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Beware Guyana! Measure local content by value not volume – T&T Oil Expert

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Beware Guyana! Measure local content by value not volume – T&T Oil Expert

By Kiana Wilburg While the Energy Department is in the process of adding the finishing touches to the draft Local Content Policy, there is one key rule that should not escape its attention—Measure...

Oil production vessels will employ just a few locals

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Oil production vessels will employ just a few locals

Guyana’s world-class offshore basin is said to hold over 6.6 billion barrels of oil and gas. And according to Hess Corporation which holds a 30 percent interest in the Stabroek Block, those oil and...

GECOM avoids online disclosure of House-to-House data

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM avoids online disclosure of House-to-House data

The Secretariat of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had committed to publishing the House-to-House data for public scrutiny, but it turns out that the publication of that data has been limited...

Linden hospital worker, teen killed in ambulance smashup

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Linden hospital worker, teen killed in ambulance smashup

Two Linden families have been plunged into mourning, with the deaths of two young men whose lives were snuffed out, in an early morning accident on Saturday. Dead is 37-year-old Eon Reddock, of South...

GRA alerted to Rusal’s attempt to ship out equipment

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA alerted to Rusal’s attempt to ship out equipment

Government said it is prepared to meet with workers of Russian-owned, Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) to listen to their grievance. This came one day after news that the Guyana Bauxite and...

Defendant jailed for threatening and spitting on witness

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Defendant jailed for threatening and spitting on witness

Twenty-three-year old Carlton Bourne who is being tried in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, for a number of armed robbery charges was yesterday slapped with two additional charges, of...

Housing Ministry hauls in scores of house lot allottees who failed to build

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Ministry hauls in scores of house lot allottees who failed to build

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has summoned scores of persons in Region Four who have received hundreds of house lot but have failed to build within the stipulated time. The...

Man, who hid in trench with stolen juices, appears in court

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Man, who hid in trench with stolen juices, appears in court

Thirty-two-year-old Gregory Ellis was on Friday hauled before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly after he was caught red-handed hiding out in a trench with a quantity of stolen fruit juices. The charge was...

Diwali is nice time

Oct 27, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Diwali is nice time

Two holiday in Guyana dat does bring out people from all dem corner is Diwali and Christmas. And dem have a lot in common. All two of dem holidays does feature nuff lights. People does go out of dem...

11 new orthopaedic technicians graduate from GPHC

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on 11 new orthopaedic technicians graduate from GPHC

Eleven new orthopedic technicians were certified yesterday after undergoing training in that capacity at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). With a simple graduation ceremony inside...

Versailles: a settlement abuzz with joyous people

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Versailles: a settlement abuzz with joyous people

By Alex Wayne I felt really at ease in this village since it had a quiet peace to it, coupled with the peaceful calm that seemed to engulf it entirely. Here and there residents basked in the shade of...

GRA partners with New Zealand Software Company to modernise tax system

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GRA partners with New Zealand Software Company to modernise tax system

Following a competitive international tender, DataTorque, a New Zealand software company, has been awarded a contract to improve the revenue mobilisation and tax administration for the Guyana Revenue...

Demerara, Berbice have extra power as GPL’s submarine cable repaired

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara, Berbice have extra power as GPL’s submarine cable repaired

After four months of skating on thin ice, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has managed to resuscitate a critical link that will bring extra power from the West Demerara area. This was following...

A refusal to retire politically

Oct 27, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A refusal to retire politically

On the always intriguing, ever evolving, local political front, a former president just the other day announced that he is not going anywhere. As a powerful party presence, it would be difficult for...

Betsy Ground resident, Rachel Michael, is Guyana’s latest centenarian

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Betsy Ground resident, Rachel Michael, is Guyana’s latest centenarian

By Samuel Whyte Living a simple life, being disciplined and believing in God the Father, are some of the attributes of Guyana latest centenarian Rachel Isabella Michael, 100 not out. Living to 100...

DIWALI SHUBH! HAPPY DIWALI! — A SYMBOL OF THE PLURAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Oct 27, 2019 KNews Consumer Concerns, News Comments Off on DIWALI SHUBH! HAPPY DIWALI! — A SYMBOL OF THE PLURAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE

By PAT DIAL The date of Diwali or Deepavali, like Easter and all other ancient holy days, is arrived at on the basis of formulae laid down by ancient astronomers in their observation of the movements...

BREAST CANCER – AN ISO STANDARD OFFERS TESTING SUPPORT

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on BREAST CANCER – AN ISO STANDARD OFFERS TESTING SUPPORT

The most common cancer in women worldwide, both in the developed and the developing world is breast cancer. As we observe Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are reminded of the impact of the disease...

Meleesa Natasha Payne – a woman who never ceases to amaze

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Meleesa Natasha Payne – a woman who never ceases to amaze

Meleesa Natasha Payne is a household name not only in Guyana but across the Caribbean. She is also known in the United States. What many will agree is the fact that she is a woman who never ceases to...

Retired Head Teacher and Registration Officer… Lynette Stephen is a ‘Special Person’

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News, Special Person Comments Off on Retired Head Teacher and Registration Officer… Lynette Stephen is a ‘Special Person’

“I really enjoyed teaching although I did not like it in the beginning. By being a teacher, I’ve had a lot of job satisfaction. Some of the children that I have taught have become doctors,...

Business community stands to lose from de-risking

Oct 27, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Business community stands to lose from de-risking

By Sir Ronald Sanders The business community in the Caribbean – both foreign and local – has made no collective statement and taken no joint position on the process of de-risking and the...

Digital photo manipulation – photography with an alluring difference

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Digital photo manipulation – photography with an alluring difference

By Anasa Williams Generally, people are accustomed to seeing photos in maybe a nature scene, at parties where one is caught off guard or even a planned and perfected model shoot. While all of these...

Irreconcilable differences

Oct 27, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Irreconcilable differences

If your husband tells you, you are still his wife but he no longer wants you in the matrimonial bed, you may be justified in feeling that perhaps the relationship is not quite ended and that there...

Victoria Village preps for her 180th

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Victoria Village preps for her 180th

Victoria, the first village bought by freed enslaved Africans, is preparing to celebrate its 180th anniversary in a big way on November 9. To facilitate the activities slated for the special...

The government must break its silence on oil and gas

Oct 27, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The government must break its silence on oil and gas

For the past few years, I was walking with one impression of the oil and gas sector, that it will create jobs and that it will open up new horizons for the country. I was also going around looking at...

Guyana remains a hub for the trafficking of drugs- NANA Director

Oct 27, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana remains a hub for the trafficking of drugs- NANA Director

As the world continues to battle the demand and supply of drugs, the Director of the National Anti-Narcotics Agency (NA-NA), Michael Atherly, has said that Guyana remains a hub for the trafficking of...