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Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on French oil company operating offshore Guyana has history of corruption, bribery, inflating costs
By Kiana Wilburg INTRODUCTION Much has been said about the attractiveness of the Guyana basin, which holds over five billion oil equivalent resources. The world’s most elite petroleum...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Outdated laws hinder Govt’s promise to award 20 percent of contracts to small businesses – Tender Board Head
By Kiana Wilburg Since January 2019, the Coalition Administration had said that small contractors would have access to 20 percent of all government contracts. But this is being hindered by the...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No toilet paper and soap for staff but…UG spent over $400,000 to cater dinner for eight
– former UGSSA vice president The unions of the University of Guyana, the Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the Workers’ Union (UGWU) await a financial audit by the Auditor General...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miss Rupununi Rodeo 2019 does Surama proud
Mae Allicock, of Surama Village in Region 9, is the new Miss Rupununi Rodeo 2019. Allicock was crowned queen after the Easter weekend in Lethem got off to an excellent start on Friday, April...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News, Sports Comments Off on Robbed…shot…killed… Despite attacks, money-changers continue risky trade
Carrying bag packs or trolley bags loaded with local and foreign currency, they are often seen sitting or standing along Water, America, or Longden Street, Georgetown to trade their wads of money....Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Over 600 Venezuelan migrant children accepted into school system
Six hundred and seventy migrant children have been accepted in the formal school system in Guyana, owing to the large influx of Venezuelans and Guyanese returning from the Bolivarian Republic...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty shack goes up in flames after kero stove left unattended
A dilapidated wooden cottage at Lot 39 Public Road Kitty, Georgetown was destroyed yesterday afternoon after one of its occupants allegedly left a pot of rice boiling on a kerosene stove....Apr 22, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De church change wid de times
De Waterfalls paper publish a cartoon yesterday dat had nuff people smiling. Long ago church was a place to go for peace and salvation. Dem bandits decide to go there fuh riches. Some of dem even go...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 80 percent of Guyana’s roads are unpaved –IDB
By Kiana Wilburg In its latest report on infrastructural challenges facing the region, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) noted that Guyana possesses one of the sparsest road networks in South...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor Berbice Cricket Board of Control responds
Dear Editor, The Berbice Cricket Board has noted with some amusement a letter written by Ms Carol Nurse, Secretary of the West Berbice Cricket Association that there are phantom clubs in the Ancient...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on GCA/ Tri State USA 50-over U-19 League Bookie’ ton & 2-47 keep DCC’ unbeaten record intact NY Tri State lose by 48 in first loss despite Stanley 92
A welcome return to form by Alphius Bookie resulted in him scoring a century and taking 2-47 and Player-of-the-Match award as DCC stretched their winning streak to five as they handed the touring NY...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News, Sports Comments Off on GVF holds successful camp Fund raising BBQ and tourney on today at 63 Beach
The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) held another successful weekend camp at the National Gymnasium as they prepared for the Inter Guiana Games tournament scheduled for French Guiana May 1 – 5....Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on Bartica Easter Regatta – Powerboat Races Day One Thousands light up Golden Beach despite accident in race 1 dampen proceedings somewhat
An unfortunate accident in the first race of the day involving two of the prominent names in powerboat racing including icon Jose Jardine put a damper on day activities of the 2019 edition of the...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on Veteran Reis is champion in Global Auto Spares inaugural Golf Tourney LGC shares kites to kids in Albouystown
He did it again! Veteran Clifford Reis, who has been in the Winners’ Row regularly over the past 3 months, continued his winning drive as he led the competition to emerge winner in his Flight and...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on Carifta Games 2019 Three Gold medals for Guyana
Day two of the 2019 Caribbean Free Trade Association (Carifta) Games which is currently being contested in the Grand Cayman Islands, saw Anisha Gibbons winning Guyana’s third Gold medal, after she...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Sports Comments Off on Bartica Easter Regatta – Powerboat Races Day One Thousands light up Golden Beach despite accident in race 1 dampen proceedings somewhat
An unfortunate accident in the first race of the day involving two of the prominent names in powerboat racing including icon Jose Jardine put a damper on day activities of the 2019 edition of the...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Language barrier, employees hinder full compliance of Consumers Affairs Act
By Trishan Craig The Consumers Affairs Unit (CAU) has been working diligently to bring businesses in compliance with the Consumers Affairs Act (CAA). A re-inspection of businesses in 2018 by...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Away they go; will I see them again?
In several Easter columns stretching back to 2003, I reflected on the kites going up and likened them to people leaving Guyana. I did that in 2003, 2004; in 2007, my Easter piece carried the title,...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Industrious farmer Rayon Bacchus seeks help to break into international market
by Alex Wayne Thirty-two year old Rayon Bacchus of Calcutta Village, Mahaicony East Coast Demerara is the very epitome of the adage that perseverance is the strongest factor that can lead to success....Apr 22, 2019 KNews News, Sports Comments Off on GTTA secures Pan American Para table tennis spot Paves way for National Champion Hussein to compete in Peru
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) secured a qualification spot for a Para athlete to represent the nation in the sport at the 2019 Pan American games Paralympic table tennis championships...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on KAMARANG…The pork-knocker speaks of the girl with changing names
By Michael Jordan Michael Jones passed the white colonial-style building that was the Ministry’s Brickdam headquarters. There was no sign of the Bedford truck. He’d be back at work...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Welcome to the wild side!’ − 2019 Rupununi Rodeo underway
If you enjoy the thrills of vaqueros straddling wild bulls or attempting to milk wild cows, then the Rupununi Rodeo in Lethem, Region 9 is definitely the place to be this Easter. This is the...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miss New Silver City Secondary is Miss Teen Ambassador
Aquila Handy, Miss New Silver City Secondary, was yesterday crowned Miss “Teen Ambassador,” beating out five other contestants for the coveted title, in a keenly contested pageant, at the...Apr 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on A missing boy with a kite…a sadistic killer…NEVER TO RETURN HOME
By Feona Morrison Five days before Easter Monday in April 2015, a nine-year-old boy named Shaquan Gittens wandered off alone to fly his kite. But that child never returned home, and today,...Apr 22, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters, News Comments Off on Disband Special Organised Crime Unit
DEAR EDITOR, As one of the persons who aided in the establishment of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), as well as one who is a victim of its malicious prosecution, I feel compelled to comment...
Dec 03, 2024
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