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What is the future of the CCJ?

Oct 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is the future of the CCJ?

DEAR EDITOR, The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was established on July 23, 2003 and was inaugurated on April 16, 2005. Prior to that there have been several years of discussions by Heads of...

GGMC is at risk of slowly fading into irrelevance and chaos

Oct 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on GGMC is at risk of slowly fading into irrelevance and chaos

DEAR EDITOR, As a Guyanese and as someone who has been a part of the mining industry for over 20 years, I am deeply saddened by the present state of affairs at the Guyana Geology and Mines...

NIS regrets this incident

Oct 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS regrets this incident

DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to the letter in October 30, 2019 Kaieteur newspaper captioned “NIS complaint”. Please be advised that contact was made with the writer who was informed that the...

Image is important

Oct 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Image is important

DEAR EDITOR, There are two issues I planned bringing to the attention of our administrators last week. However, the holidays and other events intervened. Fortunately, the two matters, related to our...

Local Content in oil industry must be measured in value

Oct 31, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Local Content in oil industry must be measured in value

DEAR EDITOR, There are several news reports that government is preparing the final draft of its local content policy (act or law). There are also several commentaries on the issue. KN has focused...

Guyana’s oil discoveries second only to Russia – Rystad Energy

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s oil discoveries second only to Russia – Rystad Energy

Pull quote: Though Russia’s discoveries are great in volume…it (extraction) is likely to be very costly. In Guyana’s case, however, the light crude makes Guyana one of the most attractive...

Thousands risk removal from GECOM list for failure to uplift IDs

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Thousands risk removal from GECOM list for failure to uplift IDs

By Kemol King Thousands of eligible voters could have their names omitted from the Official List of Electors (OLE) if they don’t claim their national identification cards from the Guyana Elections...

Gold miner, bandits shootout… Four charged with murder, four with accessory to murder

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner, bandits shootout… Four charged with murder, four with accessory to murder

Two weeks after the brazen killing of prominent gold miner, Deon ‘Mow’ Stoll, eight persons have been charged in relation to his murder. Four were charged with murder while the others, who all...

Pegasus hotel owner, accountant launch political party

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pegasus hotel owner, accountant launch political party

Robert Badal, owner of the Pegasus Hotel and Guyana Stockfeeds Incorporated, has teamed up with Nigel Hinds to launch a new political party ‘Change Guyana’ to contest the March 02, 2020 national...

Tender Board Rejects Ivor Allen’s Bids for GECOM Project

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Tender Board Rejects Ivor Allen’s Bids for GECOM Project

Bids submitted by well-known contractor Ivor Allen were yesterday rejected by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board during its weekly bid opening. The rejected bids were for a...

City Council can’t find assets register – Last document produced 13 years ago

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on City Council can’t find assets register – Last document produced 13 years ago

Officers of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) came under fire yesterday over the disappearance of an assets register. The register was requested by the Local Government Commission,...

Renegotiation of Exxon deal is a must – PM Candidate, Nigel Hinds

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Renegotiation of Exxon deal is a must – PM Candidate, Nigel Hinds

Nigel Hinds, the Prime Ministerial Candidate of Change Guyana, a new party launched last night, has posited that the Production Sharing Agreement Government signed with ExxonMobil, for its operations...

Some security guards lighting fire under President’s College tail

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Some security guards lighting fire under President’s College tail

People always want feel comfortable. That is why dem boys can’t understand how people can sleep pun de pavement. De pavement always nasty and when rain fall it really bad. But dem is sick people....

The electricity problem is one of simple addition and subtraction

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The electricity problem is one of simple addition and subtraction

Guyana’s electricity is erratic because there is a mismatch between demand and supply. The situation is compounded when a number of generating units, somehow end up either being down or being...

Toddler drowns in trench

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Toddler drowns in trench

An 18-month-old girl is now dead after she allegedly fell into a trench at the back of her home, located at Harlem, West Coast Demerara (WCD). The incident occurred Monday afternoon between 17:00hrs...

Pedal cyclist, 21, dies on E’bo public road.

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pedal cyclist, 21, dies on E’bo public road.

Govindra Prashad of Somerset and Berks, Essequibo Coast, met his demise on Monday after he was struck down by a speeding motor car on the Evergreen Public Road. According to reports, Prashad worked...

Gina Miller: Police investigate contract killer crowd funding page

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Gina Miller: Police investigate contract killer crowd funding page

(BBC) Police are investigating a crowdfunding page which sought to raise £10,000 to have campaigner Gina Miller killed. The GoFundMe page targeting Ms Miller, who twice won Supreme Court cases...

Queens College marks 175th anniversary ― epitomizes excellence says Pres. Granger

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Queens College marks 175th anniversary ― epitomizes excellence says Pres. Granger

President David Granger yesterday called on his historical knowledge as he delivered the feature address at the Queen’s College’s (QC) 175th Anniversary General Assembly. Addressing a filled...

A banana a day

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A banana a day

The newspapers have delivered a steady diet of medical fare. Some of the areas covered are frightening: heart disease, different types of cancers, and stroke–the plagues that seize many in...

Third edition of Turbo KO Football Tournament launched

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Third edition of Turbo KO Football Tournament launched

The third edition of the Annual Turbo knockout Football tournament was launched yesterday with twenty teams announced as participants. They are Georgetown Football Club, Camptown Football Club,...

Athletes to battle at Kares Fitness Expo this weekend Strongman contest on the cards

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Athletes to battle at Kares Fitness Expo this weekend Strongman contest on the cards

A number of top local athletes will test their skills, fitness and strength against their Surinamese counterparts this weekend at the 5th edition of the Kares Fitness Expo, organised by Fitness Games...

GFF/Concacaf host inaugural Next Play Coaches Workshop Ten schools involved in Pilot Project

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF/Concacaf host inaugural Next Play Coaches Workshop Ten schools involved in Pilot Project

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) continues to break new ground as it seeks, with eth assistance of Concacaf to set a solid foundation for the sport from the grassroots level upwards. To this end,...

Mother of one missing after leaving for Mandir on Diwali night

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of one missing after leaving for Mandir on Diwali night

A 27-year-old mother of one is missing after she left her home at Number 36 Village, Corentyne, Berbice to go to a Mandir last Sunday. Missing is Hemwattie Singh, called Mona. In a brief telephone...

Wray, Welcome slam half centuries as North Georgetown, St. Pius triumph

Oct 30, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wray, Welcome slam half centuries as North Georgetown, St. Pius triumph

North Georgetown and St. Pius Primary Schools registered victories when the latest round of matches in the Georgetown leg of the Guyana Cricket Board / Cricket West Indies Kiddy competition continued...

Former MMC guard to serve 12 years for shooting death of co-worker

Oct 30, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Former MMC guard to serve 12 years for shooting death of co-worker

Kevin Stephens, formerly of La Penitence, Georgetown, was yesterday given a 12- year prison term for fatally shooting his co-worker, Herbert Verwyane, who was a guard attached to the MMC Security...

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Berbice Cricket Board U19 Inter club competition begins today with several matches

Freedom of Information is a myth

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- I once thought Freedom of Information meant you could, well, access information freely.... more