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Schoolbooks investigation… Evidence surfaces that local printers had complained to Presidential Secretariat

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolbooks investigation… Evidence surfaces that local printers had complained to Presidential Secretariat

There is evidence now that at least two local printers, angered by the situation over the printing of textbooks, had complained to the Ministry of the Presidency, beginning as far back as 2017. Both...

Oil blocks probe… ExxonMobil willing to cooperate with SARA

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Oil blocks probe… ExxonMobil willing to cooperate with SARA

ExxonMobil’s Head of Government and Public Affairs, Deedra Moe, says that the company would be willing to coopera te with the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA) which is probing the award of oil...

Integrity Commission must prosecute defaulters – Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Integrity Commission must prosecute defaulters – Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran

Now that the Integrity Commission has begun to monitor the declarations of those persons in public life, Chartered Accountant and former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran says that it must now move...

Guyana/Suriname ferry service suspended …as MV Canawaima encounters ‘serious mechanical issues’

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana/Suriname ferry service suspended …as MV Canawaima encounters ‘serious mechanical issues’

The daily ingress and egress from the Moleson Creek Ferry Stelling is currently at a halt after the lone ferry MV Canawaima encountered serious mechanical issues, forcing it to be shut down. The...

Overpass elevators still not operational as May 26 deadline passes

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Overpass elevators still not operational as May 26 deadline passes

From all accounts it appears as if the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has failed in making operational the elevators at several locations along the East Bank Demerara Highway. After noticing that...

Vision 2040 policy says… Undertake study to identify laws that need amending, replacement

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Vision 2040 policy says… Undertake study to identify laws that need amending, replacement

The final document of the Green State Development Strategy: Vision 2040 was recently released by the Department of Environment, and part of it deals with correcting deficiencies in the Rule of Law....

Govt. seeks consultant to draft Bail Act

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. seeks consultant to draft Bail Act

The Ministry of Legal Affairs is looking for a consultant to draft a Bail Act. Presently there is no Act regulating the granting of bail in Guyana. The government and the Inter-American Development...

Repackaging pesticide, toxic chemicals without permit is illegal – Board

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Repackaging pesticide, toxic chemicals without permit is illegal – Board

The Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board is warning pharmacies, importers, distributors and others that it is illegal to r epackage any pesticide or toxic chemical without possessing the...

More than 1,000 visually impaired in Region Three – Survey

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on More than 1,000 visually impaired in Region Three – Survey

In observance of Blindness Awareness Month, May 1- 31, the National Commission on Disability recently posted results of a National Household Survey on Persons with Disabilities (NHSPWD). This survey...

Gang robbers resurface; beat and rob civilian in Stabroek area

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gang robbers resurface; beat and rob civilian in Stabroek area

Citizens, food vendors, and commuters who traverse the Stabroek Market area in Georgetown are now fearful that the night time gangs have returned to rob persons, particularly along the Demico House...

Unidentified man found dead after Mahdia flood

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Unidentified man found dead after Mahdia flood

The body of an unidentified man was on Sunday morning, last, found some miles away from the township of Mahdia, Region Eight. According to information received, passersby who were in that area saw...

WHAT IS A MAJORITY OF ONE?

May 28, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS A MAJORITY OF ONE?

The decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the no confidence vote of December 22, 2018, in Guyana’s National Assembly, will decide whether the science of mathematics remains the same...

Missing canecutter’s partly decomposed body found in canal

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Missing canecutter’s partly decomposed body found in canal

The partly decomposed body of 56-year-old Hukumchan Inshanally called “Sugrim” and “Oil”, a canecutter attached to the Albion Estate, was discovered in a canal at the...

GGB defends export licence granted to miner caught with 30lbs of gold in 2011

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GGB defends export licence granted to miner caught with 30lbs of gold in 2011

The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) has defended the approval of an export licence earlier this year to a mining company whose principal was at the centre of a case in 2011. It had been reported by online...

UG unions ‘feel vindicated’ as Vice Chancellor proceeds on leave

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on UG unions ‘feel vindicated’ as Vice Chancellor proceeds on leave

The University of Guyana Council, at a special meeting held on May 23, determined that Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, C.C.H., should proceed on his terminal leave in accordance with the...

Region Four Education Dept. pays homage to 53 seniors for Independence

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four Education Dept. pays homage to 53 seniors for Independence

Under the leadership of acting Regional Education Officer (REdO), Ms. Tiffany Harvey, the Region Four Department of Education held an event recently, which sought to honour 53 seniors. The event,...

Carnival come and Guyana light up

May 28, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Carnival come and Guyana light up

Independence come and gone. People come from farrin like ants coming to sugar. And dem boys coulda spot dem from a mile off. Dem look different; dem dress different and dem always wiping dem face...

“Badness is not it” – Buju Banton spreads “positive message” to youths during community visits

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “Badness is not it” – Buju Banton spreads “positive message” to youths during community visits

Minister within the Ministry of the Presidency, Simona Charles-Broomes, on Sunday afternoon, along with Jamaican dancehall and reggae superstar, Mark Myrie, popularly known as Buju Banton, visited...

Livestock Authority cracks down on importation of eggs

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Livestock Authority cracks down on importation of eggs

Authorities are paying more attention to the importation of eggs. According to the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), an import permit is needed when bringing eggs into Guyana. The...

RHTYSC and Bakewell honour s Rose Hall Town Bakewell Second Division Team

May 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC and Bakewell honour s Rose Hall Town Bakewell Second Division Team

Bakewell which has been the official sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS Second Division Team since 2006, join ed hands with the Management of the Club to honour fifteen players...

Guyana participating in anti-money laundering conference in Trinidad

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana participating in anti-money laundering conference in Trinidad

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams is leading a Guyanese delegation to the XLIX Plenary and Working Group Meetings of the Caribbean Action Task Force being held in Port of...

GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – Rupununi FA Strikers FC and Paiwomak Warriors FC notch wins

May 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – Rupununi FA Strikers FC and Paiwomak Warriors FC notch wins

The 50th Anniversary edition of the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Under-17 League kicked off in the Rupununi Footba ll Association last week saw Strikers Football Club and Paiwomak Warriors...

Grove police pickup crashes into two cars after “chase”

May 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Grove police pickup crashes into two cars after “chase”

A police pickup from the Grove Police Station, East Bank Demerara, suffered significant damage yesterday after crashing into two cars along the Diamond Access Road. According to residents, the early...

Schools Windball cricket underway in Upper East Bank Demerara Zone

May 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Schools Windball cricket underway in Upper East Bank Demerara Zone

Action in the Upper East Bank Demerara Zone of the 22nd Annual End of School Year (Edward Cobenna Memorial) Primary Schools Windball Cricket Champions Trophy continued with play at the Timehri...

Reds is 80 not out

May 28, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reds is 80 not out

By Sean Devers “I am now in the 80s club but I don’t feel any different from when I was 70 or 75 and I am satisfied with what I have tried to do to help others and where sport has taken...

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Fingerprinting and Finger-Pointing

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