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Brazil institutes enormous fines for local content breaches …Consultant says this is but one important lesson for emerging oil producers like Guyana

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil institutes enormous fines for local content breaches …Consultant says this is but one important lesson for emerging oil producers like Guyana

By Kiana Wilburg reporting from California Even without legislation in place, Guyana’s neighbour to the South, Brazil, has a most rigid approach when it comes to local content. The country ensures...

Ahead of high level meeting with GT&T… Greenidge non-committal on possible auction of lucrative telecoms spectrum

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ahead of high level meeting with GT&T… Greenidge non-committal on possible auction of lucrative telecoms spectrum

The Government is preparing for high-level talks with US-controlled Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) early next month on liberalization of the sector. The talks will take place at a time...

Marijuana law reform gains traction… Hughes files appeal for farmer jailed for 3 years for 8 grams

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Marijuana law reform gains traction… Hughes files appeal for farmer jailed for 3 years for 8 grams

-says languishing bill can be supported by AFC, Opposition The pressure to change the law that allows for automatic jail sentence for certain quantities of marijuana is gaining traction. This week,...

Dr. Jennifer Westford trial…. Typist clerk found no record of 24 memoranda

May 24, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Dr. Jennifer Westford trial…. Typist clerk found no record of 24 memoranda

As the trial of Dr. Jennifer Westford and Margaret Cummings – who are accused of stealing $639,420,000 from the State – winds down, a typist clerk attached to Ministry of Public Service...

Govt. softens approach to Venezuelans entering Guyana illegally

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. softens approach to Venezuelans entering Guyana illegally

Guyana has taken steps to facilitate Venezuelans and other immigrants who enter Guyana illegally and are intercepted by law enforcement officers. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge told...

Bandits snatch Lotto winnings from couple … had trailed them from bank

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits snatch Lotto winnings from couple … had trailed them from bank

The millionaire winner of a recent Lotto jackpot stood helplessly as a bandit placed a gun to her head and made off with her prize, minutes after she returned home from a city bank. This was the case...

PNCR retracts Granger’s controversial comments on media

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR retracts Granger’s controversial comments on media

In an unprecedented move, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday retracted comments attributed to its Leader, President David Granger about the media following public backlash. In...

Cane cutter can negotiate better than we experts

May 24, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cane cutter can negotiate better than we experts

Ever since Exxon come is sheer negotiation. Since people open dem mouth is negotiation. Brassington and Ashni get charge Jagdeo and de Chat-3 trying to negotiate wid some judges and magistrates to...

City Hall restoration estimated at over $400M – EU delegation moves closer to finalizing plan

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall restoration estimated at over $400M – EU delegation moves closer to finalizing plan

The European Consultation team has moved closer to finalising the $64M plan to restore and conserve the architectural design of City Hall. The assessment of the deteriorated 18th-century...

CONCACAF Group ‘E’ Caribbean Qualifiers… Lady Jags play to entertaining 2-2 draw against Bermuda – Barbados defeat Suriname 2-1 in controversial match

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CONCACAF Group ‘E’ Caribbean Qualifiers… Lady Jags play to entertaining 2-2 draw against Bermuda – Barbados defeat Suriname 2-1 in controversial match

By Calvin Chapman Group E action in the Concacaf Caribbean women’s qualifiers kicked off last night at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora with the first two matches in the group which...

Youth Business Summit underway

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Youth Business Summit underway

The inaugural Youth Business Summit which opened yesterday at Pegasus Hotel in Kingston is expected to help expose more than one hundred young people to information needed to sharpen their...

WIFBSC 2018 Barbados – Individuals Day 3… Goodluck is new King of the Caribbean Range – Persaud ends 2nd in O-Class; Jamaica dominate T-Class

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on WIFBSC 2018 Barbados – Individuals Day 3… Goodluck is new King of the Caribbean Range – Persaud ends 2nd in O-Class; Jamaica dominate T-Class

By Franklin Wilson in Barbados in association with Industrial Safety Supplies Inc. and Fitness Express Guyanese marksmen turned in a sterling performance led by the indefatigable Ransford Goodluck...

