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Unions, Govt. agree to cooperate on finding solutions to sugar woes

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Unions, Govt. agree to cooperate on finding solutions to sugar woes

-46 percent of workers likely to be paid full severance by month-end President David Granger and members of Cabinet yesterday met with the President and members of the Guyana Agricultural and General...

Banks DIH confident in tax write-off case against GRA

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH confident in tax write-off case against GRA

Beverage giant, Banks DIH Limited, is confident it has a solid case against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). The case filed in April last year is still engaging the High Court’s attention, and...

Beheading of Guyanese in Venezuela… National Toshaos Council appeals for Govt. investigation

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News 1

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) yesterday appealed to the Government to investigate the recent torture and beheading of a young Indigenous Guyanese in Venezuela. “The National Toshaos Council...

Child rapist gets life sentence

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Child rapist gets life sentence

Thirty-eight year-old Ganesh Chaitram was yesterday sentenced in his absence to life imprisonment, convicted of rape by a mixed 12 member jury. Chaitram, who had been released on bail, absconded from...

ExxonMobil, others to submit list of human resource needs for looming oil industry – CTVET

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil, others to submit list of human resource needs for looming oil industry – CTVET

Oil operators such as ExxonMobil and REPSOL Exploration are expected to put together a list of the human resource needs they would have for Guyana’s upcoming oil and gas industry. This list is...

Guyana’s oil needs minimum refining – Trotman

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s oil needs minimum refining – Trotman

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has indicated that Guyana’s oil is of top quality. He even boasted that the crude needs minimum refining. This, the...

NGO advocates for introduction of Sex Offenders Registry

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NGO advocates for introduction of Sex Offenders Registry

Calls are being made for the establishment of a Sexual Offenders Registry. Essentially a Sex Offenders Registry is a system in various countries designed to allow government authorities to keep track...

487 students participating in re-introduced National Cadet Corps

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 487 students participating in re-introduced National Cadet Corps

Four hundred and eighty-seven students from six schools across Guyana – North Ruimveldt Multilateral, Stewartville Secondary, Hope Secondary, Berbice Secondary, St. Ignatius Secondary and the...

70 yrs. for wedding house killer

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 70 yrs. for wedding house killer

Justice Navindra Singh sentenced an unrepentant Rajesh Guyadeen to 70 years in jail for the murder of Nandran Manohar, called Nando, which occurred on May 4, 2003, at Lancaster, Mahaica, East Coast...

A judge could mess up yuh life

Jan 20, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on A judge could mess up yuh life

Some people does do things without thinking. Some of dem does behave like wild animal. It see meat and it know that a trap deh somewhere, but after a while it stop thinking and only seeing de meat....

WPA defends GuySuCo’s restructuring

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on WPA defends GuySuCo’s restructuring

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has broken its silence on the restructuring of the country’s sugar industry…it fully supports the process. The party, which is part of A Partnership...

Passage of whistleblower legislation highlights plight of transferred nurse

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Passage of whistleblower legislation highlights plight of transferred nurse

Thursday’s passage of the Protected Disclosures Bill has raised the issue about the alleged retaliatory treatment meted out to persons who previously sought to blow the lid on wrongdoing and...

Completed Timehri airport will boast new local artwork

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Completed Timehri airport will boast new local artwork

The restoration and conservation of murals and artwork created by renowned Guyanese artist, Aubrey Williams, will be integrated into the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC)’s...

Motorists urged to use Vlissengen Rd./ Carifesta Avenue junction with caution

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Motorists urged to use Vlissengen Rd./ Carifesta Avenue junction with caution

Coordinator for the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Works Services Group (WSG), Geoffrey Vaughn, has described as baseless, claims that non-functioning traffic lights make key intersections...

Guyana, Brazil seek to establish bilateral health committee

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Brazil seek to establish bilateral health committee

The first steps towards the establishment of a bilateral committee to address the strengthening of health services between Guyana and Brazil were taken yesterday, with talks between Ministers of...

House approves $1.93B for GuySuCo workers’ severance pay

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on House approves $1.93B for GuySuCo workers’ severance pay

The industrious workers attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation can breathe a sigh of relief as the Committee of Supply of the National Assembly yesterday approved $1.93B to clear off severance...

Ex-cop, alleged accomplice remanded for series of robberies

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop, alleged accomplice remanded for series of robberies

An ex-police officer and a construction worker who were reportedly captured on closed circuit television cameras gun- butting a miner and robbing him of several gold chains, were yesterday remanded...

Police constable charged for raping underage girl

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police constable charged for raping underage girl

A Police constable was yesterday released on $250,000 bail after being charged for the rape of a 15-year-old girl. Twenty-one-year-old Jamal Whyte, of 74 Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown, appeared...

From phone-snatching teen to murder suspect… Youth ID’d in shooting death of Kaneville resident

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on From phone-snatching teen to murder suspect… Youth ID’d in shooting death of Kaneville resident

From snatching a cell phone at age 17, a Diamond Housing Scheme youth now seems to have gravitated to armed robbery and murder. The youth, now 20, has been implicated in the murder of Kanevlle...

Vendors refuse to evacuate unsafe Charity Wharf

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vendors refuse to evacuate unsafe Charity Wharf

The deplorable state of the Charity Wharf has been an issue of pressing concern to regional officials of Region Two [Pomeroon/Supenaam]. As the wharf continues to lean towards the Pomeroon River,...

Cops awaiting legal advice from DPP in Pomeroon fatal shooting

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cops awaiting legal advice from DPP in Pomeroon fatal shooting

Detectives probing the deaths of coconut farmers, Ambrose Baharally and Martin Godette, at Pomeroon on Sunday, wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday, seeking legal advice on...

GDF ranks foil teens’ death plunge near Kingston

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GDF ranks foil teens’ death plunge near Kingston

Ranks from the Guyana Defence Coast Guard unit yesterday saved two teens from plunging to their deaths in the Demerara River. A release stated that at around 15.00 hours, a GDF Coast Guard rank,...

PPP ‘changes position’, supports private investment in closed sugar estates

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PPP ‘changes position’, supports private investment in closed sugar estates

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has changed its approach and will support the privatization of four estates controlled by the National...

Online abuse reporting system launched

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Online abuse reporting system launched

Report Abuse Guyana [www.reportabusegy.com] is a new website that has been introduced to allow persons to report incidents of abuse. Although the website is one that was initially intended to allow...

Lands released for Marudi Mountain gold miners

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Lands released for Marudi Mountain gold miners

After weeks of uneasiness, Government believes that it has done enough to diffuse what has been an escalating situation. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, together with the Guyana...

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The Opposition is engaged in self-sabotage

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