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Eco Atlantic’s share price appreciates 200 percent in 18 months

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Eco Atlantic’s share price appreciates 200 percent in 18 months

By Kiana Wilburg Since being awarded the Orinduik Block in 2016, one of the licensed holders, Eco Atlantic, is already enjoying some level of success even before a discovery is made. According to...

Attorney General hopes Opposition will grant two-thirds majority to extend election deadline

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney General hopes Opposition will grant two-thirds majority to extend election deadline

Government has not given up hope that the political Opposition, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), will grant them the support that is needed in the National Assembly, to postpone the deadline...

Ministry to launch support groups for persons with mental health issues

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry to launch support groups for persons with mental health issues

Through its Mental Health Unit, the Ministry of Public Health will next month launch three support groups to help anyone struggling with depression and substance and alcohol misuse. This announcement...

Fishermen charged with murder of colleague

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fishermen charged with murder of colleague

Three fishermen, who were jointly charged with the murder of a fellow fisherman, yesterday stood in the prisoners’ dock before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, in the Georgetown Magistrates’...

Patterson’s order is all that’s needed to prove House-to-House will surpass September 18 – Jagdeo

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Patterson’s order is all that’s needed to prove House-to-House will surpass September 18 – Jagdeo

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo says that if lawyers want to prove that House-to-House Registration will go beyond September 18, 2019 – three months after the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)’s...

Owner claims car allegedly used in ‘Whistle’ execution -had reported it stolen sometime ago

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Owner claims car allegedly used in ‘Whistle’ execution -had reported it stolen sometime ago

Police have identified the owner of the car that is believed to have been used by the gunmen who executed Leon Duncan, also known as “Whistle” and “World Boss” last Sunday night. A senior...

Appeal Court orders retrial for cameraman accused of raping girl, 13

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Appeal Court orders retrial for cameraman accused of raping girl, 13

By Feona Morrison A man jailed for 25 years for raping a 13-year-old girl, had his conviction overturned at the Court of Appeal yesterday. A retrial has since been ordered by the court. The...

$20,000 fine for man who threatened to cut up mom and put pieces in freezer

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on $20,000 fine for man who threatened to cut up mom and put pieces in freezer

A man was yesterday fined $20,000 or in default will serve two months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to using threatening language towards his mother. Robin Mohan appeared before Principal...

Business growing in Guyana

Jul 25, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Business growing in Guyana

Is funny how things does develop right in front people eyes and people don’t notice till de things get very big or threaten to get out of hand. Was a time when people use to see dogs pon de road...

Self-inflicted international isolation

Jul 25, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Self-inflicted international isolation

The APNU+AFC Coalition Government has a public relations challenge. It has no public relations. The Department of Public Information (DPI) and that squeaky outfit, which works out of the Office of...

Bauxite workers union, RUSAL continue labour talks

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite workers union, RUSAL continue labour talks

The Russian Aluminum (RUSAL)-controlled Bauxite Company of Guyana (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU), are continuing negotiations towards the realisation of a new...

Bus driver slapped with two counts of causing death

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver slapped with two counts of causing death

Typhon Sampson was on Monday last slapped with two counts of causing death after he was allegedly on the run following an accident that occurred two months ago. The 31-year-old bus driver of Supply,...

Four persons granted bail on assault charges

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Four persons granted bail on assault charges

During yesterday’s court hearings, a number of persons were charged with assault, they were all granted bail of less than $20,000. Afron Marshall, 26, a ‘superbet’ operator, from West...

16-year-old freed of murder charge

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 16-year-old freed of murder charge

The 16 year old who was on a charge of murder after he reportedly stabbed a man to death back in November 2018 has been released. He had the case against him discharged during the Preliminary Inquiry...

GPF’s 180th Anniversary celebrations… Surroundings of Kingston bandstand get much needed facelift

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPF’s 180th Anniversary celebrations… Surroundings of Kingston bandstand get much needed facelift

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) continues to celebrate its 180th anniversary and yesterday ranks took to the Kingston Seawall to clean up the beachfront and do some painting. The bandstand wasn’t...

Annual Drug Report provides comprehensive info on 2018 interventions

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Annual Drug Report provides comprehensive info on 2018 interventions

The Ministry of Public Security published its Annual Report of the Guyana Drug Information Network (GUYDIN) for 2019 and the report is said to have comprehensive data on interventions done during the...

Jagdeo files response in Charles Ceres $200M libel suit – Other respondents granted time

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo files response in Charles Ceres $200M libel suit – Other respondents granted time

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has filed an affidavit in response in the $200M libel suit brought him by businessman and prominent engineer, Charles Ceres. Ceres had filed a lawsuit against Jagdeo,...

AFC will not compromise Govt’s position on CCJ ruling—Ramjattan

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on AFC will not compromise Govt’s position on CCJ ruling—Ramjattan

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, has said that the AFC will not compromise the Coalition Government’s position as it relates to the ruling of the Caribbean Court of...

Man’s murder conviction substituted with manslaughter

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s murder conviction substituted with manslaughter

A murder conviction against Clive Knights was yesterday substituted with the lesser offence of manslaughter by the Court of Appeal yesterday. In June 2015, Knights was found guilty by a jury of...

Wife killer’s 83-year sentence reduced 30

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Wife killer’s 83-year sentence reduced 30

Paul Anthony Lo-Hing who strangled his common-law wife Shoala Gilgeous was handed an 83-year jail sentence for her murder which occurred on August 6, 2012, at their ‘E’ Field, Sophia, Greater...

Bon ice-cream Junior Summer Camp run by FIH Coach Shiv Jagday underway

Jul 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bon ice-cream Junior Summer Camp run by FIH Coach Shiv Jagday underway

For the third year in succession, FIH hockey Coach Shiv Jagday is visiting Guyana to run what has become the Bon ice-cream junior hockey camp for under-21 boys and girls from July 21 to 29. Shiv has...

Pan Am games 2019 Guyana open campaign with squash today

Jul 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pan Am games 2019 Guyana open campaign with squash today

By Calvin Chapman in Peru The last time Guyana won a Pan American games medal was in Mexico, 2011 when Nicolette Fernandes copped the silver medal, and today, Guyana, which has a contingent of 40...

Talks begin on maritime economy plan

Jul 25, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Talks begin on maritime economy plan

Guyana is working to develop a maritime economy plan, which will involve strategies for the effective management of all economic activity involving its seas. The government is receiving support from...

More sponsors and horses on board PMTC Centenary Horserace meet

Jul 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on More sponsors and horses on board PMTC Centenary Horserace meet

With the organisers of the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) Centenary horserace meet focusing on local content a bevy of sponsors and numerous horses are racing to be on board and be a part of the...

Guyana Police Force – RFA 5-A-Side Futsal Tournament Sky Kings Sports Club and Guyana Rush Saints FC crowned female and male champions

Jul 25, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Police Force – RFA 5-A-Side Futsal Tournament Sky Kings Sports Club and Guyana Rush Saints FC crowned female and male champions

Lethem: Sky Kings Sports Club and the Guyana Rush Saints FC were crowned female and male champions of the recently-concluded 5-A-Side futsal tournament on Saturday last at the Tabatinga Sports...

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Exporters are being left to fend for themselves

Exporters are beIng left to fend for themselves Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has a new... more