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Local Currency Appreciation

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Local Currency Appreciation

DEAR EDITOR, In recent days, the US interest rates have produced an inverted yield curve, which is a sign of slowing economic activity in the US economy and may possibly trigger a recession. For...

Lindeners should pay their fair share of the electricity bill

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lindeners should pay their fair share of the electricity bill

DEAR EDITOR, Lindeners are squandering electricity. This is because they do not pay the electricity rates that the rest of Guyanese pay. They claim that they are a poor and deprived community, which...

There are interesting political dynamics playing out on the global stage

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are interesting political dynamics playing out on the global stage

DEAR EDITOR, As we grapple with our own domestic politics, some interesting political dynamics are playing out on the global stage. There is the ongoing standoff by protesters in Hong Kong...

Some of this income can be set aside for maintenance of the roads

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some of this income can be set aside for maintenance of the roads

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to bring attention to the deplorable condition of the access road for the Yaya pontoon crossing at the Essequibo River. This is a critical piece of road infrastructure for...

Deplorable condition of roads at Plantation Herstelling, East Bank Demerara

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deplorable condition of roads at Plantation Herstelling, East Bank Demerara

DEAR MR. EDITOR, As a resident of the new Housing Scheme, Plantation Herstelling on the East Bank of Demerara, I would like to highlight the abandonment of the infrastructural development of this...

Karma has a way of biting back!

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Karma has a way of biting back!

DEAR EDITOR, Recent disclosure by Director General Harmon that on the advice of the Attorney General (Basil Williams) the president and the Cabinet will not resign was not surprising to the populace....

Guyana has moved away from a system of Parliamentary democracy since the NCM

Aug 16, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has moved away from a system of Parliamentary democracy since the NCM

DEAR EDITOR, Speaking at the Buxton First of August Movement’s Annual Eusi Kwayana Emancipation Symposium on Sunday 11th August, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge is reported to...

House-to-house registration legal; court cannot fix date for polls- Chief Justice -Nandall not impressed with ruling, to file appeal

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on House-to-house registration legal; court cannot fix date for polls- Chief Justice -Nandall not impressed with ruling, to file appeal

By Feona Morrison The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has acted within the remit of the powers invested to it under the laws said Chief Justice Roxane George as she declared that the current...

Eco Atlantic share price doubles following Orinduik discovery

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Eco Atlantic share price doubles following Orinduik discovery

Just hours after announcing on Monday, the discovery of oil at its Jethro-1 well on the Orinduik Block, the share price for Eco Atlantic doubled from 73p per share to trade just over 139p per share...

Guyana basin offers bigger profits due to low development costs

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana basin offers bigger profits due to low development costs

Hannam and Partners, a leading independent investment bank headquartered in London, recently prepared a report which compared the economics of Guyana’s Liza Phase One Project in the Stabroek Block...

Anna Regina Secondary and St Roses’High students are top CSEC performers

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Anna Regina Secondary and St Roses’High students are top CSEC performers

Riana Toney, a student of Anna Regina Secondary in Region Two, has emerged as the top performer at this year’s overall Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate, (CSEC) with 19 Grade one passes....

CJIA’s deputy chief to be charged indictably with sexual assault

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA’s deputy chief to be charged indictably with sexual assault

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that a senior manager of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) be charged with a sex crime. Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Andre...

Guyana Goldfields no longer interested in selling

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Goldfields no longer interested in selling

Canada-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc. (GGI), which operates the country’s biggest mine, has for all intents and purposes abandoned attempts at this time to sell. Hours after a report by Bloomberg on...

Political threat stall sugar reform – Finance Minister

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Political threat stall sugar reform – Finance Minister

The privatization of the sugar estates Government has closed has been delayed. Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, is blaming this state of affairs on the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP)...

Nobody going to parliament but dem getting pay

Aug 15, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Nobody going to parliament but dem getting pay

When Parliament go into recess nobody didn’t know. Nobody was going in de first place. De only money save was de money dem use to spend on food. But every MP still getting pay. That is how nice...

Queen ’s College dominates CAPE

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Queen ’s College dominates CAPE

The nation’s public schools again dominated the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) examinations, with 13 of the 15 students from these institutions securing the country’s top...

Persistent rainfall causes severe flooding in Region Three

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Persistent rainfall causes severe flooding in Region Three

Several communities in the Essequibo Islands- West Demerara Region are flooded due to the heavy rainfall during the course of Tuesday night. According to sources, communities such as Farm, Zeelugt,...

President Granger requests an investigation into Presidential Guard’s death

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger requests an investigation into Presidential Guard’s death

President David Granger is adamant that a detail investigation should be done into the death of Police Constable 2045 Winston Cooper, who succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning at the Georgetown...

Jagdeo remains opposed to house-to-house following CJ’s ruling

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo remains opposed to house-to-house following CJ’s ruling

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, still remains opposed to the issue of house-to-house registration, calling it a “complete waste of time and money.” These statements surfaced following...

Parliament comes out of recess on October 10 – Jordan

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament comes out of recess on October 10 – Jordan

The National Assembly has not met for quite some time. It has been in recess. According to Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, it will be coming out of recess on October 10, 2019. During a press...

Jealous man invades home, stabs ex-lover and partner

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous man invades home, stabs ex-lover and partner

Police are hunting for an Upper Berbice man who stabbed his ex-lover and her partner after sneaking into their home. Dolly Gobin, 48, and Leymond Smith, 40, of Hururu Mission, Upper Berbice, were...

Corentyne man dies from injuries sustained in accident three days prior.

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man dies from injuries sustained in accident three days prior.

Nevon Steele, 22, of Eversham Village, Corentyne, Berbice died on Tuesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was struck down from his motorcycle by a car on the Bush Lot Public road, Sunday...

“I did what I had to do” alleged bull thief tells court

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “I did what I had to do” alleged bull thief tells court

An elderly man who is charged for allegedly stealing a bull was yesterday released on bail after he made his first court appearance. Fifty-five-year-old Ryan Robinson appeared before Senior...

Govt. warns low-lying coastal communities of spring tide

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. warns low-lying coastal communities of spring tide

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is advising the public, especially residents of low-lying coastal communities to take precautions, as the period of Spring tides – August 14-19 – are here....

Prisoners beat suspect in mechanic’s murder, cut off hair

Aug 15, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoners beat suspect in mechanic’s murder, cut off hair

Prison officials are attempting to identify a group of inmates who beat and cut off the hair of Marlon Bradley, the suspect in the murder of Guyhoc Park mechanic Reginald Atherly. The incident...

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