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Manganese company ordered to halt exploration -more Chinese workers brought out -two test positive for Leptospirosis

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Manganese company ordered to halt exploration -more Chinese workers brought out -two test positive for Leptospirosis

Public Health officials have ruled out Swine Flu (H1N1), Zika, Chikungunya, Dengue, Influenza A and B, as possible causes of the recent spate of illnesses and death in Matthew’s Ridge. “Thus far,...

Business Minister Dominic Gaskin resigns as MP – sources

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Business Minister Dominic Gaskin resigns as MP – sources

Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin, has reportedly resigned as a parliamentarian amid a raging debate over politicians and the issue of dual citizenship. On Sunday, Gaskin, the son-in-law of...

Body in car trunk… Bulletin issued for wife of fuel dealer murdered in 2009

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Body in car trunk… Bulletin issued for wife of fuel dealer murdered in 2009

Police yesterday took their first step to have the wife of slain fuel dealer Ramzan Alli returned from overseas to be questioned for his murder. In a bulletin issued yesterday, police stated that...

Tied to her bed and strangled four years ago…Cops crack another cold case…as two confess to killing elderly Albouystown businesswoman

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tied to her bed and strangled four years ago…Cops crack another cold case…as two confess to killing elderly Albouystown businesswoman

In the early hours of June 19, 2014, 65-year-old businesswoman Sumintra Dinool, of Barr Street, Albouystown, reportedly heard a rapping at her front door. It is said that Mrs. Dinool was...

Couple perishes in bike-jeep collision

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Couple perishes in bike-jeep collision

A horrific accident involving a jeep and a motorcycle on the Amelia’s Ward Hilltop just after eight o’clock last night, has claimed the lives of a young Linden couple. Dead is Sheshyka...

AG’s Chambers lack expertise to fine tune oil laws – Hughes

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on AG’s Chambers lack expertise to fine tune oil laws – Hughes

Prominent Attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes, is of the firm view that the Attorney General’s Chambers does not have the expertise to fine-tune the technical laws needed for the oil sector. As such, he...

Guyana still owes Kuwait US$27M despite US$50M write-off on US$10M loan

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana still owes Kuwait US$27M despite US$50M write-off on US$10M loan

In 1975, Guyana took a loan from the State of Kuwait, through the Kuwait Investment Authority for US$10.3M. At the end of 2017, non-payments saw that US$10.3M rise to a massive US$77.5M, a...

Hefty fines for oil spills will keep companies in check – Dr. Mangal

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Hefty fines for oil spills will keep companies in check – Dr. Mangal

By Kiana Wilburg From all indications, Guyana remains woefully unprepared for addressing an oil spill. For example, the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan remains in draft stage for more than a...

Guyana borrow small and got to pay big

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana borrow small and got to pay big

Everybody does borrow. In fact, de banks does encourage people to borrow. Some of dem banks does tell people not to use dem own money. “Why use your money when you can use ours?” Dat is a...

Man chopped by one-legged assailant

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man chopped by one-legged assailant

Ronald Seebachan, a one-legged man was yesterday made to answer a charge in which he is accused of allegedly chopping a man about his body during a heated argument that ensued between them. The...

$14M mini-koker in Charity 50% completed

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $14M mini-koker in Charity 50% completed

The $14 million Mini-Koker that is being constructed within the developing community of Charity, Essequibo Coast is more than 50% completed. Once completed, it is anticipated that the heavily...

Cops arrest 15-year-old wanted for stashing air gun

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cops arrest 15-year-old wanted for stashing air gun

The 15-year-old lad that police were hunting in connection with a stashed air gun in Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice, has been arrested. According to a police source, ranks of the...

CJIA ‘Red-cap’ killed in freak accident with two minibuses

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA ‘Red-cap’ killed in freak accident with two minibuses

A ‘Red-cap’ porter at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport is dead after a horrific accident Sunday night on the Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara. Dead is Collin Bourne, 22, of...

