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Foreign oil service company threatens local worker – Trade Unionist – same company has been protested several times in T&T

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign oil service company threatens local worker – Trade Unionist – same company has been protested several times in T&T

President of the Guyana Trade Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis, has revealed that an oil service company, JSL International, has a bad reputation with workers in Trinidad and Tobago. It appears...

Guyana should join OECD convention to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by oil companies – academic paper

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana should join OECD convention to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by oil companies – academic paper

By Kemol King An academic paper has revealed a recommendation by Chartered Professional Accountant Tameshwar Lilmohan that Guyana’s tax relations with multinational oil companies will work out in...

Gold miner, bandits shootout… Police obtain Court’s permission to hold suspects another 7 days

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner, bandits shootout… Police obtain Court’s permission to hold suspects another 7 days

The suspects in last week’s shocking robbery attack in Da Silva Street, which left gold miner, Deon ‘Mow’ Stoll, dead, will be held in custody for another seven days. Investigators have...

Canje man dead as car capsizes in Demerara River

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Canje man dead as car capsizes in Demerara River

A car capsized into the Demerara River around 04:30 hours yesterday morning at the Timehri Docks, resulting in the death of Umdut Anil Jagnit, aged 39 of Lot 5 Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice who...

Drunk carpenter steals ring and chain, sells them while sober – Court hears

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Drunk carpenter steals ring and chain, sells them while sober – Court hears

“Your worship, when I steal the things from the woman house I was drunk… but the day after when I get sober and I open my bag I noticed the ring and the chain so I sell dem out,” were the words...

Body of man found in trench with plastic bag over head

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Body of man found in trench with plastic bag over head

The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was discovered yesterday in a trench located at First Street Patentia, West Coast Demerara (WCD). According to reports a passerby, while walking...

Touts, bicycle gangs arrested in GT sweep down

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Touts, bicycle gangs arrested in GT sweep down

Touts and members of several bicycle gangs were in for an unpleasant surprise as police swooped down on them, bundling many into trucks and a very large bus. Just recently the police without warning...

New regulations on money transfers take effect

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on New regulations on money transfers take effect

The Bank of Guyana has completed new regulations which not only bring more scrutiny to electronic funds transfer services, including at commercial banks, but has set out strict guidelines how...

Teen remanded for stealing three motorcycles in one day

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Teen remanded for stealing three motorcycles in one day

An 18-year-old was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared in court to answer to four counts of robbery under arms charges. Leon Patterson, said to be a fruit vendor of Lot 1027 ‘B’ Field...

Stupidness proppa share in Guyana

Oct 22, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Stupidness proppa share in Guyana

One thing is certain. People like stupidness. Dem boys was reading and talking about Guyana and de oil business fuh months if not years. Some people read and some of dem write letters either cussing...

‘Jimmy’ Hamilton, the man behind ‘Mash, dies

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Jimmy’ Hamilton, the man behind ‘Mash, dies

James ‘Jimmy’ Hamilton was not a born Lindener, but he certainly etched his way into the hearts and history of this mining town in the most spectacular way. He reportedly died over the last 24...

Fisherman killed outside his own home

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman killed outside his own home

A 19-year-old fisherman by the name of Noel Singh of lot 33 Meten- Meer – Zorg , West Coast Demerara, (WCD) was killed Sunday night in front of his own home. According to reports, Singh was out...

“For most women a lump in the breast is the first sign of cancer”- Doctor

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “For most women a lump in the breast is the first sign of cancer”- Doctor

Doctor Patricee Douglas, the founder of the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) Adventures, during yesterday’s edition of Kaieteur Radio’s “Your Health Matters” said that the first sign...

25 and counting

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 25 and counting

Packed like sardines: This Route 44 minibus driver and conductor appeared not to be concerned about a breach of the insurance policy of the vehicle. Yesterday, the minibus was hauled in by police and...

No care:

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on No care:

This happened at Enmore, East Coast Demerara yesterday. (StaceyAnn Sancho photos)

“Illegal” shops demolished in Quartz Stone Backdam

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on “Illegal” shops demolished in Quartz Stone Backdam

Mining and other enforcement officials descended on Sunday at Quartz Stone Backdam, Cuyuni, where they conducted a demolition exercise. Several wooden shops were demolished and fires lit on the...

Scenes from the Diwali motorcade in West Berbice, Region 5

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Scenes from the Diwali motorcade in West Berbice, Region 5

As we approach the Diwali season, the West Berbice mandirs hosted a brightly coloured motorcade. The event reflected the festival of lights with many creative designs of floats that were decorated...

Duo deny killing guard during 2013 robbery at Lethem Post Office

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Duo deny killing guard during 2013 robbery at Lethem Post Office

Alvin Kissoon formerly of 395 Kaneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara and Calvin King formerly of 280 Savage Street, North East La Penitence, Georgetown have pleaded not guilty to murdering security...

Guyana’s first Drug Treatment Court opens its doors

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s first Drug Treatment Court opens its doors

By Trishan Craig Guyana yesterday opened the doors of its first ever Drug Treatment Court (DTC), an achievement that will certainly go down in the annals of history. The opening of the court, which...

Police ranks interacts with Itaballi community

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police ranks interacts with Itaballi community

On Tuesday October 8, 2019, between 10:00hrs and 12:00hrs, Assistant Superintendent Kevin London, Officer-in-charge of Bartica Police Station, along with Lance Corporal 22838 Stefon Hopkinson,...

CARICOM asks CCJ to pronounce on whether member states can refuse regional workers

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM asks CCJ to pronounce on whether member states can refuse regional workers

A groundbreaking case involving member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to be heard by the region’s highest court today. According to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the court...

Wedding house murder trial begins

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Wedding house murder trial begins

The trial of 34-year-old Rajen Dindial who is accused of the September 3, 2017 murder of Alston Henry who was beaten to death with a wooden paddle at a wedding house, commenced yesterday before...

Passport Office for Mabaruma – Hosororo residents welcome decentralisation of Govt. services

Oct 22, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Passport Office for Mabaruma – Hosororo residents welcome decentralisation of Govt. services

The township of Mabaruma is slated to have an Immigration and Passport Office constructed within that sub-district. This is according to a Department of Public Information report. The report said...

Suriname’s Fabian Wehl flexes to Overall title at Stage of Champions

Oct 22, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Suriname’s Fabian Wehl flexes to Overall title at Stage of Champions

Fabian Wehl of Suriname copped the Overall Title when the Stage of Champions body building contest was held on the weekend at the Theatre Guild, Kingston. Guyanese Seranno Harris of Tower Unity Gym...

GSCL/ Prime Minister’s T20 Softball Cup 2019 KFC, Elegance Jewellery and Pawn Shop, Ink Plus on board; 26 teams drawn in respective groups

Oct 22, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL/ Prime Minister’s T20 Softball Cup 2019 KFC, Elegance Jewellery and Pawn Shop, Ink Plus on board; 26 teams drawn in respective groups

The draw for the Third edition of the Prime Minister’s T20 Cup took place on Sunday last at the GNIC Sports Club, Woolford Avenue where twenty-six (26) teams have been placed in their respective...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more