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Foreign oil companies not allowed to buy properties in T&T …but Guyana has nosimilar law or policy — Attorney-at -Law Sanjeev Datadin

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign oil companies not allowed to buy properties in T&T …but Guyana has nosimilar law or policy — Attorney-at -Law Sanjeev Datadin

Pull Quote: “We are allowing foreign companies to come into Guyana and do as they please. We do this while not giving any advantage whatsoever to local companies.” By Abena...

Guyana Goldfields significantly scales down operations – but holds on to claim with hope of recovery

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Goldfields significantly scales down operations – but holds on to claim with hope of recovery

The Guyana Goldfields is continuously scaling down its operations across interior locations in Guyana. However, this newspaper understands that while it is steadily aborting locations, the company is...

Rusal workers demand meeting with Govt. after US lifts sanctions

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rusal workers demand meeting with Govt. after US lifts sanctions

Hours after US authorities announced that they had lifted sanctions on Russian-owned bauxite company, Rusal, workers in Guyana are stepping up the pressure for Government to meet on working...

China extends its reach into Guyana

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on China extends its reach into Guyana

By Mat Youkee (Dialogo Chino) The Rupununi savannah of southern Guyana is one of the most biodiverse regions of South America, home to jaguars, Harpy eagles and the world’s largest ants. It is also...

PM results for GPHC cancer patient inconclusive …as family mulls legal action

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PM results for GPHC cancer patient inconclusive …as family mulls legal action

The Post Mortem Examination conducted on the remains of six-year-old Sherezer Mendonca last Monday, has proven inconclusive. The autopsy was performed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

CRIC 17 meeting brings gender equality into focus

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CRIC 17 meeting brings gender equality into focus

Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Monique Barbut, said that women are uniquely disadvantaged when it comes to issues of desertification and land...

China waiting to pocket Guyana

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on China waiting to pocket Guyana

From de time dem boys was growing up, dem use to hear ‘Patience is Virtue’. Dat mean dat if you got patience, then you gon get anything you plan to. It might tek couple years but you gon get it....

Youth found with counterfeit $5000 bills charged

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Youth found with counterfeit $5000 bills charged

Days after an intelligence-led operation resulted in the apprehension of a Diamond resident with a quantity of counterfeit Guyana $5000 currency, a youth was yesterday charged for the offence....

Woman jailed for killing Bajan lover appeals 18 years sentence

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Woman jailed for killing Bajan lover appeals 18 years sentence

A mother of two, who was sentenced to 18 years in jail for killing her boyfriend, a Barbadian national, is hoping that that the Appeal Court will reduce her sentence. However, at present, the...

Teen charged with illegal possession of firearm

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Teen charged with illegal possession of firearm

A teenager was yesterday released on $100,000 bail after being charged with possession of an illegal firearm. Eighteen-year-old Akelo Nurse, a block maker, of 271 Independence Boulevard, La Penitence...

CANU raid on Charlestown property unearths large Colombian ganja stash – two held

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CANU raid on Charlestown property unearths large Colombian ganja stash – two held

Ranks for the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have detained two people after seizing over 100 pounds of marijuana during a raid at around 11:00 hrs yesterday at a St. Stephen’s Street,...

Guyana slips one point on Transparency’s corruption index

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana slips one point on Transparency’s corruption index

An improving Guyana has slipped on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. According to the recently released report for 2018, Guyana has 37 points, down from 38 the...

Several communities to benefit from GWI septic tank projects

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Several communities to benefit from GWI septic tank projects

Guyana Water Inc. – Supply and Installation of Septic Tanks in Cornelia Ida to De Kinderen Lots 1-5 Seven companies vied for Lots 1 to 5 for the Supply and Installation of Septic Tanks...

Beware of England

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beware of England

By Dr. Rudi Webster What a victory! West Indies’ brilliant performance against England in the first Test at Kensington Oval, Barbados will long be acclaimed, remembered and treasured by...

