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House to House registration deadline… GECOM field staff to ‘double up’ for remaining days

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on House to House registration deadline… GECOM field staff to ‘double up’ for remaining days

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has issued an advisory calling on all its field staff, enumerators, clerks, Assistant Registration Officers to work full time to complete the remaining days of...

CDC taps into free oil spill response training from Houston-based firm

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CDC taps into free oil spill response training from Houston-based firm

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) recently benefitted from a short but critical oil spill response training programme from Apache Corporation. Apache is a Houston based multinational with operations...

TV, radio programme hosts should be properly trained – GNBA

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on TV, radio programme hosts should be properly trained – GNBA

Citing poor administration, lack of familiarity with guidelines and laws governing broadcasting, among the reasons why licensed radio and television broadcasters commit a list of infractions, the...

Music legend, Johnny Braff, dies at 82

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Music legend, Johnny Braff, dies at 82

A musical sensation and pioneer to the music industry in Guyana, Johnny Braff, died yesterday morning around 04:00 hrs at the Palms Geriatric Home. Braff. 82, was a resident of the institution for...

National Printers projected to end year in deficit -invested million$ more on stock paper; owed by several entities

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on National Printers projected to end year in deficit -invested million$ more on stock paper; owed by several entities

As state auditors continued their probe in the multi-million dollar orders for exercise books at the Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL), there are indications that the state-owned entity is...

Private sector lending fastest in three years -number of agri loans fall – Half Year Report

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Private sector lending fastest in three years -number of agri loans fall – Half Year Report

Lending to the private sector for the first half of the year was the fastest in the last three years. According to the Ministry of Finance’s half-year report, there was a decline in the first six...

Guyanese should be a little more accommodating to migrants – Foreign Affairs Minister

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese should be a little more accommodating to migrants – Foreign Affairs Minister

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karen Cummings is encouraging Guyanese to be a little more accommodating when it comes to dealing with the migrant situation in the country. Commenting on the topic...

Guyana needs to toughen up!! Challenge oil companies on effects of operations on country’s climate change plans – University of Houston Instructor

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana needs to toughen up!! Challenge oil companies on effects of operations on country’s climate change plans – University of Houston Instructor

By Kiana Wilburg Considering Guyana’s vulnerability to the vagaries of climate change, University of Houston Instructor, Tom Mitro, firmly asserts that the nation’s policy leaders need to toughen...

You can’t please everybody

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on You can’t please everybody

In this world you can’t please everybody. Some people didn’t want de house to house registration suh de GECOM chairman stop de registration. De lady know that people shouldn’t waste their time...

The political parties lack depth in their leadership and talent

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The political parties lack depth in their leadership and talent

The main political parties, the PPPC and the PNCR, have always lacked depth in their leadership. After the demise of their founding leaders, Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham, this came back to haunt...

Trying to contact driver whose car was struck near Peter’s Hall

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Trying to contact driver whose car was struck near Peter’s Hall

At around 23.00 hrs on Tuesday night, the driver of a grey pickup, GNN 9943, was observed driving at a fast rate, and in an erratic manner, while heading south on the East Bank Demerara Public Road,...

City Hall to get tough on dishonest officers – Mayor

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall to get tough on dishonest officers – Mayor

Over the past few statutory meetings at the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), the councillors have been presented with inaccurate and/or incomplete information. This has led to the stalling of works...

Nandlall seeks court order for President, Cabinet to resign

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall seeks court order for President, Cabinet to resign

Former Attorney General Anil Nandall now wants the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) declared caretaker government vacate office. In fact, Nandlall has moved to the High Court where he is seeking an...

If not re-routed, GWI pipelines will stall road works – Contractors, Residents claim

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on If not re-routed, GWI pipelines will stall road works – Contractors, Residents claim

The residents of Calcutta as well as the contractors working on the road leading up to the seaside are severely frustrated with the snail’s pace that Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is moving to...

Contractor ordered to correct East Berbice work

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor ordered to correct East Berbice work

A contractor who was caught doing substandard work in the East Bank, Berbice area has been ordered to correct it. Contractor Anirudh Ramcharitar was hired to construct a culvert at Macaw, East Bank...

Truck driver jailed 7 months for death of Guysuco superintendent

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver jailed 7 months for death of Guysuco superintendent

The truck driver, who was earlier found guilty on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving, when he reversed and killed a Guysuco Field Superintendent has been sentenced to a mere seven months...

Police Detective Charged for beating man in burial ground, granted bail

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police Detective Charged for beating man in burial ground, granted bail

A Guyana Police Detective yesterday stood in the prisoners’ dock, where he was made to answer to an inflicting bodily harm charge. Thirty-two-year-old Colwin Major, a resident of La Bonne Intention...

Cops seek help to catch alleged wife-killer

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek help to catch alleged wife-killer

Police are seeking help from the public to locate Clive Wilson, also known as “Boyzie,” who allegedly murdered his reputed wife, Shemain Frank, last Sunday at Victoria Village, East Coast...

Guyana leads region in occupational standards for mines supervision ─ Mining Week attendees hear

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana leads region in occupational standards for mines supervision ─ Mining Week attendees hear

Director of the Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Floyd Scott said Guyana has an opportunity to lead the region and set the benchmark in the area of occupational...

Met a stranger with a modestly uneasy tone

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Met a stranger with a modestly uneasy tone

I went home and told my wife about this stranger who approached me on Tuesday and what he said. She asked what his tone was like. I told her not friendly, not unfriendly. Now that I am writing about...

Puran Bros set to clean up at golf tournament

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Puran Bros set to clean up at golf tournament

Puran Bros Inc. Inaugural golf tournament is set for Saturday August 31 at 12:30 pm and promises to be a magnificent event as all eyes and support of the company will be with new LGC member Satish...

India to offer full scholarships to young Guyanese -to lend advice on garbage

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on India to offer full scholarships to young Guyanese -to lend advice on garbage

The Indian High Commissioner to Guyana, Dr. K. J. Srinivasa, yesterday paid a courtesy call to Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine, at his office. During that visit, several areas of interest were...

Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and team presents sports gear to No72 Sports Club

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and team presents sports gear to No72 Sports Club

Minister of National Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, whilst on a recent visit to his home town area on the Upper Corentyne, Berbice, presented thousands of dollars worth of sports gear to members of the...

Insurance Institute of Guyana tapeball tourney set for Saturday at GNIC SC

Aug 29, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Insurance Institute of Guyana tapeball tourney set for Saturday at GNIC SC

The Insurance Institute of Guyana will be staging a five-over 7-a-side knock out tapeball competition on Saturday at the GNIC SC starting at 11:00hrs. The Institute, which is an arm of the Insurance...

Guyanese drug convicts head home

Aug 29, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese drug convicts head home

Barbados (Barbados Today) – The Court of Appeal yesterday varied the sentences of two Guyanese drug convicts and sentenced them to time served. The order handed down by Chief Justice Sir...