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Tullow bills Guyana $64M in pre-contract costs with no explanation

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tullow bills Guyana $64M in pre-contract costs with no explanation

UK based multinational, Tullow Oil, has billed Guyana US$300,000 or $64M in pre-contract costs, while noting that this is what it incurred prior to the effective date it was inked with Minister of...

Given its inadequacies… Guyana must consider other options before rushing to sell its oil independently

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Given its inadequacies… Guyana must consider other options before rushing to sell its oil independently

-University of Houston Instructor Guyana has opted to sell its own share of the crude that will come from the ExxonMobil operated Stabroek Block. But, given its inexperience in this complex field and...

Mom ID’s killer’s photo in Kaieteur News 21 years after daughter’s murder

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mom ID’s killer’s photo in Kaieteur News 21 years after daughter’s murder

It took a photograph in the Kaieteur News, and an alert and still-grieving mother, to help police to finally capture an alleged wife-killer,, who had been on the run for 21 years. Philbert Thomas...

Miner remanded for killing mother of his children

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Miner remanded for killing mother of his children

With a bandage around his throat, 54-year old Sherlock James was escorted into the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where he was remanded by Magistrate Marissa Mittelholzer for allegedly...

Triangular love affair surrounds couple burnt in mining camp

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Triangular love affair surrounds couple burnt in mining camp

As police continue to hunt for the individual who set a miner and Brazilian woman alight in a Mazaruni camp, a woman claiming to be the miner’s real reputed wife has turned up to present a motive...

PNC accepts GECOM’s decision to halt House to House

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on PNC accepts GECOM’s decision to halt House to House

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)’s General Secretary, Amna Ally, said that the party accepts the decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GGMC) to halt the House to House...

EPA, GGMC, Pesticides Board toughen up mercury import regulations

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on EPA, GGMC, Pesticides Board toughen up mercury import regulations

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), and the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB) have been tasked with the mandate of working...

Lone bandit shoots, robs Macorp customer

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Lone bandit shoots, robs Macorp customer

A lone bandit shot and robbed a man identified as Ron Gomes yesterday afternoon outside the door of Machinery Incorporated Guyana (MACORP) on the East Bank before he could transact his business. The...

Guyana paying fuh de FPSO

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana paying fuh de FPSO

When people pay fuh something is dem own. If me son go to a car dealer and sign up fuh a car but I pay for it in de end de car is me own, even if me son go to court to challenge. Is de same thing wid...

YNR-3 Apprentices charged to protect their country • ─ Pres. Granger commends natural resources programme

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on YNR-3 Apprentices charged to protect their country • ─ Pres. Granger commends natural resources programme

After three weeks of adventurous knowledge-based trips around the country, the last stop for the third instalment of the Youth in Natural Resources (YNR3) Apprenticeship Programme, was at the Baridi...

Public Health sector widening collaboration to ward off dengue outbreak

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Health sector widening collaboration to ward off dengue outbreak

Dengue has been wreaking havoc in many countries including some in Latin America and the Caribbean. Among the countries affected are two neighbouring countries, Brazil and Venezuela, which have been...

107 students complete work study with Police Force

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 107 students complete work study with Police Force

A total of 107 students have completed their work study stint with the Guyana Police Force (GPF). Yesterday, they were each rewarded with incentives amounting to over $1.6 million. The GPF said that...

America Street money changer murder… Two sent to High Court, charges dismissed against third accused

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on America Street money changer murder… Two sent to High Court, charges dismissed against third accused

As the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) for the three men who were accused of murdering America Street money changer Shawn Nurse called ‘Fabulous’ came to an end, two of the defendants were sent to the...

Fraud charges dismissed against three GRDB officials

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fraud charges dismissed against three GRDB officials

Senior Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday dismissed fraud related charge against three of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) officials, who were accused of failing to make proper entries into the...

20 Guyanese students head to China

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 20 Guyanese students head to China

In creating a more diversely trained public service ready to contribute to Guyana’s development, more students have been awarded scholarships to study in China beginning this upcoming academic...

BEING SMITTEN LEADS TO BEING BITTEN

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BEING SMITTEN LEADS TO BEING BITTEN

A standup comedian observed that these days politicians are not emerging from the ranks of the people. Instead, they are offering themselves up to the people as the chosen ones. They come forward and...

Williams Industries International Race meet Successful testing ahead of today’s qualifiers

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Williams Industries International Race meet Successful testing ahead of today’s qualifiers

The Williams Industries International Race meet that is being organised by the Bushy Park Motorsport Inc. (BPMI) speeds off this weekend in Barbados and Team Guyana, which consists of five...

NMWUG has bargaining rights for AGM workers

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on NMWUG has bargaining rights for AGM workers

Aurora Gold Mines Inc. (AGM)’s rank-and-file workers have been unionised under the National Mine Workers Union of Guyana (NMWUG). The union now has bargaining rights for the workers. This is...

Team Pools tournament at Jerry’s Bar today

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Team Pools tournament at Jerry’s Bar today

Grand Central Shooters pool club will host a grand one day ‘King of the Table’ team tournament today at the Jerry’s bar in Grove on the East Bank of Demerara. The tournament will see...

Strategic direction remains the same with IHC Máximo on board – GFF’s Forde

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Strategic direction remains the same with IHC Máximo on board – GFF’s Forde

By Franklin Wilson The strategic direction of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) would not be altered but rather remain on track even with the introduction and appointment of Interim Head Coach,...

GRDB fraud case… Prosecution seeks to recall witness that may implicate former accountant

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB fraud case… Prosecution seeks to recall witness that may implicate former accountant

By Trishan Craig As one of the trials against former accountant for the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Peter Ramcharran, draws to a close, Special Prosecutor Patrice Henry yesterday entered an...

Clive Thomas irresponsibly accuses me of irresponsibility

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Clive Thomas irresponsibly accuses me of irresponsibility

After I read in the media that Eric Phillips of SARA (he has since resigned) said that he cannot disclose the names of the two owners of plots in Pradoville 2 that settled with SARA by paying $20...

Registration opens for KMPA’s 3rd Junior Olympic Games

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Registration opens for KMPA’s 3rd Junior Olympic Games

In a release to the media, the King Medas Pansy Adonis (KMPA) Foundation has informed that registration is open for the third annual Junior Olympic games and the process can be completed on the...

Amazon fires will likely impact Rupununi’s animals, fishes – Energy Dept.

Aug 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Amazon fires will likely impact Rupununi’s animals, fishes – Energy Dept.

The world watches in dismay as record-breaking fires, at never-before-seen rate rip through the Amazon forest in Brazil. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It stretches across 5.5...

NSC donates to Deaf Football team

Aug 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC donates to Deaf Football team

National Sports Commission, Director of Sports, Christopher Jones, made timely donation to The Guyana Deaf Association Football team recently return to Guyana after a successful tour to Suriname. The...

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