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Sixty-six countries fail at governing oil – Resource Institute

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sixty-six countries fail at governing oil – Resource Institute

… Calls on Guyana, other nations to implement key transparency measures The majority of governments that are leading oil and gas economies have been inadequately managing their sectors. This is...

Jagdeo skirts questions on money Guyana collected from oil companies during PPP/C tenure

Jun 20, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News Comments Off on Jagdeo skirts questions on money Guyana collected from oil companies during PPP/C tenure

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell “You are talking about small sums of money; relatively small sums. We have a bigger concern about a larger sum that we have all been talking about. Yet this government...

Robbers flee with $12,000 after beating husband, raping spouse

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Robbers flee with $12,000 after beating husband, raping spouse

Three robbers escaped with $12,000 and a gold ring early yesterday morning after beating a husband and sexually assaulting his spouse in the couple’s East Bank Essequibo home. Police said the...

Phone card vendor shot dead during robbery

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Phone card vendor shot dead during robbery

A 37-year-old phone card vendor, Ron Mansfield, who people only know as ‘Ron’ was shot dead last night by a lone gunman. The shooting occurred shortly before 21:00 hours yesterday. According to...

Sweeping increases for GWI customers in 2019

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sweeping increases for GWI customers in 2019

– company ordered to increase meter installations to reduce losses The Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in a major decision announced yesterday, has approved increases in rates and tariffs...

Boyfriend charged with death of hotel worker who “jumped” from car

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Boyfriend charged with death of hotel worker who “jumped” from car

Bail to the tune of $500,000 was yesterday granted to 21-year-old Rick Sewcharran, a week after his girlfriend succumbed to injuries she sustained after reportedly jumping out of his moving car....

Driver mows down Regent Street store front

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Driver mows down Regent Street store front

…vagrant hospitalized, $$$millions in damages The driver of a silver 212 Toyota Carina motorcar bearing licence plates PKK 7006, has left millions in dollars in damage to two Regent Street Stores....

Fuel related corruption can be traced to very top of Govt. – Jagdeo

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel related corruption can be traced to very top of Govt. – Jagdeo

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, believes that “there is a huge cabal that reaches very high into Office of the President, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of...

Farmer sorry Jagdeo wasn’t in de Prado

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Farmer sorry Jagdeo wasn’t in de Prado

De whole world know politicians does lie. Some of dem does lie through dem teeth. Dem boys remember a Prado accident a few years ago. De Prado was fetching some politicians when it crash. Jagdeo...

Court of Appeal hears arguments over amendments to Sexual Offences Act

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Court of Appeal hears arguments over amendments to Sexual Offences Act

The Court of Appeal has commenced hearing arguments to determine the constitutionality of amendments to Sexual Offences Act. The case stems from a High Court ruling which essentially outlined that a...

Paul replaces Hetmyer for final test against Sri Lanka

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Paul replaces Hetmyer for final test against Sri Lanka

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Keemo Paul will replace Shimron Hetmyer in the WINDIES Test Squad for the remainder of the Test Series against Sri Lanka. Hetmyer will return to Guyana to recover from a recent...

Police All Stars Illuminate Grenada’s Annual Athletics Championship

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police All Stars Illuminate Grenada’s Annual Athletics Championship

Recently the Royal Grenada Police Force held its Annual Athletics Championship in St Georges Grenada. The events which were held during the 31st anniversary celebrations were highly attended with...

Guyanese girls lose twice in CBC C/ships

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese girls lose twice in CBC C/ships

Guyana’s Female team have gotten off their Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Women’s championships to a torrid start after losing their first two games of the tournament, which is being...

Op-Ed: National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Op-Ed: National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

By United States Ambassador Perry L. Holloway Caribbean-Americans have defined U.S. history. From distinguished leaders such as Colin Powell of Jamaican heritage and Shirley Chisholm of Bajan and...

C7, Mix Up secure quarterfinal victories

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on C7, Mix Up secure quarterfinal victories

C7 and Mix Up notched up quarter-final victories when action in the Faye Joseph dominoes competition continued recently at Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt. C7 chalked up 87 games to win their...

Cummings Lodge Sec captures Tapeball crown

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cummings Lodge Sec captures Tapeball crown

Cummings Lodge Secondary won the Goodwood Racing service and P&P Insurance Brokers School Boys seven team 6-overs knock-out Tapeball cricket competition last Saturday at the D’Urban Park...

IDB wants to help bring an end to politicization of national statistics …publishes study to aid nations in capacity building

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on IDB wants to help bring an end to politicization of national statistics …publishes study to aid nations in capacity building

By Kiana Wilburg Statistics is an essential input for decision-making and the design of good public policies by governments, but they are often victims of excessive politicization. In an effort to...

LABA/YBG/Powerade Linden Schools Regional Basketball Championship… ‘Tallo’ Hutson Academy donates MVP trophy ahead of today’s semi-finals at MSC

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABA/YBG/Powerade Linden Schools Regional Basketball Championship… ‘Tallo’ Hutson Academy donates MVP trophy ahead of today’s semi-finals at MSC

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association yesterday received a timely boost for its Linden Regional Under-19 Schools basketball championship from Rickland Hutson through his Leadership Academy as the...

Cops to face departmental charges for escape of female drug accused

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cops to face departmental charges for escape of female drug accused

An investigation appears to have cleared four policemen of sexually assaulting a female drug accused at the Timehri Police Station. But the ranks have been implicated in causing the woman to escape...

Ministerial Task Force on (TIP) trains Mines Officers…in two-day course

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ministerial Task Force on (TIP) trains Mines Officers…in two-day course

Yesterday, the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) started a two-day training course, for mines officers attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC). As Guyana...

Police constable stabbed several times during search of suspect

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police constable stabbed several times during search of suspect

A police constable attached to the Guyana Police Force, ‘B’ Division Anti-Crime Motorcycle Patrol, was on Monday ambushed by a group of men and stabbed about his body by an identifiable male...

Guyana has policy to integrate teen moms back in school

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has policy to integrate teen moms back in school

A new policy is in place to ensure teenage mothers have the opportunity to go back to school. The policy manual was handed over Monday at the National Centre for Education Resource Development...

Government comes in for high praise as OCC commences consultations for TNES project

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Government comes in for high praise as OCC commences consultations for TNES project

The Office of Climate Change (OCC), hosted the first session of a two-part National Stakeholder Forum for the Transitioning to National Energy Security (TNES): Bartica as a model Green Town Project....

Crime at Stabroek Square

Jun 20, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Crime at Stabroek Square

It may be difficult to believe but one of the most dangerous places to be in Guyana is also the busiest. Stabroek Square is the most dangerous place to be. There is not a day that someone is not...

GUYANESE PROVIDE CANADIAN YOUTH WITH ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING

Jun 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE PROVIDE CANADIAN YOUTH WITH ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING

Two Guyanese-born Canadians, Bishop Joseph Fisher, and social worker, Leyland Gudge, have collaborated to provide marginalized youth, 18 to 29 years old, in the Greater Toronto Area of Durham Region...

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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