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Yurong Paru gets potable water for the first time

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Yurong Paru gets potable water for the first time

Over 300 households in Yurong Paru, a small community in the South Pakaraimas in Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo (Region Nine,) are benefiting from potable water for the first time following work of the...

Mexico ups Guyana paddy quota; now taking rice too

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mexico ups Guyana paddy quota; now taking rice too

Despite the 2015 market loss with Venezuela, Guyana’s rice market is continuing to show signs of stability. This week, Mexico, an entirely new market, has agreed to continue taking more rice and...

OAI once again lies by denying state funding

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on OAI once again lies by denying state funding

Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) has once again been found misleading the public on matters relating to the development and operations of the Ogle International Airport which has been renamed the Eugene F...

Cabinet approves SPU head as new GuySuCo Chairman

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves SPU head as new GuySuCo Chairman

Government has decided to go with an entirely new board for its “right-sized” Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). Cabinet reportedly met last week with the issue of the new board brought to the...

Remaining oil blocks should be auctioned …or saved for future generations – Jagdeo

Mar 02, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Remaining oil blocks should be auctioned …or saved for future generations – Jagdeo

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, believes that another advisor should not be sourced by Government to determine how the remaining open oil blocks should be utilised. At his weekly press conference,...

Oil contract got people bolting stable and checking brain

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Oil contract got people bolting stable and checking brain

Janet Jagan dead and gone but before she lef Guyana, she sign a oil contract wid Exxon for dem to check fuh oil in Guyana waters, Dem boys see it wasn’t de best contract at de time. Some describe...

How on earth could a bankrupt municipality spend $20M on a celebration?

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on How on earth could a bankrupt municipality spend $20M on a celebration?

DEAR EDITOR, The very thought that the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown (M&CC) is even considering splurging twenty million dollars on itself under the guise that it is hosting a...

The Black Experience

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Black Experience

DEAR EDITOR, A recent letter about the “European slavery of black Africans” brought to mind my visit a few years ago to Portugal, with a week’s stay on the coast of Lagos,...

The road to the ‘good life’ has become muddy

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The road to the ‘good life’ has become muddy

DEAR EDITOR, Public figures, especially politicians, are always in the public eye. The manner in which they conduct themselves is used as a tool to measure the level of respect and concern they have...

This individual’s misguided claim of collusion and drawback is ludicrous

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This individual’s misguided claim of collusion and drawback is ludicrous

DEAR EDITOR, It is with shock and horror that I read a letter to the editor dated 1st March 2018 captioned ‘The judging was stacked’ in Kaieteur News by one D. Browne, where the writer pointed...

Retired Crime Scene rank recalls helping to remove bones, skulls from Lindo Creek -father of slain miner weeps on stand,

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Retired Crime Scene rank recalls helping to remove bones, skulls from Lindo Creek -father of slain miner weeps on stand,

A retired Crime Scene detective recounted removing a tarpaulin of bones, skulls and other human remains from Lindo Creek, Upper Berbice, while the father of one of the slain miners wept on the stand...

Venezuelan NGO wants best team to present case to World Court

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Venezuelan NGO wants best team to present case to World Court

DEAR EDITOR, The Venezuelan non-governmental organization (NGO), Citizen Control, specializing in national defence issues, has accused the government of abandoning the claim to Guyana’s Essequibo...

Court uphold no case submission for 2015 Christmas Day murder

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Court uphold no case submission for 2015 Christmas Day murder

The murder trial of Mark Trevor Greaves, came to an abrupt end yesterday after a no- case submission by Defence Attorney, George Thomas was upheld by the Court. Greaves was accused of fatally...

WBCA/Benz Entertainment T20 Wins for Achievers, Cotton Tree, Young Guns and D’ Edward

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on WBCA/Benz Entertainment T20 Wins for Achievers, Cotton Tree, Young Guns and D’ Edward

Achievers, Cotton Tree Die Hard, Young Guns and D’ Edward registered victories when the West Berbice Cricket Association Benz Entertainment T20 Tournament bowled off on Sunday last. At Bush Lot,...

Linden’s Torpedo Swim Club Coach Chung-Phillips calls for corporate backing

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden’s Torpedo Swim Club Coach Chung-Phillips calls for corporate backing

By Zaheer Mohamed Mary Chung-Phillips, Coach of the Torpedo Swim Club which is based in Linden said there is a need corporate support as she aims to take the sport to another level in the Bauxite...

Rose Hall Town Jammers B’ball club to host UG Trojans tomorrow

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rose Hall Town Jammers B’ball club to host UG Trojans tomorrow

The Rose Hall Town Jammers Basketball Club, based at Rose Hall Town in the Ancient County would be hosting the University of Guyana Trojans Team for a two-game series tomorrow. A release from the...

Haywood to host birth anniversary dominoes on Sunday

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Haywood to host birth anniversary dominoes on Sunday

Nicole Haywood will be hosting her birth anniversary dominoes competition on Sunday at Turning Point Sports Club, Tucville. Entrance fee is $12,000 and action gets underway at 14:00hrs. The winning...

Diamond Upsetters receive equipment boost from Ralph Green

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Upsetters receive equipment boost from Ralph Green

Sponsor of the East Bank Football Association Under-11 League, USA based Ralph Green on Tuesday evening last made a presentation of equipment to the Diamond Upsetters Football Club at the Diamond...

GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U15 League – West Demerara FA Combined Team and Wales triumph

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U15 League – West Demerara FA Combined Team and Wales triumph

When the West Demerara Football Association leg of the GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U15 Intra Association League continued on Saturday last at the Wales Community Centre Ground, registering wins...

Indian Govt. to complete Palmyra monument – Norton -investigations find geo-technical studies were not done

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Indian Govt. to complete Palmyra monument – Norton -investigations find geo-technical studies were not done

The Indian Arrival Monument that collapsed a few months ago at Palmyra is set to be completed for May 5, 2018. This was announced by the Minister of Social Cohesion Dr. George Norton at a recent...

Guyana, Haiti forging closer relations

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Haiti forging closer relations

On Tuesday, Second Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, and his Haitian counterpart, Antonio Rodrigue, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Cooperative...

E’bo rice farmers appealing for higher paddy prices

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo rice farmers appealing for higher paddy prices

Rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast are once again appealing for an increase in the price being paid per bag of paddy. This plea was yesterday made when farmers met with representatives from the...

US$31M Sheriff/Mandela expansion to start this month

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US$31M Sheriff/Mandela expansion to start this month

The Government of Guyana will be forging ahead with the US$31.03M Sheriff Street-Mandela Avenue Road Enhancement Project and works are scheduled to commence this month, March 2018. According to the...

Burnham was man living in the past

Mar 02, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Burnham was man living in the past

Burnham was an autocrat before the 1980 Constitution. The source of his autocracy was not any latitude which was accorded to him by the Independence Constitution but because of his rigging of...

Hope in times of nutritional crisis

Mar 02, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Hope in times of nutritional crisis

By José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director General Rising hunger and out-of-control obesity, degradation of natural resources, persistent rural poverty and inequality and climate change. These are the...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

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