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Guyana left dangerously exposed by absence of reformed laws for oil industry – Ram

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana left dangerously exposed by absence of reformed laws for oil industry – Ram

By Kiana Wilburg From 2015 to now, not a single piece of petroleum legislation has been updated. In fact, a regulatory framework for the oil sector is still to be implemented. It is on this...

Assess Guyana’s strengths and weaknesses to craft an effective Local Content Policy – Hughes

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Assess Guyana’s strengths and weaknesses to craft an effective Local Content Policy – Hughes

By Kiana Wilburg An effective Local Content Policy is not possible without an assessment of the country’s ability to provide goods and services to the petroleum industry. And for Guyana to...

Teen gunned down on way to football – four held

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Teen gunned down on way to football – four held

An 18-year-old mason, Christopher Mansfield, of Lot 66 Bar Street, Albouystown, left his home at about 06.00 hrs yesterday, to play football, but was murdered before he reached his Non Pariel...

Nine Guyanese beauties vying for Miss Earth Guyana crown 2019

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Nine Guyanese beauties vying for Miss Earth Guyana crown 2019

Miss Earth is an international pageant, channelling the beauty oriented world of pageantry as an effective tool to raise environmental awareness. Many people admire and aspire to be beauty...

Shot School of Nations principal suggests well connected individuals involved in attack

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Shot School of Nations principal suggests well connected individuals involved in attack

Two months ago, the Principal of School of the Nations, Dr. Brian O’Toole was shot twice by an assailant who is yet to be positively identified. Today, O’Toole is still nursing his left arm after...

Death of Chinese national…Health Minister still to identify ‘respiratory ailment’

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Death of Chinese national…Health Minister still to identify ‘respiratory ailment’

– seven others transferred to West Dem Hospital Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence is refuting reports that the H1N1 virus is to blame for the death of a Chinese national working in a...

Bound to her bed and strangled…Cops take second look at 2014 murder of Albouystown businesswoman

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bound to her bed and strangled…Cops take second look at 2014 murder of Albouystown businesswoman

She was gagged, bound to her bed and strangled in her Barr Street, Albouystown home five years ago. With the murder still unsolved, detectives are taking a second look at the gruesome killing...

Chinee businessman see Guyanese as sheep

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Chinee businessman see Guyanese as sheep

Who know bout de law shaking dem head because everybody doing dem own thing. Some people tek things so far that dem don’t care what de law seh. De Central Housing and Planning Authority still...

Cops seek FBI assistance in School of Nations shooting-overseas-based ex-student who made threats and ‘gloated’ about attack among persons of interest

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek FBI assistance in School of Nations shooting-overseas-based ex-student who made threats and ‘gloated’ about attack among persons of interest

The Guyana Police Force has requested help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe the January 27 shooting of School of the Nations Principal, Brian O’Toole. The US-based...

Cops seek FBI assistance in School of Nations shooting-overseas-based ex-student who made threats and ‘gloated’ about attack among persons of interest

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek FBI assistance in School of Nations shooting-overseas-based ex-student who made threats and ‘gloated’ about attack among persons of interest

The Guyana Police Force has requested help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe the January 27 shooting of School of the Nations Principal, Brian O’Toole. The US-based...

City council to probe lands leased by King, others

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City council to probe lands leased by King, others

The Georgetown City Council is taking stock of lands leased by the previous administration of the city. The decision to probe comes after former Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Town Clerk; Royston...

Less than third of projects advertised; contracts went mainly to govt. supporters-REO’s son, son-in-law beneficiaries

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Less than third of projects advertised; contracts went mainly to govt. supporters-REO’s son, son-in-law beneficiaries

In a highly unusual move that signals a change in the status quo, a senior Region Nine official has asked authorities to probe major procurement breaches in that area. Between January 1 and March 28,...

