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Include ExxonMobil’s PSA in any probe – Chartered Accountant

Include ExxonMobil’s PSA in any probe – Chartered Accountant

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Include ExxonMobil’s PSA in any probe – Chartered Accountant

By Kiana Wilburg An investigation into the oil deals Guyana signed onto is a perfectly legitimate exercise. But it should not be narrowly focused on the Canje and Kaieteur oil blocks which were...

Advertisements on Canje oil block misleading –Dr. Mangal

Advertisements on Canje oil block misleading –Dr. Mangal

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Advertisements on Canje oil block misleading –Dr. Mangal

By Kiana Wilburg Following several newspaper articles on the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA)’s probe into the award of oil blocks, Mid-Atlantic Oil and Gas Inc. and JHI Associates, two industry...

Whistleblowing Berbice cops accuse colleagues of helping criminals – claim dead Black Bush bandits had policemen’s numbers stored in phones

Whistleblowing Berbice cops accuse colleagues of helping criminals – claim dead Black Bush bandits had policemen’s numbers stored in phones

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Whistleblowing Berbice cops accuse colleagues of helping criminals – claim dead Black Bush bandits had policemen’s numbers stored in phones

By Malisa Playter-Harry A few ranks of the Guyana Police Force’s ‘B’ Division are speaking out against some of their colleagues who they claim have been engaging in several corrupt acts...

One year after COI… Relatives of Lindo Creek victims no closer to closure

One year after COI… Relatives of Lindo Creek victims no closer to closure

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on One year after COI… Relatives of Lindo Creek victims no closer to closure

More than 10 months after a report into the shocking killings in 2008 of eight miners in a Berbice River mining camp was handed over to Government, relatives are again calling for some attention to...

Miner allegedly stabs woman for attempting to break-up his home

Miner allegedly stabs woman for attempting to break-up his home

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miner allegedly stabs woman for attempting to break-up his home

A miner was yesterday granted bail after he was slapped with an unlawful wounding charge in which he allegedly stabbed a woman about her body with a broken bottle for attempting to break-up his home....

Local sugar quotas… Despite malfeasance and dereliction of duty, GuySuCo failed to take action – Internal Report

Local sugar quotas… Despite malfeasance and dereliction of duty, GuySuCo failed to take action – Internal Report

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local sugar quotas… Despite malfeasance and dereliction of duty, GuySuCo failed to take action – Internal Report

There are more indications that at the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), little attention was paid to wrongdoing and breaches of procedures. For example, with sugar a high demand...

Fourth Director resigns over reinstatement of Chronicle GM

Fourth Director resigns over reinstatement of Chronicle GM

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fourth Director resigns over reinstatement of Chronicle GM

Aaron Fraser yesterday became the fourth board member to have resigned since the reinstatement of Chronicle’s General Manager, Sherod Duncan. Other board members who had already resigned were Board...

Psychiatric patient killed defending belongings from other inmates

Psychiatric patient killed defending belongings from other inmates

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Psychiatric patient killed defending belongings from other inmates

The relatives of a patient who was killed at the National Psychiatric Hospital located at Fort Canje, Berbice, are furious at health officials in the region after they could not be provided with an...

Cutlass-wielding bandits invade Cumberland business – woman, daughter beaten, robbed

Cutlass-wielding bandits invade Cumberland business – woman, daughter beaten, robbed

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cutlass-wielding bandits invade Cumberland business – woman, daughter beaten, robbed

Two men armed with cutlasses barged into the business place and home of a woman and her daughter in broad daylight yesterday afternoon, around 13:30 hrs, and brutalised them while escaping with a...

City Hall still to finalise updated budget for new Council

City Hall still to finalise updated budget for new Council

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall still to finalise updated budget for new Council

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council is expected to deliberate and finalise matters related to their updated 2019 budget this Friday. The announcement was made yesterday during a statutory meeting...

Fifty youths graduate from leadership programme

Fifty youths graduate from leadership programme

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fifty youths graduate from leadership programme

A two-week Youth Leadership Training Programme conducted under the Department of Social Cohesion, has been d ubbed successful, after 50 youths from eight different regions across Guyana, on Sunday,...

Parika NDC seeks help to remove illegal roadside vendors

Parika NDC seeks help to remove illegal roadside vendors

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Parika NDC seeks help to remove illegal roadside vendors

Out of frustration, officials at the Parika Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Office are appealing to the police and other relevant authorities to assist in the removal of vendors that ply their...

Travellers to and from Suriname warned against flouting immigration laws

Travellers to and from Suriname warned against flouting immigration laws

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Travellers to and from Suriname warned against flouting immigration laws

Minister of Citizenship, Mr. Winston Felix, is urging members of the public travelling to and from Suriname, through East Berbice – Corentyne (Region Six), that pursuant to Section 10 (3) and...

CCJ rulings for no-confidence appeals, GECOM chairmanship case, set for next Tuesday

CCJ rulings for no-confidence appeals, GECOM chairmanship case, set for next Tuesday

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ rulings for no-confidence appeals, GECOM chairmanship case, set for next Tuesday

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is preparing to hand down rulings in the highly anticipated no- confidence and GECOM chairmanship appeals. The Court has since notified attorneys of the upcoming...