NSC Sports Awards and Dinner… Ming and Fiedtkou win marquee awards – Kaieteur News Zaheer Mohamed wins Journalist of the Year!

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Sports Awards and Dinner… Ming and Fiedtkou win marquee awards – Kaieteur News Zaheer Mohamed wins Journalist of the Year!

F4 driver Calvin Ming and top female hockey player Marzana Fiedtkou copped the top awards on Tuesday evening when the National Sports Commission (NSC) hosted the annual Awards and Dinner for...

Ministry of the Presidency recognises Troy Doris for Commonwealth Games gold -presented with plaque and gold band

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of the Presidency recognises Troy Doris for Commonwealth Games gold -presented with plaque and gold band

DPI, Guyana – Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, Troy Doris yesterday visited the Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP) where he was acknowledged for his achievements with tokens presented by...

Independence Day cultural show to include over 2000 youths

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Independence Day cultural show to include over 2000 youths

As part of Independence celebrations this year, over 2000 young people will be part of a cultural display slated for Durban Park on Friday May 25, 2018. According to Minister of Social Cohesion with...

GCB/DMLAS/NSC/NSSCL…. Anna Regina Multilateral beat Charity Secondary by 45 runs

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/DMLAS/NSC/NSSCL…. Anna Regina Multilateral beat Charity Secondary by 45 runs

The 2017/2018 Guyana Cricket Board/ Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited/ National Sport Commission/National Secondary School Cricket League (GCB/DMLAS/NSC/NSSCL) continued with competitive...

Refresher mediation training continues today

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Refresher mediation training continues today

The refresher Mediation Training Workshops for court-connected mediation in Guyana will continue this morning and conclude tomorrow at the Marriott Hotel, Kingston, Georgetown. The second of two...

Archery Guyana coaches in Region 9, conduct introduction session

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Archery Guyana coaches in Region 9, conduct introduction session

On Monday 21st May, St Ignatius Secondary School in Lethem, Region 9 was the first school in Guyana to lead the way for introduction of Archery in Schools at a national level. Archery Guyana...

Extradition proceedings… Bisram lawyers want Guyana witnesses to testify through US embassy

May 24, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Extradition proceedings… Bisram lawyers want Guyana witnesses to testify through US embassy

Lawyers for embattled New York-based Guyanese businessman, Marcus Bisram, have asked the judge there to allow local witnesses to provide testimony. According to a letter dated May 22nd, sent by...

Banks Fest pool competition set for C’bean beat

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks Fest pool competition set for C’bean beat

Some of the city’s leading pools players will battle for supremacy when Caribbean Beat located at Pike and Stone Avenue, Campbellville host the Banks Fest Independence competition on Saturday...

BCB assists Ruthel Henry under Dare to Dream Programme

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB assists Ruthel Henry under Dare to Dream Programme

“Our first objectives are to develop Berbice Cricket to the highest level and to make sure that every cricketing potential is fulfilled but it would criminal if as an organisation if we fail to...

Maryann Daby refused bail again on attempted murder charge

May 24, 2018 KNews Court Stories, News Comments Off on Maryann Daby refused bail again on attempted murder charge

– Magistrate cites public safety One week after a businesswoman was charged and remanded to prison – accused of pointing a loaded gun to a police rank’s head and pulling the trigger, in...

Guyoil: Isn’t there at least one minister that can see this?

May 24, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyoil: Isn’t there at least one minister that can see this?

When the PPP came in power in 1992, the essential PPP from the fifties was dead and gone. It was a new PPP with only Cheddi and Janet Jagan. All the big names that were ministers, academics, business...

BCB President and Anil Beharry launch $1M Balls Project

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB President and Anil Beharry launch $1M Balls Project

President of the Berbice Cricket Board Hilbert Foster and one of his processors, Anil Beharry, on Sunday launched one of the Board’s most cherished programmes, the one million dollars Cricket Ball...

Fisherman Masters, Narine Masters triumph

May 24, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fisherman Masters, Narine Masters triumph

Fisherman Masters and Narine Masters recorded victories when the latest round of matches in the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association/ Bank to Eden, Permaul’s Trading, Khan’s Trading and...