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ExxonMobil will be made to stand cost for any oil spill – Energy Dept. Head

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil will be made to stand cost for any oil spill – Energy Dept. Head

By Kiana Wilburg “Oil spills are to be handled by the main contractor which is Exxon. They are the operator and they will have to adhere to the Environmental Act and they will be on the hook for...

Chinese Govt. to finance new Bertram Collins College Headquarters

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese Govt. to finance new Bertram Collins College Headquarters

On the heels of multiple loan and grant arrangements made available to Guyana from the People’s Republic of China, Guyana is set to receive yet another loan from the Chinese government. It...

Captured duo was hired to “rough up” Skeldon Chinese National

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Captured duo was hired to “rough up” Skeldon Chinese National

– police sources A businessman from Skeldon, Berbice is under investigation for allegedly masterminding the attack on a Chinese businessman last Thursday. Kaieteur News was told by multiple...

Disabled woman perishes in early morning blaze

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Disabled woman perishes in early morning blaze

A 57-year-old woman perished at around 01.00 hrs yesterday after she was trapped in a fire that razed her Block 8 Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara home. Yowani Sasenarine, 57, who had suffered a...

‘Amazing’ recovery for Annandale hit-and-run survivor

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Amazing’ recovery for Annandale hit-and-run survivor

– after being bedridden, now walking and speaking Several weeks after he was rendered bedridden as a result of a hit and run accident that caused his friend’s demise, Annandale, East Coast...

More than one month later…Irfaan Ali still to verify his qualifications

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on More than one month later…Irfaan Ali still to verify his qualifications

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell “As the facts come, I will release it to the media.” That is what Irfaan Ali told the media the day he was elected to serve as People’s Progressive Party’s...

Fiscal elements for Petroleum Law being worked out – Dr. Bynoe

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fiscal elements for Petroleum Law being worked out – Dr. Bynoe

Energy Department Head, Dr. Mark Bynoe says that he has no difficulty with the recommendation of the international community on the need to insert as many fiscal elements into the primary...

Mother of boys in Muslim scholar rape case reportedly offered $6 M to drop matter

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of boys in Muslim scholar rape case reportedly offered $6 M to drop matter

Even as the time draws near for the Muslim Scholar, Neezam Ali, who has been accused of raping nine boys to face his trial in the High Court, the mother of three of the victims is reportedly...

Bounty Farm Handicap Squash tournament…Arjoon crowned King after beating Pollard in Final

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bounty Farm Handicap Squash tournament…Arjoon crowned King after beating Pollard in Final

The finals of the Bounty Farm Ltd. Handicap Tournament concluded yesterday at the Georgetown Club with Alex Arjoon being crowned King. Nicholas Verwey came out on top of Category A, Samuel...

Georgetown Turf Club Pre-Mash Horse Race Meet…Irish Boy gallops to feature win; 16 year-old Jockey Kellman impresses

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown Turf Club Pre-Mash Horse Race Meet…Irish Boy gallops to feature win; 16 year-old Jockey Kellman impresses

The Georgetown Turf Club (GTC) Race Course at Mocha Arcadia was alight with action yesterday when the entity brought off its Pre-Mashramani Horse Race Meet which was witnessed by a few hundred...

Charges for bus driver passenger caught on video assaulting cop

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Charges for bus driver passenger caught on video assaulting cop

Two men, who were caught on video attacking a policeman are expected to appear in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts today on several charges. The traffic rank, Constable Samuels who received minor...

Chris Gayle: West Indies batsman to retire after 2019 World Cup

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chris Gayle: West Indies batsman to retire after 2019 World Cup

BBC Sport – West Indies batsman Chris Gayle will retire from one-day international cricket after this summer’s World Cup. The left-hander, 39, has scored 9,727 ODI runs – second only to...

KAMARANG…Dread and creepiness from first page to last

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on KAMARANG…Dread and creepiness from first page to last

A review of Michael Jordan’s supernatural novel by Berkley W. Semple The Caribbean tradition in literature gives short shrift to most genre fiction. There are almost no significant horror...

Steve Ninvalle appointed as AIBA Youth Commission Chairman

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Steve Ninvalle appointed as AIBA Youth Commission Chairman

In a correspondence dated February 11, 2019 from Gafur Rahimov, World Amateur Boxing Governing Body, AIBA President, and Cc: to Mr. Tom Virgets, AIBA Executive Director, President of the Guyana...

Brandon Harding is Carib Soca Monarch second year in a row

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Brandon Harding is Carib Soca Monarch second year in a row

GTT Jingle and Song Competition winner 2011, Brandon Harding, has won the Carib Soca Monarch crown for the second year in a row. Last year, Harding beat out 14 other contestants in the finals...

Milo schools’ football tournament…CWSS makes commanding start

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo schools’ football tournament…CWSS makes commanding start

In any school football tournament that Linden’s Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) has entered in recent years, the team has always been pegged to be one of the favourites, following...

There is too much sickening ignorance in the seat of official authority

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on There is too much sickening ignorance in the seat of official authority

There is absolutely nothing any man or woman can do to remove the repugnant edicts that the seat of authority imposes on the Guyanese citizenry. By the seat of authority, I don’t mean the Cabinet...

GuyanaNRA Smallbore Section shoots off 2019 with .22 Pistol competition

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GuyanaNRA Smallbore Section shoots off 2019 with .22 Pistol competition

Michael Tang (Senior) and Satya Dayaram (Junior) tops rivals The Smallbore Section of the Guyana National Rifle Association shot off its calendar events for this year on Saturday last with a .22...

This is the cake that Jack baked

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on This is the cake that Jack baked

– novelty cake decorator, Lystra Jack Lystra Jack is a baker who has been in the business for six years, with her Pike Street bakery, which she dubbed Piece A Cake & Cupcakes. The...

Mother pleads for word on daughter in Germany

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mother pleads for word on daughter in Germany

Farida Mohamed last saw her daughter about 14 years ago. The 17-year-old, Christine Erulin, was preparing to migrate to Germany to live with her father Stephane, and stepmother. Since then,...

Kitchen Garden Tips…Growing Ginger

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kitchen Garden Tips…Growing Ginger

You might think growing ginger (Zingiber Officinale) in your kitchen garden is a mere novelty, a horticultural gimmick that will never pay back the time and effort you need to put in. But, once you...

The Rise and Fall of a Hero

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Rise and Fall of a Hero

After his non-eventful appearance at the book launch, he became more desperate. It had been two months since he had arrived back home but he was still to make any inroads into the upper social...

The Millennial Perspective…On Colourism and Beauty

Feb 18, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on The Millennial Perspective…On Colourism and Beauty

When I was in primary school, there was a girl who I heard some Indo-Guyanese boys call the ugliest girl in school. She didn’t have many friends, and she’d get teased a lot, about how dark...

GECOM is frustrating democracy

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM is frustrating democracy

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has a sordid history. It was a tool in the hands of the PNC in rigging elections in the pre-1992 days. One of the deals brokered by the Carter...

A phantom is running for the highest office

Feb 18, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on A phantom is running for the highest office

Dear Editor, Guyana has just staked out another dubious first. It has a phantom running for the highest office in the land. If at this early and hysterical stage of the game the candidate has all but...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more