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Guyana’s legal system lacks comprehensive sentencing guidelines – Nandlall

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s legal system lacks comprehensive sentencing guidelines – Nandlall

Guyana’s legal system lacks comprehensive guidelines which are needed by Judges and Magistrates when they are implementing their sentences. This is the observation of former Minister of...

‘Climate apartheid’ will impoverish 120 million by 2030 – UN report

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Climate apartheid’ will impoverish 120 million by 2030 – UN report

The Hill – A United Nations report is warning that the world is risking a “climate apartheid” scenario in which the wealthy can pay to avoid the consequences of global warming while the...

New investment team acquires operation of Fly Jamaica Airways

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New investment team acquires operation of Fly Jamaica Airways

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) — A team of investors including Jamaican aviation veteran Glenn Logan, led by Yann LeProvost of the French-based company W&Y SAS, has taken over the operations of...

Health Ministry to introduce new filaria drug

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry to introduce new filaria drug

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) will be distributing a new drug during their Mass Drug Administration (MDA) in their fight to eradicate Lymphatic Filariasis better known Filaria....

The National Park: Reason APNU+AFC may lose the election

Jul 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The National Park: Reason APNU+AFC may lose the election

Anyone who knows anything about me must know that I can be reached every morning in the National Park. Long before my dog was born I could be found in the National Park. My dog would be...

KAMARANG…Lucille calls me into the night

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on KAMARANG…Lucille calls me into the night

By Michael Jordan Michael awoke from deep sleep, blinking from the sudden glare of the bedroom bulb. At first, he thought that it was near dawn, somewhere around five, and he stifled a groan...

Funding for cultural industries…For Barrington Braithwaite, an ambitious venture long in creation

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Funding for cultural industries…For Barrington Braithwaite, an ambitious venture long in creation

When the Department of Culture last week revealed the names of creative individuals who would share in a $20M grant, it was the first fruit from an idea that had been almost 27 years in the...

Guyanese rapper SAINt JHN featured on Beyonce’s ‘Brown Skin Girl’ soundtrack l

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese rapper SAINt JHN featured on Beyonce’s ‘Brown Skin Girl’ soundtrack l

Guyanese rapper and songwriter, SAINt JHN is making waves on the international music scene with the hot new soundtrack “Brown Skin Girl.” The song, featured on Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The...

I see Linden as the next Economic Hub – Rear Admiral (rtd) Gary Best

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on I see Linden as the next Economic Hub – Rear Admiral (rtd) Gary Best

By Enid Joaquin “I see Linden as the next economic hub!” CEO of International Ecosystem Services and the Green State Development Strategy, Rear Admiral (retired) Gary Best, on...

African Mall takes over Main Street

Jul 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on African Mall takes over Main Street

In the few days leading up to Emancipation Day, local crafters, jewellery makers and clothes vendors paved the Main Street Avenue between Quamina and Church Streets, Georgetown to display...

ExxonMobil contributes annually to Liberia’s Decommissioning Fund, but Guyana left exposed

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil contributes annually to Liberia’s Decommissioning Fund, but Guyana left exposed

By Kiana Wilburg Decommissioning is considered one of the most crucial aspects of an oil project. It involves safe well plugging, platform removals, pipeline and power cable extractions as well as...

GAWU, GPSU, GLU, NAACIE, CCWU among 260 entities which for decades failed to file tax returns

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU, GPSU, GLU, NAACIE, CCWU among 260 entities which for decades failed to file tax returns

Scores of active trade unions have breached their obligations, failing to file their annual tax returns. In fact, according to a notice filed in the Official Gazette yesterday, the country’s...

Mechanic gunned down in Guyhoc home

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic gunned down in Guyhoc home

Popular mechanic, Reginald Atherly, was shot dead at around 04.00 hrs yesterday, allegedly after confronting two masked bandits who had broken into his Lot G 26 Guyhoc Park home. Atherly, 44, called...

Celebrating their silver jubilee… Guyana Watch treats over 600 patients in two days to conclude medical outreach

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Celebrating their silver jubilee… Guyana Watch treats over 600 patients in two days to conclude medical outreach

To conclude their final two days of their medical outreach, the Guyana Watch Medical team treated 695 patients, a total number combined from the patients at the Belle West Primary School and the...

Accept oil contracts that offer best fiscal terms through bidding process – Attorney Charles Ramson Jr.

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Accept oil contracts that offer best fiscal terms through bidding process – Attorney Charles Ramson Jr.

For future Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs), Government should grant oil blocks to the International Oil Companies (IOC) that offer the best fiscal terms during the bid process. That is the...

Armed men disguised as Federal police agents snatched US$30M in gold bars from Brazil airport

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Armed men disguised as Federal police agents snatched US$30M in gold bars from Brazil airport

By Fabiola Moura and David Biller Brazil (Bloomberg)- It took less than three minutes for eight armed men to make off with US$30 million worth of gold bars from Sao Paulo’s International Airport...

Local Content Policy must demand all int’l suppliers have local partner, transfer skills-Chatham House Advisor

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy must demand all int’l suppliers have local partner, transfer skills-Chatham House Advisor

By Kiana Wilburg Any Local Content Policy Guyana pursues should have several key provisions, particularly one that ensures all international suppliers are made to have a local partner. This was noted...

Collect de money up front or else…

Jul 28, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Collect de money up front or else…

Oil is big business. Was a time when oil was a black dirty thing was cheap. But after a time is anodda. Oil get expensive and de companies begin to follow it. Since a country find oil, is nearly all...

Preliminary inquiry begins into Sand Hills Chain saw operator murder.

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Preliminary inquiry begins into Sand Hills Chain saw operator murder.

The preliminary inquiry into the murder of a Sand Hills, Berbice River, chainsaw operator began on Wednesday in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court. Roy Glaston, 28, of Sand Hills, Berbice River,...

Local school benefits from US firm with supplies

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local school benefits from US firm with supplies

A locally based United States (US) firm, Keen360, will be reaching out to the students of Meten-Meer-Zorg Primary School, West Coast Demerara to assist with the upcoming academic year as part of...

Government takes Oil and Gas discourse to Berbice students

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Government takes Oil and Gas discourse to Berbice students

The Department of Energy (DoE), took its interactive session to the Upper Corentyne area where several students from the Upper Corentyne Industrial Training Centre (UCITC) were educated on the oil...

SME’S SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AVAILABLE STANDARDS

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on SME’S SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AVAILABLE STANDARDS

Standards provide as many benefits for small businesses as they do for global enterprises. The strategic use of standards can make a significant difference to the annual profits of an SME, and can...

Police to construct five new divisional HQ

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police to construct five new divisional HQ

The Guyana Police Force is inviting bids for the construction of five divisional headquarters. The government, through the Ministry of Public Security, said that it is seeking eligible and qualified...

More youths graduate for the work market …as Vryman’s Erven Training Centre churns out 65

Jul 28, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on More youths graduate for the work market …as Vryman’s Erven Training Centre churns out 65

As the Government of Guyana pushes ahead with its various programmes to empower youth for the world of work another 65 youths are now certified to enter the job market. They graduated after they...

Build momentum on the GECOM appointment

Jul 28, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Build momentum on the GECOM appointment

All Guyanese should treat themselves. True citizens of the soil should allow themselves the fleeting luxury of exhaling slowly; slowly but carefully, as only the first sharp prong in the tormenting...

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No immigrant should feel safe in America today

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There was a time when an illegal immigrant in America could live in the shadows with some... more