$8M building commissioned for nursery classes at Mainstay/ Whyaka

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $8M building commissioned for nursery classes at Mainstay/ Whyaka

The Amerindian community of Mainstay Whyaka will now benefit from a more effective delivery of Nursery Education, now that a building designated for a nursery class was commissioned within the...

Businessman’s son shot, robbed of millions on Regent Street

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman’s son shot, robbed of millions on Regent Street

One of the busier sections of Regent Street, Georgetown, was in pandemonium close to noon yesterday, when two bandits on a motorcycle shot and robbed the son of a popular businessman, making...

Subryanville Hotel shooting… Pathologist yet to testify as court not in possession of PM report

Apr 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Subryanville Hotel shooting… Pathologist yet to testify as court not in possession of PM report

Five months later, the post mortem report into the death of 30-year-old Jason De Florimonte, of 96 Fifth Avenue, Subryanville, who was shot dead last August, is yet to be presented in court....

Finding the right persons for the job

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Finding the right persons for the job

The political parties and coalitions which have traditionally administered Guyana have looked for the right persons in the wrong places. They have come into office and have tried to find competent...

Inaugural Kares Engineering Teen ChallengeTina Praimchand and Eli Armstrong are inaugural female and male champs

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural Kares Engineering Teen ChallengeTina Praimchand and Eli Armstrong are inaugural female and male champs

Following three rounds of passionate rivalry against each in the blistering Sunday mid afternoon sun, Tina Praimchand and Eli Armstrong emerged as the inaugural female and male Kares...

Police Commissioner B/Day Inter-Division T20 cricket‘A’ beat TSU & ‘F’ defeat ‘D’ Division in latest action

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police Commissioner B/Day Inter-Division T20 cricket‘A’ beat TSU & ‘F’ defeat ‘D’ Division in latest action

By Sean Devers It was another day of entertaining cricket at Eve Leary yesterday as day nine action in the Commissioner of Police Birth Anniversary Inter-Division and Branches T20 cricket...

Academy of Contemporary Martial Arts conducts first grading exams

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Academy of Contemporary Martial Arts conducts first grading exams

The Academy of Contemporary Martial Arts conducted its first grading examination on Saturday last at the Perth Union Burial Society Hall in Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. Ezekiel Abel, Aaron Bourne,...

Linden Town Week Mayor’s Cup FootballCapital FC and Blueberry Hill score 2-0 wins on opening night

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden Town Week Mayor’s Cup FootballCapital FC and Blueberry Hill score 2-0 wins on opening night

There were 2-0 wins by Capital FC and Blueberry Hill United over Amelia’s Ward Panthers and Hi Stars respectively, when the first ever Linden Mayor’s Cup football championship began as...

GABA/Let’s Bet Sports knockout tournament Kobras wrap up First Division Championship

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABA/Let’s Bet Sports knockout tournament Kobras wrap up First Division Championship

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (GABA)/Let’s Bet Sports First Division Knockout Championship concluded on Saturday last at the Burnham hard-court on M iddle and Carmichael Streets where...

Jumbo Jet Triple Crown final legValentina in the running to claim Triple Crown prize

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet Triple Crown final legValentina in the running to claim Triple Crown prize

All roads will lead to the Port Mourant Turf Club in Corentyne, Berbice on Easter Sunday for the final leg of the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee (JJTRC) Triple Crown, which at its...

Guinness street phenomenon returns to East Coast April 12

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness street phenomenon returns to East Coast April 12

Last year saw fans attendance exceed previous years and this trend is anticipated to continue when play in this year’s East Coast Zone of the highly exciting Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’...

Grace Kennedy on board Bartica Easter Regatta 2019

Apr 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grace Kennedy on board Bartica Easter Regatta 2019

Grace Kennedy is one of the early corporate entities to partner with the Town Council of Bartica for the 2019 edition of the Annual Bartica Easter Regatta. The company, through its Marketing...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more