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World Bank blacklists Chinese contractor building E.C.D. Highway

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on World Bank blacklists Chinese contractor building E.C.D. Highway

The World Bank has barred the Chinese contractor involved in the East Coast Demerara road expansion project from participating in any of its projects. The sanctions, according to the World Bank, will...

GECOM extends Claims and Objections period to 42 days

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM extends Claims and Objections period to 42 days

– Will not affect readiness for Elections date By Kemol King Claims and Objections will run for 42 days, and not 35 days as was previously decided on by the Commission. During a statutory...

Coast Guard officer, and 3 others arrested in car with unlicensed gun, ganja

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Coast Guard officer, and 3 others arrested in car with unlicensed gun, ganja

The army has launched an investigation after a Coast Guard Lieutenant was arrested Monday evening in the city with a quantity of ganja and an unlicensed gun. Arrested along with the officer were...

Restrictions on media creeping into tender board process ?

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Restrictions on media creeping into tender board process ?

Over the past few weeks, there have been changes by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board that have raised questions. Initially, members of the media were allowed to take pictures...

IMF says… Rigid Natural Resource Fund rules could cause more external borrowing

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on IMF says… Rigid Natural Resource Fund rules could cause more external borrowing

By Kemol King The strict borrowing rules of Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund Act – the law engendering a framework for Guyana’s offshore sovereign wealth fund – could cause Guyana to increase...

Govt. and Berbice Bridge Co. discuss risk factors of pontoon repairs

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. and Berbice Bridge Co. discuss risk factors of pontoon repairs

After months of back and forth, the Ministry of the Public Infrastructure (MPI) and the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) have finally met on the maintenance of its pontoons. It was agreed yesterday...

Ash refuse to come to Guyana fuh fight fuh he money

Oct 02, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ash refuse to come to Guyana fuh fight fuh he money

Ash Deonarine try a thing. He was de man who pay heself big back pay when he was wukking wid GPL. He claim how a Board member tell him that de board approve big back pay fuh all of dem. He pay de...

The Coalition government is at odds with a free media

Oct 02, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Coalition government is at odds with a free media

The PNCR never had much experience with a free press. When the PNCR was in office it moved swiftly to nationalize the private media – radio and newspaper. It never liberalized radio and only...

‘Come with us’: A year after Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, Saudi Arabian crackdown persists

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Come with us’: A year after Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, Saudi Arabian crackdown persists

(USA Today) Dua al-Showaiki has been in hiding in Turkey with her sister Dalal for the past three months. Recently, the sisters were told to go where they knew they never should: the Saudi Consulate...

GRA to construct phase 2 of Oil & Gas offices

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA to construct phase 2 of Oil & Gas offices

In the coming months the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be seeing construction of Phase 2 of its offices to manage and oversee aspects of the Oil and Gas Sector. The bids were opened yesterday...

Leadership crises

Oct 02, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Leadership crises

There they are: Boris (that is English isn’t it?) over there at Number 10; next the man, who thinks he trumps all like the ace of diamonds (more like a jack of clubs); then the fellow next door,...

Public Health Ministry unveils 5-year plan to tackle cancer ─ mulls free radiation treatment, specialised facilities to treat all cancers

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Health Ministry unveils 5-year plan to tackle cancer ─ mulls free radiation treatment, specialised facilities to treat all cancers

The Ministry of Public Health is taking the lead in ensuring all cancer patients are treated effectively and efficiently. This is being done as the ministry is embarking on preventative measures...

Regional Information Card for Venezuelan migrants approved

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Information Card for Venezuelan migrants approved

Guyanese representatives have agreed to the creation of a Regional Information Card for Venezuelan migrants after their participation in a two-day Technical Meeting on the Quito Process. This was...

ExxonMobil to name oil storage vessel for Payara field in Staboek Block “Liza Prosperity”

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil to name oil storage vessel for Payara field in Staboek Block “Liza Prosperity”

While ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) is stepping up efforts to secure an environmental permit for the third oil development project in the Stabroek...

Salary payments should be stopped for all MPs; not just Opposition – Edghill

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Salary payments should be stopped for all MPs; not just Opposition – Edghill

Salary payments should be stopped for all Members of Parliament, not just the Opposition, Parliamentarian Juan Edghill said on Monday. He was, at the time, responding to a question posed by Kaieteur...

Cardiovascular diseases is leading cause of death in Caribbean – CARPHA

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cardiovascular diseases is leading cause of death in Caribbean – CARPHA

Cardiovascular diseases [CVDs] are the number one cause of death and illness among the population in Caribbean countries. Guyana, by virtue of it being a part of Caricom, has been included in this...

Bodies of three tugboat crewmembers heading to Guyana recovered

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bodies of three tugboat crewmembers heading to Guyana recovered

Martinique- (https://www.oedigital.com)- The bodies of two more crew members from sunken offshore tug supply vessel Bourbon Rhode have been recovered by search teams in the Atlantic Ocean, the...

Auditor General’s report 2018 to be laid in Parliament

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General’s report 2018 to be laid in Parliament

…PPP insists document must go through excessive scrutiny The Auditor General’s Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, presented to Speaker of the House, Dr. Barton Scotland, will be...

Albouystown youths admit to killing women, 89, 77 in South Road home -third accused still to be tried

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown youths admit to killing women, 89, 77 in South Road home -third accused still to be tried

Imran Khan and Stephen Andrews, yesterday, admitted to killing 89-year-old Constance Fraser, and 77-year-old Phyllis Caesar, whose bound and gagged bodies were found at their Lot 243 Albert Street...

Aeshwar Deonarine loses $1 B lawsuit against K/News, Patterson

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Aeshwar Deonarine loses $1 B lawsuit against K/News, Patterson

Former Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Aeshwar Deonarine has lost in his bid to collect a $1 B in a defamation suit filed against Kaieteur News and Minister...

Super 6 claim Birbal Constructing Establishment dominoes title

Oct 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Super 6 claim Birbal Constructing Establishment dominoes title

Super 6 chalked up 80 games to win the final of the Birbal Constructing Establishment inaugural dominoes competition which was contested on Sunday last at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground, Good...

First batch of students graduate from Mining School

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on First batch of students graduate from Mining School

Twenty-nine students graduated from the Guyana Mining School on September, 27. Twenty-six of the students were from Linden, and three came from the community of Kwakwani. According to a statement,...

Six homeless after relative allegedly torches Bushlot shack

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Six homeless after relative allegedly torches Bushlot shack

Six persons, including two teenagers, an adult and three toddlers are now homeless after their Bushlot Village, West Coast Berbice shack was set alight at around 5:30 hrs yesterday. The fire was...

Perreira guides Savage Legends to victory

Oct 02, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Perreira guides Savage Legends to victory

Randolph Perreira struck a fine 83 to guide Savage Legends to a six-wicket victory over Regal Legends when the teams collided in a 20-over fixture on Sunday last at Queens College ground. Regal...

Cane – cutter cops manslaughter plea for savage killing of mother-in-law and step daughter

Oct 02, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Cane – cutter cops manslaughter plea for savage killing of mother-in-law and step daughter

– still to be tried for murdering reputed wife’s ‘sweet man’ Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo cane cutter, Joshua Franklin, will know on October 16 how long he will spend behind bars, after...

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Futebol Real Brazil executive Naranda Wislon visits Guyana

The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more