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Govt. fails to negotiate signing bonuses with oil companies – “Even the ExxonMobil money is just a legal fund”- Ram

Mar 27, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Govt. fails to negotiate signing bonuses with oil companies – “Even the ExxonMobil money is just a legal fund”- Ram

Guyana has not been able to secure signing bonuses on any of Petroleum Sharing Agreements (PSA) that the governments signed with oil companies, except for ExxonMobil. Guyana has standing PSAs with...

Three captured after cutlass robbery on horse cart vendor

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Three captured after cutlass robbery on horse cart vendor

Prompt action by ranks from the Leonora Police Station yesterday led to the capture of three bandits who, at around 10am yesterday, beat and robbed 71-year-old Neil Persaud, known as Kala, of...

Goldfields insists local content footprint has met requirements – company steams ahead with US$600M expansion to underground mining

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Goldfields insists local content footprint has met requirements – company steams ahead with US$600M expansion to underground mining

Canadian-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc./Aurora Gold Mine (AGM) is insisting that it has fulfilled its part of the agreement with the people of Guyana, even surpassing projections of its footprint in...

Govt. living quarters… Deduct $$ from salaries for employees refusing to pay rent – Accountant General

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. living quarters… Deduct $$ from salaries for employees refusing to pay rent – Accountant General

There are moves to collect monies from state employees who occupy Government living quarters and are refusing to pay their rent. Accountant General Jennifer Chapman addressed the matter yesterday...

Expired drugs from 2016 still sitting in West Dem. Hospital bond

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Expired drugs from 2016 still sitting in West Dem. Hospital bond

Expired drugs, worth millions of dollars, are still sitting at the West Demerara Regional Hospital bond in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), awaiting the intervention of the Government...

Extradition proceeding for US murder suspect…. Magistrates’ Court has no jurisdiction to hear matter – Defence argues

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Extradition proceeding for US murder suspect…. Magistrates’ Court has no jurisdiction to hear matter – Defence argues

The extradition proceeding for Troy Anthony Thomas, who is wanted in the United States for murder, took a turn yesterday after his battery of lawyers argued that the Magistrates’ Court has no...

You can’t see nutten good when you blind

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on You can’t see nutten good when you blind

When people seh dem can’t see nutten good in you, de advice is to hug dem close because you realize dem blind and need help. Jagdeo and some of dem Baccoo in de govt tell people how de Waterfalls...

Decomposed body fished out of Pomeroon River

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body fished out of Pomeroon River

The body of an unidentified man was yesterday fished out of the Pomeroon River after he was spotted by residents, floating face down in the vicinity of Grant Stelling Hope, Lower Pomeroon. According...

Self-proclaimed eyewitness contradicts police account of seawall killings

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Self-proclaimed eyewitness contradicts police account of seawall killings

An eyewitness has come forward claiming that the police’s account of the March 15th, 2018 death of three suspected bank robbers. The men were shot dead during a confrontation with police at the...

Haywood re-elected as New Amsterdam mayor; Grant is new deputy

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Haywood re-elected as New Amsterdam mayor; Grant is new deputy

For her excellent work so far in just one year in the mayor’s chair, long-serving PNCR member and Councillor Winifred Haywood was recently unanimously reelected to the prestigious position as Mayor...

NSC Easter Swim programme commences at NAC

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Easter Swim programme commences at NAC

With the aim of developing the sport locally and producing world class swimmers, the National Sports Commission (NSC) in collaboration with the Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Social...

Guyana’s Olympian Brenessa Thompson helps Texas A&M university win Track Meet

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana’s Olympian Brenessa Thompson helps Texas A&M university win Track Meet

Overseas based Guyanese, female sprinter Brenessa Thompson, finished second in the 200m event at the UTSA Roadrunner Invitational over the weekend as she continues her impressive form on the College...

