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With several developments on the horizon… Guyana must study economic impact of multiple FPSOs – University of Houston Instructor

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on With several developments on the horizon… Guyana must study economic impact of multiple FPSOs – University of Houston Instructor

By Kiana Wilburg ExxonMobil, Hess Corporation and CNOOC/NEXEN have all indicated that the Liza field within the oil-rich Stabroek Block holds the potential for at least five Floating Production...

Oil companies should avail themselves to regular scrutiny from local media – Jagdeo

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Oil companies should avail themselves to regular scrutiny from local media – Jagdeo

Oil companies have a responsibility to answer to the Guyanese people, the sovereigns of the oil they intend to exploit. So they must make themselves available to local media for scrutiny. That is the...

Deputy CJIA Chief granted bail on sexual assault charge

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Deputy CJIA Chief granted bail on sexual assault charge

The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Andre Kellman, was yesterday arraigned before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly after he was slapped with a...

City hit by water shortage due to damaged main

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City hit by water shortage due to damaged main

Residents of Georgetown were forced to endure several hours without potable water on Thursday and yesterday after a Guyana Water Inc. main broke. According to a brief Guyana Water Inc. online...

Irfaan Ali to face fraud charges Monday, as appellate judge refuses to stay proceedings

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Irfaan Ali to face fraud charges Monday, as appellate judge refuses to stay proceedings

Former Housing Minister Irfaan Ali heads to court on Monday to face 19 fraud charges for allegedly selling several acres of state lands way below the market price to several high ranking public...

Orinduik Partners gear up to drill next big target

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Orinduik Partners gear up to drill next big target

After making its first successful discovery on the Orinduik Block at the Jethro-1 well, Tullow Oil is preparing to hit its next big target called ‘Joe’ in just a matter of days. The Joe prospect...

Thief caught on CCTV to spend Christmas in jail

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Thief caught on CCTV to spend Christmas in jail

Yesterday during court proceedings, it was related that after a woman left her home to go to church, a labourer broke into her home and stole a quantity of cash and other items. That labourer,...

Sick man runs away from $2,500 taxi fare, fined $25,000

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Sick man runs away from $2,500 taxi fare, fined $25,000

A man has moved from being a patient at the hospital to a potential inmate of the prisons after he yesterday admitted to defrauding a taxi driver by not paying the $2,500 fare for his transportation....

Govt., Opposition cross swords over present, past public projects

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt., Opposition cross swords over present, past public projects

The Government and the Opposition are at loggerheads over past and present contracts. In recent days, Member of Parliament, Juan Edghill, the Shadow Minister for Public Infrastructure has been going...

Too much smartness nah good

Aug 24, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Too much smartness nah good

`When people think dem smart, bad things does happen to dem. Children does play sick when dem don’t want go to school but as soon as dem hear ‘bout some outing, dem does feel good. Dem boys seh...

50 Guyanese graduate from TOTALTEC Academy

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 50 Guyanese graduate from TOTALTEC Academy

A total of 50 Guyanese graduated yesterday at the TOTALTEC International Petroleum and Maritime Academy, Houston, from a rigorous eight-week training course, after which they gained immediate...

Top Region 10 Grade Six students rewarded

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Top Region 10 Grade Six students rewarded

Fourteen students who performed well at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations were rewarded for their hard work. Of the fourteen, six are from Kwakwani while another six are from...

Labourer jailed for chopping man to head with knife

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer jailed for chopping man to head with knife

A 20-year-old labourer was yesterday hauled before the courts to answer to two charges in which it was alleged that he chopped a man to the head with a knife and escaped police custody. Noel...

Registrar corrects list of non-compliant unions

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Registrar corrects list of non-compliant unions

The Registrar of the Commercial Registry, Nicole Prince, has made adjustments to a list of workers’ unions which have over the decades failed to file their annual returns over varying periods In an...

No evidence Venezuelan gold being dumped in Guyana

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No evidence Venezuelan gold being dumped in Guyana

There is no evidence at this time that ‘blood’ gold from Venezuela is making its way to Guyana. While for the first half, declarations are up, there are just no such indications, says Minister of...

Berbice businesses push to move Springlands’ ‘backtrack’ to Moleson Creek -boat service proprietors, passengers agree

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice businesses push to move Springlands’ ‘backtrack’ to Moleson Creek -boat service proprietors, passengers agree

A team of businessmen from the Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce, led by their President Mohindra Persaud yesterday morning visited two locations in Springlands to assess what has been taking place...

Trans Guyana partners with KLM for new air route to Europe

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Trans Guyana partners with KLM for new air route to Europe

With the aim of providing their customers with smoother and more reliable flights to Europe, local airline Trans Guyana Airways in a collaborative effort with KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), announced...

GECOM Commissioners to make individual submissions on way forward

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Commissioners to make individual submissions on way forward

Another meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission, GECOM has ended with no consensus on the way forward as it relates to the General and Regional Elections. Government-appointed GECOM Commissioner,...

Berbice fishermen worried as exports ‘struggling’, prices fall

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice fishermen worried as exports ‘struggling’, prices fall

There are growing concerns among fishermen in Berbice about the drop in the price of fish, particularly Snapper and Trout. The concerns stem from the recent decrease in the exportation of fish to...

2019 Senior CASA Squash Tourney Guyana Ladies beat Bermuda & T&T 5-nil, set up finals with B’dos today Men beat B’dos to set final with Jamaica

Aug 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2019 Senior CASA Squash Tourney Guyana Ladies beat Bermuda & T&T 5-nil, set up finals with B’dos today Men beat B’dos to set final with Jamaica

By Sean Devers The penultimate day of the 2019 Senior CASA Squash Championships at the Georgetown Club’s Squash Courts in Guyana yesterday saw a couple of victories for the Guyanese Women and a...

Local Content Policy must detail where training funds from oil companies will go – GCCI President

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Local Content Policy must detail where training funds from oil companies will go – GCCI President

The local content policy must detail where training funds from oil companies will go, according to Chairman of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer. He said...

2019 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship Qualifying –Group D Lady Jags hammer St Vincent 6-2 in second outing

Aug 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2019 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship Qualifying –Group D Lady Jags hammer St Vincent 6-2 in second outing

Guyana’s fortunes at the female football development level continued its encouraging results trend when the Under-17 Lady Jags hammered St. Vincent & the Grenadines 6-2 in the opening game of a...

Successful Buxton ‘Carl Hooper’ CC Academy ends

Aug 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Successful Buxton ‘Carl Hooper’ CC Academy ends

The Curtains came down on the Buxton ‘Carl Hooper’ Cricket Club’s 15th annual two-week Cricket Academy on the East Coast yesterday. The Academy which encompassed on and off the field sessions...

Chief Justice dismisses Shuman’s challenge to validity of house-to-house registration order – orders him to pay $400,000 in court costs

Aug 24, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice dismisses Shuman’s challenge to validity of house-to-house registration order – orders him to pay $400,000 in court costs

Chief Justice Roxane George yesterday dismissed an application filed by Lenox Shuman, Leader of the Justice and Liberty Party, challenging the validity of a June 11 order signed by then chairman of...

Richard Chin – A life of Squash

Aug 24, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Richard Chin – A life of Squash

In a few weeks’ time, Richard Andrew Chin will be celebrating his 50th birthday and along with that milestone, 40 years of squash service to Guyana and the broader squash community. Richard was...