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Four new Senior Counsel identified

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Four new Senior Counsel identified

Having considered their quality of service to the legal profession, and knowledge of the law, President David Granger, has identified four long-serving legal practitioners for the status of Senior...

Guyana deserves higher share of oil profit

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana deserves higher share of oil profit

– IMF recommends revision of PSA framework By Kiana Wilburg The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that Guyana has with ExxonMobil is fraught with opportunities for abuse. In fact, these very...

$40.7M allocated for special swing doors at GPHC

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $40.7M allocated for special swing doors at GPHC

Several special purpose swing doors are to be purchased and installed for operating theatres at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) at a cost of $40.7 million. The procurement process started...

GRA, SOCU, SARA, FIU to step up cooperation in 2018-Statia

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA, SOCU, SARA, FIU to step up cooperation in 2018-Statia

By Kiana Wilburg The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has made a number of significant achievements in the last two years, and the plans going forward are guaranteed to increase the quality of its...

Drunken man jumps to death from overhead walk-way

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken man jumps to death from overhead walk-way

A drunken hospital patient, who claimed that he was seeing “an invisible man,” jumped to his death after making his way to the top of the newly-erected overhead walk-way near the Diamond, East...

Woman, 98, hate Guyana politicians

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Woman, 98, hate Guyana politicians

Sunday around every part of de world is a family and rest day. It is also a day for de religious homes…mandir, masjid and church. Today is de last Sunday in 2017 and of course everybody heading to...

GFF Super-16 Classic…GDF and Grove Hi-Tech to contest final

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super-16 Classic…GDF and Grove Hi-Tech to contest final

Grove Hi-Tech who are no strangers to tasting victory in year-end football tournaments after winning the then Stag Beer cup on January 1st, 2015 and 2016, continued their fairytale run in the...

Former GCF President and baker extraordinaire ‘George’ Humphrey laid to rest

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Former GCF President and baker extraordinaire ‘George’ Humphrey laid to rest

By Franklin Wilson A packed Brickdam Cathedral – Church of the Immaculate Conception which included Ministers of Legal Affairs/Attorney General and Public Health, Basil Williams and Volda...

Oronoque Slingez FC through to next round

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Oronoque Slingez FC through to next round

The Matarkai Sports committee 2nd annual floodlights street football began with a bang at Oronoque Tarmac on Boxing Day as defending champions Citrus Grove Young Gunners lost their game to the...

Inclement weather forces postponement of two horse race meets in Berbice

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inclement weather forces postponement of two horse race meets in Berbice

The inclement weather has forced the organisers if the Guyana Cup rematch horserace meet, set for today at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima, Park, West Coast Berbice, to cancel the event. With...

Penalty Shootout and King Domino competition on Today

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Penalty Shootout and King Domino competition on Today

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee (STSC) and New Level Sports Bar is set to host Penalty Shootout and King Domino one-day competitions at Sadam Place, located at 8 Dennis Street Sophia,...

Crashing new vehicle leads to dangerous driving charge

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Crashing new vehicle leads to dangerous driving charge

The ‘B’ Division, Berbice rank who was the first to cause damage to the newly donated vehicles by the Government of China was charged with dangerous driving earlier this month, according to the...

Guyanese Microbiologist is 2018 Entrepreneur Laureate

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Microbiologist is 2018 Entrepreneur Laureate

The 2018’s Entrepreneur Laureate of the Caribbean is Guyanese Entrepreneur and Microbiologist, William Andrew Boyle. Boyle is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Eureka Medical...

Massy Holdings strengthens relations with ExxonMobil

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Massy Holdings strengthens relations with ExxonMobil

after-tax profit dips 23 per cent Massy Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries is reporting profit after tax of $412 million for the year ended September 30, 2017, according to the Trinidad Guardian...

In wake of incessant rainfall… Health Ministry puts public on high alert

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on In wake of incessant rainfall… Health Ministry puts public on high alert

Guyana in recent years has had to battle with mosquito-borne diseases the likes of Zika, Chikungunya, and for and even longer time span, dengue. These diseases are spread by the Aedes Aegypti...

Austin’s Book Store names winners in back to school promotion

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Austin’s Book Store names winners in back to school promotion

Promise Firi of 204 D’Andrade Street, Newtown, was named the first prize winner when Austin’s Book Services and School Supplies held the drawing of its back-to-school promotion yesterday. Firi...

Lab technician, photographer robbed in separate incidents

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lab technician, photographer robbed in separate incidents

A 41-year-old laboratory technician and a 37-year-old photographer were robbed of their personal belongings by two gunmen on Thursday and Friday. Around 14:00 hrs on Thursday, the lab technician,...

GTT staff takes Xmas cheer to children in Lombard St.

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTT staff takes Xmas cheer to children in Lombard St.

Over 40 children from the Lombard and Broad Streets, Charlestown community had Christmas cheer taken to them through the recent presentation of gifts donated by the staff of GTT. The gift-giving...

The Story within the Story… Of oil contracts, 2017 and a new year

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story… Of oil contracts, 2017 and a new year

By Leonard Gildarie This would be our last engagement for the year. It has been a roller-coaster one and as we enter a brand new one tomorrow, it will be filled with hopes, but from all indications,...

Interesting Creatures… Waved Albatross [Phoebastria irrorata]

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… Waved Albatross [Phoebastria irrorata]

The waved albatross [Phoebastria irrorata], also known as Galapagos albatross, is the only member of the family Diomedeidae located in the tropics. When they forage, they follow a straight path to a...

ImmigrationINFO: How to Extend my Visit in the U.S.

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO: How to Extend my Visit in the U.S.

By Attorney Gail Seeram In certain situations, when you travel to the United States on a tourist visa (B-1/B-2) you may want to extend your stay. As a B-1/B-2 tourist visa...

Enmore Association of New York spreads holiday merriment

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Enmore Association of New York spreads holiday merriment

For the 16th year in succession, the Enmore Association of New York (EANY) feted hundreds of children and elderly folks to a grand Christmas lunch and party at Enmore, East Coast Demerara. The more...

Sueria Manufacturing Inc. gives back to mothers and their newborns

Dec 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sueria Manufacturing Inc. gives back to mothers and their newborns

During December, local manufacturing company, Sueria Manufacturing Inc, distributed Maia baby diapers, baby wipes and other branded items to new born babies and their moms in hope that the donations...

Book Review… A multilayered model for learning

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… A multilayered model for learning

Leadership for Success: The Jamaican School Experience Editors: Disraeli M. Hutton and Beverly Johnson Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby ‘Leadership for Success: The Jamaica School Experience’ offers...

End-of-year rituals and that ‘Auld Lang Syne’ feeling

Dec 31, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on End-of-year rituals and that ‘Auld Lang Syne’ feeling

By Dennis Nichols Here’s something to think about! Our 365-day year peaks with church-going and merry-making on December 31, just before it fades into history. And it reinvents itself one second...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more