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Marriott almost taken over by Republic Bank last year

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 1

-loan payments halved after renegotiations The Marriott Hotel in Kingston, controlled by Government, was on the verge of being taken over by Republic Bank Trinidad last year because of non-payments....

Another court case filed to put ExxonMobil US$18M signing bonus in Consolidated Fund

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 3

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Further litigation to force the transfer of the US$18M signing bonus into the consolidated fund has been brought against the APNU+AFC Government. An application to this...

Ogle Airport misleads lessees, nation on master lease renegotiation

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 1

Ogle Airport Inc. (OAI) is on record as telling Kaieteur News that its Master Lease is currently being reviewed by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission. The intention, OAI says, is to extend the...

$3.2M in posters for Bartica waterfront project raises eyebrows

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on $3.2M in posters for Bartica waterfront project raises eyebrows

It was announced last year that major transformative works will be done to improve Bartica, a riverfront community up the Essequibo River that is considered a key gateway to the hinterland. The...

Teen electrocuted by fallen wire

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teen electrocuted by fallen wire

Seventeen-year-old Vevik Bridegmohan of Alliance, Canal #2, West Bank Demerara, was electrocuted on Sunday afternoon when a power line fell on him while he was talking with a friend not too far from...

PM Nagamootoo for heart bypass surgery today

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PM Nagamootoo for heart bypass surgery today

– will miss AFC Exec. Meeting ahead of Cummingsburg Accord review Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is expected to undergo heart bypass surgery today at a medical institution in the United States...

Porter fatally stabbed by ‘drinking buddy’ over alleged relationship

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Porter fatally stabbed by ‘drinking buddy’ over alleged relationship

A 30-year-old porter of Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, is now dead after a drinking session turned sour. According to the police, the victim was accused of having an affair with the wife of the...

Rates increase application… Consumer reps demand GWI financials be examined first

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rates increase application… Consumer reps demand GWI financials be examined first

It was supposed to be a routine application for an across-the-board increase for tariffs by the state-owned Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) to the regulator, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). But it was...

Cop accused of raping Special Constable at city hotel

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News 1

Police are investigating one of their own for an alleged rape at a city hotel. According to the police yesterday, they are probing a report of rape committed on an 18-year-old Special Constable. The...

Exxon and GO-Invest panty showing

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Exxon and GO-Invest panty showing

Pizza does always confuse dem boys. It does come in a square box, yet when yuh open de box it round. And when yuh start eating is a triangle. Life and people just like a pizza. Look different, appear...

“Why I have to go through this over and over?”

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “Why I have to go through this over and over?”

– Murder accused “Grey Boy” asks after committed to stand trial Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday complied with the order of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and...

Insurance companies accused of forcing customers to declare political affiliation

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Insurance companies accused of forcing customers to declare political affiliation

-PPP calls for swift action to stop unconstitutional practice The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday said it has noted a new, unconstitutional, imposition where Guyanese applying for...

GBTI contempt trial… Final witness to testify on Feb. 21

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI contempt trial… Final witness to testify on Feb. 21

The trial involving eight high ranking officials of the board of Directors of Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) who are before the court for failing to comply with a production order is...

Ministry collaborates to improve procurement and information systems capacity

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry collaborates to improve procurement and information systems capacity

Deliberate moves have been set in motion by Government to improve the procurement and information systems capacity of the Ministry of Public Health. In this regard, Government has announced that it...

500 miles of roadway by 2025

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 500 miles of roadway by 2025

… With help of public/private partnerships – Minister Patterson Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has promised legislation this year to facilitate Government pursuing...

A country cannot be a democracy without having a heart and soul

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

Government’s petroleum advisor, Dr. Jan Mangal warns that the people should not let politicians decide all by themselves how the oil industry is managed. His words on the involvement of the people...

The audit provisions in Exxon’s contract are too restrictive

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The audit provisions in Exxon’s contract are too restrictive

The Exxon Agreement is one which provides for cost recovery. Exxon’s investment in producing oil will have to be recovered from the sale of oil. Since it is Exxon and its contractors which will be...

10 Barbadian companies exploring opportunities in Guyana

Feb 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 10 Barbadian companies exploring opportunities in Guyana

Ten new Barbadian manufacturers and services exporters are exploring trade and market opportunities in Guyana. Those participating in this exploratory mission are all recent graduates of the Barbados...

GWI bills us for our neighbour’s consumption

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on GWI bills us for our neighbour’s consumption

Editor, From the beginning of 2013 we have been paying the GWI bills and now that the meter readers have come and noticed that we are not using large amounts of water but our bills are coming...

Rescind that oil contract

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rescind that oil contract

Dear Mr Editor, Please allow me space in your column to pen this letter with utmost disgust. I’m no politician, university graduate or a scholar, just someone with basic common sense and...

A most dysfunctional school

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A most dysfunctional school

Editor, I wish to bring to your attention the things that have been happening at a Mahaica Nursery School. For the past years the Headmistress (HM) seems to think she is above all; she does what she...

That Farnum playground has an impressive history

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on That Farnum playground has an impressive history

Dear Editor, The Farnum playground in Subryanville, Georgetown, was once the nursery for the Packer Cricket Club. It was right there that the organisation formed. The ground was cared for by the...

What caused the name change

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on What caused the name change

Dear Editor, I note Nowrang Persaud’s letter on Saturday 3rd February, 2018 to your paper. I hope he would allow me to slightly correct some of the information he offered. The ‘Breakfast...

Why was President Granger absent?

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why was President Granger absent?

Dear Editor, I watched the news reports pertaining to the recently held Oil and Gas Summit at the Marriott Hotel last week and could not help but notice the absence of our Head of State, President...

Centennial for two outstanding men

Feb 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Centennial for two outstanding men

Dear Editor, This year marks the birth centenary of two outstanding men of history, the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Mr. Nelson Mandela both of whom were born in the year 1918 in the months of March and...

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Jagdeo’s idea of transparency

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Transparency, as conceived by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, seems to be a peculiar exercise... more