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GRA already cashing in from embryonic oil and gas industry – Jordan

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA already cashing in from embryonic oil and gas industry – Jordan

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has already begun to collect revenues from the still developing oil and gas industry in Guyana. This fact was highlighted at a recent...

Oil will not fall victim to vicious ‘friends and family’ culture – Trotman promises

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Oil will not fall victim to vicious ‘friends and family’ culture – Trotman promises

By Kiana Wilburg The mining, forestry, and broadcasting sectors, among others, have been victims of an unscrupulous culture. It is a culture which sees the close friends and families connected to...

Sweeper/cleaners picket Education Ministry

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sweeper/cleaners picket Education Ministry

continue to demand better wages Yesterday, a number of sweeper/cleaners stood in front of the Ministry of Education’s Brickdam location to picket for better wages. The major concerns of these...

Commercial bank halts lending for home construction

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Commercial bank halts lending for home construction

As Government moves to jumpstart the once-booming housing sector, there are indications that at least one commercial bank may be saying no to applicants for construction. While the banking sector has...

Traffic ranks strip tint from 18 police vehicles

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic ranks strip tint from 18 police vehicles

“If we are taking tint off civilian vehicles, then equally police ranks (who are unauthorized) should take theirs off as well…” -Traffic Chief What’s unlawful for the civilian is...

NDC office near Police Station broken into

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on NDC office near Police Station broken into

The Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) at Grove, East Bank Demerara, located a stone’s throw away from a police station was on Monday broken into, during the wee hours of the morning. It was...

Malaysian businessman trailed from bank, robbed in café

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Malaysian businessman trailed from bank, robbed in café

Gunmen yesterday trailed a Malaysian businessman from a city bank to a café on Church Street, Georgetown where they robbed him of over one million Guyana dollars. The unmasked men robbed about seven...

Cops probe suspected hot car death of baby girl

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe suspected hot car death of baby girl

Police have questioned the relatives of a baby girl, who died at around 14.30 hrs yesterday, after being left unattended in her father’s car. The eight-month-old infant, of Greater Georgetown, was...

Plane found on illegal runway…Aircraft bears similar registration to plane owned by Brazilian bank

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Plane found on illegal runway…Aircraft bears similar registration to plane owned by Brazilian bank

The aircraft which was discovered on an illegal runway on Sunday at Santa Fe, North Rupununi bears a similar registration number to a plane owned by a bank in neighbouring Brazil, according to a...

Guyana records 92.57 percent pass rate at CAPE

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records 92.57 percent pass rate at CAPE

Government says that 851 candidates from nine secondary schools and four private institutions sat the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in May-June of 2017. Guyana achieved a 92.57%...

Three senior officers sent home as GRA continues corruption housecleaning

Aug 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Three senior officers sent home as GRA continues corruption housecleaning

It appears that the new management and Board of Directors of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) are in no mood for corruption. Following the recent sacking of a top level official of the Law...

Marriott robbing dem cleaners

Aug 16, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Marriott robbing dem cleaners

Old people got a saying. “Duck got water fun swim; fowl want it to drink.” That mean what is luxury fuh some people is a necessity fuh others. Poor people always got to suffer. Some people got to...

Warrior’s sponsor GTT gives tickets to Orphans as team visit St John’s Bosco Orphanage

Aug 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warrior’s sponsor GTT gives tickets to Orphans as team visit St John’s Bosco Orphanage

By Sean Devers GTT, sponsor of the Guyana Amazon Warriors cricket team participating in this year’s Hero CPL, presented tickets for one of Guyana’s home games at Providence to Orphans as the...

Guinness Cage / Three Peat Promotions Indoor Competition …

Aug 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness Cage / Three Peat Promotions Indoor Competition …

Which team will have its name inscribed on inaugural Guinness Cage? The pursuit of who will have their name inscribed on the championship trophy in the inaugural Guinness Cage / Three Peat Promotions...

CONCACAF Under-15 Championship in Florida, USA at the IMG Academy…Suriname defeat Guyana 3-1

Aug 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on CONCACAF Under-15 Championship in Florida, USA at the IMG Academy…Suriname defeat Guyana 3-1

Guyana lost to South American neighbor Suriname 3-1 in their second match of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association of Football (CONCACAF) Under-15 Championship at the...

MSC Open League Basketball Championship…Royals could strengthen themselves with win over Pistons, Flames look to upset Jets

Aug 16, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on MSC Open League Basketball Championship…Royals could strengthen themselves with win over Pistons, Flames look to upset Jets

Victory Valley Royals could establish themselves as one of the favoured clubs in this year’s Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Open League Basketball Championship which resumes this evening with another...

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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