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Exxon announces largest oil find to date in Stabroek block

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Exxon announces largest oil find to date in Stabroek block

Another well drilled at the offshore concessions of US-owned ExxonMobil and its partners, has struck more high quality oil. Yesterday, in separate announcements by both the Government of Guyana and...

K/News, CN Sharma, among six receiving radio licences

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on K/News, CN Sharma, among six receiving radio licences

A little more than six years after protests against the Bharrat Jagdeo government for the controversial issuance of radio licences to the former president’s close friends and party members, the new...

Cocaine, millions$$ seized in multi-region drug operation

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cocaine, millions$$ seized in multi-region drug operation

foreigner among 10 arrested It appears that the authorities have dismantled a major drug smuggling ring. A four-day operation involving several security agencies has resulted in the arrests of 10...

British fraud expert back at SOCU

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on British fraud expert back at SOCU

British fraud expert, Sam Sittlington, whose tenure ended last year, is back to help boost the capacity of the police’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU). On Tuesday, British High Commissioner,...

Trotman has taken legal gymnastics to new levels

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman has taken legal gymnastics to new levels

…breached Petroleum Exploration and Production Act – Ram Further examination of the petroleum agreement between Government and ExxonMobil continues to reveal a number of worrying discoveries....

77 percent of murders solved in 2017, ring of pirates smashed

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 77 percent of murders solved in 2017, ring of pirates smashed

but rise in carjackings alarming, says Top Cop The year 2017 was another commendable one for the Force’s investigators, with Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine announcing yesterday that...

41 foreigners arrested in raid at adult entertainment bar

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 41 foreigners arrested in raid at adult entertainment bar

More than three dozen foreigners, mostly women, were yesterday detained during an early morning raid by a joint team of law enforcement agencies at the Diamond Hotel and Bar located on George Street,...

31 cops kicked out of Force, charged in 2017

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 31 cops kicked out of Force, charged in 2017

Thirty-one members of the Guyana Police Force were dismissed and placed before the courts for various offences last year. In contrast, 26 ranks were dismissed in 2016. Acting Commissioner of Police...

Dem boys got serious travel plans

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys got serious travel plans

This life is a funny thing. People does go to places that everybody hear about but, some without even going does talk bout how this place stay and how dem ain’t like it. Dem boys travel all over de...

Lawyer questions how President’s GECOM Chair appointment can be lawful exercise of discretion

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer questions how President’s GECOM Chair appointment can be lawful exercise of discretion

The Constitution of Guyana, specifically Article 161 (2), does not give President David Granger the discretion to reject all the nominees for Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that...

MP told not to return to Parliament

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on MP told not to return to Parliament

Opposition Member of Parliament, Juan Edghill, has been served with a letter from the Parliament Office, indicating that he is suspended from attending next Wednesday’s sitting. Edghill was...

Soldier found guilty of dangerous driving

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Soldier found guilty of dangerous driving

jailed for 12 months Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday sentenced a soldier to 12 months imprisonment after finding him guilty of dangerous driving at the conclusion of the trial. Guyana...

Fire guts home of East La Penitence pensioners

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fire guts home of East La Penitence pensioners

A mid-afternoon fire yesterday gutted the home of two pensioners. The two storey structure located at 31 A Morocut Square, East La Penitence, Georgetown, is the home of 69-year old Kenneth Herbert,...

Vehicles’ emission increasing respiratory threat – says GPHC DCEO

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vehicles’ emission increasing respiratory threat – says GPHC DCEO

– efforts being made to assess Guyana’s Respiratory Therapy needs An increase in vehicles will by extension lend to an increase in exhaust emissions which, according to Deputy Chief Executive...

Repsol, CGX major sponsors for Guyana’s petroleum summit next month

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Repsol, CGX major sponsors for Guyana’s petroleum summit next month

Spanish Company Repsol Exploración Guyana, S.A. and Canadian company, CGX Energy Inc., have signed on to the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit (GIPEX 2018) – as Gold Sponsors,...

Bar owner jailed three years for trafficking 14-yr-old

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bar owner jailed three years for trafficking 14-yr-old

An East Coast Demerara (ECD) bar owner has been jailed three years for trafficking a 14-year-old for labour exploitation. According to the Ministry of Social Protection, the conviction on Thursday...

Ministry grappling to address tutor shortage

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry grappling to address tutor shortage

…as preparations are made to train another batch of nurses The country’s nursing schools, which fall under the purview of the Public Health Ministry, are currently faced with an especially...

New fume cupboard for CPCE

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New fume cupboard for CPCE

Over the last few months, several meaningful improvements have been made at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE). These include the acquisition of a fume cupboard, the increased supply of...

Guyana lost out on opportunity to have stake in oil companies – Ram

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana lost out on opportunity to have stake in oil companies – Ram

Chartered Accountant and Attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram recently pointed out that Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman missed a glorious opportunity to ensure that Guyana had a stake in...

Hampshire wedding house shooting suspects refused bail

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hampshire wedding house shooting suspects refused bail

The two suspects who surrendered to police on Thursday for the shooting of three persons at a wedding house at Hampshire Village, Corentyne, Berbice, were yesterday remanded to prison. Tameshwar...

Cultural icon Neil Chan, A.A., passes away

Jan 06, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cultural icon Neil Chan, A.A., passes away

Neil Vibert Ignatius Michael Chan died early yesterday morning after a period of illness. He was 88. He was born on November 4, 1929 to Solomon Chan and Ruby Beckles, in Georgetown, Guyana. He had...

Smith, Khawaja frustrate England in Sydney

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smith, Khawaja frustrate England in Sydney

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia captain Steve Smith continued to be England’s Ashes nemesis yesterday as he passed 6,000 test runs in an unbeaten knock of 44 to help his team to 193 for two at...

CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships round up: Fudadin hits unbeaten 61 for Scorpions, but Shiv’s fifty puts Jaguars in control

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships round up: Fudadin hits unbeaten 61 for Scorpions, but Shiv’s fifty puts Jaguars in control

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Half-centuries from left-handed openers John Campbell and Assad Fudadin led a Jamaica Scorpions fight-back but a clatter of wickets late in the day left leaders Guyana...

RFA looks to corporate support as Champions league near

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on RFA looks to corporate support as Champions league near

By Zaheer Mohamed One of the challenges that local sporting bodies have to overcome in order to host successful tournaments is the lack of sponsorship. In certain areas the lack of corporate support...

Hustler Pool competition on at GMSRC tomorrow $100,000 & Trophy Stall Trophy up for grab by Champion

Jan 06, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hustler Pool competition on at GMSRC tomorrow $100,000 & Trophy Stall Trophy up for grab by Champion

Former National U-17 Cricketer Ricardo Devers will hold a best two of three knock-out 8-ball straight Pool competition at Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMRSC) on Albert Street, Thomas Lands...

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The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more