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Shulinab’s Nicholas Fredericks is new NTC chairman

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shulinab’s Nicholas Fredericks is new NTC chairman

Nicholas Fredericks, Toshao of Shulinab, Region Nine, has been elected unopposed as the new Chairman of the National Toshaos Council. Paul Pierre, Toshao of Kwebanna was elected Vice Chairman and...

Dem boys seh …Some people really like trouble

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …Some people really like trouble

When Ram Jattan and de people in de courts meet fuh examine de situation in de jail de whole country feel that it was a good thing, because de jail was overcrowded. And when de jail overcrowded it...

ExxonMobil no stranger to evolution of fiscal terms … Oil Company ready to “evolve” with the country – Brasington

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil no stranger to evolution of fiscal terms … Oil Company ready to “evolve” with the country – Brasington

By Kiana Wilburg Once a country has been able to establish that it has proven oil reserves, then its highly investor-friendly contractual terms would have to change. In a recent interview with this...

Two nabbed with gun near Diamond Hospital

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two nabbed with gun near Diamond Hospital

Alert police ranks yesterday intercepted two men who were in possession of a gun in the vicinity of the Diamond Hospital. A release stated that the ranks of a mobile saw a “suspicious looking...

Superbet rides with Guyana Cup 2018

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Superbet rides with Guyana Cup 2018

The hype surrounding the Guyana Cup 2018 horserace meet is as big as its $15million cash and prizes pay out and sport-betting giant Superbet has been the latest corporate sponsor to support the event...

Fifth Annual Grenville Felix Memorial cycle road set for Sunday 29th July in Berbice

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fifth Annual Grenville Felix Memorial cycle road set for Sunday 29th July in Berbice

The fifth annual Grenville Felix Memorial Cycle race is set for Sunday July 29th in Berbice. The event which is organised by the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) will be held in collaboration with the...

8th annual GBTI Open Klautky, Murray, Lowe and Lopes shine in opening round

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on 8th annual GBTI Open Klautky, Murray, Lowe and Lopes shine in opening round

The 8th annual GBTI Open served off on Monday last and the competition has seen some fierce action in the opening games. In the Men’s Open, Ronald Murray defeated Joshua Kaleykeyzi two games to 1;...

Local female chess players to make history in Barbados ─ First women to represent Guyana at CAC Women’s Championship

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local female chess players to make history in Barbados ─ First women to represent Guyana at CAC Women’s Championship

DPI, Guyana – Two of Guyana’s top young female chess players will be creating history when they represent Guyana at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Women’s Chess Championship in...

Burnt cable at Kingston causes Berbice/Demerara shutdown

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Burnt cable at Kingston causes Berbice/Demerara shutdown

At approximately 00:56 hrs yesterday, a burnt cable connection in the link between two power plants at Kingston caused the sudden loss of 11MW of capacity and subsequent shutdown of the...

Two life sentences for convicted child rapist

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Two life sentences for convicted child rapist

An unremorseful Navindra Badal was handed two life sentences which are to run consecutively, after he was convicted by a jury for having sexual intercourse with a nine year-old girl. The sentences...

Berbice Bridge wrongly located – Nigel Hughes – Govt. stands firm against raising tolls

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice Bridge wrongly located – Nigel Hughes – Govt. stands firm against raising tolls

Amidst calls for the government to rethink its decision to not grant toll increases to the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI), Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says the...

Technical educators challenged to “step up to the plate”

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Technical educators challenged to “step up to the plate”

“The same energy that you would exert for your own progress and your growth, that same energy must also be applied to the children of this nation if you are going to be effective, and if you are...

The PPP’s misrule: factuality and destruction

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The PPP’s misrule: factuality and destruction

How many years will it take before the manifestations of the cruel, maddening, philistine misrule of the PPP disappears from the landscape of this nation? This column was motivated by a sad thing I...

President Granger is not one to hog the spotlight

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger is not one to hog the spotlight

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial captioned ‘IMPORTANCE OF PRESS CONFERENCES,’ (KN, July 15), and The Freddie Kissoon column captioned, ‘Granger and Nagamootoo lack self-confidence,’...

Abuse prevention starts with you

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Abuse prevention starts with you

Editor, Like many others, The Caribbean Voice noted with horror the experiences of a young lady who was attempting to seek legal advice with respect to sexual groping at her workplace. It is clear...

An appeal to Simona Broomes

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An appeal to Simona Broomes

Dear Editor, Now that the video is circulating on social media I think as decency dictates, it is within Minister Broomes’s best interest to publicly apologise to the Security guards since it is...

The DPP should review some statements by Minister Broomes

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The DPP should review some statements by Minister Broomes

Dear Editor, I ask your indulgence to allow me a public forum to call for a Commission of Inquiry into APNU+AFC Minister Simona Broomes’s activities as a Trafficking In Persons activist. I make...

Minister Broomes Excesses are Unacceptable

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Broomes Excesses are Unacceptable

Dear Editor, As Barticians, we are not at all surprised at the recent unacceptable behaviour of the goodly minister. We have been putting up with Ms. Broomes for years now. Her arrogance,...

Assault accused remanded

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Assault accused remanded

Forty-two year old, Leon Howard of East La Penitence, Georgetown, was yesterday remanded by Magistrate Fabayo Azore when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates Courts on an assault...

Minister Lawrence has a lot of answering to do

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Lawrence has a lot of answering to do

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the Guyana Chronicle article under the caption, “Everything above board …Lawrence insists procedures followed in $366M drug contract …ties media reports to...

Batteries thief to serve 3 months behind bars

Jul 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Batteries thief to serve 3 months behind bars

A 43-year-old man who previously spent three years in prison for theft seems to not have learnt his lesson. Yesterday, he yet again appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for a similar...

When will the PPC be independent?

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on When will the PPC be independent?

Dear Editor, The Procurement Act 2003 is meant ‘to provide for the regulation of the procurement of goods, services and the execution of works, to promote competition among suppliers and...

Unbalances of (some) Regional Administrations

Jul 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unbalances of (some) Regional Administrations

The Editor, Over recent weeks the press has been reporting substantive under-performances of identified Regional Administrations, either from the perspective of the Public Accounts Committee or that...

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Jagdeo should withdraw his comments

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo found himself at the center of a controversy regarding... more