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ExxonMobil Contract worse than slavery … Oil Experts say Company went above and beyond to tie the hands and feet of every Guyanese like an iguana

Feb 22, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ExxonMobil Contract worse than slavery … Oil Experts say Company went above and beyond to tie the hands and feet of every Guyanese like an iguana

When Kaieteur News examined the contracts, the oil giant, ExxonMobil signed with Guyana and compared it to the one it signed with the African country, Ghana, the disparities were alarming. In fact,...

25 Schools in Region Two Children’s Float Parade

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 25 Schools in Region Two Children’s Float Parade

Essequibians looked on with awe yesterday as the Department of Education, Region Two, rolled out its Children’s Mash Float Parade Competitions. The event had a rich blend of colour, culture and...

Contractor trailed from bank, shot in the head

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor trailed from bank, shot in the head

An electrical contractor was shot in the back of the head and robbed of $600,000 some ten minutes after leaving a Republic Bank branch at Triumph, East Coast Demerara. Terry Singh, 38, was shot by a...

GuySuCo no longer under Agri Ministry–Holder clarifies

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo no longer under Agri Ministry–Holder clarifies

Speaking to reporters, on the sidelines of the opening of the National Dialogue on the thirty-fifth Regional Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean and Accountability of the FAO’s...

Illegal foreigners in gold bush warned to get regularized

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal foreigners in gold bush warned to get regularized

The Ministry of Citizenship is granting temporary amnesty to illegal foreign national miners so that they can regularise their status in Guyana. “We are giving you a chance to come to the office in...

Rates increase application… GWI moves to write off $$$millions owed by customers

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rates increase application… GWI moves to write off $$$millions owed by customers

The second day of the public hearings into an application by state-owned Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) for increased rates got under way yesterday with the company announcing plans to sanitise its systems....

Guyana hoping it don’t get rob

Feb 22, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana hoping it don’t get rob

People always boasting how Guyana got potential. De whole country keep hearing how Guyana is a rich country because it got gold, bauxite, diamond and now it got oil. De thing dat use to mek dem boys...

Victim refuses to testify; alleged shooter walks

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Victim refuses to testify; alleged shooter walks

After being on remand for the past five months on an attempted murder charge, Kurt Kendall, 29 of Lot 477 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, had the matter against him discharged yesterday after the...

Govt. has constitutional responsibility to publish all oil related data-Dr. Hinds

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. has constitutional responsibility to publish all oil related data-Dr. Hinds

By Kiana Wilburg In the interest of transparency, the Coalition Government should publish all necessary information related to the oil and gas sector and contracts therein. This point of view was...

Couple bailed in neighbourhood policewoman’s death

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Couple bailed in neighbourhood policewoman’s death

The couple who was arrested in connection with the mysterious death of a neighbourhood policewoman has since been released on station bail from the Sister’s Police Station. According to...

Harmon taken before Legal Practitioners’ Committee

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon taken before Legal Practitioners’ Committee

A matter involving Joseph Harmon is currently before the Legal Practitioners Committee (LPC) . Harmon, who is an Attorney-at-law and current Minister of State, had been taken before the LPC over an...

NA Prison guard accused of smuggling ganja granted bail

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NA Prison guard accused of smuggling ganja granted bail

A Prison Officer who was nabbed with a quantity of marijuana and cigarettes which he was trying to smuggle into the New Amsterdam Prison, his place of employment, has been granted bail. Jamal Carter,...

Region 2 REO attempts to mislead PAC on Govt. funds spending …Engineer stops him in his tracks

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region 2 REO attempts to mislead PAC on Govt. funds spending …Engineer stops him in his tracks

Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, has been asked to investigate spending in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) after Regional Executive Officer, Rupert Hopkinson, attempted to mislead the Public Accounts...

Time to act is now!

Feb 22, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Time to act is now!

Exxon’s problems are mounting. The company is facing a litany of lawsuits over allegations that it denied knowing about the findings of climate change scientists who are contended that the oil...

GBTI contempt trial…… SOCU analyst testifies as proceeding wind down

Feb 22, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI contempt trial…… SOCU analyst testifies as proceeding wind down

The final witness in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) contempt trial yesterday commenced giving evidence before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The...

Consumers triumph

Feb 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Consumers triumph

Consumers registered 79 games to win the quarter-final of the Police Headquarters inter department dominoes competition held recently at Police Sports Club, Eve Leary. FAPC finished second on 77...

Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company, Republic Bank support RHTY&SC Annual Award

Feb 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand-in-Hand Insurance Company, Republic Bank support RHTY&SC Annual Award

The Plan by the Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS to host its 28th Annual Award Ceremony received a major boost on Thursday last when two long standing sponsors handed out...

Region 5 Community organise 10/10 Mash Cup cricket and wash down in Berbice

Feb 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Region 5 Community organise 10/10 Mash Cup cricket and wash down in Berbice

The Region 5 Community in collaboration with Innovation 360 will be staging a one day 10/10 Cricket competition for teams in Berbice. The competition is set for February Sunday at the Cotton Tree...

GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U-15 League – EBFA Top of the table clash to kick things off Saturday at Timehri Red Ground

Feb 22, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U-15 League – EBFA Top of the table clash to kick things off Saturday at Timehri Red Ground

With just a single point separating leaders Agricola Red Triangle and second placed Grove Hi Tech, the two rivals will collide in the first of four matches when match day eight of the East Bank...