Youth who killed man with cricket bat gets 25 years

Youth who killed man with cricket bat gets 25 years

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Youth who killed man with cricket bat gets 25 years

Unable to console himself after learning that he would have to spend the next 25 years in jail for killing the uncle of his girlfriend with a cricket bat, 21-year-old Jonathan Budhan held on to his...

Robert and Donald get smoke out

Robert and Donald get smoke out

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Robert and Donald get smoke out

When people want to hunt labba or acouri, dem does use smoke. Dem is animals wid more than one hole suh dem boys does put nuff smoke at one end. Dat does force de animal to run out at de odda end and...

YBG/NSBF Georgetown/East Coast Zone BHS and St. Rose’s book semifinal spots

YBG/NSBF Georgetown/East Coast Zone BHS and St. Rose’s book semifinal spots

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on YBG/NSBF Georgetown/East Coast Zone BHS and St. Rose’s book semifinal spots

Bishops’ High School and St. Rose’s High School advanced to the U-14 semi-finals of the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) Georgetown/East Coast Regionals on...

Turning Point, Providence and All Season’s Racing Service chalk win

Turning Point, Providence and All Season’s Racing Service chalk win

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turning Point, Providence and All Season’s Racing Service chalk win

Turning Point, Providence and All Season’s Racing Service registered victories when the Lodge Kyk-over-al and Lodge Frenaeus four-game dominoes competition commenced on Sunday at the Georgetown...

GMR&SC Drag Championship round 2 “Safety is paramount” – Hansraj Singh; Club VP

GMR&SC Drag Championship round 2 “Safety is paramount” – Hansraj Singh; Club VP

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC Drag Championship round 2 “Safety is paramount” – Hansraj Singh; Club VP

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) will host the second round of their much subscribed drag championship on June 23rd at the South Dakota Circuit drag strip. Kaieteur Sport had the...

Guyana-born Venezuelan in TT: ‘I wasn’t allowed to register’

Guyana-born Venezuelan in TT: ‘I wasn’t allowed to register’

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born Venezuelan in TT: ‘I wasn’t allowed to register’

Trinidad (Newsday.co.tt) -Born in Guyana, Venezuela citizen 43-year-old Greensley Lael Edson Henry is hoping to register today at the San Fernando centre for immigrants, two days after he said...

Education Ministry can now diagnose learners with special needs

Education Ministry can now diagnose learners with special needs

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry can now diagnose learners with special needs

Students living with disabilities now have a greater boost in their access to learning facilities, geared specifically for them, through several educational interventions. One such intervention by...

NSC to host Special Schools Teachers training from today

NSC to host Special Schools Teachers training from today

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC to host Special Schools Teachers training from today

The National Sports Commission will be hosting the second of three Special Schools Teachers’ Training at the National Gymnasium from today June 11 to 14 commencing 09:00am daily. Disciplines in...

Two incidents in one week tell the story of Guyana’s demise

Two incidents in one week tell the story of Guyana’s demise

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Two incidents in one week tell the story of Guyana’s demise

Strong words like asinine, idiotic, etc., are not enough to describe the foolish thoughts of people about oil wealth bringing the good life to Guyana. A person or a few persons will be in charge of...

Mahaica and Clonbrook Primaries share honours in latest Windball Cricket

Mahaica and Clonbrook Primaries share honours in latest Windball Cricket

Jun 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mahaica and Clonbrook Primaries share honours in latest Windball Cricket

Mahaica and Clonbrook Primaries shared honours as play continued in the Upper East Coast Demerara AL Sport & Tour Promotions NSC 22nd Annual End of School Year “Edward Cobenna...

Heeding men’s health needs high on Ministry’s agenda

Heeding men’s health needs high on Ministry’s agenda

Jun 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Heeding men’s health needs high on Ministry’s agenda

By Dr. Dennis Bassier – Men’s Health Coordinator, Ministry of Public Health The Ministry of Public Health acknowledges the link between gender and health as this week we celebrate with the...

National B/Ball team departs for Suriname today

National B/Ball team departs for Suriname today

Jan 23, 2025

-Stanton Rose Jr to captain team at ‘Nations Cup’ By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports- The Guyana senior national basketball team departed for Paramaribo, Suriname, today to compete in the highly...

Slingerz players excited about Shabazz possibility

Slingerz players excited about Shabazz

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IBA president, CEO makes ‘clarion call’ to President Trump

IBA president, CEO makes ‘clarion call’ to...

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Saints Hockey Club shines at VHC Int’l Indoor Tourney in Trinidad

Saints Hockey Club shines at VHC Int’l Indoor...

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Thaddeus Lovell is the latest to benefit from Project “Cricket Gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana”

Thaddeus Lovell is the latest to benefit from...

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GBA commends government of budget allocation for sports notes its significance

GBA commends government of budget allocation for...

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Poverty does not come with a lifetime warranty

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- When the national discussion segues to poverty reduction, it resurrects the age-old debate... more

OAS Secretary General Election and renewed OAS Consensus

Antiguan Barbudan Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The upcoming election... more

Lift corruption ban-nice try Ms. Amanza

Hard Truths… By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- Sorry, Ms. Amanza. As they say at medical facilities, dead on arrival. ... more