Jailing hands over Motorcycle to GuyanaNRA for fundraising raffle

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jailing hands over Motorcycle to GuyanaNRA for fundraising raffle

Jailing Motorcycles has made good on its promise to the Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) when the company handed over a 125cc motor cycle which is the first prize for the association’s...

The way we are

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The way we are

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 1973 movie ‘The Way We Were’ which stars Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford and is directed by Sydney Pollack. One of the local television stations...

Confident Nat U-15s leave for Jamaica….‘Tournament gives players early recognition’ – CWI’s Director of Cricket

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Confident Nat U-15s leave for Jamaica….‘Tournament gives players early recognition’ – CWI’s Director of Cricket

By Sean Devers A confident National Under-15 team departed Guyana yesterday for Jamaica to participate in this year’s 50-over Regional U-15 cricket tournament which starts tomorrow with three...

BCB provides financial stipends to Guyana Junior Cricketers and Coach- JR Engineering and Memorex Enterprise support

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB provides financial stipends to Guyana Junior Cricketers and Coach- JR Engineering and Memorex Enterprise support

The Berbice Cricket Board on Saturday last for the first time in its history provided financial stipends to its junior cricketers who have been selected to represent the country. Receiving benefits...

National Park gets solar powered motion sensing LED lights

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on National Park gets solar powered motion sensing LED lights

The National Park is now further enhanced, following the installation of 45 integrated standalone, solar-powered, 80-watt Lights Emitted Diode (LED) street lights, which are intended to promote...

Faye Joseph Int’l Domino Competition… Excitement already being felt within the fraternity -teams expected from B/dos, USA. Canada Colombia

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Faye Joseph Int’l Domino Competition… Excitement already being felt within the fraternity -teams expected from B/dos, USA. Canada Colombia

With just under four days left for the start of the Hairoun Beer-sponsored Fay Joseph International Domino Competition, the anticipated excitement has begun to saturate the fraternity and the...

City Council still to establish Nat’l Capital Planning Commission

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on City Council still to establish Nat’l Capital Planning Commission

…two years after President makes request The Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) is yet to set up a National Capital Planning Commission, two years after calls were made for the body to...

Henrietta and Pouderoyen draw final friendly

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Henrietta and Pouderoyen draw final friendly

Pouderoyen had to pull out all the stops to earn a draw in their final friendly match against home team Henrietta on Sunday afternoon at the Anna Regina Community Center ground. The home team which...

Concerns over Region Three’s rejection of lowest bidders for works

Mar 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Concerns over Region Three’s rejection of lowest bidders for works

Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) are alarmed over 22 instances when contracts were not awarded to the lowest bidders in Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara). The contracts for...

Inter Club Volleyball, Softball cricket competitions pushed back to April 8

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inter Club Volleyball, Softball cricket competitions pushed back to April 8

The one day Volleyball and softball cricket competition organised by the Kendall’s Union Sports Club (KUSC) of No19 Village, East Coast, Berbice, has been rescheduled to April 8. The activity,...

Labourer charged with attempted murder over stabbing friend

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Labourer charged with attempted murder over stabbing friend

A labourer was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with attempted murder over stabbing his friend multiple times about the body. Ronald Marks, 19, of Morawhanna, North West District, was...

NY Tri-State to play in GCA U-19 tourney-Tournament starts on Thursday

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on NY Tri-State to play in GCA U-19 tourney-Tournament starts on Thursday

New York Tri-State Youth Cricket Development team from the USA will be making their debut in the GCA U-19 tournament which is scheduled to commence in the City on Thursday. New York Tri-State Youth...

GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U15 League – Berbice FA … Orealla Falcons remain on top; Hopetown, Monedderlust and Corriverton notch full points

Mar 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U15 League – Berbice FA … Orealla Falcons remain on top; Hopetown, Monedderlust and Corriverton notch full points

West Berbice’ Monedderlust romped to a solid 5-0 win over Rosignol United when rivalry in the GFF/Pele Alumini Frank Watson U15 Intra Association League in the Ancient County of Berbice continued...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more