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Without appropriate rules and adequate oversight…Sovereign Wealth Funds no guarantee for prosperity, Analyst warns

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Without appropriate rules and adequate oversight…Sovereign Wealth Funds no guarantee for prosperity, Analyst warns

By Kiana Wilburg Governments are often open to creating Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) with the intention of squirreling away excess money made on their natural resources. This money can help to...

Govt. commits to “fully transparent process” on all Public Private Partnership projects

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. commits to “fully transparent process” on all Public Private Partnership projects

By Kiana Wilburg Government has expressed its commitment to “a fully transparent process” on all Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects. The APNU+AFC administration made this known in its...

Ramotar slams Govt. on fuel price hike

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar slams Govt. on fuel price hike

The coalition Government has been accused of abandoning policies that would help to cushion the effects of rising fuel prices on businesses and households. Former President Donald Ramotar pointed...

RDC halts rent deduction for nurses, teachers in Govt. houses

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on RDC halts rent deduction for nurses, teachers in Govt. houses

– cites overflowing septic tanks, other ‘atrocious’ conditions The atrocious condition of many of the houses occupied by teachers and nurses in Region Ten has led Chairman Rennis Morian to...

Cop detained for allegedly battering wife, hitting victim’s sister with spade

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cop detained for allegedly battering wife, hitting victim’s sister with spade

– reportedly only ‘warned’ before when complaints made Even as police seek to address complaints about their response to domestic violence, one of their colleagues is being accused of wife...

Future of Guyana Prize in jeopardy?

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Future of Guyana Prize in jeopardy?

– Minister Norton says he has reports that organization “not being run as it should” The future of Guyana’s most prestigious literary award, the Guyana Prize for Literature, may...

Prisoner beaten unconscious on Independence Day succumbs

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner beaten unconscious on Independence Day succumbs

Shawn Thom, the 22-year-old prisoner, who was found in an unconscious state in the Camp Street Prison on Independence Day, has died. Thom succumbed yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where...

PPP to up its game in Oil and Gas Sectoral meetings – Jagdeo

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PPP to up its game in Oil and Gas Sectoral meetings – Jagdeo

“They are clever people. It is just that they are not specialists in the areas.” That is a bit of what Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo had to say when faced with questions about the level of...

State owned enterprises were $7.9B below projection – Finance Minister reveals

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on State owned enterprises were $7.9B below projection – Finance Minister reveals

The overall deficit of public enterprises was $13B for the year 2017. According to Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, this was one percent lower than projected at the time of the presentation of the...

Bandits shoot Broad Street car wash owner

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot Broad Street car wash owner

Two bandits shot a carwash owner and relived him of an undisclosed sum of cash, at his 17 Broad & Lombard Street business at around 22.00 hrs last night. Leroy Robinson, a 37-year-old car wash...

Guyana participates in International Football for Friendship programme – Jalade Trim was Flag Bearer for Guyana at Opening Ceremony

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana participates in International Football for Friendship programme – Jalade Trim was Flag Bearer for Guyana at Opening Ceremony

Moscow, Russia: Guyana is participating in Gazprom’s international social children’s programme – Football For Friendship (F4F) – which officially opened at 10:30hrs in Moscow, Russia on...

CBC C/ships warm-ups… Guyana beat Barbados to even series

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CBC C/ships warm-ups… Guyana beat Barbados to even series

Guyana defeated Barbados 70-64 on Saturday night at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Complex to even their three-match friendly series 1-1 after losing on Friday night by 17-points. Head Coach of the...

Bounty Farm XVs 2018 Season… Pepsi Hornets down Panthers in season opener

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bounty Farm XVs 2018 Season… Pepsi Hornets down Panthers in season opener

The 2018 season of the Bounty Farm sponsored Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) XVs kicked off late yesterday afternoon at the National Park rugby field with Pepsi Hornets versus Panthers. Panthers,...

Bush Lot Secondary claim West Berbice inter school U17 title

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bush Lot Secondary claim West Berbice inter school U17 title

Bush Lot Secondary defeated No. 8 Secondary by 151 runs to win the final of the West Berbice inter secondary school U17 30 overs tournament which was contested recently at Paradise ground. Bush Lot...

LABA YBG Linden Regional… Mackenzie High, LTI crush opponents, New Silvercity Secondary also win

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA YBG Linden Regional… Mackenzie High, LTI crush opponents, New Silvercity Secondary also win

Two lopsided wins by Mackenzie High and Linden Technical Institute (LTI) and a close encounter in favour of New Silvercity Secondary highlighted the start of the Linden Amateur Basketball...

UCCA holds successful inaugural Awards Ceremony

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on UCCA holds successful inaugural Awards Ceremony

By Sean Devers The sun smiled on Guyana’s most Eastern Town as Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) held it inaugural Awards Ceremony at the St Margaret Anglican Church Parish Hall Number 78...

“It turns my stomach to hear Trotman quote scriptures and praise ExxonMobil as a saviour”- Jagdeo

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “It turns my stomach to hear Trotman quote scriptures and praise ExxonMobil as a saviour”- Jagdeo

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Former President Bharrat Jagdeo cannot stand to hear government ministers, particularly Raphael Trotman, sing praises to oil giant, ExxonMobil. It turns his stomach. At...

Police find guns, ammo at Potaro

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police find guns, ammo at Potaro

Police have recovered a shotgun, a handgun and ammunition under a shed at Wild Lang Mission, Potaro. A release said that the ranks, acting on intelligence, on Saturday found a single- barrel 12...

Guyanese American television host roots inducted into ‘Wall of Fame’

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese American television host roots inducted into ‘Wall of Fame’

Guyanese American television host Joy-Ann Reid has been inducted into the “Wall of Fame” of the Washington-based Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) . Reid is also a political analyst,...

Over 300 Pomeroon residents benefit from two-day medical outreach

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Over 300 Pomeroon residents benefit from two-day medical outreach

More than 300 residents from various settlements within the Pomeroon, recently benefitted from a medical outreach, which was collaborated between the Trevor Daniel’s Enterprise and the Ministry of...

Fear and Funniness

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Fear and Funniness

Guyana can be a funny place. Imagine minibus drivers are protesting the increase in fuel prices and are calling for an increase in fares. The East Coast drivers kicked off the protest a few days ago....

Guyana at 52: Attica and Ithaca

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana at 52: Attica and Ithaca

One of the most memorable scenes I have seen in a movie is Al Pacino in “Dog Day Afternoon” in which he robbed a bank and couldn’t get out because the police had him surrounded. He came out of...

Guyana explores deepening cooperation with Russia

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana explores deepening cooperation with Russia

Guyana has vowed to explore more avenues for cooperation with Russia in pursuit of common interest between the two countries. President of Guyana, His Excellency David Granger and newly-accredited...

Local writer launches book of adventures

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Local writer launches book of adventures

“Tales from Sugarcane Street,” a collection of short stories by writer Chevon Lim, was launched on Saturday at the National Library at Church Street, Georgetown. This is Mrs. Lim’s first self...

Local garment factory for Blueberry Hill

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Local garment factory for Blueberry Hill

The local ready-made clothing industry is about to be revived with the recent launch of a new garment factory at Blueberry Hill North in Wismar, Region Ten. Earlier in the year the Community...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more