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Price fixing racket at GuySuCo… Internal audit report recommended Bhim sacked

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Price fixing racket at GuySuCo… Internal audit report recommended Bhim sacked

The operations of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) over the years have been a major battle ground between the government of the day and the opposition. Up to 2015, the workers were over 16,000...

No party that refuses to correct illegalities of Exxon contract deserves to hold office –Chartered Accountant

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No party that refuses to correct illegalities of Exxon contract deserves to hold office –Chartered Accountant

By Kiana Wilburg From beginning to end, the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between Guyana and ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), contains numerous...

Councillors allege nepotism as REO approves payment for relative …call for Auditor General’s intervention

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Councillors allege nepotism as REO approves payment for relative …call for Auditor General’s intervention

Councillors of Region Six (East Berbice) have called for a probe by the state auditors into what they say is a clear-cut case of nepotism in Berbice. According to councillors, the Regional Executive...

Pres. Granger pays surprise visit to albion estate

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pres. Granger pays surprise visit to albion estate

President David Granger, on Friday morning, met with the management and staff of the Albion/Port Mourant Sugar Estate, East Berbice- Corentyne (Region Six) where he committed to ensuring that a...

Essequibo woman shot, family robbed of $3,000 in home invasion

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo woman shot, family robbed of $3,000 in home invasion

Menawattie Fernandez is currently nursing a gunshot wound at the Suddie Public Hospital, after her family was robbed and held at gunpoint on last Friday night; all for $3,000. Based on reports,...

GRA sets up hotline to fight corruption from within

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA sets up hotline to fight corruption from within

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has indicated to the public by means of an advertisement in the daily newspapers, that it has launched a hotline service for their Special Investigation Unit (SIU)...

Battered Corentyne pensioner dies one month after robbery attack

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Battered Corentyne pensioner dies one month after robbery attack

The Alness Village pensioner who was beaten and robbed in his home a month ago by armed men, has succumbed to his injuries he sustained during the invasion. Dead is Gilford Goodchild, 76, of Lot 53...

Extra evil gon follow dem politicians and dem pickney

Jun 09, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Extra evil gon follow dem politicians and dem pickney

Old people got a saying how rain don’t fall at one man door. Dat mean dat bad things don’t happen to one man alone. Dem same old people does talk bout retribution. Dem does quick to tell dem...

Local companies must meet int’l standards for oil business – says business architecture expert

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local companies must meet int’l standards for oil business – says business architecture expert

Local businesses have been doing just fine for the level at which they are operating and for the clientele they’ve been serving. But if they are to capitalise on and benefit from the rush that...

WAKE UP GUYANESE BROTHERS & SISTERS

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on WAKE UP GUYANESE BROTHERS & SISTERS

Our Mom and Dad die in an accident and leave 10 children. Donald, the eldest brother, is put in charge of all of our properties. Suddenly, we hear that two of the most valuable properties were...

Guyana/Suriname ‘back-track’ route sees increase in traffic

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana/Suriname ‘back-track’ route sees increase in traffic

As time progresses and with no certainty of having a ferry service back in operation at the Canawaima Ferry Stelling at Moleson Creek, persons leaving Guyana for Suriname have been using a new...

Guyanese-created movie, ‘The Tenants: Rent’s due’, hits Caribbean Cinema next month

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-created movie, ‘The Tenants: Rent’s due’, hits Caribbean Cinema next month

The name Richard B. Mahase has been synonymous with many extraordinary writings. But his latest spectacular piece is likely to be the most captivating he has ever put his hands to. The piece in...

Teen caught in Berbice house remanded to jail

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Teen caught in Berbice house remanded to jail

Joshua Butts, 18, who was caught and beaten by residents after he was found hiding in a house not far from where he had taken up residence a few weeks before, has been remanded to jail. Butts, of Lot...

Police find missing Berbice woman with husband at Enmore

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police find missing Berbice woman with husband at Enmore

The woman who was reported missing after she was dragged by her husband from a friend’s home on Tuesday was found in the comp any of the same man on Friday at Enmore, East Coast Demerara. They were...

Breach of trust

Jun 09, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Breach of trust

When faith is shattered, disastrous fate follows. Boeing is finding this out the hard way. As often happens in human affairs, this was avoidable and fixable, except that there was this undue haste...

NASA to open International Space Station to tourists

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on NASA to open International Space Station to tourists

BBC – NASA is to allow tourists to visit the International Space Station from 2020, priced at $35,000 (£27,500) per night. The US space agency said it would open the orbiting station to tourism...

Region Three environmental health unit on board with going green drive

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three environmental health unit on board with going green drive

The Environmental Health Unit of Region Three is on board with the ‘going green’. On Friday, it displayed a model of a typical environmentally friendly home and a few up-cycled materials....

Govt aims to establish Public Private Partnership Unit – GSDS Vision 2040

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt aims to establish Public Private Partnership Unit – GSDS Vision 2040

Public Private Partnerships (PPP) will be instrumental in the execution of major infrastructural projects in the future. But before that happens, it is expected that a PPP unit will be established...

Men get three months jail for abusing woman.

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Men get three months jail for abusing woman.

Eon Johnson who was brought before the court and made to answer three charges was yesterday sentenced to prison and instructed to pay a fine after he appeared before a city magistrate and pleaded...

STANDARDS IN FOCUS TODAY IS WORLD ACCREDITATION DAY

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS TODAY IS WORLD ACCREDITATION DAY

Today, June 9 marks World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation...

Russia is Dumping U.S. Dollars to Hoard Gold

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Russia is Dumping U.S. Dollars to Hoard Gold

BLOOMBERG – Vladimir Putin’s quest to break Russia’s reliance on the U.S. dollar has set off a literal gold rush. Within the span of a decade, the country quadrupled its bullion reserves, and...

Man chopped to death in front of son, 7

Jun 09, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man chopped to death in front of son, 7

Shockwaves swept through the village of Farm, West Demerara late yesterday when Andrew Eldon Drakes, was attacked and butchered by his neighbour. Kaieteur News understands that the 43-year-old Drakes...

When there is no back door

Jun 09, 2019 KNews The Story within the Story Comments Off on When there is no back door

By Leonard Gildarie I am by no means a rich man. I care my clothes. I try to wash and service my car in a timely manner. I ensure my home is taken care of. I love my dogs. You don’t have to be...

I was never in a position to victimise or favour any human

Jun 09, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I was never in a position to victimise or favour any human

If you examine the acidic or innocuous criticisms of me, going back decades, they read like this; he is crazy; he lies; he is a poor writer; he is a poor academic; he writes nonsense; people...

The Guyana Chronicle Scandal: A study in the Personalisation and Party Politicisation of Power

Jun 09, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on The Guyana Chronicle Scandal: A study in the Personalisation and Party Politicisation of Power

The news emanating from the Guyana Chronicle regarding the reinstatement by decree of the General Manager is most sickening. There are three things that I must get out of the way. First, party...

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CWI Cricket West Indies suspends Alzarri Joseph for two matches

A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more