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New discovery pushes oil reserves over 5B barrels Suppliers jostle for jobs as local content forum begins

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New discovery pushes oil reserves over 5B barrels Suppliers jostle for jobs as local content forum begins

Local companies are meeting with ExxonMobil and its contractors to talk jobs and opportunities as the countdown continues for first oil in early 2020. Yesterday, scores gathered at the...

US$150M and counting at CJIA… Contract says: Six large screen TVs cost $80M

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US$150M and counting at CJIA… Contract says: Six large screen TVs cost $80M

As scrutiny of the 2011 contract for the Timehri airport expansion contract continues, it is throwing up some surprising costs that taxpayers will have to be saddled with. For example, the US$150M...

Volda Lawrence apologises for ‘jobs for PNC people’ statement

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Volda Lawrence apologises for ‘jobs for PNC people’ statement

Following a week of public criticisms, Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, yesterday offered an apology for her controversial statements of offering jobs to only People’s National...

Teen assaults Head Teacher, leaves her with split lip, swollen face

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teen assaults Head Teacher, leaves her with split lip, swollen face

The police attached to the Fort Wellington Police Station, West Coast Berbice, staged a confrontation between Gangadai Iasacs, the acting Head Teacher of No.5 Primary School and her alleged teenage...

More than 20 initiatives in 2018 Budget untouched-Ram&McRae

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on More than 20 initiatives in 2018 Budget untouched-Ram&McRae

While the government and political opposition are engaged in the budget 2019 debates, Ram and McRae Chartered Accountants have highlighted in a comprehensive report that the coalition administration...

Provide evidence of $$ spent in hinterland communities – PPP MP …as Govt. boasts about expenditure in 2019 budget.

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Provide evidence of $$ spent in hinterland communities – PPP MP …as Govt. boasts about expenditure in 2019 budget.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) back-bencher, Yvonne Pearson, has labeled Government’s 2019 budget ‘tasteless’ and lacking the ingredients to deliver ‘the good life’ as promised by the...

Travis Chase incident… Injured man discharged from hospital; claims journalist kicked, then shot him

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Travis Chase incident… Injured man discharged from hospital; claims journalist kicked, then shot him

One day after a shooting incident which saw 28-year-old Jimmy Ramgobin, said to be a substance abuser, being shot in the leg by TV journalist, Travis Chase, the injured man has been discharged from...

Passengers frustrated as CAL, airport authorities clash over wrecked Fly Jamaica aircraft

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers frustrated as CAL, airport authorities clash over wrecked Fly Jamaica aircraft

Caribbean Airline Limited (CAL) passengers faced more frustrations yesterday as more delays were blamed on an attempt to relocate the crash-landed Fly Jamaica aircraft from the end of the runway at...

Marriott court action prompts Kingston noise ban.

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott court action prompts Kingston noise ban.

The decision by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to ban events that generate excessive noise was made because of a court action against the government by the Marriott Hotel, to the Supreme...

Chief Justice set to rule on legality of charges against Ashni Singh and Winston Brassington

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice set to rule on legality of charges against Ashni Singh and Winston Brassington

Chief Justice Roxane George is set to rule in a matter in which former Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh and former head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL),...

Some people put up sick Xmas 3s

Dec 04, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Some people put up sick Xmas 3s

Dem boys learn Xmas preparation does begin in November. Late shopping does start December 15. Courts start de Christmas tree light up in November. Marriott follow last week. De tree at Rahaman turn...

The Ethnic Relations Commission should audit public service employment

Dec 04, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Ethnic Relations Commission should audit public service employment

The Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform and Minister of Health, Volda Lawrence, has apologized for statements she made last week and which have raised a firestorm of...

Farmer charged for stealing $4M engine from wrecked vessel

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer charged for stealing $4M engine from wrecked vessel

A farmer who allegedly stole a boat engine worth $4M and one air box worth $1M from a wreck that was stranded on a sand bank was yesterday charged and released on $100,000 bail. Andrew De Freitas,...

Internal Auditing In Central Government

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Internal Auditing In Central Government

There are provisions in the various Budget Agencies in Central Government for the establishment and for the operations of internal auditing units (IAU). The Auditor General (AG) who is in effect the...

Truck driver freed of causing death in Friendship crash

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver freed of causing death in Friendship crash

One year after a truck driver was charged with causing the death of two brothers in a horrific accident at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, the matter was yesterday dismissed against him by a City...

UG and CAL forge new partnership to bolster research

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on UG and CAL forge new partnership to bolster research

Efforts to bolster research at the University of Guyana (UG) recently were boosted by Caribbean Airlines [CAL] which underwrote attendance by several UG computer scientists at the 2018 Caribbean...

Budget 2019 riddled with inflated estimates, poor sectoral forecasts –Opposition MP

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Budget 2019 riddled with inflated estimates, poor sectoral forecasts –Opposition MP

The well-known song “Sweet Lies” by Reggae Sensation, Beres Hammond is how Opposition Parliamentarian and Head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Irfaan Ali, chose to describe budget 2019...

Harmon rubbishes Opposition’s claim of $1B in travel expense

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon rubbishes Opposition’s claim of $1B in travel expense

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon has stated categorically that the President’s team has not, at any point, spent $1B on travels, as alleged by Opposition Member of Parliament, Irfaan Ali. Ali, who...

Duo released on bail on separate robbery charges

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Duo released on bail on separate robbery charges

Titus Daniels of Vryheid’s Lust, and Kevin Benn of Plaisance, were yesterday released on bail after an appearance before Magistrate Marissa Mittelholzer in the Georgetown Magistrates Courts to...

More patrols, police presence for ‘B’ Division during Christmas season

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on More patrols, police presence for ‘B’ Division during Christmas season

The Guyana Police Force’s B’ Division yesterday released its Annual Christmas Policing plans with more focus on key commercial areas by way of increased patrols and intelligence gathering. Deputy...

Taxi driver charged again for M$$$ robbery

Dec 04, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver charged again for M$$$ robbery

Yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, 27-year-old Casey Chapman, a taxi driver, of 77 South Sophia appeared before Magistrate Marissa Mittelholzer and denied the robbery charge. It was...

GAPLF Senior Nationals 2018 – Staggering 28 Records Set Vijai Rahim and Runica White powers to Overall Championship Honours

Dec 04, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAPLF Senior Nationals 2018 – Staggering 28 Records Set Vijai Rahim and Runica White powers to Overall Championship Honours

By Franklin Wilson The 2018 season of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) wrapped up in grand style on Sunday afternoon last when Runica White, a Buddys Gym member became the first...

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Guyanese boxers shine at T&T National Boxing Championships

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more