trophy first prize on offer

Jul 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on NPG Packaging & Plastic Inc sponsor 20/20 cricket competition in Upper Corentyne $100,000 & trophy first prize on offer

Cricket is expected to return to the Upper Corentyne area in a big way. This is through the kind courtesy of the NPG Packaging and Plastic Inc of Wellington Park, Corentyne, Berbice. The multipurpose...

Yellow fever vaccines depleted…Ministry only facilitating doses for travel to Africa – CMO

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Yellow fever vaccines depleted…Ministry only facilitating doses for travel to Africa – CMO

“We do not operate a travel service,” said Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, of the rush by many individuals to the Ministry of Public Health and other sites, to secure Yellow...

Boat engine stolen from health boat

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Boat engine stolen from health boat

I am calling on all Guyanese to help Venezuelan refugees

Jul 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

Guyana is a signatory to the international treaty on refugees making it obligatory to accept refugees. Because of such a treaty then, I am wondering if we erred when we charged fourteen Venezuelans...

Police help former colleague secure prosthetic leg

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police help former colleague secure prosthetic leg

Over the last few years the police have been showing that they are not only about arresting, charging and prosecuting people, but there are other sides of their activity that would help to make the...

Cops issue bulletin for Belle West murder suspect

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops issue bulletin for Belle West murder suspect

The Guyana Police Force has issued a bulletin for Anthony Jhagroo, who is wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Yogeshwar Shivcharran, who died on July, 10 last—days after he was...

Bullet riddled bodies at Berbice… Farmer, son, workers executed trio after victims caught them stealing fuel

Jul 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bullet riddled bodies at Berbice… Farmer, son, workers executed trio after victims caught them stealing fuel

By Michael Jordan Pawan Chandradeo, Naresh Rooplall and 15-year-old Jaikarran Chandradeo were killed execution-style, because they had accidentally stumbled on a gang of thieves making off with drums...

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

Jul 28, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TIMING IS EVERYTHING

In politics as in war, timing is always important. But timing is everything. Those who choose the right time to do things are almost certain of success or victory. Choosing the wrong time could...

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Land, taxes and penalties

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more