From May Day to Merriment Day

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on From May Day to Merriment Day

The trade union movement has reached its apogee. The sun has long set on the trade union movement but the leadership does not seem to recognize this. Trade unions are on the decline, not just...

Several bills slated for Parliament

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Several bills slated for Parliament

─ Supplementary for GECOM among legislation prioritised As the Coalition Government prepares to return to the National Assembly, several key pieces of legislation are slated to be tabled; says...

Camp Street Prisons to be rebuilt, Engineer’s Estimate for each lot in excess of $300 million.

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Street Prisons to be rebuilt, Engineer’s Estimate for each lot in excess of $300 million.

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday opened tenders for a range of projects, most notable the Reconstruction of Camp Street Prison. This project attracted bids...

Cops seek FBI assistance in

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek FBI assistance in

School of Nations shooting -overseas-based ex-student who made threats and ‘gloated’ about attack among persons of interest

MS Serenissima’s wraps up visit to Guyana

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on MS Serenissima’s wraps up visit to Guyana

Business Minister Dominic Gaskin yesterday visited the MV Serenissima cruise ship as it wrapped up a successful stop in Guyana. The 76 tourists over the three days visited the Kaieteur Falls,...

‘Sindicato’ gang member, two others charged for drunken prisoner’s death

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Sindicato’ gang member, two others charged for drunken prisoner’s death

A Venezuelan, who police claims was the second in command of the notorious group known as the ‘Sindicato’ gang, and two other defendants were on Monday charged for the murder of Kallicharran...

Sex-related offences dominate Essequibo criminal assizes

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sex-related offences dominate Essequibo criminal assizes

From an analysis of the number of cases for sexual offences passing through the Magistrates’ Courts, it can be concluded that these types of offences are becoming more and more prevalent in...

Taxi driver succumbs after shooting

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver succumbs after shooting

Marlon Rodney, the 35-year-old taxi driver who was shot last week Thursday during an argument with two men on Joseph Pollydore Street and Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, died yesterday at the...

Land war brewing at Ogle Airport

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Land war brewing at Ogle Airport

Domestic aircraft operators at Ogle Airport are seriously concerned at the increasing strong arm treatment by Ogle Airport Inc., which was leased 407 acres of state land in 2003 for the equitable...

Amerit Rai Memorial T20 final set for today

Apr 01, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amerit Rai Memorial T20 final set for today

Zeeburg and Rising Star A will clash in the final of Amerith Rai Memorial T20 Final today at the West Meten-Meer-Zorg Cricket Club ground from 13:00hrs. Zeeburg beat Omesh XI and Rising Star...

5th Annual Kares Engineering Fitness Challenge Dillon ‘The Beast’ Mahadeo unstoppable for 4th year; 17 year-old Surinamese Ava Zalman is new queen

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News, Sports Comments Off on 5th Annual Kares Engineering Fitness Challenge Dillon ‘The Beast’ Mahadeo unstoppable for 4th year; 17 year-old Surinamese Ava Zalman is new queen

By Franklin Wilson Dillon ‘The Beast Mahadeo of Crossfit 592 was in beat like mode from start to finish yesterday as he once again proved that he is in a class of his own when he successfully...

Family suspicious about young woman’s ‘suicide’

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Family suspicious about young woman’s ‘suicide’

It has been more than a month since 25 year- old Asheena Allicock died of apparent suicide but the proverbial dust surrounding her death has not yet settled. The mother of three of...

DemToCo’s UK parent company accused of hiding profits from Guyana, other territories

Apr 01, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on DemToCo’s UK parent company accused of hiding profits from Guyana, other territories

British American Tobacco (BAT), the parent company of the Demerara Tobacco Company, has been accused of depriving developing countries of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax by using “financial...

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Uncertainty clouds Golden Jaguars’ Head Coach position as Barbados showdown approaches

Fingerprinting and Finger-Pointing

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- No one, not even the staunchest supporters of Guyana’s electoral process, would claim... more