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Ramotar, Persaud confirm conclusion that Guyana’s oil blocks were stolen –Dr. Mangal

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar, Persaud confirm conclusion that Guyana’s oil blocks were stolen –Dr. Mangal

Former President Donald Ramotar and former Minster of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, are said to be two of the key players in the 2015 award of the Kaieteur and Canje oil...

GuySuCo, NICIL standoff gets Cabinet attention …PricewaterhouseCoopers dragged in

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo, NICIL standoff gets Cabinet attention …PricewaterhouseCoopers dragged in

The public quarrel between the state’s Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has Government worried. The situation will be...

Senior airport official accused of sexual harassment – CJIA took almost a year to investigate

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Senior airport official accused of sexual harassment – CJIA took almost a year to investigate

Last year, a worker at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, made a complaint to the management of that state-owned entity. She claimed that one of the most senior managers sexually...

Ramjattan dethrones Nagamootoo as new PM candidate

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan dethrones Nagamootoo as new PM candidate

It was supposed to have been a closely contested internal election for critical leadership positions in the Alliance For Change (AFC). At the end of yesterday at the AFC’s congress, the party’s...

Guyana should not be paying any oil company’s taxes- University of Houston Instructor -Calls for arrangement to be removed from future contracts

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana should not be paying any oil company’s taxes- University of Houston Instructor -Calls for arrangement to be removed from future contracts

By Kiana Wilburg On an almost weekly basis, international consultants who review Guyana’s contract with ExxonMobil are flabbergasted at the overly generous fiscal terms and tax arrangements for the...

GPL’s load shedding suspended as alternative submarine cable energized -PPDI wants to become independent producer

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s load shedding suspended as alternative submarine cable energized -PPDI wants to become independent producer

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) on Tuesday successfully energized a new 13.8 kV submarine cable across the Demerara River linking the Vreed-en-Hoop and Kingston power plants. On June 2, GPL’s...

Ram Jattan mek Moses a one-term Prime Minister

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ram Jattan mek Moses a one-term Prime Minister

Is a bad thing when people can’t change dem own mind. If a man decide to marry a woman and he change he mind, she father gun ketch up wid him and heaven help him. Or if de woman got some bruddas...

A SAD TIME FOR UG

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on A SAD TIME FOR UG

By PAT DIAL On Friday, June 7, last, the University of Guyana Council was meeting to decide on a new Contract for Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith. The overwhelming majority of educationists, the...

Guyana secures snake bite anti-venom –as doctors receive snake bite management training

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana secures snake bite anti-venom –as doctors receive snake bite management training

Guyana has had its fair share of snakebite horror stories with many deaths and disabilities that could have been prevented if there were anti-venom. But after the deliberate efforts of Dr. Zulfikar...

June 18 in nigh

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on June 18 in nigh

It is the end of the road. All appeals to foreign minds and foreign places for interpretation, for counsel, are over. The many rivers ahead to cross are now all internal. Is Guyana up to this? To...

GPF ROGUE COPS… Senior cop speaks out, implicates senior officer in the hierarchy of the force.

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPF ROGUE COPS… Senior cop speaks out, implicates senior officer in the hierarchy of the force.

It was just a few days ago when several disturbing revelations were made public by some members of the Guyana Police Force ‘B’ Division. However, while the information floats in the public...

Bartica–a fusion of valleys, undulating hills, and happy people

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica–a fusion of valleys, undulating hills, and happy people

By Alex Wayne This time around I steeled myself for another boat ride, desperately hoping that this one would not be frantic as the one I took last week to Supenaam. I mean it took much longer to get...

Random drug testing for police ranks

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Random drug testing for police ranks

Police ranks may soon be subjected to spontaneous and random drug tests for substance indulgence, says Minister of Security Khemraj Ramjattan. This is in his continuous bid to ensure that ranks...

Minister Jaipaul Sharma shifted to Public Infrastructure

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Jaipaul Sharma shifted to Public Infrastructure

Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Jaipaul Sharma, is taking up a new position in Government. On Friday, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, confirmed that Jaipaul Sharma has...

Ministry denies reports of drugs, staff shortage at Diamond Diagnostic Centre

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry denies reports of drugs, staff shortage at Diamond Diagnostic Centre

The Ministry of Public Health has debunked recently surfaced reports of drugs and human resource shortage at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. Making this position clear was Director of Regional and...

Suriname-based Guyanese fisherman feared dead after ‘cut loose’ from vessel

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname-based Guyanese fisherman feared dead after ‘cut loose’ from vessel

A fisherman, who has been living in Paramaribo, Suriname for the past four years, has been missing since Thursday after one of his crew members cut him loose from the fishing vessel he was working on...

Fathers on a Mission to serve!

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fathers on a Mission to serve!

By Enid Joaquin. More than 500 U.S. military, will participate in New Horizons 2019. Of that number, more than 200 are fathers, many of whom will not be spending Father’s Day with their families....

Not ready

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Not ready

Power is incendiary. Placed in the wrong hands it can ‘explode’ with devastating consequences. Not everyone can handle the responsibilities of political office. Not everyone can handle the use of...

There are times when you know a nation is dead

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on There are times when you know a nation is dead

In my column of Tuesday, June 11, headlined, “Two incidents in one week tell the story of Guyana’s demise,” I argued that we will never have a future, because “party politics, ethnic loyalty...

Changing patterns and a hit man

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Changing patterns and a hit man

Guyana was once a peaceful and pleasant place. That was a long time ago when people never paid too much attention to locking doors and windows. Children had an entire village to take care of them....

Taking care for the elderly to another level…

Jun 16, 2019 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Taking care for the elderly to another level…

Pull Quote: “When I returned I saw there was a need for this…I saw many elders who were abandoned; they had no one to take care of them and I realised that was the plight of many old folks, and I...

A year of deadly carjackings

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Murder and Mystery Comments Off on A year of deadly carjackings

By Michael Jordan It was a sunny Friday in February 1998, that 22-year-old taxi driver Davo Narine left home to pay an electricity bill at the Guyana Power and Light’s Main Street, Georgetown...

How better can we honour the sacrifice of these working-class heroes?

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on How better can we honour the sacrifice of these working-class heroes?

The lessons to be learned from the 16th June 1948 is that the life force of sugar workers was shed, leading to the fatality of Lallabaggie Dookie, Rambarran, Harry and Pooran. 71 years to date, we...

Walter Rodney: A critical overview

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Walter Rodney: A critical overview

This past week marked the 39th anniversary of Walter Rodney’s assassination. Each year we, his political colleagues, honour his memory to remind ourselves and Guyana at large of his central role in...

Things you need to know about food poisoning

Jun 16, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Things you need to know about food poisoning

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Food poisoning is a very common occurrence worldwide. Patients that have food poisoning will go through the bout and most often...

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National B/Ball team departs for Suriname today

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