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Chief Justice throws out application for order compelling Cabinet to resign

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice throws out application for order compelling Cabinet to resign

“This application is not only wholly misconceived, it is vexatious and an absolute abuse of the process of the court,” said Chief Justice Roxane George as she struck out an application mounted by...

Draft Contingency Plan… Guyana will be able to access regional technology for oil spill surveillance -Cabinet to receive document for review by November 1

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Draft Contingency Plan… Guyana will be able to access regional technology for oil spill surveillance -Cabinet to receive document for review by November 1

By Kiana Wilburg Once a request is made to the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Centre (REMPEITC), Guyana would be able to use its technology to assist in the aerial...

T&T companies here to sell themselves

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on T&T companies here to sell themselves

A host of companies from Trinidad and Tobago congregated at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, yesterday, where the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago hosted the second Guyana Safety Forum. What...

SBM Offshore completes US$1.14 B financing for Liza Unity

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on SBM Offshore completes US$1.14 B financing for Liza Unity

SBM Offshore, the Dutch firm that constructed Guyana’s first Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, the Liza Destiny, was pleased to announce, yesterday, that it was able to...

Pres. Granger to return to Cuba for health check-up

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pres. Granger to return to Cuba for health check-up

President David Granger will be returning to Havana, Cuba for a medical check-up on Saturday. He made this disclosure on the sidelines of an accreditation event held at the Ministry of the Presidency...

ICE arrests Guyanese sex accused after New York sanctuary laws let him loose twice

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ICE arrests Guyanese sex accused after New York sanctuary laws let him loose twice

On Wednesday, October 9, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Grachowe Harrichand, 43, for deportation. Harrichand, a Guyanese...

GECOM split on measures to sanitise list

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM split on measures to sanitise list

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is yet to decide on how to treat with unverified voters after the Claims and Objections exercise comes to an end. The Commission has already resolved that all...

Trinidad tekking over Guyana

Oct 17, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Trinidad tekking over Guyana

Yesterday, reporters go to an exhibition dat dem believe was a local exhibition. Is when dem reach, dem realize something else. De organizers come from Trinidad; de sponsors is Trinidadian; de...

Consumers’ complaints almost double compared to 2018

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Consumers’ complaints almost double compared to 2018

Dawn Cush, Attorney-at-law and Director of Guyana Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC), disclosed that there has been a significant increase in complaints compared to the total number...

Rice farmer murder… Son, daughter arrested; wife remains in custody

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Rice farmer murder… Son, daughter arrested; wife remains in custody

Commander in charge of Region Five Superintendent, Yonnette Stephens, late yesterday afternoon confirmed that the son and daughter of murdered rice farmer Gregory Reynolds, called...

Germany’s first female Ambassador to Guyana accredited

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Germany’s first female Ambassador to Guyana accredited

President David Granger yesterday accepted the Letters of Credence from the Federal Republic of Germany’s Ambassador, Ute König. The Head of State boasted that the establishment of relations,...

Granger consoles families of victims involved in Friendship accident

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Granger consoles families of victims involved in Friendship accident

Many are dumbfounded by the horrific accident that claimed five lives at Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Tuesday morning. President David Granger, who is also shocked and deeply moved by what...

Police rule out slain GDF rank in miner’s shooting – suspected getaway car abandoned in Peter’s Hall

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police rule out slain GDF rank in miner’s shooting – suspected getaway car abandoned in Peter’s Hall

Following the killing of 44-year-old miner Deon Stoll, a man who was suspected to be one of the bandits involved in the shooting, was found dead. The man, 18-year-old Olijah Chesney, a rank of the...

Employees charged for stealing tractor spare parts

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Employees charged for stealing tractor spare parts

Three employees of Farm Supplies were hauled before the courts yesterday where they were individually charged for stealing tractor spare parts from the same place. Arraigned before Principal...

Alfie Garraway surrenders to police

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Alfie Garraway surrenders to police

A day after a wanted bulletin was issued, Alfie Garraway turned himself in at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Eve Leary yesterday. It was reported that the wanted man appeared at the...

Should a govt. with 50.3 percent of the vote be allowed to have power?

Oct 17, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Should a govt. with 50.3 percent of the vote be allowed to have power?

I was in the National Park on May Day 2019. In his address, I heard Lincoln Lewis say that it should take much more than one parliamentarian to vote out a government in a no-confidence motion. In a...

Public Infrastructure defends Linden/Lethem road project

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Public Infrastructure defends Linden/Lethem road project

Government is defending the construction of paved roadway linking Linden, Region 10, and Lethem, Region Nine. The road will create a seemless link between the city and Brazil, a neighbouring country....

Ministry of Public Infrastructure explains Region One solar farm

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Public Infrastructure explains Region One solar farm

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is refuting the claims that were published in another section of the media on Monday that ‘Stalled Mabaruma solar farm project being reclaimed by forest-...

CANU busts two at Parika with over 90lbs of marijuana

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CANU busts two at Parika with over 90lbs of marijuana

As the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit seeks to tighten its grip on narcotics distributors throughout the country, two more persons where yesterday detained for the illegal possession of 42.824 kilograms...

GTT National Indoor Championship GCC and Hikers register big First Division wins

Oct 17, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTT National Indoor Championship GCC and Hikers register big First Division wins

GBTI GCC Tigers continued their good showing at this year’s GTT National Indoor Championships with another convincing victory last night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), Carifesta Avenue,...

Winfer Gardens beat St. Margaret’s by eight wickets

Oct 17, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winfer Gardens beat St. Margaret’s by eight wickets

Winfer Gardens Primary defeated St. Margaret’s Primary by eight wickets when play in the Georgetown leg of the Guyana Cricket Board/Cricket West Indies Kiddy competition continued yesterday at...

Politicos hold different positions about Oil Money

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Politicos hold different positions about Oil Money

As Guyana embarks on production of first oil early 2020, the debates continue on what is to be done with revenue produced from its nascent oil sector. Over the past weeks, Kaieteur News and other...

Fort Wellington ranks seize revolver in hire car, arrest occupants

Oct 17, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fort Wellington ranks seize revolver in hire car, arrest occupants

Police ranks in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) on Tuesday, acting on information, intercepted a hire car in front of the Fort Wellington Police Station. They conducted a search and an unlicensed...

Wakenaam overcome Central E’bo in U17 encounter

Oct 17, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wakenaam overcome Central E’bo in U17 encounter

Wakenaam defeated Central Essequibo by three wickets in a 40-over Under-17 contest played on Sunday last at Imam Bacchus ground. Batting first, Central Essequibo scored 116 all out in 29.4 overs....

BCB/Stag Beer 50-Overs First Div. D’Andrade & Lindee blasts tons to lead Tucber Park past Upper Corentyne; to face Rose Hall Namilco Thunderbolt Flour in final

Oct 17, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Stag Beer 50-Overs First Div. D’Andrade & Lindee blasts tons to lead Tucber Park past Upper Corentyne; to face Rose Hall Namilco Thunderbolt Flour in final

Tucber Park Cricket Club of New Amsterdam, often the bridesmaid of Berbice cricket has advanced to the finals of the Berbice Cricket Board/Ansa McAl Stag Beer 50-Overs tournament. Tucber Park has...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more