UCCA’s 2019 season begins on Friday with Inter Primary School competition

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on UCCA’s 2019 season begins on Friday with Inter Primary School competition

The Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) 2019 cricket season is expected to bowl off on Friday with play in the Davendra Ramgoolam, R and R Auto Rental Services Inter Primary School...

Underdog claim Trophy Stall dominoes title – Wakenaam

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Underdog claim Trophy Stall dominoes title – Wakenaam

Underdog chalked up 75 games to win the Trophy Stall Dominoes competition which was contested on Sunday last at Carlosh Sports bar in Good Success, Wakenaam. V Net took the runner spot with 74...

Budhram century hands Success Masters five-wicket win

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Budhram century hands Success Masters five-wicket win

Seekumar Budhram struck a fine century as Success Masters defeated President’s XI Masters by five wickets when the Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc Regal Stationery and Computer...

BCB/NBS 40-Overs Second Division Tournament: RHT Bakewell advance to Final, defeat Ramnarine Memorial and No. 72 Cut and Load

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/NBS 40-Overs Second Division Tournament: RHT Bakewell advance to Final, defeat Ramnarine Memorial and No. 72 Cut and Load

The powerhouse Rose Hall Town Bakewell Second Division Team have advanced to the Final of the Berbice Cricket Board 40-Overs New Building Society Second Division Tournament for the second successive...

John Lewis remains president of Flying Ace Cycle Club

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on John Lewis remains president of Flying Ace Cycle Club

Long serving president and popular businessman John Lewis was once again elected president of the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC). Lewis was once again elected unopposed when the club held its...

West Indies C/ships 6th Round Hemraj, Reifer, Singh return to Jaguars team as they wing out Bishoo (injured), Griffith, Joseph out

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies C/ships 6th Round Hemraj, Reifer, Singh return to Jaguars team as they wing out Bishoo (injured), Griffith, Joseph out

The CWI President’s X1 trio of left-handed batsman Vishaul Singh, left-arm fast bowling all-rounder Raymond Reifer and left-handed opener Chanderpaul Hemraj returned to Guyana Jaguars side...

Swimmers start preparation for Carifta Games in April GASA head confident of winning Medals in B’dos this year

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Swimmers start preparation for Carifta Games in April GASA head confident of winning Medals in B’dos this year

By Sean Devers The Pools at the Aquatic Centre reopened last week and the Swimmers are back in the water after returning from Suriname and Trinidad last month and are busy preparing for the...

Stephen, Dindyal guide G Square Cavaliers to six-wicket win; MP/Zeelandia triumph

Jan 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stephen, Dindyal guide G Square Cavaliers to six-wicket win; MP/Zeelandia triumph

Led by some brilliant batting from Romario Stephen and Mahindra Dindyal, G Square Cavaliers of Belle Plaine defeated Good Success/Sans Souci/Jaguars Combined by six wickets when the Regal...

“Trini” on the run after bludgeoning, stabbing Eccles woman

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “Trini” on the run after bludgeoning, stabbing Eccles woman

Police are on the hunt for “Trini”, a Bare Root, Enterprise Road, East Coast Demerara labourer who brutally stabbed and bludgeoned his female partner around 08:00 hours yesterday...

Link made between leprosy and psychiatric problems -as Guyana joins ‘zero discrimination’ movement

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Link made between leprosy and psychiatric problems -as Guyana joins ‘zero discrimination’ movement

Persons infected with leprosy have been found to have a higher prevalence of psychiatric problems than the general population of patients with other diseases. This is according to Director of...

Motorcyclist flees scene after Nismes man, 70, struck down

Jan 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist flees scene after Nismes man, 70, struck down

Police yesterday said they are making stringent efforts to apprehend the rider of motorcycle CJ 5283 who abandoned his bike and fled the scene of a fatal accident Monday on the Nismes Public Road,...

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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